Lover's Got the Runs

Loved this film! Beautifully shot, acted, edited… great production values all around! Lovely humorous story and never a boring moment! Finalist for sure!

Conceptually brilliant and toilet humor done right! They took their genre and ran with it. Incredibly well put together. Writing, Direction, Cinematography, Sound. All immaculate. Where the heck is everybody finding all these beautiful churches to shoot in this year!?? The performances were all top-notch, The pacing was perfect and it ended on just the right note. I would be very surprised if we don't see this film play at least once more this year.

This was very gorgeous and fun. The script was concise and witty and perfectly shaped for a 5-minute film. Church interior shots were especially SO good looking. Needing to poop with urgency is a relatable queer experience, as is dealing with barely suppressed homophobia from religious leaders. Really confident work from this team.

Superbly shot film. Acting top notch. Some great laugh out loud moments and love an awkward moment. Editing sold the story elements to perfection.

Storywise was a really mature take this situation and didn't dip into easy gags and grotesque toilet humour!

Everything from script to credits felt confident, creative and professional!!!

I think it's fascinating that we've had 'Need to take a shit' films in the last 3 national finals with this film, Oh Crap and Shit Chat, whilst bathroom desperation films have also turned up in other grand final masterpieces such as Red River from 2019. And yet LOVERS GOT THE RUNS is probably my favourite of all of these toilet humour films so far in the competition.

I love the genre subversion here, going with a twofold approach of literal running, and then the double entendre for the result of an upset stomach from a smoothie. Combined with extremely confident on screen performances across the entire cast and an edit to die for, this film gets better for me almost every time I watch it.

It's the little details as well, such as the inspired seemingly out of place 80s synthpop that gets the jog underway, indicating a potential love for retro in conjunction with the deliberate choice of an off the grid countryside retreat, and yet most certainly presenting a strong rejection of conservative values at the slightest questioning of a completely normal lesbian relationship.

To state the obvious, THAT song gives you my sword forever in this competition Pixel Pixies. Composer William Philipson and singer Jthan Morgan take a bow because I've never seen a cinema clapping and singing along to an earworm made in this competition, and honestly that was one of my favourite moments in the history of the competition at the grand final.

It's also a beautifully shot and beautiful sounding film, and as an incredibly well rounded bookended story it was hard for me to find any fault. Knocked it out of the park <3

Loved everything about this film. Sharp, on-point writing with solid, clean film-making to back it up. It's easy to watch something, even in this competition, and forget that it was made in only 48 hours - especially with this standard of polish. Congratulations all, you killed it!

I think I will be singing the song every time I need to get my business done from now on. I can only imagine this brought the house down at the GF;-)

I couldn't help but be a bit disappointing to see the cliche of making christians the enemies of LGBTQ+ community. Seems to be a trend that needs to in media which isn't helpful during this time when we are more and more divided. That's my nitpick, everything else = beautifully done.

Masters at work here! A fantastic story, it feels like a great anecdote you’d hear at a dinner party. The performance from the lead actress was fantastic. Completely convincing. The camera work is scrumptious and enhanced by a beautiful colour grade. The structure was perfect. The highlight of the film for me was the performance by the Pastor. Their use of profanity was like the climax to a spiritual conflict AND a great punchline. Well done!