Concrete Playground

One World. One Week. One Festival. Cremorne’s charming Hayden Orpheum is the Sydney venue for this unique festival of short films and lots of numbers: of 428 entries from 36 countries, the ten selected semi-finalists will have their films screened 532 times in 173 cities across five continents.

Sydneysider Sandy Widyanata is one of the lucky ten; her image-conscious short Plastic will compete against films from Europe, the UK, USA, Israel and Mozambique. Read more about the film in an interview with Widyanta here (and to avoid any hints of nepotism, interviews with the other semi-finalists can be accessed here).

So to be part of the 100,000 strong worldwide audience voting for the winner, be at the Orpheum on September 20. The winner will be revealed from New York on September 29 and announced on the festival website.