Lockdown Lovers

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Lockdown Lovers follows Canadian Kristal (Kate Mayhew) who meets Lisette (newcomer Stevie McKeon) on the last night of her trip to Australia, and the pair share a one-night stand. Filmed on an ultra-micro budget, this film is a testament to the creativity of everyone involved in it.

Under these circumstances, it makes sense that it would produce a virus to protect itself and its species. I would not usually make that much of a rash decision on something as big as moving in with someone, but it felt like the right thing to do, and to be honest we didn’t know how long we would have to isolate together,” says Catharine.Despite the intimacy of their lockdown relationship dynamic, the couple don’t regret their decision to move out once restrictions were lifted: “I think it’s important that we both maintain our own space when we go back to normal life. Visit our privacy Policy for more information about our services, how New Statesman Media Group may use, process and share your personal data, including information on your rights in respect of your personal data and how you can unsubscribe from future marketing communications. However, if you keep an open dialogue with each other, an intense environment with a partner can be a quick way to learn how you both work and can create a stronger partnership. Phoebe also thinks about Hong Kong and lockdowns and wonders if there was ever a time when most Hong Kong people weren’t on a type of lockdown. One of O’Sullivan’s three narrators is John, who is an Irish professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Lockdown Lovers is available to watch on Vimeo OnDemand and will be launching on streaming service Tubi later in the year. Each diner, worker, and loiterer is representative of everyone else and is yet still wonderfully distinctive. Pushed to the limits of their endurance in lockdown and then quarantine conditions, John Ryan, a Hong Kong academic, and Phoebe Ho, a Hong Kong district councilor, decide to break the rules of their quarantine and rediscover what has been denied them for too long - impassioned human contact. Lilydale Films is currently in pre-production for the fifth season of its Young Adult Romance drama series Flunk, with development and production support from Screen Australia and VicScreen.Just as “Hong Kong was waking up to see itself like it had never seen itself”, so are Phoebe, John, his wife Sue, and through them, so is the reader. John winds up contracting the virus and being relocated to a quarantine centre on Lamma, where he reconnects with a young activist on the district council he had met previously. Nifty use of old school samples, tight drums and insistent basslines are the signature moves on this release.