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BEING an “overnight” success usually means that many years of unseen toil and tears have finally paid off.
Such is the case for local film producer Amie Casey (right) who this week was happy to announce some great news. Interface, a sci-fi TV series she produced as CEO of Red Empire Productions along with other partnering producers, has been sold.
“It is so great to officially announce distribution with Sonar Entertainment, Creative Century Entertainment and a partnership with Nine Network. It has been a threeyear process to get to this point,” explained Amie.
“The creator of the show was Ellie Popov who came to us and we did a pilot. Lots of favours from friends and colleagues got that made and then we put it out via our sales agents. The episode count increased from six to 10 with our Asian partnership.
“Being an independent film maker/producer is about grit, determination and contacts
THIS isn’t one of our photographs but it popped out of our files and tells a little about the late Lorraine Stumm (or Palmer as she was when she lived here).
It was taken sometime in WWII on a troop carrier when she was forging a path as one of very few female war correspondents in the war. Strikingly pretty, she was a confidante of General MacArthur due to her time working at his headquarters in Brisbane.
At a press briefing, MacArthur asked the assembled press who was willing to go to Rabaul to cover an attack. Lorraine’s hand shot up immediately. He smiled at her and said: “You can go tomorrow.”
After the war, she settled here and opened a small newspaper in Surfers Paradise, doing every little job to ensure its survival.
We got to know her very well when we started doing freelance jobs with her for a variety of newspapers and magazines. She was also the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship to Stanford University.
Lorraine was an amazing woman who was a true trailblazer for women in media. and having the series shot around the Gold Coast and Brisbane is such a bonus for us.”
And why choose producing? “Acting was my first love but when I was working on We Are Tomorrow an opportunity to produce came up. I loved it. I was an academic at school and the chance to combine business with creating meant I was born to do this.”
Tomorrow the world.