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Award’s Speech Video at the CGIFF 2015 – Thank you everybody for your amazing support!

CGIFF 2015 – Shailla from Mike Krozer on Vimeo.

Award Acceptance Speech at the Columbia Gorge International Film Festival 2015!
Thank you & congratulations to Love Socks Movie Cast and Crew and entire team!
Thank you so much CGIFF directors Braven & Team and amazing team who brought this beautiful event to life in the beautiful cities of Washougal and Vancouver WA.

Extra special thank you to all my old friends & new friends that I was blessed to meet during this amazing journey and everybody who have been so supportive through this entire journey!

It has been a series of miracles to bring Love Socks Movie to life, and the experience at the Columbia Gorge International Film Festival was absolutely magical!

Thank you Michael Krozer for filming and uploading it!

Check out CGIFF Highlights video by Michael Krozer:

CGIFF 2015 – Highlights from Mike Krozer on Vimeo.

Thank you!!!

Muito obrigado!!!

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Events Photos: Australian Premiere of Brad Fitt Will Be Mine at A Night of Horror International Film Festival 2014

Thank you so much for the love and support of everybody who joined us at the Australian Premiere of Brad Fitt Will Be Mine at A Night of Horror International Film Festival 2014 at Dendy Cinemas in Sydney!
Apologies for everybody who couldn’t get tickets last minute because all seats got sold out!

By Shailla xoxo

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A Rewarding day in the Fabulous World of Writers

A couple of weeks ago I got a very special invitation by the Founder of Abhinay School of Performing Arts Aishveryaa Nidhi to participate as a guest actor at the Intensive Weekend Workshop on “How to Write a Ten Minutes Play” taught by the master of ten minute plays Alex Broun.

Writers and Actors - Photo courtesy of Abhinay School of Performing Arts

The course went from Friday till Sunday. The writers had their intensive sessions Friday evening, and the whole day on Saturday, where they learned what makes a good 10 minutes play, how to pitch the play and explore the ideas to develop into a good play, story and structure, how to rehearse a moved reading with the actors, how to create memorable characters and the important nature of surprise in theatre through character revelation.

In the end of day two, Saturday evening, the new writers went home with the task of writing their first 10 minutes play, and bring it in the following morning session ready to be workshopped with the actors, then explored and tested on the stage through readings and rehearsals throughout the Sunday morning and
afternoon session.

Then, in the last session of the course, in the end of Sunday’s afternoon, the course reached its climax by having all participants scripts performed through a moved reading by the actors for an audience, where the writers got to see how their work came to life on stage, and how the audience responded to it.

I and other guest actors came in to be part of the moved readings during the entire Sunday session.

To start the day Alex Broun guided us through a fun body and voice warm up session, following by great interactive games to get everybody to know each other.

Then all the writers line up on stage to pitch the stories in their 10 minutes plays and to start casting the actors to workshop their plays.

It was very impressive how the new writers had their 10 minutes play and pitch ready overnight. Most of them were not expecting to have all this happening in such short period of time. They had the stories in their mind, but not on paper yet, and they were given the challenge to have to present it about 16 hours later after their last session, and they made it.

Out of all the plays pitched, the one that got my attention the most was “Matriarch Sin” by Lulu Ruane Paton, first time ever writing, but brilliant material based on real stories. The play was about a conflict of mother and daughter meeting for the first time ever about 2 decades later since the mother abandoned the daughter as a baby. It would mean a lot to me to perform in that work and I really wanted Lulu to cast me for the role of the daughter.

Before Lulu have her turn to announce her chosen actors, I was cast in another play, “Saturday Night in Sydney” by Sam Dandy, a really fun play based also by real events experienced by the writer who is a taxi driver and has lots of stories to tell with such eventful job dealing with all sorts of people including the
very drunk ones on late nights. I got to play one of the trouble making girls drunk with her friends making the end of the Saturday night shift of the taxi driver character very challenging.

“Saturday Night in Sydney” team and Mr Broun - Shailla's Blackberry Pic

That was lots of fun to play with a fun cast and lots to explore around, but I couldn’t take Lulu’s play out of my mind, so on a little break from the first rehearsal, I went to tell Lulu how her pitch got my attention and I was looking forward to watching the performance later to find out more about the story,  and for my wonderful surprise which I had no idea, she told me that she choose me to play the role of the daughter, and was just waiting for me to finish the rehearsal on the first play that I was working on, to join her and the actress playing the role of the mother for reading and rehearsal. That was very exciting news because I didn’t know that we actors were going to work in more than one play, and even more exciting that I was actually going to work with Lulu on “Matriarch Sin”, my favourite play of all!

After I finished working with Sam Dandy and the cast of “Saturday Night in Sydney”, I didn’t even want a break, I was too excited and wanted to keep working so I joined Lulu and Coleen (the actress playing the mother role) immediately to start reading and working on “Matriarch Sin”. Lulu already had a big eventful
Saturday night planned with the family, which left her with fewer time to write a full 10 minutes script to be presented on Sunday morning, but she knew the story so well, that even though it was a very short script, it was so clear and punchy that it was a complete joy to work in it, and very easy to connect with the characters and story and understand each moment of it.

Rajpal Shaila Aileen & Lulu - Shailla's Blackberry Pic

When the time working on “Matriarch Sin” came to an end, there were more surprises: more roles on more plays to read and rehearse for the stage presentations schedule for later on the day.

I got to work with news editor Neena Badhwar on her play “Political Recrimination” alongside one of the largest casts from all plays in a satire about many of the big names current politicians living in the future in a retirement home in a complete changed country. Wonderful imagination by Neena infused with lots of big strong real life characters.

After working on “Political Recrimination” I had one more surprise: one more exciting character in one more fun play to work! Also got cast on “Call me Ismail Tonight” by Rajpal Sandhu, a lovely unconventional romantic comedy full of crazy surprises and turns, in which two friends on their way to heal their broken hearts get interrupted by a very obnoxious salesman!

After a continuous day of readings and rehearsals, in the end of the day all plays got presented as a performed moved reading to the full house audience, which was a scary and exciting experience at the same time!

After all the presentations, Alex Broun gave his feedback to the writers, and they a small ceremony to receive their elegantly framed presented attendance certificates.

I truly enjoyed every moment of this day and I got a lot out of it, first of all because I made wonderful new friends and I got to spent time with lovely old friends. Secondly, it was a joy to work in such a collaborative environment with a strong sense of community, with no egos, but just lots of passion for the craft and just people helping each other to grow and accomplish their work, and it was beautiful to see so many beautiful stories coming to life in such a short period of time.

It was also proven once again that we humans have such an incredible power to make magic happen when we are put under the pressure of deadlines. So many of the new writers had all these stories in their minds, and have been dreaming and wanting to write for a long time, but never had that extra push to make them do it and turn the dream of becoming a writer a reality, but thankfully they had the motivation to explore their dreams further and learn how to do it right, and they choose the right coach that showed them how to do it, and gave them a deadline to get it done, and they did it, just like that, years-months-weeks of stories spinning in their heads were put into paper and brought into life on the stage, and it was just the beginning in this new road that they opened in their lives!

Congratulations to all of you, the ones mentioned here, and the ones that I didn’t get to work with, but got to watch the performed moved readings of their plays, and it was a delight to watch the work of upcoming writers who mostly work full time in demanding jobs, and many also have families to take care of, and to also watch the work of very young writers as 11 and 14 years old writers who presented beautiful complex stories about families and love.

Thank you for Aishveryaa Nidhi for inviting me to spending a rewarding day in the amazing world of writers, which is where it all begins.

For more about the Abhinay School of Performing Arts here is their website: http://www.abhinay.com.au/

By Shailla

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Scary film “Chloe” written & directed by Mark Paul, in which I played the title role of Dr Chloe, who confronts the supernatural and pays a very high price for it, premiered at the Fantastic Planet Film Festival!

The festival took place a couple of weeks ago in the pumping heart of Newtown, with all the selected films showing at the fantastic big screens of the Dendy Cinemas, with after parties at The Bank Hotel & Mary’s Bar, where all the local and international guest filmmakers got to hang out and got into deeper conversations about the filmmaking process over drinks and pizza.

Loving films & film festivals, specially when they bring the best from all around the globe and have so many Q&A sessions with guests International filmmakers, I attended not only the premiere of “Chloe”, but as many sessions as possible that I could fit into my current shooting schedule, and got to meet and talk with some very inspiring filmmakers.

Thanks once again for the organizers of the Fantastic Film Festival for making such a great event happen in Sydney!

Here are some of the pics taken with my Blackberry

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Check out all the super hot albums from the fantastic New York City International Film Festival Premiere experience, where “Brad Fitt Will Be Mine” screened at the Abingdon Theater and also right in the middle of the heart of Times Square, along some of the best films from around the world, among some of the world’s most talented and amazing professionals.

Enjoy all these albuns of red carpet events, awards, behind the scenes, after parties, etc with the world’s coolest stars!

Damian Nixey, Marc Petzke, Shailla Quadra and Yolandi Franken, still image of "Brad Fitt Will Be Mine" showing in the heart of Times Square at the New York City International Film Festival.

Full Gallery link: http://shailla.com/yes/the-fantastic-nyciff-premiere-of-brad-fitt-will-be-mine

Shailla is also sharing all her fantastic New York 2011 experience in an exclusive open heart online journey: http://shailla.com/iloveny/

She is also working in a documentary called “Living in the Moment” – I Love New York no matter what! Stay tuned for more updates from this project, including trailers, photos, and interviews.

Much more coming soon!

xoxo

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March 2011

Shailla attended the very anticipated “Deadside Party”.

Shailla attended A Night of Horror International Film Festival 2011.

Quadra Mitchell Schelenz Petzke at "Skew" screening at A Night of Horror International Film Festival 2011

“Happy Hair”, a really funky video for a good cause produced by Shailla, starring Shailla and Sara Bailey, screened at “The Old Fitzroy Film Festival”.

Shailla attended the VIP screening of “Heart Attack” by Warren Paul Glover.

Shailla Quadra Marc Petzke Fawaz Hamawy at "Heart Attack" screening

February 2011

Shailla attended the VIP screening of “Bind” by Michael Chrisoulakis.

Shailla attended the special edition of NAFA Chop-Tops with International guest speaker Miha Knific.

Shailla Quadra with the very inspiring Miha Knific and Blaz Cadez at special edition of NAFA Choc Tops Event 2011.

Shailla attended Tropfest 2011.

January 2011

Shailla played the role of “Sharlene” in the heart breaking drama “Prediction” directed by Eddie Arya.

Daniel Timbury Shailla Quadra George behind the scenes of Prediction

Shailla played the role of “Cherrie” in the comedy “The Kiss” directed Jack Douglas.

Phillip Debs Jack Douglas Olivia Stiefel Parth Nanavati Shailla Quadra behind the scenes of The Kiss

December 2010

Shailla would like to announce that http://www.showmee2.com/ is ready up and running with lots of new exciting new features!

Shailla played the leading role “Chloe” in the spine chilling horror “Chloe” directed by Mark Paul.

Mark Paul Shailla Quadra David Borg Behind the scenes of Chloe

November 2010

Shailla attended the Weekend Film School weekend intensive directors training.

Shailla would like to announce that http://www.showmee2.com/ is under a complete transformational renovation, and until further notice, the original showmee2 site is up and running at http://www.showmee2.com.au/.

October 2010

Shailla joined the amazing Sci-Fi team and friends once again, for the big opening night of the out of this world Fantastic Planet Science Fiction and Fantasy Film Festival Sydney.

Shailla had the honour of being one of the judges of the International Beauty Pageant “Dream Girl”, and it was a very beautiful event with various multi cultural live singers and beautiful bollywood inspired choreographies, dancing and arts. Big thank you for the amazing event organizer Navneet Choujar for the honourable invitation.

Shailla joined the memorable team of “What She Would Have Wanted” once again for its screening debut at the 48h Project Festival Screenings at Cinema Paris.

Shailla attended the stunning stadium spectacular Ben Hur.

Shailla attended the inspiring Choc Tops Forum with renown story analyst Karel Segers.

Shailla attended the lively comedy show “Allah Made me Funny” at the comedy store featuring international comedians Preacher Moss, Mo Amer and Azhar Usman.

Shailla played the role of the trouble-solver/maker Alex alongside a fantastic memorable team of cast and crew on the road movie “What She Would Have Wanted”, directed by Adrian Tan, for the 48h Project. Her favourite part of the movie: Adrian’s mum’s delicious home made food

Kai Pantano Shailla Quadra Jennifer Fitzgerald behind the scenes of What She Would Have Wanted

Shailla played the very exciting wicked role of “Les, the Bulletgirlz Boss” for the Redd Inc competition.

To watch the clip, have a great laugh and give your five starts vote just visit: http://www.reddincthemovie.com/Submissions/Acting/Acting546

September 2010

Shailla attended the very anticipated first of its kind in Australia, mobile phone film festival “Mobile Screenfest”.

Shailla attended the exclusive preview screening of the heartwarming and inspiring film “Made in Dagenham”.

Shailla played the leading role in the express production “Burn the House” directed by Jason Linney for International Film School Sydney.

Shailla Quadra Michael Halikos Jason Linney Sati Ya Or behind the scenes of Burning Down The House

Shailla attended the exclusive Sydney event with marketing guru and legend Jay Conrad Levinson, Joel Roberts, and others.

Shailla Quadra and marketing guru and legend Jay Conrad Levinson.

Shailla is now represented by 7 Flavours Talent Agency.

August 2010

Shailla joined the very talented cast and crew of “Shrove Tuesday” for the film’s exclusive premiere.

Shailla played the role of a tenacious justice fighter foreign secretary alongside Phillip Mcdonald at the comedy “Here Comes Harvey”, written and directed by Phillip Mcdonald.

Shailla attended the Creative Marketing Bootcamp Workshop with Australia’s Freelancing Expert Monica Davidson.

Shailla played the leading character in “The End”, a touching film by super talented upcoming director Raquel Turner.

The film is now online open to audiences worldwide to watch and vote.

You can find “The End” film by Raquel Turner at:

http://www.mobilescreenfest.com/Mobile-Phone-Films.asp

(“The End” is under the Best Drama category)

If you’re too curious to watch it, to make it quicker, here is the link that goes straight to the film: http://www.mobilescreenfest.com/PlayVideo.aspx?CompetitionEntryId=533

The film duration is 4 minutes.

To vote is very quick, just click on the rating stars next to the film (at the main film list page under “Drama”) and it will prompt you to login, then you just throw in your name and email to login and vote.

Enjoy & Thank you!

July 2010

Shailla launched Showmee2 actors & crew pages to make it easier for everybody to find each other and work together in upcoming projects.

Visit http://www.showmee2.com/ to find out how you can get your very own artist profile URL page entirely free to make it easier to market your career and open the doors to new opportunities.

“Smile”, the very scary horror film written produced and directed by Robin Maksic, where Shailla plays the leading role, will be screening at the Sydney Film School Film Festival at the Chauvel Cinema.

*screening time info coming soon.*

Shailla is inviting all friends and fans to come along!

Shailla attended the Actors Pulse Industry Professionals Seminar.

Jennifer Fitzgerald Jody Dwyer Shailla Quadra at the Actors Pulse Industry Professionals Seminar.