Birthday: 1989-10-01 Born in: Sydney, Australia Biography: James Vaughan (born 1989, Sydney) is an Australian independent filmmaker, screenwriter and editor. His short film You Like It, I Love It (2013) gained local praise for its subtlety and originality. It screened in competition at Berlinale, Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival and won the ATOM award for Best Experimental Film. In Melbourne, he received the Swinburne Award for Emerging Australian Filmmaker. In 2018, Vaughan founded the production company Leitourgia Films with Lucy Rennick and Rebecca Lamond. Friends and Strangers (2021) is Vaughan's feature debut and marked the company's first production.
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Friends and Strangers
Friends and Strangers follows two middle class wanderers in a dryly comic exploration of inner Sydney.
Two 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.