Josh Stafield

A gay man’s attraction leads to a tense confrontation. Homophobia and fear play out in post gay marriage Australia.

CHOIR GIRL is a gritty drama about a lonely photographer, Eugene, who becomes obsessed with an underage prostitute, Josephine, in his rundown neighbourhood. She has escaped a worn-torn country only to be trapped in the illegal sex trade by corruption and a powerful underworld criminal named Daddy. Yet for Eugene, Josephine represents a symbol of purity in the darkness - when he takes her photograph there is something captivating about her and she quickly becomes his muse.

A grief-stricken young woman, plagued by sleep paralysis and the mysterious beings that haunt her visions, finds that she has more demons to face than just those lurking in her bedroom.

At once potently restrained and explosively oddball, Mira’s Daughter is an examination of narcissism, co-dependency and the exacting demands of fame from 2021 Flickerfest Outstanding Emerging Female Director Alisha Hnatjuk.

Arriving on a cruise ship as though pulled by an invisible string, senior citizen Donald discovers an apparent murder scene. While searching for answers, he finds a second body, and an emergency is declared. When it becomes clear that the murderer is not of flesh and blood, that Donald is next in line to be killed and that the ship’s captain is a ferryman carrying his passengers to the afterlife, he and the other elderly tourists decide to make a break for it.

A woman shines a light into the depths of her soul

When an incomplete artwork opens up a gateway into an alternate reality, an artist is forced to confront her own artistic process and life choices.