Filmmaker Jaydon MARTIN (Australia) worked as a camera operator for narrative and documentary features before becoming a director. His experience growing up in a low-socioeconomic area of Australia drives him to explore maligned cultures, mundane existence and working class expressions in his projects. <strong>Flathead</strong> (2024), IFFR 2024 selection, is his directorial debut.

Jaydon Martin

Fiction and documentary merge in this frank and moving snapshot of working-class Australian life.

Through his spirited blend of documentary and fiction, Jaydon Martin’s compelling directorial debut offers a refreshing and rarely seen perspective on a working-class community in a small Australian city, as seen through the eyes of septuagenarian Cass, a stranger to neither joy nor hardship.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Jaydon Martin

Filmography

Jaydon Martin at IFFR

Flathead