Happy New Year!

Hello hello.. So much has gone on... Best start on what I'm doing now.

My play (or rather the first play I've ever directed) is on at the Newtown Theatre, Sydney 13-18 January as part of Short & Sweet! OK so it's been on a night already but better I mention it late than never! It's gone down very well so far, in fact I heard that last night one of the judges was 'deeply insulted' by it - LOL! Find out more here . Anyways we keep working on it each night - quite a few of my friends are coming for the friday performance - I want it to be at it's best by then!

Now I've also finished Chocolate, the short film I mentioned before. It's a sweet little number and I'm glad it's done, slightly unsure what to do with it now. I've stuck it into Tropfest, not that I'm wildly hopeful, but I guess you never know. In the meantime I'm back onto the NWG project.

Yes yes Nuns With Guns.. This is THE YEAR!

I've decided to delay principal filming significantly, think now October 2009. There will be plenty of filming before then but for the main shoot, there's so much to work on first that there's no point rushing in. I want this to be as good as it possibly can be - the only deadline I've set myself is that all filming will be completed by the end of this year. At the moment I'm going back into the story to make sure it's superb and achievable and that I start off with a GREAT SCRIPT, the first and foremost requirement for a film project. The contacts at least keep coming in - those listings in IF and Encore have been useful.

Now, a video. This is something bizarre I came across the other week, very well made, well shot and well twisted. I give you Teddy Saw.


Teddy Saw from Ben Schwartz on Vimeo.