The really Pozible-playable name in this team is Emma Booth, who plays the central character. Khrob is now working for Apple, doing mysterious stuff with the iPhone in California. After that they decided to develop some craft skills, went to the Victorian College of the Arts separately, and then made two funded shorts, Chat Noir and The Water Was Dark And It Went Forever Down. The pair collaborated on a $5000 feature called The Course in 2007, which squashes all Shakespeare’s comedies into one film, and ran at the Stratford-on-Avon Film Festival. “We know each other’s weaknesses, and who gets the final say on what in the process”.
“It’s a good combination” said Miranda, the older of the two.
Directing the short are Miranda and Khrob Edmonds, a brother and sister team, who may be tapping into the sibling power that works so well for the Spierigs and the Edgertons. “There are projects which support new creative teams on their first project,” she said, “through to great documentaries where the filmmakers feel its a story that should be told, and will be reaching out to the network championing that topic and want to reach a broader public.” However, Michelle is quick to point out the initiative has gone far beyond emerging filmmakers, and engaged with established names as well. Now the steady movement of emerging filmmakers into the main game is looking like a charge. For at least the last decade, the undergrowth has hummed with good education, new digital tools, new distribution systems and access to inspiring examples. But, said Glaser, “There are another twenty to thirty projects I thought were great, and would have fitted very well, but they didn’t make the deadline.” That means Perth now has around thirty teams which are competent to manage a project, who can work together and have the right mix of skills. ScreenWest and Pozible ran open workshops for interested parties, to teach them the realities of what Michelle calls The Big Ask: “To go from having an idea, to putting an application together to having a finished script and a budget,” She of course is completely impartial, as are we. If nothing else, at the end of three to one, everyone who participated will know the importance of a social media campaign.” “Its been really exciting to be part of the program, because its brought a lot of people who want to make traditional content into the digital sphere. Michelle Glaser, the ScreenWest digital project manager, believes the intiative is doing just fine. According to combatant Miranda Edmonds on Tuesday, “We are all in the same boat, and we will see what happens tomorrow, but I have been having nightmares.” Each project must have at least forty pledges, and the team and their families are not allowed to commit.
It could go very quickly, or it could disappear in a flurry of small amounts which are easier to raise. The cash goes out the door on a first come first served basis, with only $250,000 available. When they reach the bingo point, they contact ScreenWest, in the hope that they trigger the 3 to 1 program, which will provide a minimum of $15,000 and a maximum of $150,000, calculated as $3 for every $1 raised.