By Christine de Kock
A KINGSVILLE film-maker has the chance of winning $1 million to direct his own film.
Gordon Napier, 35, is one of eight finalists selected to fight it out on Foxtel’s Project Greenlight, a reality TV program that aims to discover independent film-makers.
Mr Napier is the only Melbourne contender in the national competition.
Each week one film-maker or team of film-makers compete against another film-maker or team in a round robin competition, until the winner is announced on 14 December.
Mr Napier will know whether he will make it to the final round of competition on 19 October.
He entered the competition by submitting his script The Devil Made Me Do It.
“It is about a coward who wants to back out of his relationship and finds all these ways to irritate his partner such as being asked to do the washing and throwing a red sock into the lot,” he said.
Mr Napier, a commercial painter, has written other romantic comedies.
“I do test the material out on my wife, if she’s disgusted then it must be funny,” he jokes.
He has previously been a stand-up comic and a writer of radio commercials.
