Here’s a short sci-fi film by one of our own at M&C in Sydney, Australia.

An abduction movie starring Aboriginal people – a worldwide first.

KINDRED is written by Josh Bryer, an integrated M&C writer and Creative Group Head who’s drawn on 15 years experience (5 at M&C Saatchi / Mark) in hitting the right notes with audiences and using social media to maximum effect.

It also stars another M&C staff member, Kristy Schwind, as one of the Aliens!

The film is currently raising money on IndieGogo, a crowd-sourced funding website.
And after only 2 weeks, the interest shown by funders worldwide is quite phenomenal.

Join the groundswell and help make this film a reality here.

A number of Australian industry pros are already lending their time and talent for free.
People like:

Director: Oscar Nicholson of ON Productions.
DOP: Warwick Brown of Box Browny Films.
SFX: Dan Higson of Smith & Western.
Editor: Charles Ivory
Costume Designer: Claude Marcos

And the crew are in talks with a top VFX / CGI team too.

KINDRED is also currently featured on the IndieGogo home page, quite a feat for a 2-week old campaign.

Every bit helps – funding, as well as clicking Like / Tweet / G+ below the video and helping
to spread the word.

And the cool thing is, you’re not just helping a film get made, you get bang for your buck.
Like tickets to the Sydney premiere as a bare minimum - or a high-res digital file of the final film,
for those who don’t live / won’t be in Sydney.

So visit here and stake a claim in an M&C Saatchi staffer's movie.

M&C Saatchi Sydney staffers don't need to be asked twice for a rooftoop BBQ on a sunny Friday.

Hordes ascended to the sundrenched lid of 99 Macquarie St to tuck into hot food and cold drinks on a beautiful May day.

More impressive than the view was the fact more than $1,100 was raised for the Cancer Council, via the M&C Saatchi team of runners set to slog it out in the City Mile Dash on 15 June.

A decent chunk of that was raised by the raffle for Tom McFarlane's uber cool, bespoke Candadian Club esky, replete with hand crafted sufboards.

Parting with the prize was tough for Tom, especially when he discovered the esky was popping into the office next door when MD David Whittle drew the winning ticket.

The really great news is that David is re-raffling the one-off cooler, so there's be more funds heading to a charity soon.

In the meantime he's keeping it in his office to taunt Tom.