Hello fellow STRAYS!

Thanks for taking the time to check out the campaign! I'm incredibly excited to share my new short film with you lot! It's shaping up to be a most promising film indeed and we have huge hopes for its success in the future. I had actually intended to shoot STRAYS two years ago as my debut short film, but for financial reasons had to post-pone it. Instead, I made my much more simple, one-location short YESTERDAY'S NEWS which went on to tour the film festival circuit in the U.S.A and won me a Director's Choice award last September. Thankfully, those extra years in film limbo, gave me time to really work out the story I wanted to tell and the script for STRAYS tightened and developed into a piece of work that most find quite touching and that I am incredibly proud of.

The production of the film is now complete, and was shot over 5 consecutive days in my small hometown of Bacchus Marsh in early February and we are now well into the post-production process, with very pleasing results so far!

As this was my first film since Graduating the Bachelor of Film and Television at Swinburne University, no equipment was provided and to this point, the entire film's budget has been self-funded by myself from work savings. However, I am now looking for some outside help to ensure the film can reach it's full potential! Anything you could spare would go very far in helping this film reach its full potential and will ultimately further the career of the cast and crew. Thanks very much guys! Much love.

-Steve Tandy
Writer/Director/Co-Producer/Co-Editor, STRAYS




THE FILM

STRAYS is set in a small suburban town in the Western Suburbs of Victoria and focuses on two young outcasts, Riley and Ruby, who after a chance encounter, get caught up in each other’s lives full of shame, revenge, regret and violence, but attempt to give each other hope along the way. Please have a look at these purposefully ambiguous teaser trailers, to see the potential this film is having already! Note, these trailers only show the low quality, un-graded footage.

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Films are expensive and the money adds up fast! The following still needs to be funded before STRAYS can even be seen by a wide audience.

-A professional full sound mix and design by a Melbourne production house ($3500)
-Recording and equipment costs used in original soundtrack ($300)
-A professional colour grading at a Melbourne grading suite ($1000)
-Duplication and printing of DVD and Blu-Rays for film festival submission ($200)
-Film festival submissions costs to dozens of National and International short film festivals ($600)
-Marketing and promotion costs ($400)

The obstacles for this post-production are that if we do not reach target we will have to compromise the quality of our post-production and therefore the film. We will have to get a unprofessional sound mixing and design, do it yourself colour grades,  and limited film festivals entries. Given the potential that the film is already showing, it would be a massive disappointment to have to compromise the vision of the film.