The six young filmmakers taking part in ABC iview’s Race Around The World are three weeks into their global adventure.
Only finding out their destination with a day’s notice, each filmmaker had just 10 days to find a story and produce a short film, to be judged by a panel of experts.
But we also want your two cents. From rug making in Morocco to small-town struggles in China, check out every week three film, choose your favourite, and find out where they’re headed next.
Take part in our audience poll at the bottom of this page, or save the scroll and click here.
William in Costa Rica
Title: La Pura Vida de la Abuela Rica (The Pure Life of the Costa Rican Grandmother)
What’s it about? If you want to live a stress-free life, just ask an abuela.
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Where is he headed next? Italy
Lucinda in Sweden
Title: Allemansrätten
What’s it about? Sweden is one of the most expensive places in the world. Unless, of course, you abide by an ancient, sacred and terrifying rite of passage.
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Where is she headed next? Taiwan
Elliot in California, USA
Title: Edge of the Sea
What’s it about? Bombay Beach is a town suspended between collapse and rebirth. The water has receded, the fish are gone, and the shoreline has turned into a haunting wasteland. But artists and residents have built something strange, colourful and alive among the ruins.
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Where is he headed next? Norway
Kate in England
Title: Black Bananas
What’s it about? Frankie wrestles with his inner child as he confesses around London, in places symbolic and reflective of his writing, about being an outsider in an age where we are more alone than ever.
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Where is she headed next? Vanuatu
Mikaela in Morocco
Title: The Source
What’s it about? A rug maker in Taznakht, a rural Moroccan tapestry village, reminds consumers why it’s important to recognise the source of the products that we buy.
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Where is she headed next? Brazil
Jayden in China
Title: Huáijiù (Nostalgia)
What’s it about? When a once-booming working-class town with a population of more than 100,000 runs out of oil, it leaves behind a local man who struggles to find his place in what’s left of his home.
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Where is he headed next? Arkansas, USA
Pick your favourite
We want to know your favourite film from this week’s line up.
Tell us below by tapping once on your pick.
Note: This poll doesn’t determine the results of the show.
The poll will close on Friday, June 26, at 4pm (AEST).
Get to know the contestants
Describe yourself in three words: Artistic, poetic, magazine.
My motto for Race Around the World is: Art is subjective. Not everyone is going to like your film, so as long as you make something that you’re proud of, it doesn’t really matter if people don’t like it.
One item that’s making the suitcase no matter what: Wired headphones. There’s too much travel to rely on a charged set of AirPods.
My greatest fear while overseas is: Having luggage go overboard and get wet. With all our filming gear, water is really hard to recover from.
Describe yourself in three words: Chaotic, introverted extrovert.
My motto for Race Around the World is: I always liked this saying in Portuguese, “Viva como se fosse morrer amanhã”, which is like, live as if you will die tomorrow. I think you just need to enjoy every day.
One item that’s making the suitcase no matter what: My glasses, but I’ll lose them. I’ve lost three pairs of glasses in the last month.
My greatest fear while overseas is: Something happening to people that I love while I’m away.
Describe yourself in three words: Easy-going, lively, passionate.
My motto for Race Around the World is: I think this one’s actually plagiarised from the big man David Attenborough, but if people don’t care about something, they won’t protect it, and people won’t care about something they can’t see.
One item that’s making the suitcase no matter what: My long lens. It’s a really long, stupidly heavy, big thing that no one in their right mind would want to carry when you’re running around to 10 different countries.
My greatest fear while overseas is: Getting to day nine and a story having completely fallen through, or if I shot a full story with someone, and then I’m ready to submit it, and for whatever reason, the person in the story pulls the pin.
Describe yourself in three words: Bubbly, curious, unconventional.
My motto for Race Around the World is: YOLO [you only live once].
One item that’s making the suitcase no matter what: A necklace that means a lot to me, that’s my talisman.
My greatest fear while overseas is: The logistics. I dread not getting sleep.
Describe yourself in three words: Curious, Wollongong, humorist
My motto for Race Around the World is: Water off a duck’s back.
One item that’s making the suitcase no matter what: My nan’s ring, that would be my lucky charm.
My greatest fear while overseas is: A misunderstanding would be really dreadful. Being Australian, I feel like we have a very good sense of humour, but it can also be a little bit different. You don’t want people to think you’re making fun of them, but that’s sometimes how that can be interpreted.
Describe yourself in three words: Content, introspective, disorganised
My motto for Race Around the World is: Have fun.
One item that’s making the suitcase no matter what: My Nintendo Switch.
My greatest fear while overseas is: My reputation for being a machine learning engineer getting tarnished by the fact that, I don’t know, maybe I say something about not wanting to do it when really, I love my job.
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