short film

NT-born filmmaker, Jemma Cotter spoke with 8CCC's Kate Lyons-Dawson about her screening at Flickerfest in Alice Springs. “The Fling” is a short, stop-motion horror rom-com about two women at a fancy restaurant on the prowl for love. An homage to John Carpenter’s “The Thing” (1982), this queer love story reveals that the only way to find true love is to be yourself; tentacles and all.It will be screening as part of Flickerfest 2026 at Araluen this Friday 8 May - text 04 1021 8333 for your chance of a double pass!With a hunger to tell stories about outsiders, weirdos, and anyone who doesn’t quite fit in and a special place in her heart for comedy, Jemma has directed short films, commercials, short form series’, and even feminist erotica for a while. She’s participated in the SBS Digital Originals and ABC’s Fresh Blood 3 programs co-financed with Screen Australia and is available as a commercial director with Haven’t You Done Well Productions.

MASIFF 2025 is once again showcasing locally made short films tonight from 6pm at Araluen Art Centre. It will include the 2023 award-winning film The First Drop, written and directed by Damon van der Schuit and produced by Emma Alix Smith & Bridget May. Damon and Emma joined Kate on the Brekky Show to speak through the film's production and funding through the Spark initiative.

Beth Sometimes, co-writer director and puppetmaker on the short film Animating Principles: The Movie, dropped into the Brekky Show to tell listeners about her short film on at Alice Springs Cinema next Tuesday 16 September. Absolutely book now!Sometimes, even the agenda has an agenda. Set in an experimental art space in the desert, this boardroom melodrama tracks infestations of the bureaucratic within the tenuous infrastructure of the poetic. With reverence for thirty years of collective organising at Watch This Space, we witness a meeting of wonky proportions.