Moo Renzaho

Acacia, 20, is in the midst of a messy break-up after cheating on her girlfriend. Since moving out of home three years earlier, she has grown apart from her father, 55-year-old Rob, who longs for a stronger relationship with her. The two agree to go camping together to catch up, but there’s one major barrier to their emotional reconnection: Acacia hasn’t yet come out to him. Halfway through the trip, Rob takes a walk on his own and stumbles upon a young boy by himself – an encounter that takes him on a journey of self-reflection, enabling father and daughter to finally open up to one another.

DOG WHISTLE is a mockumentary that follows the rise and eventual fall of an ambitious student documentary project. Compelled by rumours that a small right-wing political club is planning a racially motivated political demonstration on campus, a student documentary crew make a plan to uncover the insidious inner-workings of the Conservative Australian Men’s Party (C.A.M.P). However, while student director, Matt, sets out with a clear directorial vision, when he arrives to meet the club members for the first time and realises that he not only recognises the club’scharismatic President Jack, but knows him from a brief but heated encounter a few years prior, he suddenly becomes entangled in web of lies and the film suffers.

Moses, a quiet yet experienced cinema worker with OCD is cleaning up on their nightly close. Upon his routine sweep of the lower auditorium, he stumbles across an industrial-sized can of peaches. Things start to get weird as Moses finds more and more of these cans, the projectors start acting on their own and a mysterious man with a can for a head stalks Moses throughout the cinema. When Moses calls for help he is finally caught by the Can Man and is forced to confront his innermost fears.

When infamous conservative media outlet The Daily Larrikin becomes the target of a federal investigation into discriminatory hiring practices, producers Jack and Tom scramble to come up with a way out of the inevitable company-sinking legal trouble. Their solution: bring on a token diversity hire as a do-nothing assistant to their volatile star commentator Roy Ruebens, functionally killing two birds with one stone. The best they can manage is another white guy who happens to be gay; but the new twink on the job quickly ignites a powder keg of internal politics, on-air blunders and viral PR disaster, turning a legal problem into a full blown crisis for the entire company.