Crowd-funded short film secures Sam Worthington as Ep
A new Australian short film using crowd-funding platform Pozible has received investment from Australian actor Sam Worthington.
The project, Scratch, written and produced by Rachael Turk, is based on her own family’s life experiences with child allergies.
Directed by Danielle Boesenberg, it is co-produced by Sam Meikle, writer on All Saints, Wild Boys, Crownies and Home and Away with Claudia Karvan cast in the lead role.
The project, which sat at $8,000 earlier today received a $20,000 investment from Worthington this afteroon, taking the film’s target beyond its $25,000 goal, to $28,331.
The investment marks Worthington as an ‘Angel Investor’ and gives him and executive producer title on the film for providing over $10,000.
The film is budgeted at $60,000.
Turk, who’s day job is development executive for drama at Southern Star where Karvan is a producer, told Encore: “Claudia is not working for the rates she might normally command, but there’s...
The project, Scratch, written and produced by Rachael Turk, is based on her own family’s life experiences with child allergies.
Directed by Danielle Boesenberg, it is co-produced by Sam Meikle, writer on All Saints, Wild Boys, Crownies and Home and Away with Claudia Karvan cast in the lead role.
The project, which sat at $8,000 earlier today received a $20,000 investment from Worthington this afteroon, taking the film’s target beyond its $25,000 goal, to $28,331.
The investment marks Worthington as an ‘Angel Investor’ and gives him and executive producer title on the film for providing over $10,000.
The film is budgeted at $60,000.
Turk, who’s day job is development executive for drama at Southern Star where Karvan is a producer, told Encore: “Claudia is not working for the rates she might normally command, but there’s...
- 6/14/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
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