TISYA SHARMA
AGE 17
Director of Migrant – A Tropfest Jnr Finalist Tisya’s film follows a new migrant struggles to find a purpose in his new country.
rob plazA
AGE 19
Director of Symmetry - There is a constant noise of machines and growing infrastructure that we sometimes forget what silence sounds like. We are living in a jungle... A concrete jungle.
Completely self-taught, Rob is a 19 year old emerging young Filmmaker based on the Gold Coast, Australia with a primary focus on experimental narrative.
JAHVIS LOVEDAY
AGE 19
Co-Director of Home - A girl must leave her hometown, her family, her friends. Everything she remembers that was horrible, how the town was so small, everyone knew everyone, becomes the things she will miss the most
JOY BEN HUR
AGE 20
Co-Director of Home - A girl must leave her hometown, her family, her friends. Everything she remembers that was horrible, how the town was so small, everyone knew everyone, becomes the things she will miss the most
DANIEL MERSON
AGE 20
Director of Stories from the Smoke - A short film revealing the impact of the 2019-2020 bushfires on ordinary Australians.
oria doyle
age 20
Director of Head Spins - When Lola is confronted by her high school enemy, she must decide whether she can be trusted before being swept into her plans for revenge.
madeleine mytkowski
age 23
Director of The Water Inside Us All - A young girl is haunted by someone she once knew.
jack clark
age 23
Director of Threshold - An anxious young man struggles to interpret the signals of a woman he walks home one night. Threshold examines the widespread, problematic thought pattern that encourages men to assume the role of pursuer in a romantic relationship.
NICHOLAS MUECKE
AGE 23
Director of Rock Paper Scissors - A lonely old man reflects on his teenage journey through love as if it were a game of rock, paper, scissors.
JORDAN GIUSTI
age 24
Director of Grevillea - An incarcerated Jewish teen encounters a mysterious tattooist with unclear intentions when he decides to get a tattoo, against the conventions of his religion. An adolescent male frozen in a liminal state, caught adrift be-tween his dual identity as a Jewish-Australian. Too far from either side, the film is about the schizophrenic zone of non-identity one feels when they are still deciding who it is they actually are.
ALEX THOMSON
age 24
Alex is an aspiring writer, director and actor. Having graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts Film and Television degree in Melbourne, he has made a number of short films and web series.
Director of Carina’s Groove - While Carina spends another day slacking around at home, an exciting prospect in the form of a handyman arrives...