Shalom Almond | Film director
Shalom Almond
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23.01.2022 Adelaide Film Festival Opening Night!
21.01.2022 5 minutes after becoming a mum. Empowerment Challenge accepted thanks for the nomination @niaelovaris Supporting each other is important and can be done in many different ways; a phone call out of the blue, complimenting, listening, cheering on, encouraging, loving and even just holding space for someone. I’m so grateful for the amazing women in my life who do this for me, I try to pass on the gift as much as I can too. #womensupportingwomen
19.01.2022 My awesome friend and creative Producer Katrina Lucas and I have started an exciting new film venture, you can follow us here x @meow_creative #femalefilmmakerfriday #femalefilmmakers #adelaidefilm #myadelaide
11.01.2022 Ok, get back to work Shalom
10.01.2022 Just in case you haven’t seen it, the one hour version of my award winning doco ‘Prisoners and Pups’ is now available to watch for the first time on ABC iview https://iview.abc.net.au//pri/series/0/video/DO1521S004S00
09.01.2022 A lovely catch-up with the very awesome Deb from Prisoners and Pups
09.01.2022 Musing for the Day (and a new Headshot) Making documentaries is very much like starting a new chapter in life. You start out with a game plan. You know your characters. You write the script trying to predict how your story will unfold. You plot it out in a neat three-act structure and bind it up with hope and a pretty title page. ... But the stark reality about making documentaries and living life is that both are untamable beasts and you can never fully be in control of either. Your main character drops out, the wind changes, your funding gets cut, unexpected characters enter from the wings, what you thought was the conclusion turns into the inciting incident and then the Director changes her mind about what she wants. This was not in the script and it can be deeply frustrating. But sometimes, the bumps in the road can become the most wondrous and breathtaking parts of the journey. Sometimes they end up becoming your favorite scene in the film. Life and documentaries always have a way of finding their own story. The trick, is to keep your eyes, heart and mind wide open - to find yours. #femalefilmmakerfriday #shalomalmond #adelaidecreatives #safilmindustry #femaledirector #adelaidefilm #femalefilmmaker #myadelaide #safilm #adelaidefilmmakers
07.01.2022 Good morning Spring!
07.01.2022 Flashback Thursday, 2004. Thanks for the photo @hilltophoods
06.01.2022 Meet Nancy Bates - the extraordinary singer / songwriter I’ll be collaborating with on my new documentary ‘Song Flowers.’ The film follows a small group of newly-released complex women prisoners who sign up for a tumultuous journey in singing and song-writing with Nancy - from behind bars totheuncertainties of life on the outside. Nancy is a Barkindji Woman with a passion for the human voice and her guitar. Audiences love her powerful, captivating song-writing and her ...entertaining, often very funny performance style. After four years of playing and touring with Australian icon Archie Roach, she’s a rising star in her own right. Nancy sings straight from the heart, sharing experiences of passion, yearning, lust, love won, love lost, pain and recovery. Nancy graduated from the school of hard knocks - she grew up in foster care, became a teenage mum and has battled domestic violence and mental health issues. Creating music has become a gift for survival and transformation for her. Talent aside, Nancy is just an all-round awesome human. I can’t wait to start working together x #femalefilmmakerfriday #femalefilmmaker #femaledirector #adelaidefilm #adelaidefilmmakers #adelaidecreatives #nancybatesmusician See more
06.01.2022 In 2019 I was honoured to become the inaugural winner of the South Australian Film Corporation’s $20,000 Lottie Lyell Award, granted to a female filmmaker demonstrating courage and boldness. The Award entails developing a new documentary around women in prison, to build on the work I began with ‘Prisoners and Pups.’ However the last 12 months has been challenging in terms of getting traction on the project - from nailing the concept to gaining the right approvals from Co...rrectional Services to figuring out exactly what I want to say with the film to how I want to grow as a filmmaker. Then COVID hit - putting the Adelaide Womens Prison into lockdown - and the project into limbo. But the good thing about a road block is that it forces you to reassess and come up with a detour route. It’s become the wake-up call I needed - and now I’ve got a whole new sense of clarity around the story and a renewed passion for telling it. The best part is I can start now! I was beginning to worry that this Covid period had made my brain stop working. Phew, it’s still ticking. Look out for updates over the next few weeks, probably on Fridays, because that’s my favourite day x #femalefilmmakerfriday #femalefilmmaker #femaledirector #safilm #safilmindustry #adelaidecreatives See more
05.01.2022 Katrina Lucas and I making friends today whilst researching a new documentary project for kids. Follow us @meow_creative for more updates! @ Monarto Safari Park
03.01.2022 Meow made it to The Advertiser today #femalefilmmakers #femaledirector #adelaidecreatives #adelaidefilm #adelaidefilmmakers #myadelaide @ Adelaide, South Australia
02.01.2022 At last I can share what I’ve been working on behind the scenes for the last 12 months with the assistance of the South Australian Film Corporation Lottie Lyell Award! I’ve still got a long way to go to make it happen, but I’m so excited to share this story and I always seem to get there in the end x Song Flowers Over the last decade the number of Australian women in prison has increased by 77% - with two thirds of these women being reoffenders. Who are these women and ...why aren’t they being rehabilitated behind bars? The answers are complex - but some experts believe that rehabilitation can only really happen once these women re-join the community. Now one strong woman wants to prove it. Extraordinary singer / songwriter Nancy Bates has a passion for the human voice and prison reform. She wants to start a rehabilitation project to form a new and unlikely musical ensemble made up of women recently released from prison. A small group of diverse and complex ex-prisoners will sign up for a tumultuous journey in singing and song-writing from behind bars totheuncertainties of life on the outside, from recruitment to rehearsals to the recording studio. These rookie musicians must not only find their inner creative voices, but find a way to worktogether as a musical ensemble - a tough ask when they’re faced with strict Community Corrections orders, precarious family relationships, addictions, mental illness and past traumas. One wrong move could mean being sent back to prison and being removed from the project. The pressure on the women increases dramatically when Nancy reveals her plans for the women to hold their debut performance inside the Adelaide Womens Prison alongside a full orchestra as a gift for their past inmates. Can Nancy pull off her radical rehabilitation project? Can the women’s newly found love of music help them navigate the dramatic shift from behind bars to theoutside world? Will their music betransformative enough to help turn their lives around? #femalefilmmakerfriday #femalefilmmakers #femaledirector #adelaidefilm #safilm #adelaidefilmmakers #shalomalmond #adelaidecreatives
