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Okay... since some of you have found out that I am a director of short films I have had a number of requests from people wanting to see some of them.
So I decided to open up a You Tube account and post one of my films up for all to see.
This is Play By Heart, my first film ever.
It was shot at Hartebeestpoort Dam in June of 2004 over 7 days.
A friend's parents own this holiday cottage there and we decided it would be a great location, so we hired it out for a week, cast some brilliant actors, (all of whom worked for food - of which there was little), got some friends to help out both behind the camera and with some dosh and we put this together.

With only 4 cast members and 3 crew we were able to simply move into the house during shooting and lived on set for the full week.

The story is a simple one; two best friends are all that is left of a once-great band. As the story begins they have hired this house by the dam for the weekend in the hope of coming up with some new songs and rehearsing for some gigs.
Unfortunately there has been a double-booking at the house and their peaceful weekend of music and drinking is about to be wrecked by the arrival of two, seriously high-maintenance, sisters.

Due to the constraints of You Tube I've had to split the film up in to 5 parts.
This is part 1, where we meet the gang as they arrive at the house.
Hope you enjoy.

Part 2 will follow when I have some time.