Directing the Dingleberry

or My Annual To Hobart - Taswegia
Starting to think that I should be an honorary Tasmanian or given the keys to the city or something like that. For the last five years I've been heading down South at least once a year to contribute to the short film industry of Van Deiman's Land in the capacity of first assistant director.

2007 Sound Blocks Pain (Poly MaGee)
2007 Free Fall (Jane Binning)
2009 Room at the Top of the Stairs (Bryony Kidd)
2010 Thicker than Water (Dan Speed)
2011 A Quiet Tomorrow (Matt Tucker)

and 2012 Dingleberry & Angel Cake.....but this time as Director!

The common factor in all of these has been Dom Hurley, initially as Production Manager, once as 2nd AD and for the last three as Producer.

There's Dom in the middle, she also wrote Dingleberry (hence the concern) Sara Cooper is on the right

Dingleberry is life pulling a mother (Sara Cooper) in all directions, it's a slice of life, a short tale of how it happened 'one day'. Within 5mins of returning from the party pickup she (mum) has nature calling, J'hovs at the door, Hubby on the phone, the dog farting, balloons popping and her son stuck with a toileting incident.
"mum I've got a Dingleberry"
We hope you piss yourself too because it's a comedy.
and it's aimed squarely at Tropfest and that is one thing I thought I would never do?

Another common factor with these Tassie films is the camera crew, though not on all of them, Simon Gray has been DP and Tom Waugh has been cam assist (Tom DP'd  A Quiet Tomorrow). It is their skill in the craft that allows us all to get to this extremely funny stage where we all get on and have a great laugh whilst achieving the shots. It really is good fun and this is important because some of the situations we have found ourselves in have been so shitful that if this lighter side was absent I think we all may have just died.
Outside Launceston, middle of winter, past midnight, in torrential rain and literally past our ankles in mud whilst shooting two brothers in a ute one needed to look on the bright side of life.
Shooting greenscreen on a beach whilst not quite blowing a gale but having a little boy fly who couldn't seem to jump more than three inches of the ground needed to have a lighter outlook on the situation. and there have been others but the point being that these guys have made these moments fun and at the very least bearable. And I think this is why I keep coming back and they are good at what they do, which is vital.

Simon Grey DP extraordinaire!

  Rogan and Dom (the Producers) are raising funds with a Pozible campaign for the post on this one and the next, which is called Angel Cake (a later post). We all chip in our time on these ones but it gets really hard to pull in freebies for post, especially grading and sound design/mixing, so there is an appeal out to the greater public for any philanthropic type peoples out there. Especially lovers of short film, comedy or Tasmania.
Please help if you are that way inclined

Jamie, Tom, Simon and Matt stuck in the toilet with a Dingleberry!