Happy Feet writer’s Tango Underpants among films in ScreenWest’s crowd-funding initiative

A short film by the writer of Happy Feet and Master and Commander is among a selection of films selected in ScreenWest’s latest film initiative.

John Collee wrote Tango Underpants, about an Australian backpacking through South America who, after a bad break up discovers the tango and, according to the synopsis ‘the importance of the right underwear’.

The short film is one of 29 projects selected as part of a fund-matching initiative between ScreenWest and crowd-funding site Pozible, in which for every dollar raised by the selected projects through Pozible, ScreenWest will contribute three dollars.

With a pre-defined budget projects must be between $20,000 to $200,000.