Ah-Ma Burns

From static shots to controlled chaos, Max Kane returns to DN's pages and breaks down the use of dynamic cinematography in his visceral new short Ah-Ma Burns, where an ailing Chinese grandmother takes a remarkable emotional and physical trip to reunite with her late husband.

Still Life

Centring on Eloise, a middle-aged woman quietly coming undone and told almost entirely through a one-sided phone conversation, Still Life captures the unspoken shift when identity, purpose, and stability start to fall away. Writer/Director Nick Richardson shares how the women he grew up around inspired his intimate character study of a middle-aged woman who suddenly finds her life in freefall.

Lullaby

As Chi Thai’s heartbreaking short Lullaby arrives on DN to highlight Refugee Week, we speak to the multi-hyphenated filmmaker about horror not being a stylistic choice but rather the only genre able to hold the emotional weight of her haunting meditation on the ghosts that trauma leaves behind.

Gas Station Sushi

Chad Corhan explains how intensive same-room writing sessions with his co-writer & actor Sydney Adams shaped the breakneck surreal comedy of Gas Station Sushi, which sees a woman's pregnancy scare become an existential crisis during a drug fuelled party at her boyfriend's insane weird rich friend's house.