‘Unintentionally infamous’ movie in the marketplace at Cannes

A Canberra-Berlin movie producer has been in Cannes this week on the Marché du Movie representing a movie that has change into unintentionally infamous.

Karl Hillbrick, a former volunteer firefighter and Duke of Edinburgh gold awardee raised in Kambah and schooled at Trinity Christian faculty and Lake Tuggeranong School, now has a flourishing profession as a producer in Berlin with the corporate Infilmpact.

He has emailed “CityNews” from Cannes concerning the drama brief, “Nadija,” (launched as “Hope” in English) which was repurposed by Russian trolls as proof that the Ukraine warfare was faux.

Filmed in Latvia by rising Ukrainian director Artem Kocharian, who had moved there in February 2022 at the beginning of the warfare, the movie relies on a real story and tells the story of a pregnant Ukrainian lady left alone after her household was killed within the ongoing warfare after Russia’s invasion.

Hillbrick, who believes the movie is an genuine story of resilience and hope, says that after Kocharian posted pictures of the movie technique of TikTok a number of weeks in the past, “determined” Russian trollers started sharing video excerpts exhibiting males in uniforms carrying weapons as they enter a constructing whereas a digital camera crew movies them, proof, they claimed, that the warfare in Ukraine was “staged propaganda.”

As if that weren’t sufficient, throughout filming “Nadija”, a manufacturing automobile was carefully inspected following a visitors incident, revealing a boot-load of what had been subsequently confirmed as firearm props.

The “faux information” illustration of “Nadija” has obtained large publicity in Europe and now co-producers Hillbrick and Julia Kabitsyna-Cabiere have been in Cannes pitching the movie to patrons, broadcasters and streamers on the well-known Marché, one of many largest movie markets on the planet.

The trailer for “Nadija” is right here