FILMs
Bird Hands Beaver a Fishmint Bouquet
Proof of Concept Short Film
Synopsis: 13-year-old Bridget Bui only has one goal this year: to ace Australia’s national KRAPLAN exams and claim her rightful place as star pupil. Maybe then her parents will love her. Her bright plans for the year start to crumble when her best (and only) friend Desiree Khalil transfers to a selective school while she gets blacklisted from every single tutoring centre in the neighbourhood and is accused of plagiarism by her favourite teacher - all in one week. Bird Hands Beaver a Fishmint Bouquet is a comical coming-of-age story with an unsettling twist; imagine if The Breakfast Club was directed by Bong Joon Ho set in Sydney's Bankstown.
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Genre: Coming of age, Comedy, Drama, Thriller, Romance
Claire Thai as BRIDGET
Isabelle Phillips as DESIREE
Zoe Tomaras as MRS MULLER
Written & Directed by Kim Pham
Producer Miranda Aguilar
Director Mentor Elias Nohra
Director of Photography Sivani Yaddanapudi
Sound Recordist & Editor Tracy Guo
Production Support Andrea Lim
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A CuriousWorks and Testing Grounds Production
Festivals
Mopoke Short Film Festival, February 2023 (Sydney, Australia)
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Bird Hands Beaver a Fishmint Bouquet
Audio Film Project
This audio film is an extract from my screenplay, Bird Hands Beaver a Fishmint Bouquet. This project was produced for Sahra Salon and showcased for a live audience at Riverside National Theatre of Parramatta in Sydney on the 12st of June 2022.
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Voiced by
Vivian Pham as BRIDGET BUI
Alaa Alfaraon as DESIREE KHALIL
Ruminder Singh as MR DUFFY (teacher)
Daniel Carrington as OBNOXIOUS STUDENT
Kim Pham as HUYEN (mum)
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Written, directed and edited by Kim Pham
A big thank you to The Finishing School Collective, The City of Parramatta, Powerhouse Youth Theatre and Riverside’s National Theatre of Parramatta for sponsoring this event.
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PHỞ BÒ
Experimental Short Film
This experimental short film was inspired by the theme of FIRE
As I eat, I garnish my bowl with spoonfuls of chili oil, chili powder, ground chili, chili sauce and fresh slices of chili until the bowl turns a deep fire-red. The chili, in all its forms, symbolises the pressures of growing up, the expectations that we are fed by our families and society and how we are forced to clench our teeth and bite through the heat. These false narratives are supposedly designed to push us and nourish us to be the best versions of ourselves, but really, they just hurt us. Just as we can become addicted to spicy foods because the brain releases dopamine in response to the pain, we too can become addicted to satisfying these expectations in hope of validation.
Written, directed and edited by Kim Pham
This short film was commissioned by JUXTA JAM, a live, interactive club-style,DJ/VJ-led event and was showcased at Bankstown Arts Centre and Sydney Festival in 2022.
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Catch Kindness
Animated Short Film
A short film about overcoming isolation with small acts of kindness.
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Written, directed and edited by Kim Pham
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Animated and illustrated by Alaa Alfaraon
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This short film is proudly supported by Diversity Arts Australia for the I AM NOT A VIRUS campaign, spreading awareness of the increase in discrimination and hate crimes committed against Asians and Asian Australians as a result of COVID-19.
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I am a settler living on the unceded lands of the Dharawal people.
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I pay my respect to the Elders, past and present and emerging.
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None of us are free until all of us are free.
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Always was, Always will be, Aboriginal land.