Archive
This page lists every article available on the Backyard Productions website. You can page through through them using the Next and Previous page buttons (at the top and bottom of the list), or use the links down the right to see articles from a particular time-frame or production.
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Geriatric Park Trailer
September 1, 2008
“A Film Nine Months in the Making”
The trailer for BYP’s first film – Geriatric Park: Billionare businessman John Hammock has enlisted the help of the infamous Dr Nagasaki-Hiroshima to bring back ancient geriatric species from their fossilised dentures to be the main attraction of a new theme park. Now Hammock needs geriatric expert Alan Grunt and his esteemed collegaue Ellie Phant to endorse the park. But will the Geriatrics behave?…
A Parody of Jurassic proportions!
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George is now on Facebook!
August 31, 2008
That’s right! Our George Lucas can now be found on Facebook! He doesn’t quite have as many friends as some other George… but still, he’s there!
Just type George Lucas in Facebook and he should pop up!
You could even ask him a question!
Be Kind Rewind
August 30, 2008
Absolutely brilliant. We watched it last night after a long couple of days working on the new website. It’s so funny for us, especially as it so accurately captures what it was like for us when we first started making our films and sketches.
I have a bit of a love / hate relationship with Jack Black films: sometimes they are just too silly and self-indulgent, but it works here…. definitely quirky and perhaps not for all, (my girlfriend hated it when we saw it in the cinema – she preferred Son of Rambow), but if you have any interest in amateur filmmaking and fanfilms, it’s definitely worth a look.
What is even more clever, is that the Director, Michel Gondry (who also made Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), has sweded the trailer of his own film:
Finding the Force Tunisia Selection
August 30, 2008
Here are some photos from our recent trip to Tunisia, in search of Star Wars locations. [Read more]
