Bridget Curran

When did you last curl up on the couch to watch a horror story that makes your heart jump and pulls at your heartstrings- all at the same time?

Ferals is a zombie coming of age story. This web series explores the struggles of a family coming to terms with a pandemic that tears them apart.

In this radical take on the Zombie genre, we treat the condition as a terminal illness. People don’t die and reanimate, they get sick and deteriorate. Once a person is bitten it takes months for the infection to become full blown and in the mean time they have lucid days, bad days and everything in between.

Our web series tells the story of a family on holidays and the journey they make to get back home during the opening days of a pandemic. Dad, Mum, Tam (19) and Brie (6) abruptly end their holiday as sickness spreads and the world goes haywire.

Can you imagine caring for a friend, a mother, a sister, a lover- sheltering, protecting them one day, when the next day they'll attack you and you have to fight for your life?

It's time to re-invigorate the zombie genre. It's time to give zombies back their bite!

OR at least that's the plan- we need your help to make this series.

The Feral People Who Make it Awesome

Simon Akkerman ACS- Cinematographer

During Simon’s 41 year career as a cinematographer, he has worked on many wild assignments. These include documenting the last unexplored region in the World, the Maliue Basin, Sabah, Malaysia. Other assignments included the filming of the storm waters for the Peter Weir movie, Master and Commander the Far Side of the World. Simon was also Camera Operator and 2nd Unit Director of Photography on Windrider, a film shot in 1985, starring a very young nineteen year old Nicole Kidman. Shortly thereafter he shot the twin cult films, The Strike of the Panther and The Day of the Panther. In later years, he was Director of Photography on a number of series such as Fast Tracks, Streetsmartz, Wormwood, the multi award winning Stormworld and the multi award winning short Betrand the Terrible.In Indonesia Simon was Guru and Director of Photography on a series called Dua Sisi Mata Uang, based on the Dallas series. As a fully accredited member of the Australian Cinematographers Society, he proudly carries the initials ACS behind his name and serves the Society as a long term committee member.

Andy Fraser – Fight Director

Andy is a fully certified Fight Director and Stage Combat Instructor holding accreditation from both the Society of Australian Fight Directors and the British Academy of Dramatic Combat. Andy’s company, Stage Combat Perth, is the premier provider of stage combat solutions to the entertainment industry in W.A. with services including Fight Direction & Choreography, Instruction & Training, Weapon Hire and Events & Performances.

Since emigrating to Perth in 2001, Andy has worked for a variety of companies including Black Swan State Theatre Company, Perth Theatre Company, Deckchair Theatre, Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company, Barking Gecko, Shakespeare WA, Buzz Dance, WA Opera, Happy Dagger Theatre and numerous independents.

Screen credits include Lockie Leonard, Human Torpedo; The Shark Net; Teesh & Trude and various short films and TV commercials. Andy teaches at several institutions including W.A.A.P.A., Curtin University, Central Institute of Technology, Principal Academy of Dance and Total Theatre Training.

Production photo by John Green. Prayer to an Iron God, Deckchair Theatre. Courtesy of Andy Fraser

Special Donation Offer: Get in quick to be one of the First Feral TOP 40:

The first feral 40 donors (regardless of donation size) will get:

A) Special “First Feral 40” thank you credit on all 3 webisodes

B) A personally autographed digital cast photo