“Gullifer is clearly a talent to watch.”
Sunday Emerson Gullifer is an award-winning film director and screenwriter based in regional New South Wales, Australia.
With the support of Screen NSW, she is developing satirical drama, HELMUT, inspired by her acclaimed short film, TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW (2017). The project also received support through a writing residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and the Australian International Screen Forum’s Women in Screen Workshop based out of New York. Her other projects in development include a psychological thriller and a science fiction limited series.
TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW premiered internationally at Telluride Film Festival, was Highly Commended in the Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films at Sydney Film Festival, won Best Screenplay at Munich International Festival of Film Schools, Best Performance at Flickerfest, Best Masters Narrative Production at the Victorian College of the Arts, and was nominated for an Australian Directors' Guild Award. The film later premiered online as a Vimeo Staff Pick and was featured on Short of the Week, with Women and Hollywood calling it "a must-watch for anyone who is invested in the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements".
Prior to that, she received Metro Screen Breaks funding to make her short film, MEAT (2015). The film was nominated for an Australian Directors’ Guild Award and won an Australian Cinematographers’ Society Silver Award, screening at festivals across Australia and internationally.
In 2018, Sunday was awarded the Lexus Australia Short Film Fellowship. The $50,000 fellowship funded production of her latest short film, BROKEN LINE NORTH (2019), and saw the film premiere at Sydney Film Festival.
Sunday holds a Master of Film and Television (Narrative) from the Victorian College of the Arts, a Master of Media Arts and Production from the University of Technology Sydney, and a Bachelor of Arts (Performance Studies, American Studies) from the University of Sydney. She has taught screenwriting and story for the Bachelor of Arts Screen: Production at the Australian Film Television and Radio School.