Eco-Queer Science Fiction Feature Film
Receiving over twelve thousand in Regional Arts Development funding from Arts Queensland and City of Gold Coast to deliver the development of this project.
Logline:
When a sentient meteor crash-lands into a dying town, a young photographer's secret love is exposed as he desperately searches for his missing boyfriend, all while battling strange dreams and the town's eerie, supernatural awakening.
Talisman has been the brain child of Jordan Wilkinson since he decided to reconnect to his roots growing up in regional Australia.
He was excited by the prospect of looking at the regional landscape as an inherent queer space and what stories could unfold.
Jordan devised a writer's room that brought together a script consultant and composer together to fill out the world of Talisman and what could be made in a space of a four-week period
Script Consultant and dramaturg Katrina Irawati Graham
The co-director of Bali 2002 for STAN and Writer of Dark Whispers and White Song (short film)
Composer Isabella Lauf
Working on a range of Australian-esque feature films and television such as Bluey, ABC's Know it Alls, and Baz Luhrmann's Elvis. Isy has built a strong portfolio of work and is embracing new modes of storytelling with collaborations with Hollywood Professional Association (HPA), Skywalker Sound and Amazon.
What is it to still be connected to someone once a person has come out to them and what is the love that ultimately remains.
What is the relationship between science fiction and homosexuality?
What are the correlations between other-worldlyness, colonialism and the natural landscape?
Jordan actively creates worlds that couple his experiences as a Queer Bangladeshi-Australian with genre-based storytelling allowing audiences to connect to material that is otherwise not consider in the mainstream.
THIS PROJECT IS PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY THE REGIONAL ARTS DEVELOPMENT FUND BY ARTS QUEENSLAND AND PRESENTED BY CITY OF GOLD COAST.
