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LOOK BOTH WAYS / Sarah Watt AUSTRALIA, 2005, 100 MIN; A KINO INTERNATIONAL RELEASE Look Both Ways marks the feature debut of Sarah Watt, who brings an offbeat sensibility to this story of intersecting lives. For disaster-prone Meryl, life is daunting. Her rich imagination conjures up scary events, seen in vivid hand-drawn animation. Meryl witnesses a real accident, an event that links her fate to other troubled souls, particularly Nick, a reporter dealing with a health crisis, and Andy, who is coping with his girlfriend’s unwanted pregnancy. Slightly bizarre, intense yet inexplicably buoyant, this astute examination of personal mortality in contemporary times may signal a new New Wave in Australian cinema. Sarah Watt is an award-winning Australian filmmaker who has been working as a writer, director and producer of animation for fifteen years. Among her short films are Small Treasures,Local Dive. and Living with Happiness. Look Both Ways began as an extension of the sensibility expressed in Living with Happiness and the animated sequences in the film use her signature painterly style. Watt lives in Melbourne with actor William McInness who plays “Nick,” and their three children. Preceded by: PIA / Javier Andrade ECUADOR, 2005, 9 MIN Javier Andrade directs a story of a young girl dealing with two rites of passage as she turns 15 - one celebratory; the other, life changing. Javier Andrade was born in Portoviejo, Ecuador in 1978. He received a B.A. in Business from Universidad San Francisco de Quito in 2000, and worked for a time as an actor. In 2002 he came to New York to study at Columbia University’s film division. Since then he has written and directed several short films and music videos, including Pía.

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