{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2015}} {{Use Australian English|date=December 2015}} '''Deidre Kitcher''' is an Australian film producer, and co-founder of Filmscope Entertainment with her partner John V. Soto. Kitcher has produced three of John V. Soto's films, Crush (2009), Needle (2010) and The Reckoning (2014).
==Career== Kitcher founded Filmscope Entertainment with her partner John V. Soto in 2007. Filmscope Entertainment is an Australian-based production company that makes commercial genre films. In 2009, she produced Crush, a thriller film following an international architecture student at University of Western Australia and martial arts champ, who finds work as a house sitter for the wealthy owners of a home in Perth. The film was shot on location at Perth, Western Australia including South Perth, Perry Lakes Reserve, University of Western Australia and West Perth. The film was released on 54 countries worldwide.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/wa/new-movie-crush-filmed-in-wa-ng-e3bdd19065135892289c3a23dcc3fc27|title=Hollywood comes to South Perth|date=4 January 2008|website=PerthNow}}</ref>
In 2010, she produced the supernatural thriller film Needle, a murder mystery, with six distinct clues pointing to one of ten suspects. In premiered at CinefestOZ in August 2010. It won a number of awards, most notably Best Horror Make-up Effects from Screamfest (2010) and Best Cinematography from both the British Horror Film Festival (2010) and the Melbourne Underground Film Festival (2011). Needle was sold to 82 countries worldwide, and has achieved significant success in Turkey which opened at No. 4 across 62 screens.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl3074458881/weekend/|title=Needle|website=Box Office Mojo}}</ref>
Filmscope's feature film ''The Reckoning'' (2014), a $2.35 million crime thriller starring Jonathon LaPaglia and Luke Hemsworth, was completed in January 2014. It premiered at CinefestOZ on 29 August,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://if.com.au/2014/08/14/article/Spotlight-on-Perth-as-The-Reckoning-premieres-at-CinfestOZ/YTXFCTYZFM.html |title=Spotlight on Perth as the Reckoning premieres at CinéfestOZ |access-date=10 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140910215832/http://if.com.au/2014/08/14/article/Spotlight-on-Perth-as-The-Reckoning-premieres-at-CinfestOZ/YTXFCTYZFM.html |archive-date=10 September 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and was released on five cinemas nationally in Perth, Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne on 5 September.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://if.com.au/2014/09/07/article/Audiences-seek-out-The-Reckoning/LULLPKPWDU.html|title=IF Magazine}}</ref> The Reckoning follows Detective Robbie Green, who after his partner is murdered, must track down two teenage runaways whose video footage contains the identity of the killer.<ref>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2452470// {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180808034034/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2452470/ |date=8 August 2018 }} {{User-generated source|certain=yes|date=March 2022}}</ref>
==Filmography== {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" |- ! scope="col" | Title ! scope="col" | Year ! scope="col" | Role ! scope="col" | Format ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Status |- ! scope="row"| The Reckoning | style="text-align:center;"| 2014 | Producer | Feature | Released |- ! scope="row" | Needle | style="text-align:center;"| 2010 | Producer | Feature | Released |- ! scope="row" | Crush | style="text-align:center;"| 2009 | Producer | Feature | Released |}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://filmscope.com.au/ Official website for Filmscope Entertainment]
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