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Because in the end, he was just a 12 year old boy…

A bed-bound man reflects on his childhood as Peter Pan, and how sometimes everyone grows up without you.

Written by Heath Ramsay
Starring Heath Ramsay, Kaiya Kean, Grace Rouvray, Jack Scott, Charles Wu. James Carey, Rafferty Chaston, Sophia Hernandez, Ava Hernandez, Noni Jeffress, Alex Kim, Matilda McCullough, Lola Raikes, Penelope Towney, Rudy Shanahan, Walt Shanahan, Lytysh Sharma, Alice Took, Jack Waters, Ethan Wei.

Director - Duncan Ragg
Producer - Anna Phillips, Rebecca Lamond
Executive Producer - Heath Ramsay, Kylie Harris
Director of Photography - Jack Saltmiras
Production Designer - Hailley Hunt
Costume Designer - Angela Doherty
Editor - Jodie Nguyen
Composer - Jordan Ireland
Sound Designer / Mixer - Lana Kristensen

Shot inclusively on unceded Dharawal country.

Selected for:

• Virginia Film Festival, Birmingham Film Festival, St Kilda Film Festival // Director’s Picks, Nevada City Film Festival // Director’s Picks, 38th Edmonton International Film Festival, International Sound & Film Music Festival // Best Film & Best Composition Nominee, Canberra Short Film Festival // Best Cinematography, Twelve Lions Film Festival // Best Narrative Short, Buffalo International Film Festival, Far South Film Festival // People’s Choice Award + Diversity Award, Screen Culture International Film Festival // Best Short Narrative, South Pacific Film Festival // Best Low Budget Film, Near Far Film Festival // Best Australian Film, Lived Perspectives // Honourable Mention, CARE Awards // 1st Time Director Award, Twin Cities Film Fest, Montana Film Festival, Chambal International Film Festival // Best Actor - Heath Ramsay, Creation International Film Festival // Best 1st Time Filmmaker, Best Children’s Short, Best Inspirational Film, IndieFEST Film Awards // Film Short Award, Lonely Seal International // Finalist, Full Bloom Film Festival, Cannes World Film Festival, Sparrowland Short Film Festival, TAKT Film Fest, Skane International Film Festival, Sydney Web Fest, Silver Wave Film Festival, Bangkok Film Festival, Eau Claire International Film Festival, Ayodhya Film Festival, RIFFA, We Care Film Festival, Morocco Shorts International, Underdog Film Festival // Underdog Award Winner, The Other Film Festival.

LIBERTY ST

I’ve adjusted to the absence of your smile, so please just wait here for awhile…

Created by Duncan Ragg and Jessica Marshall.
Starring Contessa Treffone, Sara West, Harry Greenwood, Ava Caryofyllis, Steve Rodgers, Susie Youssef, Tommy Misa, Duncan Ragg, Charles Wu and Catherine Van Davies.
Directed by Lucy Gaffy, Isabella Andronos, Jeremy Brull, Luke Marsden, Sara West and Jo-Anne Brechin.
Cinematography by Emma Paine.
Production design and costumes by Isabella Andronos.
Production design assist and Art Dept by Roze Hooij.
Produced by Duncan Ragg and Katherine Shearer.
Score by Charles Wu.
Edited by Jessie Hildebrand.
VFX / Comp by Andrew Brown.

Selected for:

• Official Competition // GBiennale 21

‘Glen’ selected for:

• Best Australian Shorts // Melbourne International Film Festival, Official Competition // Flickerfest 2020 + Flickerfest National Tour Showcase, Official Selection // Newport Beach Film Fest, Winner // Just For Laughs Eat My Shorts Contest 2021, Official Selection // Flicks4Change, Official Selection // Independent Shorts Awards, LA (Best Actor, Best Comedy Short), Semi-finalist // Dumbo Film Festival 2021, Official Selection // Port Shorts Film Festival 2021

‘Kerinne’ selected for:

• Official Competition // St Kilda Film Festival

‘Evelyn’ selected for:

• Official Selection // Global Assembly on Everyday Life, Gender, and Sexuality, 2021, Official Selection // Ritz Uncovered, 2021, Official Selection // Street Side Cinema, Winston-Salem, 2021, Official Selection // Cinema in Sneakers Film Festival for Children and Youth, 2021, Official Selection // Independent Producers Indie Film Festival, 2021, Winner // Best Young Actress - Ava Caryofillis, Imaginary Mind Film Festival, 2021

‘Nelson’ selected for:

• My Queer Career, Mardi Gras Film Festival // Best Emerging Performer - Tommy Misa

THEO AND CELESTE

Would you still love me if...

https://vimeo.com/270611565

Written by Duncan Ragg and Hannah Dougherty.
Directed and shot by Hannah Dougherty.
Starring Shannon Ashlyn and Duncan Ragg.
Production design by Ara Nuri Steel and Courtney Westbrook at Brass Tacks - Production Design
Produced by Rona Lewis and Imogen Darling-Blair at Velvet, Half Pie Productions and The Corinthian Food Store.
Costumes by Ash Bell.
Make up by Amber Adams.
Score by Wil Hughes.
Sound Mix and Design by Joseph Dutaillis.
Colour Grade by Angela Cerasi.
Post Production by The Editors: Stewart Arnott and Matt Edwards.
Lighting assistance from Kate Cornish and Jason Rogers.
Premiered at: TEDxSydney 2018.

This, this is mine

Just because someone stood on this land and said ‘this, this is mine’ and everyone else was fool enough to believe him. You’re just a hunk of meat with a flag. Anytime I like I can step over there and carve you up and take what you got and there’s nothing you can do to stop me. You’re soft. You break. None of your talk can stop that…

TTIM is the story of Eva, an Anglo-Australian woman, who returns to the house of her estranged father following his funeral. While going through her old possessions her Chinese-Australian childhood friend Les shows up, demanding that they follow up on the plans of their youth by setting fire to the house and running away together. While the spectre of the outside world and a violent hurricane looms large, Eva and Lester struggle to unearth and acknowledge their past and to assume control over their own narratives and in turn each other.

Set inside a decaying suburban living room, This, This Is Mine features the incomparable Matilda Ridgway (Belvoir's Jasper Jones, Bell Shakespeare's Hamlet) and Charles Wu (Belvoir's Jasper Jones, Channel 9's Doctor Doctor) as well as an intimate live set from Sydney's Chinese digi-pop genius Earthquake Magnificent.

Written/Directed by Duncan Ragg.
Designed by Isabella Andronos and Michael Hili.

Galle

All it takes is a downturn - a flood - and they begin to swarm. It's something about being part of a group, and the serotonin in their legs. They respond.

Giorgio returns home from school to find a village suspended in grief. This is a piece about natural disasters and the Sri Lankan National Hurdling Championship.

With: Shiv Palekar, Georgia Wilkinson-Derums, Charles Wu, Emele Ugavule, Elliott Mitchell, Guy O’Grady, Sophie Kesteven, Gautier Pavlovic-Hobba, Jessica Vickers, Thuso Lekwape and Matthew Predny.

Directed by Duncan Ragg
Designed by Michael Hili
Music by Charles Wu and Emele Ugavule

The corinthian

Everything with wings is restless. Which reminds me - I've been assembling all these old tapes of rehabilitated animals reuniting with their trainers - wanna watch?

Fleur wants a nicer neighbourhood.
Lemon wants the child she lost in the tsunami.
Winston wants his old life back.

Developed by: Duncan Ragg, Charles Wu, Emele Ugavule, Joel Horwood, Pip Dracakis and Jessica Vickers.
Directed by Duncan Ragg
Designed by Isabella Andronos
Music by Charles Wu and Emele Ugavule

Development of The Corinthian was greatly assisted by ATYP and Rock Surfers Theatre Company.

The collective

Meet the team

Charles Wu

Co-Artistic Director

duncan ragg

Co-Artistic Director

vanessa White

General Manager

shiv palekar

Artistic Associate

Isabella Andronos

Artistic Associate

REVIEWS FOR ‘MINE MINE MINE’

In this filmic retelling of Peter’s story - beautifully shot and eerily choreographed with performers moving through the landscape slowed, effected, made eerie or dream-like…that evokes the photography of Diane Arbus…Mine Mine Mine breaks conventions around film-making and the stereotypical crip style where deeply personal = earnest. Instead here reality is rubbery and time isn’t linear…Mine Mine Mine throws mud at the dominant crip screen pathway - essay from The Other Film Festival, Melbourne.

This is a sophisticated, wonderful, confronting, resonant and poetic film. It’s great to see a new bunch of Australian filmmakers playing with narrative, invention, imagination…the ending is PERFECT…’ - from The Other Film Festival.

Reviews for 'this, this is mine'

'I don't want to tell you anything about this play except that you should go - because the whole experience is a really nice surprise' FBI.

'the unfolding drama is powerful, sudden, surprising and revelatory...The Corinthian Food Collective, and Artistic Directors Duncan Ragg and Charles Wu have revived the intimacy and the power of Salon Theatre with a play that reverberates with the issues and concerns of a young generation in search of meaning, identity and recognition.' Critics' Circle

'a jollity and conviction that is compelling...Ragg's writing and rhythm are reminiscent of Gunther Grass.' StageNoise

'With their new show This, This Is Mine Sydney-based company The Corinthian Food Store show themselves already to be masters of the form...Writer/Director Duncan Ragg has crafted a marvelous thing. His script and direction fill the space to the brim with tension, humour, poetry and realism...there is a feeling of being transported.' ArtsHub

'Charles Wu and Matilda Ridgway hold this space perfectly ...They remain utterly present with each other from start to finish; they make their intricate, controlled performances seem the most natural thing in the world.' ArtsHub

'This season in Melbourne is already sold out, but if you hear of any spare tickets floating around, cancel all your plans and rush to this show. It is supremely affecting, deeply intelligent, truly live and fearless performance.' ArtsHub

'At the end, there is a closer sense of community, a shared understanding of the power of theatre to affect our lives and bring us all closer together. Ironically, the conflict between Eva and Lester has become the closer bond between every member of the audience. This is theatre that erects a signpost to the future...' Critic's Circle