 When life gives you Lemon, sometimes that's all you need. Beatrice and Raff are lost - one in grief and the other in questioning his worth. Lemon has the least to live for and perhaps the most to give.  Director James Freemantle James Freemantle’s known for his exuberant TV presenting circa 1998 - 2007 when he wrote, produced and presented over 300 stories for Australian television - on Coxy's Big Break, Postcards, Talk to the Animals and Bread. Based in Moscow during 2007/08 James was an international anchor for controversial TV News channel RT, broadcasting globally. He presented Medifacts for Buchanan Group for 8 years, wrote and presented stories about Australian agriculture for MLA’s Feedback TV and has worked as an actor on Stingers, Secret Life of Us, Wog Boy, Neighbours and numerous short films and TVCs. https://www.jamesfreemantle.com
Director Statement We hand-reared a lamb who was born ‘not quite right’ – a second twin whose Mum rejected him - a bit of a lemon, and that’s what we called him. Eastern Australia had been inundated with floods two years in a row, bringing hardship and loss. Tony Dean and I were producing training films for a client and wanted to make a short to exercise our creative instincts. Russ - an English actor and Tony’s brother - was in town and we were intrigued by the work of Sarajevo-born Milijana Cancar, who came to Australia as a refugee during the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1994. Mili, Russ and I created the characters Raff and Beatrice, and co-developed the script, with the little farm on Dja Dja Wurrung country in central Victoria I share with my family as our location. We filmed in two and a half days with two actors, a lamb and a less-than-skeleton crew of three, then took a year to put it together in our spare time. It’s entered into festivals world-wide, accepted into 4 so far (in Montreal, Cambridge, Gympie and San Antonio!) and we’re looking forward to our premiere screening at the Heart of Gold festival in Qld, Australia. So far we can only offer you the teaser, but hope you love it as much as we loved the work of this talented lamb! |
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