Shed had its world première at Screamfest, 12th Oct 2025 “Mum, dad, where have you gone? I’m locked in the shed. I’m locked in the shed, mum.” The speaker is 10-year-old Mia (the extraordinary Mani Shanks), some days after she sneaked into her home’s detached garage during a game of Christmas hide and seek with…
“What if I told you there was something else here in the house, and it’s not me?” says Sonya (Georgia Eyers) to her visiting mother Laura (Angela Punch McGregor) near the beginning of Violett. This is the perfect set up for a small-town Australian gothic, where in fact it is not always so easy to…
In Swan View, on the eastern outskirts of Perth where the boundaries between city and bush are ill-defined, the corpse of 18-year-old Tracey Myers has been found. Tracey is the Laura Palmer of Western Australian suburbia – a high school girl who had her whole future ahead of her, but also a junkie on a…
From the jittery, juddery cuts and distorted sounds of its opening sequence, you can tell that in The Misguided, the feature debut of writer/director/producer/editor/DP Shannon Alexander, reality appears as something negotiable. It is night time in Perth, Australia, and feckless, sponging Levi (Caleb Galati) has arrived at the house of his older half-brother Wendel (Steven…