Cathy Rechichi has joined Infinity Squared as executive producer based in its Sydney office.
She has produced projects ranging from music videos to high end TV commercials, feature length films, large scale live events, web series, multi-platform projects, telemovies and international line productions. Rechichi has produced notable work with such directors and artists as Lesli Linka Glatter, Nick Reynolds, Malcolm Venville, Catriona Mackenzie, Paul Goldman and Nick Cave. Her previous roles include serving as general manager of the Big Day Out.
Rechichi will join founder and EP Dave Jansen in the day-to-day running of production at Infinity Squared. Jansen and managing director Tom Phillips focus on growth and diversifying the company’s offering.
“No Good Men” and “Only Rebels Win” Bring Love From Unexpected Places To Berlin Film Fest
A surprising and touching Afghan political rom-com that is said to feature the first ever on-screen kiss in an Afghan movie opens the 76th Berlin Film Festival Thursday.
Set in a Kabul newsroom in 2021, with the Taliban on the cusp of returning to power, "No Good Men" tells the workplace love story of camerawoman Naru, separated from her cheating husband and struggling to keep custody of her young son while trying to build a career in a male dominated industry and patriarchal society.
Director Shahrbanoo Sadat said the kissing scene cost her lead actor three weeks before shooting began, and forced her to step into the role herself.
"The joke was everyone who wanted to play Naru, they didn't want to do the kissing, I wanted to do the kissing, I didn't want to do the rest of the film," Sadat said.
And it wasn't just the casting that was met with resistance. The Afghan film industry is small, she said, so the expectation is that the movie will be "good PR" for the country.
Sadat had her own ideas, though.
"I love Afghanistan, but I cannot close my eyes to patriarchy, sexism, all the big topics, and just say the good things about Afghanistan, so I'm disappointing my people," she said.
Making an Afghan film in Europe, with European funding, she also felt added pressure to be a political and feminist filmmaker or make a war movie.
Sadat received multiple letters of complaint from funders who said it was inappropriate for them to support a rom-com given the political situation in Afghanistan.
"For me it was like, wait a minute, what? I feel offended that you feel offended about my project," she said. "I'm coming from a war country, and this is my way of expressing myself, to go through the oceans of... Read More