Veteran indie filmmaker Bill Mousoulis (Innersense Productions) is teaming up with the filmmakers behind Adelaide’s most vibrant and dynamic film organisation Moviejuice to make his 12th feature film since beginning his practice in 1982. The Moviejuice collective is comprised of filmmakers/programmers/critics/musicians Gabriel Bath, Louis Campbell, Shea Gallagher, Emily Pottinger and Daniel Tune, as well as a broader network of filmmakers and actors.
Bill Mousoulis has worked in a committed independent and alternative way over the years, mainly self-funded, to produce and direct feature films that are realist, humanist, and formalist. His work is eclectic, ranging from studies of ordinary people, to portraits of serial killers and vampires, to political documentaries, and more recently the mutant musical of My Darling in Stirling (2023). The Moviejuice filmmakers have also independently produced an eclectic body of work since their foundation in 2022. Daniel Tune’s Malls (2025) is a minimalist and realist portrait of inner-city alienation; Gabriel Bath’s Ships that Bear (2023) is a surrealist-trashy collage portrait of ‘60s radicals; Jordy Pollock’s Wabi Sabi Rendezvous (2024) is a breezy and charming Eric Rohmer-inspired tale of female friendship; and Emily Pottinger and Ceridwen HB-Eliott are great visual stylists with their short films Now Look (2025) and Wist (2025) respectively.
Crispy Crackers will feature the talents of Gabriel Bath as lead actor and co-writer; Daniel Tune as co-producer and crew member; Emily Pottinger as co-writer and crew member; Ceridwen HB-Eliott as 2nd lead actor; Mischa Baka (an accomplished filmmaker in his own right) as director of photography; and Bill Mousoulis as producer/director. Crispy Crackers is inspired by the anarchic and surrealist comedies of Jerry Lewis, Monty Python, The Young Ones. Gabriel Bath will play the lead role of Crispy, a stressed-out bicycle courier who learns to embrace a more relaxed and unconventional lifestyle, inspired by his friend Dari, played by Ceridwen HB-Eliott, who lives an alternative, radical life, eschewing things like technology and consumerism. They are seeking $7,500 in donations, to match the amount of $7,500 that producer Bill Mousoulis has already committed to the project. This $15,000 budget will allow us to successfully shoot and edit the film. Shooting will begin in April.
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