Deidre Kitcher is an Australian film producer, and co-founder of Filmscope Entertainment with her partner John V. Soto. Kitcher has produced three of John V. Soto's films,

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(2009), Needle (2010) and The Reckoning (2014).

Career

Kitcher founded Filmscope Entertainment with her partner John V. Soto in 2007. Filmscope Entertainment is an Australian-based production company that makes commercial genre films. In 2009, she produced

, a thriller film following an international architecture student at

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and martial arts champ, who finds work as a house sitter for the wealthy owners of a home in Perth. The film was shot on location at

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including South Perth,

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and West Perth. The film was released on 54 countries worldwide. In 2010, she produced the supernatural thriller film Needle, a murder mystery, with six distinct clues pointing to one of ten suspects. In premiered at CinefestOZ in August 2010. It won a number of awards, most notably Best Horror Make-up Effects from

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(2010) and Best Cinematography from both the British Horror Film Festival (2010) and the

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(2011). Needle was sold to 82 countries worldwide, and has achieved significant success in Turkey which opened at No. 4 across 62 screens. Filmscope's feature film '' The Reckoning'' (2014), a $2.35 million crime thriller starring Jonathon LaPaglia and

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, was completed in January 2014. It premiered at CinefestOZ on 29 August, and was released on five cinemas nationally in

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and

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on 5 September. The Reckoning follows Detective Robbie Green, who after his partner is murdered, must track down two teenage runaways whose video footage contains the identity of the killer.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2452470//

Filmography

References

External links

Official website for Filmscope Entertainment
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