Tom Levi Interview

As we head towards the launch date of Vendetta 19, the PR Bandwagon ramps up too! Today we heard the dulcet tones of Tom Levi on ABC Radio being interviewed about his role as Squizzy Taylor in Vendetta 19!! Make sure to book your tickets online in advance to avoid disappointment by visiting www.Vendetta19.com

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Vendetta 19 VIP & Media Screening Premier

6pm Wednesday 9 October

The Sun Theatre Yarraville

https://www.trybooking.com/CTPHW

**Vendetta 19 Public Screening Premier

Geelong Gaol Museum

4pm Saturday 12 October

https://www.trybooking.com/CTPHS (NEARLY SOLD OUT)

***Vendetta 19

The Chapel

2 Vision Drive Burwood East

7pm Wednesday 16 October

https://www.trybooking.com/CUBKI

***Vendetta 19 Public Screening with Cast Q&A

Teller Hotel Brunswick

81 Lygon Street, Brunswick

Tuesdays 23 October 7-9pm

https://www.trybooking.com/CSBQA

*** THE FATAL SHOOTOUT Squizzy Taylor & Snowy Cutmore – The Fatal Shoot Out Reenactment

4pm Saturday 26 October

Geelong Gaol Museum

202 Myers Street Geelong

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***Vendetta 19 Public Screening with Cast Q&A

Ballarat Union Hall

24 Camp Street Ballarat

Saturday 9 November 5-7pm

https://www.trybooking.com/CTXCS (NEARLY SOLD OUT)

***Vendetta 19 Public Screening with Cast Q&A

Teller Hotel Brunswick

81 Lygon Street, Brunswick

Tuesdays 14 November 7-9pm

https://www.trybooking.com/CSBQA(SOLD OUT)

**LITTLE LON RED LIGHT Walking Tour

Saturday 28 & 29 December

Little Lon Walking Tour

11am – 1pm

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Venue Spotlight – The Chapel

As we head toward the screening season for Vendetta 19, we couldn’t be more excited by the diversity of venues we have been able to secure. The third screening date will be held in Burwood East, at an impressive venue, with state of the art screening and sound equipment called The Chapel.

As one of the larger venues we will be screening at, we are truly hoping that you will all round up your posse’s and bring a group to this event where we will have not only the screening but will also have Q&A with lead actors including feature actor, Sam Warren, playing the role of Claude Taylor in the pilot episode, Roy Maloy, playing Valentine Keating, Tom Levi playing Squizzy and Shylie Arzouan playing Dolly Gray.

Tickets are essential and we highly recommend buying in advance to avoid disappointment.

Vendetta 19 – The Chapel

2 Vision Drive Burwood East

7pm Wednesday 16 October

https://www.trybooking.com/CUBKI

WRITING FOR GEENA DAVIS

(Written by Roy Maloy)

This has been a long journey. So long, in fact, that it feels like a lifetime ago since I began. I began this project as a reaction to a conversation I had. One of my closest friends is a fierce protector of women’s spaces in all areas of life, and she told me something that actually shocked me. I was discussing my work with her, and that I am proud that I have been able to re-include a number of women into the collective memory of Australian crime history and emphasise the power they possessed at that time. And then my friend asked if I had come across The Bechdel Test.

If you are unfamiliar with it, the Bechdel Test is a measure for gauging the representation of women and their roles in cinema. A number of very impressive female movie makers and actors had pushed for some time to be able to fill roles or at least see roles developed in film and television that didn’t simply require the woman to stand by and be saved by a man. I had never come across this before, and it had never occurred to me.

As I googled different aspects of this, I came across the work that Geena Davis (of Thelma & Louise fame) was doing. Geena has set up a foundation to support movies and writers who create pieces that position women in screenplays to have main roles, equal dialogue and not be represented as flimsy, desperate and pathetic humans, as Hollywood has a habit of portraying them as.

On somewhat of a whim, I reached out to the foundation, not even expecting a response, but I sent them an email telling them about a few people that they may like to look into as options for creating film content. These included the people I had researched such as the Madam of Melbourne, Dolly Gray, the sly grog baroness Bridget Mahoney and the most prolific bordello madam in Australian history Minnie Clark. I don’t think I actually even expected a response. But when I did receive a response, it was not only a massive surprise, but it also challenged me in a way I had never been challenged before. The response was not only personable and supportive, but it put to me the question I should’ve been able to ask myself. The person who wrote to me asked why I hadn’t already written a piece like the one I was telling them to write. If I had all the information, what was stopping me from writing a screenplay myself, with these kinds of characters represented the way they should be?

Their response begins a chain of events that invest me completely in the goal of writing this piece. For those of you who are new to my work, I have a very prolific output. I try to write between 2000 to 3000 words every day, which has resulted in me publishing between three and four books every year for many years now. Being able to move from research, non-fiction, and fiction was also an incredibly rewarding challenge that I thoroughly enjoyed.

Skip forward three years, and the screenplay had been sitting in my Google Docs for a long time. It was something I thoroughly enjoyed writing, as nine full seasons, but it remained something I didn’t have any idea what to do with next. It turned out that it was one thing to write the piece, but entirely another to understand how it goes from being written into an actual screenplay production. I’ve begun the process of applying for grants over a two-year period, but again and again was rejected by 17 of them. All of them told me that I didn’t have the ability to produce a screenplay. It was only when I met producer Gracie Kay and cinematographer Stuart Jaymes that this project fully fell into place.

This Saturday we will go into filming for the third time, and we will try and capture more of the scenes that I have written as a part of this screenplay. This Saturday we will be filming scenes that depict the power of one of the key players from Vendetta 19, and showing a very authentic style of underworld activity run by Dolly Gray. The scenes show her in a position of power over men, seeking retribution and making a particular man pay for his wrongs. This scene is also extremely likely to be on point for its authenticity, historically and socially.

I want to finish this piece by again, thanking everybody who has contributed to the crowdfunding side of this project. The costs from project has been funded by myself out of my own pocket from the money I make in my day job. I have included below a link for the GoFundMe that was set up sometime ago in the hopes that some of you might have the ability to contribute towards the costs of this incredible project. I’m committed to seeing this across the line at my pocket, but anything you can also contribute to will help enormously at this time.

Donate to Vendetta 19 – The Screenplay Pilot (gofundme.com)