Funded in the New Age Through Supporters on KickStarter, This Dark Comedy Gives Depression a Serious Dose of Nature’s Best Medicine: Laughter
Meet Jef (Henry Nixon), on the surface he’s a regular guy with a good job, great girlfriend and good looks to boot. The problem with Jef is that he just doesn’t feel right – about life, his job, or anything. He’s not sure what to do about it so he relies on the not-always-great advice he gets from best friend Tom (Randy Jay Burrell) and girlfriend Shelly (Logie award winning Claire van der Boom). Together, they attempt to fix Jef’s issues and find themselves failing miserably in the process.
Created, produced, and directed by Luke Eve (“Cockroach,” “Australian Summer”) and written by Adam Grossetti (“Home and Away,” “Sea Patrol”), this dark comedy explores the topic of depression in a highly visual, evocative and humorous way. By agreeing to take a trendier route in the creation of this series, they made “Low Life” entirely outside of the studio system. It’s been funded through a grass roots crowd-funding campaign and will be shared with YouTubers in the true spirit of giving.
The anti- establishment aesthetic makes its debut exclusively on YouTube April 30. Featuring the great talents of Henry Nixon ("The Pacific," ”Noise") and Claire Van Der Boom (“Hawaii Five O),” “The Square”), the series also introduces an incredible soundtrack by Ween, Lenka, Mental As Anything, and a host of other international artists.
WHEN: All six, six-minute episodes of "Low Life" season one will be available on YouTube April 30, 2014.
WHERE: www.lowlifeseries.com
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CLAIRE VAN DER BOOM – Shelly
Claire van der Boom began her acting career on AFI and Logie award-winning TV series LOVE MY WAY. van der Boom went on to star in the Edgerton brothers’ THE SQUARE, Patrick Hughes’ RED HILL opposite Ryan Kwanten, Stephen Spielberg’s Golden Globe nominated and Emmy award-winning miniseries THE PACIFIC, Channel 9’s UNDERBELLY: THE MAN WHO GOT AWAY and CBS’ Golden Globe nominated HAWAII FIVE-O. van der Boom was nominated in 2009 for Most Outstanding Actress for her role as Grace Barry in Channel 10’s RUSH. Her role as Sister Berenice Twohill in ABC TV’s SISTERS OF MERCY won her the Silver Logie in 2011 for Most Outstanding Actress. In 2012 she starred in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard’s play HEARTLESS and will next be seen in Kevin Connolly’s (ENTOURAGE) DEAR ELEANOR opposite Luke Wilson and Jessica Alba.
HENRY NIXON – Jef
Henry Nixon has over 40 acting credits to his name including Stephen Spielberg’s Golden Globe nominated and Emmy award-winning miniseries THE PACIFIC, Channel 9’s PACKED TO THE RAFTERS and MCLEOD’S DAUGHTERS. His film credits include Cate Shortland’s AFI Award-winning film SOMERSAULT, George Miller’s box office hit HAPPY FEET, Matt Saville’s NOISE, the AFI Award-winning box office hit BLACK BALOON and Julia Leigh’s SLEEPING BEAUTY which had its world premiere at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival where it screened in competition.
LUKE EVE – Director/Producer
A graduate of Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS), Luke Eve is an award-winning director who has worked in TV, commercials and music videos. In 2005 he was the winner of Sony Tropfest with his film AUSTRALIAN SUMMER, which went on to screen at over 30 international film festivals including Palm Springs International Short Film Festival and the Santa Barbara Film Festival. Eve then received an AFC funded internship to work in script development with Ted Hope’s This is That in New York, one of the leading independent production companies.
Eve’s television credits include the SBS’ DAVE IN THE LIFE; SBS’ SEX: AN UNNATURAL HISTORY produced by Matchbox Pictures and hosted by Julia Zemiro; ABC’s GREAT SOUTHERN LAND and most recently ABC’s AN ELEGANT GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO KNIFE FIGHTING. Eve currently owns production company More Sauce, which has produced multiple award winning short films that have screened at over 100 international film festivals including Tropfest, Telluride, Interfilm Berlin, Sydney International Film Festival, Palm Springs ShortsFest and Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film as well as music videos for Birds of Tokyo, Darren Hanlon, Faker among others. In December 2012, Eve moved to Los Angeles where he currently resides. His upcoming feature film projects include the Jeff Buckley biopic A PURE DROP.
ADAM GROSETTI – Writer
Adam Grosetti is a published and professionally produced award-winning writer having worked with some of Australia’s leading film, television and theatre companies.
Grosettiʼs first short film EARLY EDDIE AND THE BUS STOP BLUES won the Brisbane International Short Film Competition. Since then he has written and developed episodic television drama including HOME AND AWAY and SEA PATROL. His stage plays have been produced throughout Australia including a recent commission by Sydney Theatre Company Artistic Directors Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton to adapt Luigi Pirandelloʼs VESTIRE GLI INUDI for the stage. Grosetti is a recipient of the Philip Parsons Playwrights Award for his stage play LOST LAGOON at Belvoir Street Theatre, (BSharp) and the Queensland Premiers Drama Award for MANO NERA at The Queensland Theatre Company. Grosetti currently resides in New York.