Shout out to Short Filmmakers – Seven Tales of Deadly Sins

OK so what’s going on at the big Zee atm? (Zed Resistor Filmworks zedresistorfilmworks.co.uk for those of lesser learning) Well we’ve been taking a hammering, Sixth Monkey a feature film that was due to shoot in October is put back, the backers have decided to put dosh into a Bollywood film before it, course it is their shout, but now Sixth Monkey, a simple powerful film is back I reckon at least six months, and then?… well we’re not going to rely on it.

Instead we’re aiming at name casting for the film, Kevin Spacey had already turned it down, but the way I see it is you just turn up the wick and offer him more, my experience with backers is that they’ve plenty of money in their coffers you just have to provide them with something they want to spend their money on!

Having said all that we and mainly yours truly, filmFODOR are shooters and we don’t want to sit around. So we’ve come up with the Seven Tales concept….

It all comes down to this, there’s no money, not a silver cent in short films but there is money in feature films. So what we’re going to do is shoot a series of short films and make them into a feature film. 

It is going to be a matter of fuck all the health and safety, fuck all the bureaucracy and just shoot, guerilla. Like we have done for so many years in the past, but that has given us years of experience of lightening filming dashing in and dashing out. That was the mistake of the Oblivion shoot – we dared to have an 8 man crew, from now on we’ll go for 4 man crews. 

These are the facts: for crews less that five you don’t need a licence you don’t need permission, so long as you don’t block pathways you don’t need to ask. 

This is the way we’re going.

There were a number of Hammer Films that followed the same principle, and films like Paris I Love You and New York I Love You both major successes but there are also ones which moulded the stories together and most viewers don’t even realise, for example: Pulp Fiction, possibly Tarrantino’s greatest masterpiece was actually five short films stuck together.

Soooo…… if you’ve a short film you want made, come to us. We’re putting scripts together from our pool of writers but we want to work with others. Get in touch! 

Shout to alex@fodor.co.uk