BLUE HARVEST received almost 100 film submissions.
After an initial longlist of 12, and individual pitch sessions
- we now have 5 projects in our shortlist:

CRADLE
Writer: Hugh Calveley; Director: TBC; Producers: Tom Hern & Luke Robinson
She's trapped on a derelict spaceship hurtling toward Earth.  Her father's dying and she’s desperately trying to save his life—only to discover the shocking truth of her identity.

MERCENARY
Writer: Ferand Peek; Director: Ferand Peek; Producer: Daniel Lynch
When a tormented ex-mercenary saves an unconscious woman washed up near his secluded beach-house he gets more than he bargained for when  hostile aliens arrive hunting her.

SUNNY
Writers: Christopher Nicholls & Luke Anastassiou-Hedley; Director: Luke Anastassiou-Hedley; Producer: Andrew Beattie
In a dystopian future where one side of the Earth is trapped in permanent night, a pair of Nightside junkies, addicted to the drug “Tan”, secretly build an illegal raft with the dream of sailing to the Dayside to see the sun.

THE BALLAD OF MADDOG QUINN
Writer: Matt Inns; Director: Matt Inns; Producer: Melissa Dodds
In a derelict, oppressive future world known as The State, an outlaw must go to extreme measures for what is held dearest.

VAMPIRE DOMESTICATION
Writer: Paul Campion & Peter Watts; Director: Paul Campion; Producer: Sarah Wensley 
A pharmaceutical company accidentally discovers a dormant vampire gene in humans and plans to create genetically engineered vampires for profit.

Blue Harvest Shorts is a Premiere Shorts EP Pod consisting of Steve Barr, Daniel Story and Paul Swadel. We will executive produce two short films in the 2012/2013 financial year with a budget of up to $90k each.

We are actively searching for highly-skilled filmmaker teams to make short films that demonstrate mainstream commercial tastes.

Blue Harvest Shorts has a focus on ‘genre’ short films, giving our future feature filmmakers the opportunity to develop and display a commercial sensibility and talent.

Hence, our choosing the name ‘Blue Harvest’ – which was the Hollywood code name used for the production of Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. Commercial intentions are important to us.

If you want to make a deep and melancholic tale with ambiguous emotional intentions, we wish you the best of luck and invite you to look elsewhere.

If you want to make an engaging and entertaining short film that millions of average people would think is worth illegally downloading, let’s talk.

If your self-contained short is also a pitch piece for a feature film - great! That’s the attitude we like.

Click here to download our guidelines in the meantime:
BlueHarvestShorts_Guidelines.pdf

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