Tom Noakes and Will Goodfellow are teaming up with Princess Pictures for their first feature film, The Answerers, as part of their ongoing participation in Screen NSW’s Short to Feature Fast Track program. The duo is among four filmmaking teams selected in the program’s second round, each receiving $75,000 to develop a short or proof-of-concept project alongside their debut low-budget feature.

Noakes and Goodfellow previously created the short film The Worm under the Studio Goono banner, featuring Joe Bird as a young man whose unusual beliefs prompt a family intervention. The Worm was chosen for the Midnight Shorts section at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

Their upcoming feature, written by Goodfellow and directed by Noakes, centers on a burned-out telemarketer who discovers a rundown house with a mysterious rotary phone that never rings. He soon becomes involved with a group of misfits obsessed with the belief that the phone’s eventual call will transform the life of whoever answers it.

• Mike Cowap and Christopher Casanova will produce for Princess Pictures.
• Noakes and Goodfellow will also produce, alongside Adrian Pinto.
• Executive producers include Laura Waters, Emma Fitzsimons, Katie Shortland, and Marian Macgowan.

Casting and financing for The Answerers are currently in progress. Goodfellow shared that the collaboration with Princess Pictures began after an introduction from Lucy Gaffy, a producer on The Worm. “She met with Mike and Christopher about her own projects and noticed our shared creative sensibilities, so she connected us,” Goodfellow explained. “Adrian and I later met Chris at Screen Forever, then reconnected with both Chris and Mike in Melbourne during MIFF. By then, they had read The Answerers and were eager to join the project. When The Worm was selected for Sundance, we formalized the partnership.”

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