Australia Short Film: The Quiet

When an astronaut ponders on the quietude of space, he comes upon a startling self-realisation.Director Biography
– Radheya Jegatheva

Radheya Jegatheva’s films have been selected to 10 Academy Award Qualifying Festivals along with an Australian Academy of Cinema & TV Arts (AACTA) Award nomination, which is Australia’s equivalent to the Oscars. Radheya is a Perth based Australian filmmaker born in 1999 in Johor, Malaysia to parents of South Korean and Malaysian ancestry. He is a Bachelor of Commerce and Arts student at Curtin University in Western Australia having completed high school at Perth Modern School.

Radheya’s films which collectively have more than 500 official selections worldwide had won awards in 6 of the worlds 7 continents with the last frontier being breached in July 2018, when one of his films played at Antarctica’s Davis Research Station.Director Statement

‘The Quiet’ is loosely based on a 2016 short story by the director titled ‘Silence’ which was the overall winner of the Mundaring National Youth Section for the KSP Speculative Fiction Awards and a High Commendation for the 2016 Rees Prize for Young Writers under the auspices of The Fellowship of Australian Writers WA.

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Radheya Jegatheva Director Journey, iRony, The Tyger, Don’t Look Under Your Bed
Radheya Jegatheva Writer Journey, iRony, The Tyger, Don’t Look Under Your Bed
Jay Jay Jegathesan Writer
Radheya Jegatheva Animation Journey, iRony, The Tyger, Don’t Look Under Your Bed
Jay Jay Jegathesan Key Cast iRony
Radheya Jegatheva Music Composition Journey, iRony
Radheya Jegatheva Editor Journey, iRony, The Tyger, Don’t Look Under Your Bed
Radheya Jegatheva Cinematographer Journey, iRony, The Tyger, Dont Look Under Your Bed
Radheya Jegatheva Sound Design Journey, iRony
Jay Jay Jegathesan Producer iRony
Radheya Jegatheva Producer Journey, The Tyger, Don’t Look Under Your Bed
Karima Hoisan Translation – Spanish
Martina Zeiner Translation – German

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