By updated: 22/07/08
Thinking about YouTube and video websites, I forgot to mention to you all that in late 2005 a friend of mine by the name of Brendan Walsh and I did a short film for the Australian TropFest competition for 2006. Out of about 700 entries we were shortlisted to 70 in what was called the ‘Best Of The Rest‘ but alas we did not go on to make the final 16.
The short was titled ‘Hans Up! Buai O Laip Blong Yu! (Hands Up! Your Betelnut Or Your Life!) and we even got to show it at the Port Moresby Arts Theatre in 2006. You can see a web version of it on the Portable Film Festival website. You will have to register to view the film, but it’s a pretty straight forward process to see it. Click on the image below or on the ‘Log In To Watch’ button below and follow the instructions and please leave your comments too.
(You might recognise Chef Golonzo below from the Haus & Home show on EMTV, who also acts in the film. The car we held up in the short was supplied by none other than our good mate Danger)
We also had the movie screened in Berlin at the Berlin Asia Pacific Film Festival, you can see it listed on page 19 of this PDF and it was also shown in Sydney at the Popcorn Taxi screening.
But if you want a copy and you live in Port Moresby let us know and I can burn you a copy. We are currently thinking of a new storyline for this year.
Let us know if you have any thoughts on our sequel, we are thinking of shooting the next one with the same characters but in Australia.
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March 15, 2007 at 11:07 am
Tanim - an award winning film from PNG « the Masalai blog
[...] Shame on me! While I’ve been harping on about my Tropfest Short Film, I completely forgot to tell everyone about a more prominent and award winning film that a good [...]
October 25, 2007 at 12:15 pm
CHM the Hypocrites! « the Masalai blog
[...] a couple of hours ago CHM played my movie “Hans Up, Betelnut or Your Life!” on their show on Hitron’s Channel 9. Now what the fuck is that??!!! Who the hell gave [...]
July 22, 2008 at 5:26 am
Robert@PNG
Speaking of buai…
I wrote a short story a couple of years which made it into one the local papers. It was titled: “Living the PNG way”. The story is about how I got spot fined a couple of years back for spitting buai down at the main markets whilst waiting for a PMV on our way up to the Highlands.
The story can be found at:
http://www.trupela.com/blog/2006/07/30/my-letter-to-the-national-got-published/
R
September 20, 2008 at 1:46 am
How to get your videos on Kundu 2 « the Masalai blog
[...] film partner and I will also be going through the same process for our ‘Hans Up Buai O Laip Blong Yu” film. So we both will now have to sit down and work out how we will Invoice the NTS, be it a [...]