You've gotta have belief and manifest it."We're sitting with Chiarella in a cavernous hall at Australian Theatre for Young People's wharf-side home during Sydney Film Festival, a few hours before the competition film's Australian debut."I didn't ever imagine that my first feature would go to Sundance, so it was quite a shock when we got in," Chiarella says. Reality set in fast. "We weren't finished, so we had to get the film done in time."Bird plays Naim, a closeted high-schooler in a country town with a fervent religious community I'm excellent at staying in-character."As for his emerging status as a Scream King, Bird is proud, with a caveat: "I definitely don't want to be typecast, but horror is a very good genre to say different things."Leviticus has a lot to say, and unlike that malevolent copycat entity, audiences are hungry for uniqueness."These past few years, we've been living in a remake/sequel type of world, and it kind of feels like maybe we're at a turning point," Bird says. "Especially with the whole AI of it all, people are craving human creativity and original stories from filmmakers putting their heart out there."Chiarella's heart is all over Leviticus