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Making Venus (2002)

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clip Bank loan education content clip 2

Original classification rating: MA. This clip chosen to be G

Clip description

Emerging film producers Jason Gooden and Julian Saggers have applied to a bank to borrow $240,000 to continue making their under-funded feature film. Jason explains that the bank thinks it is a housing loan. He ends by saying ‘we will be paying for the film for the next 25 years’.

Curator’s notes

The interview is recorded in the middle of a five-year ordeal, making a film that should have taken 18 months. We also learn that the schedule and the script are not ready.