I have been making music videos as a director of the collective Krozm for 3 and a half years and recently I have worked doing motion design at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, as well as working part time for the Anti Racism Action Band a part of the Victorian Arabic Social Services helping young musicians achieve their goals by performing live shows around Melbourne.

Now I have made my first self funded short film: Attack of Shivers. The film is about a Frenchman and his strange life changing experience during an earthquake. The film was shot with the help of a bunch of friends all putting in a great deal of time and effort! At the moment the film's sound design is being finished partly in Lismore, Northern NSW and partly here in Melbourne. There is also an animated sequence in the film which is being hand drawn by a friend in Thailand.

At the moment I am seeking support of $2000.00 AUD to finish the project. This funding will help provide a token payment to a few people involved in the project's post production, as well as importantly allow the project to be professionally colour graded at a studio in Melbourne and transferred to formats for distribution.

The remaining funds will allow printing DVD copies of the film as well as go into paying for submission fees into Film Festivals both nationally and internationally.

Attack of Shivers is my first narrative based short film, with which I hope to gain entry to film festivals which in turn is a prerequisite to apply for several film directing internships and attachments to productions and progress as a director.

Please feel free to email me to watch a draft edit of the film or to have a more detailed synopsis of the project emailed to you.

Thanks for reading, and I hope you will play a small supportive part of turning Attack of Shivers into a finished short film.

My work as a writer and director can be seen here: http://www.emacleod.com and my blog is on tumblr: http://emacleod.tumblr.com/

Thanks,

Ewan MacLeod, February 2011.

Email: [email protected]

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