Very excited to have been shortlisted for the Australian Writer’s Guild’s John Hinde Award for best unproduced sci-fi screenplay!
FUCKING ADELAIDE at Adelaide Film Festival!
Closer's new TV series FUCKING ADELAIDE will premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival this week! I wrote ep 4 of the show and was a staff writer across the series alongside Matt Cormack and Soph Hyde.
Commissioned by ABC and Screen Australia for their 'Long Story Short' initiative, FUCKING ADELAIDE is a six part television drama, directed by Sophie Hyde, produced by Sophie, Rebecca Summerton and Bryan Mason, and written by Matthew Cormack, with ep 4 written by Matt Vesely.
SYNOPSIS: A comedy drama told from six different perspectives of a family who reunite in Adelaide when mum plans to sell the family home. Any sense of togetherness quickly crumbles to reveal how fucked and glorious it is to be home. Starring Pamela Rabe, Kate Box, Tilda Cobham-Hervey and Brendan Maclean.
FUCKING ADELAIDE will have its TV premiere on ABC TV in early 2018!
Heading to MIFF!
Super excited to announce that MY BEST FRIEND IS STUCK ON THE CEILING has been officially selected for the Melbourne International Film Festival!
We're playing on Aug 7 and Aug 14 as part of the Australian Shorts program (with radical friends Eddie White, Corrie Chan and Andrew Kavanagh amongst other great stuff!). I'll be heading over on the 7th so come along. Tix here.
MY BEST FRIEND IS STUCK ON THE CEILING goes global!
It's been a while between updates, but I've been busy directing my newest short, MY BEST FRIEND IS STUCK ON THE CEILING! You can see a trailer below:
MY BEST FRIEND IS STUCK ON THE CEILING stars Tom Ward (PLEASE LIKE ME) and Erin James (THE LITTLE DEATH) and was produced by Sophie Hyde and Christine Williams at Closer Productions!
The film premiered at Adelaide Film Fest in 2015, and recently won Best Comedy and Best Screenplay at the SA Screen Awards. Now, it's all set to make its international debut at Palm Springs ShortFest in the coming weeks. Can't wait to get over there! It's gonna be hot!
Before that, we also head to Sydney Film Fest as we're a finalist in the Dendy Awards for best Australian short. Yeeha!
Thanks, as always, to the cast and crew, and to the film's supporters the South Australian Film Corporation, The Adelaide Film Festival, Kojo, Carclew, and Closer.
After that, I've got a few things bubbling away, including a feature and a TV project in development with Closer Productions which will be great to spill the beans on in the coming months.
Good times ahead - onwards and upwards! #gocrows
ANNOUNCEMENT: Welcome Dave!
The super radical David Keen, who made the feature image for Catharsis (which still blows my mind daily) got in touch recently and asked if I wanted to turn Catharsis into a collaborative project. The truth, of course, is that I'd secretly been wishing that would happen all along but I was too chicken to ask.
So, I'm now excited to announce that Dave is coming on board to contribute a piece of art for EVERY story, EVERY week, starting with four pieces for the four part story Homeward.
RADNESS
Dave is working independently of me, working off a draft version of each story. I'm now working one week ahead, so he's got 7 days to respond before I put the story up online. At this stage, we're not chatting about what I think the story means, or where I think images could go - it's a surprise to me, and therein lies the excitement of this collaboration. Can't wait to see what he comes up with!