Video Production can be excruciatingly cool when it wants to be, and post-apocalyptia is about as cool as a genre can be. This is fundamental to what Freud called our ‘death-wish’. You just need to spend enough time on a delayed tube-carriage or in a cheap dentist chair to experience the rogue fantasy of it all coming to an end. After all, humans are aggressive, territorial, solipsistic primates. But panda-bears …well...they’re damned cute. And it would appear that they are capable of exceeding Mad Mel’s acting talents too.

The below trailer for ‘Wastelander Panda’ was created by Epic Films, an independent film group out of Australia. According to the company's description, this is the prologue for a television production. By my own reckoning it looks like a happy mix between the Road, Sweet-Tooth and Mad Max 3 – Beyond Thunderdome, all presented with a seductively simple game-changer  - The panda bear.

Throwing a panda into the mix could be just the ticket to ensure that this production doesn’t fall into the genre’s pitfalls of bland characterisation, pseudo-religiosity and masturbatory self-seriousness (See ‘Book of Eli’ for an example of all three).Here is wishing the guys at Epic Films all the best of luck in getting their web video developed into a fully-fledged television show.

Wastelander Panda Prologue from Epic Films on Vimeo.

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