Symmetry Media and Snorkel Studios wrap production on new feature film ‘Intersection’
Production has completed this week in Sydney on thriller feature film Intersection, from Symmetry Media and Snorkel Studios. Directed by Samuel Bartlett, it features Matt Doran in his latest Australian work.
Doran is a former cast member of Home & Away and has worked closely with some of the most distinguished directors in acclaimed US productions including Terrence Mallick’s Academy-Award nominated The Thin Red Line, and The Matrix and Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones.
Doran plays the role of Jake, a charismatic conman who discovers his own son is abducted, and is forced to complete an escalating series of trials to appease his child’s kidnapper. This contained narrative is set almost entirely in a vehicle.
The writer-director Samuel Bartlett has been developing the movie for over 2 years, working with Doran closely on the scripting. Bartlett has worked previously with Doran on a short in 2014, with his feature screenplay for Damage Control selected as Best
Screenplay out of 7000 at the Page Awards. The short based on the same script, won a Silver Remi at WorldFest Houston, and was in competition at Raindance, among many others.
The producers, James Carr, Sean O’Reilly and Dean Ginsburg, have partnered with key brand sponsors for the film, with strategies in place to leverage the brands’ audiences during distribution and generate brand content. Key partners include Renault Australia, exclusively providing one of their flagship vehicles, as well as men’s tailoring label InStitchu and camera house Lemac. The producers have financed the film through private investment, with the production run by James Carr’s Symmetry Media; a Sydney-based production company working with some of the biggest brands and agencies in advertising.
Carr has previously been sponsored into the Sundance Film Festival’s inaugural Ignite talent development program, and won the Screen Producers AIMC Competition, and with his past films winning awards and screening at over 60 international festivals. O’Reilly, after participating in the Producer’s Workshop at the Cannes Film Festival, has enjoyed the success of his film Mother, Child after its screening in competition in Melbourne International Film Festival, Flickerfest, and winner of the ATOM Award in category of Best Film.
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