Martin is currently seeking funding to complete postproduction for his latest film, "Death". Martin has been involved in directing over 30 films, and you can now be a part of helping "Death" be seen in cinemas and festivals worldwide! To view a trailer of the film Click here

The movie "DEATH"
DEATH is a mysterious comedy and a story about the things people will do for love. 
And for guilt. 
 They are easy to confuse...

Genre: A feature length mysterious comedy movie.
Tagline: I see live people - Everywhere!

Concept: Frankenstein meets The Others. An Indie film for lovers of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Amelie, Truly Madly Deeply and lovers of all that is Gothic.

Short Synopsis: Following the death of their Dad, four brothers and sisters return to the family home after many years to face each other, face facts and face the future. But what do they know of the past?

Cast:Leslie Phillips (more than 100 movies!), Paul Freeman (Raiders of the Lost Ark Hot Fuzz), Linal Haft (Moulin Rouge, East Enders), Nick Moran (Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels), Michael McKell (Doctors, Emmerdale), Emily Booth (Evil Aliens, Dog House), Sarah Jayne Dunn (Hollyoaks), Claira Watson Parr, Ben Shockley. All of these Actors had worked with the Director (Martin Gooch) before.

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Who is this Martin Gooch bloke anyway?

Although still appearing to be in his very, very late twenties, Gooch was actually born in 1872 due to an unexpected flux in the space time continuum.

Not a lot happened until 1992 when Gooch was 119 (see above) and went off to the US to be an Archaeologist, even though he didn't know anything about archaeology. Not knowing about things has never really been a set back for Gooch. After a degree in Film and Art, Gooch started work in the VFX Department on Judge Dredd.

Since then Gooch has worked on more than 200 productions from Harry Potter to East Enders and Robot Wars to Big Brother. He has filmed all over the world, from Sahara to swamp to Shepherd's Bush and still hasn't got a proper job.

Gooch is the only person in the world to have been a winner with BBC Talent two years running. He has made about 20 short film things give or take a few, but he can't quite remember.

Gooch has been directing Doctors for BBC1, where footage from one of his episodes was used at the ITV Soap Awards, for Best Episode, and Best on screen chemistry, which won an Award!

In the last six months or so Gooch sold his first feature film script The Dead and the Damned, which is his seventh completed feature script, and has been Directing Hollyoaks for Channel 4. He also Directed the live action bits for the Spooks (BBC1) interactive website, which is the future of broadcasting, apparently.

His latest short film The Gravity of Belief was nominated for best film at the 5th London Short Film Festival in January and was also a runner up at the Fortean Times Film Screening.

Gooch is currently studying for a Masters in screenwriting at the London College of Communication, which is part of the London University of the Arts.

Gooch loves far fetched fiction and has written several short stories and comics and stuff, most of which have not been published which just goes to show how unjust the universe is.

Gooch can hold his breath for 20 minutes, walk through fire, is immune to Vampire attack and is receiving therapy for his constant and compulsive lying.

Actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, Lazar Ristovski has led a vibrant and illustrious career as a Renaissance man of the film world.

Born in Yugoslavia on October 26, 1952, Ristovski went to Teachers High School before pursuing his acting career at the Department of Dramatic Arts at the University of Belgrade. Since then, he has appeared on stage 4,000 times, and in leading roles on television series and dramas over 40 times.

The Serbian actor’s extensive filmography, which stretches back 30 years, contains many films that have appeared at independent film festivals worldwide. After playing the lead role of Blacky in Emir Kusturica’s Underground (1995), the film was awarded the Palme D'Or (Golden Palm) at the Cannes Film Festival. The Second Wife (1998), in which he also starred, was screened at the Venice Film Festival. That same year, his film The Powder Keg (1998), won Best European Film (FIPRESCI) and Best Film in all categories by the Critics at the Venice Film Festival.

Ristovski wrote, produced, directed, and played the lead role in The White Suit (1999), a comedy/drama about a man’s memorable experiences on his train ride home to his mother’s funeral. The film made its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in the Critics Week Program, and was proposed as the Yugoslavian candidate for the Oscars. It won ‘Best Art Film’ at Gibelina, Italy, and ‘Best Film’ in the European Competition at the Panorama of European Cinema, Athens, as well as ‘Best Photography’ at the Mostra de Valencia.

Following this success, the film savant produced and starred in a comedy called Boomerang (2001). Written about a cast of crazy characters set against the backdrop of a Serbian café, was screened at the Berlin Film Festival . In 2006, Ristovski played Kaminofsky alongside Daniel Craig and Dame Judi Dench in the James Bond action thriller, Casino Royale. More recently, his projects have included Honeymoons (2009), Devil’s Town (2009), and St. George Shoots the Dragon (2009).

Lazar Ristovski’s films can be found on Raindance TV (http://raindance.tv/), including the highly acclaimed Belo odelo (The White Suit) (1999); Boomerang (2001); A Little Night Music (2002), a comedy-thriller about two silly men who work at a morgue; and the fairy-tale horror film, A Tailor’s Secret (2006). Other films featured on Raindance.tv are Sutra ujutru (Tomorrow Morning) (2006), which won awards at the Brothers Manaki International Film Festival, the Cottbus Film Festival of Young East European Cinema, and the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Lastly, Ristovski’s Optimisti (The Optimists) (2006), a film in which he acted and produced, was awarded at the Festroia-Troia International Film Festival, Geneva Cinema Tout Ecran, and the Valladolid International Film Festival.

Ristovski is the sole owner of the Zillion Film Company, which offers co-production services for feature films based in Serbia. For more about the actor/director/producer/screenwriter or any of his films, please visit http://www.zillionfilm.com/eng/zillion/index.html.

My name is Jarl Olsen. I am a middle aged white man living in the American Midwest. I lead a glamorous life. I’ve just spent this summer rehabbing a house that was so dirty, the people who used to go there to smoke meth would go to the neighbors’ to use the toilet. I swear this is true.

Once, while cleaning out an apartment storage unit, I found a box with some Swedish porn and lots of short films inside. I sold the porn right away, but no one wanted the short films, which had odd titles and starred actors no one had heard of. Some of them weren’t even in color. If I had been thinking, I could have Xeroxed the cover art from the porno and bought some blank DVD jackets, but those are the kind of “Eureka” ideas that only occur too late, like when you’re sitting at the Department of Motor Vehicles and it occurs to you what you should have said to that witch of a second grade teacher when she held up your crayon unicorn for ridicule before the entire class.

About the films. It was clear someone had spent a lot of time making them, even the black and white ones, so it didn’t feel right just chucking them. Besides, all that video stuff is really toxic for the environment. I sent them out to film festivals that take short films. Some of them didn’t get in. Some of them did. The important thing is, none of them came back.

I still use that box, because I move a lot and boxes are handy. Sometimes when I unpack it, I find things that I don’t remember having packed. Screenplays. A novel. Scribbled ideas for movies or TV shows. Nothing of value. No porn.

The latest thing I found was like a giant comic book, all carefully hand drawn by someone who clearly was not a professional artist. I read it and I thought it was like an entire movie drawn out, picture by picture. The story took place in Los Angeles and their were some references to other comics that I didn’t really get, but the main characters were pretty girls who I found myself rooting for, even though they kind of blundered their way through the world and didn’t treat others very well. Maybe when I look again, this comic will be a movie.

My name is Jarl Olsen and I live in the American Midwest and I am very grateful to Raindance for their support of filmmakers big, small and imaginary.

Jarl Olsen is a freelance copywriter and commercial director. His work, including some short films, may be viewed at jarlolsen.com and web.mac.com/smugglersinn.