Tag: short film
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Podcast with Joel Stephen Fleming
Had a chat with Joel Stephen Fleming today! I haven’t seen him for at least a year, and JACKS is about to screen at the Dublin International Comedy Film Festival, so I wanted to ask him about it and what happens next with the film. We did video chat on Messenger and I met his […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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.
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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.
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The Occasion #5 — Juan Carlos Castaneda
Interview with director Juan Carlos Castaneda for Continuance Pictures In a way, it’s where I’ve been all my life – between the magic and the darkness. There is so much horror in the world but you also see the most magical things. Juan Carlos Castaneda A director/cinematographer makes documentaries about extreme hardship all over the […]
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The Occasion #4 — Amanda Kaye
Interview with writer/director Amanda Kaye for Continuance Pictures “I find it interesting to delve in to see what is really dormant within us. It’s sometimes scary, it’s sometimes relatable. I have always been pulled into stories which are grounded by character. I think sometimes I’m on my own self-discovery, it’s like having a hard conversation […]
