Voice and Process

Studio leader Jeni Bezuidenhout is an award-winning HOH/deaf screenwriter and producer from Pretoria, South Africa. Passionate about bold storytelling that pushes boundaries, she specialises in genre and narratives driven by strong female characters. Jeni has produced and written over a dozen short films and plays and cocreated the funded sci-fi anthology web series Fleshbags.

  • 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

  • PULSE

    Alive. Consuming. Relentless. One man's descent into the only world left available to him, the one inside his head.

    Creator:

    • Zac Cullen

  • What's It to Him?

    When a grief-stricken man comes face to face with the ghost of his dead partner he must come to terms with the guilt of his past.

    Creator:

    • Ryan Wotton

  • The Kind of Silence that Breaks You

    Through intimate storytelling, this photo essay explores the anxieties of witnessing a sibling navigate their life in response to their type 1 diabetes diagnosis.

    Creator:

    • Petar Culic

  • Adélie Hears Music!!

    An amnesiac girl, who confuses her past with movies, journeys to the end of the world in search of a song she can’t get out of her head. Along the way, she boards a scientific vessel and meets its occupants - a lonely engineer, an old woman who thinks she’s a seagull, and a mad scientist.

    Creators:

    • Ashley Foot

    • Liberty Thomas

  • BLENDER

    Australian Gothic Thriller. Short film about localism and the process of assimilation.

    Creator:

    • Archer Daniell

  • Crow Room

    A small miniature set designed for a stop motion film, in which all of the room is handmade, designed for a script about a mansion lost at sea.

    Creators:

    • Bee Harrison

  • GORILLA/GIRL

    A short film about societal expectations of young women, and growing up as a teenage girl in a world that wants you to be everything you’re not.

    Creator:

    • Marshall Stott

  • Becoming Chinese

    This 3 series project dissects the politics and influence of recent social media trend 'Becoming Chinese', in which western people adopt the norms and traditions of Chinese culture, and show praise towards China.

    Creator:

    • Rosey Feng

  • A Siren Called Me to the Deep Blue Sea and Tired to Drown Me

    A short film about phone addiction.

    Creators:

    • Laura Sanigorski

  • Seen

    Seen is a soft and intimate short film about feeling lonely in a new place, and the quiet comfort of being reminded that someone still truly sees and understands you.

    Creator:

    • Raisha