On the last day of our first year of film school 2006, I turned to my friend Ross Hubbard and asked him if he wanted to win Australian short film festival "Tropfest".
"Yes" was his answer. He even had a seed an idea... There was about a month before the entry deadline and we didn't even have a script. We sat down and wrote out a time-line of event goals... ie. write script, cast roles, shoot dates, edit and submit. We both were on centrelink's youth allowance as students and not working so we were pretty much working on this film full time for a month.
The day before we were supposed to shoot there were still about 4 locations we hadn't found/obtained permission and we nearly decided not to shoot the thing at all. We decided to push on anyway because what else were we going to do? I'd probably be homeless if I wasn't making films.
This is our 2007 Tropfest film. It wasn't good enough to be a finalist... Also because it so obviously revolved around tropfests "signiature item" the SNEEZE... we couldn't enter it into any other festivals as it would be perceived as a tropfest reject.
This didn't matter because it was the summer of oh-6/oh-7 and we made a lot of new friends and had fun making a film during summer. We'd made our first non-student film and when we handed it in on time we shat our pants. PHEW!
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