Filmmaker Statement

Honestly, this is just how I remember my childhood.... Growing up on a property in rural Queensland, Australia, as a child, large parts of my day were spent playing impassioned games of make-believe with my friends that would sometimes feel so real that we would give ourselves nightmares. These childhood memories formed the story about Augie & Celeste along with an investigation of the complexities and potency of young female friendship - an intimacy that I find to be unique to the feminine experience. It's a film about testing boundaries and the importance of imaginary play when it comes to exploring and processing complicated ideas of womanhood that lie before us from a very young age. I wanted to show what 9 year old girls with scraped knees are actually thinking about and the strange things they would get up to hidden from the view of adults. Bringing this film to life became a surprisingly vulnerable exploration of my own complicated relationships with the women in m