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Miscreation

When five individuals awaken in a room, each impaired in a very specific way; they have no memory of how they got there, nor any clue as to the reason they have been brought together. The only information they have is that of a mysterious girl's dead body laying on the floor in front of them, and a note claiming that they are all in someway responsible for her death. What unfolds is a desperate search for answers that will lead them back into their past, reflecting on choices that have brought them to this moment, and the revelation that they all may have more in common than they realise.

  • Aaron Warwick
    Director
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  • Steven Carnuccio
    Writer
    Made For This, Academy, Sidewalks
  • Domenic Di Mento
    Producer
    Made For This
  • Steven Carnuccio
    Producer
    Made For This, Academy, Sidewalks, Behind Closed Doors
  • Daniel Pike
    Producer
    Made For This
  • Fran Dobbie
    Producer
    Miro, Men Don't Cry, Over the Edge, Woollo
  • Aaron Warwick
    Producer
    Made For This, Finding Vishnu, A 12 Step Program
  • Marybeth Bonnor
    Key Cast
    "Sandra"
    Made For This, Kick Ons, The Ferryman
  • Steven Carnuccio
    Key Cast
    "Carter"
    Made For This, Academy, Nancy in Hell
  • Domenic Di Mento
    Key Cast
    "Jason"
    Made For This, Undo, SMS
  • Lauren Lofberg
    Key Cast
    "Holly"
    Academy, Outback, Sunkesari
  • Natasha Dai
    Key Cast
    "McKenna"
  • Benjamin W. Sullivan
    Key Cast
    "Principal Jones"
    Black Heart Red Hands, The Number's Claim
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    Psychological Thriller, Drama, Social Justice
  • Runtime:
    17 minutes 20 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    September 18, 2019
  • Production Budget:
    12,000 AUD
  • Country of Origin:
    Australia
  • Country of Filming:
    Australia
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Aaron Warwick

Aaron Warwick is a film and stage director based in Melbourne, Australia. His work in film and TV spans over thirteen years, continually experimenting in both narrative and visual styles.
Aaron is a UCLA graduate whose work has been screened at numerous festivals around the world, including nominations and wins from the Queensland New Filmmaker Awards, Corto Creativo Film Festival, Byron Bay Film Festival, and the AFI-AACTA Social Shorts Awards.
Throughout his career, Aaron has worked amongst companies such as the New York Times Style Magazine, 20th Century Fox Studios, Warner Brothers, and Walden Media.

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Director Statement

Miscreation is a story that holds a strong message about the effects of bullying at its heart. It stands to exhibit how the actions of tormentors can heavily impact on their victims through both physical and verbal abuse, and how one traumatic incident can change the course of a person’s life forever.
Trauma is cyclical. It creeps in when you least expect, and drags you back to a moment you’ve spent a long time trying to distance yourself from. Miscreation attempts to recreate the feeling of trauma, in one continuous, uninterrupted, and ultimately, cyclical shot.
Moving between time and space, the film engages the audience and asks them to uncover and empathise with the pain associated with bullying and abuse, by venturing on a journey into the mind of one of its victims. As the story unfolds and our victim's mind unravels, so too does the set as objects within the scene slowly transition and appear, providing subtle clues as to the answers the audience is searching for and hinting at the obscure nature of the reality in which the characters exist. This culminates in an ending that leaves viewers open to the perceptions of whether they were in fact watching a dream state or whether they have just bared witness to the shocking events that have yet to come.
Happy endings do not always exist, but lessons do. So as filmmakers, we wanted to show the rawness present in our story and share with our audiences a lesson that bullying and intimidation can have a very harsh ripple effect if not addressed immediately.