KAARIN FAIRFAX

WEST OF SUNSHINE (2018)
Starring Damian Hill, Ty Perham, Arthur Angel, Kat Stewart, Tony Nikolakopoulos and Kaarin Fairfax. Directed by Jason Raftopoulos.

Separated from his family and caught in a cycle of gambling and debt, Jim has less than a day to repay a violent loan shark. His day is turned upside down when he must look after his young son who is on school holidays.

Jim’s relationship with his son is tested as his plans to pay back the loan fail. When his last desperate effort to repay the debt puts his son’s life at risk, he must make a choice between his past and a second chance at life.

REVIEWS West of Sunshine - Struggle in the suburbs

WHAT IF IT WORKS? (2017)
Starring Luke Ford, Anna Samson, Kaarin Fairfax, Wade Briggs and Brooke Satchwell. Directed by Romi Trower.

Adrian, an irrepressibly chirpy tech nerd, suffers from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Grace, a beautiful street artist, suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder (aka Multiple Personality Disorder).

In their own way, each is trapped. As new neighbours, in an edgy, graffitied suburb of Melbourne, they find themselves in therapy with the same psychiatrist and crash into each other one afternoon.

Grace has a promiscuous "alter" who engages in damaging sex - and that is the extent of her physical experience. Adrian had a high school girlfriend a decade earlier, whom he never got over, and that is the extent of his physical experience. And as if that’s not enough, Adrian’s ex, Melinda re-enters Adrian’s life, only to cause more confusion.

As Adrian becomes aware of a threat to Grace lurking in the form of a fellow street artist named ‘Sledgehammer’, he knows he should help Grace.

But he struggles to break free of his OCD in order to do so. Will he overcome his biggest fear? Will he sacrifice the object he loves most? What if Adrian forgot his illness for a spilt second because of his love for Grace?

REVIEWS What If It Works? - It takes one to love one