There are at least sixty low budget digital features made in Australia each year. Nerve is both a career strategy and a surrender to passion for an industry couple with a lot of television under their wheels.
Sarah Smith met Neal Kingston in Perth, where she was setting out as a television writer and script editor, and he was a knockabout television cameraman good for everything from car accidents to a teddy bear’s picnic. She worked on children’s television scripts, he created a production company called The Monster With Two Toes, and did the first run of interstitials for cable TV.
