But wait, there's more ...
The Giants aren't known for getting bored, or for going through the motions. We find life is a lot more fun if we have projects on the go. Such as:
LITTLE BIG SHOTS
Australia's premier international film festival for kids, Little Big Shots now screens at more than 20 venues each year across Australia, including ACMI in Melbourne and the Sydney Opera House, as well as travelling to several other countries. An original idea by Media Giants director Nick Place, and brought to reality by festival director Marcella Bidinost and now Chloe Boulton, Little Big Shots offers the very best filmmaking in the world for kids, by kids and about kids. We love Little Big Shots, now established as a not-for-profit charity and going from strength to strength. It has brought the world, creativity and pure dreaming to a lot of Australian kids.
THE BLADDER
Media Giants created thebladder.com in 2000, deciding it was time to write all those sports stories that we'd always dreamed of, but which had the annoying habit of not being true. All these years later, The Bladder is loved by tens of thousands of sports fans around Australia and the world as one of the sharpest, funniest and most popular sport satire websites going around. The Bladder has appeared on 774 ABC radio, the BBC, SEN, and within the pages of The Age newspaper, Inside Sport and Inside Football, among other media.
The Bladder is currently undergoing a make-over, ready for relaunch, including the disturbing development of The Insider opening a Twitter account.
BOOKS
Giants director Michael Roberts somehow finds time to remain a leading figure among AFL historians and has published half a dozen books about the history of the Collingwood Football Club, including the critically acclaimed "The Machine", about the Magpies' all-conquering team that won four flags in a row in the late 1920s, "Collingwood at Victoria Park" and "The Official Illustrated Collingwood Encyclopedia".
The other Giants director, Nick Place, is a published children's author, with four books to his credit, including "The Kazillion Wish", which was recently released in Italy as "Missione Banana", having already been published in several countries, including the UK and USA. Nick also has had one poem published (under a pseudonym so don't bother looking for it).
For more on Nick's books: click here.
THE COOK
What would happen if a shearer's cook served up the same stale scones every day for more than a week? This true story was the unlikely basis of a short film written and co-produced by Nick Place in 2003, which was enthusiastically received at the St Kilda International Short Film Festival that year and went on to be invited to opening night of the Academy Award-nomination event, the Rhode Island International Film Festival, in Providence, RI. The 12-minute film remained in Oscar contention right up until the moment that official nominees for that year were announced.
