Stef Smith, producer of Daniel Monks’ heartbreakingly poignant short film Broken, part of Sydney Film Festival’s Screenability program, believes an important conversation is also opening up about how Australian cinema can offer a more faithful reflection of Australia’s diversity: “People need to see themselves to feel valued, and almost normalised, in a way. But for a lot of queer people, people of colour, people with disabilities, they see what films are out there in the mainstream and think to themselves, ‘Well, where the fuck am I in these? Where am I in this world? In this narrative? I go to the cinema, and I don’t exist.’”
