Australian Student Showcase

The Australian Student Showcase is where we throw open a window on the next generation of Australian animators. The vibrancy and dynamism of their work pours off the screen and the energy and excitement of all the filmmakers who turn up to tell us about their films fills the cinema. Come one, come all – this is where Australian animation is heading.

The Pulse Ritual
Yumisha Niroula
Australia, 4’00, 2025 [RMIT]
An alien travels to a desolate planet on a solitary mission to rekindle life.

I Have Tonnes Of Work And Now I’m A Magical Girl
Lucille Bell, Kayda Troost
Australia, 8’29, 2025 [AIT]
A self-doubting businessman is fated to become a Magical Girl and save the city from a monster of his own insecurities.

Thick Hands
Rachel Roberts
Australia, 1’12, 2025 [RMIT]
A surreal-horror character anthology studying female performance from the male perspective.

The Creature
Lina Filkin
Australia, 2’56, 2024 [Swinburne]
A mother and her children find themselves separated by a terrifying creature.

Liver
Chris Aubrey
Australia, 2’53, 2025 [RMIT]
After waking up in the middle of a river, Mildred journeys through a mystical new world.

PrePartum Paradise
Teeb Arallel
Australia, 1’26, 2025 [VCA]
“I dreamt I gave birth to a tiny baby the size of a tiny grape” – and so begins an improbable tale of nurture and survival.

Undercroft
Ell Donegan, Mikaela Ramsay
Australia, 1’50, 2025 [RMIT]
Through the flesh, the mechanical and the divine, her little lamb will wake once more.

Heartwarming
Libby Goodhue
Australia, 4’38, 2025
A zombie who can’t speak and a ghost no one can see are excited to be inducted into their first graveyard shift – but are they ready?

Beneath The Hollow
Naiya Garbutt
Australia, 5’25, 2025 [Griffith]
A hungry owl makes the mistake of trying to dine on a gathering of aristocratic mouse; power comes in all shapes and sizes.

The Coloured Pencil
Madeline Russell
Australia, 2’13, 2025 [Deakin]
Trapped in a dead-end job, Anna rediscovers the boundless reaches of her creativity with the help of an unlikely piece of stationery.

Miscast
Kaitlyn Bacon
Australia, 3’17, 2025 [Swinburne]
Two young wizards battle it out for possession of the last hat each needs to graduate from wizarding school.

Stardrop
Ali Mai Australia, 4’56, 2025 [SAE]
Through an unexpected encounter with Stardrop, Sticky Rice the Capybara recalls a sense of belonging among the ones he loves.

Monkey_C
Carmel Gorfine
Australia, 8’13, 2024 [VCA]
A young monkey is taken from its home and its mother and finds itself in a bleaker reality of experimentation and research.

The Husk
Nguyen Khanh Bui
Australia, 3’45, 2026
A stranded astronaut fights for survival on a hostile planet that warps his body and mind, tormented by a hidden entity that feeds.

Fool
Bronte Harrison
Australia, 6’20, 2024 [VCA]
Jester Beatrix is infatuated with Princess Aria, and on the Queen’s Jubilee she has to have her; but how far will she go for love?

Meowdy
Vanessa Liu
Australia, 2’04, 2025 [UTS]
Two cat cowboys fighting it out over a bounty rapidly begin dragging the entire town down with them in their antics.

Occupational Hazard
Raphael Gadot, Ross Anderson
Australia, 2’54, 2025
As a cluster of unstable crystals begin corrupting their surroundings, two bickering scientists race to contain them before chaos spreads.

Scarecrow
Kyden Hurst
Australia, 4’18, 2025 [Swinburne]
When a farmer’s giant pumpkin is threatened by a stubborn crow, his precautions to protect his prize transition into the realm of insanity.

This session is classified: Unclassified (M) Mature, not recommended for viewers under 15 years.