Chrissy Kavanagh

We are now aiming to get $2000. Please help us if you can :-)

Love gets complicated when you invite someone else...

Once upon a simpler time Hugo and Katrina were childhood buddies, holding hands, playing catch and baking star shaped cookies for recess. Now they’re in their early 20s and making meaningful connections isn’t nearly so clear-cut. Katrina is stuck in her parents’ house and poor Hugo has a zero percent strike rate with the ladies. Both have turned to the scary cyberworld of the online meat market to hook a date.

They never expected to hook each other.

Over a few awkward, semi-disastrous hours Hugo and Katrina are going to attempt to rekindle their childhood romance. Of course it doesn’t help that Katrina is two thirds blind and one third klutzy with a defensive temper and a pottymouth on top, or that Hugo’s attempts to be Daniel Craig often come off more like Roger Moore ...or Norman Bates.

How can you help these hapless lovers?

With money of course! A Facebook 'Like' wouldn't go a stray either...

What will the money go towards?

The practical costs of production;

Camera Hire, Catering, Production Design, Lighting etc..

Why would we make such a film?

Dinner with Hugo is a quirky and quaint story, which shows a modern relationships fraught beginning. We want to make a film which is well acted, beautifully shot and depicts a simpler life and side of Australian film, which isn't all about gang lords and junkies.

We are compiling an experienced and wonderful crew and want to make this film a highly collaborative project, which everyone gets something out of. 

Who are we?

Alex and I are the dorky duo responsible for the cringe worthy images with cardboard hearts and bake goods to the left of the page... which inspire you or at least hope too inspire you to donate. Please....? Pretty please with cakes on top?

Aside from that I'm Chrissy Kavanagh the producer... This is my first time producing a short drama outside of the comfy confines of my Bachelor degree in Media. I'm also the associate producer on the short animation 'Donut Holes #2 ; Donut Gatherers' directed and animated by Robin Tatlow-Lord. When i'm not making films, I'm talking about them on a community radio show about the Aussie film industry called 'Behind the Screens' on Radio Adelaide, which is streamed online and podcasted. (www.behindthescreensradio.wordpress.com)

Alex Vickery-Howe has been pushing pens or rather keyboards for tirelessly and successfully as a writer, and is leaping into the directors chair with gusto for his story 'Dinner with Hugo'

He is an award winning playwright and emerging academic, in the final stages of aPhD thesis.In 2008 his play A Stab in the Dark was launched at the Adelaide Fringe Festival. Later that year his play Once Upon a Midnight a bilingual, bicultural rock musical toured to Okinawa, Japan, where it opened the Kijimuna Festival, Japan’s largest theatre festival for young people, and played to rave reviews and sell out houses. The show then moved to Australia to play at the Adelaide Oz Asia Festival garnering both critical and popular acclaim, selling out before rehearsals had even begun. 

In 2010 he was commissioned by Southern Youth Theatre Ensemble and IMPACT to write Retaliation a sci-fi fantasy which earned an Adelaide Critics Circle nomination and the attention of international producers with two new productions now in the works. That same year his play The Bank Job was picked up and translated by a popular Japanese theatre company to be performed in 2011/2012. Alex’s latest stage production Molly's Shoes, commissioned by the South Australian Youth Arts Board under the Independent Arts Foundation New Writing Award, will open in May 2011 performed by award winning company Accidental Productions. Alex was recently commissioned to write a novelisation of Once Upon a Midnight.

The Stars...

Tim Smith will play the hapless hugo. He graduated from Flinders University Drama Centre in 2009, where he developed his acting abilities for stage and screen. During his time at university Tim played a variety of different roles, including Sean and Mark from Louis Nowra’s The Jungle, George from Janis Balodis’s Wet and Dry, Benjamin Cohen from Steve Martin’s The Underpants and A from Sarah Kane’s Crave. He also had the opportunity to work under the direction of Michael Hill on the debut production of Clinchfield, an award winning play by Caleb Lewis. Since graduating Tim has played a multitude of roles for Accidental Productions in shows including Just Douglas, Bred To Perfection and The Graduates. He recently performed to critical acclaim in their production of Molly's Shoes by Alex Vickery-Howe.Television credits include Channel 9’s McLeod’s Daughters and BankSA Crimestoppers.