Breaking Wind The Film

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Join the BREAKING WIND characters and Become a Fart of Movie History

For the first time in film history, the UK’s leading and longest-established supplier of sound effects to the international movie, TV, and games industries is offering a Briton with impressively-loud flatulence the opportunity to achieve celluloid immortality.

Upload a recording of you letting-one-rip, and the most striking effort will added to the sound library of De Wolfe for potential use in movies and other forms of entertainment for decades to come!

The ‘Become A Fart Of Movie History’ initiative celebrates the release of Breaking Wind a spoof of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, and is the worthy subject of a new movie in-joke (and not an April Fool!).

What you need to do:

Record or video your flatulence sound effect
Upload it to YouTube and post it on Breaking Wind UK’s Facebook
or email your entry to competition@breakingwindfilm.com
Watch/Listen to other entries on the Facebook page and Wait for your entry to win and achieve sound effect immortality!
Real flatulence or simulated fart sounds will be eligible, with judges giving special recognition to video files demonstrating an inventive use of armpits, palms, or elbows!

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INTRODUCING LUCAS PITTAWAY - as Jamie

In SNOWTOWN, Lucas Pittaway plays Jamie Vlassakis, who together with John Bunting, Robert Wagner and Mark Haydon was jailed for his involvement in the notorious 'Snowtown murders' in South Australia between August 1992 and May 1999.

Discovered in a local shopping centre by the film's casting director, the name Vlassakis was not mentioned when Pittaway began his auditions. "I thought I was doing a general audition at first, but then they narrowed me down to Jamie."

Once cast, Pittaway worked closely with director Justin Kurzel to shape the character of Jamie. "There was not really a lot of information about Jamie Vlassakis because of the suppression orders, so there was really nothing to template me around," he explains.

Pittaway worked predominately off script. "I went through the story with them once or twice so I had a rough idea of it. Really I just went into every scene. Justin would throw some lines in, but mostly it was just improvisation and it worked really well."

He rehearsed for two weeks with Kurzel and Henshall where he could show certain emotions. "That helped a lot. It was harder the first couple of times until I could really get to the emotion in about five minutes instead of half an hour."

Given the emotional weight inherent in the material, Pittaway explained the importance of the cast's close bonds, "It's good to know that afterwards you have someone to give you a hug and cheer you up a bit."

INTRODUCING DANIEL HENSHALL - as John

SNOWTOWN is Daniel's first feature film.

Daniel Henshall explains that SNOWTOWN is about a family in a hard and terrible situation and John Bunting, a manipulative man, who enters their lives and offers them hope. "They get sucked into his promise, or the idea of his promise and he leads them astray. In doing so he ruins and corrupts the lives of this family and the community that surrounds them"

"I was given the absolute blessing of having time in the area to immerse myself. Justin was always talking of the osmosis, allowing that to affect your physicality and the way you talk to people and the way you relate to people. Being in that area gave me the opportunity to really be apart of it." Henshall says.

"I went out with Lucas and dropped bags of clothes off for charity - that's what Lucas did for a job. I spent time with Louise and her beautiful kid, cooked dinner for them, ate with them, took them out and it was the same with Aaron, a lot of time getting to know them all and they responded with open arms, telling me about their lives and what they experienced. That was my rehearsal period. Knowing how to relate to these people and having that familiar contact is what you see in the film."

Another challenge for Henshall was the isolation of being in a new place. "I was away from my loved ones. It was hard, but that isolation - and Justin kept talking about it - constantly informed of the vulnerability that we wanted to play in Bunting and we used it. There was never any abuse to the methods we used and if anyone felt out of control, including myself, Justin would take it on board, but then challenge you."

Henshall hopes filmgoers will walk away asking the question 'This is our society and we should take some responsibility for it - how does something as horrible as this happen?"

INTRODUCING LOUISE HARRIS - as Elizabeth

It was during a shopping outing when Louise Harris saw a man staring at her. She didn't realise he was the first step to her starring on the silver screen.

"I was at my local delivery close to where I live and I saw Justin Kurzel, our director, sitting in the middle of the shops looking at me, looking straight through me," she recalls. "I thought, 'what are you looking at you creepy dude?' He asked a friend to come over and ask me to sit down and answer a few questions."

The initial conversation was followed by a couple of screen tests and "finally Justin phoned - I had the part of Elizabeth Harvey and I hit the roof. It was surreal."

Surprisingly, Harris did not do any research for the role of Elizabeth. "I didn’t want to delve too deep into the story - just taking it as it came. That way I could be impulsive and react the way I felt I would have if the situation was really in front of me"

Harris was part of the group who, before filming, spent a couple of weeks together going out for dinner, to the movies and social activities before discussing personal details. "In rehearsals we cracked each other open and got to know each other, which was awesome. Watching the other actors Justin found from the area in their rehearsals was amazing," Harris admits. "It brought me to tears or had the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. It was just the beginning of my understanding of the potential of this movie.

JUSTIN KURZEL - Director

Justin has worked extensively in film and theatre as a designer and most recently, as a director.

He is a graduate of the NIDA Design course and has designed for Sydney Theatre Company, Belvoir St Theatre and Melbourne Theatre Company in award winning productions such as Three Sisters, La Dispute and Life Is A Dream.

In 2004 Justin graduated from Film Directing at Victorian College of Arts where he was awarded the Most Outstanding Postgraduate Student. His graduating film Blue Tongue won the Cinevex Award for Best Direction, Film Victoria Award for Best Film, Best Australian Short Film and Best Student Production at the 2005 Melbourne International Film Festival. Blue Tongue screened at many international film festivals including Stockholm, New York, Oberhausen, Flickerfest and the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.

In 2002, he directed Meeting Misty Rain, which won second prize at the 2000 Tropicana Film Festival and he has directed a number of award winning music video clips for bands such as The Vines, Sleepy Jackson, Bridezilla, You Am I and The Mess Hall.

The clips Keep Walking, Pulse (Ivy League) and Bell(Ivy League) for The Mess Hall both won the St Kilda Film Festival for best Music Clip.

SHAUN GRANT - Writer

Shaun Grant is an Australian screenwriter determined to tell universal stories.

Having maintained a successful career as an educator for the best part of a decade, Shaun went on to graduate from RMIT with an Advanced Diploma in Creative Screenwriting.

In 2007, while still studying, Shaun's script entitled 'Italian or Thai' was chosen to be produced from over 1700 others in a nationwide search for SBS Independent's Drama Series Marx and Venus. It was also during this time that Shaun commenced writing the feature film SNOWTOWN, which after several years of development premieres at the 2011 Adelaide Film Festival.

Shaun has also written for Fox8's new drama series Slide and currently has several feature film projects in various stages of development.

ANNA McLEISH - Producer

In 2008 Anna McLeish teamed with Warp UK's Mark Herbert (This is England, Four Lions) and Robin Gutch (Hunger), to launch and manage Warp Films Australia. Shortly after Anna appeared on the cover of IF Magazine as one of ten industry practitioners to watch.

Warp Films (UK), associated with Warp Music, is a widely acclaimed independent film development and production company most recently known for the success of feature films This is England (Shane Meadows), Four Lions (Chris Morris), Submarine (Richard Ayoade), and Tyrannosaur (Paddy Considine). Warp Films Australia is an Australian entity focused on harnessing Australian talent while working to Warp's distinct development and production ethos.

SNOWTOWN is both Warp Films Australia's and Anna's first feature, produced jointly by Anna and Sarah Shaw.

Anna has worked in the Australian film industry for over 15 years, including positions at Mullinars Casting, Melbourne International Film Festival, and Buena Vista International (Australia) [now Disney Australia]. Prior to Warp Films Australia she established and managed Madman's theatrical distribution division from 2004-2008.

SARAH SHAW - Producer

Sarah started her career as Production Manager on the travelling ABC series, Surfing the Menu. After several years working in television and documentaries such as Hoover's Gold (SBS) and The Flag Sisters (SBS), itchy feet got the better of her.

The east coast has seen a transition to feature film, most recently Line Producing Robert Connolly's (Three Dollars, The Bank) political thriller Balibo.

Sarah has continued to write and produce short films, most recently the AFI nominated and AWGIE winning A Parachute Falling in Siberia, financed by Screen NSW and starring Noni Hazlehurst. Her previous short film, Water, was nominated for two AFI awards and recently picked up Best Short Film at the Milano Film Festival in Italy.

In June 2009, Sarah joined forces with Anna McLeish at Warp Films Australia. SNOWTOWN is their first feature.

ADAM ARKAPAW - Director of Photography

Graduating from the Victorian College of Arts with two gold and two silver ACS awards, Adam Arkapaw is one of Australia's most exciting and talented young cinematographers. Adam quickly attracted the attention of some of the industry's best TVC producers and directors; his list of credits is extensive.

No stranger to success on the film festival circuit, Adam shot Julius Avery's Cannes Jury Prize- winning short film Jerrycan (2008 AFI Best Short Film, Sundance Film Festival, Berlinale) and Spencer Susser's I Love Sarah Jane (Sundance Film Festival 2008). Adam was also nominated for an AFI for his cinematography on Avery’s End Of Town and was the inaugural recipient of the Metlink Award for his work on Keri D Light’s Wanderlust/Wonderlost.

His recent feature credits include Blind Company (dir. Alkinos Tsilimodos) and David Michod's Animal Kingdom (starring Guy Pearce, Ben Mendelsohn and Joel Edgerton), which was awarded the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.

Animal Kingdom has gone on to receive critical acclaim throughout the world and most recently, Adam won the inaugural award for "Best Emerging Cinematographer" at the prestigious Camerimage Festival in Poland for his outstanding work.

JED KURZEL - Composer

Jed Kurzel is best known as the front man and song writer for the award winning cinematic rock duo The Mess Hall, one of the Australia's most original and dynamic beat combinations.

Having released four albums over the course of their career of constantly shifting styles, their most recent album For The Birds is a collection of songs that take a sharp turn into a musical terrain that combines voodoo, beatnik soul, funk and rock and roll of the purest kind.

Jed's composition career began several years ago with contributions to several independent short films. He then wrote the score for the critically acclaimed documentary Naked on the Inside, before composing the music for the Griffin Theatre production Savage River.

SNOWTOWN marks Jed's feature film debut as a composer.

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INTERACTIVE TWEET ALONG SCREENING

Join us on Thursday 22nd March for an interactive “tweet-a-long” screening of Snowtown, hosted by director Justin Kurzel and by us - Revolver Entertainment.

We'll be hosting an exclusive screening of Snowtown in Revolver HQ and inviting people all over the internet to take part in a tweet along - whether you are watching the film at home on DVD or Blu-Ray, or online we want you to join in and share your views of the film with the world.

For those following the action online who are not tuned into the film, @RevolverUK there will also be the chance to access exclusive material from the film. All the above will come together via the #SnowtownLive hash-tag. To close proceedings, Justin Kurzel will take part in a web-chat, fielding questions from the twittersphere, as well as those present at the screening. We'll release an exclusive competition for participants – where there will be a chance to win a host of signed Snowtown goodies!

Here are the details for the SNOWTOWN screening
Date: Thursday 22nd March
Time: Join us online from 7pm for a prompt synchronised start at 7:30pm GMT
Event Twitter Host: @RevolverUK
Event Hash-Tag: #SnowtownLive - Make sure you search this tag to find everyone who's participating in the tweet along and get all the exclusive content.

Breaking Wind – Synopsis

From the director of The 41-Year-Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall And Felt Superbad About It, comes a spoof of the blockbuster Twilight franchise. Released on DVD on Monday April 2nd 2012, Breaking Wind offers some light relief to all those suffering from Twilight fatigue.

The film follows Bella, the object of various characters’ affections: an eerily Pattinson-esque Edward, Jacob the overweight but girthy werewolf, and Edward’s pint-sized alter ego Little Edward. Bella's life is threatened by the vengeful Victoria and her gang of blood sucking Vampire ‘Noobs’, and Edward and Jacob must put aside their differences to save her.

Brought to you by Revolver Entertainment, directed by Craig Moss and starring Heather Ann Davis, Danny Trejo, Eric Callero, Emma Bell and Frank Pacheco, this tongue-in-cheek Twilight parody will appeal to Twi-hards and haters alike.

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Breaking Wind – DVD released 2nd April 2012

Breaking Wind – DVD released 2nd April 2012
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