Submerge is a slight but engaging drama about life, lust and relationships within the world of the Australian Academy.
Jordan (Lily Hall) is an undergrad student, seeking to enlighten herself about ancient civilisations. In between lectures, and assignments, she is attempting to break through in the world of competitive swimming. In these efforts, she is alternately hindered and cheered on by bi flatmate and young Lothario, Lucas (Kevin Dee), and her ambitious/pushy mother, who is never off the phone, exhorting her to train harder, do better.
Exhorting? Not quite. As far as her mother is concerned, Jordan’s future lies in the water and if that means deferring her university course for a year, so be it.
This, though, Jordan is reluctant to do. For not only is she in love with her subject but she is falling for one of her lecturers, Angie (Christina Hallett). The latter, though,...
Jordan (Lily Hall) is an undergrad student, seeking to enlighten herself about ancient civilisations. In between lectures, and assignments, she is attempting to break through in the world of competitive swimming. In these efforts, she is alternately hindered and cheered on by bi flatmate and young Lothario, Lucas (Kevin Dee), and her ambitious/pushy mother, who is never off the phone, exhorting her to train harder, do better.
Exhorting? Not quite. As far as her mother is concerned, Jordan’s future lies in the water and if that means deferring her university course for a year, so be it.
This, though, Jordan is reluctant to do. For not only is she in love with her subject but she is falling for one of her lecturers, Angie (Christina Hallett). The latter, though,...
- 10/19/2020
- by Jane Fae
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The final installment of the First Time Fest… The First Time Fest’s closing night was held on March 4th. Hosted by Academy Award winner Ellen Burstyn (The Exorcist), the Players Club lit up with flashes of cameras and smiles of the first time filmmakers anxiously awaiting whose film will win the grand prize- the chance to have their film distributed by Cinema Libre Studios.
Johanna Bennett and Mandy founded the festival after noticing there wasn’t a venue for where new filmmakers can get their film viewed and appreciated. In attendance at the closing night ceremony were Tony Bennett and Jack Huston, as well as Martin Scorsese, who presented the First John Huston Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinema to Darren Aronofsky, who was also in attendance. Anthony Rapp presented the awards as guests ate food from Chef Diane Dimeo and drank champagne by Nicolas Feuillatte. Also in attendance...
Johanna Bennett and Mandy founded the festival after noticing there wasn’t a venue for where new filmmakers can get their film viewed and appreciated. In attendance at the closing night ceremony were Tony Bennett and Jack Huston, as well as Martin Scorsese, who presented the First John Huston Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinema to Darren Aronofsky, who was also in attendance. Anthony Rapp presented the awards as guests ate food from Chef Diane Dimeo and drank champagne by Nicolas Feuillatte. Also in attendance...
- 4/5/2013
- by Catherina Gioino
- Nerdly
The First Time Fest was created by Johanna Bennett and Mandy Ward as a way to showcase new upcoming filmmakers and their works, and to get them a head start in their industry. The festival occurred on March 1st to 4th at The Players Club in New York, which was a club started by some well-known writers and actors, including Edwin Booth (John Wilkes Booth’s brother), Mark Twain, and more.
While the festival does support new filmmakers in their journey, it also awards previous filmmakers who have made names for themselves. Being that this is the first year of the festival, the first ever John Huston Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinema went to Darren Aronofsky. The award is named in honor of John Huston as he was a esteemed member of The Players Club, as well as considered to be one of the most influential writer, actor, director and producers of all times.
While the festival does support new filmmakers in their journey, it also awards previous filmmakers who have made names for themselves. Being that this is the first year of the festival, the first ever John Huston Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinema went to Darren Aronofsky. The award is named in honor of John Huston as he was a esteemed member of The Players Club, as well as considered to be one of the most influential writer, actor, director and producers of all times.
- 3/16/2013
- by Catherina Gioino
- Nerdly
The act of writing is — for the most part — a lonely, solitary activity and not very cinematically engaging, both visually and emotionally. Yet, filmmakers keep making films about writers. The way successful films make writers and their occupation exciting is usually by surrounding them with active characters with intense personalities.
For example, the Coen brothers paired up Barton Fink with a serial killer and Stephen King pitted author Paul Sheldon against maniacal super fan Annie Wilkes in Misery. (Granted, Misery was a book first, but Rob Reiner and William Goldman transformed it into a pretty stellar, cinematic film.)
Australian underground filmmaker Dominic Deacon also picks a couple of psychos to bedevil his writer main character, Frank Bannister (Haydn Evans), in the twisty mind-warp thriller Burlesque, but his antagonists are far more sexier than Annie Wilkes or Madman Munt.
Deacon never actually shows Bannister writing, but we learn through dialogue that...
For example, the Coen brothers paired up Barton Fink with a serial killer and Stephen King pitted author Paul Sheldon against maniacal super fan Annie Wilkes in Misery. (Granted, Misery was a book first, but Rob Reiner and William Goldman transformed it into a pretty stellar, cinematic film.)
Australian underground filmmaker Dominic Deacon also picks a couple of psychos to bedevil his writer main character, Frank Bannister (Haydn Evans), in the twisty mind-warp thriller Burlesque, but his antagonists are far more sexier than Annie Wilkes or Madman Munt.
Deacon never actually shows Bannister writing, but we learn through dialogue that...
- 10/27/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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