Numbers
A relaxed Saturday night in for three friends becomes a roller coaster ride when one of them wins the $20 million dollar lottery. As the night progresses things take a turn for the worse when they discover that everything has a price…including life.
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Kieren CurryDirector
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Sarah RichmondDirector
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Kieren CurryWriter
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Sarah RichmondWriter
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Sophie Olson-PonsWriter
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Kieren CurryProducer
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Sarah RichmondProducer
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Brienna HarrisKey Cast
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Alex PerryKey Cast
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Stefan AleksanderKey Cast
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Project Type:Short
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Genres:Thriller
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Runtime:7 minutes
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Completion Date:October 31, 2015
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Production Budget:1,000 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 SLR
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:Yes
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Student Project:No
Born in the UK, Kieren Curry immigrated to Australia in 2006, where he quickly fell in love with SCUBA diving and the ocean. He brought his first underwater camera rig and started to teach himself how to shoot marine life. He quickly gained notoriety for his wildlife films winning multiple awards at underwater film festivals.
In 2011 he started his most ambitious project to-date an independently created six-part documentary on sharks found in Australia. This award winning series gave him a hunger to explore the medium of film and storytelling further, and with his first short film Numbers, Kieren makes his fictional directorial debut along with fellow co-director Sarah Richmond. Kieren lives on the Gold Coast with his seven-year-old son Carter, and when he's not shooting films, he can usually be found editing them.
Although this is our first film Sarah and I had a really good idea of what we wanted to capture. We wanted lots of dichotomies, not only between the relationships of the characters but also though colour styles of the film and in the variance of how the two big scenes were shot. At its heart is a dark parable about the futility of greed. At some level greed exists in us all and in the film we obviously take it to the extreme with one of the characters showing wild ruthlessness and avarice towards another.
It was interesting to work with that, to see how the actors explored it and to take a look at what was darker: the want or the will?