Klay Buckingham

Klay "The Buckster" Buckingham (Born 1997) is an Australian writer, director, actor and Stand-up Comedian. Klay made his first professional directing debut on his first short film Righteous Cowards in the fall of 2012, which he also wrote and produced. Klay is well know for starting his acting career at the young age of 11. He found himself performing at places like the National Institute of Dramatic Art at that age. He also began doing Stand-up comedy at age 13.

Acting
Klay began acting at the mere age of 11 when he was accepted to the Sydney Talent Company. It is known that what really inspired Klay to join the company was because he was being excessively bullied at school and needed an escape. He had really been acting all his life, but not professinally. The very same year Klay Buckingham wrote a short script called "Break Out" which was about Star Wars bathtub toys trying to escape the house to live in the "Real World". (Probably inspired by Mel Brooks's Spaceballs).He performed it with other students at the company at age 12 that same year in December at the National Institute of Dramatic Art. Since then Klay's acting abilities have improved vastly. He now studies both the Meisner Technique and the Stella Adler approach to acting so naturally he has taken upon Method Acting. Klay is now a frequent appearer in Plays, Musical Theatre and Film (Often his own)

Filmmaking
Klay is known for know for having a 'encyclopedic knowledge of cinema'. He has loved films ever since he was 5 years old. Klay began making "Films" at age 12. These were really short videos. The first "real" film Klay ever made is Righteous Cowards. Klay often says that making Cowards really helped him to really understand how a film is made. That it was kind of his "Film School". Since Cowards Klay has been working on many different projects and has expressed an interest in making Online Video. Which is weird for a man that much prefers Analogue films. He says it is because he has spent a lot of his lonesome days, watching and Studying Youtube and fell in love with the "Independence" of the entertainment.

Writing
Klay made a very successful writing debut with his first ever piece of work "Break Out". Which no doubt gave him confidence to move forward. Klay's writing is know for being purposely referential. This is mostly to other films but also Self-Referential. it is widely known that Klay will purposely step over the line in his writing and bring the audience write along with him.

Standup Comedy
Klay begun doing Stand-up Comedy at age 14, but is already know for his controversial topics and questioning of society. His comedy is noted as being very much 'like a conversation'. Klay response to this was "I fell most people will tell you, the hardest they have ever laughed is not while watching a standup comedy. It's while they are talking with friends. I try to bring this to the stage every so often". He swears quite often on stage. And, it doesn't seem odd at all. Despite his age.

Righteous Cowards
Righteous Cowards is an independent heist film. Shot throughout South Australia. It is highly inspired by Quentin Tarantino. It star the likes of Sam Pring and Thomas Dazoxa among many others. Klay often says this film helped him to become a 'proper filmmaker'

Going Places
Buckster has often spoken about making a short film just for the internet. This is due to his 'love affair' for Online Digital Media that dates back to when he was a young kid who would spend hours watching stuff on YouTube. It will also give him a chance to work more with Digital Cameras as he loves film to much to ever make anything "Serious" Digitally. There has been talk online recently that this project is in Pre-Production and will be called "Going Places". There are also rumors that Lachlan Blanch will take the lead role, however this may be false. The premise of the film is unknown at this time. However, it is likely it will be his first attempt at a "Low Level" Crime film.