Strangers - Short Film

We have found our cafe location for “Strangers”! An enormous thank you to Isaac Yu for allowing us to film our short film in his cafe! Stay tuned for more updates.

Photos by Yuki Zhang and Coffee Till The Coffin/Tumblr.

Introducing Grace Dewhurst, who will be playing waitress, Darcy Owens in our short film!

We’re so excited to have her join our team!

More cast updates to come…

Let's welcome Steven Glyde, who will be playing the role of antagonist, Felix Green!

We're incredibly lucky to have his expertise and talent on board for our short film.

Stay tuned for more cast updates!

Thank you so much to those who donated to our short film campaign so far!

We're in the home stretch with our pre-production, with location recces, rehearsals, and props sourcing happening this week!

Without full funding for "Strangers" we won't be able to bring this vision to life.

Our two last lead cast members will be announced by the end of this week. More updates to come!

Please join us in welcoming Lisa Zhang, who will be bringing the character of love interest, Evelyn Iris, to life!

We're thrilled to have her on our team!

Keep an eye out for more casting news to come!

Finally, we have Hamish Boyle, playing our protagonist, Nigel Wilson!

As the cornerstone of the film, we follow Nigel on his awkward, yet endearing first date with Evelyn.

We're over the moon to have Hamish on our team!

Production is just around the corner. Stay tuned for further developments!

We’re proud to announce our talented actors and their roles!

• Hamish Boyle as NIGEL WILSON, protagonist

• Lisa Zhang as EVELYN IRIS, love interest

• Steven Glyde as FELIX GREEN, antagonist

• Grace Dewhurst as DARCY OWENS, waitress

• Ami Coster as GLORIA SEARS, cafe patron

We’d like to give a huge thank you to all the cast, extras and crew on our short film, STRANGERS!

Unfortunately this isn’t the whole team, so we’d also like to give a special mention to Shannon, Grace, Freya, Charlotte, Ece, Dave, Michael, Wesley and Thomas.

It was a tight shooting schedule, though we pulled it off. We're over the moon with everyone's efforts on this project!

Thanks also to Isaac and Chris at Semicolon Cafe for letting us use their space! It was a perfect filming location for our story.

Stay tuned for more production updates!

Kia ora!

We only have five days left to go for our campaign!

Thank you so much to those who have donated thus far. Due to Boosted's all-or-nothing nature, we only keep the funding if we hit our target goal!

Your contribution will help us cover every aspect of the production, including entry fees for local and global film festivals. Filmmaking is an essential art form that we'd like to cultivate here in Aotearoa, New Zealand - so any donation counts!

Sharing this campaign with your friends, peers and family will help us greatly and could be key in us reaching our goal.

Thanks again!

Ngā mihi,

James

It’s pretty indescribable to see a film you poured all your time into this year finally come to life.

When I wrote “Strangers” in late December, we had nothing locked in- no locations, no cast, crew, nothing.

Surreal.

It really does take a great team to pull off a quick shooting weekend - and I'm thankful we had the best team members possible!

~ James

We reached our target goal!

From our team, thank you so much for the donations over the past month. Filmmaking is not the easiest art form to create, so we appreciate everyone who has supported our vision!

Next is post-production. Our team is sifting through the footage and crafting the best story possible. We're really happy with what we got over the weekend - and we cannot wait to show you the finished result! For those who donated, we will give a special thanks to you in the film's credits.

Once the film is complete, it will be submitted to local and international film festivals.

If you would like to follow our journey, head to Zine Film Collective on Instagram or Facebook (https://www.instagram.com/zinefilmco, https://www.facebook.com/ZineFilm/).

Thanks again, and we'll keep you posted with more updates!

We have just finished cutting "Strangers"! The next steps are sound design, colour grading and music composition.

A big shout out to the post production team so far.

Film festival season is just around the corner!

We couldn’t have done it without our talented cast, crew, extras, Boosted donors and the support of friends and family!

Written in late 2022, it’s been a rewarding few months creating this film.

Pictured - a behind the scenes shot from the day. Thanks to Hamish Graham for his photography.

Now time to hit the film festival circuit.

Onto the next short film!