Our story

A story set over a summer in Melbourne City following two young artists, their hopes, expectations and unique moments shared with the people in this place they now call home. Featuring live performance's from the best of Melbourne's independent music scene, it is a snapshot of a time and place. Blurring the line between documentary and fiction, it explores communication, love and moments that only happen once.

Please help us finish this film by donating!

What Makes Our Film unique?

Inspired by the Dogme 95 movement, working within limitations, our goal is to film every shot in one take.

Blurring the line between documentary and fiction, we aim to create a different type of film experience, capturing honest moments as they happen.

Filming in this way will reduce waste, save power and keep production costs low.

We aim to start a website to distribute this film and others, and experiment with new models for film distribution.

We believe in an open content model, and we will be releasing all raw footage under a creative commons license.

About us

Ryan and Michelle got married on 26th December 2011. Their wedding guests kindly donated enough money for pre production, i.e to shoot the film. Now we need your help with post production funding. Please, help us finish this film so we can submit it to festivals around the world.

Ryan Alexander Lloyd has been writing, directing and shooting short films and music videos since 1998. Beginning, Middle and End marks his feature film debut. His producing credits include Ronnie Grimble selected for the Vienna Film Festival 2008.

Michelle Hughes has been running the internationally acclaimed Open Source film project Stray Cinema since 2005, her interest is opening up the film making process and allowing more people to have the opportunity to tell their stories using the powerful medium of film.

Ryan and Michelle together make up the two piece that is Oceans Between, a Glo-Fi band to have recently emerged from Melbourne, Australia.

Our Transparent Budget

116 minutes of Super 16 Film development = $1320
16 minutes of Super 8 Film development = $280
Telecine = $1650
Sound Design & Digi transfer to HD files = $2250

Total = $5,500

Other Ways You Can Help

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