Cinematographer Ross Metcalf is developing his first feature as writer-director, a contemporary drama set in a seaside town which explores taking chances, inspirations and new beginnings. The Perth-based Metcalf has started to look for emerging Australian actors to appear in the film such as Laura Collier, who stars in director Matt Soutar's thriller The Silent City, on which Metcalf was the DoP. He's been advised by ScreenWest's Adam Bishop and says he will raise the budget via a combination of private investment and crowd-funding.. His aim is to launch the film, as yet untitled, at the Sundance festival or other major international fests. Narrated by a young woman, the tale follows a fallen stockbroker who returns to his hometown to reassess his life. A chance encounter with a past girlfriend inspires him to turn his life around but she is hiding a secret. Metcalf, whose credits include the ScreenWest funded webseries Greenfield,...
- 10/16/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Actress Laura Collier started shooting The Silent City, a film noir, in Perth in late May for first-time writer/director Matt Soutar.
Filming wrapped in September but that wasn.t a marathon shoot: the cast and crew worked primarily at weekends.
David Partridge plays Martin Cole, a boozy private eye who.s hired to recover a stolen heirloom. Laura plays Elizabeth, his P.A. who tries to keep him on the straight and narrow. Things go awry when Elizabeth is kidnapped.
The producer is Nate Strider-Knight and it was shot by cinematographer Ross Metcalf. The producers are screening an extended trailer followed by a digitally remastered print of Roman Polanski.s Chinatown on November 7 at Event Cinemas Innaloo. Before the screening there will be a silent auction of items donated by sponsors.
Collier, who also serves as associate producer, tells If the event will raise funds to enter the film in international festivals next year.
Filming wrapped in September but that wasn.t a marathon shoot: the cast and crew worked primarily at weekends.
David Partridge plays Martin Cole, a boozy private eye who.s hired to recover a stolen heirloom. Laura plays Elizabeth, his P.A. who tries to keep him on the straight and narrow. Things go awry when Elizabeth is kidnapped.
The producer is Nate Strider-Knight and it was shot by cinematographer Ross Metcalf. The producers are screening an extended trailer followed by a digitally remastered print of Roman Polanski.s Chinatown on November 7 at Event Cinemas Innaloo. Before the screening there will be a silent auction of items donated by sponsors.
Collier, who also serves as associate producer, tells If the event will raise funds to enter the film in international festivals next year.
- 10/2/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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