>>>BIG MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL

Big Mountain was a whole heap of fun. I drove up to Ohakune (where they have giant carrot at the town gates) and attended a festival at the bottom of a snow covered Mt Ruapehu last weekend. The organizers did a really good job with providing a really nice co-operative atmosphere for filmmakers and a bunch of really useful and FREE film production tutorials. I think once the word spreads, this will become NZ's own Sundance sort of thing.

Met plenty of of fellow filmmakers and saw some great films. If you see these NZ short film titles anywhere, go see them: The Hit, Big Bad Wolves (awfullygrimm.com), Hell or High Water, Tight Heads, The Last Words, & Elemenopee.

Una Pezzo di Torta screened to a very receptive audience at All Shorts in Nelson. Notable NZ director, Gaylene Preston was in attendance to comment on the films on offer. The short will be included on the DVD of selected titles from the screening as well. The Nelson cinema where the event was held wishes to have additional screenings of some of the shorts including Una Pezzo di Torta.

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>>>GREETINGS FROM THE CHINAMAN

Coulrophobia
Flying Fives screening: November 4, Nelson
Coming soon: the Rialto Channel's Flying Fives special.

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>>>FESTIVAL NEWS

Coulrophobia has been selected as one of the final 10 films in competition at The Flying 5s. Respected New Zealand director, Barry Barclay is on the panel of judges this year.

Once Upon a Time in Wellington has been selected for The Big Mountain Film Fest in Ohakune, New Zealand on October 20 - 22. It will play in the "No Budget" (less than $1000) section of the programme with 17 other shorts - 6 from NZ, the rest international.

Once Upon... was previously selected for The Moving Image Centre's "Short Fuse" short film programme in August, which ran in both Auckland and Wellington.

Una Pezzo Di Torta has been selected to screen in AllShorts in Nelson on October 21.










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>>>SOMETHING RAJEEV EDITED

Here's a link to a short film that I produced and edited last year as part of an honours level Film paper I took. Strictly not an ICW Production, but still a project I had a lot of creative input on:

DINNER AT SARAH'S (2005)

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>>>UPCOMING PROJECTS

We are currently working on a DVD of our short films that we will make available to anyone interested. Watch this space. Other upcoming projects include:

"Crazy Scientists" Promo for MTV New Zealand
DIR: Rajeev Mishra & Jon Sum
WITH: Gareth Williams

"Bullets & Dollar Bills" - A western
DIR: Rajeev Mishra
WITH: Errol Shand & Kat Angus

"Hiding" music video for Kat McKenzie
DIR: Chris Tse

"The Final Countdown" - Animated shorts
DIR: Andrew James

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>>>OUR SHORT FILMS

>>>UNA PEZZO DI TORTA (2006)
A NZ Backpacker has a comedic encounter in an Italian Cafe
DIR: Rajeev Mishra
WITH: Jerome Chandrahasen, Kat Angus & Demetri Gerogiou
Made in association with Dead Arm Productions as part of Jerome Chandrahasen's comedy show "Backpacker's Guide"


>>>ONCE UPON A TIME IN WELLINGTON (2006)
A lone drifter walks into a urban cafe searching for his quarry... and pie.
DIR: Rajeev Mishra
WITH: Ben Fransham, Erroll Shand, Camille Keenan, Rob Lloyd

>>>THE PACKAGE (2006)
Geoff receives an unmarked box in the mail. He tries very hard to open it.
DIR: Rajeev Mishra
WITH: Ben Fransham

>>>COULROPHOBIA (2005)
Fear of clowns? The good doctor is here to help. Take a seat and fill out a form.
DIR: Chris Tse
WITH: Gareth Williams, Andy James, Annette Cater

>>>BRAINS (2005)
A man slowly becomes a zombie and feels somewhat strangely left out.
DIR: Andy James
WITH: Gareth Williams, Paul Johannson, Rebecca Goodbehere, Dhiresh

>>>PARK BENCH (2005)
Two strangers meet on a park bench for an awkward-sweet-romantic encounter.
DIR: Rajeev Mishra
WITH: William Niell, Megan Abbot

>>>PRETTIER THAN ORLANDO BLOOM (2004)
It's a musical! Is Chad just too damn pretty for his girlfriend? Can he change?
DIR: Rajeev Mishra / Chris Tse / Andy James
WITH: Kat Angus, Gareth Williams

>>>DRIFT (2003)
The Old West. Newt & Smithy go digging for treasure in a desolate valley and find something weird...
DIR: Rajeev Mishra / Chris Tse
WITH: Andy James, Sam Sheppard

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