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NOVEMBER 2006
Kiss Me is screened at the Apollo cinema in the West End along with the seven other shorts commissioned by Robbie Williams. The evening is a huge success...much booze consumed and an evening of frivolity ensued!
Jules and director Nicola Mills go to the Brest Film Festival in France as their film The Toughest Girl in the World gets selected for the competition.
The Toughest Girl in the World dir: Nicola Mills, Synchronoff dir: Catia Peres and Night Shift dir: Gemma Burditt produced by Kirstenall get selected for the Bristol based film festival Brief Encounters.
OCTOBER 2006
The Battle of Cable Street premieres at the UK Jewish Film Festival.
SEPTEMBER 2006
Joe Tucker animator/director arrives at Rebel Monk and is commissioned by Robbie Williams to shoot Kiss Me - a short film for Robbie's new album Rudebox '74 .
Joe casts Margot Molinari as 'Tape Girl' & Peter Wood as 'Boombox Man'. Kiss Me is shot mid-september. Much thanks go to Liam Iandoli the Cinematographer and Julian Weaver the Production Designer and to all the crew who supported Joe and Rebel Monk with a special nod to John Hassay at Colonel Blimp.
AUGUST 2006
The animating on The Battle of Cable Street begins in earnest.
With the help of Scout Film & casting director Oriana Kuncic, Gabrielle & Jules cast Ermin Sijamija & Nikolina Dordevic in the lead roles of Like Father
In advance of the english crew and equipment heading out to Bosnia and with only a few days to spare before shooting is due to commence on the project - the director and producer fly out to cast the remainder of the roles and start rehearsals.
Shooting of Like Father begins on 7th August and ends 7 days later on the 13th, on time and with everything in the can!
The crew ate enough schnitzels to last them a lifetime!
JULY 2006
Planning for the animation sequences on The Battle of Cable Street starts
Gabrielle and Jules head back out to Bosnina to kick off the casting process of Like Father and lock locations - They enter into talks with Senad Basic to play the lead role.
Kirsten and Yoav lock the script, cast and shoot the live action requirements of The Battle of Cable Street
Jules & Gabrielle go to Bosnia on the first recce for Like Father and meet with Scout Film Edo Sarkic & Ensar Halilovic based in Sarajevo.
Jules: "We flew into Trieste, hired a car and drove down the entire Croatian coastline, recceing all the way to Dubrovnik! Afer some small negotiations, we then crossed the border (somewhere other than the official crossing point...whoops!) and visited the Southern Bosnian town of Trebinje. After Trebinje we stayed the night in Mostar and recce'd around the outskirts of the city the next day. From Mostar we headed towards Sarajevo, en route came across the village of Bradina - a potential location. Then made our way into Sarajevo and met Scout Films' Ensar Halilovic and his business partner Edu. Between them they have a lot of experience in the logistics of production in Bosnia and were an essential part of the team to have on board!"
MAY 2006
Kirsten becomes involved as producer with a live action / animation mix project financed by the UK Jewish Short Film Fund.
Kirsten: The Battle of Cable Street is a short film which will depict the memories of a Grandfather as he recounts to his grandson events that took place during the riots of October 4th, 1936. Based on the stories of Yoav's own Grandfather and using a mixture of liveaction, animation and rotoscoping techniques we aim to bring this truely remarkable story to life.
APRIL 2006
We have two shorts in development:
Like Father written by James Walker. Director Gabrielle Russell is attached to helm the British Short Screenplay Competition 2004 winning script. Rebel Monk are expecting to shoot towards the end of May in Bosnia.
The Battle of Cable Street written and directed by Yoav Segal and Executive Produced by Jonny Persey APT Films. The script was this years winning entry in the UK Jewish Short Film Competition.
The Monks had animations screened on Thursday 6th at the Run Run Shaw Theatre, BAFTA:
Night Shift dir. Gemma Burditt produced by Kirsten
Synchronoff dir. Catia Peres produced by Jules
Temerario prod. Debbie Crosscup directed by Carl
MARCH 2006
Carl & Jules take home their first awards by collecting BEST in BRIEF, BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN (thanks to prod des. Kim Frederiksen) and 2nd BEST COMMERCIAL OVERALL for their Pilsner Urquell entry The Czech Republic's Oldest Gentleman's Club in the KODAK Student Commercials Competition 2005.
Kirsten has her own success on the same night when the Cancer Research UK entry Hope she produced, collects 2nd BEST in BRIEF and BEST POST PRODUCTION (thanks to digi-post artist Paul Bellany and editor Fiona DeSouza).
IN THE BEGINNING...
The Rebel Monks form a new kind of monastery...one dedicated to telling visual stories through the medium of film.
Jules and Kirsten leave the comfort of the glorious bubble they've had the security of for the last two years and spread their wings, deciding to join forces they become... the Rebel Monks. They invite raw, fresh and hungry new talent to enter the monastery in the form of award winning director Carl Zitelmann, animation director Catia Peres & music video director Chris Klockner.
