Sia previously discussed her film directorial debut back in 2015 at Venice Days, a sidebar of the international film festival.

She said the film is based on a one-page story she wrote eight years ago.

“I was too embarrassed to tell anyone I wanted to make a movie, because I thought it would be seen as a vanity project, because I was a singer,” she said, “and then last year after I made the Chandelier video, I realised that I was pretty good at directing, so I felt a little bit braver.”

Sia went on to reveal that she had worked on the screenplay with the children’s author Dallas Clayton, saying: “For me, the process was I work out the movie: I’ll act it out, I’ll have the dialogue already in my head.

“It’s really the formatting […] I can’t be bothered to learn [screenwriting software] Final Draft. I’m not a technical person. Like, when I sing, I just want to sing the melody and write the lyrics. I don’t want to have to do production, which is very technical. I don’t enjoy that.”

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