FLAMEDROP FILM FESTIVAL
9 – 15 December 2016
 
The Bioscope Independent Cinema
286 Fox Street, Johannesburg
 
We close 2016 with a bang with the creation of the FLAMEDROP FILM FESTIVAL, a “Best Of” event culminating some of the most exciting movies, documentaries and short films (from around the world) which screened at our indie film festivals, including:
South African HORRORFEST
SOUND ON SCREEN Music Film Festival
CELLUDROID Sci-Fi / Animation / Fantasy Film Festival
The X FEST Extreme / Underground / Cult Film Festival
DARING DOCCIES Documentary Film Festival
CINEMANIACS special movie events
Access all events at www.flamedrop.com/events
With all these festivals created and run in Cape Town, it was only fitting to debut the Flamedrop Film Festival in Johannesburg (where movie fans may feel a bit left out).
The Bioscope Independent Cinema will host the event across 9 – 15 December.
From the S.A. HorrorFest:
SOUTHBOUND
Five interlocking tales of terror follow the fates of a group of weary travelers who confront their worst nightmares and darkest secrets on a desolate stretch of desert highway.
SHADOW REALM: BEST HORRORFEST SHORT FILMS
An amazing array of shorts to thrill and chill!  Some amazing productions you won’t see anywhere else.
(full list of selections below)
ESCAPE FROM TOMORROW
In a world of fake castles and anthropomorphic rodents, an epic battle begins when an unemployed father’s sanity is challenged by a chance encounter with two underage girls on holiday. (Shot covertly at Disney World!)
From Sound On Screen:
BLACKHEARTS
This award winning documentary takes a fresh look at the notorious Norwegian black metal music scene – but from a striking new angle. It travels to South America, Europe and the Middle East to follow three black metal diehards who hail from extreme religious and political backgrounds.
A FAT WRECK
Fat Wreck Chords is the influential music label run for 25 years by Fat Mike (of legendary punk band NOFX) and his ex-wife Erin Kelly-Burkett, spanning the birth, growth, struggles, and survival of the label, with bands like Anti-Flag, Rancid, Rise Against, Sick Of It All, The Ataris, Lagwagon, Less Than Jake, Descendents, and dozens more.
PLACEBO: ALT.RUSSIA
On a vast Russian tour at the dawn of their 20th anniversary, the band Placebo explores the alternative cultures that are present within Russia’s major cities. As the tour travelled through the country the band went out and met various artists, architects, animators and musicians, finding out about the alternative creative culture and celebrating all they have to offer.
From Celludroid:
MONTAUK CHRONICLES
A decade of countless kidnappings, secret government experiments, brainwashing, torture, time travel, mind control, and extra terrestrial contact… Three men survived to tell it all.
This expansive documentary includes interviews, location visits and recreations digging deep into the Montauk conspiracies.
TRACEROUTE
A Personal Journey Into The Uncharted Depths Of Nerd Culture, A Realm Full Of Dangers, Creatures And More Or Less Precarious Working Conditions…
This highly original and entertaining documentary exploring Nerd / Geek Culture has Austrian Johannes Grenzfurthner on a road trip across the USA digging into every aspect of it.
BEST CELLUDROID SHORT FILMS
An exciting collection of sci-fi, futuristic, fantasy, strange, live action and animated shorts will stun and amaze.
(full list of selections below)
From the X Fest:
X FLIX: BEST X FEST SHORT FILMS
Intense, thought-provoking, shocking and challenging short films to leave your head spinning.
(full list of selections below)
From Daring Doccies:
THE NATURE OF EXISTENCE
An enlightening exploration of the BIG questions: Roger Nygard traveled around the globe to the source of the world’s different belief systems and asked theologians, scientists, skeptics, and everyday people why we exist and what are we supposed to do about it?  What started the Universe and was it a mistake?  Does God exist and why does he seem so interested in our sex lives?
FLAMEDROP FILM FESTIVAL SCHEDULE:
9 – 15 December 2016, The Bioscope, Fox Str, JHB
FRIDAY 9 DECEMBER
7:30pm – BEST HORRORFEST SHORT FILMS
SATURDAY 10 DECEMBER
4:00pm – BLACKHEARTS
6:00pm – PLACEBO : ALT.RUSSIA
8:00pm – A FAT WRECK – The Punkumentary
SUNDAY 11 DECEMBER
2:30pm – BEST CELLUDROID SHORT FILMS
7:30pm – THE NATURE OF EXISTENCE
MONDAY 12 DECEMBER
7:30pm – TRACEROUTE
TUESDAY 13 DECEMBER
7:30pm – MONTAUK CHRONICLES
WEDNESDAY 14 DECEMBER
9:00pm – SOUTHBOUND
THURSDAY 15 DECEMBER
7:30pm – ESCAPE FROM TOMORROW
SHORT FILM SELECTIONS:
SHADOW REALM SHORT FILM COLLECTION
(from the South African HORRORFEST)
116 mins
PORTAL TO HELL!!! (Canada)
SA HorrorFest Best Ensemble Cast winner & special Legend Award for Roddy Piper 
Hilarious short starring the late great wrestler Roddy Piper as a maintenance man who stumbles upon two old men opening a portal to hell in the building’s basement.
MACABRE (Lisbon)
SA HorrorFest Best Animated Short winner
This superb animated piece has a man enter a mysterious building after crashing his car on a backwater road late at night. His surreal evening has only just begun…
QUENOTTES – Pearlies (France / Luxembourg)
SA HorrorFest Best Short Film, Best Director & -Best Screenplay winner
A brilliant tale of a man who returns to his childhood home with his son… where the real tooth mouse wants what it’s due at all cost…
THE CHICKENING (USA / Canada)
SA HorrorFest Funniest Short Film & -Sacrilege Award
An audacious but irresistibly wild and funny CGI-heavy remix of Stanley Kubrick’s legendary adaptation of Stephen King’s The Shining, starring Jack Nicholson.
ARCANA (Portugal)
SA HorrorFest Most Disturbing Short winner
A witch locked up in a dungeon cannot be confined.
BEHIND (Spain)
SA HorrorFest Most Creepy Award 
A woman fears for her and her child’s life when a malevolent presence lurks behind them in photographs.
MARKED (South Africa)
A woman receives a Betamax tape in an unmarked envelope.  After pulling an old player from the closet and watching it, the image of a moon leads to some shocking events.
LIGHTS OUT (Sweden)
SA HorrorFest Best Scare winner
Fantastic short chiller (which got picked up by the creator of the Saw & Conjuring series, and expanded into a full movie, which won Best Feature Film at the SA HorrorFest)
PESANTA (Spain)
SA HorrorFest Best Monster winner
A young nurse looking after her aunt discovers the state of paranoia experienced by the old lady due to sleep paralysis, eventually attacked by her own fears.
GARGALESIS – The Tickle Killer (Germany)
Loony German clip.
EAT MY SHIT (Spain)
SA HorrorFest Gross-Out Award 
Horridly funny short has a girl with a bit of an anatomical anomaly unable to avoid public scrutiny.
CELLUDROID SHORT FILMS
(from the CELLUDROID SCI-FI / ANIMATION / FANTASY FILM FESTIVAL)
123 mins
GETTING FAT IN A HEALTHY WAY (Germany / Bulgaria)
Celludroid Best Comedic Short winner
This highly original short is set in a world where gravity is weak and skinny people fly into the sky, Constantine has never left the apartment, but one day the beautiful stewardess who moves into the building will change his life forever.
TITAN (Spain)
Celludroid Best Dramatic Short winner
Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, is the main stage of the Cronos Mission. Orpheus, one of the astronauts who have descended to its surface, is searching for organic life forms. This is his transcendent story.
GOLDEN SHOT (Turkey)
Celludroid Best Digitally Animated Short winner
Incredibly emotional CG animated short has rusty machines living in their small houses, imagining the sun will come and take them to the sky someday. A small light, keeps them alive and dreaming. But one of the machines wants to see the sun itself and he has a plan for that.
SUPERJUAN, EL ORIGEN (Spain)
Bizarre superhero comedy.
TERMINATRYX – SHADOW (South Africa)
Supernatural music video set around a seance – from Cape Town’s Terminatryx,
KUNG FURY (Sweden)
Celludroid Best Action Short Film Winner winner
The brilliant modern classic FX-laden ’80s cheese homage of a time traveling cop taking on Hitler, is an absolute must-see.
Life In Transition (USA)
Celludroid Best Hand Drawn Animation Short winner
Beautifully surreal cell animation from the man behind ‘Courage The Cowardly Dog’.
UKA (Spain)
Sweet stop animation has an artist discovering colour.
EL PESCADOR – The Fisherman (Spain / Hong Kong)
Best CGI Winner
In Hong Kong, a fisherman’s luck changes when he catches something that does not belong to this world.
X FLIX SHORT FILM COLLCETION
(from the X FEST EXTREME FILM FESTIVAL)
124 mins
FIST OF JESUS (Spain)
Jesus is always willing to lend a hand to those in need. But, there are others… that will taste his fist! “Holy shit!” doesn’t come close to describing this far-out gore-fest!
OBSESSION (South Africa)
A voyeur gets more than he bargained for.
EVIL TWIN (Germany)
Kick-ass action with a touch of sci-fi.
BLOODY LADY (Greece)
A simple shave gets bloody.
LA MIA CARNE
(South Africa)
A surreal (meaty) journey from Black Milk Productions.
MOCKING DEATH (France)
What do you do when the Grim Reaper comes knocking at your door? Here are some tips.
BARIKU LIGHT (Spain)
The voracious hunger of a man watching TV reaches insane proportions(!)
NO FACE  (France)
Amazingly crafted & ingenious movie with a dark theme has a photographer attempting to capture emotion
THE LIVING DEAD – HOW TO SURVIVE A ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE (South Africa)
While this seems self-explanatory, you may not expect the punchline…
1000 GRAMM (Germany)
A film about Flesh. Flesh in all of its meanings! A story of two tragically colliding Worlds. Poor and Rich! The film reflects an unadorned view on the current circumstances of our reality, while the audience is flying through society like a ghost. A judging mindset is up to you!
BABY STEPS (United Kingdom)
A newly-reborn zombie takes her first steps as a member of the undead – but how much of her old life does she remember?
PLUG & PLAY (France)
Directed by Davy Sihali
A man who created a website for male vengeance (publishing naked photos of their ex lovers) becomes a target, his whole life turned upside down.