Brains?

Who are you and what do you do? My name is Chad Peacock and I started tinkering with film making in the nineties when I was 12 making really bad short action films with the family camcorder. Making videos/films has been a part of my life in one way or another ever since and has [...]

Ever wonder what it’s like to have a script read in front of the multitudes? Burleigh Smith was kind enough to share some thoughts on the triumphs, the heartbreaks and the feedback forms at PAC. Burleigh Smith: Screenplay reading last Wednesday evening went well. Some seventy or eighty people showed. All ages, from early teens [...]

As possibly the hardest working man in the indy scene at the moment, he’s “made 3 shorts inside 5 months as a director whilst working on a few more as a 1st AD”, Damien Giglietta has a disappointingly small amount of stuff online to pad this interview. But word on the street is that his [...]

This post by DARANGULAFILM on the FTI forum mentions the W.A. Philharmonic is a “go to” for international film scoring. A quick trip over to the WAPO site and it seems to be true. From the site…. Welcome to The West Australian Philharmonic who since 1993 are scoring Film, television and concert productions for companies [...]

Anyone down at the WASA people choice screenings got a little taste of Johnny Ma with his latest number ‘Bootleg’ screening down there, the animation from said work is posted below. Brains? was very impressed, but then was sad, because the man may be leaving us for Honkers soon. Check the bottom of this post [...]

If you’re in hurry then you might want to bookmark this post and come back later with some popcorn, because we got a lotta action for you. Stuart Bender’s stuff is best described as ‘die hardcore’, a freshly coined term to describe the getting ever better YouTube action genre. You can find his work on [...]

Kane George Jason is a director/producer and the founder of Contempovision Films. Judging by the number of posts on the FTI boards they have quite a heavy slate. He also started the Perth Filmmakers Directory (pfd.cvfilms.net) which is worth a check for those looking for cast and crew . Brains? asked him about his work. [...]

Jason Stringer (@jasonstringer) is a filmmaker, FTI alumni and father of two children. He has recently re-cut his graduation film HER PARTY to make it festival ready. The short handles the difficult subject matter with quiet dignity and the performance by actress Penelope Andrews is truly striking. Jason is one of those rare-in-the-movies actors’ directors, [...]

There seem to be at least a couple of features in the works in Perth at the mo’. If you’ve seen the Brains? theme then you can guess why I AM BISH gives me an election. Check out the promo vid then follow the link, and go be zombies. Creator Dave Bishop answered the request [...]