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The Knackery: Budget 100 pounds!
Wednesday, Sep 16, 2009 10:08PM / Standard Entry / Members only
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Maverick Irish Film-Maker George Clarke first popped onto the radar with the award winning 'Battle of the Bone', the original and still 'the greatest Irish martial arts zombie movie ever made!'

The trials and tribulations of making that film can be found on the documentary supplemental materials on the 'Battle of the Bone' DVD, or online at http://www.youtube.com/user/yellowfeverbelfast

Now for the first Yellow Fever Independent Film Festival held recently in Belfast, Clarke set himself and his team a seemingly impossible challenge to script, shoot, and edit a full length feature within 4 weeks to screen at the end of the festival..and to make things just that little bit more challenging...with a budget of ONE HUNDRED POUNDS!

The film became 'The Knackery' and we'll let the films tag line explain it all....

6 Contestants,

A Million Pounds

And a shitload of zombies!

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJVOVPwO3I0

I'll be running a full review of the film in an upcoming issue of Impact www.impactmoviemagazine.co.uk, but for now i will say one thing its as entertaining as f*ck!

And hopefully George and his team will soon get the support that will take them to the enxt level....for more on the festival log onto: http://theyfiff.ning.com/

There will be a full report on the festival in the next issue of Impact...and submissions for next years festival are already open..more info on the website...and of course any interested sponsors are more than welcome to drop me a line and i'll put them in touch with George and his team

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leomonkey
posted on Friday, Sep 18, 2009 2:19PM [Report]

good on em. a budget of 100 pounds means there is no budget for wirefu (woohoo!)
4eVeRdAyDrEaMeR
posted on Friday, Sep 18, 2009 12:44PM [Report]

Cool... action film...!!

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i was born or quite possibly hatched an increasingly long time ago in a galaxy far far away, Croydon and a more treacherous hive of scum and villainy you'd be hard pressed to find.

Despite being a somewhat clueless and naive fellow, I managed to mostly survive several years of very bad haircuts, a complete lack of both common and fashion sense, the UK education system and even a few years of the old 9-5 before a drunken game of monopoly led me to Hong Kong in 1990. And I've pretty much been here ever since, and I think i like it!

I work as a Casting Director for a lot of projects, credits include "Fearless", "Rush Hour 3", "Phoo Action", "Blood Last Vampire", and did some work for Baz Lurhmans upcoming "Australia" starring Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman and the great Yuen Wah. Spent a good chunk of 2007 working on "The Mummy Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" directed by Rob Cohewn, working on the Action unit with the great Vic Armstrong.

Also done a lot of Line Production and Production work for a number of other projects including "The Bodyguard:A New Begining" with Cary Tagawa & Richard Ng, "Underground", "The White Wall", "The Art of Action: Martial Arts in the Movies" amongst other projects.

Also edit Impact magazine www.impactmoviemagazine.co.uk covering the action movie & Tv industry around the world, with an emphasis on Asian Cinema

as well as contributing to a bunch of other magazines, and have done a lot of DVD extras for such companies as Hong Kong Legends, Premier Asia, Dragon Dynasty, Media Blasters and other companies.

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