Chasing the dream
SCOTT AND SID i How two successful entrepreneurs became filmmakers...
We were spurred on by people in our lives who had said in one shape or form, ‘You can’t do this,’ or ‘You have to be realistic,’ and we just thought, ‘Steven Spielberg once made his first movie; he started somewhere. So why can’t we do it?’” If you think Sid Sadowskyj sounds ambitious when referring to his first filmmaking venture with best friend and business partner Scott Elliott, you’d be right.
For Scott and Sid, the filmmaking partnership behind a new semiautobiographical movie titled – you guessed it – Scott And Sid, ambition is in no short supply. The pair met at school when they were 15 and immediately
began inspiring each other to defy expectations and overcome the limitations they saw around them.
They embarked on a series of successful businesses together, from cleaning ovens to establishing a full-time events management company while still in their teens, before going on to set up their own media company, which they eventually sold in order to travel the world… at the age of 25. And all of this was planned with one ultimate aspiration in mind: to one day make a film.
Now they have made it. Literally. Scott And Sid is the realisation of that whole journey, telling the fictionalised story of their adventures along the way to achieving their aim of becoming filmmakers, fulfilling the list of goals they first wrote together – both on the screen and in real life – while at school. Examining the friendship between the withdrawn, reflective Sid and the rebellious, risk-taking Scott, the film sees them pitted as much against their own self-doubt as the gangsters and loan sharks they encounter along the way. And it’s all based on real events.
Don’t imagine that the film was just some sort of vanity project for the duo,