Matilda Boese-Wong

Food is an important pillar of culture. It's what brings people together; it’s about family, tradition, and celebration. Food is where fusion happens. Mixed Up is a conversation about the desperate need for belonging and what it means to embrace your culture in New Zealand today. Led by Jess' introspection as she quietly cooks in a lonely studio, we meet four other women of colour: Hannah and Elizabeth, Nicky, and Matilda. Guided by a recipe and defined by different cultural experiences, we find parallels and similarities across their stories - mixed feelings of pride, shame, longing, and inspiration.

GLOSS FINISH is a documentary about hands that drip. ☔ Other selling points include: beginner's tango, jumper cables, housewives and gothic flair! Gloss Finish, the latest short documentary from emerging filmmaker Gabi Maffey, is set to premiere at the 2025 Show Me Shorts Film Festival. Perspiration! Gloss Finish is a personal yet playful exploration of the stigma surrounding sweat and what it means to live with a 'gloss finish’.💎 Tender, absurd and fabulously damp, Gloss Finish follows Gabi — a woman with hyperhidrosis (a medical condition causing excessive sweating) — as she searches for a tango partner who shares her damp plight. Armed with anecdotes, heart, and stunning set design, the film transforms a rarely discussed condition into a glamorous ode to feeling different. xox This documentary is for people who sweat the small stuff, who sweat it BIG time - until tiny beads of inner doom fill up and spew out your sides…you know? Xox