English subtitles for clip: File:Interview with actor producer Robin Nicolle.mpg

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Interviewer: Tell us about Honest Police.

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RN: My name is Robin Nicolle
and I live here on the Sunshine Coast.

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Back in 2018, I decided to write
the script for Honest Police

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as a personal project
to gain more experience as an actor.

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And in 2019, I meet
a couple of boys, Sam and Glenn,

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and they came on board
to help me with the project.

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Glenn has enough equipment
and he directed the project

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and he also played a small role,
a cameo in the film.

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I: Tell us about
the story of Honest Police.

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RN: I originally wrote Honest Police

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as a cop that arrests people
for minor offenses

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that you would never
actually be arrested for.

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My friends, Glenn and Sam,
added their own ideas.

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So we want to leave it open
to audience interpretation.

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You can decide for yourself,

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do you think that he's a cop
that sort of doing the right thing?

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Or is he a maniac that's on the loose.

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And it's straight out
for the audience to decide,

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to make their own interpretation.

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I like to think of it
as just the extreme version

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of taking the law into your own hands,

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and so we decided at the idea
that the cop is a psychopath

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that kidnaps people from small offenses.

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So, yeah, like I just said,

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it's a very extreme version of, you know,

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thinking that the police are not
actually doing a good enough job.

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So that's why you decide
to be a cop, you know,

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and instead of locking them up in prison,
you lock them up in a shed in your house.

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So yeah, he takes things
to the extreme, you know?

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I: You just got a few awards
from the festival in Uganda.

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What awards did you get there?

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RN: When we submitted
to the festival in Uganda,

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we were lucky enough
to win Best Short Film.

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I won Best Actor
and my friend Glenn won Best Editor.

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So the first time in our careers,

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we were lucky enough
to win those awards.

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I: So that was the first festival
you got accepted into.

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RN: Luckily, the first festival
we submitted to

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and we've also submitted
a couple of more since then.

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I: All right. So you've got
a few coming up?

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RN: There's another festival coming up
towards the end of the month.

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So I believe that busy
watching all the projects now

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and when they make the decisions,
they'll let all the people know

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whether your film was selected or not.

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So, yeah, it's a festival
over in Russia, yeah.

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I: Any festivals here in Australia?

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RN: I haven't submitted to festivals
here in Australia yet.

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And depending on the borders, you know,
because I like to go to festivals.

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So I'm thinking of a couple down
in Sydney and Victoria

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and we'd like to submit
to those festivals as well.

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And because I've never
actually been to Melbourne,

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so it'd be a good sort of
incentive to submit to

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a couple of festivals in Victoria
and then travel there for the first time.

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And of course, it all depends
on the pandemic, you know,

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and they're recording
a lot of cases there.

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So yeah, I have thought a lot
about festivals in Sydney and Melbourne.

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I: Anything else you would like to add?

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RN: Oh, I believe that the project

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has been one of the best
experiences of my life,

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just a once in a lifetime opportunity
not only to gain experience as an actor,

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but also to make lifelong friends
with Glenn and Sam.

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And I've spent a lot of time with them
since I've met them,

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and so I can't wait to make a couple
more projects with the boys.