[press release from Head Pictures]
This years SPAA Conference has finished up with some big announcements for Mini Studios and HEAD Pictures.
US Executive Producer and SPAA keynote speaker Chris Adams (formerly of Participant Productions – Syriana, Good Night & Good Luck, An Inconvenient Truth etc), has announced his involvement as Executive Producer on the collaboration’s feature film I Sold My Life on Ebay, based on the real life story of Woolongong man Nicael Holt, who last year put his life up for sale on eBay.
The film will be co-directed by Damon Escott & Stephen Lance and written by IF Award nominated writer Chris Weekes (Bitter & Twisted).
Ministudios & HEAD Pictures are also recipient of what is to be the final round of short film funding from Screen Australia. The Apprentice, is to be co-directed by Steve Baker (who also wrote the film) & Damon Escott, and produced by Steve Kearney and Leanne Tonkes, and will be shot early 2009 in Melbourne.
Also in development is A Storybook Life – a dark, funny, sexy film to be directed by Stephen Lance. Screenwriter and novelist Gerard Lee (Sweetie, All Men Are Liars) has come on board to write the 2nd draft.
Damon Escott has signed on to develop and direct the creature feature Kadachi Man. Set against the backdrop of the 1967 referendum for Aboriginal self determination, a legendary Kadachi Man appears and takes a little girl.
Director Steve Baker, Producer Damon Escott and writer Stephen Lance are also nominated for an AFI Award for Best Animated Short for Dog With Electric Collar. Baker has recently returned from the Hiroshima International Animation Festival where Dog was well received.
The film opened this year’s Sydney and Brisbane film festivals as well as screening at Melbourne International Film Festival.