Belle and cheddar aren’t regular bries or cheddar cheese

That you’d find in the supermarket as you please.

They are sassy, yellow and the best of friends,

They even share videos with each other on weekends.

Yet, today is a different day, as Cheddar makes an assumption,

And Belle overreacts amidst the risk of public consumption.

A cautionary tale for cheeses of all shapes and curds,

That there can be both love and hate from our words. 

Shot on iPhone 12 Pro.

Director's Bio

Joshua Belinfante has crewed on TV series for Discovery Channel, Nat Geo, SBS, Channel 9 & ABC, as well as music videos for international artists. Recent broadcast credits include 'Hawke: The Larrikin & The Leader' for ABC, a true crime series for Foxtel 'Debi Marshall Investigates: Frozen Lies' and 'The Mosque Next Door' an observational documentary series for SBS and 'Miriam Margolyes: Almost Australian' for the ABC. Recent clients include Seiko, Adobe, Sonos, CatholicCare, The Haymarket Foundation, ACOSS and Jobs Australia.

He has been teaching since 2008 and currently teaches at USYD, NIDA, UON. He has taught Summer school programs at the University of Technology Sydney ('UTS') and taught industry journalists through the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism. He has taught filmmaking at the New York Film Academy, Sydney & Gold Coast and at SFS & SAS.

His animated live action films ‘Everything That Clunked Along Today…’ and ‘Cut Down The Puppet Strings’ screened at 20 international film festivals. ‘Clunk’ was accepted into festivals like SUFF where it screened on TV, winning an audience choice award. In 2020 Joshua won 3rd jury prize in the TAKE48 film competition for his film 'The Big Sweet'.

In 2020 Joshua was accepted into a filmmaking accelerator run by Werner Herzog in the Colombian Jungle along with 49 other international filmmakers. The experience pivoted online and under Herzog’s guidance he created 3 short video diaries centred around the experience of living in the pandemic.

His short 'Requires Review' screened at 10 festivals and won numerous awards such as ‘Best Short Documentary’ from the HongKong Arthouse Film Festival and Around International Festival in Berlin. Joshua has also presented two scenes of his anthology feature film, ‘The World’s Best Film’ at Dances With Films at The Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.

His feature documentary ‘The World’s Best Film’ had its cinematic premiere in Perth at the Revelation Film Festival at Luna Cinemas and was nominated for an audience choice award at MDFF. He won a 'Special International Filmmaker Award' from 'NewsFest' & an 'Honorary Lonely Wolf Award for outstanding achievements & exceptional contributions to independent filmmaking' from the 'Lonely Wolf Film Festival' in the UK. The film won 'Best International Documentary' at Marina Del Rey Film Festival. He's spoken about filmmaking on ABC RN, ABC Newcastle, 2SER, 3CER, RTRFM.

Joshua has a BA COM (Media Arts Production) / LLB from UTS, is an admitted solicitor to the Supreme Court of NSW and a PhD candidate of Design at UON

Director's Statement

I have always been obsessed with cheese and stop motion and I never thought that would be the opening line of a director’s statement either. Somewhere along the lines whilst living in a global pandemic, mostly alone, I began to look around to objects in my kitchen and my house that seemed to be talking to me. Crying out for me to bring them to life. 

I thought it might be fun to invite a cast from around the world to bring my food to life, in a whacky, comical way, but also with the goal of saying something pertinent about the world we now find ourselves within. It was important to me to make a film that could apply to the plights of people of all shapes, sizes, genders and ages. 

Whilst living in a world that is increasingly more and more on our smart phones, I have become acutely aware of the struggles of people from all walks of life to find acceptance within online communities. I began to think about alternative ways for people that make assumptions to atone for their wrongdoings. Could they rise to the occasion and atone from their incorrect, inaccurate or toxic beliefs? Could they simply have a timeout away and then be given time to re-evaluate their assumptions? 

The best case scenario is they are accepted together with open arms, the worst case is they are immediately eaten alive, like a couple of delicious cheeses in the supermarket.