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My parents are copying me. This is typical behaviour, when I said I wanted to move to Melbourne they followed. Now Mum is launching her Alzheimers show 2 weeks after iceandfire's Getting On, and Dad is making a film in a prison hospital! I thought I had that market cornered, now apprently it's a franchise.

Dad is also producing a documentary and photo exhibition of these amazing photos our friend Angelo took in Sudan. If you can make it out west to Werribee (March 25 - April 3), I strongly recommend you go and see them. Angelo has also signed some limited edition prints for sale, money raised goes to building a new classroom in his home village (I think?). You can watch this video for more information and to see some of the images.

Had auditions all day Fri and half Thurs for the shoot this week for the Children's Society OutCry campaign. There were some good auditions, although not many of the girls looked 14, so there is one clear winner for me. I'm quite excited about calling her agent on Mon and giving her the job. I think the shoot is going to be fun actually. Small crew, plenty of time to get it done. I've booked a studio for a full day even though I don't think it will take all day. We're using a projector to show slides over the girl's face and onto the back wall, they have to match her story, so it's going to take some practice. And things often go wrong with technology like that!

Then prison film shoot next week. I'm really looking forward to that project being finished! It's been going on and on for ages! Since September! It'll be a good feeling to hand it in.

C'est tout. Hope you're all well. Look forward to hearing about what's going on with you! x

More blog practice

Even though I'm a tad shite at writing this blog, I'm a blogger in demand! So you can read other articles I've written for iceandfire, and for Inside Job Productions.

The prison film got delayed, which of course threatens the other 2 projects I had lined up straight after it! For the first time in my life I have 3 jobs secured in a row and the first one gets pushed back. Grrr. So I've rushed the Children's Society campaign forward, shooting next week. Got auditions this week, for actors who can play a 14-year-old African girl. I didn't know any, so cast my net wide, and now I have 20 girls auditioning! So i feel confident we'll find someone great from that group.

And Ben is coming here on 6th April! He arrives at 5:40 am (!!) so I won't be able to meet him at the airport (not because I'm a rubbish girlfriend, but because the tubes won't even be working!) I will instead be waiting for him in our cosy East London flat. Perhaps I'll bake some bread and put on a pot of coffee. Real homely like...

Probably not. Hopefully the daffodils I just planted will be out by then though!

iceandfire launch a new script in a few weeks, about older people and human rights, Getting On. Perhaps we should do a double bill with Mum's Melbourne Comedy Festival show, Alzheimers The Musical: A night to remember! Two rather different takes on issues of ageing!!

Charity chick

It's official. I am now the charity video girl of London. I'm booked up until mid-April doing freelance jobs for charities. Sweet.

Have also had some good meetings recently, especially with this awesome woman at LaPlante Productions, Sara Johnson. We got along really well - we just clicked. She was funny, smart and personable and was really encouraging and helpful. I left the meeting feeling buoyant - she gave me a lot of confidence and I felt like her offers to help in the future were genuine. Through her I've also managed to secure a meeting at Clerkenwell Films, who last year made a terrific teen comedy/drama series on Channel 4 called Misfits, about a group of young offenders who get caught in an electrical storm and all get superpowers. If you can track it down, I highly recommend watching it, it's very funny and really well made - not only a fantastic cast but the series has a great look, really desaturated with occasional highlights, such as the "offender" orange jumpsuits.

So all good things.

AND... the BIG news... BEN GOT HIS VISA! Hooray! I had to send my original British passport to Canberra a few weeks ago, which was nerve-wracking, because I hadn't had my copy certified correctly. But it obviously got there, and they've returned it to Ben, along with his visa in his passport. So he'll be booking his ticket in the next few days and then coming to live with me hurrah!

So that's it. I realise I'm being a bit crap on my blog - perhaps I should give up and join facebook? Please post any pros/cons you think of here and I'll decide based on that...!

Con #1: I said at the start of this blog that I refuse to join facebook...