
Production
Samantha Jennings
Australia
Samantha Jennings is known for Talk to Me (2022), Cargo (2017) and Buoyancy (2019).
Acting credits
Behind the camera
6.7Two teenage boys must escape a violent entity that takes the form of the person they desire most: each other.
Leviticus
2026
7.1When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.
Talk to Me
2023
7.3Following the death of their father, a brother and sister are sent to live with a foster mother, only to learn that she is hiding a terrifying secret.
Bring Her Back
2025
6.4After being infected in the wake of a violent pandemic and with only 48 hours to live, a father struggles to find a new home for his baby daughter.
Cargo
2017
6.6In an isolated mountain village in 19th century Macedonia, a young feral witch accidentally kills a peasant. She assumes the peasant's shape to see what life is like in her skin, igniting a deep seated curiosity to experience life inside the bodies of others.
You Won't Be Alone
2022
NRAn affable foxhunter encounters a talking Fox who offers him an opportunity to transform his fiancée into the perfect woman.
The Fox
2026
In a dystopian future, a young couple clashes during their time-traveling vacation.
Future Tense
2026
6.6A Serbian ballroom dancer experiences an unexpected and intense 24-hour romance with a friend's older brother.
Of an Age
2023
7.1An innocent Cambodian boy is sold to a Thai broker and enslaved on a fishing trawler. As fellow slaves are tortured and murdered around him, he starts to wonder if his only hope of freedom is to become as violent as his captors.
Buoyancy
2019
5.4After a young girl witnesses a violent crime, she summons an imaginary dragon to help process her anger and protect her on her journey into womanhood.
Blaze
2022
A boy struggles to understand his strange, silent father - a Lithuanian immigrant who has become an emotional refugee in his own home.
Father
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NRThe sequel to the 2022 film. Plot TBA.
Talk 2 Me
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6.8Jack ventures to remote New Zealand for the funeral of his estranged mother and meets her widow Jill. But his mother's spirit returns to inhabit each of their bodies, instigating a life-threatening three-way nocturnal dance.
Went Up the Hill
2025
6.1A young Aboriginal couple brings home their second baby. What should be a joyous time takes a sinister turn, as the baby's mother starts seeing a malevolent spirit she is convinced is trying to take her baby.
The Moogai
2024
4.6In post-apartheid South Africa, Tsidi, a single mother, is forced to move in with her own estranged mother Mavis, a live-in domestic worker caring obsessively for her catatonic white ‘Madam’. And as Tsidi tries to heal her family, a sinister spectre begins to stir.
Good Madam
2021
NRIn an attempt to overcome her incessant guilt complex, a young woman goes a step too far.
How Can I Help You
2023
A documentary based on the world of deathmatch wrestling.
Deathmatch
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7.7Moogai is Bundjalung for ‘ghost’, and it is precisely a moogai that intrudes on the quiet home life of Sarah, Fergus and their newborn baby.
The Moogai
2020
Maggie, a professional woman dutifully paying a visit to her overbearing mother in Sydney, encounters a 14-year-old Kosovan girl on the train. Strangely propelled by the girl's isolation, she embarks on a mission to reunite her with her mother in a refugee detention centre, but gradually discovers that it is in fact the young stranger who is showing her how to reconcile with her own mother.
So Close to Home
2003
Follows Janet Paine, a well-intentioned but deeply insecure Manhattan PR executive with a specialty for smear campaigns.
True-ish
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NRA teenage girl living in an extreme Christian sect, is driven into psychological turmoil by her Elders, when she strikes up an innocent relationship with a boy.
Grace
2017
NRA feature adaptation of Masha Ko’s Sundance short of the same name. When a virtual home assistant speaker picks up the strange noise a man has heard in his house, he realizes that it may not be a symptom of dementia.
The Looming
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A New York novelist who, while attending a family funeral in Vienna, discovers a German relative’s illicit queer love affair with a Jewish man during WW2 – sending him on a journey through the past that changes his future.
All the Boys Are Here
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