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I’m looking for a producer for the post-production on my solo 2D animated short film Birds of a Feather. This 7 minute short uses traditional 2D animation techniques executed digitally using TVP Animation. 80 percent of the animation is currently completed and a trailer can be viewed online at http://www.birdsofafeather-film.com. If you’re interested in seeing more examples from my film please contact me.

I'm also intersted in hearing from composers and sound designers.

"I like to get into bed, with my dressing gown and slippers on, and turn all the lights off and put some nice easy listening tracks on and open a packet of chocolate biscuits. That is when I feel the safest of all. It's a funny thing being one of the survivors of a bungled armed robbery. You’re one of the lucky ones because it wasn’t you shot in the bloody head by ... and that thing they did to that poor old lady was just sickening. But I suppose I’d feel better if they were all dead. The robbers..."

http://unreasonablefilms.com/thepyjamamonologues/

The Pyjama Monologues is a short film produced by the team of Unreasonable Films (Jason Sweeney - Director/Composer) & Fiona Sprott - (Writer). The film will be a series of perversely funny, haunting and provocative vignettes that draw upon Fiona’s darkly comic stories about isolated characters who confess their strange little bedroom secrets. It will follow absurd scenes of off-kilter characters who find themselves in public places in their pyjamas, vulnerable and lost; characters who are trapped by their obsessions of bedroom life, bedroom fantasies...

"I mean most people like to hide their mental illness but I embraced mine. Nobody trusts a woman in her forties wearing Tweety Bird pyjamas for four years in a row and so nobody expects anything from me any more."

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Young Father Joseph arrived at an Outback town ship with a population of ten thousand with only his prayer book and the few clothes he owned. Many thought him to be a young city Priest, forward in manner and too young to know or have the experience to accomplish anything. What had to be done was clear in his mind and he set about his task with a seemingly casual manner and with determination to achieve all that would provide food, clothes, jobs and homes for all their homeless. He pleaded for those who would be sent to prison and gained their release to serve their sentence in the care of his church and he fell in love with one of them – a beautiful woman as young as himself.

The ADG Awards will be held in May next year and will be part of special anniversary celebrations of the ADG’s 30th anniversary.

To be eligible for the Awards, all work must have screened publicly for the first time between July 1, 2010 and December 31, 2011, except for student films where the project needs only to have been completed within these dates.

Award applicants must be financial ADG members for the 2011 – 2012 year. Membership details available at: www.adg.org.au

The recently appointed General Manager of the Australian Directors’ Guild, Kingston Anderson, said: “Our 30th anniversary gives the ADG an extra reason to celebrate the exceptional work of Australian directors over the past year. The 2012 Awards will be a great opportunity to highlight, applaud and promote these great works to Australian and international audiences and I encourage member directors to enter.”

The 18 categories in the 2012 ADG Awards are: 1. Feature Film 2. Telemovie 3. Animation 4. Documentary Standalone 5. Documentary Feature 6. Documentary Series 7. TV Drama Series 8. TV Mini Series 9. TV Drama Serial 10. TV Comedy 11. TV Reality / light entertainment 12. TV Children’s 13. Cross Platform project 14. Original online project 15. TVC 16. Short film 17. Music video 18. Student

The rescheduling of the ADG Awards to May next year will enable them to coincide with the INPUT 2012 television conference, being held for the first time in Australia in its 25 year history. Some 800 delegates, including 300 international guests, will attend INPUT 2012.

The ADG has partnered with INPUT in recent years through hosting a showcase of television programs featured in the international INPUT conference.

To submit your entry and for further information to the ADG awards: www.adg.org.au/awards.aspx or contact the ADG office on (02) 9555 7045 or events@adg.org.au.

For Media enquiries: please contact Tracey Mair, TM Publicity Ph: 0419 221 493 E: traceym@tmpublicity.com. The ADG Awards are made possible through the generous assistance of Screen Australia, Screen NSW, Screen Tasmania, South Australian Film Corporation and Efilm.