“The chance to make placing science fiction is one I’ve labored in the direction of my complete life,” mentioned Monolith Director Matt Vesely. “I’m so grateful for this chance from the SAFC and the Adelaide Movie Competition, and am stoked with the workforce we’ve put collectively. There’s an actual feeling of possession from your complete forged and crew, and that’s a very supportive place to make a primary characteristic.
“Lily Sullivan has a formidable physique of labor behind her already, and it was apparent to us after our first assembly that she had plenty of ardour for the challenge. We will’t wait to work together with her at bringing this movie to life. The function she performs – the one on-screen function in the entire movie – is integral to the movie’s success and we all know that she’s going to ship.”
Lily Sullivan first burst onto the scene in PJ Hogan’s Psychological, earlier than impressing within the Picnic at Hanging Rock sequence and extra lately in Luke Eve’s characteristic I Met a Lady. In Monolith, Sullivan performs a journalist whose podcast uncovers an alien conspiracy.
Monolith is the primary characteristic movie in manufacturing as a part of South Australian Movie Company (SAFC) and Adelaide Movie Competition’s (AFF) Movie Lab: New Voices initiative, “a low-budget characteristic movie expertise improvement program designed to raise the following era of various, South Australian filmmaking expertise.” The movie was written by Lucy Campbell and produced by Bettina Hamilton, and can premiere on the Adelaide Movie Competition in October.
Bettina Hamilton, Matt Vesely and Lucy Campbell
The movie has obtained $400,000 in funding from SAFC and AFF and might be distributed in Australia and New Zealand by Bonsai Movies.
“The very fact we’ve got had such sturdy market curiosity already is testomony to the power of the screenplay Lucy Campbell delivered within the Movie Lab
program and we now hope we do it justice as we head into manufacturing,” mentioned Producer Bettina Hamilton. “The timeline for Movie Lab has at all times been difficult, however the momentum it gives to maintain pushing ahead is extremely motivating and focus-inducing. We thank Bonsai Movies for his or her help of the challenge – they’ve recognised from the beginning what we try to attain and have been completely supportive of our daring method to style filmmaking – we couldn’t have requested for a greater final result.”
“It’s actually thrilling to name lights, digicam, motion on the very first characteristic movie to return out of the SAFC and AFF’s revolutionary Movie Lab: New Voices initiative,” mentioned South Australian Arts Minister The Hon. Andrea Michaels MP. “Not solely will Monolith safe all-important characteristic movie credit for its gifted artistic workforce, it would even have nice flow-on advantages by offering native jobs and skilling alternatives for crew and expertise. I congratulate your complete artistic workforce and look ahead to seeing the premiere at Adelaide Movie Competition in October.”