AUSTRALIAN SHORT FILM TODAY returned to Boston, a long time destination for its evening of short films, on 25 September 2017.

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The 90-minute program of 11 short films opened with Matthew Saville's A Writer and Three Script Editors Walk Into a Bar, a three minute film on the agony of screenwriting. The program also included - among other films - Bluey, a drama by Darlene Johnson about a troubled young woman who has lost her child; Habits, an animation by Kathy Sarpi about a woman in need of self-improvement; The Mother Situation, directed by well known Australian actor Matt Day; The Dam, by Brendon McDonall, a drama about feelings between two lifetime friends that can no longer be contained; Identical, a mockumentary about identical twins, starring, written and directed by identical twins Mark and (stand up comedian) Brett Nichols; and Meat and Potatoes, by Arielle Thomas and Ellenor Argyropoulous, a comedy about a vegan woman who is starving in the Outback during the Apocalypse; there is no food, but there are dead bodies ...

 

Bluey, a drama about a troubled girl who has lost her daughter, directed by Australian Director's Guild award winner Darlene Johnson and starring Tasia Talar as Bluey and Matt Nable - a Rugby League player turned actor - as her boxing trainer, won the 2017 Audience Award at Australian Short Film Today in Boston.

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The screening was presented at MIT in association with the MIT Lecture Series Committee and was sponsored by the American Australian Association - New England Chapter.

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