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Australian Independent Feature Film LOVE SOCKS Wins Best Comedy Award at the Florida Movie Festival

Congratulations to the entire “LOVE SOCKS MOVIE” team!

Thank you to all LOVE SOCKS Cast, Crew, Supporters and Fans for your continuous support!

Thank you everybody from the Florida Movie Festival!

“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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Florida Premiere of Love Socks Movie

Thank you so much to all friends and fans for the amazing support during the “Love Socks” journey!

Thank you everybody who has been joining us at our screenings around the world, and for all the great feedback that you have been enjoying the Love Socks experience!

Now we are very please to announce that LOVE SOCKS will have its Florida Premiere, at the Florida Movie Festival, at the Cinematique of Daytona, in Daytona Beach, from 18th – 20th of March 2016.

Thank you to the Florida Movie Festival for selecting our love story and supporting our love for films!

Thanks again everybody for your great support and love!

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Shailla

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Singapore Premiere of Love Socks Movie

Thank you so much for the amazing support of all Love Socks Team, Supporters, Friends and Fans!

Thank you everybody who joined us at our hometown Premiere, at Sydney at the Sydney Indie Film Festival!

It was a bless and an honour to be able to have our Australian Premiere in the company of some of world’s best in our session, which included “Glow” (Australia) by Ren Thackham, “Lady Luck” (UK) by Jo Lewis, “The Autumn of Zao” (France) by Nikolaus Roche-Kresse, and “Love Anything” (Switzerland) by Etienne Theytaz.

Now we are very please to announce that LOVE SOCKS will have its Singapore Premiere, at the World International Film Festival!

Thank you to the World International Film Festival for selecting our love story and supporting our love for films!

The World International Film Festival will take place in Singapore, from the 8th till the 14th of January 2016, at the GV VivoCity cinemas.

Keep an eye for the upcoming news with upcoming screening dates and locations!

Thanks again everybody for your great support and love!

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Shailla

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Actress Shailla Quadra. Photo by Lucie Zeka Photography. Make Up Artist: Monie Gabriel. LOVE SOCKS MOVIE Photoshoot.

Shailla – Brazilian-Australian Actress-Writer-Producer-Director-Editor

Some actors are referred as “triple threat” when they can act, dance and sing, well, Shailla can be referred at least as “quintuple threat” with all her avid skills as actress and filmmaker that keeps her continuously moving forward.

Shailla was nominated for the Best Lead Actress Award at the NYCIFF – New York City International Film Festival 2011 for her performance in “Brad Fitt Will Be Mine”, film which she also wrote, produced, directed and edited.

She is now finishing up post-production of her first feature film as a Writer-Director-Producer-Actress-Editor, LOVE SOCKS (www.lovesocksmovie.com).

Shailla speaks fluent Portuguese.

Shailla also speaks a little bit of Spanish and Italian; and has also performed in Spanish at the feature film “Who Pays The Hitman”, and in French at the short film “The Kiss”.

You can browse some of her film credits at the Interned Movie Database:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2579036/

Or simply download her complete resume at the resume page here, or just click on the “Resume & Contact” tab above at this website header:

http://shailla.com/yes/film-actress-resume/

WATCH SHOWREEL IN PORTUGUESE:

WATCH SHOWREEL IN ENGLISH:

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"LOVE SOCKS" Movie by Shailla Quadra - Still Image

LOVE SOCKS

LOVE SOCKS MOVIE is a heart warming story about love, family, friends and body functions conflicts!

It’s a romantic comedy that follows the story of Frederica. As a child she is diagnosed with a phenomenon called Reynolds Aguda, which means she will sneeze forever. She finds out that the only way to stop her affliction is to wear socks. The film follows all the troubles that follows when she loses her socks and how her insecurities affects and jeopardizes her relationships.

Ultimately, LOVE SOCKS is about letting go of those little inner demon voices, embracing life and stop missing opportunities of happiness because of our fears.

LOVE SOCKS is partly based in true events.

LOVE SOCKS CAST:
Shailla Quadra, Michele Mattiuzzi, Natalie Rose, Paul Armstrong, Tia Malouhi, Adam Williamson, Rhys Gillmer, Olga Assabgy, Khanh Trieu, Amber Gokken, Amanda Jane Porter, Samantha Beames, Joseph Famularo and many more.

Written, Produced and Directed by Shailla Quadra
an UNSTOPPABLE PRODUCTIONS production

For complete LOVE SOCKS MOVIE credits, behind the scenes stories, photos and the latest updates, visit the film official website: http://lovesocksmovie.com/film/

LOVE SOCKS IMDB PAGE: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3701512/fullcredits

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FILM TITLE: HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR QUARANTINO

How to get a role in a Quarantino Movie!

“HBMQ” CAST: Shailla Quadra, Matt Oxley, Franck Bossi, Chase Lee.

Written, Produced and Directed by Shailla Quadra
an UNSTOPPABLE PRODUCTIONS production

Lee, Oxley & Bossi - "HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR QUARANTINO" Film Still

“HBMQ” CREW:

DOP: HECTOR MARQUEZ

GAFFER: FAWAZ HAMAWY

SOUND: FAWAZ HAMAWY

EDITING: SHAILLA QUADRA

MUSIC: DJ DOIDO

LOCATION THANK YOU:

RUM FIRE Restaurant at the Entertainment Quarter

http://www.rumfire.com.au/

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR QUARANTINO IMDB PAGE: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3731954/fullcredits

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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

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THALAIVAA is now showing in cinemas worldwide!

This spectacular Bollywood production called THALAIVAA directed by A. L. Vijay and produced by Chandra Prakash, featuring Vijay and Amala Paul in the lead roles, in which I played a guest role recently alongside a few other talented Australian actors including Khanh Trieu, Meg MacIntosh, Franco Flammia, Bobby Babin and many others, when they were filming in Sydney, is now showing in cinemas all around the world, including in Sydney until Friday the 16^th.

Due to high demand with all screenings getting completely sold out – THALAIVAA is now showing in Sydney until the 18th of August! Book in advance!

For complete information and book tickets visit: https://www.tamilaustralian.com.au/booking/sydney/

THALAIVAA IMDB PAGE

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Tony Hunt & Shailla Quadra on Set for another take of "Do You Want Tequila"

“Do You Want Tequila” Film Written Produced & Directed by Jack Douglas, in which I play the lead role of Margarita Villas, a librarian with a sinister past looking for love, just released its teaser trailer on YouTube!

Some of the stars of “Do You Want Tequila” include Tony Hunt, Elham Nourian, Sanket Das, Prachi Das, and the star crew includes Jack Kelly as the Director of Photography, Michael Holgate for Sound, Jack Douglas & Ivo Nogueira for Editing, Parth Navanati as the Executive Producer, and many more!

Here is the trailer, enjoy & share!