Nowhere Else

Teaser

PRODUCTION

Genre: Mystery / Thriller

Shooting Date: Completed

NEW TEASER

Here is the Vimeo link below;

Password: nowhereelse007

 

CAST

Vernon Wells.  Rachael Murphy.  Marco Dapper.  Dan Balcaban.  William Wensley.  Di Lesson.   John Reynolds.  Sue Broberg.  Mark Lambert. 

Ant Simpson.  Steve Agars

 

CREW

Writer / Director: Danial Donai

Producer: Danial Donai

Executive Producer: James Turner

Associate Producer: Vernon Wells

DoP: Mark Broadbent

Assistant Director: Emma Haarburger

Special Effects: (JMB FX STUDIO) Jason Baird

Behind The Scenes: Caleb Graham

Camera Operator: Liam O'Brien

Focus Puller: Richard Morton

Sound Recordists: Phil Hagstrom & David Gaylard

Boom Operator: Belle Galpin

Edit Wrangler: Caleb Graham

Set Designer: Emily Polidano

Mechanical Engineer: Lindsay Donai

SFX Make- Up: Jaysan Lunt

Hair & Make - Up: Aleisha Gannon & Karlee Weir

Props & Set Design: Danial Donai

PA: Karlee Weir

Craft Service: Emily Polidano

Stunts: Steve Broberg

 

LOS ANGELES SECOND UNIT

Director:Danial Donai

Assistant Director: Vernon Wells

Camera Operator & Lighting:James Hundhausen

ADR: David Kelly (Voodoo Highway Music & Post Inc.) 

 

POST

Sound: Wild Blue Music

Scoring: The Music Department

Film Editor & Grader: James Miller

Film Assembly: Caleb Graham

VFX: James Miller & Matthew Shah

Los Angeles Public Relations:Rita & Jeff Hollingsworth

 

Rating: TBD

Running Time: 88 minutes

Official Site: ww.forescenefilms.com

Press Images: More Coming Soon

TAG LINE

It's Ravaged For Thousands Of Years

SHORT SYNOPSIS

A young group of avid documentary film makers are sent to shoot in the vast extremes of the South Australian wilderness. They end up in a place called Nowhere Else. What transpires there is devastatingly, like nothing else on Earth.

SYNOPSIS

BASED AROUND A TRUE STORY

Four young filmmakers have just returned to the Gold Coast after filming a successful surfing documentary. Two international film producers fund their next surfing documentary and send them down to film at the Great Australian Bite.

On their way through the eerie landscapes and the wide open desert of the South Australian outback, they make a detour from the main road to seek food and shelter in a real one horse town called "Nowhere Else". The film makers dine and stay for the night with an estranged man that owns a roadhouse in this dusty town. After an emotional and frightening experience the film makers decide make a quick exit from the roadhouse.

Soon after, their vehicle is immobilised, which leaves them stranded in the baron desert. They find shelter for the rest of the night in an old abandoned church, which stands out of place in this barren landscape of nothing. What started out as an exciting fun trip for another surfing documentary, turns into a thrilling night of unspeakable terror and a fight to survive.

This nail biting twisting film, will have the audience riveted in their seats, right to the very end and will have them begging for the sequel.

TEASER

Our editor James, has just cut the first new Teaser. He will be cutting a longer version soon. 

Here is the Vimeo link below;

Password: nowhereelse007

 

MUSIC VIDEO

The films new music video will be released to the public via Music/TV channels shortly and will be released on radio to the public.

Latest: Danial has just completed the new music video for the film, to a new sound-track (Holding Hands With The Devil) by my Mike Beale & Knikki.

DVD

The music video will also be a part of the Nowhere Else DVD package, along with the "Make Of Nowhere Else".

COMMENTARY & THE MAKING OF THE MOVIE 

The commentary will also be a part of the Nowhere Else DVD package, along with the "Make Of Nowhere Else".

BREAKING NEWS!

The film is ONLY one week away from completion. Danial will be heading to Los Angeles next week to help promote the film with his PR people and set up private buyer screenings.

 
 
ONLINE QUESTIONS TO THE WRITER & DIRECTOR (DANIAL DONAI)
 
Q: What was the genesis of this film? 
  
DD. The screenplay first originated from a true sighting of a Cryptid bat. The bat was witnessed by a group of young Australian surfing filmmakers back on the 12th January 2006 in a baron landscape in the South Australian desert known as, (Nowhere Else)

Q: Nowhere Else is a real place – how did you discover it? 
 
DD. Nowhere Else is located on a 9,000 acre baron property near the Eyer Peninsular in the SouthAustralian desert. A very good surfing filmmaker friend of mine (Bryce Thurston) inspired me to write the screenplay after he and two other documentary filmmakers witnessed the creature in this area. After he told me of the sighting, I flew us both down to South Australia o check out the location of Nowhere Else
 
Q: How familiar were you with the phenomenon and the myths of cryptid bats and other such creatures? 
 
DD. Two years prior to hearing about Bryce's event with the creature and writing Nowhere Else, I had written a screenplay thriller titled (Dreamtime Hunters). There is a scene in the screenplay where a gigantic bat wraps it's wings round another creature and kills it. I went on line to research the worlds largest bat and found all these sights on Cryptozoooligy and Cryptid bats

Q: What is the appeal of monster-like creatures that also possess human characteristics?
 
DD. To us, these humanoid bats is just that. These massive bats appear to resemble monkey's and almost human like, even walking on two legs. I guess the appeal to us with these nocturnal hunters is that they could be a descendant of our own species
  
Q: What will audiences discover about Australia and the outback in this film?
 
DD. There is nothing new to our Australian outback to most people, it is well documented, but what is special is the vastness of the bewildering South Australian desert. From it's breathless landscapes to its many underground caving systems, both of when are mostly unexplored. This amazing desert wilderness is one of the worlds last frontiers
  
Q: What makes a great thriller or horror film? What are some of your favorites? 
 
DD. Nowhere Else is a chilling story based around about a true sighting of a Cryptid Bat in the Australian outback. It is an original thriller, which is very different in this genre. I think thrillers & horror films that are based on trues events or stories are very appealing to the genre audience out there. Building the suspense within the story and keeping it real to some degree is very important and leaving the audience wanting more is the way I like to write in this genre

Q: How has your experience in stunt work influenced you in directing this film?
 
DD. I had worked as a stuntman since my first film on Mad Max (Beyond Thunderdome). I did not choose the career as a professional stuntman, it chose me. I have always known I had a gift as a writer with great vision and creativity since I was a teenager growing up in the outback of Australia. I used working on Hollywood (A) films as a stepping stone to where I am today as a writer/director

Q: Can you share a couple anecdotes from the set that were particularly creepy, funny and/or unexpected?
 
DD. One night while at the graveyard desert location with one of my actors, we actually heard a deafening spine chilling screech from a tree at the rear of the cemetery just near us. The experience was so disturbing and chilling that the cast, crew and myself decided only to film there durning daylight. While setting up to shoot in that cemetery at a later date, we discovered a massive nest made from large branches in the tree where the previous screech came from. Below the massive nest, on the ground were old bones and skulls that belonged to large animals. Only a bat the size of the creature that was sighted in this area could have possibly carried such heavy prey into that nest. We shot this nest, skulls and the bones which can be scene in the films documentary

Q: Independent filmmaking is a full-contact sport and sometimes requires guerrilla tactics to get the job done. Any anecdotes in this regard?
 
DD. This was my first feature film as the writer and director and a few other hats included :(.. I had never really worked before on a low budget film shooting guerrilla style to some degree. I must admit it was one of the hardest and most mental and physical things I have ever taken on. But the reward was well worth it and I can't wait to get to my next project as you learn so much working at the helm of a film production.

Q: Please tell us about the casting process and how you assembled this talented ensemble.
 
DD. Most of the Australian cast I had cast through a casting director on another one of my feature films titled (V). The funding on this film fell through about 5 years ago. When I finally raised the money for this lower budget film (Nowhere Else) I ended up using some of the talent from the previous casting. The female who played Bianca (Rachael Murhpy) I found 4 years ago when I was casting her character while in Los Angeles. Rachael then in turn knew the actor (Marco Dapper), who played (Randy) her love interest in the film. They were friends and knew each other from acting class over in LA. And of course there was my good friend Vernon Wells. I wrote the outback character of (Simson) just for Vernon.

Q: How about working with veteran actor Vernon Wells? How did he transform into the character, who may be the most “outback” type in the film?
 
DD. Vernon and I have been friends for years. He is an amazing actor as he is in real life. Vernon really brought his character (Simson) to life and is truelya pleasure to work with.

Q: What sets NOWHERE ELSE apart from other films in the genre?
 
DD. As I mentioned before, Nowhere Else is very different from films in this genre because to my knowledge a movie has never been made utilizing a story based around a Cryptid bat. A huge hunting bat that really exists around the world and has been witnessed by thousands of people for millennia and to this very day.

 

We'll see you soon at the movies!