Shakespeare Republic & Speaking Daggers win four awards between them – plus more festival screenings to come! #Shakespeare #webseries #lovethebard
SHAKESPEARE REPUBLIC It has been an extraordinary couple of months here at the Republic on the international festival circuit, with a swathe of new official selections for the series, plus three amazing wins this month!! We were delighted to be officially selected for the Cardiff Mini Film Festival in Cardiff, Wales, the Short Cuts Film Festival in Melbourne, Australia, the Web Series Festival in Utah, USA, the Lit On Film Festival in New York, USA and the New Jersey WebFest in New Jersey, USA (for which we were also an Early Selection) over the past two months! We were even more thrilled to receive the following fifteen nominations for the…
St Kilda Film Festival Recap #shakespeare #shortfilm #speakingdaggers #stkildafilmfest
Is it June already!? Time for an update! Or rather, a re-cap of our wonderful experiences at the 2018 St Kilda Film Festival – two weeks to the day after the Closing Night. May was a huge month, for many reasons, but particularly due to Speaking Daggers being an official selection for the 2018 St Kilda Film Festival, as well as Republic creator, Sally McLean being invited to be on the panel “Let’s Talk Web Series” for the festival alongside fellow web series creators Warwick Holt, Leanne Tonkes and Alyce Adams. The Opening Night of the festival was huge with 3,000 people cramming into the Palais Theatre, St Kilda to…
Speaking Daggers officially selected for the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust’s Shakespeare Film Festival in UK!
We are delighted to announce that the short film, Speaking Daggers, which grew out of the Shakespeare Republic universe, produced by Incognita Enterprises in conjunction with Independent Schools Victoria and released at the inaugural Arts Learning Festival at ACMI in May this year has received it’s first film festival official selection! The film will have it’s UK premiere at The Shakespeare Film Festival, run by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust as part of the Filming Shakespeare: Crossing Borders Short Film showcase in Stratford-upon-Avon on Saturday, September 23rd! Additionally, the film has received a “Highly Commended Finalist” from the Jury President, Sir Kenneth Branagh, and is a finalist in the “Films inspired…