Corey Donaldson

The Great Champ Fernley will be shot in Brisbane. It’s written and directed by Josh and Thomas Calder, and produced by Grace Julia.

This is Josh and Thomas:


And this is Grace:


To learn more about our cast and crew and to keep up to date with the film’s progress, please ‘like’ us on Facebook. If you’d like to see some of our previous work as a team, check out ‘Heavy Lifting’ on the Tinker website here.

Making a film isn’t cheap! Fortunately, we have an amazing team on board who will mostly be donating their time to the project, but we will still have a lot of expenses… and this is where you come in!

Your generous contributions will help us to pay for:
- Our exceptionally talented cast and crew
- Period production and costume design
- Make-up and prosthetics
- Locations
- Catering
- Camera and lens hire, sound recording equipment, lighting, grip gear
- Logistics transport expenses
- Post production - sound and music composition, editing, colour grading
- And boring things like office expenses!

The Great Champ Fernley is a funny story that captures the essence of adolescence and friendship: Lawrence ‘Champ’ Fernley is a 13 year old boy who lives in his own world and doesn’t feel the normal social pressures of his age. While his friends struggle with girls, school and adolescence, Lawrence is more concerned with other planets, aliens and all things science fiction. One night after school Lawrence finds a note on a rock thrown through his bedroom window. The note is written in a language Lawrence recognises from an original copy of his favourite science fiction comic book. He deciphers the letter which has a startling message: "Meet me at the water tower 8:04pm Friday night.” Realising he's been contacted by aliens, Lawrence spends the next few days excitedly preparing for his own personal 'close encounter'.

We've been working together as a team for some time now, so here's us on set, doing what we love:

The Boys on the set of The Trouble with Templeton's "Soldiers":

Brendan, Grace, Josh and Tom on set of The Trouble with Templeton's "Soldiers":
Tom on the set of The Trouble with Templeton's "Soldiers":

Josh on the set of The Trouble with Templeton's "Heavy Lifting":