Sam's Gold has been selected for St Kilda Film Festival's Top 100 shorts! The film plays May 28, 7:45pm at The Astor."Celebrating its 31st anniversary in 2014, the St Kilda Film Festival is Australia's largest and oldest short film festival. Accredited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, it is now an Academy Awards® qualifying event." http://www.stkildafilmfestival.com.au/2014-s2/
Sam's up for gold at the ADG Awards!
Julietta is nominated for an Australian Directors Guild Award for Sam's Gold!
Sam WOWs Parliament house!
Sydneysiders who missed Sam's Gold on ABC1 can see it this Wednesday 5th as part of the fabulous WOW Film Festival! It plays at the Parliament House Theatre from 9:30am. The Minister for Women, Hon. Pru Goward will open the event and Julietta will speak afterwards at a Meet the Filmmaker segment.
"The World of Women's Cinema - WOW Film Festival is a short film festival that promotes and awards the talents of women directors, producers, writers, editors and cinematographers in the Australian film industry and internationally...WOW Film Festival welcomes new Festival Patron for our 20th Festival – internationally acclaimed actor, director, producer Rachel Griffiths. http://www.wift.org/wow/program/march05.htm
Sam buffs up!
We're really excited to announce the European premiere for Sam's Gold!
It will play at BUFF Film Festival in Sweden in March - http://www.buff.se/en/introfilm/sams-gold-2/
"Since 1984, BUFF Film Festival has been the most important forum for film for children and youths in the Nordics."
Sam heads to Byron!
Sam's Gold hits the Byron Bay Film Festival! Monday 3rd March @ 4pmSee the program here - http://issuu.com/echopublications/docs/bbff2014-programme/21?e=2296014/6725815
Sam learns his ABCs! (sort of...)
Sam's Gold is now available to watch on iview! http://www.abc.net.au/iview/#/view/78878770
Sam's Gold in da house! (Well, The Screening Room which is even better!)
Sam's Gold screens on ABC1 tonight as part of The Screening Room, hosted by Jason di Rosso. According to ABCTV, 'The Screening Room showcases the best Australian short films from emerging film makers and cutting-edge visionaries' : http://www.abc.net.au/tv/programs/screening-room/
A Maverick month with heart!
October is a big month for Julietta's short films!
Sam's Gold is an official selection at the Academy Awards accredited Heartland Film Festival in Indianapolis!
And Julietta's film Safe has been nominated for a total of five awards including Best Picture, Best Direction, Best Cinematography (Jeremy Rouse) and Best Actress (Adrienne Pickering) at the Maverick Movie Awards in New York!
Moviemaker Magazine calls the Maverick Movie Awards 'the Indie Spirit Awards of true indie filmmakers' and the goal of the Awards 'is to help talented moviemakers achieve the recognition they deserve by awarding movies with unique style, exceptional craft, and the power to communicate'.
Safe will also screen in competition this month at the Pune Short Film Festival in India this month.
A real nice review
A great little review for Sam's Gold in the latest issue of RealTime mag! :D * But...SPOILER ALERT!
Sam gets into a BIFF (festival that is!)
Sam's Gold is one of only seven shorts invited to screen in the Brisbane International Film Festival's - GenNext 2013 program! :D
The West Fest's Best
Julietta's Screen NSW funded short Sam's Gold had it's national premiere at Perth Revelation International Film Festival last night to a packed house! Screenspace called the film 'an exciting new work':
http://screen-space.squarespace.com/blog/2013/7/15/revelations-2013-review-the-west-fests-best.html
Heading West!
Julietta has been awarded one of three Travel Fellowships to the Perth Revelation International Film Festival!
Screen Australia sends Julietta to the Netherlands!
It's official: Julietta will travel to Binger Filmlab in Amsterdam with the support of Screen Australia: http://if.com.au/2013/05/20/article/Screen-Australia-announces-new-internships-almost-360000-in-funding/WDWUFQJHYQ.html
Heading to Amsterdam! Woohoo!
Julietta is one of only nine directors worldwide selected to attend a Directors Lab at the Binger Filmlab in Amsterdam!
Safe honoured with a blog
Check out this blog on Safe by the New Hope Film Festival in Pennsylvania : http://newhopefilmfest.blogspot.com.au/
Festival love from the USA
Safe continues its marathon festival run by being selected for the New Hope Film Festival in Pennsylvania, USA. The Festival Chairman and CEO had these lovely words to say about Safe in an email to Julietta: ' We're honored to exhibit your film at New Hope Film Festival! The judges have been raving about the quality of your work, and in fact one is so hooked, she's watched it a number of times.' A very good start to 2013!
Something nice...plus a prize!
A feature interview that says some nice things about Julietta by Simon Foster of Screen-space:
In other news, Safe wins 2nd prize for Best Film at the Made in Melbourne Film Festival! (beaten only by the Wilding). The film will also tour Europe in the European Film Festival!
Fun all 'round!
Safe picks up Best Sound Design at the Canberra Short Film Festival and will soon screen in St Louis! The Branch has been selected to screen at Sandfly Film Festival and Sam's Gold is offered international distribution before the film even premieres!
September loves Safe
September's been a good month for Safe and it's only just started! The film is a finalist in the Atom Awards (http://atomawards.org/?page_id=7&film_id=89), a finalist in the Canberra Short Film Festival (http://www.csff.com.au/finalists/open-national-2012-finalists/) and was so well received at ishorts in Prague that it has been invited on a regional tour of the Czech Republic! :D
A trip to Italy!
Two of Julietta's short films, Safe and The Branch have been selected to screen at Salento International Film Festival in Italy!