BIG BAD WOLVES
(13 min) (Black Comedy/Horror/Fantasy)
A mash-up between Quentin Tarantino and The Brothers Grimm, fairy-tales will never be the same again....
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I just wanted to let everyone know that after two years of doing the festival circuits and television airplay, my 13-minute long, award-winning, short film entitled "BIG BAD WOLVES" is officially online!
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"BIG BAD WOLVES" depicts a conversation between five mobsters, passing the time drinking and smoking in a restaurant, which slowly leads to one of the gangsters suggesting that the story of Little Red Riding Hood is actually about the importance of sex education (in the same way Quentin Tarantino's character in "Reservoir Dogs" suggests that the Madonna song "Like a Virgin" is about a particularly violent sexual encounter). The other mobsters think he's out of his mind, so the narrating mobster begins to re-tell the story as he believes it originally existed, before it was "censored" and "cleansed" for young children. What follows is a dark journey into the mythology, fantasy and the heart of the human psyche, where pure evil lurks and waits to rob us all of our innocence.
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"BIG BAD WOLVES" is a hilarious and disturbing experience that will have you alternating between laugh-out-loud comedy and thought-provoking questions on morality and the fabrics of our own society.
The film was shot in 2005 and released to festivals in 2006. It costed approximately $10,000US and was shot on Mini-DV format on the Sony DSR-300s series. It was shot entirely on location in Auckland, New Zealand.
Among its prominent awards were nabbing the "BEST DIRECTOR" award at the Ohakune Big Mountain Film Festival in 2006 and "MOST PROMISING FILMMAKER" at the Rotorua Magma Film Festival.
This movie has been rated in New Zealand as R16 - contains excessive offensive language, horror violence and brief nudity. Viewer discretion is strongly advised.
WATCH THE TRAILER:
Low Resolution (YouTube)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wexv-HtjFE8
WATCH THE FILM:
Medium Resolution (Facebook - membership to Facebook required, it's completely free)
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=11163180989
High Resolution (Vimeo - streaming and downloadable DIVX version)
http://www.vimeo.com/769224
Enjoy and feel free to post any responses or critiques!
