A Green Affair
Avid gardener Rosie heaps the love that is missing from her own marriage into her extensive indoor plant collection. But when Rosie’s yearning for connection leads her into an amorous relationship with her favourite fern ‘Boston’, things get tangled and it becomes unclear who is frond and who is foe.
Rebecca Thomson
Rebecca is a filmmaker based in nipaluna/Hobart who loves humans, loves stories, and loves the weird, wild and wonderful, and also takes on any filmmaking roles to get her stories told whether that be writing, directing, filming, producing, or baking muffins to feed cast and crew! Rebecca has made documentaries, web series, horror films, activist films and music videos. In 2019 Rebecca completed the Screen Australia funded A Hairy Problem about female body hair, which has had around a million views online. Rebecca is also responsible for genre shorts Cupcake: A Zombie Lesbian Musical, Slashed and The Jelly Wrestler which have screened at more than seventy film festivals worldwide including Frameline San Francisco, Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Fest, New York City International Film Festival. Rebecca’s short film I AM UNDONE explored the horrors of body modification in the name of beauty, and was selected to be part of an anthology feature film A NIGHT OF HORROR VOLUME 1, produced by Deadhouse Pictures and available to watch at https://www.deadhouse.tv/
Rebecca is one of the filmmakers behind Women of the Island, a web series of short documentaries telling the stories of the fascinating women who inhabit the island of Tasmania. As well as being viewed over half a million times online, the series took out the Grand Jury Prize at Berlin Web Fest 2019, Best Cinematography at LA Webfest and Best Direction in a Doco Series at Baltimore Webfest.
Over the past few years Rebecca has been joyfully collaborating with various artists including making music videos for singers Monique Brumby and Ange Boxall, working on a hybrid theatre/film project Mental: The Motherload, and along with Catherine Pettman is a co-creator of animated documentary series There Is No ‘I’ In Island which weaves the self-recorded voices of Tasmanians during Covid-19 lockdown into a strange, beautiful animated landscape. There Is No I In Island premiered at Ten Days On The Island in March 2021 and since then has screened at festivals across the world and won many awards including Best Quarantine Series at Rio WebFest, Best Documentary Series at Bilbao Seriesland, Best Animated Series at Baltimore Webfest and Best Documentary at Copenhagen Webfest.