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This week I am finally far enough removed from Halloween to get back to a genre of short film I really enjoy and I hope you do too – science fiction! Lunar is set in the year 2057, the Us penitentiary system has become overburdened. In an attempt to provide relief a prison was built on the moon! Now some of you may think this sounds familiar, yes there was that awful movie Lockout that had a space station penitentiary. This however, makes use of that giant floating mass that we see in the sky at night, so that is pretty nifty. What differentiates the prison on the moon to normal prisons (besides the 238,900 miles) you may ask, there is no early parole, there is no sentence limit, nobody ever returns!

The story focuses on Heath Ryder and his attempt to escape the sinister lunar prison. Created by Tyson Wade Johnston, Lunar...

How is this as vote of confidence? About a week after his short film Lunar hit the web, CAA has signed Tyson Wade Johnston for representation. The 22-year-old Australian signed with the agency in a competitive situation generated by the buzz from the seven-minute short, which he wrote, directed and produced on a budget of around $5,000. Lunar is set in a strict robot-patrolled Los Angeles in 2057, and is centered on a man who is arrested after trying to steal bread for his family and is sent to the penal colony on the moon.

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