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| Lily in SEVEN PM |
Wow so a crazy thing happened yeh. In my thumb-twiddling, chain-smoking, perpetually-napping boredom here in Malaysia whilst I waited for my India visa to come through, I sought activity and entertainment through social media and revived my Twitter account. My first tweet was a casual message to miss Lily Loveless - lead actress in BAFTA-winning teen series Skins but also the lead actress in my short film SEVEN PM - thanking her for her stellar performance in my short and letting her know it was well-received at the East End Film Festival in April.
So whilst Lily didn't reply, it seems her entire fanbase did!
I've since been inundated with interest by fans, fansites, blogs, MTV sites, academics and more fans wanting to know more! And these dedicated people searched my film and came across a feature on my good friend and assistant director on SEVEN PM, independent filmmaker Maria Lazanitou's website www.marialazanitou.com. In 2 days, images and write-ups about my short was splashed all over the internet! Here are just a few:
http://www.skinsfansite.com/2010/08/lily-loveless-seven-pm.html
http://lilyandkatfans.com/english.php
http://fuckyeahlilyloveless.tumblr.com/
All overwhelming but exciting. AND it gave me the kick up the ass to NOT wait until travelling year is over to touch my film again and start doing what I can (from the other side of the World and in between gallavanting) to work on the film's promo. Hence the last couple of weeks I have been furiously submitting SEVEN PM to (free!) film festivals the world over that have announced their call for submissions. I made twenty - let's hope that there's a festival programmer out there with astonishingly good taste (!) who appreciates my short and SCREENS IT and gives the film some ace publicity.
I have also done a couple of interviews. One with popular journalist Heather Hogan (@hhoagie) for the MTV/Logo lesbian website AfterEllen. Read it here http://www.afterellen.com/movies/08/2010-seven-pm
And just this week, another interview with fun, popular Australian Skins fansite RophyDoes (@Rohydoes), check it out here http://www.rophydoes.com/rophy-extras/interviews/anetta-jones-director-of-seven-p-m/ who even did a cute (?!) illustration of me ha.
So whilst Lily didn't reply, it seems her entire fanbase did!
I've since been inundated with interest by fans, fansites, blogs, MTV sites, academics and more fans wanting to know more! And these dedicated people searched my film and came across a feature on my good friend and assistant director on SEVEN PM, independent filmmaker Maria Lazanitou's website www.marialazanitou.com. In 2 days, images and write-ups about my short was splashed all over the internet! Here are just a few:
http://www.skinsfansite.com/2010/08/lily-loveless-seven-pm.html
http://lilyandkatfans.com/english.php
http://fuckyeahlilyloveless.tumblr.com/
All overwhelming but exciting. AND it gave me the kick up the ass to NOT wait until travelling year is over to touch my film again and start doing what I can (from the other side of the World and in between gallavanting) to work on the film's promo. Hence the last couple of weeks I have been furiously submitting SEVEN PM to (free!) film festivals the world over that have announced their call for submissions. I made twenty - let's hope that there's a festival programmer out there with astonishingly good taste (!) who appreciates my short and SCREENS IT and gives the film some ace publicity.
I have also done a couple of interviews. One with popular journalist Heather Hogan (@hhoagie) for the MTV/Logo lesbian website AfterEllen. Read it here http://www.afterellen.com/movies/08/2010-seven-pm
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| RophyDoes illustration of me! |
Coming up, I have an interview with Dr Ann-Marie Cook (@DrAnnMarieCook) who is a Kings College London University professor writing an academic study on the Naomily cultural phenomenon and hopefully a feature with http://dvdoutsider.co.uk/ who champions primarily films outside the mainstream by writer Leanne Weston (@LKWes).
All this publicity is SO EXCITING! Off to India tomorrow for a few months, let's hope the SEVEN PM momentum continues...
Anetta x
