Ballad
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Roe BonniciDirector
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Roe BonniciWriter
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Laura Jane TurnerProducerThe Testosterone Club
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Maeve HookKey Cast"Mags Lilywhite"
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Talitha ParkerKey Cast"Eliza Marsten"
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Lewis J. McAulayKey Cast"Sargent Kent"
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Paddy KavanaghKey Cast"Ernest Lilywhite"
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Monica-Jane SaadeDirector of PhotographyThe Testosterone Club
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Project Type:Short
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Genres:Romance, Drama, Period, Queer, LGBT
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Runtime:10 minutes
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Country of Origin:Australia
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Country of Filming:Australia
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Language:English
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:Yes
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Student Project:Yes - SAE Creative Institute
Since they were big enough to pick up a pencil, Roe has been storytelling.
Melbourne born, they spent their formative years buried in performing and visual arts, before falling head over heels for screen.
Proudly Trans, they channel their experiences into stories of connection, love, and queer joy.
As a closeted teen who grew up on a functional diet of romance films (thanks Mum), the absence of stories that I could relate to was profound.
For a little queer kid, still firmly in multiple different closets, it always felt like there was something about those films that made it not "for me". I struggled with that for a long time, before resolving that love was just not for me- as it turns out, it was just the glaring absence of any accessible queer stories on screen.
Born of a love of the Victorian countryside and the mythos of the bushrangers that once roamed it, Ballad is a short form drama that explores the idea of a sudden, intimate connection in an isolating world- and a gift to a younger self; a reminder that love can be found even in the loneliest of places.