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• Best V Best - Volume One | DVD | (14/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The world's major award winners and best short films from the past year are brought together in this first DVD release from independent film community Shooting People's newly launched label Word of Mouth Films. Including Oscar-nominees and winners of the Sundance Berlin BAFTA Edinburgh Montreal and other major short film prizes Best v Best represents a selection of moving and brilliantly realised stories from today's most promising international filmmaking talent. Shooting People is the UK's premier independent filmmakers' network that has transformed the way independent film is being made with over 26 000 members signed up to the organisation in the UK and in New York City. The launch of Word of Mouth Films distribution label by Shooting People aims to both mobilise and inspire new audiences for films as well as transform challenge and expand distribution opportunities for independent cinema. A significant proportion of the proceeds goes back to each of the filmmakers to invest in their next films. Family Portrait (Dir. Patricia Riggen) Richard and Diana render their own family portrait as they recount their childhood memories and the challenges they have faced since Gordon Parks photographed their family in 1968 for Life magazine. Who Killed Brown Owl (Dir. Christine Molloy & Joe Lawlor) Inspired by classical paintings of village life and Agatha Christie whodunits this spectacular 9 minute one shot film is about a lazy Sunday afternoon down by the river that goes horribly wrong. Burnt sunbathers beer-drinking kids an abandoned baby a rabbit in a boat a bicycle accident - in Who Killed Brown Owl the perfect English arcadia gives way to varying kinds of misfortune disruption and violence. Filmed over the course of one afternoon Who Killed Brown Owl commissioned by Enfield Council features a volunteer cast of almost 100 residents of the London Borough of Enfield. The Banker (Dir. Hattie Dalton) The Banker is a short black comedy about a quirky loner who works in a sperm bank. He's border-line obsessed with the nurse who works at the fertility clinic across town and goes to enormous rather disturbing lengths to prove his love for her...It's a little tale of unrequited love on a grand scale starring Michael Sheen. School Of Life (Dir. Jake Polonsky) This will be the most important lesson of your life. Maybe the only important lesson. Milk (Dir. Peter Mackie Burns) Reluctant Jennifer must bathe her mischievous grandmother. Once close they are now virtually strangers. The enforced intimacy of the situation results in an awkwardness that they can neither deny not overcome until they begin to play together in the water. Little Terrorist (Dir. Ashvin Kumar) Jamal a 12 year old Muslim Pakistani mistakenly crosses the border between India and Pakistan finding an unusual ally in a Hindu Brahmin Bhola. Indian soldiers descend on Bhola's village searching for the 'terrorist' who crossed over. His niece Rani insists they can't let a Muslim into their Hindu home. With Bhola and Rani grappling with the consequences of harboring a Pakistani and their deep-set prejudice against Muslims Jamal's only hope is the humanity shared by a people separated by artificial boundaries a long time ago. Two Cars One Night (Dir. Taika Waititi) A tale of first love. While waiting for their parents two boys and a girl meet in the carpark of a rural pub. What at first seems to be a relationship based on rivalry soon develops into a close friendship. We learn that love can be found in the most unlikely of places.