McElroy seeks crowd to kick-start Zebras The Year of Living Dangerously and Sea Patrol's producer Jim McElroy has turned to Kickstarter to crowdfund the final piece of his financing puzzle for a South Africa-Australian co-production. The new film Zebras, directed by Mao's Last Dancer's Bruce Beresford, written by David Williamson and starring Luke Hemsworth, aims to raise $900,000 to fill the gap beyond already committed film incentives subsidy. McElroy told Reel Time the crowd-funding process had begun slowly yet been incredibly instructive. McElroy plans to shoot the film, based on the true-life story of a multi-racial soccer team in 1983, in South Africa with post-production Sydney and Brisbane.