BADLANDS is a boutique Sydney film production and distribution company with a mission to create unique and uncompromising Australian Cinema. Named to channel the authorial spirit of Malick’s debut, BADLANDS produces auteur-driven work that doesn’t neglect audience. Since launch, BADLANDS has produced a long line of commercials, music videos and award-winning short films. The shorts include ethereal fempocalypse False As A Beach (SXSW, Nowness), brooding B&W anti-comedy Get Back To Me (premiered Cinema Astragale) and the multi-award winning real estate horror/satire Svengali (St Kilda, RevPerth, Canberra SFF, IWFF). In July of 2026, the critically-acclaimed non-rom-com The Birthday Trip marked the company’s transition to longform storytelling.