A Point Cook actor and his mate have created a short film with a strong message.
Clyde Boraine teamed up with Max Brown to create Kung-Blue, an action comedy, filmed at Werribee South, with the pair writing, producing and starring in the project.
The short film stars Boraine and Brown as police officers out to prove themselves in a world that “refuses to take the idea of two non-white cops seriously”.
Brown’s background is half Asian, half European; Boraine is half Asian, half African. The actors say the roles they are consistently offered are those of “bad guys”.
Boraine said it was “the way of the industry”.
“It’s slowly changing, but the reality is, if you’re casting police, the go-to for Aussie screens is still majority white guys,” he said.
“You see more diversity in the real-life police force than you do on screen.
“So we started thinking about what it would be like to be the only two cops of colour.”
Boraine says the motivation was to inject some “badly needed humour” into the serious issue of multiculturalism on screen.
The film will join the short film circuit in 2017. It will be entered into Trop Fest, and then its creators hope to take it to Canada and the US.
