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Narrative

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Feature Film

The Faceless Man (2019)

Produced, Written & Directed by James Di Martino
Produced, Cinematography, Edited
& Colour Graded by Rhys Sherring

Synopsis: Three years after Emily has recovered from cancer, she struggles to adjust back to everyday life. Living in fear of redeveloping the fatal disease, a manifestation haunts her from the depths of her subconscious in the form of a faceless creature; her fear incarnate. Emily’s best friend Nina organizes a weekend endeavor with the guys to a holiday house secluded in an outback town. What started as a casual party weekend soon turns into a series of unusual events as the group experience firsthand the unsettling and hostile nature the people of this rural town like to treat outsiders with.

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The Faceless Man is a full length horror & psychological Ozploitation film shot throughout varying locations within Victoria, Australia. It was successfully selected at Melbourne’s Horror Film Festival Monsterfest 2019 and Estonia’s Haapsalu Horror & Fantasy Film Festival 2020. It swept the 2020 Melbourne Underground Film Festival winning six awards for Best Cinematography, Best Director, Best SFX Makeup, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Film.


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Short Films

Cube Season (2020)

Produced, Written & Directed by Rhys Sherring
Produced
by Vikki Blinks

Synopsis: Middle aged, single and hesitant, Jim relies on his brand new motivational based artificial intelligence gadget to assist him in finding a lifelong partner. But he's not the only one relying on technology.

A short romantic comedy sci-fi story, Cube Season was a finalist at the 2020 Austin Comedy Short Film Festival & the 2020 Portland Comedy Film Festival. It was also selected and screened at the following:

  • 2020 Melbourne and Sydney Lift-Off Film Festivals

  • 2020 Cambria Film Festival of Romance, Love & Rom-coms

  • 2021 Love Actually International Storyteller Showcase

  • 2021 Miami International Science Fiction Film Festival

The Intentions of F. Scott Fitzgerald (2017)

Produced, Written & Directed by Shaun & Jay Perry
Produced
by Rhys Sherring

Synopsis: a dark existentialist comedy that follows two Australian hitmen on a routine 'clean up' job. Whilst in a meaningful conversation about the Great Gatsby, the two find themselves in a panic as their victim makes a run for it.

Awards:

  • Best Achievement in Screenplay & Sound in Post Production at St Kilda Film Festival 2018

  • Best Editing at Rome Prisma Independent Film Awards 2018

  • Best Director at European Cinematography Awards 2017

  • Best Director & Best Cinematography at Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards 2017

Five O’Clock (2017)

Produced, Written & Directed by James Di Martino
Cinematography
by Rhys Sherring

A Chapter 5 Studios production.

Synopsis: a character ensemble period piece bushranger film set in 1880 Australia where a local gang attempts to best a wealthy businessman at the game of dice, while the local sheriff senses something fouls afoot.


The Immigration Game (2017)

Produced, Written & Directed by Daniel Facciolo
Cinematography
by Rhys Sherring

A Chapter 5 Studios production.

Synopsis: a group of young Australian university students go for a hike one weekend, only to find themselves trapped in a game of cat and mouse with an unstable local threatened by their multicultural backgrounds.


Headspace Inc (2016)

Produced, Written & Directed by Rhys Sherring

An Online Official Selection at the Paris Lift-Off Film Festival, nominee for the Top Indie Film Awards Best Original Idea and Best Student Film, and official selection at Gen Con Film Festival Indianapolis, U.S.A 2018.

Synopsis: Headspace Inc is a Neo-Noir Sci-Fi set in the near future. A disconnected private cyber-crime investigator decides to risk his life to retrieve the missing consciousness of a teenager trapped in the virtual world of a disillusioned old film director. 

Behind the 8 Ball (2012)

Written & Directed by Rhys Sherring

The first narrative piece I ever made using strictly friends as cast and crew. The first movie is always going to be terrible, and some don’t really put their first movies on display, but I always get a laugh out of it.

Synopsis: a deal goes wrong due to a certain character's interesting past work being revealed.