PINCH is a feature film by multi award winning Australian Writer/Director/Producer Jeffory Asselin.

GENRE
Coming of age crime drama.

SYNOPSIS
A light-fingered teen living in industrial suburbia struggles in the shadow of his Mother’s desperate need for an organ donor. When he skips school to take a job at a second hand car yard he soon uncovers a front for a local crime syndicate. Convinced he can buy his Mother a second chance at life, he schemes to pinch a large drug haul, but soon discovers life sinking from naive penny pinching to the abyss of major crime.

DIRECTORS NOTE
I always had this idea about a bunch of kids who set out on a big adventure to rip off some bad guys. Who cares about dirty money and who would suspect the kids anyway right? In November 2012 an opportunity came knocking to shoot a micro budget feature length film armed with merely a few trusted heads of department and a troupe of eager postgraduate film students. Of course I accepted but soon realised I was going to have to harness my inner bogan and hustle like a street punk to pull this film off. So without batting an eyelid I threw on my directors cape and PINCH spawned on the page.

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We are raising funds to market our film to the international Film Festival circuit in 2015. For those not in the industry, festival entries alone for a feature film are on average $100 per entry. So the funds we are raising are exclusively for marketing and festival entry fees so we can get our project out there and attract potential distributers.

The irony so far is I have personally battled alongside the films dysfunctional characters and their plights to get this film made. One of the stronger themes resonating from the film is the fight for survival and that desperation can lead us to do anything. I experienced this fight during seven weeks of principle photography and twelve months of postproduction.

Now the passion is in the pudding of this beautifully shot and well executed film that was assisted by an equally passionate cast and crew. We are now at the back end of an almost completed film and will be ready to start our festival campaign in January 2015.

So we need you and little help from Father Christmas to get us over the line.