The burgeoning creative partnership between director Peter Skinner (Stranger) and actor Michael Sheasby will be showcased at this month’s Flickerfest, with the pair collaborating on two short films to be featured at the event.
2020’s Lost Boy, which earned Skinner an Australian Director’s Guild (Adg) Award nomination, will screen alongside Staring Contest.
The former has Sheasby as volatile bartender who shows up to work with a fresh black eye and is subsequently challenged by his boss to drop his macho persona.
In Staring Contest, which was made by Skinner during the lockdown, the Aacta-nominated actor plays one half of a former couple whose tea-drinking reunion ends up spanning their entire relationship.
The films form part of a trilogy of projects between the director and actor, who first met in 2015 after Skinner came across one of Sheasby’s audition tapes while casting his short film Brother.
The director told...
2020’s Lost Boy, which earned Skinner an Australian Director’s Guild (Adg) Award nomination, will screen alongside Staring Contest.
The former has Sheasby as volatile bartender who shows up to work with a fresh black eye and is subsequently challenged by his boss to drop his macho persona.
In Staring Contest, which was made by Skinner during the lockdown, the Aacta-nominated actor plays one half of a former couple whose tea-drinking reunion ends up spanning their entire relationship.
The films form part of a trilogy of projects between the director and actor, who first met in 2015 after Skinner came across one of Sheasby’s audition tapes while casting his short film Brother.
The director told...
- 1/13/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
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