PROJECTS
LOVE, GUNS & LEVEL UPS (WEB-SERIES)
PRODUCER: Jodie Kirkbride
DIRECTOR: Andrew Shanks & Nicholas Clearly
RELEASE: September 18th 2020.
SYNOPSIS: When an International cosplayer and an introverted game developer connect online, they discover the challenges of a real-world relationship. An action rom-com about video games and modern dating.
ACCOLADES:
Official Selection: Die Seriale 2021
Official Selection: Apulia Webfest 2021
Official Selection: Cinemajove Film Festival 2021
Official Selection: Sicily Webfest
Official Selection: T.O. Webfest
Official Selection: Realist Webfest
Official Selection: Cote d'Azur Webfest 2021
Official Selection: Bilbao Webfest 2021
Official Selection: Seoul Webfest 2021
Offical Selection: Stareable Film Festival 2021
Official Selection: Minnesota Webfest 2021
Official Selection: Stareable Fest 2021
Official Selection: AACTA Awards 2021
Official Selection: NZ Webfest
Official Selection: Austin Film Festival
Official Selection: Bilbao Seriesland 2021
Official Selection: South Australian Screen Awards 2021
Honorable Mention: DC Webfest 2021
Winner: Best Costume - Die Seriale 2021
Winner: Best Sound Design - Die Seriale 2021
Winner: Best Editing - Die Seriale 2021
Winner: Best Directing - T.O. Webfest
Winner: Best Comedy - T.O. Webfest
Winner: Best Sound Design - T.O. Webfest
Winner: Best Visual Effects - T.O. Webfest
Winner: Best Editing - Sicily Webfest
Winner: Best Costume Design - Sicily Webfest
Winner: Best Directing - Realist Webfest
Winner: Best Visual Effects - Seoul Webfest 2021
Winner: Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy Webseries - Apulia Webfest 2021
Winner: Young Audience Award - Apulia Webfest 2021
Winner: Best romantic Comedy Series: Minnesota Webfest 2021
Winner: Australian Cinematographers Society Gold Award 2021
Winner: Best Visual Effects - Rio Webfest 2021
Nominee: Best Actress - Die Seriale 2021
Nominee: Best Lead Actor - T.O. Webfest
Nominee: Online Drama Awards - AACTA Awards 2021
Nominee: Best Cinematography - Stareable Fest 2021
Nominee: Best Directing - Stareable Fest 2021
Nominee: Best Editing - Stareable Fest 2021
Nominee: Best Production Design - Bilbao Seriesland 2021
Nominee: Best Effects - Bilbao Seriesland 2021
Nominee: Best Genre - Bilbao Seriesland 2021
Nominee: Best Series - Bilbao Seriesland 2021
Nominee: Best Web Series - South Australian Screen Awards 2021
Nominee: Best Production Design - South Australian Screen Awards 2021
Nominee: Best Costume - South Australian Screen Awards 2021
Nominee: Best Action/Sci-Fi/Horror Series - Rio Webfest 2021
Nominee: Best Directing (Action/Sci-Fi/Horror) - Rio Webfest 2021
Nominee: Best Cast (Action/Sci-Fi/Horror) - Rio Webfest 2021
Nominee: Best Actor (Action/Sci-Fi/Horror) - Rio Webfest 2021
Nominee: Best Actress (Action/Sci-Fi/Horror) - Rio Webfest 2021
Nominee: Best Costume Design - Rio Webfest 2021
Nominee: Best Make Up - Rio Webfest 2021
Nominee: Best Soundtrack - Rio Webfest 2021
Nominee: Best Sound - Rio Webfest 2021
Nominee: Best International Series - Rio Webfest 2021
DJAAMBI (SHORT)
PRODUCER: Jodie Kirkbride
DIRECTOR: Joel Brown
RELEASE: 2022 (on Festival Circuit)
SYNOPSIS: Djaambi centres on Reg, a young Indigenous man, transitioning between past decisions, and the new. Made raw in the wake of the death of his close cousin, Tjarrah, Reg’s experiences with racism at the hands of his work colleague challenge his sense of identity, making him anxious. Embarking on a spiritual journey, reflecting on the past to reassure his present decisions, Tjarrah guides Reg through his grief. Djaambi touches on contemporary, and often unseen by the privileged, themes of racism and mental health, while navigating one’s place in Australian society, illustrating the impact of cultural overload and the aftermath of trauma.
ACCOLADES:
Official Selection: South Australian Screen Awards 2021
Official Selection: Creation International Film Festival 2022
Official Selection: Setting Sun Film Festival 2022
Official Selection: Australian Inspirational Film Festival 2022
Official Selection: Breath of Fresh Air (BOFA) Film Festival
Winner: 2nd Prize: - First Nations Short Film Competition - Breath of Fresh Air (BOFA) Film Festival
Winner: Cliff Ellis Memorial Award - Australian Cinematography Society 2021
Winner: Silver Award - Australian Cinematography Society 2021
Winner: First Nations Talent Award - Natasha Wanganeen - South Australian Screen Awards 2021
Winner: Best Social Awareness Short - Joel Brown - Creation International Film Festival 2022
Nominee: Best Directing - South Australian Screen Awards 2021
Nominee: Best Performance - Natasha Wanganeen - South Australian Screen Awards 2021
WAIYIRRI (SHORT)
PRODUCER: Jodie Kirkbride
DIRECTORS: Kiara Milera & Charlotte Rose
RELEASE: 2022 (on festival circuit)
SYNOPSIS: Two women - a Missionary’s wife, Mary, and Ngarrindjeri woman, Lacardi, meet in a changing world, 1860s South Australia. Tragedy strikes leaving Mary questioning her need to ‘save souls’ and instead finding solace in Lacardi‘s culture and connection to Country.
ACCOLADES:
Official Selection: Adelaide Film Festival 2020
Official Selection: Flickerfest 2021
Official Selection: WIFT V-Fest 2021
Official Selection: St Kilda Film Festival 2021
Official Selection: Illuminate Adelaide - Music and Art After Dark 2021
Official Selection: Cinefest Oz 2021
Offical Selection: Soul Punch Film Festival
Official Selection: South Australian Screen Awards 2021
Official Selection: Sydney Lift Off Film Festival 2021
Official Selection: Sydney Women’s International Film Festival 2021
Official Selection: Melbourne Women in Film Festival 2021
Official Selection: 4theatre Film Festival 2021
Winner: Best Indigenous Film - WIFT V-Fest 2021
Winner: Audience Choice Award - WIFT V-Fest 2021
Winner: Best Short Film - Sydney Women’s International Film Festival 2021
Winner: Best Screenplay - South Australian Screen Awards 2021
Finalist - Australia's Top 100 Short Films 2021
Semi Finalist - Best Cinematography - WIFT V-Fest 2021
Nominee: Best Achievement in Indigenous Filmmaking - St Kilda Film Festival 2021
Nominee: Best Production Design - South Australian Screen Awards 2021
Nominee: Best Sound Design - South Australian Screen Awards 2021
Nominee: Best Hair and Makeup - South Australian Screen Awards 2021
Nominee: Best Performance - South Australian Screen Awards 2021
Nominee: Best Directing - Sydney Women’s International Film Festival 2021
DOWN TO EARTH (SHORT)
PRODUCER: Jodie Kirkbride
DIRECTOR: Nick Crowhurst
RELEASE: February 2021
Synopsis: Three young misfits venture into the Australian outback to find what they believe is a meteorite that has crash landed near their country town, only to discover it's something far more mysterious.
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DISTRIBUTION:
Cinefest Oz
ACCOLDAES:
Official Selection - Cinéfest Oz 2020
Official Selection - Toronto Independent Film Festival 2020
Official Selection - Show Me Shorts Film Festival 2020
Official Selection - South Australian Screen Awards 2020
Official Selection - Edinburgh Independent Film Awards 2020
Official Selection - Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival 2021
Official Selection - Fleurieu Film Festival 2021
Official Selection - Adelaide Film Festival Youth 2021
Offical Selection - DUST Scifi YouTube Channel
Winner - Best Cinematography - South Australian Screen Awards 2020
Winner - Best Hair & Makeup - South Australian Screen Awards 2020
Nominee - Best Comedy - South Australian Screen Awards 2020
Nominee - Best Directing - South Australian Screen Awards 2020
Nominee - Best Screenplay - South Australian Screen Awards 2020
Nominee - Best Costume - South Australian Screen Awards 2020
Nominee - Best Production Design - South Australian Screen Awards 2020
IN THE WAKE (SHORT)
PRODUCERS: Jodie Kirkbride & Stephanie Jaclyn
DIRECTOR: Stephanie Jaclyn
RELEASE: August 2021
SYNOPSIS: After surviving a car accident that claimed her sisters life, a young woman struggles to tell their mother the truth behind what really happened the night of her death.
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ACCOLADES:
Official Selection - Adelaide Film Festival - World Shorts 2020
Official Selection - South Australian Screen Awards 2020
Official Selection - Flickerfest 2021
Official Selection - Adelaide Fringe Underexposed 2021
Offical Selection - Soul Punch Film Festival
Official Selection: AACTA Awards 2021
Winner: Best Actress - Jess Kuss - Soul Punch Film Festival
Winner: Best Cinematography - Soul Punch Film Festival
Nominee - Best Drama - South Australian Screen Awards 2020
Nominee - Best Female Performance - Jess Kuss - South Australian Screen Awards 2020
Nominee - Best Female Performance - Anna Steen - South Australian Screen Awards 2020
Nominee - Best Editing - South Australian Screen Awards 2020
Nominee - Best Production Design - South Australian Screen Awards 2020
Nominee - Best Hair & Makeup - South Australian Screen Awards 2020
Nominee - Best Sound Design - South Australian Screen Awards 2020
Nominee - Best Music Composition - South Australian Screen Awards 2020
DANTE'S OFFICE (SHORT)
PRODUCERS: Jodie Kirkbride, Sebastian Benn, Zac Benn
DIRECTOR: Sebastian Benn & Zac Benn
RELEASE: 2022 (on festival circuit)
Synopsis: The damned employees of Dante's Office desperately search for escape from a surreal corporate world where the boss is a literal monster and every day is a Monday.
ACCOLADES:
Official Selection: Creation International Film Festival 2021
Winner: Best Comedy Short - Creation International Film Festival 2021
Winner: Best Actor, Short - Michelle Hunter - Creation International Film Festival 2021
GET A LIFE (SHORT)
PRODUCER: Jodie Kirkbride
DIRECTOR: Nicole Miller
RELEASE: 2022 (on festival circuit)
Synopsis: Technology has made it possible for the elite of society to be revived from the dead. So when the unexceptional and unmotivated Louis Black is accidentally revived, he wants nothing more than to escape the chaos and settle back into his old life. Only problem is: life has already moved on.
ACCOLADES:
Official Selection: Flickerfest 2022 - best of Australian Shorts
THE FINAL CHAPTER (SHORT)
PRODUCER: Jodie Kirkbride
WRITER: Stephanie Jaclyn
DIRECTOR: Stephanie Jaclyn
RELEASE: June 2020
Synopsis: A romantic novelist struggles to finish her latest book in the midst of her divorce.
FESTIVALS: Official Selection: Creation International Film Festival (Canada) 2018
ZOE (SHORT)
PRODUCER: Jodie Kirkbride
WRITER: Nick Crowhurst & Leigh Madden
DIRECTOR: Nick Crowhurst
RELEASE: 2018
SYNOPSIS: Waking up in a zombie apocalypse, a couple search for their young daughter, Zoe.
AWARDS, NOMINATIONS & FESTIVALS:
Winner: Best Music Composition: Cezary Konarski (South Australian Screen Awards)
Nominated: Best Film (South Australian Screen Awards)
Nominated: Best Drama (South Australian Screen Awards)
Nominated: Best Directing: Nick Crowhurst (South Australian Screen Awards)
Nominated: Best Cinematography: Maxx Corkindale (South Australian Screen Awards)
Nominated: Best Editing: Daniel Vink (South Australian Screen Awards)
Nominated: Best Production Design (South Australian Screen Awards)
Nominated: Best Sound Design: Cezary Konarski South Australian Screen Awards)
Official Selection: Monsterfest 2017
Official Selection: Trasharama A-Go-Go 2018
Official Selection: Scare-a-Con: Horror and Pup Culture Fan Convention 2018
Official Selection: South Australian Screen Awards 2018
Official Selection: Ottawa SPOOKSHOW Fantastic Film Festival 201
MUTT (SHORT)
PRODUCERS: Jordan Cowan & Jodie Kirkbride
WRITER: Sara West
DIRECTOR: Sara West
RELEASE: May 2020
AWARDS, NOMINATIONS & FESTIVALS:
Winner: Best Directing Sara West (South Australian Screen Awards)
Winner: Best Male Performance: Oscar Redding (South Australian Screen Awards)
Winner: Best Female Performance: Jordan Cowan (South Australian Screen Awards)
Winner: Best Cinematography: Maxx Corkindale (South Australian Screen Awards)
Nominated: Best Production Design (South Australian Screen Awards)
Nominated: Best Film (South Australian Screen Awards)
Nominated: Best Drama (South Australian Screen Awards)
Nominated: Best Screenplay (South Australian Screen Awards)
Official Selection: Adelaide Film Festival 2018
Official Selection: South Australian Screen Awards 2018
Official Selection: Flickerfest 2019
Official Selection: AFI Social Shorts 2019
ATTONBITUS "COGNITION" (MUSIC VIDEO)
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/EDITOR: Jodie Kirkbride
CAMERA OPERATOR: Nick Crowhurst
ARTIST: Attonbitus
RELEASE: September 2017
FREEMALES (WEBSERIES)
PRODUCER: Jodie Kirkbride
WRITER: Stephanie Jaclyn
DIRECTOR: Stephanie Jaclyn
RELEASE: September 2016
SYNOPSIS: When a free spirited traveller moves in with a 9 to 5 desk worker, they form a strong, wine-fuelled friendship as they approach their mid-midlife crisis; single, unemployed and without a plan…
AWARDS, NOMINATIONS & FESTIVALS:
Winner: Best Overall Performance (Wildsound Feedback Film Festival)
Nominated: Best Webseries (South Australian Screen Awards) 2017
Nominated: Best Webseries (South Australian Screen Awards) 2018
Official Selection: Moonfaze Feminist Film Festival 2017
Official Selection: Rio Webfest 2017
Offical Selection: Winter Film Festival 2017
Official Selection: Female Feedback Film Festival 2017
Official Selection: South Australian Screen Awards 2018
A FISH OUT OF WATER (SHORT)
PRODUCERS: Ruby Byass & Yolanda Rogers, Executive Producer: Jodie Kirkbride
WRITERS: Yolanda Rogers & Mark Metaphor
DIRECTOR: Nick Crowhurst
RELEASE: November 2017
AWARDS & NOMINATIONS:
Winner: Audience Selection (Adelaide 48 Hour Film Project)
Synopsis: A big fish story about a boy cleaning up grandpa's mess.
(Made for the 48 Hour Film Project 2017)
HAPPYTECH "SURVIVE" (MUSIC VIDEO)
OLD SAINT NICK (SHORT)
PRODUCER: Jodie Kirkbride
WRITERS: Yolanda Rogers & Mark Metaphor
DIRECTOR: Nick Crowhurst
RELEASE: November 2016
AWARDS & NOMINATIONS:
Winner: Best Use of Line (Adelaide 48 Hour Film Project)
Winner: Audience Choice (Adelaide 48 Hour Film Project)
A young gamer encounters an unconventional Santa Claus on Christmas Eve.
(Made for the 48 Hour Film Project 2016)
IT TAKES TWO TO MANGO (SHORT)
PRODUCER: Jodie Kirkbride
WRITERS: Yolanda Rogers & Mark Metaphor
DIRECTOR: Nick Crowhurst
RELEASE: November 2015
AWARDS & NOMINATIONS:
Winner: Audience Choice (Adelaide 48 Hour Film Project)
Winner: Best Choreography (Adelaide 48 Hour Film Project)
Synopsis: An elderly snake catcher reluctantly takes on a young apprentice. (Made for the Adelaide 48 Hour Film Project)