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Around The Corner

Filmed entirely on an iphone and from the front seat of a car on a family road trip between Brisbane and Sydney in August 2023. I was trying to capture that moment when we came around a corner and a spectacular vista was revealed – more often it was another corner or a rise. In fact, what was “around the corner” a few months after returning to the UK was my cancer diagnosis. The journey captures a very specific moment in time before life changed. If a road movie is about the journey and not the destination and a home movie is about significant moments in a family’s life – this is both and neither.

  • Sophie Jackson
    Director
    LDN Heathrow to SYD Kingsford Smith
  • Sophie Jackson
    Writer
  • Sophie Jackson
    Producer
  • Sophie Jackson
    Camera
  • Pablo Tranchell
    Editor
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    Smartphone Film, travel, memoir, cancer
  • Runtime:
    18 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    August 31, 2025
  • Production Budget:
    3,000 GBP
  • Country of Origin:
    Australia, United Kingdom
  • Country of Filming:
    Australia
  • Shooting Format:
    Smartphone
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16.9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Sophie Jackson

Sophie Jackson is a lecturer at ARU in Cambridge UK and is currently the course leader of BA Film Production. Prior to her emigration to the UK, Sophie was an independent producer working in the Australian industry, her films and television documentaries have received almost 20 festival and industry nominations and screenings internationally. These days her focus is on practice based research films that explore alternate ways to engaging an audiences. In particular the liberating tool of the smartphone.

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Director Statement

This project started as a companion film to "LDN-SYD"which was filmed in that liminal space of a long haul flight across the world - from home to home. In this new film I wanted to capture, the landscapes and actual distances that are such a part of being Australian, and that was also why we wanted to take our UK born daughters on the road trip. We were relaxed and in that moment as the landscape wizzed past, it was both wonderful and at the time also ordinary but in hindsight it became extraordinary to me. Shortly after our return to the UK I was diagnoses with cancer. Watching the footage in the edit when I was in remission, the question became what was the present? The past? A memory? The momentum of the road carries us forward even if we just want to pause in that present.