Sword fighting with vikings, punching faces, getting punched, kicking demons, spitting and eating fire , shooting arrows at lost hikers and breaking bones while dancing nicely on the graves of my enemies – thatβs me in my full potential π€£ Enjoy some action scenes from my recent films!
In my reel I cut the scenes from Viking Revenge, Cannibal Troll, Defenders Eternal, and Salty Fist features, from We Bring The Breed dance show, Something Is Coming and Blight music videos, Gold dance show and from some pro clips of performing my fire show.
This last week was absolutely crazy – I filmed my acting/dancing role as Aaliyah on βResonant Bloomβ film by Qinwei Hu and Jingjing Li. Absolute dream of a job with beautiful locations, great crew, brilliant acting partner and a challenging and emotional part.
I also worked as an intimacy coordinator on βHunger Beneath the Moonlightβ film by Francesco Gabriele , such a great team to work with!
Part of the week were also a gig with my band Yavenirie Amok , training my dance solo in a park and a murder mystery event where I played an actress (!) and a suspect in a murder of a famous painter.
Tired but so grateful for a full week of performing.
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I am so happy to announce that I have been cast as Aaliyah in the film Resonant Bloom by Qinwei Hu and Jingjing Li.
Filming is underway in some beautiful locations like the Rose Theatre in Kingston where I get to live my dream of dancing on a big theatre stage. The film should be out later this year.
Big thanks to the producer, director, all the crew and my dancing partner Ruby.
Also another announcement – I am playing with my band Yavenirie Amok our last gig this summer in Biddle Bros in Hackney on the 18th of July. Itβs a free entry so please come along if you fancy some original mystery rock music.
From a behind the scenes still to a poster: DONALD BIT ME feature by Darryl Kelly is coming out this year so brace yourselves!
Great poster art by Brianna Miller!
The film is on a finish line of the post-production.
Written and directed by crazy fantastic Darryl Kelly, the whole thing was shot with amazing cast and crew quite a while ago in south-west London. I will not disclose our location just yet so I donβt give away the plot line but just wait for the trailer π
And yes thatβs me holding a man-puppet π
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Also: I am playing a gig with my band on the 29th of June in The Good Mixer in Camden, for more info go to Yaveniriemusic.wordpress.com
My agent is sadly closing doors of her agency so I had to jump ship pretty quickly π.
In this industry you never know what will happen tomorrow. You think you have a solid agent one day and the next they have to close business because itβs so tough out there and you have 2 weeks to find a new agentβ¦.
I am very grateful to Mel from Chaos Acting Management for all her hard work and her coaching and support. Thatβs what happens quite often in this industry – a change. We need to be ready for it.
But this time also the situation is teaching me something new. Last time when I left my agent in very different circumstances I was in a state of panic, I felt like a failure and from this space of mind I sent almost 100 emails looking for a new representation and I had NO positive response. Mel responded to my pity-post on Twitter π and took me in. I was so grateful because she was the only one who decided to give me a chance in that moment and it helped me just feel better about myself and the industry as a whole.
This time was completely different. From the moment I heard the agency is closing I felt that itβs gonna be alright π. I sent around 10 emails and although no one responded I still felt itβs fine and it will resolve itself somehow. Then the day before agency closing came and my dear friend (thank you π) when heard I m still without new representation offered to contact his agent. The next day I got signed, it took a 1-minute phone call :-). So I didnβt even miss a day.
Different mindset πdifferent results.
I am now represented by Imperial Artists Agency, very honoured to be part of the team and to have Robert as my agent π₯°π₯°π₯°.
Feeling also very grateful for this smooth transition and looking forward to new adventures ππππ€
British Urban Film Festival Awards evening was very touching and eventful!
Thank you for the invitation and nomination for the Best Script Supervision for our film The Intruders by James Kentfield, so proud of all the cast and crew!!!
Thank you James and Pat for inviting me to come along β₯οΈβ₯οΈβ₯οΈ
Our film WE GO AGAIN started a festival run with a selection for Direct Monthly Online Film Festival this month π Big thanks to the organisers and well done to all cast and crew πππ More festivals coming next year!!!
Take a look at our beautiful poster for WE GO AGAIN drama feature. The music score and the whole post production is now in the works getting ready for 2025 festivals so watch this space for updates! Written by Tom Jolliffe, Directed by Oliver Jolliffe of Jolliffe Productions With Charlotte Chiew, Annabelle Lanyon, Amy Jim and Nathan Shepka.
We wrapped another day of filming of #DJKill in Islington Studios on the hottest day of the year! This time I was doing a movement direction for the fight scenes. It was great to work with our lovely team again Peter Irving, Caroline Oakes, Andrea Rose, Tristan Pretty, DOP Jim Groom and director Anton Makon.
This Wednesday the 17th at 8pm Uk time I will be interviewed by Adrian Doughty on The Uk Comedy Chanel. We will talk about my life, my work and we will also pay tribute to late Johnny Tait , writer and director of my last play who had his interview with Adrian just a few weeks ago.
We wrapped the filming on We Go Again drama! Our feature is now going into post production slowly taking its final shape.
It was an amazing experience working with Tom and Oliver Jolliffe @jolliffeproductions and with amazing actresses Charlotte Chiew @charlottechiewvoiceover Annabelle Lanyon @annabellelanyon and Amy Jim @amy.jim.actress .
I feel we really made something special, a story about a relationship but also about a neurodivergent people struggling with life and with each other. Watch this space for more updates.
Zapraszam serdecznie na mΓ³j wywiad na ΕΌywo 15go Lipca o godzinie 20:00 czasu polskiego (19:00 w Uk) prowadzony przez SylwiΔ Kaczmarek z Laboratorium Meisnera w ktΓ³rym opowiem o mojej metodzie pracy i zdradze pare sekretΓ³w jak buduje postaΔ i przygotowuje siΔ do pracy nad filmem bΔ dΕΊ sztuka teatralna.
Ustaw przypomnienie na YouTube π
I will have a live interview with Sylwia Kaczmarek from Laboratorium Meisnera in which I will talk about my work and my preparation for the role in film or theatre. I will also share a few tips on how to build the character and work on the script before going on set, stage or filming a self tape.
The interview will be in Polish but will be available to watch with English subtitles shortly after LIVE.
Here is an interview with Tom Jolliffe, the writer and producer of our feature WE GO AGAIN in which I play MARIE.
I was waiting to work with Tom for a good few years and Iβm happy that it finally came to fruition in such an incredible project!
Tom is also talking about his other projects Cinderella Revenge that is having a global release around the world right now and Baby in The Basket which is entering festival stage.
Last week we had another great day of filming #DJKill by #AntonMakon . What a day!!! You can see on those behind the scenes pics that we were in a beautiful studio in @dalstonpier , we had fun but also were very focused and working hard!
I had a pleasure to play Kazimiera – the other one of my double role.
It was as always an honour to work with our amazing cast @carolineoakes1 @drama_cannon @arsandell @eliotjghello @trispretty and my partner in crime @romestewart99 and amazing crew Boyd and Dan
I m working on a new π¬ character for the #DjKill movie by Anton Makon shooting in April. Meet Kazimiera!
Itβs a second character I play in this film (Yes double character treat this time!), I will not reveal how are they existing next to each other because I donβt want to give away the plot BUT! I can say that Kazimiera is very different to my other character Edith π
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