VISUAL artist Tim Sedgwick has been making short films for decades, just for fun.<\/p>\n
Currently producing and filming his next science fiction movie Stargateway<\/em>, this low-budget project is like no other Sedgwick has worked on before, because he has been given the opportunity to premiere it at Showbiz Cinemas.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve written the original story, music, made the sets and props, and starred in a lot of the movie myself,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The Stargateway<\/em> shoot began last week, with cinematography and editing support from professional filmmaker Troy Beggs.<\/p>\n Sedgwick has a home green screen where production is taking place, and will edit his own original scene illustrations into the background of footage of actor performances, models, sets, props, and stop-motion animation.<\/p>\n Writer and comedian Justin \u2018Hap\u2019 Hayward is also on board the Stargateway<\/em> creative ship.<\/p>\n \u201cI showed Hap the ideas for the movie and storyboard drawings, and he thought it was very cool. He said, \u2018I\u2019ll write a script for you\u2019 and we workshopped it,\u201d Sedgwick said.<\/p>\n Friends have been enlisted to act alongside him, including musician and graphic artist Geoff Hassall.<\/p>\n A creative mentor of more than 15 years, and a production team member, Hassall calls himself \u201cthe Baldrick to Tim\u2019s Blackadder.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI met Tim when I was running a music group, writing songs, and we found that making videos was the best medium to include everybody in a group of extremely diverse people with disabilities, to give them a meaningful role,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s a job for everybody in filmmaking.\u201d<\/p>\n Sedgwick said his dream has always been to make movies, write and perform music, and create art.<\/p>\n \u201cEvery birthday wish I get, I wish to be an artist, filmmaker and musician,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cIt came true, because I worked on it, with a lot of hard work.\u201d<\/p>\n