PILOT
As the country's most famous and prolific fast food company, Crispy Aussie Chook (C.A.C.) maintains the highest quality standards that its customers deserve. Unfortunately, their customers don't realise that they deserve tainted, genetically modified, and altogether non-chicken material in their 'Fun Fried Fancy' packs. As part of their new marketing strategy, C.A.C. is seeking a mascot that epitomises the essence of their company: country-fresh, with just a 'touch' of enhancement. One willing dupe has come forth, little realising just what is in store. The thing is, neither does C.A.C. Their latest money saver in using barmy British bovine in their 'Cheeky Chook Chunks' is about to hit a small, but very effective bump in the road.
The pilot for the series was funded by Film Victoria's Digital Media Concept Development, and has been accepted for screening in thirty festivals around the world, two of whom were kind enough to give the film an award. Take a look at the festival listing here.
"Too scary and dark for our demographic!" says Cartoon Network.
"It doesn't meet our service charter!" says SBS Independent.
"Hell, this looks like Robot Chicken! Is it?" asks Bardel.
Despite this, we continue to force it down people's throats wherever possible, including yours.
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SERIES
Do you rely on social structure? Do you cling to the rock of dependable drudgery like a mindless limpet? Is your life mapped out like a continuum of banality…safe, smooth and stale? Does the thought of change make your palms sweat, your face blanch and your assets liquidate? Then prepare yourself for the greatest evolutionary upheaval since the Permian Extinction: the largest superorganism on the planet has had enough of you. Sick of the festering cancer that is humanity, it has decided that humans have had their heyday, and your position at the top of the heap is about to be revoked…
…but you won't know it's happening until it's too late.
A botched fast-food marketing strategy, Frankenchicken finds himself embarking on a mission to uncover the insidious secret activities of the country's largest corporation, C.A.C. What lies beneath the surface of Cinis is enough to make the bravest soul back down in abject cowardice, because not only do you have to go up against the Big Corporations, but the very caprice of Nature herself. It'll take a cybernetic chicken with no heart, a rat with more smarts than a human, a dog with a thousand voices, a raven that can see through anything, and a three-headed science experiment to stop this race towards pandemic slavery before Nature calls "Time's up!"
Cinis is a large, industrial, dirty, east coast city in Australia. It has no natural tourist attractions - in fact it has no tourist attractions at all! Its inhabitants enjoy heavily chlorinated water, ultra-processed foods, cramped housing, smelly docklands, bad jobs, and very little sunshine. So why do they stay? They stay because the media tells them that Cinis is the place to be, and they're not about to dispute their god.
The cityscape is bleak, inorganic and frequently shadowed if not in almost complete darkness. Trash and general grot tumbles about in the street, burying homeless people and keeping them out of the sight of the general public. Billboards extolling the virtues of MM Technologies and its various subsidiaries (such as C.A.C) tower stories high, brainwashing an already stupid population. Factories belch out toxic smoke and contaminated food.
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ABOUT
Welcome to the Frankenchicken website. Here you can find information and news on the project as we develop it in-house in the hopes that we can take it to market and convince people it really is a worthwhile series idea. Because it is.
But that's just the way it is in the big city. Just lower your eyes, ignore the pall squatting overhead, and go about your business, and the Big Corporations will take care of the rest.
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ANN-MARIE DENHAM
Director / Creator
BigKidz Entertainment Pty Ltd
Level 1, 47-49 Elgin Street
Carlton, Victoria 3053 AUSTRALIA
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