Girt by Fear

Girt by Fear / writer, co-creator, producer / web series

Girt by Fear is a six-part comedy-horror web series about the strange and supernatural terrors lurking in the suburbs of Sydney. We follow a group of young people on their way to a Halloween party they’ll never forget.

Awards, Festivals and Press

Girt by Fear won Best Thrills/Action Series at Toronto Web Fest and was nominated for awards at Raindance, LA Web Fest, Melbourne Web Fest, Rio Web Fest, NYC Web Fest and the Australian Online Video Awards. Girt by Fear was written up in Junkee, Sydney Morning Herald, The Guardian, SBS Online, VICE and Filmink. In 2018 the show received development funding from Screen Australia and the ABC.

“A playful tone, which oscillates between tongue-in-cheek humour and genuine creepiness… padded out with longer plotlines, Girt by Fear would make a perfect, highly bingeable series for a streaming provider” — Luke Buckmaster, The Guardian

You can watch the whole series online here.

Cast and Crew

Written by Joel Perlgut (Ep 1-6) David Ma (Ep 2) and Madeleine Purdy (Ep 5)
Produced by Joel Perlgut, Yiani Andrikidis, Madeleine Purdy, David Ma and Josh Vines
Directed by Yiani Andrikidis, Madeleine Purdy and David Ma
Cinematographers: Jack McAvoy, Grégoire Lière
Production designers: Alice Joel, Diva Abrahamian, Emily Borghi, Seb Henry Jones
Editors: Eliot Knapman, Brendan Cain, Stephanie Tighe, David Ma
Colourist: Keiran Lee
Sound designers: Blake Guy, Todd Falusi, Nick Dracoulis, Nick Redmond
Composers: Campbell Byrne, Matthew Chin