HALAL GURLS

By Vonne PATIAG

IN-BETWEEN PICTURES - as PROD

Comedy - Completed 2019

A world first award-winning online comedy series looking into the lives of three 20-something hijabis living their best lives in Bankstown, Australia.

Festivals
& Awards

Marseilles Webfest 2020
Prix du Public (winner) Audience Award
NZ Webfest 2020
Best Ensemble (nominated)
Rio Webfest 2020
Best Diverse Webseries (nominated), Best Direction - Comedy (nominated)
Made In The West Film Festival 2020
Best Screenplay, Best Actress (nominated)
Seoul Webfest 2021
Best Ensemble (nominated)
Sydney Webfest 2021
Best Actor (Aanisa Vylet) nomination
NYC Webfest 2021
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Comedy
    • Countries
    • AUSTRALIA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Budget
    • 0.3 - 0.6 M$
    • Duration
    • 56 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Vonne PATIAG
    • Writer(s)
    • Vonne PATIAG, Aanisa VYLET, Sara MANSOUR, Danielle STAMOULOS
    • Producer(s)
    • Petra LOVRENCIC, Vonne PATIAG (In-Between Pictures)
    • Synopsis
    • Mouna, a young Hijabi aspiring lawyer, learns to break the rules against her white/male dominated workplace and the sisterhood of Bankstown Hijabis who weigh her down. She’s a woman constantly caught between two worlds – the structured career-driven life she envisions for herself, and the chaotic mess of her personal life. Mouna must learn to navigate an overbearing Mother, a pushy fiancée, a social-media addicted sister, gossiping Hijabis and a seemingly ‘racist’ workplace to finally succeed; but when you’re a good Muslim girl, it’s never that easy to chase your dreams without family and drama weighing you down.