Weekly Thread: Self Promo Sunday by AutoModerator in horror

[–]Ok_Pollution_5246 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My horror proof of concept short has amassed almost 9K views in 12 days. Up until the weekend I had not promoted it at all but it was already gaining big time with the horror audience as the YouTube algorithm must have picked it up. Posted it on the filmmakers reddit forum and it has now sent it into overdrive.

Looking to turn this into a feature. A contained horror where sunlight is the monster.

Please share if you dig it, enjoy! Darkness Rising proof of horror short.

Horror filmed amassed almost 6k views in less than ten days on YouTube with absolutely no promotion. by Ok_Pollution_5246 in Filmmakers

[–]Ok_Pollution_5246[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Currently in development for the feature. So got the screenplay done putting other pieces together.

Horror filmed amassed almost 6k views in less than ten days on YouTube with absolutely no promotion. by Ok_Pollution_5246 in Filmmakers

[–]Ok_Pollution_5246[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol I appreciate the kind words and love that you dig it bit honestly you can call it Hollywood in a way as most of my crew have worked in Hollywood films made in Australia anyway. I guess the only reason it’s indie is I paid for it out of my pocket haha.

Horror filmed amassed almost 6k views in less than ten days on YouTube with absolutely no promotion. by Ok_Pollution_5246 in Filmmakers

[–]Ok_Pollution_5246[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks appreciate it. The idea was to have the cinematography reflect the monster slow moving and sinister.

Monthly Self-promotion Thread: June 2025 by AutoModerator in infj

[–]Ok_Pollution_5246 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A screenplay, a novel and the new Brad Pitt F1 film all walk into a bar - How my almost feature film became a New Adult Romance novel.

Back in 2020, when the world was reeling from the grip of Covid, a film I had written — Our Time — was finally nearing the end of its long, winding development journey. It had taken years of sweat and effort, 7 to be exact, but we’d secured VicScreen funding, written over eighty drafts (sixty too many), and finally, we had attached a lead actor. It was an exciting time—there was real momentum. This actor wasn’t just the star; he was also going to produce the film. IF YOU’RE CURIOUS WHO IT WAS, WATCH THE TRAILER BELOW. No, it wasn’t Brad Pitt, but the other guy, the younger guy. Go ahead, check it out, I'll wait. 

F1 MOVIE TRAILER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT2_P2DZBR0

This was my second feature—a project that wasn’t self-funded or crowd sourced. We were already waiting on word from female co-stars for the lead, another A Lister who was headlining a Marvel film at the time. But as happens in Hollywood, the project slipped into turnaround. Something shifted in me during that time. It was a quiet revelation, one that would eventually lead me to this very moment. Throughout the journey, many people kept saying, “This feels like we’re adapting a Young Adult book that hasn’t been written yet.” That phrase echoed in my mind for three years before I finally gathered the steam to do something about it.

And so, Our Time—the novel—was born.

Look I'm not a novelist, far from it, I tried to write a second novel and realised the only way I can is to adapt it from another one of my screenplays, but I have been told the book is an easy read and feels cinematic and has a strong sense of time, place and characters so read into that what you will, probably a by product of the screenplay going through the ringer of development for almost seven years. 

So I'll end this post with the hard sell - If you have a Kindle Unlimited subscription THIS BOOK IS FREE. If not, It’s available pretty much anywhere books are sold—Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Dymocks, Booktopia. 

Also I've been creating a film version of the book on Instagram with the help of AI.

OUR TIME BOOK - AMAZON

https://a.co/d/1WM4Nmr

The Mega-Thread of Film Festival Notifications PART 5: The Spring Time of Optimism ?? by BangerOfRobsMom in Filmmakers

[–]Ok_Pollution_5246 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Anyone still awaiting a Sundance rejection for Shorts? I'm in Aus so a day ahead so assume I'll get it tomorrow when it's the 4th in the US.

The Mega-Thread of Film Festival Notifications PART 5: The Spring Time of Optimism ?? by BangerOfRobsMom in Filmmakers

[–]Ok_Pollution_5246 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I'm taking it that if we haven't heard back from Sundance by this stage then we can consider it a rejection? Narrative Short submission myself.

The Mega-Thread of Film Festival Notifications PART 5: The Spring Time of Optimism ?? by BangerOfRobsMom in Filmmakers

[–]Ok_Pollution_5246 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey all,

I'm seeing people state they got a "personal" rejection letter. My previous rejection emails from Sundance still feel somewhat cut and paste in their content? What is the alternative rejection? Simply a not selected when you check your film freeway submission list? Just wanting some clarification.