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Otago Daily Times
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Otago Daily Times
Cannes ‘mind-blowing' for Queenstown film-maker
Queenstowner Victoria Boult jokes she's now officially a controversial Cannes film-maker. Last week the two episodes of n00b, the TV series she co-created with Rachel Fawcett, were screened at the Cannes International Series Festival 2025, in France, having been nominated in the 'short form' section. It was ultimately named runner-up in the Cannesseries Student Award. Boult estimates up to 300 people were in the audience watching its screening, and counted six or seven who walked out after one infamous scene involving gingernuts. "Fair play," she quips. "I was watching it on the big screen and was like, 'wow, I forgot how in your face this is'. "I was talking to someone about this afterwards and they were like, 'every great Cannes film-maker has someone angrily walk out of the screening'. "I'm proud of the fact we are now, officially, controversial Cannes film-makers." That aside, Boult, 27, says there was a hugely positive reaction to the show, which started out as a TikTok series. Set in Gore, n00b is a nostalgic teen sex comedy about 2005, bad fashion choices, emo music and flip phones. It's subsequently been picked up by Netflix Australia and was showcased at the Berlinale Series Market in February. She says the overall Cannes experience, for a small-town Kiwi girl, was "mind-blowing". Alongside meeting "aspirational" people such as Beau Willimon, the American developer of House of Cards, and composer Isobel Waller-Bridge, Boult was the only Kiwi invited to participate in the Cannes 'writers' club', comprising 40 writers from across the world, including Emmy nominees and head writers on Disney shows, to attend two and a-half days of workshops, and mix and mingle with all manner of creatives. She's now got "a group of incredibly talented writer friends from all over the world", and believes the experience has opened some serious doors. "This literally has enabled me to make some concrete steps forward in my career, which I'm very grateful for." A huge highlight was getting to walk the pink carpet with n00b actor Jaxson Cook (James) — "for a hot minute I was living my own early 2000s dream of watching the E channel ... being like, 'one day I'll get to walk on the red carpet and tell journalists what I'm wearing'," (for the record, a dress designed by Kiwi brand knuefermann) — but sharing the experience with her mum, Karen, was the icing on top. "If I could bring everyone with me and have everyone on the carpet [to say] thank you for helping me get here, I would have done it. "But to have the person I think probably who has been my biggest cheerleader from day one — apart from maybe my dad [former Queenstown mayor Jim] — there with me, and to get to see my mum killing it and slaying in the photographs ... and celebrate her and all the contributions she's made to my career has been very meaningful."
Buzz Feed
17-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
There's A Mini "Dance Academy" Reunion In Netflix's "Apple Cider Vinegar"
Apple Cider Vinegar is the latest hit series from Netflix Australia, telling the 'true-ish' story of infamous cancer fraudster Belle Gibson, whose rise and fall as an early wellness influencer was one of the biggest stories in Australia in the 2010s. wtf! what do you mean Belle Gibson didn't get any jail time? WTF!! #AppleCiderVinegar — deçu (@umeanthePRNDL) February 10, 2025 Twitter: @umeanthePRNDL Although Belle herself is played flawlessly by American Kaitlyn Dever — with an impeccable Australian accent — the rest of the cast is predominantly Aussie talent. It's cool to see familiar faces pop up throughout the series — especially when it comes to alumni of a particular teen show that was also a big deal in the 2010s. This is a true-ish story based on a lie. Kaitlyn Dever stars as Belle Gibson in Apple Cider Vinegar. Now playing. — Netflix (@netflix) February 6, 2025 Twitter: @netflix That's right — Apple Cider Vinegar is practically a Dance Academy reunion, and as a huge fan of the latter I basically turned into that Leonardo Dicaprio pointing meme whenever one of the former cast members was on screen. me watching apple cider vinegar coz there's a new dance academy actor every second — ًً (@pscwyers) February 13, 2025 Twitter: @pscwyers Both series, of course, come from the same brilliant brain — Apple Cider Vinegar creator and writer Samantha Strauss was also co-creator and writer for Dance Academy. Plus Apple Cider Vinegar director Jeffrey Walker not only directed several episodes of the Dance Academy series, but also the 2017 movie (appropriately titled Dance Academy: The Movie). It's perhaps no wonder, then, that so many stars from the popular ballet school drama show up in Apple Cider Vinegar. I'm watching Apple Cider Vinegar and all the cast of Dance Academy are showing up 😭 Abigail, Kat and Sammy 🤭 — K 🇻🇪✨ (@cececarya) February 7, 2025 Twitter: @cececarya Alycia Debnam-Carey, for starters, plays second lead Milla Blake, a wellness influencer who is a rival of Belle's and who actually has cancer (the character is loosely based on the late Jessica Ainscough). Although not what she's most known for, Debnam-Carey had a small role on Dance Academy, appearing in one episode as Sammy's girlfriend Mia. Sammy Lieberman himself, aka actor Thom Green, also appears in Apple Cider Vinegar. He plays Lenny, a photographer who works for Belle on the development of her app The Whole Pantry. It's a small but notable role, very different to sweet Sammy (sob). Instagram @buzzfeedoz / Via But perhaps most fun for Dance Academy fans are the cameo appearances of two of the series' leading ladies — Alicia Banit, who played the rebellious Kat Karamakov, and Dena Kaplan, who played the driven Abigail Armstrong (and another of Sammy's girlfriends). The pair appear in a scene together, making it a proper Dance Academy reunion. You can spot them in Episode 2 of Apple Cider Vinegar, playing new mothers in Belle's mother's group who bond by complaining about their partners and in-laws and how isolated they feel. Kaplan's character shares a very Abigail-esque rage fantasy about running her husband over with her car, and in another iconic moment, Kaplan and Banit's characters exchange a silent side-eye conversation while Belle desperately tries to big-note herself. It's like a multi-layer hit of nostalgia watching a series set in the 2010s feature stars from an actual series set in the 2010s. While the two shows are very different in subject matter, they're both incredible Aussie television. big fan of what i assume is samantha strauss putting the entire dance academy cast in apple cider vinegar — mich ✨ (@mismatchedmich) February 8, 2025 Twitter: @mismatchedmich Now excuse me while I go rewatch Dance Academy for the 107th time.
