BACKING UP BILITIS

SHORT FILM - COMPLETED
 

A closeted girl creates an underground event in the basement of her suburban home, all on the brink of Melbourne's first gay liberation movement 

Starring: Jana Zvedeniuk, Sean Ress-Wemyss, Maggie McCormack, Rashelle McHugh

Written & Directed by AP Pobjoy 
Produced by William Dabinet

Edited by Isobelle Amie 
Cinematography by Hazal Alakus

Sound Recording & Design by Joseph Sexton 

Production Design by Amelia Childs

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In partnership with Australian Lesbian & Gay Archives and Aztec Records Australia

AWARDS & FESTIVALS: 

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- Winner of the 2018 Swinburne Industry Award for Best Film, Best Production Design  & Best Sound
 

- St Kilda Film Festival, Australia's TOP 100 Short Films, 2019: Offical Selection , nominated for 'Best Achievement in Screenplay'
 

- Canberra Short Film Festival, 2019: Offical Selection, Awarded for 'Best Score.'
 

- Byron Bay International Film Festival, 2019: Offical Selection, Nominee for Young Australian Filmmaker of the Year
 

- 2019 SAE ATOM Awards: Finalist for 'Best Short Fiction'
 

- CILECT PRIZE 2018/19: Awarded the EDI Award (Equity, Diversity and Inclusion) amongst the Asia Pacific region.
 

- Melbourne Women in Film Festival, 2020: Offical Selection
 

- Melbourne Queer Film Festival, 2020: Offical Selection 
 

- Setting Sun Film Festival, 2020: Offical Selection. Nominated for Best Drama, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Diversity and Best Emerging Filmmaker.

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- Berlin Female Filmmakers Festival, 2020: Offical Selection

This film has been made on stolen land belonging to the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nations. We pay our respect to elders past and present, and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.