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‘How to get a job’ – the movie

August 26th, 2009

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I have to admit a bias here as my partner was heavily involved in making this film. Originally, some 3 years ago, Chris Gaffney and a friend of his Lynn Healy decided to make a film about the treatment they both got at Centrelink and Job Networks being that they were unemployed. Chris gets some paid work as an actor so he was the obvious choice as the main character, George and Lynn had been retrenched from the then Telecom. Another friend of theirs was an ex-camera operator at a certain TV channel, but was currently a carer for his mother. He was the obvious camera operator.

Chris wrote the script with help from others and they started out. Wingnut (the camera operator) was very good at his job and wanted to make sure he got the best shots. Then came the editing, done mainly by Lynn. Much discussion ensued.

Finally the movie opened at 303 in Northcote, Australia to laughter. “It was a hoot,” I heard someone say.

The movie has now been uploaded to You tube and there has been a web page established to give you more details.

“How to get a Job” is a 15 minutes satirical comedy about being middle aged, unemployed and not employable in today’s economy. This tour of Job networks stars Chris Gaffney, Susan Duffy and a cast of lovable no-hopers.

Local Australian audiences agree “Deserves an Oscar”, “Absolutely hilarious”, “Very funny and makes all the right and left points”.

Even US viewers have given it a big thumbs up with American viewers describing it as “Hilarious”, “Excellent acting”, “Short and so sweet”.

At only $10 ($15 including postage worldwide) it would make an excellent gift. You won’t be disappointed.

Unfortunately, the web page doesn’t give you the web address to buy the movie so here it is at 3CR

Here are the Youtube videos which you can see for free.

Part A

Part B

It’s very difficult for me to take a step back, but I wasn’t happy with the ending. It doesn’t allow the audience to form a view of what to do next. But I loved the acting, the direction and the editing. It’s great little amusing video.

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