30 Days Till I Meet Her
When a connection is made by chance, a spirited woman pursues an unlikely friendship through prison walls, while learning how to tear down the ones she had put around herself.
Seizing the day and throwing caution to the wind Jenn, whose heart is still recovering from a painful breakup; takes a stand to travel across the world to meet her pen pal in prison. She decides to do this trip she has been putting on hold and go it alone. This force of hand to take her life back came from her pen pal in prison who has minimal freedoms. She encourages Jenn to be brave and enjoy the freedom she has. So, Jenn does exactly that and books her flights and takes the plunge!
As with any adventure while they are fun and full of new and beautiful experiences Jenn has the realisation that loneliness, sadness and doubt can still creep in at any moment. While this emotional venture is challenging and upsetting, she acquires wonderful insights and self-discovery. These realisations allow Jenn to be truly present to her joy and pain on her journey abroad.
Just when the trip seems to be getting the better of her and her solitude becomes too much the reminder of her visit to see her friend in prison gives her the boost she needs to be the woman she knows she is. In her times of doubt and uncertainty Jenn is shown that people, no matter where you are, are willing and wanting to help. The visit with her pen pal is everything and more than she expected and this event bolsters Jenn’s convictions within herself to continue to go bravely wherever she chooses. To lead the life she wants and to fulfil her dreams.
Creator and Producer: Jennifer Monk
Associate Producer: Emma Jo Mckay
Composer: Lyndon Horsburgh
Hansel’s Gretel
Twenty years after abandoning her newborn son and escaping a traumatic childhood, a young woman returns to her hometown to confess her story and face her past.
Gretel returns to the hometown she fled as a 13-year-old after the birth of an unwanted baby, born from sexual abuse.
Years have passed and Gretel is now determined to reclaim her strength and face the truth of her past wrongdoings.
When Gretel visits the house where she gave birth to her abandoned son, it is overgrown and rundown - confirming her worst fears that her baby may not have survived. Prepared to come to terms with the consequences of her actions, Gretel hands herself into the police station where she relives her horrific past to a young Constable.
Gretel confesses that when she was 13-years-old she confided in her mother about the abuse she’d experienced at the hands of her uncle. When her mother refused to believe that her own brother would be capable of doing such a thing to his niece, she took Gretel to see the town outcast. This woman was believed to be a witch of sorts and was to perform an abortion on Gretel so the town wouldn’t find out about the shameful pregnancy, further silencing Gretel and keeping a dark, family secret hidden. A secret that had been kept long before Gretel was born.
From her own traumatic past, Gretel’s mother knew this woman could help. The woman only agreed to help on the condition that Gretel keep the baby, stay with her throughout the pregnancy and give up the baby once it was delivered safely. Gretel’s mother agreed without hesitation and left Gretel alone with this strange and unusual woman.
When the baby was born, Gretel, having grown attached to the little one, escaped with her baby during the middle of the night. She returned to her mother’s house, convinced that upon seeing the baby, her mother would welcome them home. This didn’t happen, and instead Gretel’s mother slammed the door in her face, determined to distance herself from the shame Gretel had brought onto the family. After realising that she couldn’t provide for her child while on the run, Gretel returned the child to the woman’s house in the middle of the night and escaped her hometown, not returning until now.
After reliving her past for the officer, Gretel is ready to accept the consequences of her actions. To her surprise, she is not arrested. Instead, the young officer stands and moves slowly to her side and reveals that he is her son…. Hansel.
Written and produced by Jennifer Monk
Directed by Laura Jane Turner
Cinematography by Monica-Jane Saade
Music by Natalie Jeffreys
Starring Jennifer Monk and Jayden Popik
river hags
When three unworldly hags are disturbed during their ritual by a traumatised woman, they are summoned to their true calling and craft a nightmare never to forget.
Three hags emerge from the river for their empowering ritual in the forest. While they dance around the fire, exposing their naked skin under the moonlight, the hags are disturbed by a younger but frightened woman.
Observing she is visibly traumatised and damaged, the hags invite her closer to their fire to assess her wounds. The woman is apprehensive of the hags yet intrigued, and agrees for them to take revenge on the man that has inflicted this pain on her.
According to legend, the hag visits at night and sits upon the victim’s chest to produce a sensation of distress and discomfort called a nightmare. The woman leads the hags to the man who attacked her so revenge can be sought in this way.
After entering into his dreams, the hags seduce him into the forest and what could have been a pleasing and sensual dream for him quickly turns into a tormenting and harassing nightmare.
The distressful dream comes to a halt. The woman is now depleted and the man is nowhere to be seen. The empty and emotionless woman follows the hags into the river where they originally came from. With a sense of uncertainty lingering in the air, it has become unclear who actually summoned whom.
Written, directed, edited and produced by Jennifer Monk
Music by Natalie Jeffreys
Featuring Jennifer Monk, Kelley Kerr Young, Lee McClenaghan and Lisa Dallinger.
Turn your house into a home with Allsorts Arts
Spend an afternoon with our artists to create vibrant, DIY and breathtaking items to decorate your house into a home.
Let the Caren, Sally and Grace into your home, they will show you how to create things by yourself that will turn your house into a home. ALLSORTS ARTS has itemised episodes of Crafts with Caren, Scrapbooking with Sally and Gardening with Grace.
Sally loves scrapbooking. It comforts here when she is alone at home on Saturday nights… actually most nights. Caren has built her life around being a home maker & having the perfect home. Her crafts are all she has left since her children have grown up & her husband now lives with his secretary. Grace loves spending all her time in her garden to get the full potential out of her plants! She finds it comforting that, unlike children, when plants die they don't ruin your marriage. And you can simply buy a new one.
An Aussie web series made in isolation for people stuck in lockdown during COVID-19.
Starring Jennifer Monk, Lee McClenaghan and Kelley Kerr Young.
Watch full season at ALLSORTS Arts