Experiencing Interruptions?

Blocked

A young writer goes to outrageous lengths to find a story to write about; starting with accompanying his date back to her ex partners home in an effort to obtain valuables back and cover the cost of a damage that he recently caused.

  • Matt Gall
    Director
  • Matt Gall
    Writer
  • Matt Gall
    Director of Photography
  • Troy Riggall
    Producer/Editor/Camera
  • George Harris
    Key Cast
    "Ben"
  • Karli Rae
    Key Cast
    "Gabby"
  • James Hammond
    Key Cast
    "Darren"
  • Corben Mitchell
    Script Supervisor
  • Tai Ellis
    Key Grip
  • Benjamin Patterson
    Best Boy
  • Brandon Price
    Original Score
  • Stephen Denham
    Production Sound Mixer
  • Caarlin Baker
    Boom Operator
  • Robert Church
    Boom Operator
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Adventure, Drama
  • Runtime:
    20 minutes 48 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    December 14, 2018
  • Production Budget:
    500 AUD
  • Country of Origin:
    Australia
  • Country of Filming:
    Australia
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Apulia Web Fest

    Official Selection 2019
  • International Shorts

    Official Selection 2019
  • Changing Face International Film Festival

    March 2019 Finalist
  • Global Indie Film Fest

    Silver Award Winner 2020
Director Biography - Matt Gall

Matt has been directing films since getting his hands on a video camera at age nine.

‘Blocked’ is Matt's first large scale filmmaking endeavour since completing his Creative Arts degree at the University of Southern Queensland. He is currently working on an untitled Science Fiction film, due to be completed late 2019.

During his study at USQ, he wrote and directed numerous, well received short films in addition to a writing a ninety minute feature film script.

He aims to make many unique, original, memorable and most importantly, entertaining films for years to come.

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Director Statement

After graduating from university I went back and revisited the body of work I had produced there. During this process, one common theme stood out to me. All the art I had produced was relatively sad. It was bleak, depressing, and nihilistic. Maybe this was simply a reflection of whatever I was personally battling at the time or just simply that, as people say, drama is far easier than comedy. One thing was for certain however, and that was that I did not want to repeat this pattern anymore. I wanted to make a movie that could simply be summarised as ‘fun’.

These are the movies that we love. These are the films that people flock to the theatre to see. And this is something that I saw was clearly lacking from the short film world. So I set out with that single word in mind when approaching the script for ‘blocked’.

And that was that. Let’s have the most fun with this film that we possibly could. How many perilous situations could I put the hero through in 20 minutes? Situations that could then later be looked back on and laughed about. “I can’t believe we made our way out of that one!” A phrase that I’ve said myself and I would believe most others have laughed about with close friends, many a time. A phrase that we should probably all be saying more often.

The world in its current state doesn’t need more bleak added into the mix. Let’s just have some fun.

- Matt Gall