Directing
James Vaughan
Born
1989-10-01 (37)
Place of birth
Sydney, Australia
Known for
Directing
Credits
7 titles
James Vaughan (born 1989, Sydney) is an Australian independent screenwriter, director, editor and artist. His short film You Like It, I Love It (2013) screened in competition at Berlinale, Clermont-Ferrand, and Melbourne International Film Festival, where he received the Swinburne Award for Emerging Australian Filmmaker. Vaughan's feature debut Friends and Strangers (2021) was the first Australian film to feature in Rotterdam International Film Festival's Tiger Competition. The film went on to screen at New Directors / New Films, Viennale and Jeonju International Film Festival, where it was awarded the Special Jury Prize.
Known for
5.1Friends and Strangers follows two middle class wanderers in a dryly comic exploration of inner Sydney.
Friends and Strangers
2022
5.5Two brothers kill time in a series of ambiguous vignettes that create a mood both playful and unnerving, taking us through the looking glass of middle-class Australia.
You Like It, I Love It
2013
NRHannah walks through the city, observing people and objects, searching for something, looking at delicious pastries. She is on her way to an appointment with a tarot reader and inside and house space unfolds like the walls of a dream, only to reveal a pair of rummaging thieves. Alone, Hannah is entering a mystery and the clues are sparse and uncertain. She floats like a jellyfish, but perhaps there is no such thing.
There Is No Such Thing as a Jellyfish
2014
A captain and his first mate sail north towards the equator.
Heading North
2014
Behind the camera
5.1Friends and Strangers follows two middle class wanderers in a dryly comic exploration of inner Sydney.
Friends and Strangers
2022
5.1Friends and Strangers follows two middle class wanderers in a dryly comic exploration of inner Sydney.
Friends and Strangers
2022
5.5Two brothers kill time in a series of ambiguous vignettes that create a mood both playful and unnerving, taking us through the looking glass of middle-class Australia.
You Like It, I Love It
2013
5.5Two brothers kill time in a series of ambiguous vignettes that create a mood both playful and unnerving, taking us through the looking glass of middle-class Australia.
You Like It, I Love It
2013
NRHannah walks through the city, observing people and objects, searching for something, looking at delicious pastries. She is on her way to an appointment with a tarot reader and inside and house space unfolds like the walls of a dream, only to reveal a pair of rummaging thieves. Alone, Hannah is entering a mystery and the clues are sparse and uncertain. She floats like a jellyfish, but perhaps there is no such thing.
There Is No Such Thing as a Jellyfish
2014
A captain and his first mate sail north towards the equator.
Heading North
2014
A captain and his first mate sail north towards the equator.
Heading North
2014