Kane Sarota
Born in Melbourne with a Polish heritage, Kane Sarota was preparing to study Architecture when he attended an audition with a friend for moral support. After much coercing, he auditioned and got the lead role in his schools Theatre Restaurant. He then went on to one of the leads in ‘Sweet Charity’. This led to spending twelve months studying with Spotlight Theatre (1992) and then onto Queensland Screen Performance Academy (1995), The Actors Workshop (1996) and The Actors Center (1997). He has continued to be involved in classes always honing his skills. With his quirky comedy timing he was invited to perform in a comedy show which led to being the main act in other comedy performances. 1997 gave birth to his first experience writing, producing and acting in his first short film for Tropfest ’Local Legends’. He then landed supporting roles in the stage production comedies ‘Pardon Me Prime Minister’ (2000) and ‘Dimboola’ (2001). He wrote and directed and produced a short film ‘King of the Coast’ which led him into writing, producing and acting in another short film acting along side Bill Hunter in ‘Pitching’ (2000). With acting for film being a large passion, he constantly received lead roles in short films where he was able to express a broad range of emotions and characters from a blackmailed doctor in ‘Random’ to an estranged bartender caught in a love triangle in ‘Psycho Bob’. He had many appearances on the US TV cult series Beastmaster (2001) and played an archaeologist who’s crew was being taken over by demons in an episode of The Lost World (2001)’. In London he worked for a large independent film company Lucky 7 Productions and Bauer Martinez Studios 2003-2004. Working in the head office as a Production Assistant under the guidance of Producers Alan Latham and Philippe Martinez he began script reporting to them. Nine films were made in his time there including Modigliani with Andy Garcia and Wake of Death with Jean-Claude Van Damme. In 2005, he was the Assistant Producer on a Pacific Film and Television Commission funded short Film ’Heads Up’ which went onto winning five ‘Best Film’ Awards. He was then given the reigns to Produce and act in a QPIX funded short film Humidity Rising (2006). He got together with Shane Dempsey and formed their production company Shakane Productions during the production of ‘Humidity Rising’. Kane was nominated for ‘Best Actor’ playing a dangerous drifter and the film went on to win two ‘Best Film’ Awards including Best Independent Short Drama at the 21st Warner Roadshow Queensland New Filmmakers Awards. Going to L.A after the success and pitching the concept of Shakane Productions first feature film ‘The Harvester’, they were picked up and developed with another production company for 7 months until funding fell through during the GFC. It is still currently being developed by Shakane Productions. Playing a dirty hitman in ICU (2007) along side Margot Robbie from Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, saw him secure the lead role as a professional hitman in the thriller Sharkmen (2009). Another film is Rodney Fickle- Online Athlete (2010) playing the evil nemesis in this comedy. Since being in Cairns during the last 6 years, he has taken a backseat to acting and filmmaking helping to raise his two young boys. Kane has continued to work on the script ‘The Harvester’ and finish developing the business plan. He is now set to move forward again to get the film into production again. During his stay in Cairns he has had two lead roles in two plays. The first play in 2014 was, ‘Speaking in Tongues’, a multi award-winning movie ‘Lantana’. He played the role of Leon. The next play in 2016 was the cult classic ’One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest” playing the role of McMurphy. Both plays received rave reviews. He is enjoying his time here in Cairns with his two sons and loves fatherhood.
