Trailer:
Logline:
It isn’t easy being a writer, lost in your own world with girlfriends to maintain and sexy lodgers to deal with…
Synopsis:
Jack is a struggling writer who takes in a sexy lodger to pay the bills. She slowly starts to move in on his life and their relationship begins to spin out of control.
Director’s Statement
Scribblings deals with an issue within creativity itself, namely how lost do I have to be to find what I am creating? Any creative and especially writers, often lose themselves once an imaginative work is in progress. The only questions are how far will the writer disappear down the rabbit hole? And will the writer be changed or the same when they return?
Production Information
Title: Scribblings
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Date of Completion: July 2015
Country of Production: South Africa
Running Time: 10 Minutes (10:39)
Language: English
Aspect Ratio: 16×9
Sound Format: Stereo
Shooting Format: Sony F55 1920×1080 HD SR Codec 4:4:4
Screener Formats Vimeo Private Link, DVD
Screening Formats: DCP (pending), DVD, Quicktime ProRes, MPEG4
(NTSC and PAL) and Blu Ray (PAL)
Film Website: www.sinkwaproductions.tv
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTrWqQ0DPzg
Production Stills
A selection of production stills can be downloaded from dropbox, https://www.dropbox.com/sh/k6jb0scbd8qerct/AABLC9hutqOa-nql8-5aLiyya?dl=0
CAST:
The Writer – Francis Chouler
Francis is a South African born actor who first came to international attention in the 2010 Bollywood action film Crook: It’s Good to be Bad, where he played the
lead antagonist opposite Emraan Hashmi.
Francis appears as Jack Cleary in fellow South African and Academy Award Winner Gavin Hood’s thriller Eye in the Sky (2015), opposite Alan Rickman and Helen Mirren which opened Toronto International Film Festival in September 2015. In Television he plays Lt Perkins in Season 3 of Starz’ pirate drama Black Sails (2014) to air January 2016.
Viva – Chi Mhende
Chiedza “Chi” Mhende was born in Zimbabwe. She is the voice of Al Jazeera’s global health series “Lifelines”.
She stars opposite Scribblings actor Francis Chouler in Aki Omotosu’s romantic comedy “Love the One You Love” which made its debut at the 2014 Durban International Film Festival.
Blanca – Gahlia Phillips.
Scribblings is South African model, poet and stage actress’ first appearance in a film.
Director’s Biography
Oscar started his film career in post- production in 2007 in beautiful Cape Town, South Africa. His very first job -lugging around raid arrays during a thunderstorm – shows his unerring sense of timing! He earned his stripes in an MCR, moving into online and offline editing, and finally post- production supervision, most notably for The Invincibles and Sea Point Days, both broadcast internationally in 2010.
Oscar then decided that being a technician was all good and well, but that he needed to move into creative work. He started directing and making music videos, the odd commercial and began writing obsessively.
Taking a brief hiatus from 2011 until 2013 to do some paid work in marketing in London, he returned to writing and filmmaking in 2014, writing and directing two short films, Scribblings, and T-Junction, which is currently in post-production.
Oscar presently resides in Cape Town where he continues to write obsessively focussing on his full-length screenplays, Blood Moon, Poppie and an African Style Western, between walking his dog and fighting his very personal war on his unruly garden and green swimming pool.
Full Credits
Directed by Oscar Barby
Produced by Jennifer Mostert Amrish Shah Oscar Barby
The Writer Francis Chouler
Blanca Gahlia Phillips
Viva Chi Mhende
Casting Richard Lothian
Music Chad Lawrence
Edited by Alison James & Dave Mostert Director of Photography Warrick Le Sueur
Executive Producer Anthony Oseyemi
Story by Kelly Wragg & Oscar Barby
Written By Oscar Barby
Production Manager Chloe Park-Ross
Assistant Director Mikhail Motala
1st Assistant Camera Jurgen Painczyk
2nd Assistant Camera Liam Drake
Gaffer Willem Maritz
Sparks Ethan Storm, Calvin Laing
Art Directors Simoné Roussouw & Lisa Wakelin
Sound Recordist Carl Roberts
Sound Design and Mix Chad Lawrence
Stunt Co-Ordinator Alex An-Los
Catering Lulama Zekani
Colorist & Online Editor Dave Mostert
The Producers would like to thank Media Film Service and Tim Atkinson.
© Sinkwa Productions (Pty) Ltd, 2014. All rights reserved.
Festivals
Kalasha International Film Festival Nairobi, Kenya Oct 2015
(Out of Competition)
Eden Independent Film Festival George, South Africa Nov 2015
(No Competition)
African Independent Film Festival Lagos, Nigeria Nov 2015
(No Award)
Rapid Lion South Africa International Johannesburg, South March 2016 Film Festival Africa
For further information please contact:
Jennifer Mostert – Producer Sinkwa Productions
PO Box 5247, Dainfern North, Johannesburg, 2191, South Africa
+27 82 9000 730
jen@sinkwa.com www.sinkaproductions.tv
