Jayden Rathsam Hua is a Chinese Australian writer/director focused on documentary and horror, with a Masters in Producing from AFTRS. His short documentary, the Key of B, won 'Best Documentary' at the Lightworks Film Festival and the Gold Award at the Atlanta International Documentary Film Festival. His short film, SUSHI NOH, has screened at over 30 international film festivals, winning Audience Choice and 'The Most Bonkers' award at the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, 'Best Student Short' at Another Hole in the Head in San Francisco, and 'Best Screenplay for an Australian Short' at Flickerfest 2023, releasing online on Halloween 2023 on Short of the Week, ALTER, and Vimeo Staff Picks. 

 

Since graduating from AFTRS, Jayden has worked as the Production Coordinator for Lingo Pictures and in the VFX Production team at Industrial Light and Magic for Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1 (2023). Jayden is a MIFF Accelerator Lab and TIFF Filmmaker Lab alumnus and won the 2023 Inner West Film Fest Pitching Competition, panelled by Breathless and Causeway Films, with his concept for the SUSHI NOH feature film. Jayden has since co-founded the genre-focused Australian production company COSMIC SCREAM alongside producers Hugo Koehne and Henry Koehne and is currently developing the SUSHI NOH feature film, his debut feature, MATRIARCH, with support from Screen Australia, and is in post-production for his next horror short, BELLOE, due in 2024.