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VCA School of Film & Television 2015 Crewing Night
3rd Year Undergraduate Films Bachelor of Fine Arts- Film and TV
VCA Student Director Susannah Collins
VCA Student Producer Jesse Hatter
Title or Working Title The Seed
Synopsis The Seed is a reflective tale of a woman’s struggle to delegate what to do with her deceased mother’s old property - an enigmatic old red-gum tree. The tree, encased with memories and emotions begins to take on a statement of it’s own. With pressure from her husband to clear the land, would cutting it down mean severing the strongest ties of all?
Contact details Jesse Hatter Email [email protected]
Dates Aug 7th – 11th, 2015
Seeking Crew All crew
VCA Student Director Nina Buxton
VCA Student Producer Hannah Samuel
Title or Working Title WOOF!
Synopsis A humiliating sexual experience causes a timid 16 year old girl to start an unusual revolution.
Contact details Nina Buxton
Email [email protected]
VCA Student Director Christel Chia
VCA Student Producer Will South
Film Title John Doe
Synopsis In order to discover his true identity, a spy must take down the people who trained him from birth to be a killer: his family.
Dates September 5th - 9th, 2015
Contact Details Christel Chia / Will South
Email [email protected] /
Phone 0411 897 557 / 0468 915 669
Seeking Crew Production Designer, Lighting Assists, Camera Assists, Grips,
Sound Recordist
VCA Student Director Gillian Crosby
VCA Student Producer Lauren Jankovskis
Film Title Death by Chocolate
Synopsis Death by Chocolate is a dark and delicious comedy about Fleur, a talented and ambitious pastry chef. In order to raise the money to open her dream patisserie, Fleur has been working as a hired assassin. When her last target turns out to be her idol, Fleur realises that making her dream come true won’t be a piece of cake.
Dates July 24th – 28th, 2015
Contact Details Gillian Crosby / Lauren Jankovskis
Email [email protected] / [email protected]
Phone 0400 655 195 / 0432 843 610
Seeking Crew Production Designer, Sound Recordist/Team, Stills
Photographer, Gaffer, Best Boy, 2nd Camera Assist, Production
Assistants
VCA Student Director Chris Gillingham
VCA Student Producer Lauren Jankovskis & Will South
Title or Working Title The Mechanic (working title)
Synopsis A mentally unstable car mechanic travels through night-time Melbourne, on a quest to retrieve a stolen watch.
Dates 30th June – 4th July, 2015
Contact details Will South / Lauren Jankovskis
Email [email protected] /
Phone 0468 915 669 / 0432 843 610
Seeking Crew Gaffer, Grip, Costume, Make-Up, DOP, Production Designer,
2nd AD, Production Assist, Sound Recordist.
VCA Student Director Claudia Fitzgerald
Film Title Fetal Position
Synopsis A worn out mother revelling in her new life without children, discovers she is pregnant again.
Dates 11th – 15th August, 2015
Contact Details Claudia Fitzgerald
Email [email protected]
Phone 0400 900 959
Website facebook.com/foetalposition
Seeking Crew DOP, Camera Assist, Gaffer, Sound Recordist, Boom, Unit
Manager, Stills Photographer, Runner
VCA Student Director Emma Gover Title or Working Title Apartment n15
Synopsis A young woman, haunted by an evil clown, is forced by her inner demons in an attempt to make the world around her conform to her unusual ideals.
Contact details 0405 013 841
Email [email protected]
Dates 31st July to 4th August, 2015
Seeking Crew 1st AD, Data Wrangler, Camera Assist, Gaffers x2, Runner
Grip, Unit Manager, Stills Photographer
VCA Student Director Dongmei Li
Film Title That Summer
Synopsis Based on a true story set in remote China, That Summer is a meditative story about how a family deal with their dying grandpa, seen through the eyes of an eight year old girl. In a strange way the little girl is involved in helping the grandpa die.
Dates July 15th – July 19th, 2015
Location Chongqing, China
Contact Details Dongmei Li
Phone 0413 691 663
Email [email protected]
Seeking Crew Producer, Production Designer, Camera Assistant, Gaffer,
Sound Recordist, Sound Designer, Stills Photographer,
Composer
VCA Student Director Patrick McBain Title or Working Title Cork
Synopsis Three siblings go to their family beach house to reconnect with each other and their childhood.
Dates June 20th – 25th, 2015
Location Venus Bay
Contact Details Patrick McBain
Email: [email protected]
Phone 0406 612 630
Seeking Crew: All
VCA Student Director Greta Nash
Film Title Authorised Violation
Synopsis A comedy about a kind woman who struggles with the morality of working as a ticket inspector.
Dates 7th – 11th July, 2015
Contact Details Greta Nash
Email [email protected]
Phone 0488 153 702
Website www.facebook.com/authorisedviolationfilm
VCA Student Director Thien Nguyen
Title or Working Title Saint Paul
Synopsis Life seems ordinary and comfortable for Peter and Mary, that is, until Peter stumbles upon the irresistible street poet Paul who lives in the spiritual dimension of life. Peter is now lost between the two worlds: the reality of life with Mary or the spirituality with Paul; he must choose one or else oblivious emptiness will swallow him.
Dates August 29th – September 2nd, 2015
Contact details Thien Nguyen
Email [email protected]
Phone 0422 850 287
Seeking Crew Various crew roles
VCA Student Director Brigid O’Loughlin
Title or Working Title Bloody Hell
Synopsis A short, silent Western set in Central Australia in the 1880’s.
Dates September 8th – 12th, 2015
Location Ooraminna Station, 30k’s South of Alice Springs
Contact details Brigid O’Loughlin
Email [email protected]
Phone 0499 724 601
Seeking Crew Online Marketing, Associate Producer
VCA Student Director Jesse Richards
VCA Student Producer Jaryd Dickson
Title or Working Title Where We Live
Synopsis Set in a broken home in the outer suburbs, Where We Live is the story of Ellie, a nineteen year old with dreams of being an Olympic Runner. Her heroin-addicted mother, and alcoholic, abusive father have trapped not only Ellie, but also her ten-year-old sister in their spiralling situation. When her father’s abuse comes to a head, Ellie must choose between outrunning her problems or saving her sister.
Dates: June 20th – 24th, 2015
Contact details Jaryd Dickson
Email [email protected]
Phone 0409 568 309
Seeking Crew Gaffer, Grip, Runners, Unit Manager
VCA Student Director Joshua Steele VCA Student Producer Jaryd Dickson
Title or Working Title Kawaki & Sharp
Synopsis Set in pre-settlement Australia on an isolated beach, Kawaki &
Sharp is the story of a young aboriginal boy and a shipwrecked sailor. Although they are from different worlds, the two surpass their inability to communicate via language and form a close friendship. When the aboriginal boy discovers he has been unknowingly assisting the sailor in repairing a small boat for his journey home, their compassion and friendship begins to tragically collapse.
Dates August 21st – 25th, 2015
Location Whiskey Bay, Wilson’s Promontory
Contact details Jaryd Dickson
Email [email protected]
Phone 0409 568 309
Seeking Crew Production Designer, Art Department, Gaffer, Camera
Department, Sound Department
VCA Student Director Max Walter
Associate Producer Anna Tara Clark-Sneddon
Title or Working Title Under the Table
Synopsis In a sports obsessed 1970s Australian family, an underappreciated son must prove his masculinity to his tyrannical, bullying, ex-footballer father. It doesn’t help that he’s 30 years-old, still lives at home, is an aspiring tennis player, and holds confused, romantic feelings for his own mother.
Dates 22nd July – 26th July, 2015 Contact Details Max Walter Email [email protected] Phone 0401 205 785 Seeking Crew DOP, Grip, Stills, Make-Up, SFX Artist, Location Manager, PA’s, Runners
VCA Student Director Alex Wu
VCA Student Producer Mark Day
Title or Working Title MOTOWN
Synopsis To escape the restrains of everyday life, Diego visits an empty concert hall late at night.
Dates 27th June – 1st July, 2015
Contact details Alex Wu
Email [email protected]
Phone 0422 592 988
Seeking Crew Camera Assist with 16mm experience, Sound Recordist
2ND Year Graduates Masters Narrative- Film and TV
VCA Student Director Amie Batalibasi
VCA Student Producer Danielle Singleton
Title or Working Title Blackbird
Synopsis Blackbird is a period drama that contends with social issues surrounding Australian South Sea Islanders, telling the untold story of the exploitation of such individuals rooted in the beginning of Australia’s sugar industry.
The story follows Rosa and her kid brother Kiko, who were “blackbirded” from their Solomon Islands homeland in 1873 and brought to work on Queensland’s sugar cane fields. Rosa struggles to survive day-to-day while trying to hold onto her culture and identity, and keeping an eye on Kiko, who is growing ever resistant to their bleak situation. Rosa is torn between silently prevailing, and saving her brother from sickness and the threat of their ill-tempered overseer.
Blackbird endeavours to share the untold story of what is in effect a little known stolen generation, and seeks to give voice to the people and communities in direct relation to such events.
Dates 20th – 28th July, 2015
Location Mackay or Bundaberg, Queensland
Contact details Amie Batalibasi / Danielle Singleton
Email [email protected] / [email protected]
Seeking Crew AD Department, Production Assistant, Lighting Department,
Sound Department, Art Department, Make-Up & Wardrobe
VCA Student Director Merrill Bray
Associate Producer Karen Buczynski-lee
Title or Working Title Change of Heart
Synopsis Change of heart is about an elderly man who is going through a middle age crisis point in his life and is seemingly being pressed by his young mistress to make their affair public.
Against the wishes of his wife Sasha and son Dale, Bronson has put their rural property up for auction.
At sunrise on the morning of the auction, deep in the forest, Bronson encounters A’kura his Great Grandfather, and is forced to confront his marital and parental duties as a husband and father, and during Bronson’s contemplation A’kura enlightens him profoundly by showing him that he, Bronson, is linked to something far greater than his own miserable inconsiderate ego.
Dates 29th August – 1st September & 4th September, 2015
Location: NSW & Melbourne CBD
Contact Details: Merrill Bray
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 0409 085 137
Seeking Crew: 1st AD, Production Assistant, Continuity, Production Designer,
Data Wrangler, Gaffer, Make-up, Hair Stylist
VCA Student Director Kiefer Findlow
VCA Student Producer Jacob Richards
Title or Working Title Insomnolence
Synopsis Insomnolence tells the story of a man being slowly driven to madness by his inability to deal with grief. Unable to cope with the passing of his wife, culminated in an inability to sleep, Virgil finds himself sitting in on a therapy group. While the therapy proves to be a type of feeble distraction, Virgil’s life becomes increasingly haunting and surreal, as the reminders of his wife’s life left behind start to take over. Insomnolence is a psychedelic thriller that seeks to portray a descent into madness using 70s-style-horror visual aesthetic, while also acting as a meditation on how we refuse to let ourselves let go of what we cannot hold onto.
Dates June 26th – July 3rd, 2015 Contact details: Kiefer Findlow / Jacob Richards Email: [email protected] / [email protected]
Phone: 0434 116 861 / 0421 634 922 Seeking Crew: Production Design, Art Team, Gaffer, Make-Up, Hair, Camera Crew, Script Supervisor, Sound Recordist
VCA Student Director Tao Jia
Title or Working Title Heart Station
Synopsis Heart station is a drama about a gay Asian male; Ziyan, who is dealing with his obsession for a straight man Aaron but later he begins to question does obsession equal love?
Dates 28th July – 5th August, 2015
Contact details Tao Jia
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 0423 572 119
Seeking Crew: Co-Producer, Production Manager, 1st AD, DOP, Gaffer,
Production Designer, Costume Designer, Make-Up Artist,
Sound Designer, Composer, Editor.
VCA Student Director Lara Kose
Title or Working Title Crush
Synopsis Crush is a dramatic thriller about Anelise; a teenage girl whose best friends are missing and wanted for murder. She must discover the truth of what happened that night or else lose her friends forever. Maybe that would be a good thing, Toby would be single then .
Dates August 19th – 26th, 2015
Location Shepparton, VIC
Contact details Lara Kose
Email [email protected]
Phone 0421 849 000
Seeking Crew Producer, Production Manager, 1st Assistant Director, Gaffer,
Sound Recordist, Boom, Sound Designer, Production Designer
Art Department, Runners, Stills Photographer, BTS Director,
Web Designer.
VCA Student Director Luke Morrissey
VCA Student Producer Rachelle Moors-Chantry
Title or Working Title In The Light of Night
Synopsis Mark decides to take his best friend Daniel out on the town to bring him out of the rut he is in. However, over the course of the night, Daniel discovers it is Mark who needs more help than he and strives to pull his friend from the drug world he has entangled himself within.
Contact details Luke Morrissey
Email [email protected]
Phone 0424 229 698
Seeking Crew Camera Assist, Gaffer, Sound Recordist, 1st AD,
Production Manager
VCA Student Director Juan Sebastian Mosquera Calle
VCA Student Producer Jesse Hatter
Title or Working Title Send Me That Love
Synopsis Send Me That Love is a dark fantasy, anti war film about child soldiers living in a dystopian time. The film follows a small platoon of female soldiers trying to survive in a collapsing country dominated by a privatized organization. This story walks the line between social realism and a fairy-tale realm.
Contact details Jesse Hatter
Email [email protected]
VCA Student Director Beth Myring
VCA Student Producer Sarah Walton
Title Hospitality
Synopsis A chef in a popular fine dining restaurant becomes a reluctant host when her Chinese grandmother comes to town. Seeing her unsolicited houseguest as a major inconvenience to her life, she at first makes no attempt to make the old lady feel welcome. However, her Grandmother’s warmth and kindness slowly start to melt the young woman’s cold exterior, causing her to question the superficial relationships in her life and her hostile behavior towards others.
Dates 19th – 26th June, 2015
Contact details Sarah Walton
Email [email protected]
Seeking Crew Camera Assistants, Gaffer, Grip, Best Boy/Girl, Costume
Designer, Art Department Assist, Unit Manager, Production
Assist, Editor
VCA Student Director Matt Pastor
Title or Working Title I am Jupiter, I am a big planet!
Synopsis No words can describe what happens in the red light district of Manila.
Location Manila, Philippines
Contact details Matt Pastor
Email [email protected]
Phone 0412 290 207
Seeking Crew Sound Designer, Assistant Editor, Australian based Production
Manager
VCA Student Director Ryan Paturzo-Polson
VCA Student Producer Sarah Pass
Title or Working Title Max
Synopsis At the age of seven, Charlie and his parents visit the beach on a cold and wintery day. When Charlie wanders to the end of a jetty he meets an imaginary friend, Max.
Who is Max? And why does he continue to follow Charlie? Just as he thinks he’s figured it out, Charlie realizes that Max’s intentions are much more sinister than he could have ever imagined.
Dates July 1st – 8th, 2015
Location South Eastern Suburbs, Melbourne CBD, Sorrento
Contact details Ryan Paturzo-Polson
Email [email protected]
Phone 0423 484 673
Seeking Crew Production Designer, Costume Designer, Wardrobe, Hair and
Make-Up, Production Assistant, Sound Recordist, boom,
Sound Designer, Continuity, Runner, 2nd AC, Data Wrangler,
Gaffer, Best Boy, Grip, Stills Photographer,
Social Media Manager
VCA Student Director Simon Trevorrow
VCA Student Director Scottnes L. Smith
Title or Working Title There’s a Bluebird in my Heart
Synopsis A lone figure, Myles, steps off a bus with nothing but a duffel bag and a guitar. He searches the streets of Melbourne looking for Sam, but when word gets out that he is back in town, a ticking time bomb is set. Myles must face the consequences of his past before time is up. There’s a Bluebird in my Heart is a reflective drama about Men’s difficulty expressing themselves.
Dates September 12th – 19th, 2015
Contact details Scottnes L. Smith / Simon Trevorrow
Email [email protected] / [email protected]
Phone 0451 536 370 / 0401 203 815
Seeking Crew Cinematographer, Production Designer, Focus Puller,
Composer
VCA Student Director Sarah Walton
VCA Student Producer Elizabeth Myring & Danielle Singleton
Title or Working Title Jump! (Working title)
Synopsis Jump! is a comedy about Melody – a 30 year old secretary obsessed with the 80’s. Melody bravely fights against societal norms to fulfill her life long dream of winning a famous dance competition. Uncoordinated and teased for her concrete legs, with a training ground of merely her 80’s infused bedroom, the odds are stacked against her, but Melody’s undying determination gets her into the competition. She’s paired with Gunter Jazhanz, a professional, extremely disciplined dancer who is deeply offended by Melody’s enthusiastic childlike spirit and lack of dance training and is determined to control her and squash her soul. The combination of the two opposites forced together in this ridiculous situation is a recipe for disaster and a lot of fun.
Contact details Danielle Singleton / Beth Myring
Email [email protected] / [email protected]
Phone 0421 465 290 / 0424 287 498
VCA Student Director Claire Marsh
Title or Working Title Big Sky Land
Synopsis Following a series of traumatic events, Ana packs up her 12 year old daughter Mac and they hit the road. With little money and nowhere to go, the two head out in search of a place to call home, only to learn that sometimes the only way to find your place in the world is to throw away the map.
Dates September 2nd – 10th, 2015
Contact details Claire Marsh
Email [email protected]
Phone 0423 485 031
Seeking Crew Associate Producer, Production Manager, Production Designer,
Location Manager, Sound Recordist, Boom, Gaffer, Lighting Assist, Data Wrangler, 3rd Camera Assist
