THE COSMONAUT / 20 MINUTES

During a late-night walk, two strangers discuss their adolescent aspirations against the realities of adulthood.

WRITTEN, DIRECTED and PRODUCED by Sophie Hayward

STARRING Tegan Crowley and Joshua Hine / CONCEPT Melanie Koomen and Sophie Hayward / CINEMATOGRAPHY Cam Matheson / PRODUCTION DESIGN Melanie Koomen / EDITING Ariel M Shaw / COLOUR GRADE and ONLINE Kali Bateman / SOUND DESIGN and SCORE Sean Crowley / 1ST ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Jordan Prosser / GAFFER Blake Curtis / SOUND RECORDIST Robert 'Chum' Li / COSTUME ASSISTANT Monica Casey / UNIT MANAGER Stephanie Lee / SAD CLOWN Ben Andrews

This film came about rather quickly, we had an opportunity to make something with our DoP Cam who was only in the country for a couple of weeks, and in some ways was an experiment in a different style of filmmaking I hadn't tried before. The script was based on pretty personal questionnaires we sent out to a range of people aged between 25-35. The two actors rehearsed separately, and only met on the first night of filming. We used the script only as a guide, and the film was ad-libbed. Shooting very much on the fly, our two actors were miked and sent off down Smith Street with the crew following from a distance. We filmed over the course of a couple of nights, working quickly to prolong the 'magic hour', and shot chronologically. From inception to completion, we were done in less than 7 weeks.