Hey folks, Harry here with a scoop from our source at the SCI FI channel, who I'll call, Galaxina! This time she is giving us the inside skinny on what Alex Proyas has up in the works which includes one film he's working on that he doesn't think will be complete for 20 years! Start your countdown site for that one folks! Hopefully Galaxina will be providing more scoops of this variety in the future, and as for the show... sounds cool as hell, tune in if you get the chance!

SCI FI's new film series Exposure features the first and early works of filmmakers of cinematic genius coupled with new shorts from next-generation filmmakers. The series airs each Wednesday on SCI FI (Channel) at 10 PM. Next week, May 3, we are running Alex Proyas' first film shorts "Groping" (Australia/1980) and "Strange Residues" (Australia/1981) made when he was 17 and 18 as a film student. These films have rarely, if at all, been seen in the US. "Groping" won an award at the 1982 London Film Festival and shows an example of Proyas' early brilliance...watch the two films closely and you will absolutely see the makings of Dark City...thematically and visually.

The series airs exclusive interviews with the famed directors. We were able to get an exclusive interview with Proyas talking about these films and over the course of it got some juicy tidbits of previously unknown upcoming Proyas projects that will not air in the Exposure series and are exclusive to you ...

" The next film I'm going to make is a comedy, set in Sydney about a garage band/rock band. There's perhaps elements of things I have lived through, which was a starting point. It's more about people that I grew up with...the people who are out to conquer the world as rock stars and perhaps get to a point in their lives where they realize that they may not be able to do that. So it's kind of about growing up." Also, " I love music and am very influenced by rock and roll... the marriage of film and music is wonderfully rich ...when I first started seeing Stanley Kubrick's films I was really quite struck with that fusion of image and music and the contrast of imagery, and almost inappropriate piece of music..."

And when asked about film shorts and his further exploration with the format, Proyas goes on to say, "I actually have a project that is an anthology film -- a collection of short films. And I have been shooting these shorts over the years. I have managed to do three because I am still financing them. I have been issued three of them over the last, I guess five or six years. So, at this rate it's going to be 20 years before this film actually gets completed...I am that into this format, that I continue trying to do them, when I get the opportunity to."

I'd appreciate your mentioning SCI FI's series Exposure... it is really a tribute to filmmaking and those who have lent their brilliance to the medium. We have much more to pass along to you exclusively as this is an ongoing series and the interview footage is priceless. In the weeks and months ahead, we have Clive Barker, Tim Burton, among others. I'd like very much to feed you inside quotes.

Incidentally, Jim Gillespie's first work "Joyride" (Scotland/1995) is also featured on this episode on next week's episode .

Yours truly,

Galaxina