‘Strange Colours’
Alena Lodkina’s Strange Colours and Jessica Leski’s documentary I Used to be Normal: A Boyband Fangirl Story opened on limited screens last weekend.
Not much store should be placed on ticket sales because both titles have already had a significant impact at Australian and international festivals and both have the upside of ancillary revenues and and foreign sales.
Indeed both have been very effective launching pads for their directors, fulfilling one of Screen Australia’s remits of funding films as a talent escalator, particularly for first-time filmmakers.
“It’s been a life-changing period for me,” Lodkina tells If. “Strange Colours has given me a lot of hope and energy and enabled me to form a lot of relationships during the production and distribution.
Co-written by Lodkina and producer Isaac Wall, who produced with Kate Laurie, the evocative drama follows Kate Cheel as Milena, who travels to...
Alena Lodkina’s Strange Colours and Jessica Leski’s documentary I Used to be Normal: A Boyband Fangirl Story opened on limited screens last weekend.
Not much store should be placed on ticket sales because both titles have already had a significant impact at Australian and international festivals and both have the upside of ancillary revenues and and foreign sales.
Indeed both have been very effective launching pads for their directors, fulfilling one of Screen Australia’s remits of funding films as a talent escalator, particularly for first-time filmmakers.
“It’s been a life-changing period for me,” Lodkina tells If. “Strange Colours has given me a lot of hope and energy and enabled me to form a lot of relationships during the production and distribution.
Co-written by Lodkina and producer Isaac Wall, who produced with Kate Laurie, the evocative drama follows Kate Cheel as Milena, who travels to...
- 11/26/2018
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
‘Strange Colours’.
Festival For Film’s Sake (Ffs) has expanded its focus to include the theatrical distribution of films from female filmmakers.
In partnership with Bonsai Films, Ffs will release Alena Lodkina’s Strange Colours in cinemas next week and Gabrielle Brady’s doco Island of the Hungry Ghosts in the first quarter of next year.
Of the decision to move into distribution, Ffs director Sophie Mathisen tells If that many of the films she had worked with through the female-focused festival were made independently and were yet to find a distributor. Often the filmmakers were unsure what to do with their films after their festival run was over. She believed with strategic investment, these films could find broader audiences.
“When you can see that most of the films that are in cinemas are directed and written by men, it creates this cultural vacuum where it makes female filmmakers feel more risky,...
Festival For Film’s Sake (Ffs) has expanded its focus to include the theatrical distribution of films from female filmmakers.
In partnership with Bonsai Films, Ffs will release Alena Lodkina’s Strange Colours in cinemas next week and Gabrielle Brady’s doco Island of the Hungry Ghosts in the first quarter of next year.
Of the decision to move into distribution, Ffs director Sophie Mathisen tells If that many of the films she had worked with through the female-focused festival were made independently and were yet to find a distributor. Often the filmmakers were unsure what to do with their films after their festival run was over. She believed with strategic investment, these films could find broader audiences.
“When you can see that most of the films that are in cinemas are directed and written by men, it creates this cultural vacuum where it makes female filmmakers feel more risky,...
- 11/14/2018
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
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- by Bella Elbaum
- Monsters and Critics
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Angus Sampson plays Ray Jenkins, a club baller who lives a simple, almost sheltered life at home. After winning a yearly award, his...
Angus Sampson plays Ray Jenkins, a club baller who lives a simple, almost sheltered life at home. After winning a yearly award, his...
- 3/14/2014
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
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