THE LAST ELEPHANT ON EARTH
2022
Narrative Short
Director | Johanis Lyons-Reid
Writer/Producer | Piri Eddy
Production Company | Change Media
Synopsis: When fifteen-year-old Elle brings up the elephant in the room – a fiery meteor heading for Earth – her father denies the coming danger, preferring to follow the deranged advice of a child psychiatrist.
Festivals: Sitges International Film Festival 2023 | Adelaide Film Festival 2022
Awards: Best Short Film, 54th Annual AWG AWGIE awards.
BLACK EMPIRE
2022
Documentary
Director | Johanis Lyons-Reid & Pearl Berry
Producers | Lilla Berry & Piri Eddy
Writers | Pearl Berry & Piri Eddy
Production Company | Dinosaur Disco Films
Synopsis: Rapper Jimblah embarks on a journey to decolonise the Australian music industry.
Premiered SBS/NITV and Viceland August 2022
CYCLES
2020
Experimental Short
Director | Johanis Lyons-Reid
Producer | Piri Eddy
Writers | Johanis Lyons-Reid & Piri Eddy
Production Company | Change Media
Synopsis: Welcome to the Bunker Age:_this breath is not mine to keep: Cycles is an experimental short drama about our collective grief and loss for a way of life, a planet, and a future imagined that may never be seen. Watching our demise with apathetic disinterest as our denial finally turns to shock, will it be too late to make a difference?
Festivals: St Kilda Film Festival 2021