Films
The Ark (post-production) feature
When two eccentric, blue-collar workers face eviction from their home in upscale Southampton, they come up with a fantastical plan – a broken-down 50-foot boat and the promise of the open seas.
Supported by The Points North Institute, Doc10 Chicago and Mountainfilm
Driverless (development) four part series
Corporate giants face off against community leaders in a fight to control the public rollout of driverless cars - a technology that promises to radically reshape our lives.
Supported by the South Australian Film Corporation & Screen Australia
Wishes Fulfilled (2020) 11mins
When her estranged family comes to visit, a new grandmother’s deepest desire slowly manifests.
In Competition at Flicketfest International Film Festival; Official Selection Adelaide Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival
Love in the Time of Antidepressants (2018) 67mins
Documentary making doesn't get much more intimate than turning the camera on yourself and your mentally ill mother. Adelaide filmmaker Paul Gallasch does just that in a compelling tale of love, dedication and dependence.
Official selection - Adelaide Film Festival, DOKER: Moscow International Documentary Film Festival, Down Under Berlin, Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival. Invited to Danish Film Institute’s Don’t Fear the Weird film series.
Fecal Matters (2015) 15mins
For a long time faeces has been an enemy of good healthcare, but the recent discovery of its ability to cure a deadly disease is changing the way medicine treats our shit.
Jury Award for Best Documentary: CineGlobe- Festival International de Films au CERN, Nominated: Best Documentary- South Australian Screen Awards, Official Selection: Aesthetica Short Film Festival, InScience - Dutch International Science Film Festival, 50th International Festival of Science Documentary Films Academia Film Olomouc, St Kilda Film Festival- Top 100 Shorts, 15th Dawson City International Short Film Festival.
Big China/Lil’ Crise (2013) 34mins
As his son moves closer to independence, a father must come to terms with own success and failures.
Killing Anna (2012) 29mins
After his long term girlfriend breaks up with him Paul (director) finds himself wishing that she had instead died in a tragic accident. In order to understand how this fantasy makes sense in the context of his continual love for her, he performs a funeral service as if her death were real...and films the process of putting it on.
Winner- Australian Documentary Prize, Sydney Film Festival, Winner- F4 Award, Australian International Documentary Conference, Winner- Best International Documentary, London Lift-Off Film Festival, Official Selection, Bootleg Film Festival (Toronto), La Guarimba International Film Festival, Down Under Berlin Film Festival, Shnit! Film Festival, Open Documents, Bern, Switzerland and Cape Town, South Africa.