‘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
Alena Lodkina: 'I think the night scenes are important because they evoke this hidden, half-sense of being lost' Alena Lodkina: 'I think the eastern European sensibility is probably ingrained in me, because I grew up with Russian cinema' Alena Lodkina’s Strange Colours is one of the three films to emerge from Venice Film Festival’s Biennale College this year, an initiative that helps filmmakers fund and develop their work. Set in an opal mining community in the Australian Outback, it tells the story of young woman Milena (Kate Cheel) and her attempts to reconnect with her estranged father (Daniel P Jones), while also striking up a friendship with younger miner Frank (Justin Courtin).
Although scripted – Lodkina wrote the story with Isaac Wall – the film has a strong documentary flavour, with the supporting cast made up by members of the Lightning Ridge community in New South Wales and...
Although scripted – Lodkina wrote the story with Isaac Wall – the film has a strong documentary flavour, with the supporting cast made up by members of the Lightning Ridge community in New South Wales and...
- 9/5/2017
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The 12th edition of the Melbourne International Film Festival.s Miff Accelerator program provided intensive workshops for 23 directors. Thety included Matthew Richards, Lucy Gaffy, Sarah-Jane Woulahan and Corrie Jones, who participated via Screen Australia.s Hot Shots program, and. Chris Richards-Scully thanks to ScreenWest's West Coast Visions program. The event kicked off. last Thursday with the Miff Accelerator-Screen Australia Talent of Tomorrow Function in association with Lexus Short Films and The Weinstein Company Eighteen participants, who all had shorts screened at Miff 2015,. were Dylan River (Nulla Nulla); Nora Niasari (The Phoenix); Ruby Railey (The Best Way To Kill Your Mother); David White (Killer?); Sanjay de Silva (Maalu); Larissa Behrendt (Under Skin, In Blood), David Hansen (Slingshot); Tess Hutson (Euxine); Ted Wilson (Family Holiday); Isaac Wall (Looking To Buy); Tracey Rigney (Man Real); Jem Rankin (Cherokee); Meelisha Bardolia (Match); Florence Noble (Things Are Going Really Well); Michael Portway (Wawi); Tim Marshall...
- 8/11/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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