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We need help to get the vivid world of Cough on screen. This is your chance to be involved. We currently need ...

• An empty corner store
  We need to film inside a corner store/convenience store in or near Brisbane, but its shelves need to be mostly bare of stock as supplies have dwindled in our story. This may make it difficult to use a functioning corner store - besides taking over the store to move cast, crew and equipment in for two days, the store owner probably would not appreciate having their shelves emptied of all stock. So we are looking for a disused corner store, or something that could pass as a corner store with the addition of some shelving and minimal set dressing, or a very understanding store owner.
  Do you have any ideas on where we could shoot in or near Brisbane? Please contact us at

• Production Designer/Set Dresser
  We are currently looking for a South East Queensland-based Production Designer who can also function as a set dresser to help us build the harsh, lived-in world of Cough. Drop us an email with your details to

About Cough

Civil Liberties are yesterday.

Daily life is torn in half when a dangerous flu becomes a pandemic. The infected are ruthlessly segregated from the healthy by the government. No one knows what happens to them.

With society falling apart by the hour, a corner store shopkeeper contends with an unprecedented crisis of his own: his infected fiancé hidden out the back, and a cantankerous old customer who won't leave.

Cough will be a dramatic 10 minute short film, the third produced by the award winning Yarnmaker team. It will explore how quickly society as we know it could run off the rails, and how easily we could lose hard won liberties.