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Pocket Money

Two friends are confronted by a gunman on their way home from school.

  • Matt Durrant
    Director
  • Matt Durrant
    Writer
  • Martin Thorne
    Producer
  • Majdi Slaibi
    Key Cast
  • Taha Saleh
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    10 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    May 30, 2014
  • Production Budget:
    40,000 AUD
  • Country of Origin:
    Australia
  • Country of Filming:
    Australia
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2.40:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Sydney Film Festival
    Sydney
    June 9, 2014
    World
    Highly Commended Screenplay
  • Canberra Short Film Festival
    Canberra
    September 20, 2014
    Best Screenplay
  • Byron Bay Film Festival
    Byron Bay
    February 2, 2015
  • Flickerfest
    Sydney
    February 1, 2015
  • St Kilda Film Festival
    Melbourne
    May 24, 2015
    Best Young Actor - Majdi Slaibi
  • Cannes Short Film Corner
    Canne
    May 16, 2015
  • Dungog Festival
    Dungog
    August 8, 2015
  • Seoul International Extreme Short Image & Film Festival
    Seoul
    September 18, 2015
Director Biography - Matt Durrant

Matt Durrant is an Australian writer, director and producer with ten years experience in writing feature scripts and directing short form. During this time, Matt has directed two short films, one comedy pilot, one drama pilot, produced a micro-budget Australian feature and performed crew duties on various commercial projects.

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Director Statement

Pocket Money was conceived by writer/director Matt Durrant in response to the regularity of drive-by shootings and gangland murders in Sydney and the media response to it which was often restricted to limited information, objective statistics and politically driven sound bites.
Instead of following a story about the gang culture that leads to a majority of these shootings, Pocket Money is about the perspective of innocent bystanders and unwilling witnesses who are often drawn into these crimes by circumstance. It is these people that rarely get a voice or a passing thought.