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Dodger

In near-future wartime Australia, Vic approaches her friend Sam with a drastic plan to dodge the draft.

  • Greta Nash
    Director
  • Greta Nash
    Writer
  • Gillian Crosby
    Producer
  • Gabrielle McLeod
    Producer
  • Jess Lu
    Key Cast
    "Vic"
  • William McKenna
    Key Cast
    "Sam"
  • Max Walter
    Director of Photography
  • Sarah Maiorano
    Production Designer
  • Brynna Lowen
    Costume Designer
  • Rob Stephens
    Sound Designer
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Drama, Dystopian
  • Runtime:
    19 minutes 52 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    November 10, 2025
  • Production Budget:
    14,000 AUD
  • Country of Origin:
    Australia
  • Country of Filming:
    Australia
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1.66
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Greta Nash

Greta Nash is a non-binary screenwriter and director whose work focuses on alternative experiences of girlhood. They were born, raised, and continue to work in Melbourne, Australia.

Throughout 2024-2025, Greta participated in VicScreen’s Originate Series program for emerging screenwriters. In 2023, Greta completed their latest short film Heart Throb, which premiered at Flickerfest in 2024 and won Best Australian Film at the Setting Sun Film Festival.

Greta was the Director’s Attachment and Assistant to Daina Reid on the Netflix feature film Run Rabbit Run, funded by Screen Australia. In 2022 Greta also wrote a polished draft of their first feature, School Camp, with advanced development funding from Screen Tasmania.

Greta wrote and directed the winning Tropfest film Two Piece in 2018 with GGG Films. Their previous short film Locker Room premiered at MIFF in 2017, and won several awards at 2018 festivals such as Flickerfest, Byron Bay Film Festival, and Noosa Film Festival. Since its online release via Short of the Week and Omeleto, Locker Room has received over 11 million views.

When not busy with narrative or commercial projects, Greta can be found working as a tutor at the University of Melbourne's School of Film and Television.

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Director Statement

DODGER is a film about freedom.

I wanted to write about the experience of being young and having the course of your life altered by forces outside your control. In an age where the worst case scenario feels more possible than ever, the prospect of conscription being reintroduced became fascinating to me.

What would happen if Australia went to war? If conscription was reintroduced (as our defence act makes possible) would it be gender neutral, like in many Nordic countries? And could that ever be viewed as a “win” for the feminist movement? The topic of conscription seemed to be a compelling framework through which to explore the ethics of self-preservation, body autonomy, coercion, and the role governments play in our personal and private lives.

But all of this is background to our story, which begins with a young woman pulling out her own IUD. The visceral image of a woman taking matters into her own hands wedged itself in my mind, and I was compelled to build a character around her. I have long been fascinated by stories of women through time accessing birth control in precarious, risky ways. As the debate around body autonomy continues to progress and regress, I thought it would be fascinating to explore the murky territory of a woman choosing to have a baby for the explicitly selfish reason of self-preservation - the same reason somebody might choose to terminate a pregnancy.

While Vic struggles to choose between two fraught futures, the ending offers a moment of hope through connection. At its heart, DODGER is a love story about two young people making their way through “unprecedented times” together - with honesty, open communication, and ultimately, hope.