Acting
The world is closing in on Greta Driscoll. On the cusp of turning fifteen, she can’t bear to leave her childhood; it contains all the things that give her comfort in an incomprehensible new world. She floats in a bubble of loserdom with her only friend, Elliott, until her parents throw her a surprise fifteenth birthday party and she’s flung into a parallel place—a world that’s weirdly erotic, a little bit violent, and thoroughly ludicrous. Only there can she find herself.
Sixteen-year-old Billie’s reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans for gender transition, and their time together becomes limited to Tuesdays. This emotionally charged story of desire, responsibility, and transformation was filmed over the course of a year—once a week, every week, only on Tuesdays.
Daydreams follows Elise, a 17 year old living in suburban Melbourne, Australia, as she finishes her final year of high school. When her partygoing older brother, Chris, returns from overseas, Elise begins to question who she is and how she wants to live her life. As adulthood fast approaches, she struggles to navigate her friendships, relationships and studies; watching on as her brother lives a seemingly carefree life that she wishes she could have.
Katie (Shamita Sivabalan) is a young, confidently queer woman. After finding herself attracted to a man for the first time in her life, she must decide whether the complicated nature of the relationship is worth pursuing.
The story of Karen, a young, queer woman navigating the many complexities of identity and self when faced with new people and new situations. Different people show us different shades of who we are and can be; a smoker with one friend, a non-smoker with the other.
Remy spent the pandemic isolating in their room; working as a freelance artist, falling down internet rabbit holes and hanging out online with their overseas best friend Bea. As lockdown restrictions ease up and Bea begins a new full-time job, the two are forced to readjust how they communicate and stay connected; working on conflicting schedules across different time-zones. Remy tries to fill the void Bea left while remaining within the confines of their bedroom, spawning anxieties about their identity, social life and feelings for their best friend that begin to overwhelm them.
