Filmmaker and journalist Brietta Hague. Image supplied.
Last week, Brietta Hague’s 20-minute drama Baltasar was announced as winner of the Melbourne International Film Festival’s Film Victoria Erwin Rado Award for Best Australian Short Film.
Set and shot in Barcelona, and made as a Spanish-Australian co-production, Baltasar follows a Senegalese migrant as he goes about his day, caring for a sick housemate, then heading to a shopping mall to dress up as one of the ‘Three Wise Men’ in a Christmas show for kids.
Rochelle Siemienowicz is Screen Content Lead at Screenhub. She is a writer, film critic and cultural commentator with a PhD in Australian cinema and was the co-host of Australia's longest-running film podcast 'Hell is for Hyphenates'. Rochelle has written a memoir, Fallen, published by Affirm Press. Her second book, Double Happiness, a novel, is out with Midnight Sun on October 1, 2024. Instagram: @Rochelle_Rochelle Twitter: @Milan2Pinsk
