WARWICK turned a little bit Hollywood last night, as Southern Downs filmmaker Stephen Osborne shot a few scenes for his upcoming movie.

The setting was Network Video in Palmerin St, familiar surrounds to Mr Osborne who spent eight years working in the store.

Mr Osborne, who lives on the Granite Belt, is making waves overseas with his short film Jane.

"It was the final piece I had to do for my assessment at New York Film Academy on the Gold Coast," he said.

"I submitted it for a few festivals and it's taken off from there, winning four awards so far, including best director at a festival in Italy.

"On the strength of all that it's been picked up for another 10 international festivals and I should be able to release it here later in the year, once it's finished the festival circuit."

Jane is an 1880s Australia western, which was filmed in St George.

Mr Osborne's new work is a series of three 25-minute films, with a production title of Roommate Wanted for the End of the World.

He told the Daily News yesterday the scene was the first they had shot and would take about four hours to complete for just two and a half minutes of footage.

"The great thing about filmmaking is that even though it's hard work, it's fun," he said.

"It's creative and exciting and everyone wants to be there."

"The scene we're filming in the video shop, is the first scene we'll have filmed, but it comes in at about halfway through the movie," he said.

"It will take about 4 hours to set up and shoot, for about two and a half minutes of footage."

Network Video owner Tracy Clark said she had no hesitation when Mr Osborne asked if he could film in the store.

"He called about a month ago and asked and even sent me through a script to read over," she said.

"It's really cool and even cooler that he's a former staff member of ours, so we were more than happy to help out in any way we could.

"This has been his passion for a long time and he's on his way up, so it's great to be a part of it."

To avoid copyright and licensing issues, Mr Osborne had to get fake video shop uniforms made, as well as fake movie posters to put up on the walls inside the store.