Stranger Films

19/02/2024

A very late congratulations to Brian Loewe for his .qld Gold for his work on the Castle NFT project.

Beneath the old museum was an untouched library with an old broken fan. We thought, this is very Blade Runner. Gaffer, Owen Smith set up a light and a ladder and put producer, Genevieve Larin to work manually spinning the fan for each take.

A huge congratulations to the team for their work 👏🏻

Concept & Direction: Tony Walsh
Producer: Genevieve Larin
Cinematographer: Brian Loewe
Editor: Daniel Warner
Gaffer: Owen Smith
Cam. Assist: Rachel Sieger

14/02/2024

👏🔊Watch with sound🎧

Shot in one hot night beneath The Old Museum on and with a micro crew, we created this caper to draw intrigue and build hype around the project.

What is Castle? Is this part of the Blade Runner cinematic universe? Why did God Emperor Bezos release his manhunter drones? Stay tuned for answers to at least one of these questions soon.

Concept & Direction: Tony Walsh
Producer Genevieve Larin
Cinematographer Brian Loewe
Gaffer Owen Smith
Cam. Assist. Rachel Sieger

13/02/2024

This was one our all time favourite projects. 👏✨
We were approached by artist, Sethius the with an open brief: “I want something exciting, mysterious, and cool” that would promote the ethos and ‘vibe’ of the work before explaining it. Castle is a world-first, innovative NFT Puzzle project on Polygon, combining traditional hand-drawn artwork with the fun and gamification of collections and puzzles.

Shot in one long and sweaty night at The Old Museum in Brisbane, writer and director Tony Walsh concepted the idea of a tech-noir inspired mystery — a physical hunt to visualise the digital hunt the collectors themselves would go on.

Cinematographer Brian Loewe opted for the P+S Kowa anamorphics to replicate that vintage scifi Blade Runner aesthetic, coupled with the Sony FX9 for low light performance. This project was an absolute joy of creativity, a rare moment where a client approaches you with trust and freedom to make something great.

04/12/2023

Now that's Dolphin Smart! 🐬🏉

When the Dolphins NRL marketing team comes to you and says: "we want to do something no one else is doing" — well, that's how you get our attention. 👀

We needed to make something that informed and entertained, that kept people's attention and appealed directly to diehard NRL fans. So we made our writer Jessie Hughes watch a ton of NRL, ###X & Ladbrokes commercials until she became a burly mid-thirties Queenslander. From this she came up with what will undoubtedly become an iconic zinger for every commentator's toolbox - Dolphin Smart!

Director Tony Walsh brought his trademark snappy dialogue and dad jokes to polish up the script, and working with cinematographer Brian Loewe cooked up some visually mesmerizing transitions and punchy coverage.

Our editor Chris Ashton dialled the humour up to 11 with some crisp sound design, knocking out shorter and alt versions for the marketing team to experiment with. But for us, we love the full unabridged version below.

Big thanks to Dolphins marketing & events legends - Amir Rezaee & Katie Croll for bringing us in for this one.

Featuring the incredible comedic talents of Sam Monaghan, Gabby Carbon, Sasa Lemalu & Chris Slater.

Produced by Geneviev Larin
Concept & Creative - Jessie Hughes
Direction & Dialogue - Tony Walsh
Cinematography - Brian Loewe
Editing - Chris Ashton
Sound Rec. - Josh O'Donnell
Light & Focus - David Aponas, Owen Smith, Zac Emmerton
Prod. Design - Keely Hall
Prod. Assist - Luke Schamburg
MUA Aislynn Maczyszyn & Pedita Gould

22/11/2023

This 'small wins' shoot was a breeze. We had enough time to be creative and to peer pressure Brian Loewe to get in the pool and "swim" alongside the absolute legend Cate Campbell. It was a privilege bringing this to life for Just So 🏊‍♀️🎥🌊

Director: Tony Walsh
Producer: Genevieve Larin
Cinematographer: Brian Loewe
Sound: Josh O'Donnell
Production assistant: Luke Schamburg

20/11/2023

Production facilitating for Just So was a pleasure because it meant we got to spend the day at the pool with Cate Campbell learning how she prepares for competition. We'll never be high performance athletes but we can get onboard with the lollies and avo toast 💪🍓🥑

Agency: Just so
Client: Allianz and Olympics

Director: Tony Walsh
Producer: Genevieve Larin
Cinematographer: Brian Loewe
Sound: Josh O'Donnell
Production assist: Luke Schamburg

15/11/2023

And just like the unpopular girl taking off her glasses to reveal the attractive person hiding underneath. Pixel Palace gave our brand and website glow up 💅💆🏻‍♀️

15/11/2023

After years of operating with the same logo, website and mindset, we felt like it was time for a change.

We wanted to step up our game creatively and technically, but to do that we needed to be able to convince our clients that investing in great storytelling is worth every cent.

We hired our our long-time friends (and office neighbours) Pixel Palace, who helped us look deep within ourselves and asked the big questions: "Who are we?", "What do we want?" and "What do we call this shade of orange?".

We knew the work they did for our brand across design, copy and web was stellar✨ but now we can say that it won a silver BADC award 🏆

A huge congratulations to Pixel Palace. It was an absolute pleasure working with you guys 👏❤️ We're so excited for where this new brand will take us 🚀✨

15/11/2023

This was a very wholesome project.

One day, one location, three actors, and about a dozen short scenes to illustrate the light and dark of the incredibly emotional and complicated task of being a grandparent carer.

Genevieve Larin and Luke found a beautiful Queenslander in leafy Paddington. The yard was filled with fruits, veggies and a giant mulberry tree (we had to make sure the crew didn't eat them haha). We felt it was a nurturing environment to grow up in and a perfect home to tell their story.

This had to be authentic, naturalistic and restrained, with no scripted dialogue in sight. We improvised all the action on the day and let the actors lead the coverage. It was all about setting the good vibes and getting these *absolute strangers* to look like a family on screen.

Cinematographer Brian Loewe and Tony Walsh decided they wanted anamorphics for this one, but with such a tight schedule and a modest crew we had to be really smart with how we shot it, moving at almost doco pace.

A super wholesome day with a great cast, crew and a random dog we found along the way 🐕✨

09/11/2023

Retirement isn't always caravans and cruises. For some grandparents, it's a second lap of raising kids, stepping up to care for them when no one else is can.

An incredibly special film for Wellways and the Department of Child Safety, Seniors and Disability Services, raising awareness of an often overlooked role in our society for National Grandparents Day.

Writer: Jessie Hughes
Director: Tony Walsh
Producer: Genevieve Larin
Cinematographer: Brian Loewe
Editor: Matthew Sawyer
Sound Rec: Josh O'Donnell
Prod. Designer: Keely Maya Hall
Gaffer: David Aponas
1AC: Owen Smith
Prod. Assist: Luke Schamburg
MUA: Aislynn Maczyszyn

Ft. Liz Blackett, Dylan Fortunaso & Isla O'Leary.
V.O. by Felicity Jurd via Scout Management

Lenses provided by Lemac Film and Digital

13/09/2023

We were like kids in the candy store at QUT Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice new Industrial Design studio. Between getting distracted by the cool machines we shot some stylised overlay with students and lecturers.

11/09/2023

Over the past couple of months we embarked on a mammoth project with QUT (Queensland University of Technology) to create course videos that advertise and showcase some of the talented student works. For the Bachelor of Industrial Design course we leaned into a sci-fi aesthetic to compliment the student's work and appeal to young designers.

10/05/2023

Over the past few months, we've been going on a journey of development with our friends at Pixel Palace, asking ourselves the big questions — and then finding a way to articulate that beyond just the words "vibes✨" & "aesthetic🤌".

Luckily, Jen Jeavons and her team are very good at their job, capturing our essence and ethos in a bottle and then turning that into beautiful letters and numbers.

Check out our fresh branding and slick new website, and say 'hello stranger'.

Award-winning film production company rocking the boat from Brisbane, Australia. Remarkable stories that leave you with a feeling.

12/03/2023

Please standby for a short break while our team refills their creative buckets. Well return to our regularly scheduled programming shortly 📺📡✈️✨

08/02/2023

𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐦𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬!

We are searching for an experienced screen editor with a diverse skillset to work with our team on an ongoing basis for commercial and creative projects.

𝐑𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬
- Proficiency in Premiere and After Effects, Davinci Resolve a bonus
- 4+ years experience vision editing commercial, corporate and branded content, narrative & music videos a bonus
- Experience in multicamera editing
- Proficiency in motion graphics / titles
- Basic proficiency in colour grading (for corporate & commercial), anything more a bonus
- Basic proficiency in sound design / mixing, anything more a bonus
- Knowledge of data management / post-production pipelines for a small agency (working with Lacie drives, archiving, QNAP system etc)

𝐁𝐨𝐧𝐮𝐬 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝
- Proficiency in Unreal Engine / Maya etc OR an enthusiasm to learn in the future
- Proficiency in visual effects
- Have your own boss rig for those inevitable work-from-home days

𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮
You're a passionate, creative nerd. While people were out partying, you were tuning into the Adobe conference. You're the person every other film student wanted to cut their short film because they knew you'd knock it out of the park. Now, you're out there rocketing your way through the industry for whoever can afford you like some sort of filmmaker bounty hunter.

You love deep-diving into new programs, automating or optimizing things, and having a clean desktop. You probably talked about Whiplash for a whole week (and that's cool, I loved it too). You're great at taking the initiative on projects and have good personal accountability. You love your work, but you're not precious about it either -- you see the creative process as a problem-solving collab, and love to get feedback on your work.

𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐮𝐬
Stranger Films is an award-winning creative production company, rocking the boat from Brisbane, Australia. An end-to-end production agency, we produce epic work that is bold, curious and unexpected. We create bespoke onscreen experiences for brands of every shape, size and star sign, and our work has reached across the globe. Telling stories from new perspectives is what we do. Doing it with kindness, empathy and kick-ass creative chops is how.

We are offering a flexible work schedule that gives you autonomy and freedom to do other things, to work with a young and fun team (that has a very solid meme game) at a company that values innovation, creativity and initiative. We don't need you to be exclusive, but we do want you to be committed. ;)

At Stranger, you'll get to work from our office in Fortitude Valley (with your own sit/stand desk and free coffee), collaborating with other great up-and-coming talent. We don't expect you to work unconventional or long hours, and we never expect you to put in unpaid overtime or accommodate unreasonable requests. We do what we like, and we like what we do.

If you're interested, reach out to us at: [email protected]

20/10/2022

"Put a positive spin on natural disasters" That was the challenge thrown down by for for this year.

Reuniting the iconic collab with the Qld Youngbloods, the Stranger team brought their idea to life — and managed to convince them a flamethrower was absolutely necessary.

Producer
Director
Creative by
Cinematographer
1AD: Thomas Fairchild
Prod. Design by .maya
Sound: David Gaylard
Lighting by
Editor: Matthew Sawyer

19/09/2022

10 years to go Brisbane! Stills from interview content for the International Olympics Committee, celebrating the opportunity for cities like ours to host the prestigious games.

16/09/2022

Life after sport. When you've reached the top of your game as an athlete, what comes next?

Frames from documentary content we captured for the International Olympics Committee with Brad Francis ACS.

01/09/2022

As alumni of QUT (Queensland University of Technology), it's great to be able to give back as a proud supporter of the Business Leaders Forum. Big thanks to their team for taking the time to put together this fun spotlight piece on our co-founders Tony & Gen.

Having worked as freelance content creators for a few years, QUT alumni Genevieve Larin and Tony Walsh decided that the next natural step in their professional development was to form their own company. They wanted to create a brand that stood for bold creative, cathartic storytelling and disrupt...

25/08/2022

You: "Hey Google, how do I shoot great interview content without making an ass of myself in public?"

Google: I gotchu fam

Our top tips for shooting great looking interview video content when working with high profile talent -- and things to avoid!

25/07/2022

As Queenslanders we do know a thing or two about disasters, and putting a positive spin on them was a great challenge.

Another year working with QLD Youngbloods for The Pitch on ABC's Gruen, and another year we tied for the win! Guess we'll have to dial it up even more next year. 🔥🔥🔥

Big thanks to our talented crew and cast for all their hard work.

Director - Tony Walsh
Producer - Genevieve Larin
Cinematographer Brian Loewe
Prod. Design - Keely Hall
Editor & VFX - Matthew Sawyer
1AD - Thomas Fairchild
Gaffer - Owen Smith
Cam. Assist. - Cindy Yohana
Sound - David Gaylard

Ft. the incredible Gideon Mzembe

23/05/2022

Congrats to The Australian Greens on their wins in Queensland, including Max Chandler-Mather in the seat of Griffith. Creating content for their campaign was a great time and we love how they came together.

05/04/2022

BTS of friends spending a quiet day in a studio with some fun lights, an industrial laser and a luxury super car 🏎️ 💨🎥

Photography by: David Fell