Created by

Nick Simons & Camilla Storm © Sprocket 2016

Contact: nick@sprocket.no / +47 45860756

Polly and Ziggy work at Popcorn Pictures: the strangest film studio with the weirdest film crew, producing the oddest films in a bizarre tinsel-town called Pollywood.

Polly is a control freak. Just as well she’s the director. With an an extra pair of hands and a gang of telepathically controlled sprocket-bots, she likes to keep things organized and on-track. Ziggy, her geeky, gadget-obsessed kid brother, is responsible for all things technical, with help from his reality-shifting “edit-o-tron 1000” and creative input from his close-harmony hair-snakes.

Each film is another installment of creative chaos. They have to manage the inevitable misunderstandings between their crew: an amnesiac ex-shamen whose potions backfire, a vegan spider costumier and make-up artist, a one-octopus instant soundtrack generator and a grumpy stuntman swapped at the waist with his choreographer twin brother. They have to deal with the multi-species divas and hams of Pollywood. Not to mention the wake of destruction caused by little brother Milo.

On top of all this, Polly and Ziggy exist on different creative planets. She loves order and getting things done, he loves the journey and will do almost anything to make sure it never ends. It’s no surprise that conflict is never far away. But eventually they always come together to finish the film.

There’s more to this story: Polly and Ziggy live with their family in an old closed-down cinema. Their parents inherited it after their grandparents disappeared. On rainy days when they have to look after Milo, they watch films. Magic films. Films which open a portal in the cinema screen, a portal which transports them into the mad, mad world of Pollywood until the movie is finished. They have so much fun, they can’t wait to make more movies. And maybe even solve the mystery of their missing grandparents...

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Starring:

PollyPolly is a completer finisher: organised, resourceful, handy with tools. Polly likes epic movies with real sets, real props, real extras. Polly is the director, helped by an extra pair of hands and a crew of telepathically controlled robo-sprockets. She is never content until the job is done. The longer it takes, the more impatient she gets. Don’t mess with Polly.

Ziggy Ziggy is a freeform creative: a scruffy techno-genius with side-order of geek. Ziggy loves monster, robot and space movies, with a guilty pleasure of musicals. He has a head full of singing snakes and controls the tech with the unpredictable, reality manipulating “edit-o-tron 1000”. Ziggy enjoys the journey more than the destination.

MiloNO Little brother Milo is an unstoppable force of nature who leaves chaos in his wake. He has become one with his beloved monkey onesie. He has been told “No!” so many times he believes his name is MiloNO.

From the town of PollywoodA rich cast, including: ego-centric leading men Hunk Wilson, Clam Wilder, Diesel Grunt and Pull Mooney; Marionette Antoinette, the diva with low self esteem; Bony Tony, the horror movie veteran; Chloro-Phyllis, a pot-plant bored with being scenery; Steven the Seagull kung-fu action hero; Simi-Andy, the gorilla hard man; The Shark Actors’ Guild; Mr. Bogey and Boil the Rabbit, reporters for the Pollywood Enquirer. And many more...

Spinning JennySpinning Jenny is a firm, fair, matriarchal Spider who has kicked the habit of eating actors and extras. Now she spins actors into elaborate costumes and outfits along with the whole make-up and stylist thing.

ZipZip is a monosyllabic stunt-man who loves danger. Zip swapped legs with his choreographer twin brother Zap on a low budget B-movie and they never swapped back. Zip hates Zap and all actors.

Anana Anana is an absent minded ex-shamen who runs the special effects lab in the studio basement. She could have been the best in the business but her potions invariably backfire and she has forgotten most of what she knew.

OctetOctet is a grouchy one-octopus orchestra, able to improvise and perform entire movie scores as the cameras roll. He communicates via growling, by giving someone an inking, or via musical mood-swings, instantaneously changing on-set action.

POPCORN PICTURES PRESENTS:

ORIGIN STORY: A Fistful of Chickens: Polly and Ziggy discover a treasure trove of magical films. They are transported through the cinema screen into movie studio Popcorn Pictures. Against a backdrop of a classic western, a wild stunt sequence, a falsetto-voiced hard man and a flatulant cow, narcissist star Hunk Wilson’s plans for self-merchandising backfires as Milo dips a Hunk-action figure in Anana’s voodoo potion.

Crouching Romeo Hidden Juliet. A re-telling of the star-crossed lovers is driving Octet to distraction. He doesn’t like love stories. He changes the music, changing the film into a Monta-fu and Chop-ulet martial arts film. All negotiation attempts end in a thorough inking.

Singing in the Brain. A miniaturised musical is lmed and set inside the head of Pollywood diva Marionette Antoinette, but her adjustable perception reflection mirror is causing the shoot all manner of neural obstacles.

War and War and a Wall. Polly wants to make a space thriller. Ziggy, a musical. Both movies are fed into the projector. The ensuing chaos leaves Jenny no choice but to separate them with a wall. But with only half a crew and half a cast they can only make half a movie each.

Bigfootloose. Polly has compromised with Ziggy, and the Himalayan monster movie now has an elaborate musical sequence. They need a choreographer, and know just the guy: Zip’s twin brother, Zap, who can create instant flash-mob routines. But can the brothers reunite?

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