Thirstygirl

A film which has set the DN YouTube channel alight by racking up close to 700K views in a week, writer/director Alexandra Qin spoke to us about her personal experience with sex and love, drug and alcohol addiction, and the vital role it played in her a proof-of-concept short centred around the fragile relationship between two sisters on a road trip.

Golden Child

Hannah Levin talks to DN about the many production and narrative considerations taken into account to hit the right tone and pace for her directorial debut where a young woman reckons with the questionable past behaviour of her childhood friend during a family pool party.

Stress Head

Filmmaker Kyle Jon Shephard reveals the influence of Danny Boyle and Baz Luhrmann on the pacing of his surrealist comedy short about two friends having a casual drink that quickly turns into an intensely physical venting session.

Unicorns

With his debut feature up for 7 BIFA awards, actor turned writer/director James Krishna Floyd discusses the rich complexity of characters who wear masks and the beauty of realism drag on screen in his feature debut.

Fine Dining

Werner Vivier returns to DN to talk through the underlying subtext of racism in food culture in his new short about a couple on an awkward date which takes a turn for the worse when the subject of where they’re eating arises.