Portfolio – Little Drum Pictures

Eczema Support Australia – Educational Resource “The ItchY Switch”

We’ve been working with Eczema Support Australia since 2019, creating content aligned to their core values of connecting, informing, and advocating. Eczema Support Australia relies on philanthropic donations and grant funding to develop resources empowering Australians living with eczema.

Last year we were sitting in a grant funding meeting, ready to pitch an idea with the ESA team when we were told that the meeting was to share the good news of winning the grant. The win was based on the work of Eczema Support Australia and the content we’ve already built together. For Little Drum Pictures, the win is a testament to the power of collaboration and storytelling.

The end result: “The ItchY Switch”

For Little Drum Pictures co-creating the “Itchy Switch” isn’t just another project—it’s a chance to do work that lives beyond the screen, creating a lasting impact in people’s lives. Every part of the creative process and the deliverables serves a higher purpose of building connections, promoting awareness, and empowering a community that truly benefits from the team and work of Eczema Support Australia.

People.

Eczema Support Australia (ESA) provides essential information, connection, and advocacy to Australians living with eczema, striving to help them overcome challenges and thrive.

Production.

Project Management: Jude Kalman

Creative: Teenager & Young Adults Living with Eczema Steering Committee + Teen stories from around Australia + Jude Kalman

Writing: Teenager & Young Adults Living with Eczema Steering Committee + Teen stories from around Australia + Jude Kalman

DOP: Luke Sheehan + Jude Kalman

Camera Assistants: Jemma Kuchel + Leilani Roelofs

Editing: Jude Kalman + Jemma Kuchel

Animation: Jude Kalman

Photography: Jude Kalman

Short film: “The Skin Effect” inspired by a true story from Laura

Cast: Many thanks to Kings Christian College teachers and students for their time and talents

Makeup: Kylie Eustace

Short film: “S_creams” inspired by true accounts from Rhea

Cast: Rhea

Deliverables:

1 x 12 min Full Length – 16:9

5 x 2.5 min Segmented – 16:9

1 x Trailer – 16:9, 1:1

1 x Behind the Scenes – varying screen platforms – 16:9

1 x Stage One Video + Graphical + Written Posts – 16:9, 1:1

1 x Stage Two Video + Graphical + Written Posts – 16:9, 1:1

Hero Photography – print + web

Impact.

If you or someone you know is living with eczema and needs support please reach out to Eczema Support Australia.

Here’s a snapshot of the impact being made with The Itchy Switch campaign and educational video resources, launched in March 2024. Amidst a social media landscape full of eczema misinformation, this content is reaching around 40,000 views a month.

Eczema Support Australia:

“We had a drop in viewers last month due to our shift in social media ad spend. However, it’s worth noting that the Itchy Switch campaign has seen 17,078 video views this month alone, with nearly 9,000 viewers watching the videos in full—a great indicator of content quality.”

Artist- Kuweni Dias Mendis – Reverberations

People.

Kuweni Dias Mendis is a Sri Lankan-Australian artist based in Australia since 1999. As a diasporic artist, her work reflects her diverse experience of culture and identity. Australia has deeply influenced her artistic practice, which focuses on raw mark-making and integrates regenerative practice, arts activism, and cultural facilitation. Kuweni uses ritual and ceremony as the source of her artistic manifestations, her creative inquiry into the pulsation of place.

Kuweni received a match funding grant from Creative Australia and the Australian Cultural Fund to produce the short film “Reverberations” + backdrop films.

Production.

Reverberations chronicles artist Kuweni Dias Mendis’ journey of belonging as a migrant woman of colour and culture in Australia.

This multisensory arts experience incorporates film, live music, movement, and visual arts in an exploration of identity and belonging, forged in spirituality.

Producer: Kuweni Dias Mendis

Director + Camera + Sound + Photography + Editor: Jude Kalman

Camera Assistant: Eliza Chambers

Music: Niru Mendis featuring Dinesh Subasinghe

1 x 10 min short documentary film

4 x 2:30 min performance backdrop films

Hero stills photography – promotional purposes

Impact.

“Reverberations” played at BEMAC on the 20th of October 2024.

BEMAC champion and elevates diverse artists, and their artistry, as creators of original work of the highest quality and relevance possible. For more information about BEMAC’s program of upcoming events, visit bemac.org.au/season/

Blank GC

People.

“Blank is your local street press; an independent voice for music, arts and lifestyle across the Gold Coast and surrounding regions since 2013.” – Blank GC

Production.

Volunteer photography for music events and festivals: Jude Kalman

Volunteer writer: Glenn Tozer

Impact.

Sadly the makers of Blank GC decided to down tools in 2023 after 10 years of being an independent voice and chief operators of promoting arts and culture on the Gold Coast. We believe they had a huge influence in changing the perception and narrative of the Gold Coast; championing skilled artisans and creative business.

Blank’s legacy continues in all the musicians, artists, live venues, filmmakers, and creative businesses they shared stories about and promoted.

To view past stories please visit our friends’ Blank GC

Meeting of the Waters

People.

“The Northern Rivers flood disaster of March 2022 has devastated the Richmond Valley, with catastrophic damage to homes, businesses and public infrastructure. The Mid Richmond villages of Coraki, Woodburn and Broadwater experienced the highest flood levels in recorded history, with two major floods in quick succession.”- Richmond Valley Council

Global Care Australia was one of the many organisations that came together to help with the recovery efforts.

Global Care Australia commissioned Little Drum Pictures to produce a short documentary to document the story and impact and to honour and celebrate the community that gathered in Coraki and the surrounding areas.

Production.

Creative: Jude Kalman

Featuring the poem, Of Water – written by Bianca Rayner

Director + Camera + Sound + Photographer + Editor: Jude Kalman

Intern: Abbie Knight

Impact.

Excerpt from Meeting of the Waters

Girl Guides Queensland

PEOPLE

Girl Guides Queensland invited us to pitch a campaign that would inspire and promote volunteer sign-up for leadership roles throughout Queensland.

Our campaign focused on celebrating the legacy and power of generational leadership and interaction that the Girl Guides have demonstrated since 1910.

Inspired by the “Girl Guide Promise” and the 2023 smash hit movie that starts with B; this campaign encompassed the use of short videos, photography, and social media posts, celebrating the”Girl Guide’s”promise of empowerment.

Girl Guides Australia adopted the campaign’s success.

PRODUCTION

Creative Campaign for Volunteer Leader Sign-Up: Jude Kalman

DOP: Jude Kalman

Camera Assistants: Jake Lawlor + Leilani Leilani Roelofs

Photography: Jude Kalman

Editing: Jude Kalman

Intern: Abbie Knight

Deliverables:

Hero Photography images

1 x Hey Girl Video

1 x Before B Video

1 x Behind the Scenes – Hey Girl

IMPACT

The Girl Guides continue to empower girls across the globe to find out more please visit Girl Guides Australia

ZAWADI

People.

Zawadi is Swahili for gift.

Zawadi is a film and photographic art installation premiering at the Big City Lights Festival 2024.

It is an ode to the rich tapestry of diversity and the gift it is to humanity. Featuring women from the Multicultural Families Organisation.

Multicultural Families Organisation (MFO) is a not-for-profit organisation that has supported culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) families and communities on the Gold Coast since 1996. MFO’s dedicated staff originate from 21 different countries and share a passion for equality, social justice and human rights.

Production.

Women of Zawadi: Salma + Namrata + Agness

Creative: Jude Kalman and the women of Zawadi

Director + Camera + Photographer + Sound and Editor: Jude Kalman

Camera Assistants: Leilani Roelofs, Jemma Kuchel & Eliza Chambers

Production Assistant: Rana Al Mekarry

Makeup Artist: Kylie Eustace

Dress Maker Tanzania: Neema Mshombozi – Founder Ney-Classics-Wear

Costume Designer and Maker Australia: Jess Hansen- Co-Founder of Messy Threads Designed and made the Prawn dress

Artist: Tailored Pattern Illustration – Prawn Design: Amanda Gorman

Printing Fabric for Prawn Dress: Left Bank. artgroup

This film is funded by the Queensland Government’s Investing in Queensland Women program

Deliverables:

1 x 8 min – Vertical art installation

1 x 8 min short film

Hero Image

Impact.

You are invited to join us in Southport, Australia 21 June – 7 July 2024 and Big City Lights

Freddy Match

Lucinda AD – Landscape

People.

FreddyMatch is a simple and secure volunteer recruitment and management system. Matching volunteers and organizations.

Our pitch was to create a fun, light-hearted campaign promoting Freddy Match’s brand and its fresh, bold approach to volunteering.

Rethink Volunteering’s set and costume design were the backdrop to the photography and video advertisements unashamedly promoting the brand. Its exaggerated expressions and props are an example of the different types of volunteering opportunities found at Freddy Match.

The campaign aims to promote a fresh approach to volunteering, engaging youth and corporate audiences to rethink why and how they could volunteer.

Production.

Creative: Client + Jude Kalman

KEY MESSAGE – RETHINK VOLUNTEERING + FIND YOUR MATCH ON

BRAND – FREDDY MATCH

YOUTH CAMPAIGN SYNOPSIS

In this exaggerated comical approach, Liam and Abbie discover volunteering and the matches they have in volunteering.

CORPORATE CAMPAIGN SYNOPSIS

In this light-hearted and fun approach, corporate characters discover the varying opportunities of volunteering and how they can make a match.

Director + Photography + Sound + Editor: Jude Kalman

Camera Assistants: Eliza Chambers

Interns: Abbie Knight + Sophie McGregor

Deliverables:

Hero imagery + graphics for social, web and print

3 x Corporate ads

3 x Youth ads

Impact.

If you are seeking opportunities across Australia to volunteer and or an organisation that needs volunteers please head to Freddy Match to find your match.

Moving Mountains – People Power In Action

People.

The Kerry Blockade was a catalyst. Possibly for the first time in Australian history traditional enemies, farmers and greenies, realized they shared common ground in their desire to protect land air and water. They stood shoulder to shoulder and the community of the Scenic Rim was joined by community from many other areas under threat.

Those who protested at Kerry shared a deeply held belief in the right of the people to peacefully protest to protect environmental and social values. People travelled from NSW, many from the Northern Rivers region, from the Southern and Western Downs, Brisbane and the Gold Coast. This cross community support in January 2012 saw deep relationships forged between individuals and other communities during that 10 day campaign, relationships that endure to today.

Production:

Executive Producers: Erica Bates, Julie Jackson, Tracey Larkin.

Producer: Erica Bates

Director + Camera + Photographer + Sound + Editor: Jude Kalman

Interviews: Rod Anderson, Innes Larkin, Linda Weston.

Archive Footage and stills: Alice Undery, Heidi Ross, Cassie McMahon, Damen Caniglis, Erica Bates, Tracey Larkin, Sarah Moles, Lara Solyma, Peter Kuestler, Paul Coyne, Sara Bruxner.

Drone Footage: Lachaln Gardiner, Jude Kalman, Lincoln Williams.

Artwork: “The Mongrel Dogs of Kerry” Jan Drynan.

Deliverables

1 x short 14min documentary

1 x promotional trailer

1 x film + edit “Opening Night” exhibition

Hero images

Impact: