2026 short film

With You

A psychological short film set on Jawoyn Country, where a teenage girl fleeing her parents’ collapsing marriage becomes lost in the bush and must navigate a distorted world of sensory overload, fear, shame, and an unknown witness — to find a way back.

8–10 min · Psychological drama · Jawoyn Country, NT · Development 2026

Vision

A film grounded in place, dysregulation, and return

With You is designed as an immersive short-form screen work that uses landscape, sound, and fractured perception to place the audience inside Willow’s psychological state. The film approaches regulation not as a neat breakthrough, but as an ugly, effortful, non-linear process shaped by shame, sensory overload, and Country itself.

Writer, Director & Producer
Laurens Goud
Writer & Producer
Phil Denson
Director of Photography
Jayden Moyle
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