The University of Adelaide, the Sia Furler Institute, Creative Revolutionaries, RCC and local artist Dave Court invite you to join us for a chat with Sophie Hyde and Desiree Akhavan.

Australian filmmaker Sophie Hyde is a founding member of film collective Closer Productions. She lives and works on the lands of the Kaurna people and makes provocative and intimate fiction, documentary films and TV.

Desiree Akhavan is the director and co- writer of The Miseducation of Cameron Post, starring Chloe Grace Moretz and Sasha Lane, which won the 2018 Sundance Grand Jury Prize. Her first film, Appropriate Behaviour, was her graduate thesis at NYU. It premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for Best First Screenplay at the Film Independent Spirit Awards as well as Breakthrough Director at the Gotham Awards. Most recently, Akhavan created the Hulu original series The Bisexual. She is currently working on a collection of personal essays to be published by Random House. She has a BA from Smith College and an MFA from New York University’s Graduate Film Program.

Caitlin Ellen Moore is a writer, activist, and freelance producer. Most of the time, you can find her at ActNow Theatre as their Marketing and Development Coordinator. At other times you can find her writing for This Is Radelaide, co-hosting and producing Radio Adelaide’s queer show Pride and Prejudice, quietly launching podcasts under Wickedly Good Productions, or dabbling in spoken word poetry.

Recorded at The Cloisters, University of Adelaide on 11 March 2020.