Production Design (film) portfolio.
The Dancing Girl and the Balloon Man (Short – 2023) ~
Production Design
Romance blooms between a dim sum shop assistant and a street performer in Chinatown, who carries them in the safety of his balloon on a rainy night.
Director & Writer ~ David Ma
Producer ~ Georgia Noe
DOP ~ Jack McAvoy
Costumer Design ~ Andrew Fraser
Set dresser/Stand-By ~ Merette Bourtros, Azi Wallmeyer
Sydney Film Festival 2023 – WINNER Best Australian Short
Voice Activated (Short – 2022) ~
Production Design
A florist, who stutters, finds his voice when he is forced to cooperate with a voice activated car
Director & Writer ~ Steve Anthopoulos
Producers ~ Yingna Lou, Liam Heyen
DOP ~ Jack McAvoy
Set dresser/Stand-By ~ Alastair Wharton
Sydney Film Festival 2022 – World Premiere
Tribeca Film Festival 2023
Gold Coast Film Festival – Best Australian Short Film, People’s Choice Award, Best Screenplay, Best Actor
Screen Producers Awards – Winner Best Short Production
Stellar Short Film Festival 2023 – Winner Best Screenplay
Cleveland International Film Festival 2023 – Winner The Clover & Maggie Award: In Celebration of Life
Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards – Nominee Best Short Film
Travelling Film Festival
Flickerfest 2022
The Exit Plan (Short – 2020) ~
Production & Costume Design
Set on the coasts of Cornwall, ‘The Exit Plan’ asks the question: is a life worth less just because you have less of it to live?
Director ~ Angus Wilkinson
Writer ~ Ella Cook
Producer ~ James Buckingham
DOP ~ Jon Muschamp
Sydney Flickerfest 2021
Women Over 50 Film Festival (WOFFF) 2021 ~ Winner Best Drama
Norwich Film Festival ~ Best International Film
Broken Line North (Short – 2019) ~
Two broken people – a Lao-Australian woman and a teenage hitchhiker – must navigate grief, isolation and an unlikely connection forged over one night in a roadside motel.
Written & Directed ~ Sunday Emerson Gullifer
Produced ~ Bethany Bruce
Cinematographer ~ Jack McAvoy
Art assist/set dresser ~ Emily Borghi
Sydney Film Festival 2019 (World Premiere)
Flickerfest International Short Film Festival 2020
St Kilda Film Festival 2020
Revelation Perth International Film Festival 2020
Here Out West (Feature – Art Direction – 2022) ~
A baby is kidnapped from hospital by a desperate grandmother. Her flight sets off a chain of events that bring together complete strangers over the course of one dramatic day.
ABC, Screen Australia, Co-Curious & Emerald Productions.
Production Designer ~ Roslyn Durnford
Set Decorator ~ Aisha Philips
Art Dept Coordinator ~ Chantell Basiacik
Prop Master ~ Charli Dugdale
Buyer/Dresser ~ Dorothy Teng
Standby Props ~ Tom Gibson
Runner ~ Sean Longhurst
Attachment ~ Margarita Gershkovich
Director ~Fadia Abboud, Lucy Gaffy, Julie Kalceff, Ana Kokkinos, Leah Purcell
Writer ~ Nisrine Amine, Bina Bhattacharya, Matias Bolla, Claire Cao, Arka Das, Dee Dogan, Vonne Patiag, Tien Tran
Producer ~ Sheila Jayadev, Annabell Davis, Bree-Anne Sykes
DOP ~ Tania Lambert
Costume Designer ~ Wendy Cork
Opening Night Sydney Film Festival 2021.
Nest (Short – 2021) ~
A timber feller, kept awake by his infant child’s cries of hunger, encounters something in the woods.
Production design.
Director ~James Hunter
Writer ~ Steve Anthopoulos
Producer ~ Faith Guogoa
DOP ~ Campbell Brown
Costume Designer ~Jane Hyland
Set Dresser ~ Rebecca Metcalf
2021 – MIFF Official selection + Accelerator
Vancouver International Film Festival 2022
St Kilda Film Festival 2022
Cooee (Short – 2018) ~
Four wild girls race through a futuristic Australia in their electric Holden Commodore, searching for booze, drugs and reality.
Director ~ Toby Morris
Producer ~ Samuel Burnett, Toby Morris
Cinematographer ~ Aaron McClisky
Costume Designer ~ Caitlin Murray
Car modifications & mechanics ~ Nic Ford
Winner – Craft Award, St Kilda Film Festival 2018
Best Australian Film – 2019 Australia Independent Film Festival
On Hold (Short – 2018) ~
A short film musical about the choice between following you dreams, and making next week’s rent.
Written & Directed ~ Jake Nielsen
Produced ~ Alicia Easaw-Mamutil, Tom Montefiore, Grace Rein
Cinematographer ~ Jack McAvoy
Costume Designer ~ Caitlin Murray
Art assist/set dresser ~ Emily Bourke
Winner ~ Flickerfest International Short Film Festival 2018
Dendy Awards – Sydney Film Festival 2018
REACHING DISTANCE (Feature – 2018) ~
Logan, a cynic with a photographic memory, follows his sister’s killer onto a night-rider bus. As the line between past and present begins to blur on the journey, Logan uncovers he has a complex past with much more than one passenger.
Director ~ David Fairhurst
Producer ~ Kayne Taylor, Rebecca Saunders
Cinematographer ~ Goldie Soetianto
Art Director ~ Aisha Kirby
SUIT (2019) ~
Design & construction of space suit & helmet, shot in the Almeria Desert, Spain.
3D printed helmet designed in Rhino.
Producer ~ Lydia Bland
Director ~ Katia Gainfeld
DOP ~ Tim Wood
