Press release from 10terrorists
The shock & awe(some) parody on reality television and terrorism has successfully shot a missile directly into the heart of the movie capital. The small Melbourne movie, 10TERRORISTS!, that launched at the Greater Union as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival on the 29th of March is getting its West Coast Premiere in Los Feliz in late April. As an official selection of the 11th Los Angeles Comedy Festival (the largest comedy festival in the United States), it has two screening and is one of only six feature films chosen.
“Making the decision to go with the Comedy Festivals seems a good fit”. says producer, Andrea Buck. “Although the film is screening as part of the Buffalo Niagara Film Festival on the 18th April. There is also one final screening here in Melbourne on the 20th April at The Greater Union at 9.00pm”
In this high-octane comedy, a Los Angeles producer steals from popular Reality TV formats, hiring three ex-military judges to seek out the ultimate “amateur master-terrorist. “We are parodying the producers and the very city of Los Angeles – with footage having being shot there” says producer/ director Dee McLachlan. “But I’m sure Hollywood can laugh at itself”.
This film is a big departure from their previous feature, THE JAMMED, the acclaimed 2007 sex trafficking thriller, that burst onto the Australian film scene in 2007. Mclachlan used some of the cast (Veronica Sywak, Masa Yamaguchi) and crew from THE JAMMED (Cinematographer Peter Falk, Costume designer Jill Johanson, Sound recordist Rob Hornbuckle) to shoot principal photography in only 8 days. “We could only do this because we had a great crew and very talented actors” says McLachlan.