MEAT

Sunday Emerson Gullifer is an award-winning filmmaker based in Sydney and Melbourne.

Starting out in theatre, she was selected for Australian Theatre for Young People's National Playwriting Studio in 2013 where she wrote the monologue, MEAT. She later went on to direct the film adaptation of the same name through Metro Screen’s Breaks program, with funding from Screen NSW.

MEAT was nominated for an Australian Directors Guild Award in 2015, won the People's Choice Award at the 14th Biennial UTS Golden Eye Awards, and screened at a number of festivals including the Academy Award® accredited 25th Flickerfest International Short Film Festival in 2016. The original monologue was published by Currency Press in 2015 as part of THE VOICES PROJECT: THE ENCORE EDITION.

Her other writing has been widely recognised, winning the Henry Lawson Prize for Prose, the Adrian Consett Stephen Memorial Prize and the Australasian Publishing Group's national poetry competition, was a finalist in the Melbourne Writers Festival 'Write to the Limit' competition and runner up in the Australian Human Rights Commission's essay competition. Her short film, BRIDGE VIEWS, won Best Screenplay at the Lucky Film Festival.

She has made video content for a number of companies and organisations, including Bell Shakespeare, Griffin Theatre Company, Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP) and the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA).

In 2016, Sunday is undertaking a Master of Film & Television (Narrative) at the prestigious Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne. She also holds a Master of Media Arts and Production from the University of Technology, Sydney, and a Bachelor of Arts (Performance Studies & American Studies) from the University of Sydney.