NOMINATED FOR BEST EDITING IN A FEATURE by the Australian Screen Editor’s Guild and BEST FEATURE FILM by the AACTAs, SISSY was bought by SHUDDER North America at it’s World Premiere in SXSW 2022 Sissy also had a successful international festival run winning the Audience award at both Bucheon Film Festival Korea and Sitge Film Festival Spain. It premiered in Australia at the Sydney International Film Festival 2022 followed by Melbourne and Perth Festivals with a November National Cinema Release.
A Psycho Disney Pop comedy horror, written and directed by Hannah Barlow and Kane Sense, produced by This Is Arcadia and led by Bold Type star Aisha Dee in the lead role of Sissy.
Writer/Directors of Sissy - Kane Senes /Hannah Barlow
“Kane: We [found] the film together in post with our editor Margi Hoy.
Hannah: Margi is truly a great collaborator - She was kind of like a third writer, and really forced us to look at what we actually had and leaning into that glitter bomb time capsule; That’s actually Cecelia’s brain and we need to bring that out into the external. She coined this great term, “Disney Psycho Pop”, and as soon as we had that we were like oh! that’s what the film is. It’s gory but it’s also like Fantasia glitter.”