Ben Apfelbaum

RED CARPET : ANYONE BUT YOU

Barry Conrad
Bryan Brown
Bryan Brown, Sydney Sweeney .Will Gluck (dir), Joe Davidson
Georgia – May Davis
Joe Davidson
Sisi Stringer
Sopha Dopha
Sydney Sweeney & fans
Sydney Sweeney
Director Will Gluck

The star of this film, Sydney Sweeney, together with the film’s director Will Gluck , and Australian cast members attended the film’s Sydney premiere.

The Sydney set rom-com is hoping to turn up the heat, transforming the ultimate Australian summer beach club, complete with summer tunes and treats.

In this comedy  Bea (Sydney Sweeney), and Ben (Glen Powell) look like the perfect couple  but after an amazing first date something happens which turns their fiery hot attraction ice cold, until they find themselves  unexpectedly thrust together at a destination wedding in Australia. So they don what any two mature adults would do; pretend to be a couple.

When asked what he hoped the film would achieve, Gluck  stated that he hoped  that this light hearted holiday affair would bring people back to the cinema.

In pre-publicity gossip the chemistry both on and  off the screen led to speculation that this was a real life couple romance. This was not the case. However,  on the weekends during filming the bubbly Sweeney organised tours of Sydney and surrounding areas for the cast and crew which proved extremely popular wth all those on set.

However, when asked the inevitable Aussie question, had she tried Vegemite, alas she had not.

ANYONE BUT YOU opens in wide release on Boxing Day.

Featured photo Charlee Fraser. Text and photos by Ben Apfelbaum

Published by Ben Apfelbaum

My photography began when my father handed me the proverbial brownie box camera as a child. As cameras developed I went through Fujica and Olympus range finders graduating to my first single lens reflex camera, the Minolta SRT101, the latter being the greatest facilitator to my growth as a photographer. Digital photography has only added to this. I was a regular contributor to Camera Craft magazine (Australian Camera ) for over three years. During Australia’s Bicentennial year (1988) I made it a personal project to document the celebrations. This culminated in the creation of a book of my photos which was published in 1989. The book was called CELEBRATING AUSTRALIA and came with an accompanying calendar. My works have appeared in a number of publications including the coffee book entitled MY AUSTRALIA (1989), publisher Robertsbridge Severn. This book had a preface by the then Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke. I was a co-photographer on a book entitled SYDNEY- DISCOVER THE CITY with text written by Robert Treborland. Major Mitchell Press was the publisher. Also for two years I was the photographer for calendars celebrating Sydney’s multicultural communities. The two calendars were entitled MULTICULTURAL SYDNEY. My work appeared in a group exhibition held at Sydney’s Town Hall pertaining to the diversity of life in South America to raise money for orphanages there. I have over one hundred photos stored in the New South Wales State Library archive. I had a solo exhibition held in 2007 entitled Ben’s Lens at the Sydney Jewish Museum which celebrated the vibrancy of the Sydney Jewish community. Some of these photos are on the Museum’s permanent display. I have exhibited internationally firstly at the Spruill Gallery in Atlanta Georgia, united states, and in an exhibition entitled Kosher and Co at the Jewish Museum in Berlin. Currently I am a regular contributor to J-Wire and this esteemed publication.