Queer-core

Aced It!

Effie, an aro-ace woman, reluctantly attends her 10 year high school reunion only to rediscover that fitting in is still overrated. High school sucks. Everyone trying to figure out who they are, who they like…well…almost everyone.
Effie is not looking forward to reliving awkward teen memories, but at least she’s grown up since then…hasn’t she? The milestones by which society marks a life aren’t for her at all, so a comparison to her peers might not work out so well.

Director – Jasmin Watkins
Writers – Jasmin Watkins & Amber Watkins
Producer – Jasmine J. Leech
Starring – Lauren Koopowitz

Blue

A trans girl tries to get ready for her girlfriend’s birthday but a blue ribbon stalks and hinders her every move.

Director, Writer, Producer – Linden Roberts

Bulldog

Jack and Charlie play for a country footy team, and their coach’s favourite ritual is to see the bruises that their intense, testosterone fuelled training drills bring about. They start to do recovery together at the local beach. In these peaceful moments Jack and Charlie come out of their shells, and develop a beautiful but troubled relationship. Will these boys be able to live in these polar opposite worlds, or will their little freedom come crashing down?

It’s namesake is the famous British Bulldog drill. Players line up. You have to get to the other side of the field without being thumped into the ground. It’s harsh, brutal, uncompromising.
This short ethnographic drama displays a complex relationship between two country footballers in the midst of a toxic environment. These boys feel somewhat suffocated, but they find a slice of heaven. These idyllic moments contrast with the stark barbarism that the footy club brings out of them.

Director & Writer – Tom Lawrence-Doyle
Producers – Jarrah Murphy, Tom Lawrence-Doyle & Nicholas Burt
Starring – Connor Pullinger & Luke Furlan

Connies

Through the eyes of a first-time clubgoer and the mouths of a few regulars, we take a look at the iconic Connections Nightclub through the ages in a short documentary.

Connies celebrates Connections Nightclub – not only the longest running LGBTQIA+ nightclub in the southern hemisphere, but also an anchor for community and an institution within it. For over forty years Connies has endured through adversity and discrimination, becoming recognised as constant through the evolving history of queer culture in the Western Australia.

Director – Matt Sav
Writer – Patrick Hogan
Producer – Elsie Shaw
Starring – Sean Hardy-Atkins

Crossroads

Crossroads is a 2D animated music video that is a symbolic exploration of the experiences and complexities of a Queer relationship and is presented visually through a narrative driven dream sequence, following two characters traversing environments that represent different stages of the relationship.

Director, Writer, Producer – by Lucas J Stewart

The Unrequited Life of Farrah Bruce

Farrah Bruce is an old school romantic living in a dating app world. After taking her love of Love too far, she winds up in a facility where she is forced to face the destructive reality of her internal world.
Farrah Bruce loves Love. She lives in a psychedelic fantasy world of colour, beauty, and new-age cliche. Her time is spent dreaming of love letters, grand gestures, meet-cutes in supermarkets, and perfect people who love her perfectly. However, her fantasy world often conflicts with the real one of mismatches and miscommunications, leaving her bereft and broken-hearted. 
A brief, but grand, romance with Luca, a boy who enjoys art, film and music as much as he enjoys educating Farrah on these topics, ends in catastrophe. The aftermath lands Farrah at ‘Humble Springs Realignment Centre’, an excessively new age therapeutic facility, where she is forced to remove her rose-tinted love-heart sunglasses and reflect critically on her love life.

Director – Daisy Anderson
Writers – Claire Hannon & Daisy Anderson
Producers – Sarah Wormald & Alex Lloyd
Starring – Daisy Anderson, William Mckenna, Alex Lloyd

With Love, Lottie

When a disabled teenager fears she will never find love, she enlists her friends to become her mentors in the unpredictable world of dating and discovers that love can come in unexpected ways and different forms.

With Love, Lottie captures a world where disabled and queer characters get to be more than just their labels; they get to be messy, funny, and brave. This film is about finding love in all its unexpected forms through friendship, family, and most importantly, self-acceptance. This film is a love letter to anyone who has ever felt like the odd one out, and a reminder that our differences are what make us extraordinary.

Director, Writer – by Lily Drummond
Producer – Sarah Moulton
Starring – Bedelia Lowrencev, Luke Wiltshire, Ren Williams and Lucia Franks