Tanya Beeson

Who are you? Tanya Beeson, I’m a Thirty…mmmrrrsshish year old animator who lives and works in and around Perth What do you do? I’m a Freelance Animator, part time lecturer and co-creator of the upcoming webseries Gate Street High. This falls under the hat of my own company Junglecat Films which is currently me and [...]

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Catch Up with Kenta McGrath

8 Pier Street, home to Little Boy Pictures and lauded filmmaker Kenta McGrath. Situated amongst the hussle and bussle of Perth’s CBD, Brains stopped by for a catch up with McGrath. What’s in production for Little Boy Pictures? Production wise nothing yet…we are wrapping up post production on a feature documentary called House of Blue. [...]

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PAC Script Lab: Burleigh Smith’s “Goliath”

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 [...]

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WAPO scored Young Indy

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 [...]

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New Stuart Bender work full of sickness – Tijuana Sunset

Stuart Bender fires back with a fine looking trailer for TIJUANA SUNSET. Great vfx, meaty sfx, plus lotsa guns. If that does it for you, go back and watch his other work too

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Wade K. Savage – The Dead Wastes

Slowly the site redesign is taking shape, but there’s still a lot to do so please excuse the mess around here. So anyway, if you have time to read this, then maybe you have time on Wednesday, because this Wednesday FTI is showcasing some local productions at the Local Focus: Halloween Screamer event. The line-up [...]

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Sam Winzar Q&A re: SA VC

Today, a quick Q&A with Sam Winzar, DoP of the new Sugar Army clip for the song ‘Tongues In Cheeks’. It looks pretty damn hot, but don’t take BRAINS?’s’z word for it, have a look……… BRAINS?: What Did You Shoot On? We shot of the RED One camera. Using both the RED 18-50mm lens plus [...]

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Stuart Bender interview

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 [...]

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Windrider

I really enjoyed writing this post because, in our continuing study of WA features, we come to this nugget…… Windrider, produced by Barron Entertainment, featured a young Nicole Kidman’s boobies and had an ’80′s, and thus cool, poster. The coolest that exists in the world. Not only that, the tagline is ‘The ride of  a [...]

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Kane George Jason interview

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. [...]

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