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by Glendyn Ivin

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Eddie spends her pocket money obsessively hoarding fireworks and carefully planning for cracker night. When it finally it arrives, Eddie and her family head to the local football oval. In the frosty air Eddie lights the fuse of her first cracker and experiences a pivotal moment, one of the seemingly small experiences of childhood, that affects us for the rest of our lives.

Set in the 1980s, Cracker Bag is a gentle suburban observation which subtly reflects a disenchanting prelude to the coming of age.

Winner of the Palme D'Or - Short Film Cannes Film Festival 2003

Directed by Glendyn Ivin, Produced by Jane Liscombe, Director of Photography Greig Fraser, Edited by JAck Hutchings

Glendyn Ivin's blog Hoaxville.com
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Antoine Guédès 2 years ago

Sweet, sad but lovely!
Till S. 2 years ago

That sums it up perfectly
Little Belly Films 2 years ago

Love it -

What did you shoot on??
Glendyn Ivin 2 years ago

We shot it on 35mm. Thanks.
David 2 years ago

Love it!
Adam Murfet 2 years ago

amazing film, i've loved it for years!
Jake Kulagin 2 years ago

Awesome, well done. Can see why it won a Palme D'Or.
Glen Dunn 2 years ago

Absolutely drop-dead gorgeous work. Thanks for the upload.
ramius5th 2 years ago

Good work, nice story full of humanity
Xandra 2 years ago

love it realli love it
Jobey Wright 2 years ago

wow, just WOW, so beautiful in every way..i loved the story
Alex Onfire 2 years ago

Well done!!!!
Tyler W. Davis 2 years ago

this is extraordinary! i would love to see more work
Emanuel Gómez Miranda 2 years ago

it was lovely.
so amazing.

i feel realy sad
Dedicated Pictures | Anders SF 2 years ago

How on earth were you able to compress this to 160mb?
wal hansen 2 years ago

Love your work! Very empathic. Nearly cried. Been through similar a long time ago. So natural. Your actors and direction, cinematography, sound, all terrific. Kudos to you and your team. MORE! Please!
Mighty Productive 2 years ago

i dont understand why shes so bummed out. i thought her fireworks show turned out way better than she'd planned. i love in the first couple minutes when she comes home on the bike and the kid rides past with cards in his spokes. awesome.
MTracer 2 years ago

It's the way kids think. It might have been great, but it wasn't as planned. I know this cause I'm still a kid, and these types of things happen to me too.
Steven Hale 2 years ago

I was thinking the same thing: instead of a single firework at a time, she inadvertantly created a glorious and powerful show. So why wasn't she thrilled?

Also, please tell me why it won the award. I see the obviously wonderful cinematography - absolutely - just curious what the judges saw that made this win. Maybe I can get insight this way.

Thanks.
raj muneshwar 2 years ago

She's not thrilled because she meticulously planned out the perfect display. At this moment in her life this is the most important thing for her and to her mind she's ruined it all. Imagine how you feel when something you desperately want gets taken away from you when its so close. Its heartbreaking. The shot of her looking away as the fireworks explode is the saddest part of the film.
Czlowiek Kamera 2 years ago

great atmosphere
aysegul ozgenc 2 years ago

love it too much. great job:)
Jonathan Jackson 2 years ago

Absolutely beautiful! The cinematography can only be described as perfection. The story is right on. Reality often changes our plans. When so much effort is put into hopes and dreams and the outcome is not what was expected it is usually perceived as negative, it can be difficult to see the positive outcome.
pierre oberkampf 2 years ago

beautiful !
Ilia loladze 2 years ago

Beautiful !!!
Atmosphere is going straight to viewer !
Owen Trevor 2 years ago

Lovely stuff, been a fan since catching at Sydney Film Fest back in 2004? 2005? Can't remember which. All I remember is seeing it and Garth Davis's "Alice", and feeling like I was witnessing the future of Aussie cinema.
Robbert Groenendijk 2 years ago

I like it alot!
the girl reminds me a bit of the movie 'little miss sunshine'
Steven Hale 2 years ago

Yes! I was trying to figure out who she looked like. Thanks....
ali demirel 2 years ago

epic
bryan alexander 2 years ago

great work!
white wings motion picture co 2 years ago

I finally got to see it on the last ride , now here, glendyn thanks for posting it.
love the film, love the moments....
what's next????
simon claude 2 years ago

beautiful.
Antonio De Matteo 2 years ago

awesome! poetic and very intense. The photography is incredible! congratulations!!!!!
Matteus Frankovich 2 years ago

Great Short! I remember "accidentally" lighting off my own cracker bag in my bedroom when I was eight! Somehow it only shot a few bottle rockets instead of burning down the house. I remember being ready to pee on it if it really got out of hand. Grandma had a fit. Thanks for re--igniting that old memory!
Down Home Films 2 years ago

This is wonderful film making. There seems to be so many videos with example footage, demo reels, and special fx (don't get me wrong, I like that stuff too! :)but this was just a great story done in an absolutely beautiful way. It is incredibly refreshing to watch something like this. It doesn't matter what gear you have and how technical you are, good stories are what move people.
Chris 2 years ago

very interesting story and characters..
beautiful
Casey Warren | MINDCASTLE 2 years ago

amazingly subtle and beautiful story. I love it. the cinematography was amazing and the direction was top notch.

~Casey W.
terence foster 2 years ago

Old English saying "never put all your eggs in one basket"
First class film
popielaya 2 years ago

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Niall O'Brien 2 years ago

Congratulations!
panic embryo 2 years ago

A beautiful piece of work.

Well filmed, fantastic editing and just perfect pitch on nuances and moments we all identify with on some level. This is filmmaking.

Congratulations on a well-deserved award.
subzcat 2 years ago

Oh no, she couldn't even look at it!
BumKi Cho 2 years ago

I just love this short film.
Alex² 2 years ago

that was so sad. I felt with this littel girl.
Diamond Eye 2 years ago

Class from down under. Sheer class.
Hachibukai 2 years ago

what video at like!!! so
Kai Küken 2 years ago

Eddi is a great character...look good
K K 2 years ago

That is what she gets for selling rocks masquerading as cans. I blame her father for being a horrible father figure. This film bothered me since the whole climax was setup for failure.
Beau Chevassus ✞ 2 years ago

I wept and gnashed and mused and changed my whole life around.
Clark Tanaka 2 years ago

Best film I've seen a long time..
Thank you for uploading this film:)
Baris Gursel 2 years ago

great congratulations for your effort
Lisa Bright 2 years ago

My god. This is genious.
Ramon M. 2 years ago

Amazing video!! i love it!
Kevin Summers 2 years ago

well done, what type of video editing software did you use.
alican 2 years ago

awesome.
SHiGEL 2 years ago

too good to finish the story,i think.but i love it!
yabai!not yaba.means awesome!
Daniel Benning 2 years ago

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Ralph Petrosky 2 years ago

excellent work
Pawel B 2 years ago

it's kinda sad, but beautiful.
Just beautiful.
No words. A lot of feelings.
Cat Stripe Productions 2 years ago

True childhood feelings we all can relate to. Wow.
Janssen Solberg 2 years ago

I got shivers experiencing this. Very, very well done.
Ashok radwohg 2 years ago

cracker bag
hi,
its me ashok jojo from india . i love this movie. every thing was good rock it.
Aleksandar Panov 2 years ago

Great work.
Likhy 2 years ago

beautiful scenes, beautiful musics, and beautiful fireworks.
Carole Corlew 2 years ago

This made me cry. Really beautiful in so many ways. Eddie is so many of us. Thank you.
Adam Carboni 2 years ago

so elegantly shot and paced.
beautiful short.
I can't wait to watch the Last Ride.
HANKfilm 2 years ago

a very beautiful film. the pacing is wonderful.
Cynthia Holladay 2 years ago

Lovely. The final gaze is poetry.
Daniele Frontini 2 years ago

wonderful
Layla 2 years ago

I love this! Seems so simple, yet wonderful. No big fancy effects, or subplots, or crazy characters etc.. its so real and beautiful.

I almost cried at the end, until she smiled and it was just so heartwarming. Please make more :)
GARY KRIKSCIUN 2 years ago

What a touching movie.My heart went out to that little girl. How sad this really happens every day around the world.
Zachary Honea 2 years ago

Simplicity and beauty at its best.

And talk about the whole being greater than the sum of its parts--the last firework explosion, that is.
Redwood House of Music 2 years ago

That was really great! It was really quite beautiful.
Congrats on the Palme D'Or!
Rich Johnson 2 years ago

such a beautiful story and well crafted film, the actors were amazing. congrats.
goodman 2 years ago

very nice sound
Luise Hildebrand 2 years ago

I cried. :)
Josh Schreiber 2 years ago

Nicely done.
Andres^C4^ 2 years ago

dude this is soooo sad... exelent work!
i love the 12:13 - 12:20 shots, the redligt over the face... beatifull
matt carl 2 years ago

yo that explosion of fireworks was incredible, bad juju selling cans full of rocks. still great film
Ryan D. Anderson 2 years ago

I really loved this.
Raphael Schnee 2 years ago

Great! Very emotional and moving.
Juan Álvarez Lara 2 years ago

Great story! Excellent lighting! Nice feel! I really enjoy watching this short film. It really takes you there.
Ben Silberfarb 2 years ago

Wow brilliant, just superb.
Girts Kizenbahs 2 years ago

Great done
doc lockwood 1 year ago

dittos of all,esp. Hatchibukai, so I'll add my 2 pence, izzat right? S'great how the older brother tries to upstage her show with his meager first shot but is 'blown away' by his little sister's cache of her more dazzling fireworks =respect for Eddi(well played). But still, not enough that he'd let her ride shotgun on the way home...dillweed. I'll watch anything you make...paint drying??? I'm there!
Itziar Castro 1 year ago

I like it so much!!! if someday you need an actress like me count on me ;-)
Eli Booker 1 year ago

something about film that you really cant achieve digitally.
I love this film so much.
what film camera did you shoot with
Matthew Rivera 1 year ago

Loved the story.
Juha Kinnunen 1 year ago

Great film. Sad.
Craig Rosenthal 1 year ago

The original Little Miss Sunshine. Love the dysfunctional family.
rickflick 1 year ago

Beautiful story well told.
Eleonora Arosio 1 year ago

it made me travel through worlds.
Miguel González 1 year ago

Loved it, life can be a Cracker Bag...
Zack McGeehan 1 year ago

i love this story. amazing man
chow yik 1 year ago

my all time favourite!
SueñoSureño 9 months ago

awesome...hi! from Chile
Rafael Velasquez Stanbury 7 months ago

Glendyn. I´ve seen this like 20 times and i still love it. I was wondering... is there any way i could get/buy a dvd of it?