Submitter’s Name: Victoria Westcott
Locked in a Garage Band is a coming of age comedy about a garage band that gets locked in a garage for a day.  It’s produced here in Victoria, BC by up and coming filmmaker-sisters, Jen Westcott (writer/director) and Victoria Westcott (producer).
We’ve already shot our teaser/trailer & we’re about to launch a Kickstarter campaign to raise $20 000 to fund the cost of our production in April 2011. We’re shooting on the RED camera over 10 days – the same camera that The Social Network was filmed on.
We’re looking for funding from ASC to feed our cast & crew over the 10 day shoot. It’s costly and we can’t feed them KD and hotdogs or they’ll walk off the set.
For your support, you will each get a personal invitation to our “Wrap Party” on the last day of shooting, copies of the DVD, a free ring tone from our teaser, a downloadable poster of the movie & a postcard signed by the cast and a “special thanks” in the closing credits of the film. If any of you wish to increase your donation, then we can discuss further awesome incentives (like Executive Producer and/or Associate Producer credit).
Victoria focuses on the business side of making the movie (hiring cast & crew, paying salaries, finding investors – all the things she thinks are fun!) while her sister focuses on the creative side of the movie business – writing & directing.
Victoria is also the owner of a teacher recruitment agency, Classroom Canada. She was a primary school teacher herself in London’s inner city schools before she started Classroom Canada in 2007. She recruits Canadian teachers to work in London, England. She travels the country looking for the best & brightest.
She wrote the ebook, Guide to Teaching in London: A Survival Guide for Canadians, which won an honourable mention from Writer’s Digest in 2010. Victoria has been blogging since 2005. You can read her 2 blogs about teaching & living in London, or her newest blog about making independent movies. She’s also active intwitter & facebook and loves to spread the word about people doing great work.
I love Awesome Shit Club! What a great concept. I’d love to spread the word about just how awesome ACS is and I might even like to be an awesomite if you’ll have me.
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