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Welcome to the online home of CJ Johnson and Spooky Duck Productions. Here you can find out what you need to know about CJ’s movies, plays, screenplays, prose, radio programs and just about everything else.

CJ graduated the Australian Film, Television and Radio School at the end of 2009; while there he made the short film THE BRIS, based on an award-winning short story by US writert Eileen Pollack, and was one of four directors selected to make the four-story feature film BEFORE THE RAIN, the first ever collaboration between AFTRS and NIDA (the National Institute of Dramatic Art). CJ's section of the film, the nineteen-minute comedy STEAMBOAT, was written by Cannes Camera D'Or winner Shirley Barrett. Both films will be entered into major festivals this year.

Read CJ's film writing at Film Mafia. This includes potted versions of the reviews he broadcasts on TONY DELROY'S NIGHTLIFE on ABC 702AM Sydney, and nationally throughout Australia on your local ABC station, every Tuesday night at around 11:20pm EST.

Want to learn Screenwriting from Christopher? Take his class at The Actor's Centre, now enrolling for the new term, beginning February 19th 2009.

Christopher has recently been invited onto the Boards of the SHANE GOULD SWIMMING PROJECT and EASTSIDE RADIO 89.7FM

His film SATURDAY NIGHT NEWTOWN SUNDAY MORNING ENMORE is in competition at FEDFEST 2009, screening at Federation Square, Melbourne, on Sunday 15th March 2009. It won BEST FILM at the 7th Annual Bondi Short Film Festival and the 12th Annual Canberra Short Film Festival. It won the Award for Best Film Under Ten Minutes at the 14th Annual Independents' Film Festival in Tampa, Florida USA and won a Special Jury Prize (out of over 1,200 entries) in the Action / Cut Short Film Competition based in Los Angeles. It has recently been accepted into the 43rd Annual Chicago International Film Festival, 27th Annual Hawaii International Film Festival as well as the 13th Annual Palm Springs International Short Film Festival, the 14th Annual Victoria Film Festival (Canada), the 4th Annual 2007 Jackson Hole Film Festival (USA), the 8th Annual Sacramento Film and Music Festival, the 30th annual Starz Denver Film Festival (Colorado, USA), the 21st Annual Edmonton International Film Festival (Canada), the 10th Annual Hardacre Film and Cinema Festival (Iowa, USA) 2007, the 5th Annual Tallgrass Film Festival (Wichita, Kansas), the 3rd Annual Colchester International Short Film Festival and was a Finalist for BEST FILM at SNOWYFest 2007 (Australia) and the Homebrewed International Film Festival 2007 (Australia).

His film THE GAME was short-listed for BEST SHORT FILM at the 2007 Stratford-Upon-Avon Digital Film Festival (UK) and accepted into the 22nd Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, and the 12th Annual 2007 Canadian Film Centre Worldwide Short Film Festival (Canada). It also screened at the 2007 Darwin Festival in their Aussie Shorts Program.

Both of them have been accepted into the 23rd Annual Interfilm Berlin International Short Film Festival, St. Kilda Film Festival (Australia), the 6th Annual Ten Or Less Film Festival in Portland, Oregon, USA, the 7th Annual Anchorage International Film Festival in Anchorage, Alaska, USA, the 7th Annual Red Bank International Film Festival in New Jersey, USA, the InniBos International Film Festival in South Africa, the 4th Annual Salento International Film Festival in Italy, the 12th Annual Canberra Short Film Festival and the 2nd Annual Show Me Shorts Film Festival that tours New Zealand. Also, both are being screened at the New York City Downtown Shorts Film Festival 2007.

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