Public Double Feature
(minimal commentary)

Showing Program 1 and 2
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Ticket Price: $8.00

Program 1 & Program 2
The Star Thief (Australia) 4.46
Driver's Ed (USA) 12.45
Bad Bugs (USA) 2.06
Biff & Me (USA) 14.14
Agricola (Australia) 8.05
Radheya showreel (Australia) 3.00
Generation Impact: The Coder (USA) 6.44
First Love (Canada) 10.19
Shipwreck (USA) 9.53
Cracked (Turkey) 5.00
Home for us All (USA) 3.04
Koala’s (Aust) 3.40
The Amazing Adventures of Awesome (UK) 6.14

Public Evening Sessions
(with commentary & Q&A w/ filmmaker)
Showing Program 1
6:45 pm - 7:55 pm
Ticket Price: $5.00

The Star Thief (Australia) 4.46
Driver's Ed (USA) 12.45
Bad Bugs (USA) 2.06
Biff & Me (USA) 14.14
Agricola (Australia) 8.05
Radheya showreel (Australia) 3.00

Public Evening Sessions
(with commentary & Q&A w/ filmmaker)
Showing Program 2
8:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Ticket Price: $5.00

Generation Impact: The Coder (USA) 6.44
First Love (Canada) 10.19
Shipwreck (USA) 9.53
Cracked (Turkey) 5.00
Home for us All (USA) 3.04
Koala’s (Aust) 3.40
The Amazing Adventures of Awesome (UK) 6.14

Griffith Film School Students - AUSTRALIA

One Earth Young Filmmakers Contest Winner: 2022 Jane Goodall Institute Australia Activism Award

Koala Protection is a short public information film made by Maia Jorgensen, Eleanor Somerville, Ashleigh Ramirez, Sophie Ravanat, Abbey Southern and Elliot Bonney-Millet. The team are all students at Griffith Film School and the work was produced in the Industry Engagement course, run through the School's production studio, LiveLab. The client was Social Marketing @ Griffith, in conjunction with Queensland's Department of Science and Environment (part of the state government). The film aims to raise awareness in the general population of simple steps they can take to help protect koalas, which have been declared endangered since the film was completed. 

Radheya Jegatheva - AUSTRALIA

Multi-Award-Winning Animator & Filmmaker 

Radheya Jegatheva is a Perth based Australian filmmaker born in Johor, Malaysia to parents of South Korean, Japanese, Indian and Malaysian ancestry. He is a Bachelor of Commerce and Arts student at Curtin University in Western Australia. Radheya's films have been selected to 16 Academy Award Qualifying Festivals, along with a nomination for the Australian Academy of Cinema & TV Arts (AACTA) Award, often described as Australia's equivalent to the Oscars. Radheya's films, which collectively have more than 900 official selections and 340 awards worldwide, have been played on all 7 continents, with the most challenging bastion breached when iRony played at Antarctica's Davis Research Station.

Julia Madeline Stella - AUSTRALIA

Multi-Award-Winning Animator & Filmmaker

JJulia is a Melbourne-based animator and illustrator with a passion for the way animation can tell stories in ways that no other medium can. She has always loved illustration and she created my first ever animation in year 8 food tech, when asked to film a promotional video encouraging children to eat more fruit. So, she made a stop-motion animation about passionfruit using anything she could find in her bedroom and from that moment on, she was smitten. In 2020 she released her first short film, Star Thief, which has won multiple awards and has been screened in Australia, America, Canada, Italy and Ireland.

Ivy Tucker - AUSTRALIA

Award-Winning Student Filmmaker & Actor

Ivy Tucker is an award-winning student filmmaker and accomplished storyteller, with a passion for screen acting. Ivy's recent works explore themes of social justice, inclusion and compassion, drawing inspiration from her experiences and the natural beauty of her home in the picturesque Dandenong Ranges in Melbourne, Australia.  Her short documentary Agricola 7101 is an uplifting documentary focusing on a group of kind-hearted individuals who come together to rescue a long-neglected and rare classic Australian sailing dinghy - fundamentally changing the life of a young, boy along the way.

Beatrice Woo & Ashley Rose Finch - CANADA

Documentary Filmmakers 

Beatrice Woo is a filmmaker based in Toronto. Throughout her time in Ryerson University’s Film Studies program, she produced several short narrative films and documentaries. She has a passion for collaborating with others to create compelling visceral works of art that people can relate to. First Love is her first short film as a director.

Ashley Rose Finch is a Canadian film producer and documentary filmmaker. She graduated from Ryerson University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film Studies in 2020 and Master of Fine Arts in Documentary Media in 2022.

Mahmut Tas - TURKEY

Multi-Award-Winning Filmmaker 

Mahmut Taş was born in Antalya, Turkey and received his Civil Engineering degree at Yıldız Technical University in 2009. From an early age his passion for cinema led him to write scripts and shoot films. In this context, he studied various cinema trainings, film shooting techniques and screenwriting techniques between 2015-2019. In June 2018, he shot his first short film, Pain. At the beginning of 2021, he completed his multi awarded silent film Cracked, and in the middle of the same year, his short film called The Return, a joint production of Turkey-Uzbekistan. At the end of 2021, he released his movie called E-Happiness.

Allison Brownmoore - UK

Multi-Award-Winning Animator & Director

Allison Brownmoore is a BAFTA nominated Design Director. She is founder of Past Curfew, a boutique design studio based in London. As the mother of an autistic child, and as an artist with a disability, Allison is passionate about telling stories which celebrate being different, and how these differences can be exciting, engaging and rewarding. She has a Masters Degree in Design Studies from Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design, London and a BA in Communications, Theatre & Media from Charles Sturt University, Australia. Her beautiful animated film about an autistic girl, The Amazing Adventures of Awesome, is hand drawn by Allison.

Lisa Cole - USA

Multi-Award-Winning Filmmaker & Writer

California-born & Arkansas-bred, Lisa Cole is a writer-director-producer, whose work amplifies underrepresented voices and exposes social injustices. She co-wrote Diamond Girls (with Selena Gomez attached to star), and Queen of Newburgh (with Maya Cozier attached to direct), which is the 2019 Final Draft Fellow for Stowe Story Lab and Second Rounder, Sundance Development Track 2021. Her award-winning short film Shipwreck, screened in over 30 festivals worldwide including: Official Selection, Diversity in Cannes 2021 Short Film Showcase. Winner, Page International Screenplay Contest, and Cine Qua Non Lab Fellow. Lisa is a graduate of Loyola Marymount University, School of Cinema & Television, and she Lisa serves on the Board of the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival.

Samantha Knowles - USA

Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker 

Samantha Knowles is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker. Her empowering documentary Generation X: The Coder tells of young Jay Jay Patton, who built a mobile app so children can send photos and letters to their incarcerated parents. Her most recent film, Tangled Roots, follows Attica Scott, the only black woman in the Kentucky state legislature, as she fights to dismantle a system of discrimination against black people penalized for something seemingly innocuous – their hair. The short documentary premiered on BET in June 2020, was broadcast on Showtime, and was an official selection in the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival. Samantha graduated from Dartmouth College and is a documentary film director in NYC.

Dana Koops - USA/FRANCE

Actor, Writer & Multi-Award-Winning Filmmaker

Dana Koops is a Los Angeles native. She is a Global BFA (film) student in the dual program at Emerson College and Paris College of Art. Dana began acting as a toddler and trained at Gary Spatz's - The Playground: A Young Actor's Conservatory, Anthony Meindl's Actor Workshop, and the Groundlings School. Dana wrote/acted in/and produced her first short film Stuck (2017) when she was in 9th grade. Driver's Ed (2019), a multiple award winner, was Dana's directorial debut. Dana's love of story and adventure enables versatility as both an actress, and an engaging filmmaker. Dana speaks French and enjoys reading, rock climbing, traveling, and swing dancing.

Nicola Rose - USA

Multi-Award-Winning Filmmaker & Writer 

Nicola Rose is an multi-award-winning, New York City-based filmmaker whose work is gathering acclaim on the festival circuit. In 2021, Nicola directed her first feature-length film, Goodbye, Petrushka, a coming-of-age comedy. Nicola directed, produced and/or wrote the shorts Creative Block (2017), In the Land of Moonstones (2018), Gabrielle (2019), and Biff & Me (2020), all of which have won numerous awards on the indie film festival circuit. Nicola has worked as a French translator, a freelance casting director, and as a professional puppeteer. She is a graduate of Columbia University and the Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle in Paris.

Lena Song - USA

One Earth Youth Film Competition Winner 2021

Lena Song is a year 10 student from Oakton High School in Hendon, Virginia, USA. In her stop-motion film A Home for Us All she creates a complete neighbourhood out of origami to point out how wasteful and harmful lawns can be, using 11 trillion litres of water, 757 million litres of petrol to mow and 317 million kilos of pesticide each year in USA. Lena demonstrates how we can rethink and rebuild our urban environment by planting native perennials to bring back wildlife, especially if several neighbours participate to create a wildlife corridor. This film looks at a current problem about the environment that can be solved through everyone's cooperation.

Bryn Wright - USA

One Earth Young Filmmakers Contest Winner 2022

Bryn is an aspiring young filmmaker from Carlsbad, California USA. She discovered her love for animation at age 10, and has attracted a lot of media attention for her first film Bad Bugs. Brimming with ideas for more films, Bryn is currently learning 2D animation and wants to be an animator when she grows up... and she’s already well on her way!  Bryn loves the environment and all creatures and the idea for her Claymation emerged after one of her ‘grub hunting’ sessions. She created her movie to highlight the importance of using natural solutions for your bug problems - something she's really passionate about.