James Vaughan

James Vaughan

Birth : 1989-10-01, Sydney, Australia

History

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.

Profile

James Vaughan

Movies

Friends and Strangers
Friends and Strangers
Editor
Friends and Strangers follows two middle class wanderers in a dryly comic exploration of inner Sydney.
Friends and Strangers
Friends and Strangers
Screenplay
Friends and Strangers follows two middle class wanderers in a dryly comic exploration of inner Sydney.
Friends and Strangers
Friends and Strangers
Director
Friends and Strangers follows two middle class wanderers in a dryly comic exploration of inner Sydney.
A Delicate Fire
A Delicate Fire
Editor
Under the Cover of Cloud
Under the Cover of Cloud
Thanks
An embittered journalist returns home to Hobart after losing his Melbourne magazine job. With nothing to do except think about his next move, he lands on the idea of writing a book about Tasmanian upper-order batsmen, and in particular the great man himself: David Boon. But soon he’s discovering there’s a lot more to his homeland than he once thought, and that everything he’s been searching for could be closer than he imagined.
Under the Cover of Cloud
Under the Cover of Cloud
Editor
An embittered journalist returns home to Hobart after losing his Melbourne magazine job. With nothing to do except think about his next move, he lands on the idea of writing a book about Tasmanian upper-order batsmen, and in particular the great man himself: David Boon. But soon he’s discovering there’s a lot more to his homeland than he once thought, and that everything he’s been searching for could be closer than he imagined.
Heading North
Heading North
Editor
A captain and his first mate sail north towards the equator.
Heading North
Heading North
Screenplay
A captain and his first mate sail north towards the equator.
Heading North
Heading North
Director
A captain and his first mate sail north towards the equator.
There Is No Such Thing as a Jellyfish
There Is No Such Thing as a Jellyfish
Writer
Hannah 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.
You Like It, I Love It
You Like It, I Love It
Writer
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.
You Like It, I Love It
You Like It, I Love It
Editor
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.
You Like It, I Love It
You Like It, I Love It
Director
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.
Plain Pleasures
Plain Pleasures
Editor
Emily longs for an expensive, exquisite silk dress. It’s silly to spend so much money on things, but what is life without plain ordinary pleasures?