Home

Cameron Moloney (Writer), Thomas Baricevic (Director), Michael De Robbio (Producer)

Now in post-production
www.homeshortfilm.com

Home tells the story of thirty-something Ryan (pictured), a driver for a supermarket home delivery service, who comes across the dead body of one of his customers and considers stealing the dead man's identity.

Speaking of the shoot, Thomas says, "After a grueling month or so of pre-production and organising by producer Michael De Robbio, Home was shot over three days by cinematographer Angus Kemp down on the Mornington Peninsula in the beautiful coastal town of Mount Martha. The footage looks wonderful, as Gus did a fantastic job. We were lucky to have a great crew as well as a fantastic cast featuring Austin Turner as Ryan and Hannah Jones from Helen Pandos Casting playing Ryan's level headed girlfriend Penny. Everybody worked extremely hard on the intense schedule, particularly on Saturday's shoot which left us all exhausted! "

"Over the next few weeks we're heading into post-production, which will entail a rough edit, sound design and mix before the film is sent off to Digital Pictures for a fine tune on the colour grade."

Directors Statement

I first came across a short story titled The Sleeping Class back in 2006 by Cameron Moloney who wrote the screenplay to HOME. I had been reading a series of short stories by Raymond Carver at that time, titled What we talk about when we talk about love. The short that Cameron had written shot me into the world that Ryan occupied immediately. I was in there, in this macabre yet comic world. The short also had much of the flavouring that Carver had in his stories and the language of story telling that I love.

Having been smitten by the visual language and themes of identity, loss and death. I suggested that Cameron write a screenplay. A few drafts later it underwent some major metamorphosis. It also spent some time buried and getting dusty in a drawer, screaming, pleading to be made into a film. I thought I can't let this script HOME die a lonely death in a drawer, it needs to be seen as a film. It needed to be made.

So I thought here's a great opportunity to gather a team of committed filmmakers that I have worked with before in commercial and documentary capacities. The producer, Michael De Robbio and I are very much on the same page when it comes to how this film should look and feel. We have worked on budgets that are small and almost non-existent but have conjured projects out of nothing. So I thought we can do this, we can make this film look great.

Thomas Baricevic - Director

Thomas, began his days as an engineer and later studied sculpture and film at The Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Australia. His first short film, shot on super eight, 'Ghost of Wannawong' screened at The Buenos Aires International Film Festival in 1997.

Since then he has written/directed and produced short films, documentaries and music videos, including the award winning documentary 'We Live through These Times' about students protesting against educational funding cuts in arts education. The documentary won Best Video Production at the 1999 St Kilda Film Festival. He was also invited to speak on The Art of Short Film at the Rhode Island International Film Festival, USA 2003.

Thomas has also been a jury member for the Australian Film Institute (AFI) awards, co-founded Short Trips and Fitzroy Shorts, monthly short film festivals that ran collectively over eight years, which showcased local and international short filmmakers, screening over 1000 short films in his capacity as a curator.

He works as a freelance music video director for Street Elite Records and Rubber Records and recently mentored five young filmmakers as part of 'Stories of African Australia', which screened at ACMI and was produced by Multicultural Arts Victoria. Thomas currently works for Video Education Australasia as a Prodcuer, and has directed and edited over 50 productions.

He has currently completed two major documentaries for 2009/10 in his capacity as both producer and director. The first being 'Step By Step' which follows the lives of young Sudanese as they try and settle in Australia and the second being 'Writing on the wall', which delves into the life of spiritual graffiti artist Mohammed Ali as he attempts to put on the show of his life. Filmed on location in Birmingham, UK in 2010.

Produced and developed with the assistance of Screen Australia