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"What Comes From a Swamp" follows a young man struggling to care for the humanoid being he's concealed within a crawlspace since childhood. Blending surreal, dramatic, and horrifying elements, "What Comes From a Swamp" meditates on lingering fantasies, traumas and images from youth. 2017 KODAK Student Scholarship Program Gold Award (1st Place)
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Based on true events, Grace, her boyfriend Adam, and her younger sister, Lee, are on holiday in Northern Australia when they decide to take a tour down a river. As they drift into a swamp, their boat suddenly capsizes. Stranded in the flooded swamp, the three tourists must figure out what to do to survive as they realize they are being watched through the black water.

Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormentor. As the police close in around him, he makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead man’s fiancée, a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul behind his aggression.