Angeline Armstrong 2015 Showreel
Writer | Director | Musician
Soundtrack - 'Wah Ha' (Seekae Remix) by Lisa Mitchell
Contact -
armstrong.angeline@gmail.com
+61 468 966 617
BIO
Angeline is a Filipina-Kiwi-Australian filmmaker, writer and musician. At age 21, she was selected out of 700 applicants nationwide to direct a short film in Sydney under the mentorship of Baz Luhrmann. The film premiered at the Sydney Opera House. During her studies she won the nationwide Embassy of France and Francophone Short Film Prize which awarded her a grant for an immersive French language course in New Caledonia. From 2013 - 2015 she was also a key creative in the interactive narrative storytelling collective 'Betanarratives' which was funded and supported by SIGNAL Arts and The Lifted Brow, and premiered its first interactive, digital narrative at the Digital Writers Festival in Melbourne. The piece, 'Body Language', was nominated for a Create Design Award in 2015.
In 2016 her first independent short film ‘Bathrooms’ which she wrote, directed, produced and co-edited, won a Silver Award from the Australian Cinematography Society and was an official selection at international festivals including the Portland Film Festival, Newport Beach Film Festival, Los Angeles Cinefest, and the Sedona International Film Festival.
In 2016 she relocated to Los Angeles where she directed the narrative short, ‘Portions’, a co-production with the Middle Eastern Women’s Leadership Network (MEWLN) that explores concepts of freedom, abundance and womanhood – promoting dialogue amongst women living in the contemporary social climate of the Middle East region. She also landed a ghostwriting gig for a creative non-fiction memoir about an Iranian-American woman whose husband was murdered by the government following the Iranian Revolution of 1979. She also worked part-time in a bougie wine & cheese store in Hollywood where she met lots of famous people that would be fun (and totally irrelevant) to namedrop in a biography. Perhaps with some artful spin, these names could somehow be associated with her own social status within industry circles - Stephen Fry, Stan Lee, Vanessa Hudgens, Taika Waititi, Donald Glover...(just kidding I'll stop now...)
I digress -
Angeline is currently writing two original TV Pilots which she developed through the 2018 Film Victoria TV/Online Plot Twist Labs and Writers' Rooms. She is also continuing to direct short form content (short films, music videos, branded content) and freelancing as a script reader and analyst.
Outside of filmmaking she enjoys having a crazy and culturally diverse family, dancing like a wild thing with the lights off, breathing thin air on mountain tops, and plotting a grand takeover of the pop music industry as the lead singer of electronic-pop duo, BEACHWOOD, with Jarrad Rogers (whose producer/songwriter credits incl. Charli XCX, Rachel Platten, Delta Goodrem, Demi Lovato & Icona Pop). Their first single "Miracle" (which they co-wrote) will be released out of Australia late March 2019.