Wednesday 14th May 2025

2024 Winners Showcase 2

15:00 – The David Puttnam Media Centre Cinema

We look back at some of our favourite award winning films from our 2024 Edition of Sunderland Shorts Film Festival on the big screen at The David Puttnam Media Centre Cinema. Featuring our Best Horror, Best Documentary and Audience Choice Award Winners.

Films:

  • 16
  • FISHING
  • FLUFF
  • MUNA
  • OWN HOME?
  • POBL BACHYN
  • THE CAKES I WOULD BAKE
  • THE SCHOOL ON SEASIDE LANE
  • WHERE WE BELONG (私の居場所)

Runtime approx: 110 minutes.

This screening will be followed by a short Q&A where filmmakers can discuss their work and answer questions from our audiences.

Music Video Screening

19:00 – Pop Recs

Join us at Pop Recs for a screening of some of the best new music videos and animated short films featuring internationally recognised artists and emerging new talent.

Music Videos & Films:

  • -M- & GAIL ANN DORSEY: À TOI
  • 90BRO – MOWGLI
  • ARICIA MESS (FT. CHICO CESAR): THE HUNGER AND THE CANNIBALISM (A FOME E O CANIBALISMO)
  • BLUE ROOSTER
  • CHAPPELL ROAN: CASUAL
  • ELLA HUE: FEAR IS A ROSE
  • FABIOLA: THE WING
  • FAT CHANCE: WHERE ALL THE EXTRA POUNDS CAME FROM
  • LIZ CORNEY: BABE
  • NEV CLAY: CUDDY’S CAVE
  • PIT PONY: AT DAWN
  • RYE : I FEEL EVERYTHING
  • SLALOM D: BY HER SIDE
  • SUNSETS & BAD BETS: WITNESSES
  • TWAYN: CHRISTMAS MARKET
  • VICE KILLER: THE DARK SIDE OF THE RAILWAY

Runtime approx: 90 minutes.

This screening will be followed by a short Q&A where filmmakers can discuss their work and answer questions from our audiences.

Field Music: A Music Video Retrospective

21:00 – Pop Recs

Peter and David Brewis of Sunderland’s own Field Music guide us through twenty years of music videography, and show us exactly what can happen when a smidgeon of inspiration and the odd over-ambitious tendency meet the very real constraints of budget, time and a wavering level of expertise.