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 With Killara, I wanted to highlight truths about society, specifically about Australia within the horror genre. Horror is a platform that can inspire change. Killara is a film that draws from Australia’s dark past with the Stolen Generation. Instilling the story with those elements adds a layer of depth and mistreatment of First Nations people is still relevant today. Incorporating these elements into the story was important to me as an Australian. I hope to give my Indigenous friends and family an empowering character they can get behind.

The main character undergoes a journey of self-discovery. She begins her journey not knowing whether or not she wants to keep her child. Throughout this terrible ordeal, she fights to the death, for a child she’s never once touched or interacted with. I’ve been surrounded by many powerful women in my life such as my mum, grandma, aunty’s, and cousins. Killara is all about female empowerment.

Killara is designed to excite, scare and engage audiences. Filmmaking is all about manipulation of the audience's emotions. The film features comedic moments to balance out the horror. The tone is really interesting and something I was always keen to tackle. This is the type of film you want to watch with the audience.

A challenge I set for myself, in the beginning, was to tell this story visually as much as I could. Like every film, there is a need for exposition. It was a goal of mine to try to make the exposition as organic as possible. I was testing myself to become a better visual storyteller.

-Kody Bramhall