AWARDS:
FAST PANTS - TIGHT CARS
• Audience Choice Award - Fitzroy Shorts 2004

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• Best Editing in an Australian Short Film - Flickerfest 2000
• SPAA Award for Most Resourceful Production - Flickerfest 2000
• Best Special Effects - St. Kilda Film Festival 2000
• Audience Choice Award - Watch My Shorts 1999
• Finalist - Nescafe Short Film Awards 1999

 

SCREENINGS:
FAST PANTS - TIGHT CARS
• 2005 SNOWYFest International Film Festival
• 2004 Fitzroy Shorts

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• 2005 The Short Film Show
• 2002 Perth International Film Festival
• 2002 In the Realm of the Senses
• 2000 Popcorn Taxi
• 2000 St. Kilda Film Festival
• 2000 Flickerfest Short Film Festival
• 2000 Jaffas down the aisle
• 1999 Watch My Shorts Film Festival
• 1999 Nescafe Short Film Awards

 

REVIEW:
DR GENIUS AND THE SECRET AGENT FORMULA
IF MAGAZINE ISSUE 19 NOVEMBER 1999
Blam! This one hits right on the kisser. This is great action filmmaking in the tradition of stuntmen directors Nash Edgerton and Kieran Darcy-Smith (Loaded). Difference is, this is a spoof. And it's funny.

This is not the first short to take the 1970s Mod Squad/Starsky & Hutch television genre and turn it into a post-modern action comedy - but it may be the best. The stunt work is truly excellent (several scenes left me wondering how the hell they did that), it's well shot and the acting stands up well. Good guys Charles Hollywood (yes, it's his real name) and Brian Sisko do a terrific job, and Roger Bottoms and Indigo Kaskayde are not far behind them as the formula-stealing baddies.

I'm not keen to glamourise the whole idea of 'no budget' filmmaking, but this film really deserves a special mention. I was looking through the production notes expecting to see a budget of a few hundred grand in this one. Nope $300.

The only criticism I have for this terrific pic is the gratuitous use of flaming After Effects (or whatever) on some of the scenes. This was the only give away of the budget. Otherwise brilliant.