Alice Foulcher finds success in creative partnership with her director husband
AUSSIE filmmaker Alice Foulcher talks about how meeting her husband changed her creative life ahead of the Queensland premiere of their first feature film at the Brisbane International Film Festival.
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FILMMAKER and actor Alice Foulcher says her creative life took a turn for the better when she met her director husband Gregory Erdstein.
Melbourne-based Foulcher, who studied drama at the Queensland University of Technology, is in town for the Queensland premiere of the couple’s first feature film That’s Not Me at the Brisbane International Film Festival tonight.
The 32-year-old, who met her hubby at film school in Melbourne and has been with him for almost nine years, co-wrote the independent comedy with him while she also stars in it under Erdstein’s direction.
“I feel like my creative life has completely turned around since we got together – we mesh really well,” she told Confidential.
“He created darker and more cynical films and I was more about heartfelt drama, so when we combined the two we got this in between that felt really nice, like social satire.”
The pair, who have been married for four years, have made a number of short films together before their debut feature That’s Not Me, which follows the story of an aspiring actor whose identical twin sister is a successful actor. It co-stars Isabel Lucas.
“Working together means having someone to share the load with and someone to stay accountable to,” she said.
“We have a blunt shorthand with each other on set and we’re not precious about that kind of thing.”
That’s Not Me has been a wild success for the couple, having premiered at the prestigious Santa Barbara International Film Festival in the US earlier this year where it drew sold-out crowds and rave reviews, before screening at Sydney Festival, the New Zealand International Film Festival and Melbourne International Film Festival.
It has also been selected for Raindance Film Festival in London and will screen at cinemas nationally from September 7.
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