And the winner is the CamBRA Boys!

Fair enough, ant. We’re all entitled to our opinions 🙂

Just out of interest, I’ll put myself out there for comment as well. Here’s a link to my LCA film for this year. I posted this a while back, but don’t know if anybody bothered looking:

http://www.caliburnproductions.com/Brotherhood.html

And a link to the trailer for our low/no budget feature. This is something I have been spending a bit of time on:

http://www.caliburnproductions.com/DSTrailer.html

Cheers

It was still crap, that had me wandering off to make dinner. If it’s that bad, they ought not inflict it on us. There is much better film being made here, including the Tropfest offerings. We should be seeing those, rather than this amateurish, boring tripe.

Hmmm, in CamBRA Boys defence, it must be pointed out that, under the rules of Lights! Canberra! Action!, the films must be produced within a ten day window. This means that you aren’t likely to get as polished a product as, say, somebody’s Tropfest film that they spent six months putting together. There’s also the requirement to squeeze ten random items into the film in some way, which usually results in last minute script re-working.

So, yes, there are better films being made in Canberra, but CamBRA Boys was a product of the very specific requirements of this particular competition.

Stateline screens the winning film as part of its sponsorship of the competition.

And, no, I’ve got nothing to do with CamBRA Boys, but I was one of the other filmmakers in LCA 🙂

Canberra had its own 10-minute news window at the end of the bulletin till about 1988. Then there was a much fanfared first half-hour Canberra News bulletin, which was axed I think five years later, to be brought back in what, five years ago? They do keep toing and froing. My gripe with Stateline is that I want to see the Friday 7.30 Report out of NSW as well as – definitely not instead of – our one! Is it repeated any time that Canberrans can see? Better start lobbying for Stateline, but they’d better stop running crap like the Cambra boys and stick to their gorgeous vignettes and articles.

For a second, Thumper, I thought you were correcting your spelling of “embarrassing” – in which case you were right the first time!

I double-checked in the OED – FYI it comes via some middle Latin word through Italian, via Spanish (which loses one of the Rs) then via French (which replaces the missing R) to English.

That would be a real shame, Stateline ACT just about sparkles, it’s so well done. And sometimes very hard-hitting too, like their following the story of the Canberra Fires some years back. They really waded in to that one. But most of their stuff is just very high quality, well shot/recorded/written and produced. It really stands out.

Why must our taxes be taken away from such things for all people, and be given on non-means-tested handouts to people who don’t need them?

Is it warning about shit tv productions in future?
stateline is expected to suffer when A.B.C starts to automate its studios and sack production staff A mate inside says at least 10 will go from Canberra A.B.C.

I saw Stateline. It was embarrassingly bad. The fancy font for the headings was outdated rubbish, the voice-over guy sounded bloody awful and I couldn’t understand half of what he was saying, and I’ve seen better camera-work from an 11 year old kid. When people say they have a “passion” for film-making, one would expect a pretty good effort, but what I saw on Friday night was woeful.

C’moooooon Canberra, show us something worth watching …oh, and yes, I could do better …

unfortunately australians are terrible at comedy. really bad. So i wouldn’t be suprised if this is bad. But that said i willn’t pass judgement until i see it.

I must admit it was a one line joke and at most times poorly delivered. I did like the animation and old footage with the voice over. I think the satire would have been funnier and more cutting if the “doco” subject was treated more seriously and less like the actors knew it was a joke.