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Young film-makers succeed on web

The “SYD2030” team, “ridiculously good-looking”.
WE’RE always talking up our own short film movement here in Canberra, and rightly so, with all the activities of ScreenACT, the Lights! Canberra! Action! Short Film Festival, the Canberra Short Film Festival and dozens of smaller ventures, including a new event I helped judge last weekend in the Phoenix.

And we’re not talking celluloid. Several months ago, we reported on former Canberran James Hunter’s successes in film-making movies with an iPhone, a reminder of  the new technologies available to artists working in the cinematic medium.

But we’re not parochial at “CityNews”, so when a group of keen young Sydney filmmakers approached us with their success story, we were happy to pass it on.

Cheese on Toast Productions is self-described as “a small but mighty self funded production company started by 6 Sydney-based university students all under the age of 24”.

Together they have been busy producing a series of “Webisodes” and won “Best International Webisode” prize for their series “SYD2030”, chosen from 15 international web series at the recent LA Film, TV and Webisode Festival.

The event creates an international platform for TV pilots, web content and digital features, to be viewed and potentially picked up by industry representatives.

It’s a web series made up of 12 episodes, approximately five minutes each, which follows five “ridiculously good-looking eastern Sydney university law students” struggling to balance their thriving social lives with the demanding workload of law school.

“While the textbooks are hefty and the teachers strict, it’s the sexual escapades, drug overdoses, boozy scandals and naughty secrets that keep the students of SYD2030 really on their toes,” producer and group member Suzie Smith tells “CityNews”.

I had a look online at www.syd2030.com.au/episodes/ and what I saw would put the average TV soapie to shame.

Their win, she adds, is proof of passion, support, belief and shows “what young people can do”.

Hmm, I’ve noticed there are plenty of ridiculously good-looking uni students in the ACT too. Roll on “Canberra2013”, the movie.

 

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