ON A SHOESTRING: Making Impactful Cinema Without a Budget
Sophie Somerville
Sophie Somerville is a writer, director and editor based in Melbourne. Her shorts PEEPS and LINDA 4 EVA screened widely at festivals including Telluride Film Festival and London Short Film Festival and won consecutive Dendy Awards at Sydney Film Festival. Her debut feature film FWENDS, shot guerilla style in Melbourne's CBD, premiered in the Forum section of the 75th Berlinale and was awarded the Caligari Film Award for stylistic and thematic innovation. It went on to screen at numerous Australian and international film festivals, including BFI London, Sao Paulo Mostra IFF, Beijing International Film Festival and New Horizons.
Jaydon Martin
Jaydon Martin is a multi-disciplinary filmmaker and artist whose practice draws upon the exploration of maligned cultures, mundane existence and spiritual modernity. His cinematic language and emotionally charged aesthetic absorbs the primal eye. Primarily working in docufiction allows Martin to draw a direct line between reality and the subconscious in pursuit of an ecstatic truth. Martin’s films have screened internationally at festivals, including at International Film Festival Rotterdam, Warsaw International Film Festival, São Paulo International Film Festival, Sydney Film Festival & Melbourne International Film Festival and has received a Special Jury Prize at IFFR and the Black Magic Innovation Award at MIFF.
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