i’m immensely grateful and incredibly stressed out to share with you all my first short film as a writer & director, consume. it premiered on the 20th november 2024 at melbourne queer film festival, and is available to rent online here for anyone living in australia who wants to watch.

consume is about my experience as a black lesbian dealing with religious trauma and internalised homophobia. it’s my dirty, sweaty, messy response to years of being made to feel predatory for…

“silence is my sword. it cuts both ways.”

there are no words that i could write that would come close to matching the poetry of tongues untied, a life-changing, life-saving piece of art.

growing up, i often felt that my life was happening somewhere far away from me, and that i’d spend most of my time here trying to track it down and shimmy my way into it. when i eventually accepted that my life is the monday mornings and…

the bridget everett scene is what sealed the deal for me. so fascinated by how far these films distinguish themselves stylistically and tonally while maintaining that essence — wake up dead man’s predecessors are tender, but this one sits in its sincerity and douses it in church light. josh o’connor plays that line between the soft/pliable humanity and the impenetrable theatricality that i love so much about whodunnits so well. glenn close and andrew scott are delights. i’m obsessed with…