Luke's Short Film Wins Gold at Cannes-affiliated Festival

Daazo.com is a film contest for all the participants of Festival de Cannes’ Short Film Corner 2011.
This contest is open for Short Film Corner participants only and it is independently organized by Daazo.com.

The short film was directed by Anton du Preez and the story centres around Michael, an ex-human cannonball. Michael’s wife has sadly passed away and his daughter has booked him into a nursing home. We follow Michael through his last day of freedom as he prepares for his last show as Rocket Man.

The film was chosen to be the winner of the competition because of its interesting choice of topic, the personal touch surrounding the whole short and its bizarre and truly surprising ending.

It was shot on 16mm over three days, and features no trained actors. In fact the lead role was played by the director's next-door-neighbour!
“I loved the challenge of creating a solid and unique storyline”, says Luke “the final edit turned out to be quite different to the way it was scripted.”
“Anton managed to get really interesting and poignant performances from his cast, which did help make my job easier. Our main focus was to respect the true originality of the performances and script. To try not to fall into the trap of treating it like just another edit”.

The piece was graded on the Spirit at Waterfront Post in Cape Town by Kyle Stroebel.
The piece can be viewed on the Daazo.com website:

http://www.daazo.com/film/9a4df630-76de-11e0-ba3e-0050fc84de33/

http://blog.daazo.com/2011/05/23/short-films-that-made-the-impossible-possible/