CIFF Shorts are free and open to the public thanks to support from The First. We captured some quick clips and Q & As with the filmmakers after the screening of their films as the audience asked them questions.

Belfast videographer and artist Wes Sterrs debuted his first six-minute short film Breakfast, featuring another Belfast artist, Eric Leppanen, who re-uses and recycles paint and other discards in his art. Over breakfast one morning, Eric explains his process. One of his paint can pieces, shown in the film, is on display at the CIFF main office this weekend on Bayview Street, known as The Hub.

Audience Question: Why did you create a story around breakfast?

Sterrs: Eric’s the kind of guy who’d have you over for breakfast. That’s how he is, he’s very hospitable. So all the talking we did in the film sort of centered around this table of food.

To see the trailer for Breakfast, click here. Stay tuned for more Short Bits coming to you from the 2013 CIFF conference.

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