Pocket Money
Two friends are confronted by a gunman on their way home from school.
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Matt DurrantDirector
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Matt DurrantWriter
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Martin ThorneProducer
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Majdi SlaibiKey Cast
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Taha SalehKey Cast
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Project Type:Short
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Runtime:10 minutes
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Completion Date:May 30, 2014
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Production Budget:40,000 AUD
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Country of Origin:Australia
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Country of Filming:Australia
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Language:English
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Aspect Ratio:2.40:1
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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Sydney Film FestivalSydney
June 9, 2014
World
Highly Commended Screenplay -
Canberra Short Film FestivalCanberra
September 20, 2014
Best Screenplay -
Byron Bay Film FestivalByron Bay
February 2, 2015 -
FlickerfestSydney
February 1, 2015 -
St Kilda Film FestivalMelbourne
May 24, 2015
Best Young Actor - Majdi Slaibi -
Cannes Short Film CornerCanne
May 16, 2015 -
Dungog FestivalDungog
August 8, 2015 -
Seoul International Extreme Short Image & Film FestivalSeoul
September 18, 2015
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.
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.