Downsizer – to the MAX
Happy New Year and all that… major update a coming but I wanted to talk a little bit about the (other) film project myself and a few others are trying to get made.
When I started the crowd-sourcing exploration almost a year ago one of the options was ‘Make a film’. When chatting to Marc Hawker (dir: Unwatchable) he said ‘so what film do you want to make?’
Given my state of mind I said ‘It has to take place in an office, it has to be a comedy and have a serious bodycount’. Nothing like a bit of cathartic violence to soothe a troubled mind.
Anyway I immediately enlisted my long time collaborator Stuart Barr who took the notion *way* out there. We started trying to make a full treatment for a feature film but realised, with the advice of Joe Pavlo who I roped in to direct, that we’d be still working on it in 2015 if we tried to overstretch, instead decided to make a short which essentially introduces the world and *could* be the first 10 or so minutes of the film.
We’ve gone through a number of script revisions and still have a couple more to do but we are getting close.
Joe noticed just before Christmas that PepsiMax were running a film making competition with a 30k prize so he quickly ran out, made a little skate film and entered it – judging by the quality of the other entries we reckon we’ve got a shot but the closing date for voting is Sunday.
So what we need people to do (grovel grovel) is vote:
Five star of course! If we win the competition we’ll have Downsizer made by the spring and I promise you won’t be disappointed by the results!
Up in the Atmosphere 
Don’t know if it’s just me, but the vote link just takes me to the facebook newsfeed page. Good luck with the votes
Yep – bloody muppet – sorted now – copied the link from facebook bless ’em
I fully support your redirection of Pepsi’s funds with my 5 stars.