Thrills and Chills Fantasy, Sci Fi and Horror Fest screening October 18, 2024

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Join us for the screening of the first ever Thrills and Chills Fantasy, Sci Fi and Horror Fest.

We’re celebrating independent genre short films with the most interesting and intriguing genre films from around the world.

As well as thrills, scares, dystopia, and fantasy, you’ll also be treated to a few laughs.

Note – not suitable for audiences under 15. May include gore, supernatural themes, violence, coarse language, and sexual references.

Details:

Location: Studio 138, Unit 1 / 54 Mountbatten Drive, Dubbo, NSW, 2830

Date: October 18, 2024

Time: 7.30 pm

BYO snacks and drinks

Tickets: $11 (inc GST)

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Official selections

‘They’re Coming’
Country of origin: United States
Director(s): Camy “Cameron” Arnett

‘Unit 17: Week 3’
Country of origin: United States
Director(s): David Kaye, Theresa Stefaniak

‘Reboot’
Country of origin: China
Director: CHRIS QI YAO

‘Hidden Prey’
Country of origin: Australia
Director: Kalina Davis

‘Lab Rat’
Country of origin: Australia
Director: Ben Hargreaves

‘La Soglia’
Country of origin: Italy
Director(s): Nicolò Tonani, Sofia Gasparetti, Simone Colombo

‘I Was’
Country of origin: Italy
Director(s): Matteo Capatti, Lorenzo Mazzucchi

‘Demon Dog’
Country of origin: Australia
Director: Juliana Purnell

‘Ruined Date’
Country of origin: Mexico
Director: Antonio Rotunno

‘Doom Scroll’
Country of origin: Australia
Director: Roy Weiland

‘Moonbeans: A Tale of Two Astronauts’
Country of origin: United States
Director: James G. Maynard

‘The Missing’
Country of origin: Australia
Director: Lovejeet Singh

‘The Man in the Red Pants’
Country of origin: Australia Director(s): Liam Govan, Hassibullah Kushkaki

‘Delivery’
Country of origin: United States
Director: Braydon Leadbetter

Thrills and Chills Fest – Semi-finalists September 2024

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.

Find our more about the film festival here:

studio138.com.au/thrills-and-chills

Enter your short film or screenplay on FilmFreeway

https://filmfreeway.com/ThrillsandChillsFantasySciFiandHorrorFest

Best short film: Horror / Thriller semi-finalists

“Transylburbia” – dir Jordan Skipper

Connection: Dubbo Women Talking Workshops & Live Event

Image of trees on the banks of the Wambuul River with a red curvy line running across the top and the word "Connection - Voices of Women. This is Dubbo story telling workshops."

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)

Ticket link:

https://events.humanitix.com/connection-dubbo-women-tell-stories

The Live Event

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)

Ticket link:

https://events.humanitix.com/connection-dubbo-women-tell-stories

2024 Romance Rules Film Festival

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!

Program

Official selections

  1. Slow Dating, dir Adam Szudrich (Australia)
  2. For a Moment, dir Coco Tolentino (United States)
  3. A Rose in the Mud, dir Kailey McComas (United States)
  4. Dear Heartbreak, dir Ffion Pritchard (United Kingdom)
  5. TutuTango, dir Dorothee Elfring, Michael Finbar Sheehan (United States)
  6. Bud, dir Jamie Martinez (United States)
  7. Beta Days, dir Dan Walls (Australia)
  8. The Holidaze of Noelle Snow, dir Courtney Anne McLaren (United States)

Featured film (non-competition)

  1. 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)
  • Slow Dating, dir Adam Szudrich (Australia)
  • Beta Days, dir Dan Walls (Australia)

Best Cinematography

Winner:

Brendan Williams – Slow Dating

Finalists:

  • Ryan Chernin – Bud
  • Mariam Salahvarzi – For a Moment

Best Actress

Winner:

Julie Collis – Slow Dating

Finalist:

Janina Picard – Bud

Best song/music/soundtrack/score

Winner:

Michael Lira – Slow Dating

Finalist:

Noah Berry – The Holidaze of Noelle Snow

2024 Romance Rules Film Festival – Official Selections & Tickets

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.

Best Cinematography

  • Brendan Williams – Slow Dating
  • Ryan Chernin – Bud
  • Mariam Salahvarzi – For a Moment

Best Actress

  • Julie Collis – Slow Dating
  • Janina Picard – Bud

Finalists best song/music/soundtrack/score

  • Noah Berry – The Holidaze of Noelle Snow
  • Michael Lira – Slow Dating

Thrills and Chills Fest – Semi-finalists December 2023

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.

Find our more about the film festival here:

studio138.com.au/thrills-and-chills

Enter your short film or screenplay on FilmFreeway

Best short film: Horror / Thriller semi-finalists

“Chrissy” – dir Larry Collicott

“Play Deaf” – dir Yorgos Keramydas

“Hidden Prey” – dir Kalina Davis

Best short film: Sci Fi semi-finalists

“Reboot” – dir Chris Qi Yao

“Unit 17: Week 3” – dir David Kaye & Theresa Stefaniak

Best director semi-finalists

Kalina Davis – “Hidden Prey ”

Best actor semi-finalists

Milla Ross (Caitlin) – “Hidden Prey

Georgie Saunders (Amber) – “Hidden Prey”

Best poster semi-finalists

“Chrissy”

“Hidden Prey”

Best trailer semi-finalists

“Chrissy”

“Hidden Prey”

Best sound design semi-finalists

David Kaye – “Unit 17:Week 3”

Best visual effects semi-finalists

Kalina Davis & Daniel Rutter- “Hidden Prey ”

Best mobile phone or tablet film semi-finalists

“Hidden Prey”

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.

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

“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.

Kids Rule Film Festival – July 17-18, 2020

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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)

Recorder Wars (Australia), Linta Roy (17 years)