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And now for little bit of extra…

In the background, in between rehearsals of few other projects and Stray Dogs (which sold out at the Bread & Roses. Thanks!!), I have been working on making a monologue to camera. We began working on it in April. It’s not a film, more digital theatre but admit it was always planned to be filmed. It was also really good to be behind a camera and get it in the bag. I filmed it with Ashleigh Loeb in on Friday night and with magic of editing you can watch it now ( link below )

It’s called A Stepmother Speaks. Jayne has definite views on Stepmothers and she’s insistent you hear her out. Why?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HoNx5UHxnac&t=50s

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14 Selections (Film Festivals) & 1 Win!

There’s been a lot more activity around releasing a micro budget Sci-Fi short film than I anticipated. On a whim & I mean that literally, Johnny (writer & editor) & I decided we believed in Control enough to put it into Film Festivals. We didn’t think it’d get selected; let alone win, but we were proud of it because of acting, story & work put in. The more people saw its worth or even just watched it, the better was for us. That was our main goal. We choose Festivals we liked, or I can’t lie- picked something visually arresting about their Internet presence- that appealed.

So imagine our shock when we got our first selection for Best Short from Madras International Film Festival on 27th April! We’re ecstatic & happily told our actors. By then, we’d had 3 /4 rejections already or ‘not selected’ as festivals call it , so we knew it was a hard path & we’re not expecting more. 1 & Done!

Now… it’s 14 selections later- within that- 1 Semi Finalist (LIFF), 3 Finalists (PIMFF, KIMFF & BCIFF) & 4 Special Jury Awards & a win for Best Female Director of Short Film for New Fort International Film Festival!!

Thanks to everyone involved (Johnny Blanchard, our actors: Catherine Harvey, Eva Fontaine, Elizabeth Webster, Nancy Baldwin, Nadia Shash & Keith Hill). Also thanks to all those who selected us & to everyone who has watched Control. Couldn’t do this without you all. 😘

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I made a SCI-FI FlLM called CONTROL!

Control is my very first Sci-fi in any form. Theatre rarely uses Sci-fi- yep, no idea why not. But in film….

I was intrigued by approaching a new form. We made it unusually (for me) with the images in mind before we even got to the script. The filming is fairly functional because of how we made it (remotely filmed), but the style was deliberately chosen. I knew it was always going to be Black and White with 2 colours in the fonts but that’s it. This was partly practical and more importantly a choice so acting and story would the main highlights. Enjoy!

Dr. Amerson is celebrating 2 years of the project.🎉

Teaser: Two years after its inception the base on Proxima-b suddenly stopped responding. What’s happened? (Subtitles are available) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8J3rEa7JCpk

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Belated Valentine’s film- A Door

Despite a fondness of reading romance novels (which started as teen ) and being a bit partial to a good rom com, I’m a bit jaded when comes to Valentine’s Day. If I’m with someone, I’d like a gesture towards it and yes I’ll return it readily, but I don’t like the rubbing in of coupledom and huge big budget gestures. But I like that other people care’s for someone or even lots of other people. Love is Love, so when Maev (the other half of Merry Spinster Theatre ) asked me to make a romantic film that she had written then I said yes. It was even more of challenge as it’s a monologue and meant to contain another character whom she’s talking to, but we had no one who could be there- especially in the times we’ve living in. So it’s up to you to decide how successful we were in solving this and enjoy the romantic ride – even if or maybe even more because because V Day is behind us.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=60qbNIWc27A&feature=youtu.be

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Control…not just something I’m trying to gain but also a film

I said on my last blog, that I started making films and now, I’m about to start my forth short film- Control. This one isn’t a theatre piece reimagined. It’s just a film. A Sci-Fi film at that and our Table read is today – in less than 2 hours time. I always enjoy the first time the cast gets together and we hear the words out loud and I start to properly imagine the world I’m creating. This time it’s in SPACE!

It’ll be available from April 16th 2021. Nope- I’m not telling you more- you’ll just have to watch it when it’s out.