Bryan Brown and Gregor Jordan announce Open Road Film Festival
A new short film competition created by a prominent Australian director is asking film-makers to create the beginning of a film which already has an ending.
The Open Road Film Festival, sponsored, with naming rights, by Harley Davidson, was created by Two Hands and Ned Kelly director, Gregor Jordan.
Jordan, who shot the final moments of the film called The Queen of Hearts which is billed as a film-noir, likens the competition model to Tropfest.
Jordan told Encore: “We’re hoping it will be an annual event. Tropfest has its prop each year to make sure all films are made exclusively for Tropfest, and ours is probably taking this one step further.
Parts of my brain lit up when reading this.
Interesting idea for a short film festival… only thing is if you don’t win, aren’t you left with a useless (half a) short film? At least with other festivals like tropfest, you can still enter it into other contests.
it’s way to advertise HD LOL
I personally find this clip (though somewhat rudimentary) a very good way to start a film. Maybe they should be getting people to write the end and use this clip as the start.
Much more promising to start a story with a card and a key than to finish one.
My working title is “Black Stig and the Red Queen”