While working at a video store in the late 90s, 17-year-old Hayley uses movies as her own lesbian How-To guides, but struggles to find any positive queer role models on the shelves

An award-winning coming-of-age comedy series starring
Emmanuelle Mattana (Mustangs FC, Surviving Summer), Chi Nguyen (Class of '07, The Wilds),
Tahlee Fereday (Erotic Stories, Fisk) and Toby Blome (The Twelve, Gold Diggers).

Presented by Screen Australia, in association with Vicscreen.
A Pikelet Pictures Production.

It’s 1998 and 17-year-old HAYLEY has just come out. Sort of. She’s pretty sure she’s a lesbian, but she needs some help figuring out what exactly that entails. Naturally, working in a video store, she turns to the movies. Spending her days in the stacks means she has access to a vast library of films, but finding meaningful representations in those films proves challenging. Evil lesbians, ambiguous lesbians or just no lesbians at all - how is Hayley supposed to become the best lesbian she can be, when there are no role models for her on screen? With the help of her best friend TANYA, store manager MEL and co-worker DANIEL, Hayley must find a way to be herself, embrace her sexuality and impress the girl of her dreams.

Videoland premiered on the world stage at SERIES MANIA in 2024, winning Best Series in the Comedy Competition. The series was then acquired by NETFLIX ANZ and recut into two 24-minute episodes. Upon its release in September 2024, Videoland was listed in the Top 10 Most Watched TV Shows in both Australia and New Zealand. Ahead of its streaming release, Videoland had a one-night-only public screening in Australia at QUEERSCREEN, where is was honoured with the Audience Award for Best Film. The series also received C21, SPA and AACTA Award nominations and landed Jessica Smith an Australian Director’s Guild (ADG) Award for Best Direction of Online Longform.