TWO Catholic secondary school students will make their first major foray into the film industry when an adventure movie they made opens in Melbourne this weekend.
The hour-long film, Everywhere You Go, will premiere in the Alexander Theatre at Monash University.
It was produced by Peter Cole and Quinton Bloxham, both Year 12 students at St Joseph’s College, in the Melbourne suburb of Ferntree Gully.
Made over six months during down time and school holidays, it is about a troubled teenager who falls into street crime and is channelled into a down-to-earth foster family, which he initially rejects.
The movie traces the boy’s troubled early years and progresses through his eventual realisation that there are people who can care and love.
The adventure includes deep emotion, high drama and the development of a deep friendship with a happy ending.
St Joseph’s College was so impressed by the seriousness of the project that it supported the movie with facilities and a small budget.
The young film-makers then picked up $100,000 of sponsorship around Melbourne and enlisted the help of professional editors and technicians.
St Joseph’s careers adviser, John Dixon, became film supervisor and more than 200 students and teachers made up the cast and crew.
Scenes were shot in the college grounds and classrooms as well as at Hawthorn railway station and bush sites in the Dandenongs.
The movie is the first in which Peter Cole, 16, has been involved in producing.
He has appeared previously in Neighbours and Blue Heelers and was recently involved in filming a remake of On the Beach.
