Australia’s freshest crop of filmmaking talent showcased their feisty new movie, Sweet Marshall, to an audience of over 800 at a red carpet premiere at Hoyts Entertainment Quarter in Sydney on Wednesday night...
And you still have an opportunity to see it too. Sweet Marshall is now screening in cinemas in Adelaide, Sydney and Wagga Wagga until 30 April 2009, and in Melbourne from 30 April 2009. More information and trailers are available at www.sweetmarshall.com.
Sweet Marshall tells the story of a man who reckons he had it all - then lost it, when he was imprisoned for a robbery he didn't commit. Marshall's efforts to see justice served deliver some tense moments and 90 minutes of rollicking entertainment.
The film's diverse cast includes Paul Winchester, Billy Holden, Neveille Bhamgara, Nicholas Moala, Monica Kade, Amber Grokken, Jennifer King and Robert Luxford, with a guest appearance by Paul O'Brien.
Sweet Marshall is the fourth full-length feature produced by students at Participate Film Academy in three years. Newcomers to film when they enrolled at the school, the latest class of 10 budding movie makers completed their original production during the one-year, part-time Participate Filmmaking course.
'Anyone in the industry will tell you that it takes superhuman effort to produce a feature film,' says Artur Kade, the founder and director of Participate. 'Our students pull off this feat year after year, from scratch.'
Artur believes there's no place quite like a film set to learn how to make a movie. His unique course teaches beginners how to create 90-minute features by guiding them through every stage of production, all the way from pitching the story idea to hosting a premiere.
'This is what makes our course so special. Students gain hands-on experience in every aspect of filmmaking and finish the course with a world-recognised feature credit. No other school offers this kind of opportunity.'
Despite the gruelling effort required at times to complete Sweet Marshall, graduating students Andrew Kelly, Callum Lewars, Daisy Wang, Eva Acharya, James Gowing, Leo Ladia, Mark Nunnari, Martin Alvarez Garcia, Sarah Foster-Hogg and Shant Sarkissian say they would do it all over again.
