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SHORT FILM | 2018 | Duration: 17 mins The Della Morte Sisters have been made into a short animated film as a good way to introduce these great characters and their amazing world. The short is called 'Della Mortika: Carousel of Shame' and follows the sisters after they arrive in Australia and are sent to the Skipping Girl Home for Wayward and Homeless Girls (it is set between books 2 and 3). The Della Morte Sister have their sisterly bond put to the test when jealousy rears its ugly head. The film has been produced in a stop-motion style using paper puppets and pop-ups to bring the girls from the pages of the books into lively animation. The film is currently on the Festival Circuit. Follow us on Facebook or through our Newsletter to keep up to date on screenings near you. |
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Official Selections & Screenings
Awards & Commendations
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The Magic Arts | Australian Animation 1970s to Now, QAGOMA, 2022
Canberra Short Film Festival, Canberra Australia, 2019 Perth Revelation International Film Festival, Perth Australia, 2019 St Kilda Film Festival, Melbourne Australia, June 2019 Australia Now Tour, Cambodia, Myanmar & Malaysia, June 2019 Steampunk @ Altitude, Nimitabel Australia, May 2019 FlickerFest Film Festival, Sydney Australia, January 2019 Steampunk NZ, Oamaru New Zealand, June 2018 GammaCON (Panel & Discussion), Canberra Australia, August 2018 Gaslight Steampunk Expo, San Diego California USA, October 2018 8th Steampunk Film Fest, Portland Oregon USA, November 2018 Wild Wild West Steampunk Convention, Tucson AZ USA, March 2019 |
The short film project was supported by the ACT Government through an arts grant. |
The TV Series - Della Mortika: Steampunk Adventures
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We have developed a 13 x 12 mins TV series set in this world following the Della Morte Sisters. We are currently looking for further development funding and production partners.
Della Mortika is a steampunk world focussing on three inventive, intelligent and resourceful girls as they search for their missing parents in a strange, dark and exciting new city. Abigail, Beatrix and Zarah Della Morte, find themselves stuck in the Skipping Girl Orphanage in Steampunk Melbourne - a mysterious world full of machines, villains and dark gothic beauty. The normal line of history is altered in this world and while some parts appear old fashioned, others appear strangely futuristic. This world is archaic and advanced, Dickensian and Orwellian, elegant and spooky. The sisters themselves are vastly different, working best when they band together. The series received Development Funding from ScreenACT's Project Pod initiative in 2010 and won the Holding Redlich Pitching Competition at the Screen Producers' Association of Australia Conference in 2011. A pitch booklet can be downloaded below: 
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CAST
(CAROUSEL OF SHAME short film) Abigail Della Morte Laura Brent Beatrix Della Morte Dena Kaplan Zarah Della Morte Gigi Edgley Mrs Crotchet Smythe Noni Hazlehurst Lt Pasha Dimitrikov Xavier Samuel The Narrator Paul McDermott The Toyseller Lenny the Voice Lottie Belinda Barancewicz Agnes Clare Langsford This project was supported with an arts grant from the ACT Government |
CREW
Producers Marisa Martin & Geraldine Martin Director Marisa Martin Writer Geraldine Martin Paper Engineer Janine Jeffreys Director of Photography Michael O'Rourke Animators: Stop Motion Marisa Martin Geraldine Martin Janine Jeffreys Thanh Huynh Claudia Howarth Animators: Compositors & Effects Marisa Martin Bridget Roncelli Hew Sandison Thanh Huynh Casting Belinda Barancewicz Voice Recording David Walsh & Marc @ Gas Inc Sound Design Marisa Martin and Matthew Nightingale |
CREW (cont)
Script Editor Felicity Packard Artists Paul Martin Marisa Martin Geraldine Martin Victoria Kitanov Additional Character Art Sherridyn Willoughby Luke Patterson Rhiannon McGuiness Work Experience Sarah Robertson, Jessica Rolfe, Victoria Reid, Anna Johnson, Joao Velame, Harriet Mitchell, Hannah Olive Garvan, Sally Barclay, Max Morgan, Ashleigh Phillips, Ben Ling, Matthew Ong, Charlotte Crutchley, Micah Wilson, Denis Lissogourski Music Composed by Munro Melano Music Mixed by Joel Woolf |
