The Court Couturier
13
X 52min
THE COURT COUTURIER Synopsis The fashion misadventures of Stanley.
Stanley Finkelsteinenberger dreams of working in the international Fashion business
but once there, quickly realizes the gilt, gold and glamour of fashion requires
navigation through shark infested waters. The misadventures of a victim of fashion
Description The Court Couturier is a "DRAMA-MENTARY". It combines the real world
of a documentary as the setting and adds a fictional scripted parallel-universe
narrative which almost could have come from that factual documentary world.
In this way, a film or TV mini-series "drama-mentary" inherits all the realism
of that world which would otherwise be impossible to convincibly create. Real
Australian fashion designer Wayne Cooper studied and became a Barrister in the
UK before abandoning the profession in Sydney Australia and becoming one of
Australia's success stories in Fashion. A colourful character, Cooper once derided
super-model Claudia Schiffer for wearing the wrong shoes on one of his catwalks,
ripped up a copy of Vogue in front of an audience, and even punched out an event
host! Stanley Finkelsteinenberger works in his mother's kid clothing store in
a tiny town of Bethlehem, Tasmania, Australia and dreams of working in the international
Fashion business. He summons the courage to massages his CV and surprisingly
lands a job as assistant to Australian Fashion icon - Wayne Cooper. Stanley,
now Sydney London, lives the dream, but quickly realises the gilt, gold and
glamour of fashion requires navigation through shark infested waters. Plot Outline
Stanley Finkelsteinenberger works in his mother's kid clothing store in a tiny
town in Tasmania, Australia and dreams of working in the international Fashion
business. He lands a job as assistant to real Australian Fashion icon - Wayne
Cooper, but quickly realises the gilt, gold and glamour of fashion requires
navigation through shark infested waters. Stanley Finkelsteinenberger works
in his mother's kid clothing store in a tiny town of Bethlehem, Tasmania, Australia
and dreams of working in the international Fashion business. He summons the
courage to massages his CV and surprisingly lands a job as assistant to Australian
Fashion icon - Wayne Cooper. Stanley, now Sydney London, lives the dream, but
quickly realises the gilt, gold and glamour of fashion requires navigation through
shark infested waters. Stanley works in his mother's tiny kid clothing store
and dreams of working in the international Fashion business. He manages to land
a job with real Fashion icon - Wayne Cooper, but quickly realises the gilt,
gold and glamour of fashion requires navigation through shark infested waters.
Director's Bio Award-winning photographer and filmmaker Kostas Metaxas began
his career in Magazine Publishing in 1986 as the Editor/Publisher of 2 magazines
- Vive la vie [Live the life] and Vive la Cuisine [ Live for Food]. Since 2000,
he has diversified these titles into Broadcast Television and has produced over
300 hours of documentaries on these subjects. This work has afforded him the
luxury of meeting with the passionate creative people who inhabit the international
world of the arts, fashion, design, jewellery and gastronomy. It is no surprise
that 27 years later, he is using this creative landscape to create a new genre
of feature where he combines the essence of a creative industry with a fiction
narrative, drawing upon the richness, diversity and reality of that "universe".
Cast Wayne Cooper [WC] WAYNE COOPER Stanley Finkelsteinenberger aka Sydney London
TIM CONSTANTINE Runway Toddler JORDY JONES Liz Fink DIANNE FREY Celia Ching
Ching Chow NAOMI PANG Willy Wong DANIEL WU Bobby Bling KRISTIAN BEDDOW Ruby
JAMAICA ZUANETTI Pearl KELLIE TORI Morticia Van den dun Deel & Lucinda ELIZABETH
SHINGLETON Shirley Krankenhausenheimer CELESTE MARKWELL Penny Bang Bang Soo
JENNA ROTHWELL Aaana Gamotosoisou EFFIE STJEPANOVIC Ping Ling Lee , Joshua Lieberman
, Patel Mukkerjee, Achilles Kologlyptis ANGE ARABATZIS Humphrey Mohammed-Smythe
JIM KOUTSOUKOS Dave the Cameraman IAN SEYMOUR Hercules the Cameraman CHRIS CHRISTOU
Rakis Hairdressers JAMES & STAVROS Wayne Cooper , Tim Constantine ,Jordy Jones,
Dianne Frey,Naomi Pang, Daniel Wu, Kristian Beddow, Jamaica Zuanetti,Kellie
Torri Elizabeth Shackleton, Celeste Markwell, Jenna Rothwell, Effie Stjepanovic,
Ange Arabatzis, Jim Koutsoukos, Ian Seymour, Chris Christou, 5163610035975125
THE COURT COUTURIER Trailer: https://vimeo.com/73683491 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mui4wKlNyuc&feature=c4-overview&list=UUawSISGcZ0reizixEI6V1qg
Feature Film Screener https://vimeo.com/74453267
THE
AWAKENING http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pORloDNzhQ&feature=c4-overview&list=UUawSISGcZ0reizixEI6V1qg
https://vimeo.com/72577156 PILOT https://vimeo.com/72504922 password exerofilms
A
Priest, a woman and a 2500 year old secret. A priest is dispatched from the
centre of the Greek Church ; the Archdiocese of Constantinople, to Melbourne
Australia to retrieve a missing asset , a mysterious woman with a special ability
and a 2500 year old secret.
SYNOPSIS
The Archdiocese of Constantinople has been alerted that one of it's key assets,
believed killed during the Bosnian Civil war, is in fact alive and living in
Melbourne Australia. They dispatch a special envoy, a priest trained in Church
security matters to retrieve the asset, under the radar of international protocol
to avoid any political incidents. The asset named Maria, a beautiful, young
art dealer, possesses a special form of Synesthesia which allows here to decipher
and convert the graphics or code of art into mathematical equations. Maria has
recently relocated to an apartment block in Melbourne's suburbs and has intrigued
her neighbours , long-time friends. Rick who works for the department of immigration
and Jon, a Classical violinist who's hits rock bottom. He's just been laid off
from his part-time job as a cook, can't seem to find full-time work as a musician,
is estranged from his father and still lives in the wake of his mother's tragic
death. Jon is infatuated with and drawn to Maria. Maria introduces Jon to the
whirlwind world of contemporary art, unaware that she is being pursued by the
envoy priest. BACKSTORY The Ancient Greeks gave to humanity - Phlosophy, Medicine,
Politics, etc...but kept one important secret - the secret relationship between
art and science. Mankind in the year 500BC simply wasn't ready for many of the
incredible advancements they had already discovered. The Antikythera "Computer"
[today in the Athens National History Museum] is an example of the incredible
technology available in 2500 BC - technology that wouldn't surface again in
Europe until the 1600's They deduced that "the Gods" with their perverse sense
of humour, had embedded man's DNA with all the "answers", but it was only through
art, and the rare ability of some individuals to decode art, that man could
find these answers and evolve to a higher spiritual state. This secret covenant
was passed on to the Greek Church during the Roman occupation and continues
to reside in Constantinople [for the past 2500 years]. Part of this research
- important discoveries, would be carefully disseminated through the international
science community through envoys when it was felt that it was needed. When mankind
was mature enough to deal with it. Envoys like Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein...the
list goes on. Of course, some mistakes were made. It was only through the recent
war in Bosnia that one of these secret cells was compromised and two individuals
- Maria & Evgennis, managed to escape.
PILOT
https://vimeo.com/72504922 password exerofilms Kristian Beddow, Antonia Vekic,
Ange Arabatzis, Jim Koutsoukos, Ian Seymour, Chris Christou, Peter Kemeny, Alix
Jackson, Samantha Sotos, Nickos Tsiavos, Tilly Legge, Joseph Bove, Maurizio
Scenna, Roy Theaker, Kalina Krusteva, Themis Babalis, Christophe Katzler