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Sons of Steel 2010 News
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SBS Film
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SBS ( Special Broadcasting Services ) have profiled Sons of Steel on their Movie website
here 's the link , see the interview with movie show hosts David Stratton and Margret Pomeranz
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A well hung Jeff Duff' .
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Here is Jeff Duff ( Secta ) up front of his portrait which was hung at the Basement in Sydney Feb 10. 2010
The live Jeff is on the left in the bigger frame.!
Duffo Ready for the Sydney Opera House
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Mu Meson
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In particle physics, mesons are subatomic particles composed of one quark and one antiquark. However, contrary to this it seems mesons really compose the physical form of one Jaimie and one Aspasia, who possessed with a passion for film, music and all things groovy and funky run Mu Meson, a cinema that renders art cinema antediluvian.
These guys not only know their stuff, but they totally appreciate what it takes to make a film. They are blessed with the desire to have films less known and less appreciated for what ever the reason, screened to the audience their were made for. Cult films maybe, B-grade horror and Sci Fi films, maybe, but compared to what?...and why even compare... many films just like 'Sons of Steel failed' to get to their audience because of failures within the film industry at the time. This applies to films ... many records and plenty of art. Sometimes the affects of the failure of a film to reach it's audience is totally devastating to the film maker. Mostly because those maverick types who bust their boilers to produce these innovative works go down burning with the passion, they are last to leave the sinking ship and nine times out of ten, the ship they gave their soul to set afloat takes with it to the bottom of the industry, their money, their insanity, that special naivety and their pride. By believing in these works Mu-Meson reinvigorates that subatomic particle, that quark, that germ of an idea that became a film, to glow in the dark once again. Go to the website http://www.mumeson.org/
Go to their screenings. Enjoy why we film makers make our films; to entertain and challenge you.
Expect Sons to be screened at Mu-Meson soon... Watch this space.
Unfortunately, Mu-Meson is only in Sydney, Australia.... but we aficionados of the irregular live in hope that this wonderful form of cinema shall continue to grow world-wide this give these films a life after never having been given a fair go.
ABC RADIO Program Movietime with Julie Rigg ~ Sons of Steel with Jaimie LeonarderABC RADIO Movietime
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Gary returns to Australia after 20 years in Southeast Asia
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| I went away for a couple of weeks and came back 20 years later.'In 1990 'Sons of Steel' was ignored by Australian theatrical distributors, so Gary and James had no choice but to pay Hoyts to screen the film theatrically, late night in Sydney and Melbourne so they could interest video distributors.Gary finally got a distribution deal with Virgin Vision so, with promotional support from MTV, the film was set to be released on video in Australia nationally in 1991. Unfortunately Virgin Vision went bankrupt before implementing the agreed promotional release campaign for the film and that was it for Sons in Australia.
Worse was, that after having exhibited the film at the Brussels 'International Festival of Fantastic Film', where it won official selection and after winning a place at the 'Festival of the Imagination' in Clermont Ferrand, France, and after obtaining a foreign rights distribution deal for the film with the Image Organization in the USA, in Australia at the ARIA awards where the film was nominated for best 'Australian Original Soundtrack' it lost to '42nd Street' which wasn't even Australian. Then with Virgin Vision going bankrupt, the recession hitting and an overdose of famous Aussie apathy to do with local products, Gary had had enough and quit Australia and go find a country/industry where he his talent might just be appreciated.
He found that in Hong Kong and the Philippines where Gary produced, television commercials, wrote screenplays, produced a number of record albums for artists and wound up with a Joint Venture agreement with a Filipino company where he wrote, produced, directed and sound edited 52 x 30 minute episodes of a TV show called 'P-Max' which screened on Brisbane's Channel 31 and on national free to air channel RPN 9 in the Philippines. He also wrote, produced and composed music for a number 3-D animated projects including introducing the first 3gp animated cellphone content in Southeast Asia, achieving in the first year of introduction over 2 million downloads.
Gary got married to Mai in 2006 and returned to Australia that year with Mai and their two daughters. The first thing Gary did after returning was have 'Sons of Steel' and 'Knightmare' digitized so that a DVD could be produced. He also offered 'Sons of Steel' to Foxtel, specifically 'The Sci Fi Channel'. I was knocked back giving Gary good reason to believe that nothing had changed in Australia during his 20 years abroad.
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James Vernon is executive producer and his daughter Kristy Vernon producer of 'Gabriel.
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See…..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_%28film%29
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0857376/
Since producing 'Sons of Steel' James has been executive producer of three feature films; 'Shattered Image' 1998 starring William Baldwin and Anne Parillaud.
'Gabriel' 2007 starring Andy Whitfield
'Prime Mover' 2009 starring William McInnes
and co-producer and producer of three feature films;
'Heaven Tonight' 1990 starring John Waters and Rebecca Gilling
'On the Dead Side' 1995 starring David Baldwin and Richard Carter
'Flynn' 1997 starring Guy Pierce and Cladia Karvan.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0894683/
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Gary produces the mascot for the New South Wales Waratah's Super 14, Rugby .... 'Tahman'
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After meeting then coach of the NSW Waratahs, Ewen McKenzie socially at the Crown Hotel, Coogee Bay in 2005 while Gary was visiting Sydney on business, they struck up a friendship. Later Gary had the idea of creating a much needed mascot for the Waratah's, so he and graphic artist Glenn Ford (the Australian Phantom comics artist), who Gary has a long professional friendship came up with the design of 'Tahman.'
Gary took the artwork from the Philippines to Sydney in 2006 but the then marketing management of the Waratah's did think they wanted to go with a super hero character as a mascot. A little later that year a new marketing director was appointed in Kim Aust-Howlett, and Ewen suggested for Gary to propose the artwork again.
Now 'Tahman' is the official mascot of the NSW Waratahs and every season Gary and his wife Mai produce a comic of Tahman's adventures that is featured in the Official Program at each of the Waratah's home games.
http://www.nswrugby.com.au/visytahman/index.html
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Black Alice' has a Facebook page - so become a fan!!
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Gordon Wood convicted of murdering his girlfriend played 'Inspector Dicks' in 'Sons of Steel.
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'See the clips on U-Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHolY4cuPks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZtY9Iz6BNM
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YouTube hits for 'Sons of Steel'
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more and more dudes are hitting the 'Sons of Steel' clips on U-Tube, check them out....
Rock N Roll Reck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBwW3K0ZUtA
Hard Lover
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiLAvy2Z3VY
Knightmare
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riforPzpyk8
Something in the Air
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiDyM2OFCjs
The Burn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57scLDwlkNA
Mr. System
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyU-6QLdty8
Sons of Steel - original cinema trailer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-Hr9i_uX9E
Knightmare
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riforPzpyk8
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Gary edits 'Sons of Steel' into the directors cut
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A few changes were made to the original release version of 'Sons of Steel.' Gary added some new off camera dialogue, subtitles to help continuity of the story, more music to the score and lots more sound effects that were missing from the original release. He also cut some footage out to tighten the film up. He said, 'I really wanted to get hold of the very first directors cut of the film which was 120 minutes long but it had tragically been destroyed when James Vernon's garage was flooded in the early 1990's. Once we had Image as a foreign rights distributor in 1990, they wanted shorten the film. In the late 80's early 90's cinemas required films to be 95 minutes so that they could fit more screenings into the day and thus make more money. Also, there were a number of drug references in the film that image wanted cut so they could get a PG rating for the film. I fought against the cuts but lost. Now the market has matured and the scenes cut, if added back to the film, would strengthen the subplot that suffered badly from the cuts, in my opinion. For instance when we first meet Honor and Karzoff, we don't know that both of them had just done a line of cocaine the length of the table they are sitting at. That is why they act so odd when they interview Hope, she actually calls them 'cokeheads' and it is the reason Alice accuses them of being 'off their faces.' I shot the scene with a vacuum cleaner hose up Honor's sleeve allowing her to super snort the humungous line. The original scene opened with her sucking up this huge line of toot. One day I hope to find the negative and perhaps salvage some of the great footage that had been brutally cut from the first cut thus rendering the film flawed in my mind.' |
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Jeff Duff is writing an autobiography entitled; 'The Naked Singer.
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Gary has read eight chapter and has expressed interest in making the film version. Gary claims there are times in Duffo's life where he has been an exaggeration of the character he played in Sons, Secta.
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John Vallins has a new CD entitled; 'Let's Fly Away'
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When Gary's composing partner of 30 years, John Vallins emailed him to say he was thinking of recording two of their old co-compositions to add to ten other instrumental tracks he'd recorded for his new album, Gary was thrilled. As it turned out John had already recorded one of their old songs entitled 'Let's Fly Away', which wound up being the title track of the CD.
Mai got to work and designed the album cover. The album is now it's being shopped to distribution companies around the world.
It's not 'regal rock' like their co-compositions in Sons of Steel, but by contrast it's seriously laid back bossa nova, the sort of music you listen to when you just want to chill with your lover and a glass of fine red wine |
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'Sons of Steel' is a cult classic in Hungary. AZ ACEL FIAI
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The Sons of Steel website get emails from all over the world. The film has fans all over the place. But it was wild to discover that when Sons was sold to Hungary in 1990 for video release, it was dubbed in Hungarian. As it turned out it was the very last foreign film ever to be dubbed into the native language there; the government changed and the dubbing studio closed down. So, aside from the success of the film there it also gained notoriety from be the last of it's kind and became a cult classic.
So, when Budapest film critic Balazs wrote to Gary to tell the story, they pretty quickly came up with the idea of supplying the fans with in Hungary a DVD of the Hungarian dubbed version. Balazs offered to put the word out to try and get a copy of the 1990 VHS release so he could strip off the soundtrack, send it to Gary to treat and attach to the new digital version. It all worked, Balazs posted an MP3 of the soundtrack on a website which Gary got his brother Rod to download, then Rod worked on it with 'Logic Software' on his G5 Mac and came up with a clean, stereo mix, got it to Gary who then imported it into 'Final Cut Pro' film editing software… cut the dialogue up to synchronize with the images, authored a new DVD and sent it back to Balazs in Budapest. He will now shop it to local distributors :) |
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'Sons of Steel' hits the road to tour film clubs in Australia with Q & A from Gary Keady, Jeff Duff .
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'Sons of Steel' hits the road to tour film clubs in Australia with Q & A from Gary Keady, Jeff Duff and Rod Keady.
Though 'Sons' didn't fair too well commercially in Australia over the years, seems now there is plenty of interest in the film.
Jeff Duff had met Jaimie of Meson Theatre in Sydney. Jaimie asked Jeff if he could get a DVD of the film to screen to his film club members and if Gary and Duffo would come along for a Q & A at that screening. Well, Gary loved the idea, then courtesy of Jaimie, the concept has blossomed from there. Now dates are being taken by Gary to screen the film and do a talk for other film clubs, including a gig at the 'Revelation Film Festival' proposed for next July in Perth. Seeing Gary is now in touch with Rob Hartley (Black Alice) after 20 years, he's hoping Rob will agree to join him for that screening. Perth is after all Rob's home town.
So if you're the member of a film club and you'd like to have the film along with a Q & A from it's makers, it won't cost the earth…. E-mail us at :info@sons-of-steel.com
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