What's this all about

WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT


Welcome to the Open Road Film Festival, a new initiative between Australia's film industry and Harley-Davidson©, serving to promote Australia's future filmmaking talent.

This year we've brought on board world-renowned writer/director Gregor Jordan and producer/actor Bryan Brown. Gregor has created the final 75 seconds to a Harley© film. Your job is to show us how this story began. To help you make a great film, see Gregor and Bryan's Production Tips.


JUDGING


A panel including industry experts will judge first place and runner up. A People's Choice prize will go to the entry with the most public votes.

Film entries close 19th October 2012.
Public voting opens 1st December and ends 14th December 2012.


Panel judging opens 12th November and ends 23rd November 2012.

See Open Road Film Festival T&Cs for full details.


UP FOR GRABS

Film Competition winners will be notified by the 30th November 2012.
First Prize awarded by the judging panel:
Harley-Davidson® Iron 883™
Canon EOS-1D C (Body only)

Runner Up awarded by the judging panel:
1 Canon EOS-7D (Body & lens)

People's Choice Prize:
Canon EOS-5DMIII (body and lens)

Voting Public Prize
Members of the public who vote on their favourite Festival Entry and answer a simple question can win great prizes. The best answer will receive $4,000 in cash and a $1,000 H-D© Gift Card. The two next best answers will each receive a Canon 7D body and lens kit.

Voting public prize winners announced 18th December 2012 by email.
Eight Films. One Ending.
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Project Night train
Helmut
Christian Kennedy
Ricardo Skaff
The Queen of hearts
Nick McDougall

ABOUT THE FILM

By accident, two strange men meet in a dingy motel room. One is planning his own kidnapping, while the other is planning his own getaway.


PRODUCTION DETAILS

The movie was filmed on the Cannon C300 and cut on FCP


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DIRECTOR BIO

Nick McDougall is often described as a caucasian male who is quiet, seems normal and often keeps to himself. These are all descriptive terms commonly associated with serial killers. Nick would like to make it clear that he has never murdered anyone, and has no intention of doing so. Occasionally he edits TV shows for money and wins grants from the Open Road Film Festival.
The Queen of hearts
The Queen of Hearts (animation)
Nick McDougall
Jerry Zoumis
Helmut
Ricardo Skaff

ABOUT THE FILM

'Helmut' is a coming-of-age story of a boy born with a helmet for a head. It is a tale of what it's like to be different – the longing for purpose and identity... and the desire for a partner to share the ride...


PRODUCTION DETAILS

'Helmut' was shot entirely on Canon cameras, primarily the C300. With additional shots on a 5D- Mark III.


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DIRECTOR BIO

RICARDO SKAFF- an AFTRS graduate writer and director, with various shorts having screened both locally and internationally, including the Cannes 'Cinema des Antipodes' sidebar. He currently lives and works in Sydney.
Helmut
The Queen of hearts
Ricardo Skaff
Nick McDougall
The Queen of Hearts (animation)
Jerry Zoumis

ABOUT THE FILM

The Queen of Hearts is a (mostly) animated short film about desire, duality and betrayal. The setting is a surreal dreamscape where memory and fantasy are intertwined. As the dream unfolds, hidden motives are revealed, and the dreamer must wake up and face the truth.


PRODUCTION DETAILS

Original footage filmed on a 10 year old Panasonic NV-DS65 camcorder that was $60 from Cash Converters. The animation was done by rotoscope: all scenes were actually filmed and then each frame was drawn over using a drawing tablet. There are approximately 6,500 individually created frames of animation.


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DIRECTOR BIO

Jerry Zoumis is a freelance graphic designer and illustrator based in Geelong.
The Queen of Hearts (animation)
Something special
Jerry Zoumis
Christopher Stollery
Bombay Beach
Will Howarth

ABOUT THE FILM

A teenage girl spins a hula-hoop in her empty front yard. The land is flat, desolate - a place her drunkard father moved them to many years ago, to escape the rise of dangerous city ideas. A young man rolls into town on a motorbike. Instantly they fall in love. But a violent incident commits them to a life on the road


PRODUCTION INFO

Shot with an Australian cast & crew on location in Bombay Beach, California on a 5D mark III with Canon EF lenses.


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DIRECTOR BIO

Grant winner Will Howarth is a Sydney based actor/filmmaker, and a partner at production company Boulevard Film. Shortlisted in 2010 for the IF Rising Talent Award. He co-created “The Sellers” for MTV, which won the ONE80PROJECT in 2010. Howarth has also won the John Jameson Productions Screenplay Competition, and the People’s Choice Award at the Sydney 48hr Film Festival. Recently he was a finalist for the 2012 Heath Ledger Scholarship, and his latest feature script was shortlisted with Screen NSW for the 2013 Aurora Script Workshop.
Bombay Beach
Quick Shift
Will Howarth
Dean Kennedy
Something special
Christopher Stollery

ABOUT THE FILM

Boy meets girl, they fall in love. What are the odds? It's Harley hardly special.


PRODUCTION INFO

Shot on the 5Dmkiii and canon primes.


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DIRECTOR BIO

Christopher Stollery has worked extensively as an actor in theatre, film and television - most recently in Death of salesman at the theatre Royal and with Cate Blanchett in Gross und Klein at the Sydney Theatre and across Europe. He has also written and directed a number of short films including 'dik' which has won awards at over a dozen festivals around the world.
Something special
Hustled
Christopher Stollery
Dorje Swallow
Quick Shift
Dean Kennedy

ABOUT THE FILM

Jack O'Connell is an Irish lad looking for adventure in Australia. Leaving it to chance and a set of playing cards, he heads to Perth, a city on the West Coast. After a fortuitous meeting at the airport he sets off in high spirits only to be embroiled in a case of mistaken identity. Jack has no choice but to conti¬nue riding the adventure for as long as it lasts or until his true identity is discovered.


PRODUCTION DETAILS

Shot on location in Perth, Western Australia on Canon 5d m2, Canon 5dm3, Canon lenses; EF 50mm 1.4, EF 24 - 105mm f4, EF 70 - 300mm f4-5.6 Edited and graded in Final Cut Pro 7.


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DIRECTOR BIO

Dean Kennedy. - Writer/Director/Producer from Perth, WA. Years of backpacking the globe led to an interest in filmmaking. After being part of Sean Penn’s post Hurricane Katrina documentary in New Orleans, Dean was inspired to start filming his own journey across the Americas. In 2011 he formed Kennedyboy Productions with brother Christian. They had quick success with their first short, ‘Young Heart’, winning runner-up at Victoria's Peninsular film festival in 2012.
Quick Shift
Project Night train
Dean Kennedy
Christian Kennedy
Hustled
Dorje Swallow

ABOUT THE FILM

A motorcycle man returns to a bar to retrace his steps. He encounters strange characters who reveal clues to the night before. Finally he finds a woman he was unknowingly searching for, and leaves with her just as he remembers doing previously, at which point he wakes...


PRODUCTION DETAILS

We used the Canon 5d mark ii and 7d for this film, as well as a variety of lenses, lighting and camera equipment. We edited on Final Cut, and graded in a Da Vinci Suite, with the help of The Gingerbread Man post production.


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Dorje Swallow has only recently begun writing and directing, after years of working in the industry as an actor and voice over artist. He is a NIDA acting graduate, Murdoch University Film School, and John Curtin College of the Arts graduate. Swallow’s first completed short won the Jameson Hot Shots short film competition.
Hustled
The Queen of hearts
Dorje Swallow
Nick McDougall
Project Night train
Christian Kennedy

ABOUT THE FILM

An office clerk trapped in corporate monotony finds solace at the throttle of a thundering V-Twin Harley Davidson. He meets a stripper on a rebellious night out... only to discover she's a runaway bio-engineered humanoid drone. Cornered by the Eagle Corporation tasked with retrieving the drone, our hero is given a choice. Hunt her down, or be hunted.


PRODUCTION DETAILS

Cameras; Canon 5dm2, Canon 5dm3, Canon 7d, Canon 550d Canon lenses; EF 50mm 1.4, EF 24 - 105mm f4, EF 70 - 300mm f4-5.6 Edited in Final Cut Pro 7, graded in adobe after effects cs5


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DIRECTOR BIO

Christian Kennedy. - Writer/Director
Born in Perth, WA, 1982. After studying design at university Christian backpacked abroad for several years working as an Art Director. On returning to Australia and inspired with ideas, he began to pursue filmmaking as a career. Teaming up with brother Dean and directing ‘Young Heart’ their first short film in 2011, he hasn’t looked back.
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