Opening Night Features
Selected works from each studio will be featured during TomorrowFest Opening Night on June 2nd.
Take a look at the featured works descriptions below…
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Afterimage
Across three chapters, a young woman traverses overlapping familiar and dissociative realities as her identity erodes—exposing the dangers of aestheticised pain through media-glorified mental illness.
Creators:
Emi Ciccarelli
Jina Zhang
Cleo Durosomo
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Waiting To Speak
As social media and technology reshape society, Ben, Grace, Marrissa, Sasha and Toby investigate the fading art of social connection with strangers.
Creators:
Ben Sheppard
Toby Murfet, Sasha Fitzpatrick
Grace Postill Pink
Marissa Marcos
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WANDERER
A student walks through the gritty streets of Melbourne city. Vivid flashes of memories confront her, spiraling her into discomfort and isolation.
Creators:
Saif Mosafeer
Charli Martin
Daniel Cowley
Mason Moon
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Feedback Loop
Recovered evidence relating to the disappearance of Max McLeish on April 15, 2025. Found footage audio horror-ish.
Creators:
Marissa Chu (Writer, Sound/Editor) Max McLeish (Voice)
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Laundry Day
After finding a lost wallet, a lonely young woman projects her hopes onto its owner, confronting the line between her own comfort, fantasies and reality.
Creators:
Harriett Minty
Ruben Gonzalez
Emma Boyce
Ben Vincent-Rykers
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Here and Now
On their second anniversary, Marc and Arwin share a final date before his planned move to America.
Creators:
Jacky Lin
Eliza Lo Presti
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Room with a View
This is a showcase of the live radio shows that were beamed across Melbourne Live on RRR radio every Tuesday morning this semester.
Creators:
Heidi, Neave, Christian, Charlotte, Ava, Ruby, Beth, Annabelle, Alette, Raja, Leo, Eamonn, Caylee, Renee, Ivan, Luna, Luciene and Albert
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Deep Fake
When an anonymous AI revenge porn site launches and targets her university campus, 22-year-old student Frances, an obsessive hacker, launches her own investigation to uncover the developer. At risk of arrest and losing custody of her younger sister, her pursuit of vengeance could destroy their fragile new life after shattering their old one.
Creators:
Beth Cavalli-Forbes
Zahra Kader
Jessica Davies
Mykaela Briggs
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All You Need is Kill
Jonah a meek nerdy man decides to kidnap the man that his girlfriend has been cheating on him with...the only catch is that he's terrible at it!
Creators:
Jarell Gan
Levi Reid
Shani Grubisic
Ian Ryosuke Tsuji
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It's For You
June’s everyday routine is mundane and repetitive. She cooks for Him before work and watches as he finishes his food, waiting for her turn to eat. Then she is fed and examined, often not at her own accord. He then goes to work and she waits by the phone, eager to listen and reminisce of the love that is no longer there.
Creators:
Mikaela Ellery
Liberty Thomas
Ashley Foot
Morgan Finnigan
Jackson Robinson
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PULSE
Alive. Consuming. Relentless. One man's descent into the only world left available to him, the one inside his head.
Creator:
Zac Cullen
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Mirror of Home
After losing communication in space, astronaut Hailey returns to Earth to find herself in a parallel world where she's remembered as a famous astronaut but forgotten as a person.
Creators:
Charlotte Wong
Danae Davey-Milne
Emily Zantuck
Indigo Schutzinger
Ivy Peng
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Australian Cinema: The Rebrand
At TomorrowFest, this studio presents short excerpts from five of their short films: March of the Publicans, Beach Goers, Sound Searching, Tipper, and Drama!
Directors (in order of titles above):
Charlotte Fels
Jacinta Bonett
Jas Ellis
Phoebe Lawlor
Selina Lokan
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Audience Experience and Cultural Perspectives
A documentary exploring audience engagement and cultural perspectives through the experiences of a local Melbourne viewer and an international student engaging with Australian cinema.
Creators:
Yuxuan Chen
Jiale Yuan
Zixuan Wang
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Germaine & Sonia
This studio is dedicated to experimentation in the development and realisation of film content that sits somewhere between documentary and fiction. They have created highly individual short film pieces from an experience or observation with an emphasis on the subjective essence of the observation.
Creators:
Jonathon Dimitropoulos
Gene Kim
Sarah Basham
Nikola Wood
Tara Hendy