Griff The Invisible team look to create feature version of The Mechanicals

The writer/director and producer duo of an Australian short film which screened in competition at the 2005 Venice Film Festival are looking to create a feature version of the story.

Leon Ford, writer and director of Griff the Invisible, told Encore he and producer Nicole O’Donohue are currently shopping a feature version of their short The Mechanicals at various international film markets.

Ford said: “We started in Cinemart in Rotterdam and we went to IFM in New York, where we had great responses. Also  Nicole was in Cannes recently. It’s just about keeping up a presence.”

The duo have secured international sales agents Paris and New York-based Memento Films, who worked with Cate Shortland on Lore.