ASPHALT COWBOYS IN THE BIG CITY JUNGLE (in preparation)
Layout for a Television Documentary Soap
Concept: Manfred Corrine, Peter Thomsen
Scriptwriters: Alexander Schmelzer, Thomas Knoglinger
Director: Manfred Corrine
Cinematography: Mario Hopfgartner, Max Haselberger
Sound: Martin Six
Film Editor: Elke Rittenschober
Production Coordinator: Julia Heiduschka
Production Manager: Peter Thomsen
PRODUCED: Summer/Fall 2006
FORMAT: HDV * 16:9 * 22 Minutes
Synopsis
Many need them, many detest them, and everyone knows them: The bicycle couriers of the big city. As the anonymous carrier of letters and packages they are now part of the fabric of the city. But who are they? Who hires them? And what do they really carry?
The premise of this documentary-soap is a group of bicycle couriers who set up a courier service. This is where a love of cycling meets a sense of solidarity apart from the usual urban rat race.
They see their virtues as being solidarity, mobility and individuality.
No assignment is too difficult, no distance too far. These athletes of the city jungle force are forced by their jobs into strange worlds which are usually behind closed doors.
