Deidre Kitcher
Deidre Kitcher is a Western Australian Producer, and co-founder of Filmscope Entertainment with her partner John V. Soto. Deidre has produced three of John V. Soto's films, Crush (2009), Needle (2010) and The Reckoning (2014).
Career
Deidre Kitcher founded Filmscope Entertainment with her partner John V. Soto in 2007. Filmscope Entertainment is an Australian-based production company that makes high quality, commercial genre films for worldwide audiences. In 2009, she produced Crush, a thriller film following an international architecture student at University of Western Australia and martial arts champ, who finds work as a house sitter for the wealthy owners of a luxury home in Perth. The film was shot on location at Perth, Western Australia including South Perth, Perry Lakes Reserve, University of Western Australia and West Perth. The film was released on 54 countries worldwide.[1]
In 2010, she produced the supernatural thriller film Needle, a murder mystery, with six distinct clues pointing to one of ten suspects. In premiered at CinefestOZ in August 2010. It won a number of awards, most notably Best Horror Make-up Effects from Screamfest (2010) and Best Cinematography from both the British Horror Film Festival (2010) and the Melbourne Underground Film Festival (2011). Needle was sold to 82 countries worldwide, and has achieved significant success in Turkey which opened at No. 4 across 62 screens.[2]
Filmscopes recent feature film The Reckoning (2014), a $2.35 million crime thriller starring Jonathon LaPaglia and Luke Hemsworth, was completed in January 2014. It premiered at CinefestOZ on 29 August,[3] and was released on five cinemas nationally in Perth, Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne on 5 September.[4] The Reckoning follows Detective Robbie Green, who after his partner is murdered, must track down two teenage runaways whose video footage contains the identity of the killer.[5]
Filmography
| Title | Year | Role | Format | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Reckoning | 2014 | Producer | Feature | Released |
| Needle | 2010 | Producer | Feature | Released |
| Crush | 2009 | Producer | Feature | Released |
References
- ^ http://www.perthnow.com.au/entertainment/hollywood-comes-to-south-perth/story-e6frg30u-1111115256439?nk=fffc4672a48f90498d9a780a690c0800
- ^ http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/intl/?page=&country=TR&id=_fNEEDLE01
- ^ http://if.com.au/2014/08/14/article/Spotlight-on-Perth-as-The-Reckoning-premieres-at-CinfestOZ/YTXFCTYZFM.html
- ^ http://if.com.au/2014/09/07/article/Audiences-seek-out-The-Reckoning/LULLPKPWDU.html
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2452470//