WORD of mouth, recent awards and a new venue have all helped the growth of the Kiama Actors Studio.
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Kiama’s Emily Stratten, 22, established the studio in 2012. It was previously based at Kiama’s CWA Hall, until the venue was temporarily closed last month due to asbestos rehabilitation.
The studio is now based at Kiama Baptist Church.
“The new studio has a stage, lights, an auditorium that seats 200, a waiting area and is a great place for my green screen, with which you can be walking on water, flying, they can literally do anything with it,” she said.
Ms Stratten also attributed the studio’s enhanced profile to success at film festivals.
The Other Side, a film about cyber-bullying made by 13 and 14-year-old’s from the studio won the Spirit Of REELise Award at Sydney’s REELise Film Festival in April. “That won out of thousands of films from throughout the world, and really put Kiama on the map,” she said.
Also, on Friday the studio performed strongly at the environmentally-themed Green Flicks Illawarra short film competition.
Titanic: An Inconvenient Truth won the 15-17 age category, and Last Hope was runner-up in the 12-14 age category.
Ms Stratten said some of her students were auditioning for a TV series based on Anne Of Green Gables shooting in Canada, and the new Diary Of A Wimpy Kid film shooting in Los Angeles.