Make My Movie

NZFC / NZ On Air / nzherald.co.nz present... the MAKE MY MOVIE project. Our proud history of profound, progressive & potty thinking: Splittng the Atom / Women Getting the Vote / the Zorb and now we have another world first: the MAKE MY MOVIE project

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Father's Son

A “Shotgunmedia” FILM
WRITTEN BY Shay Logan

It’s 1958 and 10 year old Williams world is about to turn upside down...

The banks about to take the house he and his mother live in, he has no friends, he hates school and his mothers never home constantly working in a male dominated job she loathes.
To top it all off, Young William’s father is dead.
His father, trying to collect money for the overdue bills was killed trying to rob the local bank.

When it all seems too much and life feels like it’s not worth living, he meets Jack a grumpy 78year old locksmith whose life is also on a downward spiral

The unlikely duo become close friends, William is always bunking school to spend the day with the locksmith and Jack becomes the missing father figure William pines for.

After a few months things become complicated when old Jack uncovers Williams plot to get the house back and release his mother from her oppressive job...
By robbing the same bank his father had 3 months ago.

As the trust between them falters the two become estranged, Young William cannot understand why the locksmith thinks it’s a ridiculous plan and Jack worries the inevitable unsuccessful bank robbery could destroy the young boys life.

Will William succeed? Will the 78year old locksmith stop him from making the biggest mistake of his young life? Or will the two unlikely thieves pull off the biggest heist ever seen in this small town.