MEDIA RELEASE | 'The Contract' - Location Scout Needed To Find The Perfect Boardroom

Seeking expressions of interest | Location scout
 
Bring to life ‘The Contract’ - the first project from script incubator ‘A Fistful of Scripts’.

Project possibilities? Take your pick: Stand-alone project | pitch project to present to commercial networks | web-series in 3 parts | TV series in 6 parts

Either way you’ll get an IMDB credit.

In April 2011, ‘A Fistful of Scripts’ presented ‘The Contract’ as a short play in a cold reading format. At 12 minutes in length, the audience was thoroughly captivated and engaged to the point of insisting the script was better suited to a TV series format.

Amazingly, the talented cast remain fully committed to the project, ready and raring to go (given sufficient notice among other things). 

A talented team is already quickly assembling including a DOP of great distinction with international experience and credits on high-end Hollywood-produced feature films achieving world-wide mainstream cinema release to critical and commercial acclaim.

WHO

Primarily, I am seeking a Location Scout to help bring this project to life. I need help locating and acquiring access to and usage of a corporate-style boardroom – it is the only interior location used in this pitch project. It is a character in it’s own right. 

To paint you the picture: STM Asia Pacific is the Titanic, the Boardroom is the lifeboat, the ‘storm of the century’ is the iceberg... what happens next? The theme is survival - what human dynamics come into play when people act to save their own skin.

The location has to serve the story.  It has to accommodate 9 to 10 actors plus crew at key times of the shoot.  It also has to be in CBD, have facilities for green room, gear, make-up team, production team, costume, parking. It has to be sound and shoot friendly, preferably on the ground floor with access weekdays and weekends, before and after hours.  Nearby lifts would be a huge bonus (for filming purposes).

Melbourne-based applicants preferred, interstate crew must travel & accommodate themselves at own expense.

WHAT
The script is available for review.

In terms of project outcome, the script works equally well as a stand-alone item, a pitch to present for consideration to commercial networks or at the very least a web-series in 3 parts. Take your pick.

Either way you’ll get an IMDB credit.

Being set in the construction industry and particularly around train stations undergoing a rebuild, Melbourne is rife with opportunities to capture construction crews at work in an observational, documentary format.

The purpose being to have footage on hand for titles and end credits.  Also to help add context and/or act as ‘fillers’ and/or ‘padding’ to enhance the scripted scenes, overall story, it’s setting and add real-world realism.

Please see stills in the Youtube trailers below compiled into teasers. These stills aim provide plenty of guidance as to the tone and style I am seeking to portray overall. Note, while the stills are evocative they lack action. All URL’s below.

HOW MUCH?
Paid gig.

As far as remuneration goes for this pitch project I am looking to go way outside square and beyond the usual standard box and dice funding models, which will be discussed with successful applicants.

WHY NOT?
It’s ambitious. But - per the details below – much of the groundwork has already been done.

Callumny Films feels now is the ideal time to bring to life ‘The Contract’ as the first project from the incredibly successful, respected and well-received series:  ‘A Fistful of Scripts’. The script incubator began mid-2010 running at Theatreworks, St Kilda during the outstanding tenure of General Manager Dan Clarke, who has now moved onto bigger, greener commercial pastures at The Melbourne Arts Centre.

CALLUMNY FILMS in association with WISE WORDS MEDIA present 

THE CONTRACT

ADAM TURNBULL   ALAN KILFOYLE   ALEX MCARTHUR    CALLAN LEWIS

CHRISTOPHER BARRY     DAVID ROCK      GRAHAM MURRAY     NADIA ANDARY    

SOREN JENSEN    STEPH EVISON-WILLIAMS    VAS ANAGNOS

With special guest star

Written by Sean McIntyre
Cinematography by | to be announced 15th May 2016 

Script development with kind assistance from A Fistful of Scripts.

ABOUT THE CONTRACT | short, 12-15 minutes

STM Asia Pacific Constructions is pinning its future to its biggest ever project: 'Eastern Metropol Train Station'.

The worst storm in 100 years wreaks havoc on the city and its new landmark, causing $60 000 in damages and clean-up costs per week.Friendships fracture. Fingers point. Accusations fly. Alliances shift. Spin and counter-spin.

It's every man, woman and back-stabbing bastard for themselves.

READ MORE:

Trailers

• The Contract - Location Scout | concept proof 1 wip 4

• The Contract - Location Scout | concept proof 2 wip 4

• The Contract | Teaser Trailer 1 - using Lean Film Making Methodology

IMDB

• 'The Contract'

• Promo poster - One  

• Promo poster - Two

• Meet the cast
• Nine things you just realised you never knew about 'The Contract'
 

A Fistful of Scripts

• A Fistful of Scripts [season 2] | Stills – Event, April 2010

• Casting call for actors (2011) - Detailed character breakdowns
• Media Release | About 'A Fistful of Scripts' 

• A Fistful of Scripts [season 2], Theatreworks - The Contract 

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