"There’s nothing funnier than what’s not said." Kyle Jon Shephard on the high comedy glances in his film about a father whose ego refuses to read the room.
A breast lump scare spirals into deadpan chaos as two mid-20s women navigate the absurdities of the medical system with twisted humour and defiant joy.
Ruhi Radke on making the unsexiest sex story ever and a representation of the first time that's funny, shaming, and ultimately a love story with herself.
Oscar Garth walks us through using dialogue-free performances, hand built robot bins and retro-futurist whimsy as a Trojan horse for something much darker.
Leve Kühl unpacks the narrative power of embracing queer specificity while subverting the holiday ad format for his steamy Grindr Christmas spec advert.
Will Mayo and Ian Scott McGregor explore the imagined melodrama behind a real-life viral video, using sharp visual storytelling to blend humour and pathos.
Iris Breward digs into her method for crafting a comedy of avoidance where a couple in a bed, post-coital, deploy every weapon except honesty, and both lose.
Lucas Murphy explains how his own anxieties of gentrification and living alone became a mysterious horror comedy that begs the question - what would 'you' do?
Sharif Abd el Mawla steers us through the "clunky, imperfect, but genuine" movement language used to transform actor Sam Spruell into an otherworldly antihero.
Through wholly unconventional casting, Sam Davis spotlights the unsung talents at the heart of his genre-bending short about men finally being heard, together.
John Kelly shares how a realisation he needed “to do more with less” guided him in creating the multi-award-winning animated short film 'Retirement Plan'.
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