Directing Sophie Raymond

Sophie Raymond (OW1991) has After graduating from Wesley College, she continued her studies recently directed a new documentary, in Arts at Monash University. Sophie, yet again, excelled in her Mrs Carey’s Concert, alongside Bob performing arts with the Horned Moon Company, appearing in Connolly. The self-distributed film, Shakespeare’s, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Tempest at which opened the 2011 BigPond Melbourne’s Malthouse Theatre, where she enjoyed an extended Adelaide Film Festival, has been a encore season in Singapore. After returning to Melbourne in 1997, huge success. Sophie undertook a course in film animation at RMIT University. This led to her foundation of the Southern Ladies’ Animation Group During her years at Wesley College, and the production of a series of highly acclaimed short animated Sophie showed remarkable energy films. She also founded Aussie Croc Pot, an organisation aimed towards performing arts. There at furthering the interests of performers of acoustic music. Sophie was simply no challenge to which has herself toured extensively, performing her music to receptive she did not rise with effortless charisma and commitment. Her audiences throughout India, Europe, the USA and Canada. achievements with Adamson Theatre Company include The Silver Sword (1988), Anything Goes (1991), It Happened in Meanwhile, Sophie’s Southern Ladies’ Animation Group first major Hamelin (1986), The Boyfriend (1987), South Pacific (1988), short film It’s Like That continues to be highly awarded both at Sweet Charity (1989), The Inspector (1989), Carousel (1990) and home and abroad, including the accolade of best short animated The Crucible (1990). In 1990 she co-directed a production of film at the prestigious Amsterdam Film Festival in 2002. Sophie’s Shakespeare’s Hamlet. earlier film Essence of Terror has been screened at 27 festivals around the world. She was also an assistant animator alongside Adam Elliot on the short animated film Harvie Krumpet, which received the Oscar for the best short animated film at the 2004 OWCA contacts Academy Awards in America.

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34 Lion - August 2011