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Our Short Film JACKS Screens at KKIFF!
JOEL STEPHEN FLEMING’S crime comedy short film ‘JACKS’ screened at the Kota Kinabalu International film Festival, and I was “repping” — as Joel says — for our film! Yikes! I didn’t want to let him down! So how did it go? It was a blaaast! Here’s Ronald Ng, very funny emcee and well-known Sabah Tourism… Continue reading
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Prof. Dr Danny Wong — Sabahan Historian
Sabah is very proud of its eminent historian, Professor Datuk Dr Danny Wong Tze Ken. I have included a summary of his distinguished career at the bottom of this post. So when my friend Yap said, “Eh, I’m bringing you to this,” I thought: Far out! Professor Danny (I want to refer to him in… Continue reading
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KKIFF: Watching ‘The Sight of Borneo Kirin’
I was so excited to see the film ‘The Sight of Borneo Kirin’, by Pentium Tee! It was Day 2 of the Kota Kinabalu International Film Festival (KKIFF) and Yap had a ticket for me. He warned me, “I’m in this film, okay?” No kidding! This film is a documentary about the Hakka Chinese Unicorn… Continue reading
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Jude Day, Festival Director — Kota Kinabalu International Film Festival
The Kota Kinabalu International Film Festival (KKIFF) runs September 17 – 25 in 2022. Founder and festival director Jude Day got on Zoom with me, to talk about what’s coming up. I was going to write a long post, but Jude is so effervescent, her passion for film and the people that write and make… Continue reading
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Our movie JACKS is going to Kota Kinabalu!
JACKS — the crime comedy short film by Joel Stephen Fleming of 13th Street Films has been selected by CINEBALU – Kota Kinabalu International Film Festival 2022! The reason I’m ecstatic is that Kota Kinabalu is in Sabah, Malaysia — the birth place of my parents, and where I spent four years before coming to… Continue reading
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Benson Wu, Director, Taiwan Film Festival in Australia
“The festival is edgy,” said Benson Wu, Director of the Taiwan Film Festival in Australia. On a recent Zoom call, Benson said he’s all about bringing more diversity into film, whether it’s Asian representation in Western film or LGBT films to Taiwanese audiences. “We have around 12 films in the full programme and there are… Continue reading
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The Occasion #8 — Polaris Banks
Interview with director Polaris Banks for Continuance Pictures “I don’t just want to make movies. I want to make MY movies. I don’t want anything to be between me and what I fell in love with when I was a kid, and every little boy who grows up wanting to be a director says I… Continue reading
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The Making of ‘Giants’, a film by Eddy Bell
Sydney-based filmmaker Eddy Bell took a weekend trip to a polocrosse event in Narrabri, New South Wales. It became an 18-month journey with a farming family facing the harsh reality of unrelenting drought. Eddy witnessed their luscious green landscape evolve into an arid dust bowl, and the result is his short film ‘Giants’. While empathising… Continue reading
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The Occasion #7 — Alexei Slater
Interview with writer/director Alexei Slater for Continuance Pictures “I want to write. That’s what it’s always been. But I’m not some writer in an attic who’s got no understanding of the industry. I co-produced my first short film and got into this habit of learning what to do. If you look at my career trajectory… Continue reading
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Another festival selection and now we have an official poster
Crime comedy short film JACKS has been selected by Byron Bay Underground Film Festival (BUFF) and to celebrate, 13th Street Films and Visul made this poster. I am officially a gangsta mum. Continue reading
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FESTIVAL NEWS: official selection for Independent Producers Indie FF
Just when you thought I was done with Jacks… festival #15, I think? So happy for writer/director Joel Stephen Fleming and all the cast and crew. Continue reading
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Celebrating Milestones
Continuance Pictures founder Tristan Barr says it’s important to remember milestones in our creative journey. He took a screenshot of us in Zoom today after one of our many 3 hour sessions and posted it on Instagram. I have some very driven and creative friends, and am so moved that they invite me into their… Continue reading
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FESTIVAL NEWS: Jacks earns first laurel from International Shorts Film Festival
Short film crime comedy ‘Jacks’ has earned its first laurel, from International Shorts Film Festival. Related posts Joel Stephen Fleming, 13th Street Films Sen Shao – If Looks Could Kill Sian Laycock – creating the reality I Am Yang Tristan Barr, Continuance Pictures Continue reading
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The Occasion #3 — Eddy Bell
Interview with director Eddy Bell for Continuance Pictures “I love the madness of filmmaking! I love the circus of arriving in a location with trucks and ridiculous equipment. Things come out, you collectively pull off this amazing feat and then it all goes back in the truck and you drive away! Then there’s the catharsis… Continue reading
About Joanna
Joanna is British Australian. She worked mainly in financial news in London. In her forties she moved to her parents’ birthplace, Sabah, a Malaysian state on the island of Borneo, where she became a pianist in a hotel and wrote a blog about musicians. The blog became a book before Joanna came to Australia in 2012. In this blog she writes mostly about music, gardening, and trips to Sabah. Oh, and Wookie the Havanese.
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