Online web magazine twoseveneight will also launch soon with its website and first episode near completion. It’s project listing will be updated very soon with links and details.

For Evie (drama short film)

-Currently in pre-production. Aiming to shoot March 10th-12th. Shooting Melbourne, Australia, and 1 scene in Singapore.

Please donate to the film budget here at: http://www.foreviethefilm.com/p/support-for-evie.html

Directed by Rob Innes

Written and produced by Rachel Jessica Tan of PMU Productions

DP: David Williams

Editor: Aleck Morton

“For Evie” is a short film that follows Evie’s journey as she deals with the loss of her father. The film takes a nostalgic look at a daughter’s relationship with her father through those crucial moments of growing up. It is through their love of playing the guitar that eventually brings them both closer to each other. Set against the backdrop of Melbourne, Australia and Singapore, the film explores intercultural themes intertwined with music and art.

Courage (comedy short film)

-Currently in pre-production. Aiming to shoot across two weekends in March and April. Shooting in Melbourne, Australia.

Directed by Rob Innes

Written and produced by Luke Stephens

Breaking up with your personal trainer is a lot harder than you think, especially if he’s obsessed like Steve.

Now you can watch the full version of our fun short film Sandwich, that features Luke Stephens and Rachel Jessica Tan, on our YouTube channel. Feel free to send the link to your friends and family, or you can watch it below. For more information on Sandwich, please click on ‘Projects’ in the menu.

http://youtu.be/ZUhzjzflA1A

SANDWICH (2011)

Short film One Moment has been selected to screen in competition at the Made In Melbourne film festival on closing night, Friday December 9th at the Great Northern Hotel (in Carlton, Melbourne). There will be an audience award on the night for a film they vote to be the best, so make sure you get down there.

For further information and to see the full program please visit: http://www.mim.org.au/program.html

The other project I have been working on and this is relatively new is an entry to the Movie Extra Webfest competition, where you have to make a 1 minute trailer for a fictional 7 part web series. The winner gets $50,000 t0 turn that trailer into a full series. It’s a pretty exciting competition and highlights the importance of the web and the role it’s now playing in the contemporary media landscape. Audiences must vote on the video entries through Facebook and the votes are open as soon as the video is uploaded and accepted. My entry is called Irresponsible Service of Alcohol, and it’s a crazy quirky comedy like the film Shaun of the Dead (but without the zombies) and is based on my experiences as a bartender working at different pubs. People who work in the hospitality should be able to relate to the little inside jokes I hope to include. The trailer will work as a quick introduction to the characters and the setup as we follow Tom on his first night in a new job.

Make sure you check the substation media Facebook page and also this website for further updates or for more information. And when the Movie Extra Webfest entry is uploaded please vote!

Cheers,

Rob Innes.

Visit the official website for the series trailer here: www.isawebseries.com

There are bonus scenes to view on YouTube at www.youtube.com/isawebseries

Also, follow the Facebook page for updates and see images by clicking here.

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Irresponsible Service of Alcohol (ISA)

Tom is forced to start a new job at the local pub after his parents cut him off from their money fund, there he tries to win the affections of fellow bartender, Erin.

Cast

• Tom Sweeney Young
• Tony Scott Brennan
• Max Luke Stephens
• Erin Kyrie Capri
• Katrina Natalia Nespeca
• Hard Harry Declan McGovern
• Warlord Michael Cahill
• Customer Katherine Halliday

Crew

• Written and Directed by Rob Innes
• Produced by Rob Innes & Britta Drevermann
• Director of Photography Michael Middleton
• Edited by Daniel Henenberg
• 1st AD Kristin Sargent
• Sound recorded by Keith Bottomley
• Producer’s assistant Stephanie Pringle
• Camera assistant James Grech
• Hair and makeup Lucky Sayasombath
• Wardrobe and props Reg Lam
• Sound design and mix by Rory Coulter @ GASinc (Good Audio Sense)

Special thanks to: Half Moon, Guerilla Creative,  GASinc (Good Audio Sense)

Shot on location at: Half Moon, 120 Church St, Brighton

Created and produced by Britta Drevermann for ‘The B Side’

Directed by Rob Innes for ‘substation media’

Website coming soon, in the meantime check out production photos and follow the updates via the Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/twoseveneight/105355022899875?sk=info

Make sure you tune in each Thursday night to catch the latest updates, discussions, and guests who will help you score the highest points in the respective AFL competitions (and also for a bit of fun!).

Check out the Footy Tragic website for more information.

Footy Tragic: Thursday nights, 9pm, Channel 31 Melbourne

Skip forward to returning to Melbourne and preparing the films, there was never any question that I wouldn’t attend. I had always said that I would go wherever the first screening occurred, I got lucky as both films were going to be at the same festival -made life much easier. Dungog is placed about 1 hour north west of Newcastle, so not entirely an easy place to get to from Melbourne. The festival, which has been running for five years now, is the largest screening of Australian films in the world. The festival might be large, but the town of Dungog isn’t, with a population of about two to three thousand people (the festival attracts five to six thousand visitors over the four days) -and many more cows! Due to work commitments none of our group could go for the full festival, so half of us decided to fly up on the Friday night, and the other half on the Saturday, with us all returning on the Sunday night. Accommodation was really tight as the area isn’t large enough to cope with all the visitors, so we ended up booking three bedrooms at a local house where the owners had rented out their spare rooms.

Our flight was delayed and we arrived fairly late, after a drive through the pitch black darkness of country farms on the back roads that Google maps lead us down, we finally arrived at the house we were staying at. The house was lit up from the outside, but there was no sign of life inside. After a tense ten minutes of knocking and trying to work out if we even had the right house, one of the owners came to the door and apologised as she had fallen asleep. The place was a dairy farm, and thus their day usually started around four thirty AM. The next morning the Friday night crew (Aleck, Rachel and I) got up early and made our way into town at about seven thirty, we needed to grab breakfast and our tickets for the day. The session that included Sandwich started at nine fifteen, and to our surprise even at that time of morning we had a full cinema. The three of us were joined by Luke and his girlfriend Charlotte, which was great to have a little crew there. This was my first public screening of any work, and the nerves were definitely flowing, actually my stomach was tightened like a rope. But to see it up there, hear people laugh at the right moments, and then get a round of applause was such a great feeling and its that type of feeling that makes hard work pay off.

After that session we spent the day checking out the other sessions that included other great short films like: A Bitter Sip of Life, The Telegram Man, Rain for Morgan, and Adam’s Tallit. We also really enjoyed the David Williamson masterclass and I felt pretty inspired afterwards. That night we were joined by Mahalia and my friend Dean, and also met up with David Williams, so there was plenty of people around to enjoy the festival with. The Saturday night party was great, with some pretty amazing entertainment, and we all had a slight hangover the next morning for the session that featured One Moment, which had another full cinema and was also received really well. It’s so good to see that your films can sit with other great short films and really hold their own, and I think that was the best thing I could take from the festival, that we are on the right track and making some interesting and good work. I learnt a lot, as always, and I’m excited to apply new ideas and thoughts on future projects. Thankyou to DFF 2011 for selecting the two films, and for putting on such a fun weekend away!

-Rob Innes.

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]]> http://www.substationmedia.com/2011/05/31/weekend-at-dff-2011-2/feed/ 0 http://www.substationmedia.com/2011/05/21/live-posts-from-dungog/ http://www.substationmedia.com/2011/05/21/live-posts-from-dungog/#comments Sat, 21 May 2011 05:50:56 +0000 admin http://www.substationmedia.com/?p=472 Make sure you follow our Twitter account and Facebook page where we will be posting live updates, thoughts, reviews and comments on films we see at the Dungog Film Festival. We’ll be up there on Saturday May 28th for the Sandwich screening, and then Sunday May 29th for the One Moment screening. If you can’t make the festival, we’ll be able to keep you up to date with everything you’re missing, including the big party event on the Saturday night.

You can find links to both the Twitter account and Facebook page, and also our latest 3 Tweets at the bottom of this page.

twitter.com/substationmedia

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We’ll also be posting a blog piece on how the debut screenings of the two films go, so make sure you check back after the festival.

See you at Dungog, and if not, see you on Twitter!

*New session details, updated 7th of May.

ONE MOMENT: Sunday 29th of May, 11:45am, Oovie Theatre. Part of the “Fancy Some Lovin’” shorts session. Film listing is here: http://www.dff.org.au/CustomContentRetrieve.aspx?ID=834439

SANDWICH: Saturday 28th of May, 9:15am, Oovie Theatre. Part of the “Big Laughs” shorts session. Film listing is here: http://www.dff.org.au/CustomContentRetrieve.aspx?ID=834336

See you there!