IT'S a long way from Poowong to New York, but it's taken big-screen toilet technician Shane Jacobsen only 18 months to get there.
The Kenny star's new flick, Newcastle, has been selected to premiere at screen legend Robert De Niro's Tribeca Film Festival in the Big Apple next month.
It's a sign that Jacobsen is flush with success - the lid was lifted on Kenny at a low-key world premiere at the tiny Gippsland town of Poowong's town hall in July 2006.
The AFI winner teams with surf champ Layne Beachley and former rugby league poster boy Andrew Johns playing themselves in the surf drama Newcastle.
Apart from director Dan Castle, whose airfare is being footed by the movie-fest, 15 of the flick's cast and crew are paying their own way to ride the international film wave.
Jacobsen won't be there, having to float in Melbourne because of commitments on stage musical Guys and Dolls.
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