The Contract: PROJECT Waterman
episode list
Documentary, Drama, Miscellaneous 180 Minutes
When the safety of local kids in WATERMAN’s community is put at risk by train & public transport sector works around a local football oval, the infrastructure consultant must choose between his job and his own moral code.
get the inside view from the industry outsider
Australia’s future – now more than ever – needs public transport infrastructure
get the inside view from the industry outsider
Australia’s future – now more than ever – needs public transport infrastructure
WATERMAN is an infrastructure consultant overseeing project timelines for STM Asia Pacific Construction and the Victorian State Government.
When the safety of local kids’s in his community is put at risk by train & public transport sector works around a local football oval, WATERMAN’s professionalism is tested. His work obligations are gradually eroded by internal corporate politicking and a moral duty to acknowledge his own conflicts of interest: safety, destruction of trees and works around the local train station.
Pressure builds further when WATERMAN reveals a deep personal loss.
An investigative journalist with a folio of glossy A4 photo’s confronts WATERMAN, demanding comments about alleged worksite corruption. Suspecting a whistleblower, WATERMAN is forced to seek answers from a dubious industry source. Corporate espionage. Black Ops. Call it what you want – it’s risky. It’s his job.
How much danger is WATERMAN prepared to put himself in?
Web Series | 2021 PG | Season 1 | 17 Episodes Runtime: 11 x 0hr10m, 6 x 0hr11m
documentary, mockumentary, docufiction 
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© Wise Words Media and Callumny Films 2010 – 2021 all footage and stills
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Forget the idea’s economy – it’s garbage. Australia’s future lies within the public transport infrastructure sector. Join WATERMAN’S ‘public relations tour’ around Melbourne’s exploding construction activity for exclusive behind-the-scenes access to some of the biggest train network infrastructure project’s this country has ever seen.
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‘The Contract: PROJECT Waterman’ is Australia’s newest webseries.
© Wise Words Media and Callumny Films 2010 – 2021 all footage and stills
A landmark achievement has been released for international audiences around the globe by Wise Words Media and Callumny Films: The Contract: PROJECT Waterman.
A uniquely original concept, the mockumentary webseries specifically references an original script by SEAN McINTYRE – ‘The Contract‘.
Added to the recent launch of a new, highly innovative digital series ‘this life’, Wise Words Media and Callumny Films are making an impact statement on the undeniable economic importance of Australia’s digital and infrastructure sectors.
Essentially, The Contract: PROJECT Waterman is a ‘spin-off’ of ‘The Contract‘ – which had its public debut at A Fistful of Scripts, a script reading series, in April, 2011 (Theatre Works, St Kilda Melbourne Australia).
A Fistful of Scripts is an innovative script development incubator produced by Wise Words Media in association with Callumny Films.
Consulting, content licensing and distribution queries welcome.
[season 1]
production | 30 Nov 2014 – 16 May 2021
filming | 16 May 2016 – 11 Jul 2016
post – production | 11 Jul 2016 – 16 May 2021
released 17 May 2021
trailers | episodes
1 – 5 | 6 – 10 | 11 – 15 | 16 – 17
Callumny Films TV | this public transport life – trains
STM Asia Pacific Construction | meet the team
Episode #1.16 | 9 Jul 2016 | Episode Runtime: 0hr 10m 48s | watch
PLOT OUTLINE: “It’s just so dangerous FRENCHIE. I just can’t stop thinking about it”. WATERMAN’s foreign film crew have found him alone outside at Blackburn’s former Westpac branch.
PLOT SUMMARY: His mind turning over repeatedly, WATERMAN is inconsolable. Alone.
Works go on unabated around Blackburn’s Level Crossing Removal Project. None of it registers with WATERMAN…Until his phone rings. The film crew witnesses WATERMAN’s heated exchange with one of his colleagues.
Then MASTON shows up to confront WATERMAN, demanding comments about a folio of glossy A4 photo’s alleging worksite corruption.
STM Asia Pacific Construction has a whistle-blower.
FILMING LOCATIONS | Melbourne, Australia
- Westpac Branch-vacancy, South Parade, Blackburn
- Level Crossing, Blackburn Rd, Blackburn
- Morton Park-Oval 1, Blackburn
- Morton Park-Nth East, Blackburn
- Morton Park (Nth East)/Glen Eibor Ave, Blackburn
- Morton Park (Nth East), Blackburn
- Morton Park, Glen Eibor Ave, Blackburn
- Caltex Petrol Station-vacancy, Blackburn
Episode #1.17 | 11 Jul 2016 | Episode Runtime: 0hr 10m 13s | watch
PLOT OUTLINE: WATERMAN’s a professional. Corporate espionage. Black Ops. Call it what you want – it’s his job. And he has one last, risky avenue to pursue – but at what cost?
PLOT SUMMARY: WATERMAN has to get to the bottom of the whistle-blower’s destabilising activities before any investors or stakeholder partners are scared off.
WATERMAN’s a professional. The final day. The final tour. And WATERMAN has to cut it short.A brief walk around the four points of the compass at Blackburn’s Level Crossing Removal Project. LXRA’s ‘Men of the Earth’ will return over the New Year’s break at the end of the year.
The rail-under-road option will finally be in place.
For now, WATERMAN has a mysterious midnight meeting with a somewhat dubious contact. Corporate espionage. Black Ops. Call it what you want – it’s risky. It’s his job.
WATERMAN is about to find out just how much. So much at stake.
How much danger is WATERMAN prepared to risk?
FILMING LOCATIONS | Melbourne, Australia
- Fresh Dentistry, Blackburn Rd, Blackburn
- Level Crossing, Blackburn Rd, Blackburn
- 14-16 Blackburn Rd, Blackburn
- Caltex Petrol Station-vacancy, Blackburn
- Pedestrian Overpass, Whitehorse Rd, Mahroodah Hwy, Blackburn
- Alfred St, Blackburn
- 31-33 Alfred St, Blackburn
- Allegion Australia, 31-33 Alfred St, Blackburn
- Shaws Garage, 38 Alfred St, Blackburn
Season 2
under construction
production | 16 May 2021 – tba
filming | 16 May 2016 – tba
post – production | tba – tba
trailers | episodes
1 – 5 | 6 – 10 | 11 – 15 | 16 – 17
Callumny Films TV | this public transport life – trains
Monday 3rd May 2021
Series is getting a make-over with 7 new episodes, new branding ahead of being made available for content licensing & distribution sales: Vuulr.com, Filmwallet.com, BingeTV and others.
More new episodes, more WATERMAN: Callumny Films TV ( youtube 2021). Final test – spec episode to be made public.
SYNOPSIS | episode 11
Level Crossing Removal – Blackburn | Project: WATERMAN
* https://lnkd.in/gu3CEdk
WATERMAN recounts previous nights works featuring the biggest & greenest public transport infrastructure asset ever seen in Blackburn. All throughout his commentary, it’s plain & obvious that his personal & professional boundaries are no longer blurred.
His concern for Blackburn residents, OHS & safety is highly admirable, but…will this come back to haunt him?
PROJECT: Waterman
get the inside view from the industry outsider
Australia’s future -now more than ever – needs public transport infrastructure
trains | infrastructure | #thispublictransportlife
Trains | Blackburn
Public transport | Level Crossing Removal
Melbourne, Australia
Filmed mid 2016 and mid 2020
trailers
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All episodes
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