We’re pleased to announce that George Jones and the Giant Squid will have its UK premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival which runs from 20 June to 1 July. The festival is renowned around the world for discovering and promoting the very best in international cinema. As Scotland is no stranger to mysterious underwater beasts, we feel it will be a fitting locale for Old Bertie to make his UK debut. Check the website for details: http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/

Old Bertie continues his tour of the West as George Jones and the Giant Squid screens during Flickerfest’s WA run. It’s showing along with Best of International 1, hitting Broome on Friday the 9th and Margaret River on Saturday the 10th. Local townsfolk can catch a glimpse of this normally elusive beast by checking details here for Broome or here for Margs.

George Jones and the Giant Squid will screen in Perth when Flickerfest hits WA in March.

The film plays with the ‘Best of Australian (on tour)’ programme, on Thursday, 1st of March, at Camelot Outdoor Cinema, Mosman Park.

The screening starts at 8.15pm, and includes a range of great Australian short films. We’ll be there at the bar, so come on down and buy us a drink!

Our short film George Jones and the Giant Squid has been officially selected for the Flickerfest International Short Film Festival 2012 Australian Competition.

Flickerfest is Australia’s leading and only Academy® accredited and BAFTA recognised international short film festival. This year an unprecedented 2200 entries were received. 45 Australian films have been chosen for official competition representing the most innovative, creative and cutting edge short films that Australia has to offer.

The festival runs from 6th to 15th of January at Bondi Pavillion, Sydney, before touring nationally. Come on down and check it out.

Here’s a little preview of George Jones and the Giant Squid, our new short film.

George Jones and the Giant Squid will have its Australian premiere on Thursday July 21 at the Revelation Perth International Film Festival.

The film draws on the legend of Old Bertie, a fearsome gargantuan squid, and tells the tale of a young boy who, after the disappearance of his mother, risks everything to hunt for the beast.

The screenplay was awarded $70 000 in production funding through the ScreenWest/FTI Hyperlink initiative. Shot in and around Fremantle in January, the film was produced by Ella Wright and features a stellar cast of WA’s top actors including Geoff Kelso, Luke Hewitt, Alison Van Reeken and Greg McNeil.

The film will screen along with other Western Australian shorts as part of Revelation Film Festival’s Get Your Shorts On! programme. The screening, usually a sell out event, kicks off at 7pm on Thursday July 21 at the Astor Cinema. Tickets are $17 / $14 Conc and can be purchased through all Bocs outlets (including the Astor) or online at www.bocsticketing.com.au/

We’ve been busy in the last few months, completing principal photography and post-production on our new film George Jones and the Giant Squid. The film was funded through the highly competitive ScreenWest/FTI Hyperlink initiative, and will screen later in the year.

Many thanks to our excellent cast and crew for their great work.

Greetings citizens.

To those of you who have been wondering where we have been for the last few months, we wish to thank you for your many letters of enquiry and support, and also for the countless parcels of rations and dry biscuits that you have sent. Your generosity has sustained us during our often fraught attempts to repair our badly damaged steamboat. We are happy to announce that we have made good progress, and that the vessel is almost sea-worthy.

However, our records indicate that some citizens have been inconsistent with their offerings to Old Bertie. While sightings of the squid have been few in the past year, we remind each of you that complacency will lead only to ruin. Bertie may yet again reveal himself, and so we leave you with this one vitally important question:

Have you made your offering to Old Bertie today?

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Photograph by Miles Noel ©2010

We are pleased to announce that our screenplay for George Jones and the Giant Squid has been awarded the annual HyperLink grant from ScreenWest and FTI.

The highly competitive fund is offered to one project each year, and aims to assist a Western Australian creative team to develop their skills to professional industry standards.

George Jones and the Giant Squid will be produced by Ella Wright, with principal photography scheduled for January 2011. The team are looking forward to getting nautical.