30 Years of NZ short film 1980-2010

Restaurateur Luke Dallow (Sale St/ Chapel Bar & Bistro) has joined forces with film guru Ant Timpson (48Hours/New Zealand Film Festival) to present SALE ST SHORTS, a series of cinema-gastronomical excitements at the award winning Sale St Bar in Auckland.

Dallow is an avid movie watcher and fan of NZ short films and is passionate about supporting local actors and bringing new concepts to Sale St.

"The garden bar at Sale St is the perfect place to enjoy a wine or beer & some food along with a movie under the stars."

Presented in association with SKY's Rialto Channel, the series celebrates 30 years of the greatest NZ short films ever made. Patrons can watch NZ short films on a big outdoor screen as they feast on award winning food and imbibe on a selection of NZ wines and Sale St's fine micro-brewed beers.

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Ant Timpson says that watching the films under the Southern Cross brings a whole new dimension to the experience. "If you've seen only some of these shorts on the small screen or on your computer monitor, then you haven't really seen them at all. Each night is going to be a highly entertaining experience."

The show gets underway from 15 February, with shorts screening every Tuesday for three weeks. More than 40 shorts screen in the series beginning with the most successful NZ short of all time - Alison Maclean's creepy and surreal KITCHEN SINK (1989) - and ending with one of the funniest - Radar's hilariously dead pan & depraved THE JOURNEY (2004).

Award-winning directors include Harry Sinclair, Taika Cohen, Ellory Elkayem, Jane Shearer, Jason Stutter, Steve Ayson, Jane Campion, Adam Stevens and many, many more.

Rialto Channel's Luke Murray says it's committed to supporting NZ short films. "We're passionate about the development of new talent, building on-going relationships with NZ short film and independent filmmakers, and supporting these filmmakers by providing a vehicle for their work to be viewed by a wide audience."

The public is also invited to get involved - if you've made a great short film in the past 12 months and want to submit it to be screened on the final night of the series (Tuesday 8 March), submit a DVD (full details in press release attached).

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