Here is all our monthly results from the Romance Rules Film Festival 2021/22 season.
News
Voices of Women AMPLIFY, Mar 4, live & live streamed
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
When: Fri 4th Mar 2022, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm AEDT
Where: Studio 138, Dubbo (access via Myer car Park, Brisbane Street)
Tickets: $20 (+ booking fee) from
https://events.humanitix.com/voices-of-women-presents-amplify-dubbo-what-s-your-story
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
Find out about Outback Writers Centre:
https://outbackwriters.weebly.com
Questions? Contact create@studio138.com.au
Supported by Dubbo Regional Council through the Shaping Plans to Advance Regional Culture Plan
2022 Kids Rule Film Festival Official Selections
Congratulations to all the official selections for the 2022 Kids Rule Film Festival.
Films for children, worldwide
Roman Pilgrim – The Tale of Wishful Creek, dir Anny Slater
Films by children (under 18) for children
Disorienteering – dir William Poole
Strings – dir Markello Souvlis
Connect 4, dir Adithya Buddhavarapu
The Missing Piece, dir Veronica Crown
Family Till Forever, dir Crisa Bonifacio
Connection Secured!, dir Baran Akhavan
New Home, dir Aiko Siedlecki
Melting Hearts, dir Chloe Flintoff
A New Friendship, dir Nea Rivamonte
Connection, dir Annabelle Hall
Fish Friend, dir Alaura Mesina
Behind the Window, dir Nick de Visser
The Revolution, dir Camille De Guzman
Downtiming, dir William Poole
The Odd Mush Out, dir Suraj Eswaran
Bacon, dir Elizabeth Hogan
LOOK, dir Hanyu Yang
‘Student Rite-of-Passage N°5; Through the Night’, dir Ching Chi Chan
Project Connection, dir Melissa Cuartas
MASTERS OF PERSUASION, dir Mila and Lula Kazantzidis
The jungle, dir Children of the Nordmarkt primary school
Invader, dir Sui San Lo, Chun Wai Liu, Ka Kei Chen
Find a Unicorn, dir Nitza Mina Young
Dec 16 2021: Premiere Screening of “5 Days” short film
Studio 138 will be hosting a screening of the short film, 5 Days, along with the music video for Whisperhead’s Paranoia.
When: Thursday, December 16, 2021
Where: Black Box Theatre, upstairs Western Plains Cultural Centre Community Arts Rooms (block of old classrooms backing on the Gipps Street)
Tickets: $5 (see link below)
What: Film screening (approx 12 mins), music video screening, Q&A with the crew and performers. The whole event will go for approximately 45-60 minutes. Light refreshments will be available.
Please note: the film features occasional coarse language, horror themes and mild violence – viewer discretion is advised.
About 5 Days: in a world overrun by monsters, four young women must put aside their differences and work together to have any hope of survival.
5 Days was written as a lock down project in 2021. Rehearsed via Google Meet, the short film was shot in Dubbo in October 2021. We look forward to seeing you at the screening.
Pay for your tickets securely online ($5 each) using PayPal.
Ausmusic Month | Dubbo edit
November is Ausmusic Month. Ausmusic Month is all about celebrating Australian music, and supporting the local music industry. Studio 138 thought it would be a great idea to curate a collection of Dubbo music and musicians. Below you’ll find videos and Spotify playlists performed by local musicians.
Click here to send an email if you think there’s something or someone we should add to the list.
It’s no news that musicians have done it tough over the last 2 years. Supporting local musicians isn’t hard – this list is a good place to start. How else can you support local musicians?
- Play their music on Spotify (this is one of the easiest)
- Go watch them live
- Watch their streamed performances
- Watch their videos and react and comment (if you have something nice to say)
- Follow their social media accounts
- Buy their merchandise (not always possible, but nice if you can)
- Love it? Share it! Spread the word to the people you know
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Watch it
Music videos by Dubbo musicians
Studio 138 presents Small Space Gigs featuring The Mudflappers
Live @ 5: Small town singer in her slippers
Through lockdown and beyond, we’ve loved The Creative Voice Studio’s Camilla Ward’s short, fun and sometimes moving Sunday sessions. Each week, Camilla invites her audience to suggest songs which usually results in a unique and quirky mashup performed by the multi-talented Camilla. Themes covered so far include the 80s and TV themes. Things don’t always go to plan (it is live, after all), but the Sunday sessions with Camilla, ably assisted by husband David and the family pooch, are always a joy to watch. Catch the sessions live on The Creative Voice Studio page on Facebook. Watch the replays via the YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxYbowjSt8hBhM761O9L6dg/featured
Listen
Under Western Skies 2020
Civil Hands
Eraser
Turn on the Lights
One Proud Monkey
Clinton Hoy
New original music: “Settle the Score”
Dubbo band, Indistinct Chatter, have released their latest song, Settle the Score, featuring singer Andrea Ayling.
Listen to Settle the Score on streaming services:
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/3RbxJ1hx0Xk2ADfU46NLmW
iTunes: https://music.apple.com/us/album/settle-the-score-feat-andrea-ayling-single/1577670181
YouTube Music: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=0YOyKMaHNrc&feature=share
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/settle-the-score-feat-andrea-ayling-single/1577670181?uo=4
Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com.au/albums/B09B1NBP1T?trackAsin=B09B1PWBHZ
Settle the Score was written by Indistinct Chatter member, Michael Davis, who wanted to write a powerful ballad that resonated with women.
“I wasn’t really sure where the song was going or how good it could be until the first time I heard Andrea sing it. I knew I wanted her to be the one to record it. In my view she transforms the song into a potent message that’s difficult to ignore. Is it a happy ending or is it a tragedy? I’ll leave that for the listener to decide.”
Dubbo talent, online with love
So a lot of shows and music events have been cancelled over the next couple of weeks but that doesn’t mean that you need to miss out on being entertained by some of Dubbo’s most talented. Here is a collection of some of our favourites we’ve put together for your enjoyment – click here to send an email if you think there’s something or someone we should add to the list.
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- Watch it
- Music videos by Dubbo musicians (free)
- Recorded live theatre – Rehearsed: Staged readings of local writers ($5-$10)
- Dubbo short films (free)
- “A Woman’s Touch” short film ($5.50, 365 days access)
- “Seeing” short film (free, contributions optional)
- Studio 138 presents Small Space Gigs featuring The Mudflappers (free)
- Author live reading: Val Clark reads her novel “Lost: A N’arth Chronicle” (free)
- Live @ 5: Small town singer in her slippers
- Listen
Watch it
Music videos by Dubbo musicians (free)
Recorded live theatre – Rehearsed: Staged readings of local writers ($5-$10)
A recording of a unique evening of local actors presenting rehearsed readings of the work of Dubbo writers by Wesley House Players. Plays, poems, short stories, monologues – exploring life’s big – and little – questions. Ticket = 1 years access.
Dubbo short films (free)
A selection of short films made in Dubbo or by filmmakers from Dubbo.
“A Woman’s Touch” short film ($5.50, 365 days access)
When an aspiring, small town actress, lands the audition of a lifetime, she must choose between giving the director what he wants, and what he needs.
A comedy/drama shot in Dubbo, NSW as part of the Script to Screen Workshops in 2018/19 made possible through the support of Create NSW and Dubbo Regional Council. Dubbo Filmmakers is a not-for-profit established to promotes screen creation in Dubbo and surrounding areas. Revenue raised from the film will be put towards our programs and projects to develop local skills and talent and encourage community participation.
A Woman’s Touch was screened as part of the 2021 Artemis Women in Action Film Festival. Watch it here:
https://www.onjam.tv/dubbo-filmmakers-inc/a-woman-s-touch
“Seeing” short film (free, contributions optional)
Seeing is a supernatural suspense drama about a young woman forced to choose between saving the lives of innocent children and saving her own life.
Izzi, 26, has become a recluse as her ‘gift’ meant she started losing herself to darkness. A former colleague begs her to help the police find who has responsible for a spate of missing children. Will Izzi agree and risk herself? Or will she walk away with children still disappearing?
Seeing was entirely shot in Dubbo with local cast and crew. Watch it online:
Studio 138 presents Small Space Gigs featuring The Mudflappers (free)
Author live reading: Val Clark reads her novel “Lost: A N’arth Chronicle” (free)
Fifteen year old Shannon Mackay, kidnapped and transported from Earth to the dying world of N’arth, has only one way back-save N’arth. Will she survive assassination attempts, betrayals and slavery and fulfil her quest? Armed with her wits, determination, courage, a sword, and eventually a few friends, she embarks on a perilous journey.
Award winning Dubbo author, Val Clark, reads her young adult novel Lost: A N’arth Chronicle in a series of Facebook Live videos. (Tip: go to the last video to get to the first chapter).
https://www.facebook.com/narthishere/videos
Live @ 5: Small town singer in her slippers
Through lockdown and beyond, we’ve loved The Creative Voice Studio’s Camilla Wards short, fun and sometimes moving Sunday sessions. Each week, Camilla invites her audience to suggest songs which usually results in a unique and quirky mashup performed by the multi-talented Camilla. Themes covered so far include the 80s and TV themes. Things don’t always go to plan (it is live, after all), but the Sunday sessions with Camilla, ably assisted by husband David and the family pooch, are always a joy to watch. Catch the sessions live on The Creative Voice Studio page on Facebook. Watch the replays via the YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxYbowjSt8hBhM761O9L6dg/featured
Listen
Under Western Skies 2020
Civil Hands
Eraser
Turn on the Lights
One Proud Monkey
Clinton Hoy
Romance Rules Film Festival: Monthly results, April 2021/22
Romance Rules Film Festival celebrates all things romance – the good, the bad and the ugly! To find out more or to enter your film, see:
April results – official selections & finalists
“Entanglement”, May 7+8 @ studio 138
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.
Tickets:
Friday, May 7, 2021 @ 7.30 pm: https://www.123tix.com.au/events/16159/entanglement-a-multi-arts-experience
Saturday, May 8, 2021 @ 7.30 pm:
https://www.123tix.com.au/events/16160/entanglement-a-multi-arts-experience
Entanglement is supported by Orana Arts.
Romance Rules Film Festival: Monthly results, March 2021/22
Romance Rules Film Festival celebrates all things romance – the good, the bad and the ugly! To find out more or to enter your film, see:
Romance Rules Film Festival