Fresh Ink Living cruise review celebrity summit la dolce vita Check us on Instagram Follow us on Tumblr View us on Flickr Watch us on YouTube Watch us on Vimeo Follow us on Twitter Find us on Facebook Subscribe to our RSS About About Fresh Ink About Australian Theatre for Young People Programs Commissions Masterclasses Mentorship National Studio Call for entries! Our 2012 National Studio cruise review celebrity summit Tutors Blog Interviews Lachlan Philpott Alana Valentine Films Bat Eyes (2012) Boot (2012) To Be (2012) Original Monologues Boot (2012) Little Love (2012) Our Love Bytes films The Voices Project About The Voices Project Stage Play The One Sure Thing (2012) Tell It Like It Isn t (2011) Films Bat Eyes (2012) Boot (2012) To Be (2012) Original Monologues cruise review celebrity summit Boot (2012) Little Love (2012) Our Love Bytes films Publication Contact Us Blog Living la dolce vita / no comments BAT EYES screened at the Venice Film Festival in the final of YouTube s Your Film Festival on Sunday, 2nd September. Writer Jessica Bellamy cruise review celebrity summit was in Venice with the support of atyp s Fresh Ink program, made possible through the generous support of the Graeme Wood Foundation. cruise review celebrity summit Y ou can watch BAT EYES here. Well, BAT EYES turn about Venice cruise review celebrity summit has finally come to its end! I wonder what s next for this little film that could? From Ireland, to Venice, to Germany we are all quite astounded at the degree to which this film has touched people around the world.
It was a 2.30pm showing, where we got to tread the red carpet, get clapped at by some film obsessives camped out by the barricades, and then sit and watch all ten of the finalist films before the winner was announced.
It was fascinating to see what sort of stories are being told around the world. It was great to think about the things that all of humanity have in common, cruise review celebrity summit but also to see films very neatly contextualised within a culture I had never experienced before like gang warfare in the streets of Brazil, or what happens inside a flight navigational tower. My favourites (after BAT EYES of course) cruise review celebrity summit were LA CULPA (Director: David Victori, Spain) and NORTH ATLANTIC (Director: Bernardo cruise review celebrity summit Nascimento, cruise review celebrity summit Britain and Portugal ) and I recommend cruise review celebrity summit checking them out on YouTube
After the screening, Michael Fassbender cruise review celebrity summit got up to announce the winner, who was the very talented David Victori, director of LA CULPA . While it was slightly sad not to win, the whole team felt that David s film was utterly deserving of the grant. cruise review celebrity summit And as much as there is the cliche of it was an honour just to be nominated it really was a HUGE honour just to be included in this Top 10 of emerging storytellers.
And we went to the afterparty. And Michael Fassbender led the team to the afterparty, and every teenager within 100km came running after him, actually abandoning bicycles in the middle of the road, screaming and guttural-heaving, to enter the party that we were about to go to. We had a few photos with Michael, hung out and chatted to other filmmakers and watched the sunset flash and shine off the tiles on the Excelsior Hotel, and brave bikini babes swim in Lido beach.
Venice (Part 1) I've been working out how to even start this travel blog for several days now, because how on earth do you describe Venice? If you were to describe it to someone who'd never heard of it, would it even sound real? Would it sound possible? On the very long plane ride to Dubai, I was reading cruise review celebrity summit a book Fresh Ink Manager Dan Prichard gave me before I left, Italo Calvino's Impossible Cities . In the book, explorer Marco Polo (after whom Venice's airport is named!) sits and converses with Kublai Khan. Marco Polo has been given the task of exploring the Emperor's huge empire, and reporting back on each of the nooks and crannies cruise review celebrity summit he is in charge of.
We hear about cities where the air citizens breathe is densely packed mud. Where humans multiply, quickly and clone-like, until hundreds of bodies are crammed into each room of a house, standing on each others' shoulders. And a town that hangs upside down from one long string, challenging gravity, living on knifes' edge at all times.
I won't ruin the book by telling you how these are connected – but I will mention one last thing about it – are any of these concepts cruise review celebrity summit weirder, more exotic, or more fantastical than the Venice that truly exists? Venice is a city of improbability cruise review celebrity summit and optimism. It is seriously a bunch of floating barges packed with palaces, spritz aperol, and artwork. Scaffolding work is carried out on every corner, cruise review celebrity summit all the time. It is a community of people who are aware of the expiry date of a city made on water, but who soldier on nonetheless to continue living here.
Venice is full of tourists, which is part of the fun of it. It really is like a weird Disneyland where everything exists to make you delighted. The first time it rained I was taken aback because I didn't think it rained in paradise.
Also, everything just works here. A public transport system of ferries is bang on time, which amazes me when Sydney can't even get buses to work. Everything is so walkable, so close to everything else. I realised last night I could walk 10 minutes down one lane and be in St Marco Square, walk 10 minutes another way and be at Rialto, and then 10 minutes to check out Venice's oldest theatre (where each patron's bottom cruise review celebrity summit has its own air conditioning vent under the chair), and 10 minutes back to be at my front door.
Venice is exhausting, but the only way to survive this is to make sure your body is constantly fuelled. By which I mean: it's time to go find that shop that made soft serve coffee ice-cream cruise review celebrity summit and eat 17 more of them. But before I go: a little story about the first event for the Your Film Festival.
Last night was a 'meet the press and sponsors' event for the Your Film Festival, so the whole Bat Eyes team got frocked up to go and party. It was held at the stunning Excelsior Hotel in Lido, just 100 metres from the red carpet.
Somewhere amongst chatting to important people, we heard loud, animalistic screams coming from the red carpet, because Zac Efron had arrived. And there we were, networking like idiots when obviously we should have been all up in Efron's grill like the High School cruise review celebrity summit Musical fans we all are. Right? But it wasn't all searing regret and heartbreak. We got some great feedback from fellow filmmakers and sponsors about the film, and how they were touched by it, which was lovely. I realised just how excitingly global this contest really was – and I can't wait to see the top 10 films of this team of filmmakers on Sunday afternoon.
Until then, time to go get some coffee cruise review celebrity summit ice-cream and hook it right into my veins. JESSICA BELLAMY Jessica Bellamy is a Sydney-based playwright. She holds a Graduate Diploma of Dramatic Art in Playwriting (NIDA). cruise review celebrity summit In 2011 she presented Celebrity Healing at Canberra's You Are Here Festival and Griffin Theatre's Griffringe, had an excerpt of Endless Light and Endless Sound shown at the National cruise review celebrity summit Play Festival, and wrote A Fourth of Nature, a play for 18 young performers, for the ACT Department of Education's School Spectacular. Jessica s play Sprout won her the 2011 Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award, while Little Love , her monologue for The Voices Project 2011: Tell It Like It Isn t , was adapted by Jessica and director Damien Power for the film Bat Eyes as part of The Voices Project . Read an interview with Jessica about her work, here . No Comments Leave a Comment
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