Urban Street Survivor
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Okay, so the title may sound a bit like a spin-off video game from the Street Fighter series but this low budget film has got my attention. Mainly because I got to go on set while they were shooting the promo on the Gold Coast yesterday but still . . .
Here’s the low down on Urban Street Survivor:
The film centres around a 15-year-old street kid called Mouth who ran away from an orphanage at the age of 11. Using his cunning Mouth manages to survive on the rough streets and avoid attention from several of the racial gangs which rule the surrounding area. Eventually he’s taken in by a reformed gang leader who offers him and other street kids an alternative to the violent gang life through channelling their anger in to self defence classes. But a music concert on the border of several rival gang territories brings tensions to a head and threatens the future of the boys. Brisbane lad Hamish Irvin plays Mouth and was discovered by the writer/director/producer Stuart Freeman at the Australian Academy of Acting when he was working there last month. Freeman has got Hamish to do a cockney accent for the role (just because he can) and apparently the young up and comer is so good, he’s going to be a ‘massive international star in the future’. Freeman and long time writing buddy Nick Pendragon penned the script for Urban Street Survivor which is one of five they are presenting to studio executives in America later this month. For those of you who are not familiar with Freeman’s work he was the first assistant director on Aussie films The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and Mad Max III. Originally hailing from the UK, he now lives on the Gold Coast and has been busy trying to boost the profile of the local film industry. Freeman just finished shooting a short film for the annual In The Bin Short Film Festival about the devastating affects land mines can have on communities long after a war is over. The film is called `Red Ribbon’ and was shot at the West Burleigh quarry in a bid to make the set look like somewhere in Iraq or Afghanistan. If any where on the Gold Coast could look like a dusty, war ravaged, deserty hole then it’s West Burleigh quarry so mission accomplished. Freeman is also shooting majority of Urban Street Survivor on the Gold Coast too like yesterday, for example, when he used Benowa skater Max Morphett to shoot some of the skate board scenes at Pizzey Park. Miami state primary school also let Freeman use the grounds to film eight leather-clad women on Harley’s fangin' it through the school. Meow. Stay posted for more Urban Street Survivor updates and news on what Stuart Freeman and the gang are up to next.
Here’s the low down on Urban Street Survivor:
The film centres around a 15-year-old street kid called Mouth who ran away from an orphanage at the age of 11. Using his cunning Mouth manages to survive on the rough streets and avoid attention from several of the racial gangs which rule the surrounding area. Eventually he’s taken in by a reformed gang leader who offers him and other street kids an alternative to the violent gang life through channelling their anger in to self defence classes. But a music concert on the border of several rival gang territories brings tensions to a head and threatens the future of the boys. Brisbane lad Hamish Irvin plays Mouth and was discovered by the writer/director/producer Stuart Freeman at the Australian Academy of Acting when he was working there last month. Freeman has got Hamish to do a cockney accent for the role (just because he can) and apparently the young up and comer is so good, he’s going to be a ‘massive international star in the future’. Freeman and long time writing buddy Nick Pendragon penned the script for Urban Street Survivor which is one of five they are presenting to studio executives in America later this month. For those of you who are not familiar with Freeman’s work he was the first assistant director on Aussie films The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and Mad Max III. Originally hailing from the UK, he now lives on the Gold Coast and has been busy trying to boost the profile of the local film industry. Freeman just finished shooting a short film for the annual In The Bin Short Film Festival about the devastating affects land mines can have on communities long after a war is over. The film is called `Red Ribbon’ and was shot at the West Burleigh quarry in a bid to make the set look like somewhere in Iraq or Afghanistan. If any where on the Gold Coast could look like a dusty, war ravaged, deserty hole then it’s West Burleigh quarry so mission accomplished. Freeman is also shooting majority of Urban Street Survivor on the Gold Coast too like yesterday, for example, when he used Benowa skater Max Morphett to shoot some of the skate board scenes at Pizzey Park. Miami state primary school also let Freeman use the grounds to film eight leather-clad women on Harley’s fangin' it through the school. Meow. Stay posted for more Urban Street Survivor updates and news on what Stuart Freeman and the gang are up to next.
Director Stuart Freeman shooting scenes for Urban Street Survivor at Pizzey Park skate park, Miami yesterday.
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