Our schedule

At present we're planning out our schedule for 2010-2011. So far it looks like this:

October - How to make an Australian Feature Film.

December - The Returned Serviceman, The Gay Australian and An Australian Horror Legend.

February - The Exorcism of Jeremy Roads.

April - A Nightmare on Ass Street.

June - Held Hostage and Adopted.

2nd half of year - 20 minute Paintball movie.

We hope to have four films in the competition part of the Rocky Fringe Festival and four in the open film screening. We aim to submit The Ring as well, but we all know it's way ahead of its time.

More actors on board

Two more actors are now involved:

John Aide
Brett Fairbairn

Cool.

Where for art thou Yobbo?

The actor we had slated to play the yob in 'How to make an Australian Feature Film' is unavailable that weekend.

What a dilemma!

Where are we going to find a beer drinking yob in Central Queensland?

Other film crews would probably give up at this point, but not CQ Films. We shall persevere!

Shoot dates locked in

We're locked in to shoot 'How to make an Australian Feature Film' on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th October.

At this point actors involved are:

Tamara Wickham
Cameron Downing
Ashley Black
Jesse Warren
Ian Westley
Daniel Bonner
Matt Wilson
Amy Shelford

At present we're awaiting confirmation from a few others, but so far so good.

Tropfest 2011

Last year we entered 'The Ring' into Tropfest. While not expecting to get anywhere, it's always heartbreaking to see a lot of the finalist films either not make sense or be an old joke or suck, or worse; not make sense, be an old joke and suck. That said, last years winner 'Shock' was absolutely awesome and it definitely deserved to win.

Next year entries close on Thursday 6th January and the TSI is 'Key'. Clifton and I discussed not entering again, but getting into 'Best of the Rest' is a challenge I don't think we can resist.

Besides, if all else fails, we can always make another brown eye film.

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."