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Love Socks Movie Online Release on Mothers Day!

To celebrate Love, Family & Socks, ”Love Socks” will be released on Mother’s day!

Made on a tiny budget of just under 1K, this heart felt love story based on a real life health condition that few people are aware of, was brought to life by the passion for movies and storytelling, and the work of many very talented film professionals from Film, TV and Theatre, who felt in love with the story.

It features an outstanding Australian Cast & Crew, also the most beautiful Soundtrack from renowned Artists from Australia and Brazil.

So happy and proud to soon be sharing Love Socks with all of you, all around the world!

Thank you so much for your amazing support throughout this journey!

#Watch #like #share #movietrailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar9xdOJc0_U

“Love Socks” represents the true spirit of independent filmmaking. The film was made by being fuelled only by pure passion for films, funded only by very long hours of continuous work, many amazingly talented people and the support of many big heart businesses that provided their stunningly beautiful locations all around Sydney to support the filmmakers to tell the love socks story.

WATCH “LOVE SOCKS” TRAILER:

LOVE SOCKS MOVIE SYNOPSIS

LOVE SOCKS is a heart-warming story about love, family, friends and bodily function anomalies!

It’s a romantic comedy that follows the story of Frederica. As a child she is diagnosed with a phenomenon known as Raynaud’s, which in her case means she will sneeze forever. Frederica discovers her only respite from this affliction is to wear socks to provide warm to her extremely cold feet. The film exposes the heartaches that ensue when she loses her socks and how her insecurities affect and jeopardize her relationships.

Ultimately, LOVE SOCKS is about letting go of our fears, those inner voices holding us back from opportunities and embracing life and happiness.

The film stars a stellar Australian cast, including Michele Mattiuzzi (Home & Away), Shailla Quadra (Dealing With Destiny), Natalie Rose (The Makeover), Khanh Trieu (Fat Pizza), Olga Markovic (Deadly Woman), Amber Gokken (Gabriel), and many more!

Cinematography by Jack Kelly (Other World) and Marc Stimson (LARP), and a beautiful international soundtrack with some of the best voices from Australia & Brazil, including Snez, Sally Street, Daniel Fontes, Mano Tales, DJ Doido and many more!

LOVE SOCKS is the first feature film as a Writer-Producer-Director-Actress for the film creator Shailla Quadra.

LOVE SOCKS is partly based on true events.

Complete Credits and behind the scenes photos at Official website: http://lovesocksmovie.com/

LOVE SOCKS – Poster Photoshoot by Judith Russo

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Brad Fitt Will Be Mine – Full Film Released Online!

Watch Complete Film Now! Australian Dark Comedy Film by Shailla Quadra

Hello Filmmakers and all Film’s Fans!

Everybody has been asking, so we did it!
Come and join us at the hottest event of the year in Hollywood Style!
“Brad Fitt Will Be Mine” World Launch Online!

Damian Nixey, Marc Petzke, Shailla Quadra and Yolandi Franken featuring at the big “Brad Fitt Will Be Mine” NYCIFF Times Square Premiere open to the entire public in the heart of New York!

“Brad Fit Will Be Mine” written produced and directed by Shailla Quadra

After our glorious premiere in the heart of Times Square at the New York City International Film Festival, in which Shailla Quadra got nominated for the best Lead Actress Award,
then following screenings at the renowned Columbia Gorge International Film Festival, and at Sydney’s biggest genre film festival A Night of Horror International Film Festival,
BFWBM is now finally released online for all fans in the whole wide world to watch, enjoy, gossip, share, bitch about it, love, hate, lol, play again, share some more, go nuts with this super fun
Hollywood satire about what secretly happens behind the scenes of all those blockbusters movie’s productions!

https://youtu.be/moB8YZGpdmE

Jane E Seymour stars as "Mary Heart" at the big "Brad Fitt Will Be Mine" NYCIFF Times Square Premiere open to the entire public in the heart of New York!

Watched the film? Want more?
Check out our Behind The Scenes albums & much more at http://bradfittwillbemine.com/!

Shailla, Jack and Yolandi behind the scenes of "Brad Fitt Will Be Mine". Photo by Romualdo Nubla.

SYNOPSIS:
Hollywood has never been so cut throat! Cyrilla Mal and Kate Loca are the 2 lucky finalists actresses competing for the very competitive female lead role in Hollywood’s upcoming big production of ‘Ocean’s Seventeen’, alongside Brad Fitt, Matt Diamond and host of A list stars! They will do whatever it takes to grab this once in a lifetime opportunity to make their dreams come true! Join Cyrilla, Kate, Brad, and a hand-full of big personalities in this wild journey sure to entertain fans of every genre! Cat-fights, action, guns, music, romance, gossip news, paparazzi, suspense, even a touch of horror, ‘Brad Fitt Will Be Mine’ has them all! Who is going to survive this wild battle and become the big star? What happens next it?s the big mystery and you must watch the film to find out!

Veronica Thajer, Ismail Bashey, Shailla Quadra, James Sayess and Lincoln Fenner at the Awards Night of the New York City International Film Festival.

THE CAST:
Jane E Seymour: Mary Heart
Marc Petzke: Brad Fitt
Shailla Quadra: Cyrilla Mal
Dani Swan: Julia Loca
Andy Minh Trieu: Dragon Lee
Ashley Bennett: Steven
Yolandi Franken: Maria Marvellous
Damian Nixey: Darryn Tigers
Romualdo Nubla: Paparazzi 1
Jonathan Nowrot: Paparazzi 2
Dominic Spagnolo: Paparazzi 3

Marc, Shailla and Yolandi, still image for "Brad Fitt Will Be Mine". Photo by Romualdo Nubla.

THE CREW:
Oleg Chernykh: Assist Director
Kathryn Blom: 1st Assist Director
DOP: Jack Kelly
Oleg Chernykh: Gaffer
Ashley Bennett: Sound
Jonathan Nowrot: Sound
Monie Gabriel: Make Up
Thi Huyen Anh Nguyen: Make Up
Glenn Marsden: Stills Photographer
Romualdo Nubla: Stills Photographer
Dominic Spagnolo: Stills Photographer
Nei Guanlao: Poster Designer

Marc Petzke, Shailla Quadra, Kate Owen and Jane E Seymour. Photo by Glenn Marsden.

THE MUSIC:
As Rockets Fall: Soundtrack Bilal Fouani
Marc Petzke: Playing live in the film

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I LOVE SYDNEY SHORT FILM – ONLINE PREMIERE

Unplanned, Unrehearsed, Unwritten, Uncut!

This really fun short film called “I LOVE SYDNEY” is now having its online premiere!

WATCH NOW: 

http://www.cinephone.org/spain/compartirVideo.php?Id=243

 

I LOVE SYDNEY is an in the moment, very spontaneous film, a la Jim Jarmuch “Coffee and Cigarettes” style, without the coffee or the cigarettes, it’s the story of 5 Australian friends from 5 different parts of the world, Brazil, Russia, Vietnam, USA and Egypt, in the New Years Eve night, going through various conversations and reflections about the recent dramatic and funny events of the year, while waiting for their dinner in a Thai restaurant.

Watch I LOVE SYDNEY now, as part of the CINEPHONE competition, and please vote, only takes a couple of minutes to login and vote, and please share the joy of I LOVE SYDNEY around with your friends!

I LOVE SYDNEY stars Khanh Trieu, Shailla Quadra, Amy Purcell, Sara Bailey and Oleg Chernykh.

WATCH “I LOVE SYDNEY” NOW & VOTE:

http://www.cinephone.org/spain/compartirVideo.php?Id=243

Thank you!

Shailla & “I LOVE SYDNEY”

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Breath taking film BREATHING is now online – Watch Full Film here!

SAFETY WARNING – DANGEROUS STUNT – DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME

'BREATHING" Poster

Turn off the lights and watch it on full screen for a complete breathless experience!

Enjoy, Like & Share with your friends!

WHAT BROUGHT “BREATHING” TO LIFE…

I had no funds to make this movie, just the lots of ideas and the fire to make them happen, so inspired by Robert Rodriguez book “Rebel Without a Crew” in which he mentions that he would look around at what he had and make a movie using those elements, I looked around, I had a bath tub, always had good resistance in the water and to add to the story, lots of anger and pain watching some very sad
events happening in the world.

I’ve always been fascinated with the unlimited number of things we can do in the water, how it feels like flying. From this water obsession I always wanted to play dead in the water. But any of the films I worked before as an actress required such a thing, so I came up with the idea for “BREATHING”, also inspired by some horrible events from around the world that really affected and disturbed me and bugged me.

The first version of “BREATHING” was an experimental challenge that I literally did all by myself for the underground film festival movement called KINO (for the branch in Sydney/Australia). After screening for many film industry friends and receiving a very good feedback, I got really motivated and decided that it would be worth to put some extra time and work into it and decided to gather a small crew and cast together and reshoot the entire film to fix some technical mistakes and to add some extra ideas I had to include in it, to make it even better to screen it in even more film festivals.

I thought about changing the title and making into a whole new film, but the essence and the main story is still the same from the original experiment, so it wouldn’t make sense to change title.

So “BREATHING” came to life again, bigger, bolder, hotter.

BREATHING was selected for “A Night of Horror International Film Festival”, in which it screened to a full house in a completely sold out session!

BREATHING was also screened at the “Newtown Flicks Film Festival” and “Vila do Conde Film Market”.

SHOOTING THE BATH SCENE

I wanted to deliver the best dead in the water scene in cinema history ever. From my water obsession and regular water experiments I knew I could reach that, but I knew that to go to the extent that I was willing to go, I would have to do it alone because anyone watching it live would freak out and probably interrupt me because they wouldn’t be familiar with what I’m able to do. I didn’t want to have the possibility of being interrupted, so I after filming all other scenes for the film, I told the team that this one I needed to do on my own.

I waited till everybody at home finished their doings for the day to make sure nobody would need to use that particular bathroom, which was the only one with a bathtub in the house and it was my grandmother in law bathroom (at the time I was living with the grand-in-laws helping to take care of them). She normally would to go to sleep very late night after watching TV till late, so waited till she finished dinner and was off far from the bathroom in the living room watching TV and asked her to use the other toilets if she needed to go because I needed to use her bathroom.

I got everything ready, then turned on the lights and camera, and there I went to my death scene!

I did a few takes to increase the floating dead time a little bit more in each one. I wasn’t wearing a watch and had no idea of the time, I was just holding my breath in the water until I couldn’t hold any more, then I would come out.

After every go I would ask myself if I could hold a little bit longer to make it even better.

Somewhere between takes grandma was knocking on door asking if was ok, I told her I was just having a bath for her not to worry.

After a few takes it was hard to breath even out of water because with the door and windows closed to block sound, and with the heat from the lights and hot water, the bathroom was very suffocating, but I knew I could do even better.

On the last take, I told myself, I really would not leave the water until my very last millisecond when I could not handle at all. By the end of it, when there was absolutely nothing left on me, I got my head out. I’m pretty sure that one more second I would be dead for real. I dragged myself to open the door so I could breathe because there was no more air in the bathroom.

I had no idea how any of it looked like because I wasn’t watching it and as per my own instruction had nobody watching it, so I only found out what I have achieved when watching everything in the computer screen for the edit.

It was freaky watching myself still dead for so long, kind of sickening.

I had a few takes of dead under water for over 1 minute, and the longest of all was 1:58 minutes.

I was happy, most of all, it make me sick watching it, it was agonizing, so I knew I would provide an interesting experience and reaction to the audience.

Later I had friends who are doctors that after watching the movie told me that it is very dangerous doing that and I could have got some serious health damage. Lucky I didn’t know that and lucky that I didn’t get any health damage, but anyway here is the warning, kids: don’t try this at home!

Please remember to turn off the lights and watch it on full screen for a complete breathless experience!

Enjoy, Like & Share with your friends!

Shailla

BREATHING SYNOPSIS

Elle lost her husband in a terrorist attack and now her challenge is to find a way to join him again somewhere else outside this world.

BREATHING  CREDITS:

SHAILLA QUADRA

Writer, producer, director, editor, actress, composer

ANTHONY DI PLACIDO

Actor (Ethan)

NAY HTAT & MAREENE HANDS

DOP, Sound

MAREENE HANDS

DOP, Sound, Composer

SK

Final Cut Editor