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CLIENT: BACKFLIPS AGAINST BULLYING
OUTLET: THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
Samwise Holmes was always an athletic kid, regularly spending time "running around, jumping fences, having fun as teenagers do". But, with his Asperger syndrome, he also found it difficult to make friends, and was an easy mark for bullies.
Now, with his partner Cynthia Guthrie, Mr Holmes has found a way to blend his athleticism with his passion for fighting back against bullying. And they're doing it with a twist: parkour.
CLIENT: REEL HOUSE PRODUCTIONS
OUTLET: ABC RADIO ADELAIDE
Jay Grant of Reel House Productions joined a panel of Australian film industry experts to discuss the boycott of Martin Scorsese’s recent film.
CLIENT: REEL HOUSE PRODUCTIONS
OUTLET: 7 NEWS
DL COMMS worked with 7 News, which reported on the disruption to the global film industry as a result of the new Martin Scorsese film being boycotted by cinema owners.
Reporter Gemma Acton later discussed the issue with news anchor, Michael Usher, making the case for changes in the industry that our client, Reel House Productions, plans to deliver.
CLIENT: BACKFLIPS AGAINST BULLYING
OUTLET: THE TODAY SHOW
Samwise Holmes joined Channel 9’s Today Show to discuss his unique program, Backflips Against Bullying, tackling the bullying crisis in Aussie schools. Using his own experience of bullying combined with acrobatics and parkour, which is all the craze with children now, Sam brings the NSW anti-bullying curriculum to life.
CLIENT: DEMAND.FILM
OUTLET: TRIPLE J HACK
Tammi Jonas spent 10 years as a vegetarian.
Coming from a cattle ranching family in Oregon, in the US, it wasn't exactly a smooth decision to make.
Her decision to go vego came after she read Australian author Peter Singer's book Animal Liberation. In her view, the book detailed the horrible things done to pigs and poultry in sheds.
Tammi's now speaking out about factory farming and the way animals are bred in captivity in the US, as the spokeswoman for a new documentary, Eating Animals.
The documentary, based on a book of the same name and narrated by Natalie Portman, aims to highlight the cruelty of factory farming and pushes for more traditional, sustainable and ethical farming practices.
CLIENT: DEMAND.FILM
OUTLET: FILM INK
Eating Animals was adapted and extended from the novelist Jonathan Safran Foer’s non-fiction book of the same name. Despite the title, and also despite its potentially distressing theme, it begins as an evidence-based argument against factory farming rather than animal consumption in general. Some of the people featured most onscreen are in fact small-scale chicken or pig farmers, albeit with very serious qualms and a disposition (at least) towards activism.
CLIENT: DEMAND.FILM
OUTLET: THE AUSTRALIAN
The problem with vegans, says former vegetarian and academic turned pig farmer, butcher and carnivore Tammi Jonas, is they have no sense of irony.
Ms Jonas runs a small property near Daylesford, in central Victoria, where she and her husband, Stuart, raise pigs and cattle and supply meat and value-added products such as ham and pate directly to locals.
Ms Jonas is about to move even further into the vegans’ firing line. She has taken up the role of “Australian ambassador” for the US documentary Eating Animals, which starts screening around Australia in November.
CLIENT: DEMAND.FILM
OUTLET: ABC RADIO NATIONAL
Hollywood actor Natalie Portman narrates a controversial new documentary that screens soon in this country.
It's called Eating Animals, and it's a no holds barred expose of the inhumanity of industrial farming practices that dominate American food systems.
Tammi Jonas used to be a vegetarian but now she's a farmer and butcher in regional Victoria.
She explains why she endorses a movie that seems, on the surface, to preach veganism.
CLIENT: DEMAND.FILM
OUTLET: 10 DAILY
Tammi Jonas was a vegetarian for a decade. Now she has turned a full 180 and is a butcher on her very own pasteurized pig farm in Victoria.
Jonas made the decision to ditch meat from her diet when she was just 19 years old.
Jonas is speaking out ahead of the controversial Natalie Portman film, 'Eating Animals', which is about to drop in cinemas across the country.
CLIENT: REEL HOUSE PRODUCTIONS
OUTLET: YAHOO! FINANCE
It’s an undeniably interesting question: when Netflix, Disney+, AppleTV+ and Amazon achieve market saturation, what’s the next stage of the streaming wars?
For Aussie startup Reel House Productions, the answer is cost-cutting. Once the land has been grabbed, the streaming giants will turn their focus to creating great content, but without the massive price tags attached to flagship shows like The Crown and Marco Polo.
