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A complex story

1/31/2012

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When we first started working on this film we had no idea how long it would take to bring it to fruition. We kept uncovering pieces of Luke's story and the history of the Burragorang and the birth of national parks. It got bigger and bigger. Then we started investigating Luke's connection to Charles Chauvel. We became immersed. Unfortunately that's made it hard to edit ourselves now that we've been so close to all the footage. Editors are fresh eyes, they see only what's on the screen and are not thinking "I walked for 3 hours to get this shot, it's gotta stay in the movie". So we want to work with a master editor to pull the story all together.
Last year thanks to our first crowd funding effort we worked with editor  Brad Haywood for a week. It was very enlightening. He helped us a lot. He made a lot of suggestions, one of which was this needs an old school master editor. But these guys aren't cheap but then nothing is with filmmaking . Our first crowd founder was mostly supported by friends and family, this one is for everyone in the world who thinks it looks like an exciting and worthwhile film.
We hope you do!
Russell Kilbey
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Can we finish this film now please

1/29/2012

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Can we finish this film?
We have changed the name. Originally it was called "Last Riders of the Burragorang". I liked this title but no one seemed to be able to say it or remember it even. We were pushing the proverbial up the hill. Some of my friends had jokingly called the project "The Man from Coxs River' in reference of course to the famous Banjo Patterson poem.
 It wasn't until I went on a 3 day horse odyssey with Luke up to visit his family plaque near Kanangra Walls on the Cox's River that I realised it actually was the perfect title for the film.
This film is Luke's story.
Although there are some other wonderful characters in the film- Norma Carlon, Jason Carlon ,Adam Boyd, Chris Banffy, Takao Suzuki and Steve Mills, this really is one mans journey out of the past and into the future.
It's about adapting to your environment and doggedly achieving the near impossible.
It's about being wild and free and how hard that is in our modern world.
Im sure the film wont please every one.
We seek only to record the story as we found it.
People have differing opinions on the Brumbies of the Burragorang.
We'll show them to you and you can make up your own mind.
We believe this is an important story.
We've spent a good part of 3 years so far making it so it'd better be.
We look forward to sharing it with you.

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    Russell Kilbey went on the adventure of a lifetime with a bunch of blokes in hats who treated him like an equal even though he fell off his horse a bit.

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