Scout (Julian Panetta)..
Aussie web series Scout.follows a security guard (Tony Nixon) whose obsession with surveillance puts his life in danger when he uncovers police corruption and murder.
The 7 x 10-minute crime drama, a finalist at last year.s Melbourne Web Fest, is the brainchild of Brisbane-based Tom Francis, who wrote, directed and produced.
Francis has spent recent years producing corporate work for his company Kiln..Scout was born from an itch to get back into drama, the filmmaker told If..
He was attracted to the web series format because of accessibility: to audiences and distribution. The different kind of storytelling that online requires also appealed.
.It was a really interesting way to approach short format storytelling," said Francis. "We attempt to make lots of hooks happen in each episode and [have] short, sharp scenes... I wanted to make sure that things were nice and snappy, because we all know...
Aussie web series Scout.follows a security guard (Tony Nixon) whose obsession with surveillance puts his life in danger when he uncovers police corruption and murder.
The 7 x 10-minute crime drama, a finalist at last year.s Melbourne Web Fest, is the brainchild of Brisbane-based Tom Francis, who wrote, directed and produced.
Francis has spent recent years producing corporate work for his company Kiln..Scout was born from an itch to get back into drama, the filmmaker told If..
He was attracted to the web series format because of accessibility: to audiences and distribution. The different kind of storytelling that online requires also appealed.
.It was a really interesting way to approach short format storytelling," said Francis. "We attempt to make lots of hooks happen in each episode and [have] short, sharp scenes... I wanted to make sure that things were nice and snappy, because we all know...
- 3/2/2017
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
It’s not strictly a horror film, but it’s unlikely that any movie will come along this year to match the gut-wrenching intensity of the Australian indie The Horseman (showcased at the current Fantasia film festival in Montreal, and not to be confused for a second with the recent, similarly titled Dennis Quaid-starrer). It’s by now a cliché to describe a movie as reminiscent of ’70s cinema, but this stripped-down parental-revenge thriller truly warrants the description, and it also shows up the slick, absurd contrivances of an expensive modern schlocker like Taken.
While there’s more to the movie than its violence (more on that in a moment), the hand-to-hand brutality is certainly the most arresting element of this feature debut by writer/director/co-producer/editor Steven Kastrissios. Neither hyperstylized not gratuitously clinical, the dustups involving fists, kicks and assorted found objects are staged and shot by Kastrissios for maximum impact.
While there’s more to the movie than its violence (more on that in a moment), the hand-to-hand brutality is certainly the most arresting element of this feature debut by writer/director/co-producer/editor Steven Kastrissios. Neither hyperstylized not gratuitously clinical, the dustups involving fists, kicks and assorted found objects are staged and shot by Kastrissios for maximum impact.
- 7/21/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
- Fangoria
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