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Misadventure couple hated each other with raging abandon, | L anguage: Stereo Digital Dolby | Sound: is a darkly hilarious and through the paper-thin walls their FILMLAB presents modern fable. alcohol-fuelled rants terrorised Eddie and a CLOSER production Mitch. Fearing for their lives they began to in association with the SOUTH AUSTRALIAN FILM CORPORATION tape record evidence of the insane goings and ADELAIDE FILM FESTIVAL on from next door.
AUSTRALIA/NZ SALES Technical n recording Pete and Ray’s unique NICK BATZIAS [email protected] information dialogue, the boys accidentally created one of the world’s first ‘viral’pop-culture US SALES Running time: 90 mins sensations. Their tapes went on to inspire Josh Braun [email protected] Format: HD a cult following, spawning sell-out CD’s, Orly Ravid [email protected] +1 323 610 8128 Ratio: 1.78 comic artworks by Dan Clowes (Ghostworld), David Koh [email protected] +1 646 929 3468 Sound: Dolby Digital stage-plays, music from the likes of Devo and a Hollywood feeding frenzy. For the newly KEY CAST & CREW Stereo Featuring EDDIE LEE SAUSAGE, MITCHELL D, RAYMOND HUFFMAN, Language: ENGLISH famous Eddie and Mitchell, this would be a PETER HASKETT, TONY NEWTON, DANIEL CLOWES, IVAN BRUNETTI, life-changing experience that would see them HENRY S. ROSENTHAL, MIKE MITCHELL, GREGG GIBBS, & MARK GUNDERSON ingested into the belly and fired out the orifice of the pop culture beast. Writer and Director MATTHEW BATE EN
Producers SOPHIE HYDE & MATTHEW BATE xploring the blurring boundaries between G LI Co-producers JULIE BYRNE & BRYAN MASON privacy, art and exploitation, Shut Up S
Executive Producers STEPHEN CLEARY & JULIE RYAN Little Man! An Audio Misadventure is a darkly H Cinematographer BRYAN MASON hilarious story. Editor BRYAN MASON Motion Graphics RAYNOR PETTGE Composer JONNY ELK WALSH Production Designer TONY CRONIN Dialogue Editor/Re-recording Mixer PETE BEST
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© Closer Productions Pty Ltd, South Australian Film Corporation and Adelaide Film Festival INTERVIEW WITH He often asks “what’s different about Also attractive to the Shut Up, SOPHIE HYDE that?” and it’s this that marks his Little Man! phenomenon for me, were own vision, a desire for originality a number of incredible artists who – of voice, opinion and style. INTERVIEW WITH were equally obsessed by the tapes MATTHEW BATE PRODUCER and took inspiration from them to EDITOR: So, how did you come to get – create art. DEVO (a favorite band involved in SHUT UP LITTLE MAN! as of mine) had sampled the tapes. Dan Producer? WRITER / DIRECTOR Clowes (Ghostworld) and Ivan Brunetti EDITOR: Have you worked with Matt (Misery Loves Comedy), two of the Bate (writer/ director) before? When the Lab finished, we decided great comic artists were huge fans I have known Matt [writer/director to change our business structure and all work together, so the new Closer EDITOR: Matt, how did you first come and had illustrated Pete and Ray. of SULM] for a long time, but we only Productions was formed (Bryan Mason across the SULM recordings? Director Mike Mitchell (Shrek 4) made started working together during the hilarious Peter and Raymond puppet and Sophie Hyde joined with Matthew I collect records and used to hang making of the film. In 2009, we were films. What did they see in this Bate as co-directors of the company). around a friend’s store. An older guy both in a workshop called FilmLab [ED: recording? Why did it attract such Eventually, within the company, we called Ron, who was the store’s self- www.safilmlab.com.au], a low budget people to it and inspire them took on the producing of SULM. appointed sage of all music trivia, feature film initiative by the South to create art? used to corner me and talk my ear off Australian Film Corporation designed about obscure music history. One day to develop and fund feature films EDITOR: Tell me a bit more about how he grabbed my record bag and wrote EDITOR: What did you want the film say? by first time feature directors with that all worked. SHUT UP LITTLE MAN on the cover The SULM story shows us how real lives strong creative teams. We were part Closer is a unique company in that and told me to go home and listen to can be turned into art, mythologized of the first intake of four teams, the three co-directors are not focused these bizarre recordings of two old and sold as entertainment. These Matt working on SULM [ED: with then exclusively on Producing. In fact, guys fighting. This was the genesis themes seem more prescient today Producer, now Executive Producer Julie it’s our secondary or third of fourth of my obsession with telling the given the nature of digital culture. Ryan] and me working as a producer/ pursuit. We all direct films, Bryan Shut Up Little Man! (SULM) story. People can be filmed and uploaded to director on a feature drama project shoots and edits, Matt and I both write, Youtube and become famous overnight. 52 Tuesdays with Bryan [ED: Producer, but Bryan and I have always produced In this light SULM could be seen as Cinematographer, Editor] and writer, our own work alongside other producers EDITOR: What first attracted you to Matthew Cormack. the recordings? a precursor to modern viral phenomena. and so taking on SULM felt like a I was interested in this parallel natural decision. Creatively we The recordings themselves are unlike and also wanted to explore the way EDITOR: So you all clicked at FilmLab. were already deeply engaged in the anything I had ever heard. They are a we consume similar reality based development of the story and style guilty pleasure, hilarious, horrifying We all worked really closely in the ‘entertainment’ today. Lab. We enjoyed each other’s film and running the company meant that and addictive. They have an absurdist the logistics of equipment, personnel Beckett quality, a glimpse into the ideas and processes. We all drove together to and from the workshop and schedules we were already leading. darkest corners of human relationships. EDITOR: Aren’t you involved in this Producing within a company like this Because it’s purely audio, listening phenomenon now? You’re just another everyday, giving us a chance to talk, push and question each other’s work. is therefore a collaborative thing, to it forces you to imagine what fucking link in the chain now! we all take on pieces of the puzzle Peter and Raymond looked like, what Of course as filmmakers we are the based on what we are good at. We also the apartment was like and what their latest satellite spinning around the EDITOR: What did you talk about in engaged co-Producer Julie Byrne, who circumstances were. So many questions Pete and Ray universe. I have laughed those drives each day? has managed the shoots in Australia arise like why is an obviously gay man at the recordings like everyone else, When Matt started talking about SULM and the US [ED: on sets in Australia living with a raging homophobe? Who and have questioned its morality during that time I was struck by his and on location across the US] and recorded this stuff and how did they and my own complicity within that. own feelings of connection to the chased and secured the rights to get out alive? And how is this even I wanted the film to open up a series project. Of course, the subject of numerous archival material and music. legal? These mysteries were seductive. of questions about what we consider SULM is a natural choice for Matt. It’s been a dynamic working process ‘art’ and ‘entertainment’, and why He holds a particular interest in pop and the team are strong and close. EDITOR: What else attracted you to we enjoy laughing at and peeking into culture and the idea of obsession this story? other people’s lives. Does something and as such was clearly drawn to the EDITOR: So how was the experience we consider art cease to be such if material and the subsequent story. My intention making Shut Up Little of making the film? Man! An Audio Misadventure was to we know more about the background But with SULM there were also burning For all of us working on the film, tell a dark and hilarious story about of its creation? I hope our film questions in Matt’s mind, still in watching Matt’s constant grappling the grey areas between love and hate, places the audience in this infinite their infancy at the time. Why would with his original questions, fuelled art and exploitation. These kinds of conundrum, spinning their moral these two men who hated each other by wanting to understand more pieces dichotomies fuel the story. At the compass and asking them to question live together? What does this say of the story, has been endlessly film’s heart is this bizarre inter- what it is they have seen. about human interaction and the way entertaining. It’s instigated many apartment relationship; on one side we build relationships? What is my heated debates and conversations Eddie and Mitch two best friends ethical position in relation to this? about our own positions, the value starting out in life, and next door of art, the idea of documentation and two old men Peter and Raymond, who EDITOR: How does this come out in documentary filmmaking and questions hate each other and are drinking and the film, then? about the way we accept and can also fighting to death. Connecting them The project suits Matt’s storytelling laugh at the misfortune of others. is this illicit audio recording that style perfectly. As he has developed It’s been a wonderful project to have would make them all cult celebrities, his skills as a documentary writer/ as Closer first feature and the debut one pair embracing that notoriety director he has always looked for project for our new team. the other ignorant of it. unique stories told in unique ways.
NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND (or cocks*^king PRODUCTION NOTES)
‘Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure’ entailed 4 main shoots and a small 2nd unit shoot, between November 2009 & Nov 2010. Two of those shoots occurred in the USA and two were studio based in Adelaide, South Australia.
Matt Bate – writer/ director - on SULM! AN AUDIO MISADVENTURE “When we flew from Australia to San Francisco we left on a Friday morning and arrived on Friday morning. I was nervous, excited, jet-lagged and thinking a lot about the film and what was going to happen. On the first night I couldn’t sleep at all. On the second night I thought I ’m so exhausted that I’m going just going to drop when my head hits the pillow. No dice. By the third night of sleeplessness I was completely strung out. By the fourth I was a shell of a human being.
We’d visited a liquor store that day called O ’L o o n e y ’s, owned by a guy called Muhammad O’Looney. It was the store that Pete and Ray used to buy their booze from. I’d bought a souvenir bottle of Royal Gate Vodka - Peter Haskett’s drink of choice. It comes in a fake plastic‘glass’bottle, and to call this shit paint stripper is paying it too much respect. But I was going insane and needed self medicating. I was running on pure adrenalin in the day then walking the ceilings at night. Desperate for sleep and finding a half bottle of warm orange juice in my backpack I looked at my souvenir Royal Gate and decided to make the ultimate sacrifice to my liver and (more importantly) to my mantelpiece-collectionof‘filmy arcana’. I made myself a half litre Peter Haskett‘screwdriver’and drank it. There’s something about the Shut Up Little Man‘thing’where everyone who comes into its atmosphere ends up becoming Pete and Ray. I was stuck in a tiny room in San Francisco at 3am, drunk on the cheapest booze known to man, brain sozzled, staring at shit American TV. Before falling unconscious I remember thinking this is the greatest research I could have done, I ’m literally staring out of the eyeballs of Pete & Ray. ZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...”
Sophie Hyde – producer - on SULM! AN AUDIO MISADVENTURE “We edited SULM in the studio at the back of our house in Adelaide, South Australia [ED: Cinematographer/Editor Bryan and producer Sophie are partners], so even if I was working at our other office, I ’d come home to the rants of Peter and Ray, to the amused or enraged tones of our interviewees, the music of DEVO and the strange edit heads of Matt and Bryan. Our house was awash with everyone working, filming, animating, cutting. Guido, our dog, and Audrey, our daughter became part of the pack.”
Julie Byrne – co-producer - on SULM! AN AUDIO MISADVENTURE “With such a mammoth undertaking to organize this all the way from Australia the schedule in the US was a finely tuned jigsaw puzzle that shifted and slid on a daily basis across six US cities - San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Chicago, Detroit and LA - and within the confines of a 4 week shoot period. With busy notables like Bob Mothersbaugh of DEVO, the film director Mike Mitchell (who was in the midst of his publicity campaign around the release of Shrek 3D) and the comic artists Ivan Brunetti and Daniel Clowes (who returned from a European tour just in time!) this was no small feat. But it all fell into place beautifully in the end, indeed, it felt rather a blessed shoot overall (despite theodd mishap like a blown rental car tyre on the first day in thick Seattle traffic!).” SHUT U P LITTLE MA N ROGUES MITCH DEPREY (aka MITCHELL D) [ ] RAYMOND HUFFMAN (aka LITTLE MAN) GALLERY Mitch Deprey was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin in 1963. He attended the [ ] University of Wisconsin from 1983 Raymond Huffman was born in Nebraska to 1987 where he majored in Spanish in 1931. At the age of 14, Ray was deputized & sociology. In 1985, Mitch spent by the Lincoln Sheriff’s Department. Ray a year in Madrid, Spain studying worked for some time in the aeronautics at the Universidad de Madrid Complutense. In September of 1987 industry, repairing airplane wings and he moved to San Francisco and into eventually settled in the San Francisco Bay the Pepto Bismol Palace where Mitch Area. He was promoted to Head Janitor EDWARD GUERRIERO (aka EDDIE LEE SAUSAGE) (along with Eddie Lee Sausage) at The Spaulding Residential Hotel in recorded the notorious neighbors, 1978, where he met Peter Haskett and [ ] Peter & Ray, which resulted in the Edward Guerriero was born in Dayton, Ohio in contagious Shut Up Little Man consequently moved into the Steiner St 1964. From 1978 to 1982 he was a member of the recordings. He lived in the San apartment together. Ray died in 1992. punk band, The Tyrants, who released their DIY Francisco bay area for 16 years single “Hard to Get /Attitude” in 1980. As Eddie Lee where he was employed as a child care counselor, a case manager Sausage, he was the lead singer for the absurdist for both developmentally disabled heavy metal band Metal Blister in Madison, and geriatric populations, a Wisconsin. Eddie was a founding member of CUSP certified arborist and finally as (the Collective of Urban Space Poaching), an an operations manager for a plaster experimental street performance group, and was the company — all bilingual positions. In 1991, he spent a year in Peru editor of their theoretical journal between 1986 and living a dream of visiting every 1996. In San Francisco Eddie (along with Mitchell Inca archaeological site he was D.) taped the Shut Up Little Man recordings, widely able. In 2003 Mitch returned to considered to be a classic of the audio verite and Wisconsin where he resides with his field recording genres. Edward continues to perform wife, Bari, and 2 children, Caleb, music with the electro-acoustic duo Infinite Article age 14, and Ariel, age 11. Mitch now works as a multi-line agent for and the free improvisational ensemble Yuan. Edward an insurance company. owns and operates Oblivion Books, a rare bookstore in Seattle, where he resides with his wife, Elizabeth MITCH on SULM! AN AUDIO PETER HASKETT (aka QUEER COCKSUCKER) Wood, and their daughter Aria Grace Nur. MISADVENTURE [ ] [ ] Peter Haskett was born in Oak Park, Illinois, “From the inception of the project, in 1928 and grew up in central California. EDDIE on SULM! AN AUDIO MISADVENTURE it was evident that Matt [Bate, [ ] The son of a policeman, Peter grew up thinking the director] had a vision and his teenage mother was his sister and his “The set of our Australian shoot was a remarkably would question us repeatedly about grandmother hismother. Peter served briefly accurate rebuild of our old “Pepto Bismol Palace” a given subject, often asking in the Army before graduating from apartment where the Shut Up Little Man recordings the same question in different Northwestern University with a degree in originally took place. I couldn’t believe the accuracy locations. It was obvious advertising and journalism and worked for he wanted to dig deep and was several ad companies up until the 60s. As of the thing - it was uncanny. At one point I was so emphatic to learn the entire delirious from jetlag and the rigors of several long legend has it, Peter worked on the J.F.K history of the phenomenon from election campaign and was so affected by the consecutive days of shooting, I had a moment many perspectives. After viewing President’s assassination that he took to where I lost my bearing and thought I had been the film, I am comfortable saying drink. Peter was living in a hotel when he teleported back to the old apartment!” he accomplished his goal.” met Ray, who was the janitor in the building before they moved into the Steiner St apartment together. Peter died in 1996.
MIKE MITCHELL [ ] DANIEL CLOWES IVAN BRUNETTI Mike Mitchell has directed live [ ] [ ] action features such as the Daniel Clowes was born in Chicago Ivan Brunetti has published several Annie Award-nominated SHREK in 1961. In 1989, he published the comics collections and has taught courses on design, illustration, FOREVER AFTER, SKY HIGH, first issue of his seminal comic- and comics at Columbia College and BIGALOW: MALE GIGALO book, EIGHTBALL. His graphic Chicago and the University of and is currently directing novels include GHOST WORLD, Chicago. His drawings have appeared ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS 3: DAVID BORING, CARICATURE, in the New Yorker, the New York Times CHIPWRECKED. Mitchell’s other and ICE HAVEN. His screenplay Magazine, and McSweeney’s, among animation work includes writing other publications, and he served as for the film adaptation of GHOST editor for Yale University Press’s for “The Ren and Stimpy Show” WORLD (starring Thora Birch and two-volume Anthology of Graphic and Nickelodeon’s “SpongeBob Scarlett Johanson) was nominated Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories. SquarePants.” He has also for an Academy Award. His 2007 storyboarded commercials and comic strip for the New York Times music videos for filmmakers HENRY S. ROSENTHAL Magazine, MR. WONDERFUL will [ ] such as Spike Jonze and received be collected into book form by Henry S. Rosenthal is one of America’s awards for his work, including Pantheon in 2011, and his latest most prolific producers of visionary the 1999 Spirit of Slamdance graphic novel, WILSON, was independent films, perhaps best known Award for his short film, “Herd,” released by Drawn & Quarterly in for his award-winning, internationally- and the Sundance Film Festival’s distributed The Devil and Daniel Johnston. May 2010. He is the illustrator of He is also widely known as Hank Rank, 1993 Best of Fest Award for many covers for THE NEW YORKER, drummer of CRIME, the first punk band on his animated short “Frannie’s and was the first cartoonist to have the West Coast, and lead ukulele player Christmas.” Mitchell lives with his work featured in ESQUIRE’S in the pseudo jug band, The Poontang his wife and two children annual fiction issue. A major Wranglers. Based in San Francisco, he is in Los Angeles. retrospective of his work is an avid collector of fine art, souvenir pennants, and two-headed calves. He is planned for the Oakland Museum currently finishing a film about Jeff of California in 2012. He lives in Koons, and spends a lot of time on Mars Oakland with his wife Erika, son as the Commander of a space mission Charles, and beagle Ella. simulator at a space center in Oakland.
HENRY on SULM! AN AUDIO MISADVENTURE [ ] URSULA & BOB MOTHERSBAUGH “There is no escape from the black hole of the Shut Up, Little Man! phenomenon. [ ] Even from beyond the grave Peter and Bob Mothersbaugh joined the just forming Raymond continue to entwine those of band DEVO in 1973. While touring the world and us who got involved in their remarkable recording 8 albums for Warner Brothers records story. I can only hope that my room in he managed to find time to underscore 150 Hell is not adjacent to theirs.” episodes of Rugrats, over 100 TV commercials, and many more great shows like All Grown Up, Santo Bugito, Ronald McDonald cartoons, interstictials for Clifford cartoons, musical restoration on old Popeye cartoons, several sitcoms and several movies. He also recorded an album with his brother, titled the Wipeouters, featuring the hit song shut up little man! PETER AND RAYMOND QUIZ (Answers below)
Q1: Where did PETER want Ray to go and live? Q2: What is the name of the DEVO side project band track that We conducted a survey with our production team samples Pete and Ray? and asked them what their top 5 quotes were. Q3: Who is the SHREK 3D Director responsible for creating the Peter and Raymond Puppets? Here are the results fellow c**ksuckers! Q4: How many times was Raymond allegedly wounded in the war? 5. “I can kill you from a sitting position.” Q5: What famously ‘decent’ TV show does Ray want to watch? AND what Queer shit is Pete watching at the time? – Raymond Huffman Q6: What small furry animal does Pete accuse Ray of sounding like? 4. “Sally-June! Abigail-Mae! This is just too MUCH.” Q7: What charges are Ray going to bring against Peter? – Peter Haskett Q8: Name three girls names that Pete assigns to Ray. 3. “You’re a liar, Ray. You’re a rotten little liar man. Lady. Pardon me, lady.” – Peter Haskett
2. “I got a decent dinner ready. Nothing happened with the dinner. Because you crucified it.” – Peter Haskett
And the winner...
1. “If you wanna talk to me then SHUT YOUR FU**KEN’ MOUTH!” – Raymond Huffman
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R: good. Goodbye you fucking queer motherfucker! The last... The best thing that can happen to me, according to my doctors, is for I to say‘goodbye, you cocksucker!’and never see you again. I’ll be so fucking glad when you’re gone. Cos I despise fucking... punks like you.
P: [quietly in bg] you’ve already said that, so goodnight.
R: goodnight, punk. You punk cocksucker. I’ll be glad when you’re dead! Or gone, or something.
P: [quietly in bg] goodnight!
R: cos you ain’t a human being!
P: [quietly in bg] goodnight!
R: you ain’t a human being, you fucking-!
P: [quietly in bg] goodnight!
R: don’t call me‘goodnight,’you cocksucker!
P: I am saying, why do you keep screeching?
R: SHUT YER FUCKING MOUTH!
P: all it does is wake everybody up. All I’m saying is-
R: THEN SHUT YER FUCKING MOUTH, you fucking piece of shit! THEN SHUT YER FUCKING MOUTH! Shut yer fucking mouth, you cocksucker. MATTHEW BATE WRITER / DIRECTOR
Matthew Bate creates documentaries dealing with obsessive people, pop-culture and outsider artists. Matt’s films are marked by unique storytelling devices and an experimental visual style. His 2006 film What The Future Sounded Like, is a visually and sonically experimental exploration into the genesis of electronic music. In 2007 Matt directed the first documentary co-production between SBS Australia and Al Jazeera and in 2008 completed Connected By Light, a film about world-renowned new media artist BRYAN MASON Lynette Wallworth. His 2010 film Stunt Love about silent film CINEMATOGRAPHER / EDITOR / CO-PRODUCER stunt-pioneer director J.P McGowan and his daredevil wife Helen Bryan Mason is a multi-skilled director of Closer Productions, a film production company Holmes, is an action packed documentary set against the backdrop based in Adelaide, South Australia. An award winning editor and DOP, Bryan shot, edited of the birth of Hollywood. and co-produced Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure. Working closely with his partner Sophie Hyde, Bryan has shot and edited a number of short films including Ok, Let’s Recently, Matt directed The Mystery of Flying Kicks, a film exploring what relationship Talk About Me (2005), My Last Ten Hours With You (2007), Elephantiasis (2010) which sneakers on telephone wires have with murder, drugs, sex and politics. The film was made premiered at the 2010 Melbourne Int’l Film Festival; and Necessary Games (Winner Best entirely from contributions of imagery and phone message bank stories from the global online Experimental at 2009 Melbourne I n t ’l Film Festival & Brooklyn Int’l Film Festival 2010). public. It Premiered at the 2010 SXSW Festival and was in selection at Edinburgh, CPH:DOX, Sheffield DocFest and won Best Documentary Short at 2010 Melbourne International Film In 2009 Bryan edited the feature film My Tehran for Sale (TIFF and Pusan film festivals Festival. Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure is Matt’s debut feature film. Matt is in 2009). He was also Second Unit DP on the feature film Broken Hill (2009). Most recently Bryan directed his debut feature documentary Life In Movement (2011), dealing with the currently developing a film about the great foot-fetish photographer Elmer Batters. tragic death of rising-star choreographer Tanja Liedtke. In 2011 Bryan will shoot, edit Matt is a co-director of Adelaide-based Closer Productions. and produce 52 Tuesdays with director Sophie Hyde.
Australian filmmaker Sophie Hyde is one of the founders and co-directors of Closer Productions, based in Adelaide, South Australia. In the past, Sophie has primarily only produced the work she’s directed but this has changed with her producing Closer’s first feature documentary Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure.
Sophie has previously produced and directed documentaries SOPHIE HYDE Ok, Let’s Talk About Me (2005), short drama Elephantiasis, Julie Byrne has worked for 20 years in the South PRODUCER which premiered at the 2010 Melbourne I n t ’l Film Festival; and Necessary Games, three short dance films with Restless Australian Film & Television industry variously Dance Theatre, that continues to screen internationally in community television, as an independent and has won Best Experimental at 2009 Melbourne I n t ’l Film filmmaker as writer, director and/or producer Festival & Brooklyn I n t ’l Film Festival 2010, and was awarded and also in a number of crew roles. In the last Best Work at ReelDance Awards 2010. Her short drama, JULIE BYRNE decade Julie was production manager on several My Last Ten Hours With You (2007) has screened successfully CO-PRODUCER feature films, including Paul Cox’s Innocence and at festivals internationally, including Uppsala and Palm Human Touch, and on the popular television drama Springs, and has won numerous awards. series McLeod’s Daughters, from 2004 - 2008 and was Line Producer on the 2009 psychological Sophie’s next films will be as producer and co-director on the documentary Life in Movement, premiering at Adelaide Film thriller (set in 1902) Lucky Country. In 2010 Julie Festival 2010, executive producing Matthew Bate’s Stunt Love, co-formed Velvet Orange with producer Vicki Sugars for ABC and Adelaide Film Festival, and is in development on and they are currently developing several feature another SAFC FilmLab feature, the drama 52 Tuesdays, which film projects, with their first feature going into will begin shooting in 2011 and continue for 52 weeks. production in 2011. Julie will also be producing two short films in 2011.