Inside Rad Casting

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Schindlers Fist II: The Search for my Watch

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Season one available to own now. Go to www.thecollectivedvd.com to purchase the special "Limiturd" edition.

In this sequel Gertrude Inknipple and her friend must survive the horrors of Nazi Germany and the cruelty of SS Officer, Hertz Meinweiner, as he obsessively searches for his lost watch.

The Gym Instructor

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Horst Jorgner QC, well known German Intellectual Property lawyer and sometime film producer, releases the first clip from his comedy skit show, The Collective Season One.

Mr Jorgner acquired the rights to distribute the television pilot under a section of the now infamous Hoppflingers Law from a group of filmmakers he represented in a moral rights case in early 2008. In this clip, a rather passionate personal trainer takes a young new client through his rather unique training routine. Mr Jorgner claims that the character of the personal trainer was based on his own overzealous instructor and to whom he attributes his current "outstanding physique".

Next week, the vaults of Jorgner Films will open to reveal a sneak peak of the works of his good friend and director, Krystofe Svez Jr, a man who Jorgner claims is the greatest film director since Ed Wood. Svez is reportedly now based in Australia, lured by the Australian Government's generous Producer Offset which gives a 40% rebate to films with a qualifying eligible expenditure (or QAPE) of over $1 million dollars to those films that pass a SAC test (Significant Australian Content). Despite Svez not being a native born Australian he does claim to have "a very big SAC" and is currently mounting a campaign to have his latest film, Schindlers Fist II: The Search for my watch, entered into the AFI Awards, the Australian equivalent of the Academy Awards.

The Collective DVD is now available to buy at http://www.thecollectivedvd.com/. Jorgner claims it is "funnier than Auschwitz".

The Collective Trailer

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Welcome to The Collective.

The comedy skit show deemed too offensive for television.

Horst Jorgner QC today released the trailer for Season 1 of The Collective, a comedy skit show deemed too offensive for commercial television. The show was created some years earlier by a group of young filmmakers, the names of which must be withheld by law. The filmmakers, known collectively as "The Collective", first tried to sell the pilot to a range of television broadcasters around the world. The reaction of many of the executives who had to sit through the series was resoundingly negative. It left many offended and disgusted by its supposed juvenile humor and disrespectful betrayal of minorities and people in general. Many claimed that it was also "simply not funny". One German TV executive was so offended by the series that he took "The Collective" to court under a legal precedence dating back to the Nuremburg Trials. It was, she claimed, "a crime against humanity". Enter Horst Jorgner QC.

Jorgner acted in the defence of "The Collective" and in an ensuing moral rights case acquired the property under Hoppflingers Law. His reason - "Ist gave me funnies". In a rather contradictory statement, the foundations of the series moral incomprehensibility was also noted by Jorgner himself who stated after the hearing over a beer and schnizel that the series was indeed "a blight on the genre and quite possibly illegal". While the filmmakers were never indicted for crimes against humanity, many have gone into hiding. There are rumors that one has joined Al Qaeda and is now working on a range of corporate videos for Osama Bin Laden. This leads many to query whether the opening scenes of the trailer are not simply a joke but rather documentary evidence of terrorist links with "The Collective". Jorgner refuses to comment about the CIA's involvement and interest in the case, The Collective versus Humanity.

Season One of the Collective is available for sale at www.thecollectivedvd.com

Welcome to the Collective

"A blight on the genre and quite possibly illegal..."

Horst Jorgner, QC

"The filmmakers have guaranteed that they will never again work in the industry"

US TV Producer (name suppressed for legal reasons)

"Rather like a turd that refuses to flush"

Filmaschtlung Project Manager (name suppressed for legal reasons)

"Infantile. Juvenile. Purile. A real treat"

Court Official, The Collective Legal Proceedings

THE COLLECTIVE

The comedy skit show deemed too disgusting for Television.

‘The Collective’ was a pilot length television programme created by six independent writers, directors and actors, which was filmed in early 2007 and that contained a series of unrelated ‘sketch comedy’ sequences. Originally destined for free to air and pay networks the show was quickly relegated to the vaults of the courts while lawyers and network executives entered into a lengthy and expensive legal battle concerning the programme’s content. Deemed as ‘offensive’, ‘obscene’, ‘putrid’ and ‘not suitable for viewing in any timeslot that exists now or is ever likely to exist in the future’ it appeared that ‘The Collective’ would forever spend its life in legal limbo and eventually in the show’s disillusioned creators (with some moving on to more fruitful, international careers) turned their backs on the project.

Fast forward to mid 2008 and enter German born producer, Horst Jorgner who, having been made aware of the plight of ‘The Collective’ through his dear friend, director and collaborator Kystofe Svez Jr. successfully petitioned for the programmes release through the use of an antiquated European legal precedent known as Hoppflinglers Law. In doing so, Horst (himself a Q.C.) inadvertently obtained copyright to the programme and was given permission to distribute (but not broadcast) the material contingent upon certain conditions according Hoppflinglers - two of which are (D pt ii) That’ the works’ be altered from it’s original format so that it shall become recognisable but not definable as the original work and (F pt ec) The original owners have relinquished all copyright and credit in ‘the works’. Oddly Hoppfinglers makes no provision or enforcement that the title be changed. Immediately the entrepreneurial Mr Jorgner set out not only to re-edit the original programme but also began to include additional material from other films and programmes which he had previously obtained over the years and, as he states on his facebook page, ‘[Were] just lying around collecting dust’. Purportedly these new inclusions consist partly of an earlier Jorgner / Kystofe Svez Jr. feature film venture as well as certain sections of the reality doco Ray Ray which was originally based around the exploits of a failed casting director and his crumbling agency.

In what’s likely not to be a final footnote in the bizarre story of ‘thecollectivedvd’ (and from those who seen it) the programme is now described as ‘far more repugnant, disgraceful and devious than the original ever was’.

The dvd is only available from thecollectivedvd.com and the ‘season 1’ tag on the cover would seem to indicate there is more to come.

You can view the trailer for The collective here:
http://au.youtube.com/user/TheCollectiveDVD
http://thecollective.blip.tv/

"If we pull this off, I'll pull you off." Horst Jurgner.