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  Date Time Subject 25th August 2004 13:32:46 MOTH We've finally signed off at CFC having completed all the visual effects work which has now been recorded back to film. All the "Moth" negative is now with our neg cutter who started work on the film today. All being well the neg cut should be complete by the end of next week after which we'll start grading the film at Deluxe.

  Date Time Subject 13th August 2004 16:13:03 AN ORDINARY GOD Further to successful application to Screen East for development funding we're delighted to announce that Tom Strudwick will be script editing "An Ordinary God". As well as overseeing the project with Screen South on their "Good Foundations" scheme, Tom will now also be helping develop the script throughout the coming months. Tom is a freelance consultant, a script editor, and a provider of training schemes for producers and writers. Consulting clients have included sales agent The Works, the New Zealand Film Commission, production companies and law firms. Training programmes include Screen South’s Good Foundations producer scheme and Dreamcatcher writer development programme, the NZFC’s CineMart Seminars and the New South Wales FTO’s Aurora script project. Tom entered the film business in 1991 and In 1992 he joined Ciby Sales where he became Acquisitions Executive. Ciby Sales became one of the most successful film sales companies worldwide, financing over sixty feature films, including Academy Award and Palme d’Or winners The Piano, Secrets and Lies, Underground and All About My Mother, as well as films from Robert Altman, David Lynch and Bernardo Bertolucci. Acquisitions included PJ Hogan's Muriel’s Wedding, Mike Leigh’s Career Girls and Topsy Turvy, Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man, Todd Haynes’ Velvet Goldmine and Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides. In 1997 the company was taken over by Metro Goldwyn Mayer, and renamed Goldwyn Films (later United Artists Films), and Tom was promoted to Vice President, Acquisitions & Production. He was production executive on Michael Winterbottom’s The Claim and Rob Schmidt’s Sundance entry Crime and Punishment in Suburbia, and responsible for development deals with Michael Winterbottom’s Revolution Films, Almodovar’s El Deseo, Killer Films (Boys Don’t Cry, Velvet Goldmine) and GreeneStreet Films (In The Bedroom, Swimfan). Acquisitions included Karyn Kusama’s Sundance Best Picture Girlfight.

  Date Time Subject 2nd August 2004 20:57:51 AN ORDINARY GOD Having successfully completed Stage 1 of Screen South's "Good Foundations" scheme, we were invited to apply, with "An Ordinary God", for Stage 2. We're delighted to announce that we've been selected to continue on the scheme. Stage 2 will take us through the rest of this year, with the intention of taking our project to the American Film Market in November. It will be there that we will start the process of raising finance for the film. The success of this application, alongside the support we're receiving with Screen East's Development Funding, will be invaluable in our attempts to produce this film.