In our LOVE BYTES  competition last year, 16 year old Kim Ho impressed our jury with his short monologue film Transcendence.

BOOT writer Joanna Erskine loved it and Kim’s capturing of ‘a pure, authentic teenage voice‘ while atyp Artistic Director Fraser Corfield thought it ‘a very intelligent piece of writing (with) a good sense of humor, a clear character and…an interesting observation of teenage love. It’s heart-felt and entertaining … and has clear scope to be developed further.’

Kim’s film came second in the overall competition, winning him an iPad, but that comment by Fraser stuck in our heads, and after some thinking and numbercrunching, we decided that the piece is too good to let go.

So…Kim has been mentored over the past four months by our good friend playwright Tommy Murphy to develop Transcendence into an 8 minute piece, which has now been filmed by director Laura Scrivano who did such great work with us on the monologues of BOOT and LITTLE LOVE.

“It’s a great privilege to be working with Tommy. You’d think that such an accomplished writer need not be so generous and lovely, but he is. I’m very, very excited to be developing a monologue with him! …Kim

Transcendence will premiere online in the April this year, alongside our online mashup, RE-BOOT, also directed by Laura.

You can watch the original monologue below and read Kim on writing his original 3 minute piece, here. Check out, too, this great interview with Tommy over at The Process podcast site, here.

“I am delighted to be Kim Ho’s writing mentor as he develops his short film. atyp is an inspiring company that engages young people in the performing arts in increasingly diverse and imaginative ways. It is exciting to be a part of that” Tommy Murphy

LOVE BYTES revealed such a wealth of talent that we are now looking at running a similar competition this year, looking at the idea of place and identity, the theme of THE VOICES PROJECT 2013: OUT OF PLACE.
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