Jason Stringer

A goal without a deadline is just a dream.

Category: Filmmaking

My most brutal critic

“That’s pretty good, actually. Wouldn’t change much about it,” my wife casually informs me, flopping the flimsy 7-page screenplay onto the table in front of me. I’m hunched over the laptop again, my face illuminated in blue light from the screen. She turns her back to me and heads to the nearby kitchen counter to [...]

When a project goes limbo

It’s been over a year since I wrapped principal photography on the short filmĀ That Year They Were Bridesmaids with a small, talented crew in Perth’s Southern suburbs. Since filming finished, the project has bounced around in limbo waiting for completion–and I can trace it all back to one crucial decision we made during day two [...]

Dawn of a new decade. Got plans?

Here we go– ramping up a whole new decade. Creatively, I usually like to make plans and have things mapped out so I can work towards them. A goal without a deadline is just a dream, after all. As it stands right now, creative projects only fill the first couple of months. The rest of [...]

Coming soon to DVD

“Coming soon to DVD…” sounds like one of those promo ads you see on the telly. It’s time to get ready for another productive year ahead as 2009 trots to a close and 2010 gets started. To finish this year off I am finally completing the DVD transfers of my short films LIVING WITH BENJAMIN, [...]

Big screen satisfaction

I ‘ummmm‘ and ‘arrrr‘d through my little speech introducing my short film Living With Benjamin to a moderately seated Cinema 1 at Luna Cinemas on Oxford Street in Leederville. Happy to have the introduction over with I promptly took my seat and found comfort in the fact that, no matter how this went, it was [...]