True Amateurs 14[2022]

The Allotment(en)

Three young gardeners reflect on their experiences at a Leeds allotment.

Exerium(tr)

Canto de Sereia(pt)

Inspired by the urban legend of "Akai Ito", the story takes place in a world where people are connected by a red string to someone they are destined to meet, and where Dália suddenly sees her life uprooted by hers.

Beatus Ille(es)

Voidland(en)

This is an amateur student mood piece comprised of footage I've filmed with my Camcorder at uni over the course of the first half of 2023. The prompt given for this was 'belonging' and so I've gravitated it around the premise of navigating a place that you feel as though you don't belong in, to the point where you become detached and alienated from your own identity. - Toby.

[Untitled Project](pt)

Five college students investigate a mysterious death from 20 years ago: Rafael Hiteshima, which was run over. Recording the process as a documentary, the group will find out some mysteries are better left unknown.

Canto de Sereia(pt)

Inspired by the urban legend of "Akai Ito", the story takes place in a world where people are connected by a red string to someone they are destined to meet, and where Dália suddenly sees her life uprooted by hers.

Penance(en)

On Halloween night, a pathetic man is haunted by his guilt and regret.

Sorrow(en)

Alone in a wasteland, a masked Traveler journeys through the ice, snow and air with a flower in hand.

On The Run(en)

Running away from his actions, a desperate man confronts who he has become.

Harry Newman Made A Film, Did You Know?(en)

The Protagonist is in a bit of distress and thinks he should leave for a while.

Dan(az)

WHAT IS THE BEST FOR HIM? HIMSELF? THEM? HER? A twenty-year-old young man sees himself as someone who struggles in social life. One day, while looking in the mirror,he sees a change in himself, and from then on, everything started to change.

Documentary: Moving(cs)

Doctor X(en)

David Bradley made this fan film when he was just sixteen. Apparently, he had not seen the original before embarking on the project.

All The Lonely People(en)

Johnny is an unhappy man but he does not know why. One day, after his girlfriend seemingly breaks up with him, he goes out of the town and meets a young man who takes him home, to a place where all truth is revealed.

Meet Me on Broadway(en)

Stuffy amateur director Eddie Dolan decides to mount a show for the well-connected patrons of a posh country club. Eddie and his girlfriend, actress Ann Stallings, hope the production will launch their legitimate Broadway careers. But complications arise when Maxine Whitaker, daughter of a wealthy rival club owner, becomes romantically interested in charming Eddie.

Good Time(en)

A group of party crazed high school students, deep in the drug scene, begin to learn about the negative side effects of using drugs when one after another they fall.

Game(en)

A South Shore High School student film that is an allegory on the wastefulness of war and the duplicity of those who wage it. Filmmaker Wayne Williams, who was 17 at the time, cuts back and forth between a chess game and a guerrilla theater war game to underscore the sense of importance of the fighters and the cynicism of those who control their lives - and deaths. The film is part of a series of student films that all won awards at the 1971 Young Chicago Filmmaker’s Festival.

The Fine Art of Wood Chopping(en)

A lumberjack enjoys the fine art of wood chopping.

River Rat(en)

A man spends an evening by the river