Film
C.J.Strickland has had a long love affair with the film form. His self-written and directed short films have won various prizes, with A Matter of Honour (about a Jacobean duel gone stupidly wrong) a finalist in the world’s largest short film festival, Tropfest.
His self-written and directed dramedy short Tales From the Sink was an award winner in the Short Shots Film Festival and finalist in the Sydney Fringe Film Festival. Described by the Sydney Morning Herald as displaying ‘narrative ingenuity’ — with episodes playing out a year in a relationship first thriving, then diving.
He's also paid rent writing about film — first invited to write for Inside Film after penning a
letter to the editor of this national magazine. He stayed five years, writing film feature articles and profiling national and international filmmakers — something he then also managed for Metro Magazine.
Additionally, he was IF’s chief short film critic; a position which saw him asked to judge short films for both for the Sydney Fringe Film Festival and pre-select for Australia’s largest short film festival: The St Kilda Film Festival.