Finalist Best Director/Best Short Film, 33rd Melbourne Queer Film Festival 2023
Synopsis
WEEDLING is a 18minute magic realist drama about Alix, a gender non-conforming teenager who steals their father’s car to save their spirit plant and themselves from an unsafe home, at the risk of leaving their mother who can’t protect them.
Gendered violence disproportionately affects trans and gender diverse young folx. WEEDLING was produced in response to the question ‘what is it to bring stories of violence to the screen?’ The film was made with the focus on how, as a non-binary feminist filmmaker, can we make films about domestic violence without falling into gendered cinema tropes of showing a woman or a marginalised queer youth in fear. The film investigates themes of male perpetrated violence against women, non-binary folx and children, queer sexuality, gender nonconformity and biophilia.
Featuring
Olive Black as Alice/Alix
Rebecca Bower as Jodie/mother
Sepideh Kian as Aunty Bev
Key Creatives
Writer, Director, Producer: Angie Black
Co-writer: Kate Schmitt
Co-Producer: CJ Welsh
DoP: Nyssa Mitchell
Editor: Cindy Clarkson
Producer Designer: Jo Briscoe
Sound Design: Lee Yee
Costume Designer: Amanda Morris
Music: Shane Mendonsa
Original Score: Marcel Borrack