He also has the only voice on Planet Earth that can be whispered into the depths of the Mariana Trench.
Our Ange & The Boss film is more Hungarian and Greek than it is Italian, but it’s partly the story of post war immigration to Australia, and the sporting organizations migrants established to strengthen community. We’ve had a lot of Italians come out and say, ‘when I was seeing those Greeks walking down the gangplank at Station pier, I felt like I was seeing my parents’.
Cam and I met Tony Tardio when we were speaking to Tony Moclair on 3AW last week, and Tony said I could come on his show to talk to Italians. He asked me if I’d be more comfortable doing the interview in Italian or English, and as a Year 12 Latin student at Camberwell Grammar, I of course answered, ‘etiam ego loquor anglicus’.
We ended up plumping for English, which was a big help to me. It was such a fun interview. At some point we were playing the Godfather outro music and I was telling Tony about dressing up as the blonde bombshell applying sunscreen at the beginning of The White Lotus.
We are trying to drag specific ethnic communities to Ange & The Boss. I’m going to run a few ads on Greek radio 3XY, as well as pitch to SBS radio and their Greek and Hungarian shows.
Ange himself has kept a distant eye on our film — I’m unsure if he’s seen it yet … he does seem to be quite busy — but he did record some lovely Greek langauge snippets for us at the time of shooting about what Hellas means to him, and Ferenc Puskas too.
Our national cinema season for Ange & The Boss begins March 13th at Palace Pentridge in Coburg. The following night 14th March at the Nova is almost sold out, with Francis Leach and Paul Trimboli as special guests. And then over the weekend, it’s on around Australia! Some of the Palace sessions aren’t live yet, (WA, SA, Qld) but all the Q & A sessoons are. Check our website for sessions and tickets
We’re distributing and publicising the film ourselves. Plesae pass on the word to friends and family, and give us a shot at a decent national run.
We head to Hungary in April! Horray.
Best wishes
Tony
Here is seat map at the Nova for the 14th March. Nearly sold out, three weeks before screening!
Here is a tile to pop on social media or send to friends!
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