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Screening Block #2
Join us for our screening blocks to see the best web series of 2024 and listen to the best podcasts.

Each screening block contains 2 hours of programming that includes an episode of individual web series and up to 15 minutes of each podcast. Each podcast has a visual on screen and is programmed between two web series.
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In Love & Marriage a woman struggles with the questions of love and marriage in her relationship.
10 minutes
Stardust Stardust

Stardust

Ashlee Rinn Jensdottir lives on the edge of society, and of space. Facing discrimination and hardship at the hands of a transphobic culture on the ground, Ashlee resolves to embrace and protect the skies. It's a dangerous and unpredictable profession with zero guarantee of surviving to see the next payday. When she and her crew of misfits stumble across a pilot in distress, their world suddenly gets a whole lot bigger... and far more perilous.
35 minutes
Department of Paranormal Affairs Department of Paranormal Affairs

Department of Paranormal Affairs

You know all of the monsters from scary stories? They’re totally real, but they’re just trying to get by like the rest of us. Department of Paranormal Affairs is a secret branch of the government whose purpose is to deal with the day-to-day problems of vampires, werewolves, ghosts, goblins, and anything else that goes bump in the night. It's employees Jenny Hicks and Scott Power, led by Director Greg LeGrow, are the civil servants dedicated to dealing with the ordinary problems of extraordinary beings. Scott does things by the book, Jenny’s never read a book, and Greg couldn’t care less what either of them does - but they’ll all have to work together if they’re going to keep the paranormal world safe.
9 minutes
Out Cold Out Cold

Out Cold

Out Cold is a spooky audio fiction anthology written, directed, and edited by Minnesota-based audio producers Julie Censullo and Sophie Nikitas. Each episode reveals it's own twisted tale, ranging from horrors in the Minneapolis skyway system, a disorienting road trip, a museum with a dark secret, and more.
21 minutes
Closure Closure

Closure

Ethan Williams is a tormented man in his mid-30’s living on the outskirts of Melbourne. He begins grappling with vivid, haunting dreams that unveil fragments of his childhood, especially his connection to his mother. He remembers an obsession with having a bath; both a vessel of solace and a crucible of past transgressions. Ethan soon meets Kate, a woman from his local park, and becomes drawn to her, sensing a strange familiarity. Seeking clarity for his dreams, he consults psychologist Dr. Jessica Tobin, who believes these dreams could be repressed memories. During a date, Ethan invites Kate for a bath to help forge an intimate bond and deepen their connection. In the bath, overcome by disappointment in her true appearance, Ethan violently strangles Kate in a fit of rage and buries her body.

Six months later, Ethan transforms his appearance and continues seeking women to date, eventually meeting Briana, who is waiting for her sister at the park. Her sister's absence leads to Ethan accompanying her for a walk. Meanwhile, Dr. Tobin grows suspicious of Ethan's behaviour towards the women he has been dating. Whilst the connection between Ethan and Briana begins innocently enough, as their interactions deepen, Ethan's hidden darkness resurfaces after he notices a tattoo on her back that reveals a dissimilarity to his mother, leading to her murder.

Loren, Briana's younger sister, receives a phone call from a friend of Briana advising she has not heard from her in a few days and Loren grows concerned. Discovering messages linking Briana to Ethan, Loren investigates by visiting his home and uncovers the unsettling evidence of Ethan's actions. Further discovering a photo of his late mother, Angelique, Loren notices she bears a striking resemblance to this woman.

A bereaved Loren seeks help from Dan, a friend of her deceased father, to enact her own vendetta of justice for her murdered sister. Loren is visited by Detective Turner, who questions her about Briana's disappearance. Fueled by her own desire for retribution, Loren feigns ignorance, keeping her true intentions hidden. While planning her revenge, Loren changes her identity to help become intertwined with Ethan’s past, disguising herself to look similar to Ethan's deceased mother. Loren soon engages him in conversation in his local park and thus begins her game of psychological chess.

Through their following interactions, Loren uncovers Ethan's deeper vulnerabilities, emotions, and past. Ethan cuts ties with Dr. Tobin, feeling a sense of peace. Dr. Tobin, however, contacts the authorities, sensing the darkness lurking beneath Ethan's facade and believing he is a danger to society. Ethan and Loren spend the afternoon together and as the night progresses, a shared moment in a bathtub triggers a flashback that unveils the traumatic incident involving Ethan’s parents' death that shaped his life. In the present, Ethan and Loren grow intimate, with Loren surviving the bathtub encounter. Later in the night, Loren reveals her true identity to Ethan, exposing that Briana was her sister. She fatally wounds Ethan, and Detective Turner arrives on the scene, knocking at the door without answer. He investigates around the outside of the house until he finds himself in the dwelling underneath Ethan’s house.

In a post-credits scene, Loren cleans up the aftermath and takes off with Briana’s bracelet, leaving her with a sense of closure amidst the darkness. This scene shows that Detective Turner's arrival was not until days after the murder.
9 minutes
Shadow Clock - EP 6 | Child Shadow Clock - EP 6 | Child

Shadow Clock - EP 6 | Child

The instant Ericka Garner learned of the mummified child unearthed in her San Francisco backyard, her life twisted into the uncanny. The child, lying in a glass casket, looked like a real-life Sleeping Beauty—preserved for more than 150 years. But who was this young person, and why were they there to begin with?
15 minutes
Dark Arcadia Dark Arcadia

Dark Arcadia

Love. Revenge. Rebellion.

Dark Arcadia is a story about love. A story about revenge. And a story about the validity (or not) of taking justice into our own hands.

Examining the colliding worlds of rebelling teenagers and the adults charged with their care, inspired by world events and gender politics, this gothic fantasy is the next project from the universe of the internationally award-winning Shakespeare Republic, written and directed by Australian actor/writer/director, Sally McLean.

Dark Arcadia … something wicked this way comes …

ABOUT THE SERIES

Using Shakespeare’s original text, we meet seventeen different characters from seven different plays over a 24 hour period, set in the microcosm of an Australian high school, exploring power, relationships, the idea of outrage culture, #FakeNews and the Elizabethan equivalent of a Grimm’s faerietale.

Primarily utilising the perspective of Generation Z, Dark Arcadia features some of Shakespeare’s most iconic characters played by a range of talented established and emerging actors. With a focus on female, culturally diverse, disabled and LGBTQI+ (including trans) talent, using his undiluted, original words, we journey into human relationships and their consequences with a touch of magic realism and a dash of food for thought.

This digital series creates a cohesive world built from a range of Shakespeare texts, threading together scenes from several of Shakespeare’s plays, as written, to create a multiple story strand structure set in the 21st Century.

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To watch all episodes, and find out more about the series visit: https://www.darkarcadia.com

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Shot in 4k.

Dark Arcadia is produced by Incognita Enterprises and funded via grants from the City of Melbourne, the British Shakespeare Association, Creative Victoria, and Creative Australia through an Australian Cultural Fund BOOST Grant, as well as tax deductible donations from the general public via the Australian Cultural Fund.
10 minutes
World History 24 World History 24

World History 24

Welcome to World History 24, your new chronological crash course podcast! Join Ellie and Charlie for this 24 episode mini-series, covering the entirety of human history. No prior knowledge is needed, if you’ve ever wished you could remember who Attila the Hun was or why Istanbul became Constantinople, then this podcast is for you. By bringing our worldwide shared past into clearer focus, we begin to see how all our lives are affected everyday by the lives of the people who came before.
15 minutes
I WILL BURY YOU (EP #202 "Anger") I WILL BURY YOU (EP #202 "Anger")

I WILL BURY YOU (EP #202 "Anger")

I Will Bury You is a Canadian, dark comedy series that follows two brothers as they attempt to carry out their mother’s final wishes by scattering her ashes in the places she loved… if only they can figure out where that might be. Dealing with issues of grief, loss, and sibling rivalry, this genre defying series mixes comedy, drama, and hilarious stupidity into a single package.
9 minutes
MACAW, An Original Audio Drama MACAW, An Original Audio Drama

MACAW, An Original Audio Drama

Ron Ahmanson doesn’t remember his last vacation. His 52 weeks of unused PTO have forced management to buy him a vacation and send him on it. So, Ron finds himself taking an all-expenses-paid Caribbean cruise that he doesn’t want to be on. Even though it’s paid for, he still obsesses about money. Even though he knows he needs to “get out more,” he hates the notion of socializing with regular dinner mates. And even though the LAST thing on Earth he wants to do is work on himself, this particular “Walmart on the water” turns out to be a fully immersive program into the motivational musings of an over-amped self-empowerment guru named Ernie “Macked Up” Bigman. Things escalate when our hero begrudgingly joins a man named Earl Beefington at the Craps table, where Ron winds up rolling snake eyes every single time, a veritable impossibility. This newfound superpower earns him gobs of cash and unwanted notoriety, thus hurling him into an existential shit storm that forces him to question both his buried past and his current reality. All as he becomes Macked Up’s main target.
28 minutes

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