My final entry for Machete Maidens unleashed covers the Philippines & Singapore. Following our first nights sleep in Manila, we drove out to the house of Eddie Romero to interview him. Eddie is an important figure in both our documentary and Filipino filmmaking. He’s a living legend and is highly respected everywhere in the world. [...]

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On the 15th of February, the Machete Maiden’s Team flew from London’s Heathrow Airport to Manila via Singapore. The massively long and boring flight was also apparently our day off according to the schedule! That’s a whole other issue, our days off have been far too few considering the time zone changes etc but I [...]

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Again it’s been difficult keeping up with the blog. Our schedule on Machete Maidens is very tight with filming activities and travel. I’m writing this article from my hotel in London. We left New York late on Thursday the 11th of February after filming and traveling all day to Freehold New Jersey. There, we interviewed [...]

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In Singapore on the 11th of Feb 2010, my HP mini TVC won several awards at the local Phoenix Awards including a Gold for the Copiers/ Printers/ Computers category, and a special award for the Best TVC shot on HD – Both Categories submitted by Shooting Gallery Asia. It also won another Gold for Special [...]

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Lately I have really fallen behind on the blog as we move quickly across the USA with the documentary project “Machete Maidens”. Arriving in New York, we were told of an impending snow storm that would arrive later that night. So on one of the only days we had to ourselves, Angelo Satore and myself [...]

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Now that we are on to Shoot day 6, we seem to be in a rhythm. The Production team back in Australia have been lining up the contestants very efficiently and today, we are actually interviewing 9 people!!? Normally I have to say this is too much but given that we have little time left [...]

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The location for today was inside the the Writers Building on the old Warners Lot in LA. The place is so steeped in history it was really cool to think that possibly Mel Blanc roamed the corridors here once?! The days have been pretty full on, interviewing as many contributors to the Machete Maidens Project [...]

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Arriving in Los Angeles, the Machete Maiden’s team went through the usual immigration procedure and processed our Carney before catching yet another flight to Las Vegas. I’m not sure what I was expecting for our accommodation, after all Las Vegas is famous for it’s huge Luxor Casino Pyramid, New York New York Casino complete with [...]

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As we make our way across the Pacific Ocean towards LA, I thought that a quick march back in time, to 2008 was in order. So much of “Machette Maidens Unleashed” will be compared to a previous documentary job called “Not Quite Hollywood”. Directed by Mark Hartley also, we set off in 2008 on a [...]

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