We’ve been selected to be screened at the VAULT Film Festival in London next February!
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Casting Announcement – Rowan Birkett
With under 2 weeks until we film our Christmas special, “Astrid’s Secret”, we can now officially announce that actress Rowan Birkett has joined our cast.
Rowan will be playing Catherine Bennett, daughter of Astrid, in our next episode.
Here’s what Rowan had to say:
“I’m an actress that couldn’t afford drama school so have a degree in Psychology. I’ve recently been down in London performing in a site specific theatre piece called Sitting Comfortably directed by Geraldine Pilgrim. Next year year I have my first role in a feature film as Mirwen in Kingdom: Fall of Illandrieal. I’m a member of the National Youth Theatre and I’m one of the voice actors in an ongoing sci-fi radio drama called Tin Can. I applied for Cops and Monsters because I saw a casting call and thought I’d make a damn good Zombie. My resting facial expression is naturally vacant so that helps. On the shoot I’m looking forward to meeting some new people who are passionate about what they do, and playing a zombie. Though admittedly I like to think I’d be on the surviving side when the eventual apocalypse does take place. I guess we’ll see.“
Filming takes place on the 26th of November and we aim to get the episode online in time for Christmas.
Cops and Monsters Merchandise – Support Indie Film
We are offering a small range of merchandise from the world of Cops and Monsters for you to own, and in return help us make more episodes of the show.
So far we’ve got a DVD with all our currently available episodes, two different A3 posters, t-shirts and hoodies.
We commissioned artist Michael Philp to create a front page for an as-yet-to-be-made Cops and Monsters comic strip and now you can own it for just £10! We’ll print it off as A4 and laminate it for you.
Head over to our Merchandise page and help us make more Cops and Monsters next year!
Latest News – Scottish Webseries – Indie Filmmaking
It won’t be long now until we release episode 5 of our web-series, in fact we plan to show “Revolution in a Teacup” to the world by the end of November!
Continuing the story that we started with “The New Recruit”, Maya Hedges searches for her kidnapped colleague, leading her to question vampire leader Lady Audrey MacDairmid, with goody-two-shoes Grace Mackenzie on her tail to stop her from doing anything stupid.
Meanwhile The Cult of Many Faces ups his game of terror against the members of the Paranormal Investigation Team, releasing his killer werewolf out into the world to strike again…
Starring Ellen Patterson, Simon Weir, Billy Kirkwood, Kenny Boyle and Innes Anderson with guest stars Sophie Aldred, Mhairi Calvey, James Payton and Rachel Teate. Written by James T Harding.
Be sure to catch up on the full story at our official YouTube page and don’t forget to click “Subscribe”!
Episode 5 will be released to all of our backers first before being uploaded to our YouTube channel.
Episode 6 is about to enter post-production, with Anne Nicholson beginning the edit soon. Written by Laura Anderson, “Fight the Bite” will continue immediately on from episode 6 and bring Volume 1 closer to it’s conclusion…
Guest stars include Katrina Bryan, Leona Vaughan, Rachel Teate, Tam Toye, Matt Robertson and Chris Bain.
We aim to release this episode to the public early in 2017. However we will be producing our Christmas episode, “Astrid’s Secret”, written by Roland Moore, filming it on the 26th of November this year. It will be released sometime in December.
Finally we will be producing the 7th episode of volume 1 in Spring 2017, bringing the case of Lycan A202 to a dramatic and devastating close.
Episode 5 Update
“Revolution in a Teacup”, our 5th episode of Cops and Monsters, is currently in post-production.
Leila Dean, our latest visual effects artist to join the team, is currently working on the effects for the new episode, which means we are one step closer to having the episode ready for release.
Episode 5, written by James T Harding, will see Maya Hedges frantically searching for Martin Carmichael, who has been kidnapped by The Cult of Many Faces, leading her to Lady Audrey MacDairmid (Sophie Aldred), who might just be able to help her case. Meanwhile Alexis is confronted with a face from her past, forcing her to deal with her future in ways she didn’t predict.
Sophie Aldred guest stars as vampire leader Lady MacDairmid
James Payton stars as werewolf activist David Brannigan
Wolfblood star Rachel Teate makes her debut as Grace Mackenzie, a goody-two-shoes PITS agent.
“Revolution in a Teacup” Update
A quick update to say that episode 5 has completed it’s 2nd edit by Anne Nicholson! Running at just over 22 minutes, we’ve now sent off the episode for visual effects, sound design and music.
We’re aiming to release the episode this November and we will send out a private link for you all to see it before the episode goes live to the public.
DVDs and blu-rays will be made up and sent off in November also.
The edit for episode 6 will start by the end of October and we hope to release it to our backers in December.
We will be shooting our Christmas episode, “Astrid’s Secret”, written by Roland Moore, on the 26th of November. This was down to a successful crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo.
Thank you all for your continued support of Cops and Monsters.
Episode 5 Update
The first edit of episode 5, “Revolution in a Teacup”, is in. Notes have been sent back and then we’ll be sending it off for visual effects, music and sound! Hopefully we’ll be able to release the episode to the public early November!
Our backers for episodes 5, 6 and the Christmas episode will receive a private link before the public release so you can all see it before anybody else!
The Indiegogo campaign for our Christmas episode has 18 days left and we’re £294 away from our goal! You can find out more and get involved by clicking here.
We’re Casting For Cops and Monsters!
We’re casting for a Scottish-based actress to play a zombie daughter in our Christmas episode. Information is below. If you’re interested please e-mail your CV, headshot and showreel to castings@sillyweefilms.co.uk.
“Cops and Monsters” is an award-winning, on-going supernatural drama following the cases of the Paranormal Investigation Team Scotland.
We’re shooting our Christmas episode in Scotland on the 26th of November and we are looking for Scottish-based actresses to audition for the role of Catherine Bennett, a 20-year old woman who has been turned into a zombie.
We’re looking for self-tapes to be sent by the 8th of November.
This is a paid position. Offering minimum wage for the day. We are only looking for actresses based in Scotland due to our budget.
The character is a wild zombie the entire time and a lot of physical acting is required.
The script is written by Roland Moore, an award winning writer who writes for Doctors and the hit BBC series, “Land Girls”.
Simon Weir (River City, The Acid House) and Wanda Opalinska (Peaky Blinders, Doctor Who) will appear in the episode as the two leads.
Introducing Wanda Opalinska – Christmas Special Casting
With a month to go until we shoot our Christmas episode, “Astrid’s Secret”, by Roland Moore, we can now officially announce actress Wanda Opalinska, who will be playing the titular Astrid in the episode.
Wanda recent TV work includes: Silent Witness, Home Fires, Raised by Wolves. Other TV work includes: Peaky Blinders, The Vote and The Trials of Jimmy Rose.
She can currently be seen in the film ‘A Monster Calls’ and is a series regular in the Welsh language drama ‘Parch’.
As for why she’d like to play Astrid:
“I’ve not done a lot of Sci-Fi (aside from playing Justine in Faction Paradox, where I thoroughly enjoyed battling Sutekh), so this is a lovely opportunity to immerse myself in another world.
And who wouldn’t want to be in a series titled ‘Cops and Monsters’?”
We’re currently £498 away from being able to make the Christmas episode happen on our Indieigogo Campaign so if you’d like to help us you can check it out by clicking here.
Help Us Make Our Christmas Episode – Roland Moore’s Astrid Secret
We know people don’t like talking about Christmas too early, but like most of your favourite TV shows, we’re going into production with our yuletide special, aiming to shot it in November so we can release it online in December just in time for Santa Claus to deliver his presents to all the good little girls and boys.
Roland Moore, creator of “Land Girls” and writer of “Doctors” (amongst other things!) has scripted our Christmas special, “Astrid’s Secret”.
When PITS Commander Norris Fletcher drops in on Astrid Bennett’s house on his way to the office party, he intends to drag Astrid out of our house to avoid an awkward party on his own, little realising that Astrid is hiding a most terrible secret that can only end in disaster.
Shooting “Astrid’s Secret” will take 1 day with Simon Weir reprising his role of put-upon PITS Commander Norris Fletcher. Joining him will be Wanda Opalinska who has appeared in “Peaky Blinders”, “Silent Witness”, “Raised by Wolves”, “Man Down”, “Coronation Street” and many, many more projects. Wanda will be playing Astrid.
To make this happen we are running an Indiegogo campaign to raise £1200 which will end on the 30th of October. We’re offering signed scripts for this episode, DVDs of all of our current episodes so far, signed cast pictures, posters, and more in return for your support. You can find out more by clicking here.
Episode 5, “Revolution in a Teacup” will be picture locked in the next week and sent off for visual effects, sound design and music. We hope to release the episode by the end of October or the beginning of November. Episode 6, “Fight the Bite” will then go into the edit and we aim to release it to the public early next year, with our episode 6 backers receiving a link to watch the episode earlier.
We’ll resume filming “Volume 1” with the final part in the story being filmed in Spring 2017.
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