The Physical TV Company

The Physical TV Company creates innovative drama, documentary, dancefilm and poetry projects. Artistic Directors: Richard James Allen and Karen Pearlman.

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'A perfect mixture of black humour and horror!' (Maggie Ball).

MISERY AND OTHER CHOICES, a @PhysicalTV and @breathlessfilm production, directed by Samuel Lucas Allen, screening at St Kilda Film Festival, Melbourne this Sunday June 7 at 4.30pm. Tix: https://t.co/UYP0ZSvLRk

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Sydney! We are so back.

This Friday, May 29, you can see MISERY AND OTHER CHOICES again at Palace Cinemas Central as part of Sydney World Film Festival. Tix: https://t.co/Tq0MBJuIZY

We had so much fun at our previous screening, and we are so excited to bring this eco-thriller!

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If you missed the stunning, packed Australian Premiere of MISERY AND OTHER CHOICES at Fantastic Film Festival Australia, catch it
at Sydney World Film Festival, Shorts 4, Friday May 29, at 8pm, @palacecinemas Palace Central (Cinema 7), tix here: https://t.co/Tq0MBJvgPw

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POSTER REVEAL! How to express rage, despair, power + powerlessness? Katherine Paterson’s design for Samuel Lucas Allen’s new eco-thriller MISERY AND OTHER CHOICES, Mon May 4, 7.15pm @randwickritz, Sydney Shorts, Fantastic Film Festival Australia. Tix:
https://t.co/HGn3UUv02R

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Please join director Samuel Lucas Allen & the extraordinary team behind MISERY AND OTHER CHOICES for the AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE, Mon May 4, 2026, 7.15pm @randwickritz, on Sydney Shorts program of Fantastic Film Festival Australia.

Will sell out! Book now https://t.co/HGn3UUv02R

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Thrilled to be screening on the Eco-Horror Shorts program with our film MISERY AND OTHER CHOICES! One night only - get along and tell your DC friends.
When: Thur, March 26, 9:30 PM EDT
Where: Angelika Pop-Up at Union Market
Tix: https://t.co/Z0xgMkCalX

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DC's Environmental Film Fest kicks off this week.

Unique to this year's festival: a night of short eco-horror films, including one where manta rays rise from the ocean depths seeking revenge for the death of one of their friends

@dceff_org

https://t.co/HdSxZTiMOv

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Thrilled to be screening on the eco-horror shorts program on @dceff_org with our film MISERY AND OTHER CHOICES. Get ready for a wild night!

What: Shorts: Eco-Horror program
When: Thursday, March 26, 9:30 PM EDT
Where: Angelika Pop-Up at Union Market
Tix: https://t.co/Z0xgMkCalX

[Justin O'Neill @JustinJONeill]

DC's Environmental Film Fest kicks off this week.

Unique to this year's festival: a night of short eco-horror films, including one where manta rays rise from the ocean depths seeking revenge for the death of one of their friends

@dceff_org

https://t.co/HdSxZTiMOv

[The Physical TV Company @PhysicalTV]

What do you do when the world is on fire? US Premiere of MISERY AND OTHER CHOICES, a @physicaltv production directed by Samuel Lucas Allen @dceff_org!
What: Shorts: Eco-Horror program
When: Thurs, March 26 9:30 PM EDT
Where: Angelika Pop-Up at Union Market
https://t.co/Z0xgMkCalX

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Your vote could make BREAKING PLATES an AACTA Short Film Finalist!

Short Film: Round 1 - closes 11:59pm AEDT TODAY 06 Oct 2025!
@aacta members, please view + vote : https://t.co/QwCzunopp5

"The most innovative...films in cinema today" Magdalena Ball, Compulsive Reader.

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*** NEW YORK SCREENING THIS SUNDAY!! ***
Karen Pearlman + Richard James Allen in NYC for the screening of recent @physicaltv films this Sunday September 21, 2025, at 5.30pm, at @ColumbiaSOA, Dodge Hall 511, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY 10027, USA . Free but contact for QR entry.

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Joseph Heller's paradoxical up-equals-down and down-equals-up CATCH-22 seems all the more relevant today.

MORE LIES, a novel about a writer who must keep writing to stay alive, available in paperback, eBook, audiobook: https://t.co/VJU6Ic2Ans Spotify: https://t.co/XzBMChui6U

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Karen Pearlman, Violette Ayad, Angela Little!

BREAKING PLATES is a contender for Best Short Film in the 2026 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts @AACTA Awards!

AACTA members, please vote! Viewing link https://t.co/QwCzunopp5
Voting window: Sept 22 to Oct 6, 2025.

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Loyalty and friendship and art. Michelle Hiscock and Jonathan Nix. Opening Night: Thurs Sept 4, 2025, 6-8pm @australiangalleries, 15 Roylston Street , Paddington. This sensitive exhibition continues through September 27: https://t.co/lQGl8a2VDd

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Thrilled to share that Karen Pearlman’s BREAKING PLATES is a contender for Best Short Film in the 2026 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts @AACTA Awards!

If you are an AACTA member, please vote! Viewing link: https://t.co/QwCzunopp5

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Excited to share that Karen Pearlman’s BREAKING PLATES is a contender for Best Short Film in the 2026 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts @AACTA Awards!

If you are an AACTA member, we would be thrilled if you could vote! Viewing link: https://t.co/QwCzunopp5

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Excited to share that Karen Pearlman’s BREAKING PLATES is a contender for Best Short Film in the 2026 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts @AACTA Awards!

If you are an AACTA member, we would be thrilled if you could vote! Viewing link: https://t.co/QwCzunnRzx

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Richard James Allen says, 'This is one of the most fun interviews I have ever had! Please have a listen! Big thanks to Belinda and @2ser.'

Find out the truth with Richard about his latest release ‘More Lies’, 2SER:FM: https://t.co/a2Dq7eAbls

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Big thanks to the inestimable Tug Dumbly for launching my novel MORE LIES!

Available at Better Read Than Dead, Newtown.

Or pick up this playful satire in paperback, eBook or audiobook here: https://t.co/VJU6Ic2Ans

Or Spotify: https://t.co/XzBMChui6U

Photo: Yannis Dramitinos

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Which actor who turned up to play a character from MORE LIES at Richard James Allen's book and audiobook launch? Liliya May!

MORE LIES is available in paperback, eBook or audiobook https://t.co/VJU6Ic2Ans Or on Spotify: https://t.co/XzBMChui6U

Photo by Yannis Dramitinos.

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It's TODAY!! Saturday August 9! See you at 3pm at Better Read Than Dead for the MORE LIES Launch and then on to Kelly's on King to celebrate!

Details: https://t.co/x9lLHpmi3H