South By Scooter Screens at the Adelaide Kids Film Festival

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Last Thursday I joined a sold-out audience of Primary School students at Adelaide Studios for a screening of South By Scooter at the third Adelaide Kids Film Festival.

AKFF was the first festival appearance by South By Scooter. Needless to say the whole experience was a lot of fun. Watching an audience of children enjoy my film was truly fantastic feedback.

The big unknown for me going into the festival was whether or not the kids would find the film funny, and whether it would be able to sustain their attention. I wondered if they might lose interest, especially during the more contemplative sequences such as 'Alone'. So I was absolutely thrilled to see the snowstorm and penguin sequences receive a big laugh, and to see the audience were genuinely engaged by the film!

It really was a treat seeing South By Scooter screened at AKFF. Hopefully this is just the beginning of South By Scooter's festival run! 

Flyer Design: Filmonik 7

About a month ago I screened South By Scooter  at Filmonik - the Melbourne cell of the worldwide Kino short film movement. South By Scooter was subsequently screened at Kino Sydney and I was invited to design the flyer for Filmonik 7.

I was inspired by colourful magazine ads from the 1990s to make something striking and fun. There's something so exciting about the colour in 90s commercial photography that is missing from the washed out, subdued, style that is popular today. 

This is what I came up with... 

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South By Scooter at the Adelaide Kids Film Festival

The Adelaide Kids Film Festival have published the program for their 2013 festival, and I'm really pleased to confirm that South By Scooter is amongst the selected films.

This November, South By Scooter will join a vibrant and varied selection of films at AKFF. If you're in Adelaide and interested in attending the screening, details and tickets are available here

South By Scooter will screen during Session 3 on Day 1 of the festival. 1pm Thursday November 14th at Adelaide Studios.

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Alister And Max Discuss Bond Song On TV!

Recently Alister Karl and I appeared on Channel 31 to plug our Melbourne Fringe Festival show Bond Song. Although Bond Song is now over, our 15 minutes of fame lives on. Check it out:

Alister Karl and Max Piantoni discuss their Melbourne Fringe Festival show Bond Song on Channel 31's The Comic Box. Original air date: 4/10/13 For more on Bondsong visit http://bondsong.weebly.com For more by Alister Karl head to http://alisterkarl.weebly.com As always Max can be found at http://maxpiantoni.com "Every Bond movie has a Bond song.....

Hopefully this is a little more inspiring than the time I advocated wagging school on the Channel 7 news...