Glenbrook filmmaker takes on Hollywood audience in film debut
Rebekah Jackson’s directorial debut will premiere at the historic TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood this weekend.
It is not often that your film premieres in Hollywood — especially when it is your first film.
But that is exactly what happened for Glenbrook filmmaker Rebekah Jackson, whose short For the Girl in the Coffee Shop will premiere at the historic TCL Chinese Theatre this weekend.
The film is about a guy who falls in love with a stranger in a coffee shop and decides to write a book about her — then the book is picked up by a publisher and he has to tell her.
The short was filmed at Little Lord Cafe in Camperdown and stars Rory O’Keeffe and Tequila Rathbone.
This weekend the film will make its premiere at independent film festival Dances with Films, which runs from June 13 to 23.
Jackson, who is in Los Angeles for the festival, said she was “really excited” to have her film selected.
“One of the great things about it is it’s a purely independent festival right in the middle of LA,” she said.
Jackson studied acting before moving into the production side of filmmaking and eventually landed a job at Trackdown Studios.
“While I was at Trackdown I had in mind that I wanted to move into producing, but the longer I was there the more I started realising the women I looked up to and admired were all directors not producers,” she said.
For her first short, she took on the role of writer, direct and producer and her hard work has paid off; the film will be shown to a Hollywood audience on June 15.
“The one thing I’m most excited about is to see an audience’s reaction to the film and an American audience at that,” Jackson said.
“I’m so excited to hear people be surprised and laugh hopefully.”
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