Our last meeting was visited by local filmmaker Rob Abercrombie, who\’s looking for writers to work with on a new project across the summer – here\’s a quick note of what he\’s looking for:
Hello all, we plan to make a professional short film to be shot before the end of the summer. We have a £5k budget for a short film(s) that we could possibly shoot in the East Midlands region with the aim of entering it in to the high-tier festival circuit.
The kinds of stories/short scripts we are looking for will hopefully share some of the qualities below:
1. Genres: fiction, psychological drama, combined with elements from another genre e.g. social/political, crime, film noir, thriller, action, horror and sci-fi.
2. Characters who possibly live on the “fringes” of society due to their profession, ethnicity, gender, age, class, disability, mental health and beliefs/values. They may inhabit a world unfamiliar to most.
3. Conflicts that preferably explore both the protagonist’s inner-conflict and external conflict with personal relationships, individuals, and/or institutions that forces them to act.
4. Themes: identity, family, grief and loss, human condition, moral relativism.
A story example of interest to us would be a family drama involving a crime, or a horror that explores vengeance, grief and loss etc.
Please contact us if you’re interested in collaborating or already have some ideas, fully formed or not, that you believe could make a quality short film. We can sort out copyright, contractual obligations and a deferred payment once a project(s) brief has been agreed upon.
Our email address is: drabercrombie2015@gmail.com
We look forward to hearing from you,
Regards, David and Robert Abercrombie, Filmmakers
