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Bob proudly models his new gardening outfit:
Ben's back! Handy Ben Jurss has boomeranged with his front firmly planted at the edit desk cutting Escape With ET series 10. What's on now at THEpostWORKS: Bob, Ben and Jessica's WIP includes cutting the last 5 episodes of "Bindi the Jungle Girl" plus segments for Bindi's new "Kid's Fitness DVD; a pilot episode of "Worst Animal Nightmares" coming soon on Animal Planet, editing Bindi's video clips "Save Me" and "Trouble in the Jungle", promos for " 10 Ways to Die" also coming soon to Animal Planet; a new 1 hour series - series 10 - of "Escape With ET" and new promo for Andrew Ettingshausen's Escape Sportfishing Lodge on Groote Island. New clips highlighting some of these are now in the Gallery section on our website. Bob also recently edited a Cinema trailer plus 3 web and cinema teasers for "Acolytes," a teen chiller produced by Penny Wall and Richard Stewart and directed by Jon Hewitt. "Acolytes" recently screened at both the Melbourne and Brisbane International Film Festivals and has been accepted into Toronto Film Festival Midnight Madness. Only 10 films globally are granted this honour. Our congratulations go to Bindi Irwin who was presented with a Logie at the 2008 Annual Logie awards and she and her show were nominated for three ( count 'em: 3 ) Emmies which are for: best opening titles; best song (Save Me, which is about the plight of whales globally;) and best performer. BINDI WINS 2008 EMMY FOR BEST PERFORMER! YOU LITTLE RIPPER!!! BINDI WINS ACE AWARD FOR BEST CABLE TV CHILDREN'S SERIES Bob has teamed up with long-time friend and colleague TV producer John Schindler. Bob worked with John on a Penguin award winning documentary "Tigers and Snakes" which recounted the sinking of ships in Singapore harbour during a WW2 commando raid by Australian Z force members. John's new project centres around Australia's worst recorded maritime disaster: an event during WW2 when a Japanese unmarked transport ship the "Montevideo Maru" was sunk by the United States submarine "USS Sturgeon". When the sub's torpedoes slammed into the vessel over 1200 Australian prisoners of war and detainees were killed. The troops and civilians had been captured by Japanese troops when Rabaul was attacked shortly after the Pearl Harbour raid. The prisoners were en-route to Japan to work as forced slave labour. Their story forms part of the documentary which will contain interviews (some already in the can) with the only Japanese survivor as well as former interned POWS and nurses. Also already filmed are interviews with POWs who were incredibly rescued from certain death by sailors of the same United States submarine which had torpedoed their unmarked Japanese transport: "Rykuyu Maru" 4 days earlier. This submarine "USS Pampanito" remains as a floating memorial in San Francisco and sailors from that WW2 patrol recount their experiences. John also intends to film re-enactment sequences of of these real and horrific events. Acclaimed Director/D.O.P. Richard Marks, with whom Bob and John have worked closely for decades, has come on board to direct and film the re-enactment sequences. It will be compelling viewing.
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