2023 Iris Prize

My Summer in the human resistance

A socially awkward young man is happy to live in a world ruled by robots, but his life is upended when he falls in love with a handsome anti-robot revolutionary.

DIRECTOR:

Steve Anthopoulos

PRODUCER:

Yingna Lu & Steve Anthopoulos

WRITER:

Steve Anthopoulos

RELEASE YEAR:

2023

Australia, 5 Minutes

Mae dyn ifanc lletchwith yn gymdeithasol yn hapus i fyw mewn byd sy’n cael ei reoli gan robotiaid, ond mae ei fywyd yn cael ei gynhyrfu pan mae’n cwympo mewn cariad â chwyldroadwr gwrth-robot golygus.

Steve is a comedy writer and director. His short film Voice Activated – about a deliveryman, who stutters, forced to cooperate with a voice activated car – premiered at the Sydney Film Festival and was an official selection of the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival. It won Best Australian Short and the People’s Choice Award at the Gold Coast Film Festival and won Best Short Production at the 2023 Screen Producers Australia Awards. In 2022 he wrote and directed My Summer in the Human Resistance, a proof of concept short made through The Black List / Hornitos ‘Take Your Shot’ initiative. The feature screenplay, a coming-of-age comedy set in a world ruled by robots, made The Black List’s ‘Aussie List’ and won the grand prize at Final Draft Big Break.


Mae Steve yn awdur a chyfarwyddwr comedi. Cafodd ei ffilm fer Voice Activated – am ddanfonwr, gydag atal, wedi’i orfodi i gydweithredu â char wedi’i actifadu â llais – ei dangos am y tro cyntaf yng Ngŵyl Ffilm Sydney ac roedd yn ddetholiad swyddogol o Ŵyl Ffilm Tribeca 2023. Enillodd Wobr Ffilm Fer Orau Awstralia a Gwobr Dewis y Bobl yng Ngŵyl Ffilm yr Arfordir Aur ac enillodd y Cynhyrchiad Byr Gorau yng Ngwobrau Cynhyrchwyr Sgrîn Awstralia 2023. Yn 2022 ysgrifennodd a chyfarwyddodd My Summer in the Human Resistance, prawf o gysyniad a wnaed yn fyr trwy fenter ‘Take Your Shot’ The Black List / Hornitos. Cyrhaeddodd y sgript nodwedd, comedi dod i oed wedi’i osod mewn byd sy’n cael ei reoli gan robotiaid, yr ‘Aussie List’ The Black List ac enillodd y wobr fawr yn Final Draft Big Break.