Love At First Sight

Cast

• Shane Zaza (Lead Actor)
• Francesca Binefa (Supporting)

Credits

Directors

Mark Playne

Screenwriters

Mark Playne

Co producers

Mark Playne

Cinematographers

Graeme Dunn

Composers

Cato Hoeben

Screenings

• 17th Palm Springs International ShortFest 06/2011 (World premiere)
• 6th Cyprus International Film Festival 09/2011
• 2nd Peloponnesian International Film Festival 12/2011 (Best Short - Jury Award)
• 4th Jaipur International Film Festival 01/2012
• 18th Sedona International Film Festival 02/2012
• 13th Festival International du Film d’Aubagne 03/2012
• Rome Independent Film Festival 03/2012
• 13th Newport Beach Film Festival 04/2012 (Best Short - Audience Award )
• 9th Park City Film Music Festival 05/2012
• 15th Shanghai International Film Festival 06/2012 (Nominated Best Comedy)
• 35th Festival du Film Court en Plein Air de Grenoble 07/2012
• 4th Feel Good Film Festival 08/2012 (Best Director - Jury Award)
• 7th TriMedia Film Festival 09/2012 (Best Comedy - Jury Award)
• Indie International Film Festival 09/2012
• 4th Rencontres du Court à Montpellier 09/2012
• Portobello International Film Festival 09/2012
• 5th I’ve Seen Films International Film Festival 10/2012 (Best Debut Film - Jury Award)
• 4th Calaveras International Film Festival 10/2012 (Best Romantic Comedy - Jury Award)
• 10th Asiana International Short Film Festival 11/2012 (Shin Young Kyun foundation Arts and Culture award)
• 1st Shot on RED film festival 12/2012 (Finalist)
• ShortsUP Worldwide comedy award winners special 01/2013
• 0110 International Digital Film Festival 2013 02/2013 (Non competitive)
• 10th Le Festival des 24 Courts 02/2013
• Rolling Frames Film Festival 03/2013 (3 Nominations)
• 7th International Short Film Festival of India 2013 03/2013 (Best Film - Audience Award)
• 2nd Imphal International Short Film Festival 2013 03/2013 (Best Actor)
• ‘In the Air’ film of month March 2013 – inflight with Asiana Airlines 03/2013
• 3rd Norwich Film Festival 2013 04/2013
• 4th Salón Internacional de la Luz 2013 05/2013
• 5th Cabriolet Film Festival 2013 05/2013
• 5th Frederick Film Festival 2013 06/2013
• 6th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala 2013 06/2013
• XI Festival de Cortometrajes 'Por Caracoles' 06/2013
• 3rd Gujarat International Film Festival 2013 06/2013 (Best International Film
• Best Writer and Director
• Best Actor
• Best Actress)
• Festival Internacional de Cine Educativo y Espiritual De Ciudad Rodrigo 2013 07/2013 (Best Short FICEE 2013)
• Oberá en Cortos - Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes por la Identidad y la Diversidad Cultural 2013 07/2013
• The Great Rift Valley Film Festival 2013 07/2013
• Procida International Film Festival 2013 07/2013
• VII SHORTini Film Festival 08/2013
• 37th Open Air Filmfest Weiterstadt 2013 08/2013
• 3rd Charlie Chaplin Comedy Film Festival 2013 08/2013
• 3rd Heathcote Film Festival 2013 08/2013 (Best Film - Jury Award)
• Lakecity International Short Film Festival 2013 08/2013 (Nomination - Best Foreign Film)
• 4th Del Festival Internacional Del Cortometraje FIC 2013 09/2013 (Honorary Mention - Fiction Category)
• II Vagrant Film Festival (VFF 2013) 09/2013 (People’s Choice Award - Best Film)
• 1st Parma International Film Music Festival 2013 09/2013 (Best Short Movie Award)
• XII St.Petersburg International Festival of Debut and Student Films - BEGINNING 2013 09/2013
• 9th Busho Budapest Short Film Festival 2013 09/2013
• 4th Krivoy Rog Film Festival 'Cinema Under the Stars' 2013 09/2013 ('Grand Prix - the film' Award)
• 3rd Pune Short Film Festival 2013 10/2013
• Comedy Cluj International Film Festival 2013 10/2013
• 3rd Arlington International Film Festival 2013 10/2013
• 3rd Silent River Film Festival 2013 10/2013
• Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF) 2013 11/2013
• “Courts des îles” Festival 11/2013
• 10th International Short Film Festival of Peru
• FENACO 11/2013
• 3rd Weyauwega International Film Festival 2013 11/2013
• 25th Istanbul International Short Film Festival 2013 11/2013
• 2nd This is England: English Short Film Festival 2013 11/2013
• 10º Festival Internacional de Cine de Tapiales 2013 12/2013
• 2nd Shaan-e-awadh International Film Festival 2013 12/2013
• 2nd Delhi International film festival 2013 12/2013
• 3rd CURTMIRATGES 2014 01/2014
• QUINTESSENCE 2014 - Festival International du Film de Ouidah 01/2014
• TKRA Aquariuss Photo & Short Film Festival - 2014 01/2014
• Aahān 2014 - Ascend Beyond Aspirations 01/2014 (Best Short Film - Relationship Category)
• 13th Dhaka International Film Festival 2014 01/2014
• 3rd Jozi Film Festival 2014 02/2014
• 11th Festival de Cine de Todos Santos 2014 02/2014 (Best Spanish Short Film)
• 3rd Short. Sweet. Film Fest 2014 02/2014 (Best Short. Sweet. Film)
• 10th Berlin International Directors Lounge 2014 02/2014
• Fargo Film Festival (FFF 2014) 03/2014 (Best Cinematography - Narrative Short Category)
• 10th La Pedrera Short Film Festival 2014 03/2014
• 5th RxSM -Film ExChange 2014 03/2014
• 7th Taos Shortz Film Fest 2014 03/2014
• 6th Nashik International Film Festival 2014 03/2014
• 9th Sound of Silent Film Festival 2014 04/2014
• 12th Garden State Film Festival 2014 04/2014
• 2nd FIFES - Film Festival of Laughter 2014 04/2014
• 1st Milledgeville Film Festival 2014 04/2014
• Maharashtra Short Film Festival 2014 05/2014
• ODA Tetova International Film Festival 2014 05/2014 (Panorama Audience Award)
• 9th Sunscreen Film Festival 2014 05/2014
• Carmarthen Bay Film Festival 2014 05/2014
• XIV Festival Internacional de cortometrajes 'Cine a la calle' 05/2014
• 10th Muestra Internacional De Cortometraje Ixtenco 2014 06/2014 (Jury Award - Fiction)
• 2nd Shorts@Fringe 2014 06/2014 (Audience Award )
• Pärnu International Film and Video Festival 2014 06/2014
• Viewster - Online Film Fest 2014 06/2014
• 5th Hyart Film Festival 2014 06/2014 (Honorable Mention - Drama category)
• Festival International Du Film De Vébron 2014 07/2014 (Grand Prix of the Festival)
• 2nd FERFILM International Film Festival 2014 07/2014
• 8th Athens International Short Film Festival – PSAROKOKALO 2014 07/2014
• 5th KAHBANG Film Festival 2014 08/2014
• Asociación de Vecinos del Casco Antiguo de Villajoyosa 08/2014
• 4th FARCUME - Festival of Short Films Faro 2014 08/2014
• 13th Villammare Film Festival 2014 08/2014
• 3rd International Short Film Festival MonfragüeFilms 2014 08/2014 (Second Prize - Best Short Film International)
• Paraj Mumbai Short Film Festival 2014 08/2014 (Best FIlm & Best Director - Professional Category)
• São Tomé FestFilm 2014 08/2014 (Best Short Film - International Competition)
• 12th International Film Festival “Seize This Day With Me/Seize The Film!” 2014 09/2014 ('Film That Changes Perspective' Award)
• 1st Goa Short Film Festival 2014 09/2014
• 36th Semana Internacional De Cine De Autor De Lugo 2014 09/2014
• 1st El Dorado Film Festival 2014 09/2014
• Cinéphile 2014 09/2014 (Best International Film - Fiction)
• 7th Tangier International Film Festival 2014 09/2014
• 6th “Corti in Cortile” International short film festival 2014 09/2014 (Best Short Film)
• 6th Baghdad International Film Festival (BIFF 2014) 10/2014
• 7th Gig Harbor Film Festival 2014 10/2014
• 6th Petaluma International Film Festival 2014 10/2014
• 17th Mestre Film Fest 2014 10/2014
• 3rd Laughlin International Film Festival 2014 10/2014
• 9th Orlando Film Festival 2014 10/2014
• 7th Meeting of Audiovisual Productions and Community Alternatives 'The image of the Peoples' 2014 10/2014
• 8th International Film Festival 'Prvi kadar' 2014 10/2014 (Best Short Film - Art Short )
• Wanderlust Film Festival 2014 10/2014
• 2014 SHORT MAIPU - VII Film Festival of Humor 10/2014
• Arts & Algorithms International Shorts Film Festival 2014 10/2014
• 4th St Cloud Film Festival 2014 10/2014
• 6th Louisville's International Festival of Film 2014 10/2014
• 2nd Lucerne International Film Festival 2014 11/2014
• 4th Macaé Cine - Festival Nacional de Cinema de Macaé 2014 11/2014
• International Film Festival CinemaFest 2014 11/2014
• 9th Carrboro Film Festival 2014 11/2014 (Cinematic Achievement Award)
• 12th Kalpanirjhar International Short Fiction Film Festival 2014 11/2014
• Sandpoint Film Festival 2014 11/2014 (Audience Choice Award)
• 9th Hamilton Film Festival 2014 11/2014
• 15th Ojai Film Festival 2014 11/2014
• International Festival of Short Films - BEINTEN 2014 11/2014 (Best Film)
• 14th Valley Film Festival 2014 12/2014
• 9th Lecce Film Fest 2014 12/2014
• The Montevideo Festival of New Cinema 2015 01/2015
• 10th Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival 2015 01/2015 (Best Narrative Short)
• 9th Trail Dance Film Festival 2015 01/2015
• 5th Praxis Film Festival 2015 02/2015
• 5th Love Your Shorts Film Festival 2015 02/2015
• 2nd Chennai International Short Film Festival 2015 02/2015
• Uttarakhand Short Film Festival 2015 02/2015 (Best Film - International Category)
• 4th Angkor Wat International Film Festival 2015 02/2015

Directors Statement

A gentle film of hope and optimism.
I wished to make a film that was should never feel foreign to anyone. One that did not use a dialect on the soundtrack or need the written word as subtitles. Instead of using dialogue, I chose the most common language of all...the basic raw human emotions of loneliness and love - something that unites us all - whoever we are - where ever we are.

My dream was for this film to play around the world in many diverse nations.

The film has been blessed with a terrific run and I hope this brings luck and fortune to the next exciting project - a fun magic-realist feature about a young boy who believes anything is possible.