Still from ‘Elagabalus’ | Dir. Xanthe Dobbie
Twenty-six works by AFTRS students and alumni will screen virtually and IRL at this year’s CinefestOZ Film Festival in Western Australia. Among the eleven features, fourteen shorts and two graduate student projects in the program are three world premieres alongside now familiar titles that have made recent appearances on the local festival circuit.
Making their world premiere in competition as part of the ‘Borderless Shorts’ session will be two AFTRS graduate shorts: Xanthe Dobbie’s Elagabalus and Jaslyn Mairs’ Sunburn.
Led by writer/editor Xanthe Dobbie (Master of Arts Screen, 2019), the Elagabalus team is comprised mainly of recent Master of Arts Screen and Bachelor of Arts Screen: Production graduates, including writer Samuel Herriman (with story by Xanthe Dobbie and Samuel Herriman), producer Alexis Talbot-Smith, cinematographer Sidat de Silva, composer Jorde Heys, production designers Lily Bennet and Max Boutwell Draper, costume designer William Tran, sound designer Rowan Yeomans, sound recordist Tahira Donohoe-Bales, first assistant camera addition camera Petra Leslie, first assistant director Archie Chew, second assistant director: Didi de Graaf, production assistant Alicia Easaw-Mamutil, assistant editor Hannah Smith and preproduction VFX supervisor: Andrew Brown.