We’re excited to announce our September 2024 monthly semi-finalists of our Thrills and Chills Fantasy, Sci-Fi and Horror Fest. Our semi-finalist films will be in consideration to be selected for our live screening in October 2024, where the annual winners for each category will be announced.
We have changed the shape of this event in response to the community.
Studio 138 is thrilled to once again partner with Voices of Women to bring story telling workshops and a live event to Dubbo.
The storymaking workshops
Come and have a yarn, share or create a new story.
If you can speak you can write. If you have a story to tell, you are welcome to these storytelling sessions (of course, writers are also welcome!) During the workshops, we will work together to share ideas and stories, with the aim of developing them into monologues that may be performed by actors and musicians at a live reading event on Sunday in Dubbo.
Maybe the stories are inspired by your real-life experiences – with relationships, climate change, drought or other issues that you are facing. Maybe the stories come completely from your imagination! Our workshops bring women together in a safe, friendly space to collaborate and create magic from ideas and words.
You’ll be surprised what happens when we get together and get creative. There’s a lot of laughter, but also stories that inspire us about how we live our lives, about how we navigate the people and the place around us, and how sharing can make all the difference as we face the future.
The workshops are in small groups (maximum of 15). They begin with a focus on the place where we live, collecting sounds and colours, conversations and experiences from our area. Then we turn to storymaking and shaping a short piece. In the middle of it all we share refreshments, jokes, and connections.
We will work together to share ideas and stories, with the aim of developing or recording them into monologues that may be performed by actors and musicians at a live event on Saturday.
The workshops are fun and inclusive, facilitated by Voices of Women Artistic Director Lliane Clarke and Dubbo writer and performer Kalina Davis, supported by Studio 138 Dubbo producer and director Erifili Davis. We walk alongside First Nations women and welcome women from diverse communities, including women from LGBTQI+ communities.
Choose your session or come to both! The most important thing is to register.
There will be 2 workshops to be held:
Fri 15th Mar 2024, 5.30 pm to 8.30 pm
Sat 16th Mar 2024, 10.00 am to 12.00 pm
The workshops are facilitated but because of their flexible nature, each workshop will be completely different!
Single workshop including refreshments – $15 +bf
Two workshops including refreshments – $25 + bf
Location:
Art Club Dubbo Studio, 13b Bultje Street, Dubbo (next to FastLane drive through coffee)
Hear the stories read live by trained performers, wrapped in live music by award-winning composer in residence Elizabeth Jigalin. Watch short films made by local women, hear from local creative Shannon Barnes, a proud Ngiyampaa Wangaaypuwan woman and Managing Director of Boomalli Consulting, and watch the award-winning Entanglement film, screened around the world including at the United Nations Women’s Conference in Rwanda 2023.
Includes refreshments.
Sat 16th Mar 2024, 1.00 pm to 3.00 pm
Tickets – $25 + bf
Art Club Dubbo Studio, 13b Bultje Street, Dubbo (next to FastLane drive through coffee)
The official selections of the 2024 Romance Rules Film Festival were screened at the Black Box Theatre Theatre at the Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo, on February 16, 2024.
What a fantastic night of diverse films!
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Program
Official selections
Slow Dating, dir Adam Szudrich (Australia)
For a Moment, dir Coco Tolentino (United States)
A Rose in the Mud, dir Kailey McComas (United States)
Dear Heartbreak, dir Ffion Pritchard (United Kingdom)
TutuTango, dir Dorothee Elfring, Michael Finbar Sheehan (United States)
Bud, dir Jamie Martinez (United States)
Beta Days, dir Dan Walls (Australia)
The Holidaze of Noelle Snow, dir Courtney Anne McLaren (United States)
Featured film (non-competition)
Greek Philosophia And Chickens, dir Aimiende Negbenebor Sela (United States)
Nominees and award winners
Audience Favourite Award Winner
Winner:
TutuTango, dir Dorothee Elfring, Michael Finbar Sheehan (United States)
Equal second:
The Holidaze of Noelle Snow, dir Courtney Anne McLaren (United States)
Join us for the 2024 screening of the Romance Rules Film Festival. We have a great line-up of short films from around the world all about romance – the good, the bad and the ugly!
When: February 16, 2024 @ 7.30 pm Venue: Black Box Theatre, Western Plains Cultural Centre, 76 Wingewarra Street, Dubbo, New South Wales, 2830 BYO: Drinks & snacks Some films include adult themes, sexual references and occasional coarse language
Tickets: $12 each (including GST) online and at the door
Featured film (non-competition) “Greek Philosophia And Chickens”
We are so excited to present the award winning short Greek Philosophia And Chickens, written by Despina Moraitu Politzi, directed by Aimiende Negbenebor Sela and starring Germaine Gaudet (How to Successfully Fail in Hollywood, River of Ghosts), Brian D Cohen (Nash Bridges, The Rookie), Lukas Hassel (Blacklist, Slapface, Limitless) and Lainie Kazan (My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Gigli, Tango Shalom).
Part drama, part comedy with a hint of romance, Greek Philosophia and Chickens follows a sixty-something best-selling romance author who, feeling invisible as woman, hires an assassin to take her out. An encounter with chef/restaurant owner, Niko, and his vivacious waitress mother, Katina, from whom she learns a Greek philosophy/saying that really gets her thinking maybe…?
Official Selections
Beta Days, dir Dan Walls (Australia)
A Rose in the Mud, dir Kailey McComas (United States)
Bud, dir Jamie Martinez (United States)
For a Moment, dir Coco Tolentino (United States)
Dear Heartbreak, dir Ffion Pritchard (United Kingdom)
The Holidaze of Noelle Snow, dir Courtney Anne McLaren (United States)
Slow Dating, dir Adam Szudrich (Australia)
TutuTango, dir Dorothee Elfring, Michael Finbar Sheehan (United States)
All official selections will be eligible to be voted as “Audience Favourite”.
Finalists
Category winners will be announced at the end of the screening.
We’re excited to be announcing our December 2023 monthly semi-finalists of our Thrills and Chills Fantasy, Sci-Fi and Horror Fest. Our semi-finalist films will be in consideration to be selected for our live screening in October 2024, where the annual winners for each category will be announced.
After their hit show Entanglement during the inaugural Dubbo Fringe Festival in 2021, Voices of Women returns with Amplify, a wild hour of stories and music that reveal our true selves and what we can become, of beauty, incisive reality, hilarity and inspiration.
Amplify is written and performed by Australian women, including diverse and First Nations women from Dubbo.
Voices of Women “Entanglement”, May 2021
Voices of Women “Entanglement”, May 2021
Voices of Women “Entanglement”, May 2021
Voices of Women “Entanglement”, May 2021
Images from Voices of Women “Entanglement”
When: Fri 4th Mar 2022, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm AEDT
Where: Studio 138, Dubbo (access via Myer car Park, Brisbane Street)
You may choose either live or live stream ticket options. Please note: all live ticket holders will receive live stream links in case their circumstances change and they are unable to attend on the night. Live seating is strictly limited.
6.30 Short film ENTANGLEMENT and artists talk
7 – 8pm Live performance
In collaboration with Outback Writers Centre, Studio 138 Dubbo and supported by Dubbo Council as part of International Women’s Day 2022.
Find out about Voices of Women and the writers and performers involved: https://voiceswomen.com
Studio 138 is pleased to be hosting Entanglement as part of the Dubbo Fringe on May 7 and 8, 2021. Entanglement is a collaboration between Voices of Women, Dubbo’s Outback Writers and Australian women writers. Among the incredible female performers who will be presenting these diverse works is Studio 138’s very own Georgie Saunders.
During Entanglement, you will immerse yourself in laughter, surprise and wonder and change the way you think about Australian storytelling.
A dress handed down over generations, a woman who takes her phone on a date, an eerie airport experience in COVID, finding a connection to the earth on country, locked down in a cupboard with only a mop to talk to, and notes to your younger self.
Studio 138 is pleased to be hosting the Kids Rule Film Festival July 17-18, 2020 – a screening of short films for children aged 6 to 14 (all ages welcome). We will be screening films from all around the world including:
animation
comedy
documentary
music
films for kids made by kids
Suggested rating is PG, with some mildly scary scenes. Join us for a session of unique films from Australia and around the world. Plus, vote for your favourite! Scroll down the page for our full program (including some trailers).
There will be 3 screenings with strictly limited audience sizes, total duration just under 60 minutes. Audience members will be required to sign in for contact tracing. Feel free to bring your own snacks and drinks.
Note: children must be accompanied by an adult
We ask, if you are unwell, to stay home.
If you have any questions or are having difficulties booking tickets, email studio138dubbo@gmail.com.
How to get to Studio 138:
Park at and access from Myer car park, Dubbo (off Brisbane Street).
Purchase your tickets securely online using PayPal.
Note – if you would like to book a private screening for up to 12 people ($50 total) please click here to send us an email. This can be one of the scheduled sessions or a seperate session.
July 17, 2020 – 6 pm
All tickets are $5 each person
SOLD OUT
July 18, 2020 – 11 am
All tickets are $5 each person
July 18, 2020 – 4 pm
All tickets are $5 each person
Festival Program
Listen to the Mother of the Sea (Denmark), Rikke Hallund
Detention (USA), Michelle Tang (age 15)
There’s No Place for a Uke on Halloween (Australia), Elizabeth Usher
The Monster (Australia), Quang Tran (age 14)
The Adventures of Balloon Bunny and Mr Dragon (Australia), Elizabeth Hogan (age 14)
The Cloud Cover – A Short-film in Lock-down from Sydney, Australia (Australia), Dev Basak
Wednesday (Canada/French), Lisa Delhom, Jérémy Paquet
Stewy Baby a Dogumentary (USA), Kristin Cooper-Herby
The Double Life of Hugh (USA), Ben Tobin
Ukulele Boogie Woogie (Australia), Elizabeth Usher
Cinematic Love Story (Germany), Patrick Büchting (18)
What the world needs now is more laugh – and what better way to provide then than through an online film festival of short comedy films.
Whilst Studio 138 will not be holding any live events at this time, we still want to bring entertainment from independent artists to Dubbo and around the world. That’s where the idea for an online comedy film festival came from.
Entries are currently open to filmmakers from around the world on FilmFreeway and close May 23, 2020.
The online film festival will be available online privately to ticket holders. The film festival will be screened online June 6 to 7, 2020 (Sydney, Australia time). Tickets will be $AUD5 (plus processing fee).
Audience members will have the opportunity to vote for their favourite film of the festival (one vote per ticket). The audience favourite award winner will receive $US40 and an certificate.
