Video, audio, events, and dark, unexpected offerings; Midnight Screening is Naarm’s newest production company seeking to share the power and joy of horror movies.
Birthed in Naarm by siblings Noah and Eliza Janssen, the production company spews out indie horror shorts, starting with 2022 thriller Get Home Safe, which was celebrated at film festivals in Melbourne, Sydney, and New York.
Midnight Screening now encompasses a thrilling slate of spooky media, including the official Midnight Screening Podcast, upcoming film projects, screenings, and even some sick merch.
Our shorts are developed and shot with a passionate crew of recurring collaborators with principles of cinematic quality, subversion, and fun fuelling the entire process. We love movies—and we REALLY love horror movies—and our mission is to contaminate culture with that obsession through the most thoughtful, independent approach possible.
Midnight Screening projects are achieved with the support and crowdfunded donations of an encouraging community. We hope you’ll follow us on our downward spiral into tw1st3d movie mayhem: because being spooked makes you realise you’re alive !!!!
All of our productions take place on unceded Wurundjeri land; the site of the world’s oldest storytelling traditions.
Noah is a filmmaker based in Naarm with a lifelong passion for genre cinema. After studying a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Music Theatre) at the Victorian College of the Arts and working professionally as a theatre and screen performer, Noah decided to honour his lifelong obsession with the movies and become a filmmaker. Ever since, he has been committed to developing original horror films with his sister, collaborator and bestie Eliza, as well as using Midnight Screening Productions as a platform to spread the gospel of horror and celebrate local creatives.
Noah is currently working in the film industry as a 3rd Assistant Director on the Australian soap opera Neighbours (Fremantle Australia). His previous industry credits include Production Runner/2nd Unit 2nd AD on Spooky Files Season 2 (Tony Ayres Productions), and Production Runner on Thank God You’re Here Season 6 (Working Dog Productions).
Eliza grew up with a passion for being scared and telling stories; her short fiction has won awards such as the Boorondara Literary Prize in Naarm and the Kieth E Vineyard prize at UCSB, California. After earning the Excellence in Screenwriting scholarship at VCA for her Masters of Screenwriting thesis script, Eliza interned at Escape Artists Productions on the Sony lot in LA. Her feature scripts have earned her top placements in Australian and American contests and development programs, and several have been highlighted on unproduced screenplay platform The Blacklist. These days she primarily works in film criticism: having co-founded the film journalism website Rough Cut in 2019, she now works as assistant editor at New Zealand-based movie website Flicks. Eliza has been stoked to take part in critic programs such as MIFF’s Critics Campus (2018) and the Berlinale’s Talent Press (2024). She has a soft spot for bad movies, baking pies, pub trivia, and her cat Pearl.