VCA School of Film & Television
2015 Crewing Night
3rd Year Undergraduate Films
Bachelor of Fine Arts- Film and TV
VCA Student Director
Susannah Collins
VCA Student Producer
Jesse Hatter
Title or Working Title
The Seed
Synopsis
The Seed is a reflective tale of a woman’s struggle to delegate
what to do with her deceased mother’s old property - an
enigmatic old red-gum tree. The tree, encased with memories
and emotions begins to take on a statement of it’s own. With
pressure from her husband to clear the land, would cutting it
down mean severing the strongest ties of all?
Contact details
Jesse Hatter
Email
[email protected]
Dates
Aug 7th – 11th, 2015
Seeking Crew
All crew
VCA Student Director
Nina Buxton
VCA Student Producer
Hannah Samuel
Title or Working Title
WOOF!
Synopsis
A humiliating sexual experience causes a timid 16 year old girl
to start an unusual revolution.
Contact details
Nina Buxton
Email
[email protected]
VCA Student Director
Christel Chia
VCA Student Producer
Will South
Film Title
John Doe
Synopsis
In order to discover his true identity, a spy must take down the
people who trained him from birth to be a killer: his family.
Dates
September 5 th - 9th, 2015
Contact Details
Christel Chia / Will South
Email
[email protected] /
[email protected]
Phone
0411 897 557 / 0468 915 669
Seeking Crew
Production Designer, Lighting Assists, Camera Assists, Grips,
Sound Recordist
VCA Student Director
Gillian Crosby
VCA Student Producer
Lauren Jankovskis
Film Title
Death by Chocolate
Synopsis
Death by Chocolate is a dark and delicious comedy about
Fleur, a talented and ambitious pastry chef. In order to raise
the money to open her dream patisserie, Fleur has been
working as a hired assassin. When her last target turns out to
be her idol, Fleur realises that making her dream come true
won’t be a piece of cake.
Dates
July 24th – 28th, 2015
Contact Details
Gillian Crosby / Lauren Jankovskis
Email
[email protected] / [email protected]
Phone
0400 655 195 / 0432 843 610
Seeking Crew
Production Designer, Sound Recordist/Team, Stills
Photographer, Gaffer, Best Boy, 2nd Camera Assist, Production
Assistants
VCA Student Director
Chris Gillingham
VCA Student Producer
Lauren Jankovskis & Will South
Title or Working Title
The Mechanic (working title)
Synopsis
A mentally unstable car mechanic travels through night-time
Melbourne, on a quest to retrieve a stolen watch.
Dates
30th June – 4th July, 2015
Contact details
Will South / Lauren Jankovskis
Email
[email protected] /
[email protected]
Phone
0468 915 669 / 0432 843 610
Seeking Crew
Gaffer, Grip, Costume, Make-Up, DOP, Production Designer,
2nd AD, Production Assist, Sound Recordist.
VCA Student Director
Claudia Fitzgerald
Film Title
Fetal Position
Synopsis
A worn out mother revelling in her new life without children,
discovers she is pregnant again.
Dates
11th – 15th August, 2015
Contact Details
Claudia Fitzgerald
Email
[email protected]
Phone
0400 900 959
Website
facebook.com/foetalposition
Seeking Crew
DOP, Camera Assist, Gaffer, Sound Recordist, Boom, Unit
Manager, Stills Photographer, Runner
VCA Student Director
Emma Gover
Title or Working Title
Apartment n15
Synopsis
A young woman, haunted by an evil clown, is forced by her
inner demons in an attempt to make the world around her
conform to her unusual ideals.
Contact details
0405 013 841
Email
[email protected]
Dates
31st July to 4th August, 2015
Seeking Crew
1st AD, Data Wrangler, Camera Assist, Gaffers x2, Runner
Grip, Unit Manager, Stills Photographer
VCA Student Director
Dongmei Li
Film Title
That Summer
Synopsis
Based on a true story set in remote China, That Summer is a
meditative story about how a family deal with their dying
grandpa, seen through the eyes of an eight year old girl. In a
strange way the little girl is involved in helping the grandpa die.
Dates
July 15 th – July 19th, 2015
Location
Chongqing, China
Contact Details
Dongmei Li
Phone
0413 691 663
Email
[email protected]
Seeking Crew
Producer, Production Designer, Camera Assistant, Gaffer,
Sound Recordist, Sound Designer, Stills Photographer,
Composer
VCA Student Director
Patrick McBain
Title or Working Title
Cork
Synopsis
Three siblings go to their family beach house to reconnect with
each other and their childhood.
Dates
June 20 th – 25th, 2015
Location
Venus Bay
Contact Details
Patrick McBain
Email:
[email protected]
Phone
0406 612 630
Seeking Crew:
All
VCA Student Director
Greta Nash
Film Title
Authorised Violation
Synopsis
A comedy about a kind woman who struggles with the morality
of working as a ticket inspector.
Dates
7 th – 11th July, 2015
Contact Details
Greta Nash
Email
[email protected]
Phone
0488 153 702
Website
www.facebook.com/authorisedviolationfilm
VCA Student Director
Thien Nguyen
Title or Working Title
Saint Paul
Synopsis
Life seems ordinary and comfortable for Peter and Mary, that
is, until Peter stumbles upon the irresistible street poet Paul
who lives in the spiritual dimension of life. Peter is now lost
between the two worlds: the reality of life with Mary or the
spirituality with Paul; he must choose one or else oblivious
emptiness will swallow him.
Dates
August 29th – September 2nd, 2015
Contact details
Thien Nguyen
Email
[email protected]
Phone
0422 850 287
Seeking Crew
Various crew roles
VCA Student Director
Brigid O’Loughlin
Title or Working Title
Bloody Hell
Synopsis
A short, silent Western set in Central Australia in the 1880’s.
Dates
September 8 th – 12th, 2015
Location
Ooraminna Station, 30k’s South of Alice Springs
Contact details
Brigid O’Loughlin
Email
[email protected]
Phone
0499 724 601
Seeking Crew
Online Marketing, Associate Producer
VCA Student Director
Jesse Richards
VCA Student Producer
Jaryd Dickson
Title or Working Title
Where We Live
Synopsis
Set in a broken home in the outer suburbs, Where We Live is
the story of Ellie, a nineteen year old with dreams of being an
Olympic Runner. Her heroin-addicted mother, and alcoholic,
abusive father have trapped not only Ellie, but also her tenyear-old sister in their spiralling situation. When her father’s
abuse comes to a head, Ellie must choose between outrunning
her problems or saving her sister.
Dates:
June 20 th – 24th, 2015
Contact details
Jaryd Dickson
Email
[email protected]
Phone
0409 568 309
Seeking Crew
Gaffer, Grip, Runners, Unit Manager
VCA Student Director
Joshua Steele
VCA Student Producer
Jaryd Dickson
Title or Working Title
Kawaki & Sharp
Synopsis
Set in pre-settlement Australia on an isolated beach, Kawaki &
Sharp is the story of a young aboriginal boy and a shipwrecked
sailor. Although they are from different worlds, the two surpass
their inability to communicate via language and form a close
friendship. When the aboriginal boy discovers he has been
unknowingly assisting the sailor in repairing a small boat for his
journey home, their compassion and friendship begins to
tragically collapse.
Dates
August 21st – 25th, 2015
Location
Whiskey Bay, Wilson’s Promontory
Contact details
Jaryd Dickson
Email
[email protected]
Phone
0409 568 309
Seeking Crew
Production Designer, Art Department, Gaffer, Camera
Department, Sound Department
VCA Student Director
Max Walter
Associate Producer
Anna Tara Clark-Sneddon
Title or Working Title
Under the Table
Synopsis
In a sports obsessed 1970s Australian family, an
underappreciated son must prove his masculinity to his
tyrannical, bullying, ex-footballer father. It doesn’t help that
he’s 30 years-old, still lives at home, is an aspiring tennis
player, and holds confused, romantic feelings for his own
mother.
Dates
22 nd July – 26th July, 2015
Contact Details
Max Walter
Email
[email protected]
Phone
0401 205 785
Seeking Crew
DOP, Grip, Stills, Make-Up, SFX Artist, Location Manager,
PA’s, Runners
VCA Student Director
Alex Wu
VCA Student Producer
Mark Day
Title or Working Title
MOTOWN
Synopsis
To escape the restrains of everyday life, Diego visits an empty
concert hall late at night.
Dates
27th June – 1st July, 2015
Contact details
Alex Wu
Email
[email protected]
Phone
0422 592 988
Seeking Crew
Camera Assist with 16mm experience, Sound Recordist
2ND Year Graduates
Masters Narrative- Film and TV
VCA Student Director
Amie Batalibasi
VCA Student Producer
Danielle Singleton
Title or Working Title
Blackbird
Synopsis
Blackbird is a period drama that contends with social issues
surrounding Australian South Sea Islanders, telling the untold
story of the exploitation of such individuals rooted in the
beginning of Australia’s sugar industry.
The story follows Rosa and her kid brother Kiko, who were
“blackbirded” from their Solomon Islands homeland in 1873
and brought to work on Queensland’s sugar cane fields. Rosa
struggles to survive day-to-day while trying to hold onto her
culture and identity, and keeping an eye on Kiko, who is
growing ever resistant to their bleak situation. Rosa is torn
between silently prevailing, and saving her brother from
sickness and the threat of their ill-tempered overseer.
Blackbird endeavours to share the untold story of what is in
effect a little known stolen generation, and seeks to give voice
to the people and communities in direct relation to such
events.
Dates
20 th – 28th July, 2015
Location
Mackay or Bundaberg, Queensland
Contact details
Amie Batalibasi / Danielle Singleton
Email
[email protected] / [email protected]
Seeking Crew
AD Department, Production Assistant, Lighting Department,
Sound Department, Art Department, Make-Up & Wardrobe
VCA Student Director
Merrill Bray
Associate Producer
Karen Buczynski-lee
Title or Working Title
Change of Heart
Synopsis
Change of heart is about an elderly man who is going through
a middle age crisis point in his life and is seemingly being
pressed by his young mistress to make their affair public.
Against the wishes of his wife Sasha and son Dale, Bronson
has put their rural property up for auction.
At sunrise on the morning of the auction, deep in the forest,
Bronson encounters A’kura his Great Grandfather, and is
forced to confront his marital and parental duties as a husband
and father, and during Bronson’s contemplation A’kura
enlightens him profoundly by showing him that he, Bronson, is
linked to something far greater than his own miserable
inconsiderate ego.
Dates
29th August – 1st September & 4th September, 2015
Location:
NSW & Melbourne CBD
Contact Details:
Merrill Bray
Email:
[email protected]
Phone:
0409 085 137
Seeking Crew:
1st AD, Production Assistant, Continuity, Production Designer,
Data Wrangler, Gaffer, Make-up, Hair Stylist
VCA Student Director
Kiefer Findlow
VCA Student Producer
Jacob Richards
Title or Working Title
Insomnolence
Synopsis
Insomnolence tells the story of a man being slowly driven to
madness by his inability to deal with grief. Unable to cope with
the passing of his wife, culminated in an inability to sleep, Virgil
finds himself sitting in on a therapy group. While the therapy
proves to be a type of feeble distraction, Virgil’s life becomes
increasingly haunting and surreal, as the reminders of his
wife’s life left behind start to take over. Insomnolence is a
psychedelic thriller that seeks to portray a descent into
madness using 70s-style-horror visual aesthetic, while also
acting as a meditation on how we refuse to let ourselves let go
of what we cannot hold onto.
Dates
June 26 th – July 3rd, 2015
Contact details:
Kiefer Findlow / Jacob Richards
Email:
[email protected] / [email protected]
Phone:
0434 116 861 / 0421 634 922
Seeking Crew:
Production Design, Art Team, Gaffer, Make-Up, Hair, Camera
Crew, Script Supervisor, Sound Recordist
VCA Student Director
Tao Jia
Title or Working Title
Heart Station
Synopsis
Heart station is a drama about a gay Asian male; Ziyan, who is
dealing with his obsession for a straight man Aaron but later he
begins to question does obsession equal love?
Dates
28 th July – 5th August, 2015
Contact details
Tao Jia
Email:
[email protected]
Phone:
0423 572 119
Seeking Crew:
Co-Producer, Production Manager, 1st AD, DOP, Gaffer,
Production Designer, Costume Designer, Make-Up Artist,
Sound Designer, Composer, Editor.
VCA Student Director
Lara Kose
Title or Working Title
Crush
Synopsis
Crush is a dramatic thriller about Anelise; a teenage girl whose
best friends are missing and wanted for murder. She must
discover the truth of what happened that night or else lose her
friends forever. Maybe that would be a good thing, Toby would
be single then .
Dates
August 19 th – 26th, 2015
Location
Shepparton, VIC
Contact details
Lara Kose
Email
[email protected]
Phone
0421 849 000
Seeking Crew
Producer, Production Manager, 1st Assistant Director, Gaffer,
Sound Recordist, Boom, Sound Designer, Production Designer
Art Department, Runners, Stills Photographer, BTS Director,
Web Designer.
VCA Student Director
Luke Morrissey
VCA Student Producer
Rachelle Moors-Chantry
Title or Working Title
In The Light of Night
Synopsis
Mark decides to take his best friend Daniel out on the town to
bring him out of the rut he is in. However, over the course of
the night, Daniel discovers it is Mark who needs more help
than he and strives to pull his friend from the drug world he has
entangled himself within.
Contact details
Luke Morrissey
Email
[email protected]
Phone
0424 229 698
Seeking Crew
Camera Assist, Gaffer, Sound Recordist, 1 st AD,
Production Manager
VCA Student Director
Juan Sebastian Mosquera Calle
VCA Student Producer
Jesse Hatter
Title or Working Title
Send Me That Love
Synopsis
Send Me That Love is a dark fantasy, anti war film about child
soldiers living in a dystopian time. The film follows a small
platoon of female soldiers trying to survive in a collapsing
country dominated by a privatized organization. This story
walks the line between social realism and a fairy-tale realm.
Contact details
Jesse Hatter
Email
[email protected]
VCA Student Director
Beth Myring
VCA Student Producer
Sarah Walton
Title
Hospitality
Synopsis
A chef in a popular fine dining restaurant becomes a reluctant
host when her Chinese grandmother comes to town. Seeing
her unsolicited houseguest as a major inconvenience to her
life, she at first makes no attempt to make the old lady feel
welcome. However, her Grandmother’s warmth and kindness
slowly start to melt the young woman’s cold exterior, causing
her to question the superficial relationships in her life and her
hostile behavior towards others.
Dates
19th – 26th June, 2015
Contact details
Sarah Walton
Email
[email protected]
Seeking Crew
Camera Assistants, Gaffer, Grip, Best Boy/Girl, Costume
Designer, Art Department Assist, Unit Manager, Production
Assist, Editor
VCA Student Director
Matt Pastor
Title or Working Title
I am Jupiter, I am a big planet!
Synopsis
No words can describe what happens in the red light district of
Manila.
Location
Manila, Philippines
Contact details
Matt Pastor
Email
[email protected]
Phone
0412 290 207
Seeking Crew
Sound Designer, Assistant Editor, Australian based Production
Manager
VCA Student Director
Ryan Paturzo-Polson
VCA Student Producer
Sarah Pass
Title or Working Title
Max
Synopsis
At the age of seven, Charlie and his parents visit the beach on
a cold and wintery day. When Charlie wanders to the end of a
jetty he meets an imaginary friend, Max.
Who is Max? And why does he continue to follow Charlie? Just
as he thinks he’s figured it out, Charlie realizes that Max’s
intentions are much more sinister than he could have ever
imagined.
Dates
July 1 st – 8th, 2015
Location
South Eastern Suburbs, Melbourne CBD, Sorrento
Contact details
Ryan Paturzo-Polson
Email
[email protected]
Phone
0423 484 673
Seeking Crew
Production Designer, Costume Designer, Wardrobe, Hair and
Make-Up, Production Assistant, Sound Recordist, boom,
Sound Designer, Continuity, Runner, 2 nd AC, Data Wrangler,
Gaffer, Best Boy, Grip, Stills Photographer,
Social Media Manager
VCA Student Director
Simon Trevorrow
VCA Student Director
Scottnes L. Smith
Title or Working Title
There’s a Bluebird in my Heart
Synopsis
A lone figure, Myles, steps off a bus with nothing but a duffel
bag and a guitar. He searches the streets of Melbourne looking
for Sam, but when word gets out that he is back in town, a
ticking time bomb is set. Myles must face the consequences of
his past before time is up. There’s a Bluebird in my Heart is a
reflective drama about Men’s difficulty expressing themselves.
Dates
September 12th – 19th, 2015
Contact details
Scottnes L. Smith / Simon Trevorrow
Email
[email protected] / [email protected]
Phone
0451 536 370 / 0401 203 815
Seeking Crew
Cinematographer, Production Designer, Focus Puller,
Composer
VCA Student Director
Sarah Walton
VCA Student Producer
Elizabeth Myring & Danielle Singleton
Title or Working Title
Jump! (Working title)
Synopsis
Jump! is a comedy about Melody – a 30 year old secretary
obsessed with the 80’s. Melody bravely fights against societal
norms to fulfill her life long dream of winning a famous dance
competition. Uncoordinated and teased for her concrete legs,
with a training ground of merely her 80’s infused bedroom, the
odds are stacked against her, but Melody’s undying
determination gets her into the competition. She’s paired with
Gunter Jazhanz, a professional, extremely disciplined dancer
who is deeply offended by Melody’s enthusiastic childlike spirit
and lack of dance training and is determined to control her and
squash her soul. The combination of the two opposites forced
together in this ridiculous situation is a recipe for disaster and a
lot of fun.
Contact details
Danielle Singleton / Beth Myring
Email
[email protected] / [email protected]
Phone
0421 465 290 / 0424 287 498
VCA Student Director
Claire Marsh
Title or Working Title
Big Sky Land
Synopsis
Following a series of traumatic events, Ana packs up her 12
year old daughter Mac and they hit the road. With little money
and nowhere to go, the two head out in search of a place to
call home, only to learn that sometimes the only way to find
your place in the world is to throw away the map.
Dates
September 2nd – 10th, 2015
Contact details
Claire Marsh
Email
[email protected]
Phone
0423 485 031
Seeking Crew
Associate Producer, Production Manager, Production Designer,
Location Manager, Sound Recordist, Boom, Gaffer, Lighting
Assist, Data Wrangler, 3rd Camera Assist