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Forced Hand is a multi-platform project, featuring a series of short films and graphic novels attached to an exciting web portal that enhances the storytelling experience for users and offers multiple avenues of positive exposure to our sponsors. The project is seeking to build mutually beneficial r...

Forced Hand is a multi-platform project, featuring a series of short films and graphic novels attached to an exciting web portal that enhances the storytelling experience for users and offers multiple avenues of positive exposure to our sponsors. The project is seeking to build mutually beneficial relationships with like-minded companies and brands, in the form of sponsorship and/or brand placement in our films, graphic novels and on the website hub.

Project Synopsis - An art theft leads to the ultimate betrayal. Sydney’s largest crime syndicate threatens to implode. One of its key members, a legendary figure known as The Hand, is determined to become the new Mafia Boss and in doing so, will transform the way crime is perpetrated in Australia and become the most feared and respected criminal mastermind in the country’s history.

Forced Hand tells the story of a particularly turbulent time, when the organizational structure of the most important crime organization in Sydney threatens to implode. The viewer follows long-term operative Aiden Slater through a series of events throughout the space of one year. Aiden's choices will not only mean great changes for himself, but will influence everyone around him. His is a lonely, desperate and angry life, where nothing is constant or certain; when killing or being killed is a daily probability.

Who We Are: The creative team of Forced Hand is composed of bright, funky, young, creative professionals based in North Sydney, that believe that a story has many sides and can be told in many ways through different and mediums.

Format: The main storyline is made up of three short films of twenty-two minutes each. Each Act is told through a different character.Each of the episodes will be translated into their own Graphic Novel. Two more mini-series of three issues each will bridge the gaps between episodes. Both the Film Series and the Graphic Novels are designed to continue on an ongoing basis.

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