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MEET: zak streeter

My name is Zak Streeter, I’m fifteen years old
and I’m in Grade Ten at North Lakes State College.
My love of sport began at three years of age, when my parents started me
in Taekwondo at Factor 10. I was there for five years and became a Cho
Dan Bo at eight years old. Since that I’ve tried swimming, soccer, tennis and
competed at a State level at school for athletics.
My love of CrossFit began about eighteen months ago at CrossFit 786 with
coach Ozzie. It wasn’t long after we had moved back to the Northside and I
began my coaching with Michael at Unbound Athletic and CrossFit Speed,
that I decided my goal was to make the CrossFit Games 2018. I trained
consistently in that time, slowly building up my strength and focusing on
my weaknesses. A few months prior to the CrossFit Open I also started
working with Brendan, a lifting coach at CrossFit Geebung to purely focus
on my technique.
In preparation, I competed at two competitions at CrossFit Speed. One
being a paired competition, which we came 4th. The other, which consisted
of a team of three, including myself, placed 2nd. I have also been working
with BoxFit apparel as a brand ambassador, partaking in numerous
modeling shoots.
Fast forward to the CrossFit Open 2018. I needed to place in the top two
hundred worldwide to make the Online Qualifier (Regionals). I did five
workouts over five weeks and place 80th worldwide, securing a spot in the
Online Qualifier.
The Online Qualifier consisted of four workouts over four days to be
performed at my own box, judged by Michael, filmed and uploaded with
my times. To make to CrossFit Games 2018, I needed to place top twenty
worldwide. Overall I ended up placing 64th, obviously not the result I was
hoping for but nevertheless extremely happy with my result leaving me
hungrier to achieve my goal in 2019.

North Lakes local, Branden Wittchen, graduated from Griffith
Branden Wittchen Film School in 2017 and his career since has mostly consisted
of directing music videos for such clients as Tia Gostelow (Triple
J Unearthed High and Qld Music Award Winner) and Ian ‘Dicko’
Dickson (Australian Idol). He is also a multi-award winning
filmmaker who wrote and directed short films starring renowned
Australian character actors Gyton Grantley (The Dressmaker,
Underbelly, House Husbands) and Roy Billing (Jack Irish, The
Dish, Underbelly).
His latest production, Remus and Ron, tells the story of how
Remus, a 35-year-old eccentric and awkward man, ended up in
the back of a Police car, arrested for murder. Remus reflects on
his childhood and reminisces on how he turned out so different
from his identical twin brother Ron, despite being inflicted the
same bizarre and abusive upbringing. Exploring themes of
nurture vs nature and twisting the stereotypes of a conventional
serial thriller, Remus and Ron is a dark and disturbing look at
how one twin could be so evil and the other so caring.
Director | Writer | Producer The twins will be played by a single actor opposite himself on
screen. The three stages of Remus and Ron’s lives (childhood,
teens, and adulthood) will be portrayed by three different
actors as the twins at each stage. Thus, three actors will play the
six characters.
This is an opportunity for the cast to show off their acting skills
but also, this short will be a big step up in the crew’s future career
as feature filmmakers. Despite having multiple award winning
short film credits, the crew are currently in a grey zone of too
inexperienced to receive Government funding but without
funding can’t gain that needed experience.
Follow - www.facebook.com/RemusAndRonShortFilm
Crowd fund campaign - www.indiegogo.com/projects/
remus-and-ron-short-film#/

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