Laugh With Me
short film
Credits
Written and Directed by Karen Liebau McPherson
Producer Lea da Silva Gomes
Co-Producer Felix Orion
Director of Photography Bernard Winter
Production Designer Lin Kerr
Composer Sean Tinnion
Editor Jana Plumm
1st Assistant Camera Bailey Quinn
2nd Assistant Camera Thomas Snowden
Best Person Weixue Wang
Production Assistant Matthew Heilbronn
Stylist Victoria Martin-Gardner
Hair and Makeup Artist Michael Scicluna
Sound Recordist Josh Whitaker
1st Assistant Director Felix Orion
Continuity Kirsty Wilson
Sound Designer A Hanley
Consultant Editor Cindy Clarkson
Script Consultants Angie Black, Alice Foulcher, Matthew Jordan, Sue Brooks
VCA Screen Production Coordinator CJ Welsh
Supervising Producers Angie Black, Donna Lyon
Post Production Coordinator Grayton Hevern
VCA Film and Television
Faculty of Fine Arts and Music
© The University of Melbourne 2021
A recently divorced man’s longing for isolation is tested when he has to share his solitary life with a noisy kookaburra and his deceitful brother comes to visit.
Karen Liebau McPherson (Writer/Director)
Born and raised in Germany, Karen emigrated to Australia at 21. Now a Melbourne-based writer/director, she recently completed her Master of Film and Television at the Victorian College of the Arts. Her short films have screened at festivals worldwide, winning multiple awards. Her latest work, Laugh With Me, earned her the Best Australian Director award at the 2023 London Directors’ Awards and a nomination for Best Direction in a Student Film at the 2023 Australian Directors’ Guild Awards.
Lea da Silva Gomes (Producer)
Graduating with first-class honours from the VCA in 2021, Lea produced her first short film Laugh With Me, which premiered at Flickerfest in 2023. Most recently, she produced the short Hope and is developing her first feature film. Alongside this, she works in animation production as a supervisor on Universal Basic Guys (Seasons 1–3). Before transitioning to screen, Lea spent 15 years running a bilingual children’s theatre company, Spectacular Spettacolo, where she produced, wrote, directed, and performed in original productions.