DTLA LIFE MAG #16 | APRIL 2015 | Page 74

and Heartland, and has taken home the LA Comedy Shorts Audience Choice Award and the Orlando Film Festival Raunchiest Film Award. With the help of many fine artists, including camera operator Andy Bader (Iron Man 3, Sleepy Hollow, Army Wives, One Tree Hill, The Vampire Diaries, The Next Three Days), Boley’s Rogue Kite Productions produced Madeleine Makes a Man the success it is today. ANEMONE directed by Maureen Zalloum (UK) A contemporary dance film about a boy and a girl who fall in love despite living in two incompatible worlds. Can they overcome the people and obstacles in the way of their union? Zalloum got her start in performing arts at the age of four when she began classical ballet, which lead to her first professional job at age 16 as a dancer in the Lebanese musical Oussama Rahbani. Eventually she pursued a BA in filmmaking and is presently completing her dance studies at London Studio Centre with a concentration in contemporary dance. Anemone is a project where Zalloum blends her two passions in life: dance and film. ROADSIDE directed by Tim Wildgoose (UK) Twenty years after the alien ‘Visitation,’ Cal Rainer heads through an abandoned London to meet Valentine--a black market dealer in illegal alien artifacts smuggled from deep within the visitation zone. Wildgoose quite familiar and comfortable in the entertainment industry; he worked in various department on numerous motion pictures including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Casino Royale, John Carter, Troy, V for Vendetta, Maleficent, Hercules, Children of Men, Clash of the Titans, X-Men: First Class, Fast & Furious 6, and World War Z. Although Wildgoose has been a part of the industry for over 16 years, Roadside Photos courtesy of NewfilmakersLA