The Red Chair
2017 | Drama | 7 Minutes
Director | Writer: Daniel James
Producer: Brionny Fagan
Cinematographer | Camera Operator: Carina Burke
Editor: Sarah Panzetta
Production Designer | Art Director: Richard Butler
Composer: Lance Trevino
Cast: Ella Watkins, Mackenzie Fearnley
Synopsis: Mia is a recent university graduate, who believes she can become a great psychologist during an ambitious attempt to cure her friend of a suspected depression within a one-hour time limit. However when it’s revealed he has no problem, the tables are suddenly turned on Mia who must confront her own psychological torments before she can treat others.
Bloodgurgler
2016 | Comedy Thriller | 13 Minutes
Director: Daniel James
Writer: Adam Ransley
Producer: Rogan Brown
Cinematographer | Camera Operator: Sam King
Editor: Ben Nelan
Composer: Lance Trevino
Cast: Matthew Burton, Lisa Gormley, Matthew Stolp, Nathan Spencer
Synopsis: Bloodgurgler is a dark comedy/thriller which highlights the potential dangers of a life online, particularly when playing games with people whose real-life identities we don’t know. Computer-based role play games have become a significant part of the lives of many adolescents and young adults, and Bloodgurgler taps in to the excitement, the thrill, the terror experienced in the game world by our potential audience.
The film explores this “world” through the eyes of Brian, a young office worker. He sneaks time at work to play his favourite game, unaware that his victories and some of his other behaviours have offended his opponents who are out for revenge, and not just in the “game world”.
Whispers in the Wind
2014 | Psychologicial Thriller | 13 min
Writer | Director: Daniel James
Producer: Rogan Brown
Cinematographer: Leuke Marriot, Tom Waugh, Robert Harrison
Editor: Vivien Mason
Composer: Lance Trevino
Cast: Franz Docherty, Meg Bignell
Synopsis: A traumatised man crumbling under the memories of a near fatal car accident several years before, is determined to escape from them and regain an experience of tranquility. But to find inner peace, the Hunter searches the barren fields for his prey, in a terrifying hunt to kill his worst fear - his fate.
SHORT LISTED
Top 100
Tropfest Australia
2013
Wing and a Prayer
2013 | Supernatural Drama |
Director: Daniel James
Writer: Adam Ransley
Producer: Matthew Weeding
Cinematographer | Co-Producer: Geoffery Wharton ACS
Art Director: Andrew 'Perch' Machen
Costume Designer: Gushi Soda
Editor: Michael Sampey
Composer: Lance Trevino
Cast: Christopher Brown, John Andrews, John Xintavelonis
Synopsis: When a Minister is brought in by the military to speak to a captive, he discovers that they have captured an Angel. Under growing pressure, the Reverend navigates around the Angel’s frustrating method of rattling his captors to get the much-desired answers to the big question: Is there a God?
The SIlence of Whitewater
2011 | Drama | 5 minutes 30 seconds
Director | Writer | Producer | Editor: Daniel James
Cinematographer: Leonard Low
Composer: Lance Trevino
Cast: Joshua Direen, Ella Watkins, Bodane Hatten, Govinda Roser, Aidan Furst, Carmen Falk, Stuart Pearce, Sara Pensalfini
Synopsis: The story of a homeless teenage clown seeking happiness in a cruel unwelcome world.