Amelia Forsyth-Smith Actor: A Passionate Actor

Short Film "The Talk" a winner!

The Talk wins Best Cinematography at the Gammacon Blue Shift Short Film Competition.

This was a great little project with a fabulous cast and crew. I am so greatful to have had the opportunity to be involved.

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The Gammacon Blue Shift Short film competition is designed for SciFi Fantasy filmmakers, and must include a line to prove it was made within a certain time frame. 

There were many wonderful submissions, and the Blue Carpet Event on 3 August was a load of fun.

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Congratulations to George Tsotsos, for winning Best Cinematography for this film.

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You can check out the final piece here:

https://youtu.be/v1v9lMX_lSs

Starting out in the Entertainment Industry

as a mature lady

As a kid, I wanted nothing more than to be an actress. I had grand plans and was heavily involved in local amateur theatre.  But back then, living in a public service town with little access to training and even fewer people who knew what to do, the dream gave way to the reality of building the “normal life”. A nine to five desk job with security, relationships, university degrees, mortages etc.  I swear I feel asleep in my early 20s, and woke up in my mid-30s, in a mundane monotonous job and very little joy.

I had achieved a few things though.  Having played the Tenor Drum with the Canberra City Pipes and Drums since the age of ten, I have had the opportunity to perform around the globe, including:

2009    Edinburgh Military Tattoo - Australian Federal Police Pipes and Drums (AFPPD)

2007    Kremlin Zoria International Tattoo Moscow – AFPPD

2005    Norfolk Island – Victory in the Pacific Anniversary Celebrations

As I progressed through my professional public service career, my job increasingly required me to be able to stand up in front of a crowd and talk about a given subject.  So I began toying with the idea of taking a lass in presentation skills.

Then one evening while at a friends house celebrating a birthday, I think it was one of her sons, maybe it was hers... there was cake... while eating cake with her youngest, who I think was about 6 years old at the time, we were discussing the future.  I asked him, as many adults ask kids, what do you want to be when you grow up?  He said with steely determination in a rather dramatic fashion “I want to be an actor”.  Of course I mentioned I wanted to be an actor when I grew up, but I never got around to it.  In all his 6 year old wisdom, he simply responded “why don’t you do it now?”

For some reason, that stuck with me over the next few nights, and I decided to dip my toe in the water.  I would do an Acting 101 short course.  It would address the presentation skills I needed for work, and allow me to begin exploring the world of performance once again.

In that short course however, I discovered a whole new passion.  From that passion, I decided to start a weight loss vlog, to encourage me to lose weight (and at that time I really, really needed to).  Once I had lost a bit of weight, I applied for a couple of modelling and extra jobs.  To my surprise, I was actually cast.  The more I applied to the more I was being cast in a variety of roles. I began to take the acting more and more seriously, until I got to the point of beginning to build a business from it.

And that is the story of how a very old dream, became a passion.  A life consuming, joyous passion.