CQ Films next project

Our next short film is 'How to make an Australian Feature Film'. It is a comedy written by Baz.

At present we are in the pre-production stage and will be setting a shoot date for October, 2010. It will be our largest project to date, with a cast of over 20 people. We aim to shoot the entire film over the course of one weekend in October.

We have also just secured the services of Glenn Adamus for our DOP. Glenn is an experienced professional cameraman having worked for Southern Cross Ten for a number of years. This is great news as it frees Clifton up to focus on directing and Baz to work on continuity and producing.

The Rocky Fringe Film Festival 2010

So we entered 'Awkward First Contact' into the Rockhampton Fringe Film Festival. It was our first competition and we were pretty excited. Although we didn't win, here is what the judge had to say about our film:

"This film goes where angels (and chooks) fear to tread. Aliens who have taken 10,000 years to get to Earth to share technology and learn from humans think the better of it moments after landing and back away back into their spacecraft, away from what they find... It actually is a good script, and some good writing has also gone into the edit. A lot of work has gone into design too - the space craft, costumes, the character voices. The filmmaker has a great future, but I'm not sure where. Sketch comedy on TV would be a good place to start. That or prison. Don't try doing corporate promotional videos for the Queensland Poultry Association. You Tube."