Sarah Hegge-Taylor
Production
Biography
Australian director & producer Sarah Hegge-Taylor grew up in the swampy northern town of Brisbane but has spent her adult life down south in Melbourne, where she studied at the Victorian College of the Arts Film and Television School. She likes to make films that feel like mythological poems about internal and external decay. Her latest film, Pulp, premieres at the 2025 Melbourne International Film Festival. She is also a producer on the 2025 feature film Fwends, which won the Caligari Film Prize at the 75th Berlinale, the first Australian film to do so.
Known For
When Jessie's estranged friend from Sydney spontaneously arrives in Melbourne, they spend a weekend together to distract themselves from their many problems and their existential dread. FWENDS is a celebration of the power of friendship and an ode to the splendiferous messiness of growing up and, maybe, growing apart.
Fwends
Two teenage boys are cut apart across a sweaty summer night when they're caught graffitiing a train in Melbourne's inner-west.
Pleasure
In the 19th century, amongst a strange wilderness, smallpox mysteriously strikes a colonial family down. A woman must face a choice between accepting her narrow prospects set out by her father or following a dangerous path beyond the home.
Small
Emerson Hayes is a 60-year-old sculptor who lives in a caravan and works from an old shed in the back corner of her daughter’s coastal egg farm. When she is informed that her most acclaimed and last remaining work on public display is being replaced, she seeks a new home for it with family friend Lena, who curates a prestigious contemporary gallery. Lena, however, demands that Em present a fresh new work if she is to be considered for exhibition. As Em struggles to break out of her artistic rut, she is forced to reckon not only with her place in the art world, but with her entire identity.
Chook Shed
El wakes to her Mother's voice and begins to see her body separating from herself, as through cascading visions of El’s past and future, she walks towards a memory of her Mother that seeps in from her dreams and calls her back into a place she is afraid to return to.
Pulp
During a breaking cypher, Malekai's animalistic impulses take over. Once a space for unity, becomes a jungle full of tigers fighting for one's survival.