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Alexandra Keddie, Drew Weston and Gemma Bird Matheson in ‘The Housemate.’

Frustrated with the scarcity of job offers, two years ago young actors Gemma Bird Matheson and Alexandra Keddie decided to launch their own production company, Chips & Gravy Films.

Their maiden production was The Housemate, an affectionate take on The Bachelor. They spent several thousand dollars of their own money to make a 4-minute teaser, in which they played friends who are searching for the housemate of their dreams, posted it online and got 260,000 views in the first week.

So they sent the teaser to Rick Kalowski, then the ABC’s head of comedy, who called them within 30 minutes and quickly commissioned a series of 6 x 5′ episodes for iview.

Since then the duo have created four or five projects which are in development with Screen Australia, while Matheson also performs in plays (currently the Griffin Theatre Company’s Superheroes...

The ‘Dark Whispers’ creative team. (Photo: Lauren Orrell)

The impact of Covid-19 is having far reaching effects on the entire world and no one industry is immune to the fallout, however freelancers and casual workers (including independent filmmakers) are the canaries in the coal mine.

Megan Riakos.

I was in the United States at Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival with our feature Dark Whispers – Volume 1 (produced by myself and Leonie Marsh) when the Covid shutdowns escalated. The festival was abandoned midway in after the mayor shut down the city’s large events, leaving festival staff, audiences and of course the filmmakers from around the world shell shocked and stranded in San Jose. We were lucky and got to screen some of our sessions but others now have films without an official premiere and at a loss of what to do about their release strategy. As filmmakers do, we congregated at...

Nicholas Hope in an episode of ‘Deadhouse Dark’ (Photo: Lauren Orrell).

Enzo Tedeschi’s horror anthology Deadhouse Dark will have its world premiere in the short form competition at Canneseries, the only Australian entry in the event which runs alongside the Miptv market in Cannes.

The other nine contenders are Broder (Argentina), Dog Days (Canada), Christmas on Blood Mountain (Norway), Cryptid (Sweden), First Person (Canada), Replay (France), The Writers. A Short Series (Poland), Tony (Argentina) and Zero Day (Us).

Jamie Bamber is the president of the short form competition jury, serving with Erin Moriarty and French actor/filmmaker Timothée Hochet.

The award of Best Short Form Series will be presented during the festival’s closing ceremony on April 1.

Screen Australia and Screen Queensland funded the series of six short horror films for YouTube and Tedeschi’s deadhouse.tv, anchored by a woman who orders a ‘mystery box’ from the dark web,...

Sleeping Beauty Emily Browning Nude Scenes Video. The Sleeping Beauty (2011) Emily Browning nude scenes video from the Julia Leigh directed film showcases what I assume to be all or the majority of the scenes in the film where Emily Browning is in a state of underdress. Sleeping Beauty‘s plot synopsis: “Death-haunted, quietly reckless, Lucy (Emily Browning) is a young university student who takes a job as a Sleeping Beauty. In the Sleeping Beauty Chamber old men seek an erotic experience that requires Lucy’s absolute submission. This unsettling task starts to bleed into Lucy’s daily life and she develops an increasing need to know what happens to her when she is asleep.”

We previously posted the Sleeping Beauty (2011) Movie Trailer.

Sleeping Beauty also stars Rachael Blake, Michael Dorman, Mirrah Foulkes, Ewen Leslie, Nathan Page, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Henry Nixon, Joel Tobeck, Chris Haywood, Les Chantery, James Fraser, and Lauren Orrell.

The Sleeping Beauty Emily Browning Underwear, Lingerie Photos have premiered. The Sleeping Beauty (2011) Emily Browning underwear, lingerie photos are pretty self explanatory. The most telling one is the one where Emily Browning is in bed with an older gentlemen and she seems asleep.

Julia Leigh‘s Sleeping Beauty plot synopsis: “Death-haunted, quietly reckless, Lucy (Emily Browning) is a young university student who takes a job as a Sleeping Beauty. In the Sleeping Beauty Chamber old men seek an erotic experience that requires Lucy’s absolute submission. This unsettling task starts to bleed into Lucy’s daily life and she develops an increasing need to know what happens to her when she is asleep.”

We previously posted the Sleeping Beauty (2011) Movie Trailer and the Sleeping Beauty (2011) Movie Poster.

Sleeping Beauty also stars Rachael Blake, Michael Dorman, Mirrah Foulkes, Ewen Leslie, Nathan Page, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Henry Nixon, Joel Tobeck, Chris Haywood, Les Chantery,...

The Sleeping Beauty Movie Poster has premiered. The movie poster for Julia Leigh‘s Sleeping Beauty (2011) depicts Emily Browning in a state of undress. Sleeping Beauty stars Rachael Blake, Michael Dorman, Mirrah Foulkes, and Ewen Leslie. Sleeping Beauty‘s plot synopsis: “Death-haunted, quietly reckless, Lucy (Emily Browning) is a young university student who takes a job as a Sleeping Beauty. In the Sleeping Beauty Chamber old men seek an erotic experience that requires Lucy’s absolute submission. This unsettling task starts to bleed into Lucy’s daily life and she develops an increasing need to know what happens to her when she is asleep.” We previously posted the Sleeping Beauty Movie Trailer.

Sleeping Beauty will make its theatrical debut at 2011 Cannes Film Festival. Sleeping Beauty also stars Nathan Page, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Henry Nixon, Joel Tobeck, Chris Haywood, Les Chantery, James Fraser, and Lauren Orrell. Look at the Sleeping Beauty movie...