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Brown Peril - The Tim Porch Story

2006 Short film
  • Mockumentary
  • Comedy
  • Sport

Tim Porch (Josh Thomson) wants to be the world’s first Polynesian badminton champion — but a Samoan already has the title, so first Tongan will have to do. This mockumentary following Tim's troubled quest won the 2006 48Hours filmmaking contest. Requirements that year were to include a character called Robin Slade (an eternal optimist), a mirror, and the line “that’s what I’m talking about”. Newly hatched creative quartet The Downlow Concept would win the contest again in 2010 with Only Son — they picked up a couple of NZ Film Awards in the process. Josh Thomson and Ian Gordon took the main roles again.