Misery and Other Choices

MISERY AND OTHER CHOICES

Short ecological thriller, 10 minutes
Completed 2026
Writer / Director / Producer

The world sizzles under climate change. A politician lets it burn. When a young couple discover they are pregnant, then find that politician alone and barely breathing, abstract politics becomes an immediate moral choice. Misery and Other Choices is a darkly comic ecological thriller that pits climate nihilism against murderous hope.

Awards

Won for Best Environmental Short - Lunigiana Cinema Festival

Won the Scenario Award - Universal Film Festival Samothraki

Runner-Up for Best International Film - Brighton Rocks International Film Festival

Finalist - WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival

Nominated for Best Australian Micro Short Film - AFIN International Film Festival

Nominated for Best Australian Supporting Performance (Jake Fryer-Hornsby) - AFIN International Film Festival

Festivals

Official Selection - Nashville Film Festival

Official Selection - Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital (DCEFF)

Official Selection - St Kilda Film Festival

Official Selection - Fantastic Film Festival Australia

Official Selection - Sydney Underground Film Festival

Official Selection - Sydney World Film Festival

Official Selection - Heart of Gold International Film Festival

Official Selection - CCCL Film Festival, Bangkok

Official Selection - Babul Eco Film Festival

Breaking Plates

BREAKING PLATES

Short hybrid documentary, 25 minutes | Completed 2024 | Co-writer

A raucous hybrid of documentary, silent cinema, drama and dance, Breaking Plates brings the unruly women of early film into conversation with filmmakers working a century later. Through archival footage, re-enactment and physical comedy, it asks what became of cinema’s early appetite for rebellious women and how humour might still be used against the structures that contain them.

Awards

Winner, Best Short Documentary, Antenna Documentary Film Festival, 2025

Winner, Platinum Remi for Experimental Film and Video Art, WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival, 2025

Winner, Paolo Gobetti–FCTP Prize for Best Short Film, Filmare la Storia, Turin, 2026

Festivals

World Premiere, Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival, 2024

Official Selection, Athens International Film + Video Festival, 2025

Official Selection, St Kilda Film Festival, 2025

Official Selection, Asolo Art Film Festival, 2025

Official Selection, Documents and Documentaries, Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna, 2025

Midwest Premiere, Chagrin Documentary Film Festival, 2025

Honorable Mention, Thomas Edison Film Festival, 2026

Cut

CUT

Short drama
Completed 2023
Writer / Director

Caught between his burgeoning neo-Nazi best friend, his secret lover and his religious Jewish father, Daniel must decide who he is willing to become. As his carefully separated identities collapse, he is haunted by the surreal spectre of an Orthodox Jewish man carrying a chicken.

Awards and Festivals

Won for Best Short Film - Buenos Aires International Film Festival

Nominated for Best Short Film - Melbourne Queer Film Festival

Nominated for Best Directing - Melbourne Queer Film Festival

Won for Best Editing - Canberra short Film Festival

Nominated for Best Short Film - Queer Screen

Nominated for Best Screenplay - Queer Screen

Nominated for Emerging Filmmaker - Queer Screen

Official Selection - Vancouver International Film Festival

Official Selection - Jewish International Film Festival

Official Selection - Down Under Berlin

Official Selection - Santa Barbara Jewish Film Festival

Official Selection - Austin Jewish Film Festival

Official Selection - Warsaw Jewish Film Festival

I Want to Make a Film about Women

I WANT TO MAKE A FILM ABOUT WOMEN

Short speculative documentary, 12 minutes | Completed 2020 | Co-Writer/Script editor

A queer speculative documentary imagining the creative lives and conversations of women from the Russian Constructivist movement. Inside a communal kitchen that transforms into a workshop, stage and film set, the work asks what these revolutionary artists might have created together had Stalinist suppression not intervened.

Awards

Winner, Best Documentary, St Kilda Film Festival, 2020

Special Mention, Dendy Awards for Australian Shorts, Sydney Film Festival, 2020

Winner, Best Director, CinefestOZ Short Film Awards, 2020

Winner, Creative Achievement Award, Brisbane International Film Festival, 2020

Official Selection, International Shorts, Vancouver International Film Festival, 2020

Winner, Best Short: Pride Parade, SCAD Savannah Film Festival, 2020

Winner, Best Direction of a Documentary Short Subject, Australian Directors’ Guild Awards, 2020

Winner, Best Documentary: Biography and Best Docudrama, ATOM Awards, 2020

Jury’s Citation Award, Thomas Edison Black Maria Film Festival, 2021

Special Jury Mention, Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival, 2021

Winner, Best Short Non-Fiction, Victorian Multicultural Film Festival, 2021

Outstanding Achievement: Short Film, Newport Beach Film Festival, 2021

Official Selection, International Short Film Competition, DAN.CIN.FEST, 2022

Winner, Best Documentary, Breath of Fresh Air Film Festival, 2023

After Saturn

AFTER SATURN

Short drama, 10 minutes
Completed 2021
Writer / Director

Estranged siblings return to clear their childhood home after their grandfather’s sudden death and confront the grief, violence and inherited damage embedded in its rooms. Moving through surreal fractures of memory, After Saturn asks what families preserve, what they bury and what remains when a shared history can no longer be avoided.

Awards

Nominated for Best Director - CineFestOZ

Nominated for Best Score - St Kilda

Won Best Short Director - Kansas Arthouse Festival

Plastic

PLASTIC

Music video, 4 minutes
Completed 2018
Writer / Director

A relationship breakdown becomes a surreal construction site in this performance-driven music video for MICRA. Set against the duo’s minimalist electronic sound, Plastic moves between psychological intimacy and formal visual disruption to ask how action, memory and loss shape the selves we build.

Awards and Festivals

Nominated for Best Experimental Film - ATOM Awards

Nominated for Best Music Video - ATOM Awards

Nominated for Best Music Video - ASE Awards

Official Selection - Byron Bay International Film Festival

Official Selection - Lake Charles Film Festival

Official Selection - CLIPPED music video festival

Official Selection - Audio Shoot Unsigned International Music Video & Film Festival

Only the Beautiful

ONLY THE BEAUTIFUL

Science-fiction short, 12 minutes
Completed 2017
Writer / Director

Loosely inspired by John B. Calhoun’s “behavioural sink” experiments, a young man raised inside a rigid, post-scarcity metropolitan system must choose between preserving the structure that sustains humanity and acting freely enough to destroy it. Only the Beautiful is a science-fiction film about agency, complacency and the danger of mistaking survival for progress.

Festivals

Nominated for Best Direction - SoCal Clips Indie Film Fest

Nominated for Best Student Film - SoCal Clips Indie Film Fest

Official Selection - SoCal Clips Indie Film Fest

Official Selection - NanoCon International Film Festival

Official Selection - Charlotte Film Festival

Official Selection - Sanford International Film Festival

Official Selection - SciFi Film Festival

Official Selection - Super Geek Film Festival