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Joffa The Movie
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I picked up your movie yesterday Joffa, JB Hi Fi must have ordered a few extra copies as they had some on their shelves. I watched it last night and thoroughly enjoyed it.
There was a lot of good scenes and I don't want to spoil it for anyone, but the banter between you and Shane was hilarious. My favourite moments were your party an
...d the scene with the escavator, I laughed so hard. Well done Joffa, you really are a star.
Joffa The Movie
Cast: Jeff "Joffa" Corfe
Rating: CTC
Release Date: 2 September 2010
Exclusive to Palace Cinemas
Unquestionably Australia’s #1 Sports fan Joffa is loved and loathed and intriguingly ‘a celebrity for being a sports fan’. From his iconic gold jacket to the famous winners circle joffa displays a truly unrivalled level of passion for his club. Joffa The Movie explored his world and discovers it is not all black and white. From revving up his team in Melbourne’s reclink homeless football league, being unceremoniously ushered out of Father Bob’s church and marching towards Joffa’s holy grail – ‘Celtic Park – Glasgow’ we go on a journey that explores mateship, trust and human spirit. His world outsaide football is hilariously funny as he and his mate Shane make you wish you had paid a little bit mote and hired Jim’s mowing instead of ‘J&S Labor workforce’
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HE is loud, he is proud and he is the footy fan others love to hate.
Love him or loathe him, there's no doubting Jeff "Joffa" Corfe is one of a kind.
But the real Joffa is a far cry from that "ratbag" Collingwood supporter in the flashy gold jacket giving it to the umpires from behind the goals - the one with the gift of the gab who is starring in a self-titled movie and who has been immortalised in a bobblehead.
Watch our interview with the real Joffa here.
It's difficult to marry that image of Joffa with the one who loves nothing more than to be on his own at home, reading a good book or spending time with his three grandkids.
He hasn't had a drink in 10 years, he's a welfare worker, he castigates himself on the way home from the footy for his behaviour and sometimes tries to disguise himself when going out in public.
He wants to spread the word about epilepsy, hates racism and is passionate about the plight of boat people.
And then there's the secret special lady in his life - the one he calls his soulmate.
Joffa is probably one of the best-known sporting fans in the world. But he has revealed that if the Pies win the flag he will retire the gold jacket.
Joffa's rise to sports-fan notoriety began in the mid-'60s.
His family's financial woes saw him living in Allambee Boys Home in East Burwood.
They had a program where people would come and take the boys out for the day.
When Joffa was five or six, a "lovely couple" came and picked him up in their MG.
They took him to Victoria Park and history was made.
"They could have taken me to Princes Park - I could have been this crazy Carlton supporter," Joffa said.
"I was just mesmerised by this thing they called football.
"I remember the elderly Collingwood ladies around me arguing. When you are a young child you think, 'My God, how good is this?'
"From that day on I always tried to get back to Victoria Park. I remember at seven or eight I would go there on my own and stand up on 'One-eyed Hill'."
He says Collingwood had a great family feel about it.
Joffa was in and out of the boys' home for four or five years before going back to live with his family.
They moved around Melbourne. "We didn't have a very good childhood," he said.
"We were a large family, very poor. Sometimes on Sunday night for dinner we would have bread and butter."
But Joffa, one of five boys and two girls, says he is not suffering today as a result of what happened back then. He looked upon being sent to the boys' home as an adventure.
Joffa left school at 14, drifting from job to job and being homeless. Now he works nights at the Anchorage Hostel, a 56-room centre for homeless men. It's his role to keep them safe, administer medication, listen to them, sort out squabbles and get their breakfast ready.
Joffa has one daughter, Emma, 24. He became a single working dad when his nine-year relationship with Emma's mum ended.
They discovered at 13 that Emma had epilepsy. It is a constant source of worry.
Joffa's three grandchildren, Simon, 8, seven-year-old Jeffrey - nicknamed Joffa - and Destiny-Pearl, 2, are indigenous. They lived with him until two weeks ago.
Joffa says he almost lost Destiny-Pearl several weeks ago when he found her in her cot gasping for breath. They rushed her to hospital and discovered she is asthmatic.
"She was very, very sick and I didn't think when we were driving there she was going to make it," he said.
You can see him soften when he talks about the little girl reaching out to hug him while on a hospital bed. That's love, he says.
Despite his image as a knockabout bloke, Joffa has not had a drink for 10 years. "I never had a problem with it, but I have major problems with people who are intoxicated - they just don't make sense," he said.
"When Collingwood wins a premiership I will very gladly celebrate with the finest cup of latte coffee in Melbourne."
While he remains hopeful, he's not sure this is the year.
"As a long-suffering Collingwood supporter I'm going to say 'no' because there's a conspiracy out there to get us - something pops up at the last minute to get us."
It's hard to believe, but he says the other Joffa loves solitude. It's difficult to picture him curled up on the couch reading a book.
But he says he'll never subscribe to the theory that once you reach a certain age you have to park your slippers and dressing gown in the bedroom.
"I haven't grown up and that's not a bad thing. My brain is middle-aged but my heart is still wanting to get out there and carry on."
Joffa The Movie will premiere at the Kino Cinema in Collins St on September 2 at 8.30pm. To book call 9650 2100.
JOFFA, the face of the Magpie cheer squad in his gold-sequinned coat, is part of football's colour and character.
Footy needs fans like Joffa. Not everyone can pull on a boot and earn big bucks, but there are role models in the outer as well as out on the field.
Joffa, was living in a boys' home when a family took him to Victoria Park to watch the Pies. Collingwood gave him a sense of belonging. Footy is more than just a game. It's about those who watch it as well as the people who play it.
SEPTEMBER just got scarier for Magpies haters, with Joffa picked to play during the finals.
Melbourne cinemas will start showing Joffa: The Movie from the first Thursday in September, the eve of the AFL finals.
And the star vehicle for Collingwood's gold-jacketed mouth in the outer, Jeff "Joffa" Corfe, is bound to become a stocking-stuffer too, with a pre-Christmas DVD release planned.
It is hoped to include bonus extras including finals celebrations from this year.
Four Melbourne theatres - the Kino, Westgarth, Dendy Brighton and the George in St Kilda - will screen the feature film through footy's finest month.
Some regional cinemas are expected to run with the ball. Fleeing interstate is futile, with Perth, Adelaide and Hobart seasons, too.
"There is initially a four-week campaign in the cinemas, but I guess it depends how the Pies go," director Chris Liontos said.
"If they're premiers this year, it might be in the cinemas longer."
The movie has been reworked after a preview last month drew a mixed reaction from theatre-goers and a tackle from Herald Sun movie critic Leigh Paatsch.
He said for anyone other than Magpies fans, it was "about as amusing as getting a 20-goal flogging by the Pies in a grand final".
"We've tightened it up. There's a lot more music added," Joffa said yesterday. "It is more energetic, moves at a faster pace.
"It is not going to be Australia's number one ... but the Cannes Film Festival are interested in getting it on DVD for a look."
Part of the hard sell is a new Sex and the City-style trailer for the film, exclusive to heraldsun. com.au, mixing high heels with Magpie moccasins.
Liontos said the film was already kicking goals by just getting on to screens.
"For an ultra-low budget movie to get a national cinema release - this has never happened," he said.
And the marketing is coming together, too. A thousand Joffa Bobblehead action figures are only days away from the shops.
"We could throw in a Joffa bobblehead doll with the DVD, just to annoy the crap out of people," Joffa said. "Pre-orders for them have been fantastic."
Proceeds go to the Epilepsy Foundation and, for a suitably big donation, Joffa hand-delivers.
Click here for a sneak peak of Joffa's film debut.
The Review's
The Palace Cinema's Como complex Sth Yarra would be the place we show the movie, To critics, Herald Sun and 120 other invited guests
many who dont follow the pies and some who dont even follow the footy..People from all walks of life and from all age groups.The response was fantastic to be honest better than i expected, The audience got into the film from the very start and laughter was heard throughout the film. A rousing applause was given when film was over. It was the first time i had seen the movie on the big screen i had only prior seen snippets on comp screens during production. I found the movie easy to follow with a nice story line and i found it to be very funny. Shame McRae's performance was brilliant and was sadly not mentioned with Leigh Paatsch's Critic review Herald Sun.Some people watching the flick had even shed a tear such was the acting performance from Shane McRae.Joffathemovie delivered on preview night..It is a movie for all footy people of all ages, Very funny it certainly has a good feel about it..and that was the message we got from everyone in the audience.
FOOTY fanatic Jeff "Joffa" Corfe has burst on to the big screen, boots and all.
And, in news not for the nervous, a Magpie army of mini-Joffas is on its way, too.
As part of his Pie-eyed publicity push for Joffa: The Movie, 1000 bobble-head dolls have been machine-crafted and are on their way from China.
"Believe it or not, some people want them, but I don't think the world's ready," Joffa said.
"They are still trying to get over the first one."
About 100 cast, crew and friends - and a hard-nosed quartet invited by the Herald Sun - watched the movie hot out of the production suite late on Thursday.
Insights from the "friendlies" ranged from "Joffa snores" to "It's all about you, isn't it Joff?"
With our amateur reviewers - a Collingwood hater, a footy hater, a woman who doesn't barrack and a sports-mad teenager - the film kicked a few goals.
But in footy and films, everyone's an expert.
Hector Gauci, of the Blues' cheer squad, said the movie might be better edited into a TV series while Anti Football League secretary Jack Dunstan said he favoured a heavier cut.
"If they'd removed all references to football, it would have been a most enjoyable 15 minutes," he said. "I recommend taking a good book."
What producer Chris Liontos hopes for is to get the film on cinema screens. He has spruiked the movie at Cannes and will enter it in more than 20 international film festivals.
Mr Liontos said British and Canadian distributors were keen, if confused, wondering why Joffa was famous.
"They couldn't quite grasp the concept of why Joffa is Joffa," he said.
Game over or game on hangs on getting the movie seen and letting film-goers be the umpire.
Dandenong's Lunar Drive-In is a likely start, on a double bill with footy classic The Club. "I know Kenny got its start from that. They couldn't get it into the mainstream cinemas and I think it has a run at the Dromana Drive-In for a bit."
Herald Sun Critic
IT is a long, long way from Collingwood to Hollywood. Unfortunately, Joffa: The Movie barely makes it past the front gates of Victoria Park before running out of fuel.
With his tatty jacket of gold, albino mullet hairdo and a face made for keeping birds off crops, the infamous general of the Collingwood cheer squad was never going to be your typical movie star.
Nevertheless, Joffa might have had a better chance of entertaining a cinema audience if the producers had not made a bizarre attempt to turn him into another Kenny.
Weirdly, Joffa: The Movie blends some mildly interesting doco footage of Joffa in real life with some awfully amateur mock-doco comedy mucking about.
If you're not a Collingwood fan, the whole exercise is about as amusing as getting a 20-goal flogging by the Pies in a Grand Final. Even if you're a fan, Joffa is still a losing game.s as a viewing experience. Kind of like watching your side going down to Carlton in a practice game. No harm done exactly, but time not very well spent.
Joffa is definitely a natural in front of the cameras. Just a shame that those behind the cameras of Joffa : The Movie are not
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Movie now complete and finished.
Joffa The Movie has been completed we're now in the process of tidying a few things up before release, And yes at this stage we're hoping for a cinema release. We've also had strong reaction from the UK and believe it or not Finland.For everyones info the song on the trailer clip is called Breathe and is sung by a melbourne band called Jaspers Dilemna.
JOFFA THE MOVIE, THE WEBSITE...
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The response to joffa the movie has taken us all by suprise, from emails to text messages, phone calls from all over Australia to coming up in the street and wanting to talk about the film has been incredible.We'd like to thank everyone who have been generous in comment and well wishes.
Thanks everyone!
Joffa is staring in his own movie. Picture: Rebecca Michael Source: Herald Sun
A FEELGOOD comedy or a black and white horror film?
Joffa the Movie is coming to the big screen soon, with the most loved and loathed fan in footy even more larger than life.
After 15 months of work, editing has begun on a star vehicle for footy's most in-your-face character, Jeff "Joffa" Corfe.
Scenes were shot everywhere from London to Glasgow to Drouin, and the Joffa the Movie team hopes to sell it in the UK.
In the era of 3D, the low-budget movie sounds like a shamelessly one-eyed effort, but Joffa says it's not just a film for Magpies fans.
He says it is about mateship, trust and the human spirit, with a lot of laughs thrown in.
"I know all my beautiful friends at Carlton will go and see it," he says hopefully.
The film has a plot - Joffa and his co-star Shane McRae are knockabout handymen with a passion for the Pies and a knack for attracting trouble.
There is an obligatory car chase, but no love scenes - unless you count the adoring gazes at the Pies from the outer. At the centre of it is Joffa playing Joffa, in all his bedraggled splendour, and if he's more maladjusted than a Mel Gibson, he's no stranger to critics.
"If the public perception was right, I'd be in Pentridge," he says.
Producer-director Chris Liontos says the movie is funny and heartwarming, not just fodder for the Magpie faithful.
"The Club was my inspiration," he said.
"I thought 'Why isn't anyone making a film about footy?' I thought 'Why not do it through the eyes of the most passionate supporter in the country'?"
It is Mr Liontos' first feature film and the overseas segments were filmed on the cheap, the crew living in backpacker bunkrooms, eating baked beans and dodging crack addicts.
The budget is less than $200,000 and the team is hoping for a release mid-season. "I took a risk on fully self-funding this, no grants at all. A lot of films these days do get a lot of funding. Nobody goes and sees them," Mr Liontos says.
A few local names play themselves.
Fr Bob McGuire gets angry and Kevin Bartlett is heard, on SEN, but not seen.
But Joffa says the ordinary people who inhabit his real world give the movie its heart, like a 93-year-old named Mavis, who went to dances with Ron Barassi's dad. Good old Collingwood forever is sung in Mandarin and Chiko rolls are explained to a Londoner.
But Mr Liontos says the biggest surprise is the real Joffa that comes through.
"That d---head in the Collingwood cheer squad, that's all people know," he says. "To me the bloke is an all right bloke."
But Joffa knows that everyone's a critic. "They'll probably have a bigger crack at me now," he says.
"They come back two times to abuse me now. Probably they'll come back three times."
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Corfa, known by all by his nick name, “Joffa” is the “lunatic” fan of the Collingwood team, who with his antics has managed many times to attract media attention and as can be expected, the start of film by expatriate director, Christos Liontas (foto).
“Many might consider him a crazy and eccentric sports fan” stated Liontas, but adds that “I saw him as an enthusiastic person who is the life of the party, who has loves for his team”.
The film focuses on Joffa’s adventures and mishaps which are accompanied by much humor.
Joffa himself, speaking about his cinematic debut, noted that he was awaiting negative comments by many once again, but maintained he didn’t care, since he is doing it for his true love, Collingwood.
(source: voice of greece)
Lost In London
Shane trying to kick the ball over into Buckingham Palace
At the famous Celtic Footy Ground Glasgow Scotland
Outside Buckingham Palace
Shooting a scene for the movie. London
Shooting a scene for the movie. London
On guard at the palace
REPORT: Ross Stevenson reveals a full length feature film about the life and times of notorious Collingwood cheer squad member, Joffa, will be released this year. Who do you think would be the best Australian actor to play the gold jacket-wearing Magpie? Email breakfast@3aw.com.au or leave a comment in the blog below.
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