Friends and Strangers

Writer/Director: James Vaughan
Producers: Lucy Rennick and Rebecca Lamond
Director of Photography: Dimitri Zaunders
Starring: Emma Diaz, Fergus Wilson, Victoria Maxwell

Status: post-production
Runtime: 89 minutes
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Format: 2k Digital / Arri Alexa

Domestic/International sales: TBA
Domestic/International distribution: TBA 

Friends and Strangers is a comedy-drama that explores displacement, disconnection and inertia in contemporary Australia through the eyes of the upper-middle class millennial.

Bold, entertaining and delicately layered, the film presents three thematically linked sketches of life as experienced by Alice, Ray and Diana, three nearly-thirty drifters born with a silver spoon but seemingly incapable of navigating the featureless ocean of casual employment, limp romances and half-assed entrepreneurial schemes. 

Gingerly abandoning teenage daydreams of careers as successful creatives, each is grasping for a way to channel their privilege into something meaningful. But in a world of infinitely reproducible images, words, ideologies, choices...Where can the authentic be found?

This frustrated, suspended search for the unfindable, and the misadventures that follow, cuts to the heart of Friends and Strangers.