01 April 2010 | 00:00 - By Simon Foster
An Australian Filmmaker is taking his Sexy International Film Festival franchise abroad, to sell sexiness to the French.
With a head office based in the nondescript Victorian suburb of Noble Park and a professional history as an awarded but largely unknown independent film director, Australian Jason Turley does not immediately strike you as the man to bring ‘the sexy’ back to the cinemas of Paris.
But that is exactly Turley's aim and, with French-based festival programmer Natalie Vella, he's finalising the line-up for the 2010 Paris edition of his Sexy International Film Festival (SIFF) movement, which will launch in June in cinemas around the French capital.
The launch will bring the concept full circle for the RMIT-trained filmmaker, who was inspired by thoughts of romance and seduction during a proverbial rites-of-pasage holiday on the Continent. “The concept was conceived on a multi-city trip to Europe in 2007,” recalls Turley. “I noticed how many genre festivals were around and thought it would be great to create (an event) which focuses on the films I enjoy watching at festivals; films which explore love, relationships and sexuality”.
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An Australian Filmmaker is taking his Sexy International Film Festival franchise abroad, to sell sexiness to the French.
With a head office based in the nondescript Victorian suburb of Noble Park and a professional history as an awarded but largely unknown independent film director, Australian Jason Turley does not immediately strike you as the man to bring ‘the sexy’ back to the cinemas of Paris.
But that is exactly Turley's aim and, with French-based festival programmer Natalie Vella, he's finalising the line-up for the 2010 Paris edition of his Sexy International Film Festival (SIFF) movement, which will launch in June in cinemas around the French capital.
The launch will bring the concept full circle for the RMIT-trained filmmaker, who was inspired by thoughts of romance and seduction during a proverbial rites-of-pasage holiday on the Continent. “The concept was conceived on a multi-city trip to Europe in 2007,” recalls Turley. “I noticed how many genre festivals were around and thought it would be great to create (an event) which focuses on the films I enjoy watching at festivals; films which explore love, relationships and sexuality”.
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Reproduced from sbs.com.au