My name is John and I’m a top 8 finalist in the Project Greenlight Australia filmmaking contest — a bit like Australian Idol for filmmakers.
The winner is given a $1 million budget and guaranteed theatrical release for their feature film, in my case a comedy about Canberra.
The top 8 contestants were required to make short films, with audience voting deciding which contestants go through to the top 4.
The short films were televised on Foxtel’s Movie Extra, and assessed by a panel of judges. In my case, all 3 judges (Megan Spencer, Jeremy Sims and Mick Molloy) gave me the thumbs up and recommended the audience vote for me.
You can view the short film I made (starring Bud Tingwell) and vote for me online at Project Greenlight, and you can also vote by texting ‘John’ to 1999 7222 (cost 55c).
Voting closes midnight Sunday, so vote early and vote often, and help me bring a million dollar film production to Canberra!
If you have any questions about the contest, leave them in the comments section and I’ll try and answer.
Cheers!
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Will there be mimes in the feature film?
Also, if possible with your legal obligations, if you’ve got a larger version and want us to host it here send me an email johnboy@the-riotact.com
(oh and minor quibble, blind people sweep their canes rather than tapping them, just had to get that off my chest)
Can I write a song for your next movie?
I’ve often thought that Mick Molloy would make a great “teacher” in a movie about a school.
Hrmmm….I think I should write a script.
Can I write a song for your script?
hehe
I have an idea for a film.
a guy in a stanley steamer roams the highways of canberra tracking down recumbent cyclists and thrashing them.
How about a story where a bunch of everyday folk meet on a blog to get their opinions off their chests. One day a crazy chick lobs in and starts making waves. Mysteriously, the people who bagged her online start disappearing, but before they do they leave clues on the blog about what happened to them.
hey now theres an idea. riot act movie. We could call it THE RIOT-ACT – Recumbents on a Dragway. The ultimate local horror movie.
Being a pretty talented electronic muso I would be happy assist writing (and producing) the score. i can act quite badly as well.
No mimes in my feature film. To be honest I’m not a big mime fan — the short film scripts were assigned to us so I didn’t have too much control over the subject matter.
Good pickup on the cane thing, thats especially bad given my Grandma is blind.
VY – Now that’s something I’d pay to see!
that was my mime impression
thats a real talent you have there bonfire.
has anyone seen ‘shakes the clown’ ?
best anti-mime film ive seen.
whatever happened to bobcat goldthwait ?
Thumper you’ll be the 1st one I’ll call.
bonfire,
now that was funny!
I was going to vote until I read the projected script, I got as far as page 68 and that was enough.
Hell yeah, why don’t we vote, then ask for extra spots in the movie.
‘Cept for me, I’ll have a line thanks…
hehe
“How about a story where a bunch of everyday folk meet on a blog to get their opinions off their chests. One day a crazy chick lobs in and starts making waves. Mysteriously, the people who bagged her online start disappearing, but before they do they leave clues on the blog about what happened to them.”
CC the Movie – coming to a cinema near you this Summer.
It’d have to have an R18 rating I reckon.
johnboy said :
I actually think that’d make a bloody good movie… happy to offer technical advice for a reasonable fee.
I’ll write the music.
But seriously, that is a bloody good idea for a movie.
I want a camel in it.
Recumbent Bicycle hounds of hell.
there needs to be a ‘car chase’. i suggest a stanley steamer mowing down recumbent bicycles ala mad max 1.
I’ll write the car chase music.
Probably need a sax to get that Benny Hill feel.
what about instead of a camel having a character named The Hindmarsh Drive Camel of Fear.
*shudder*
(Cue dramatic music)
there needs to be a ‘car chase’. i suggest a stanley steamer mowing down recumbent bicycles ala mad max 1.
As if you could catch a nimble recumbent in your stanley steamer
its the annoying bobbing orange flag.
they can cycle, but they cant hide.
i reckon bonfire falling in love with a recucumbant biker could make a more interesting plot.
The story of a brave man Torn between the love of his life and a hatred for cyclists.
The scene where his beau persuades him to take his (very wobbly) first ride would be a corker.