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www.britfilms.com
Head of Industry: Mary Davies
Film UK & Industry Co-ordinator: Aida LiPera
Film UK Assistant & Videotheque Manager:
Kristin Loeer
Film UK & Industry Assistants: Morven Reid,
Joanna Potts
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Foreword by Mary Davies
Head of Industry, Edinburgh International
Film Festival
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Film UK Features
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Film UK Shorts
Index - Feature Films
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Index - Short Films
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Edinburgh International Film Festival
Tel: +44 (0)131 228 4051
Fax: +44 (0)131 229 5501
Email: filmuk@edfilmfest.org.uk
Editors:
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Morven Reid, Joanna Potts
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Printing:
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In the Film UK Guide to British Film we have aimed to include details of all British fiction feature and short
films completed between August 2007 and June 2008. (Not included are animation, experimental and
documentary films.) Each listing includes contact information for the film's producer, international sales
agent and UK distributor, where available. The listings cover more than 150 feature films and around 278
shorts. We apologise if any eligible films have not made it into the Guide.
The films and credits in the Guide are those submitted by producers, sales agents and distributors, and
credits are not contractual.
The Film UK Guide to British Film is made available to all Industry delegates at the Edinburgh International
Film Festival 2008.
A pdf version of the Guide can be downloaded from the Film UK website at www.filmuk.org.uk.
The Film Festival Videotheque stocks video copies of as many of the films in the Film UK Guide as we are
able to obtain. The Videotheque is open daily during the Festival. We are happy to pass on enquiries about
films to the appropriate contact.
EH6 5NA
email: info@summerhall.biz
web: www.summerhall.biz
denotes that a film is showing in the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2008 programme.
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Welcome to the 2008 Film UK
Guide to British Film
This is the fourteenth edition of the Guide to British Film, the Edinburgh
International Film Festival's annual directory of fiction features and shorts
completed in the UK during the previous year. We research British film
production extensively, so that the Guide is an essential handbook for film
professionals and anyone interested in the current state of filmmaking in the
UK. Thousands of copies of the Guide are downloaded each year from the
website www.filmuk.org.uk, where editions for each year from 2001 are
available. The Film UK banner signposts British filmmaking throughout the
Festival, from new British films to events related to British cinema, and includes
the Videotheque, where British films from the Guide can be watched on DVD.
With the Festival's move from August to June in 2008, the Guide covers ten months
instead of the usual twelve. However, the numbers and relative proportions of
features and shorts do not appear to have changed significantly, with 152 features
and 278 shorts completed during this period. Budgets range from high to micro,
with creativity and resourcefulness evident in films made for tiny amounts as well
as in those co-produced internationally and costing millions. Some of tomorrow's
most talented filmmakers are to be found among the low budget features and
shorts in this year's Guide.
Artistic Director Hannah McGill is well into her stride in her second year, and the
62nd Edinburgh International Film Festival - combining history (as the longest
continuously running film festival in the world) with innovation - has established a
reputation as a place to discover new talent, both British and international. As the only
show in town in Edinburgh in June 2008 and with a new position in the world's crowded
film festival calendar, we hope the Film Festival will grow as a networking centre for the
national and international film community as well as reaching out to a wider audience.
We are grateful to the British Council for their continuing co-operation with us in
compiling the Guide.
Mary Davies
Head of Industry
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Feature Films
25Gs
Abraham's Point
Adulthood
Johnny has lost £25,000. It all happened
so fast, he just put it down for a second
and then it was gone. It wasn't his to
lose. It was such a simple job delivering a
package for his criminal boss, Staunton. A
small job but a very important one.
Comet Snape is a tormented man. An
insomniac French polisher, who hasn't been
home or seen his parents for 15 years, he
lives in a West London tower block and
spends his days restoring antiques and his
nights in a caffeine-fuelled hell. Reality is
beginning to blur and maybe the boy who
lurks in the shadows is not a figment of his
imagination after all. Perhaps the clock
that he sees at a client's really is the one
that dominates his dreams each day and
night? Who knows, but when the volcano of
his guilt erupts urging him to steal the
clock in a midnight raid, he sets off on a
journey into the heart of his soul; a
redemptive journey where he travels back
to the source of the tragedy that tore his
family apart all those years ago. Abraham's
Point sees a man forced to make an
enormous decision. He must travel home
with an unwieldy grandfather clock on an
often funny, sometimes sad, journey of self
discovery, where he encounters people and
situations that either make or break him.
Showing courage and determination he
overcomes perhaps the biggest obstacle of
all - himself.
Powerful, disturbing and moving in equal
measure, 2006's acclaimed Kidulthood
took us deep into London's unseen
underbelly, delivering a raw, hard-hitting
reflection of what life is like for 21st
century teenagers, where sex is currency,
drugs are easy to come by and violence is
a way of life.
Johnny turns for salvation to his brother,
Del, who knows one thing for certain:
they needs to find 25Gs, and before
Staunton finds him. Whilst Del tries to
find the money from somewhere, Johnny
goes into hiding and meets the enigmatic
Hayley, who seems to have the answers to
everything. But all is not so
straightforward in this existentialist crime
caper where chance meetings and
peculiar turns of events escalate things to
nightmarish proportions.
Director: Baldwin Li
2008. HD. 76 min
Production Company: Honlodge
Productions, 18 St Andrews Drive,
Heywood, Lancashire, OL10 2DT, England,
UK
email: baldwin@honlodgeproductions.com
Producer, Editor, Sound: Baldwin Li
Screenwriter: Andy Hall
Director of Photography: Dave Beaumont
Production Designer: Joe Withers
Music: Baldwin Li, James Adolpho, Shona
Brown
Cast: Joe Moan, Steve Garry, Laura Sharp,
Tommy Davies, Graham Gavin
Budget: £3,500
Funding: Private
Territories: All available
Director: Wyndham Price
2008. HD. 107 min
Production Company: The Film
Partnership, 25 Denmark Street, London,
WC2H 8NH, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7780 662 444, fax: +44 (0)20
7240 9311
International Sales: Moviehouse
Entertainment, 11 Denmark Street,
London, WC2H 8LS, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7836 5536
email: info@moviehouseent.com
Producer: Tony Purves
Executive Producer: Julie Baines, Pauline
Burt, Linda James
Screenwriter: Wyndham Price
Editor: John Gillanders
Director of Photography: Zoran Velkjovic
Production Designer: Keith Maxwell
Sound: Bang Post-Production
Music: John Hardy
Cast: Mackenzie Crook, Joseph Millson,
Harriet Walter, Mariah Gale, Christian
McKay
Budget: £990,000
Funding: Private, The Film Agency Wales,
Welsh Creative IP Fund, Limelight Fund
Territories: All available
Six years on, Sam Peel is released from
jail for killing Trife and he is soon forced
to confront the people he hurt the most.
Some have moved on, others are stuck
with the repercussions of his actions that
night, but one thing's for certain everyone has been forced to grow up.
As Sam battles to end the cycle of
violence he started, his new journey is
one of discovery, both about the world he
came from and the new one he's trying to
create. Can Sam make something positive
from the destruction he caused or will his
journey into adulthood end here?
Director: Noel Clarke
2008. s16mm. 100 min
Production Company: Cipher Fims,
19 Doughty Street, London, WC1N 2PL,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7958 374 377
email: george@cipher-films.com
UK Distributor: Pathe
 UK, Kent House,
14-17 Market Place, Great Titchfield
Street, London, W1W 8AR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7323 5151, fax: +44 (0)20
7631 5368
web: www.pathe.co.uk
International Sales: Independent Film
Company, 32 Tavistock Street, London,
WC2E 7PB, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7257 8734, fax: +44 (0)20
7240 9029
email: andrew@
independentfilmcompany.com
Producer: Damian Jones, George Isaac
Screenwriter: Noel Clarke
Editor: Tim Hemmings
Director of Photography: Brian Tufano
Production Designer: Murray McKeown
Music: Chad Hobson
Cast: Noel Clarke, Adam Deacon, Scarlett
Johnson, Cornell S John, Jacob Anderson
Budget: $2.5 million
Funding: UK Film Council, Pathe
Â,
Limelight Fund
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Feature Films
The Agent
All Secrets
The Auction
It's all in a day's work for high-flying
literary agent Alexander. Manuscripts to
read, deals to be done, celebrity clients
to be taken out to lunch, and just one
quick meeting to get through with an
author whose latest book the agent thinks
is frankly not up to scratch. This drama
about a writer's struggle for proper
representation reveals the subtle shifts in
power in the relationship between artist
and agent. The only thing we can be sure
of is that there can only be one winner.
Maria is taking care of her dying mother.
The constant suffering around her pushes
the girl into a very depressed state. While
looking for a suicide help-line she
accidentally dials the wrong number and
reaches Black: a lonely painter with
strange telepathic abilities, which allow
him to feel and experience other people's
thoughts, whether he wants to or not.
Soon they become very close. She facing her mother's death and a crisis in
her relationship, he - in isolation caused
by his mental condition. Maria decides to
go on a journey to find Black, but she's
also aware that in order to do so, she'll
have to reveal all the secrets from her
life. Can she make this sacrifice for the
one she loves?
Runa is excited about her holiday with her
father to his country of origin,
Bangladesh. She is dreaming of a great
adventurous holiday - different part of
the world, different culture, an oceanwide tea garden, the biggest tiger,
mountains, fountains. Her dream turns
into a blood-chilling nightmare when, in a
dramatic auction, her father sells her to
her animal-like uncle who forces her into
marriage to his son who is several years
younger than Runa. Runa's life turns into
great suffering in a backward society
where women have virtually no rights and
absolutely no control over their lives.
Despite this, she never stops thinking of
being free, knowing that it is almost
impossible to escape from the village
which is absolutely under her uncle's
control. But one day, the impossible
becomes possible and with a tremendous
effort from the Forced Marriage Unit of
the British Home Office Runa escapes. She
is flown back to the UK, to her boyfriend,
who unbelievably denies her as his mother
doesn't want to take a runaway girl as
her daughter-in-law. Runa then walks
away alone . . . all alone.
Director: Lesley Manning
2008. HD. 84 min
Production Company: Pinter & Martin
Ltd, Geffra Parade, London, SW2 1PS,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7737 6868
Producer, Screenwriter: Martin Wagner
Editor: Lesley Manning
Director of Photography: Jonathan
Harvey
Production Designer: Humphrey Jaeger
Cast: William Beck, Stephen Kennedy,
Maureen Lipman
Territories: All available
Director: Thomas Wotan Suski
2008. HDV. 65 min
Production Company: Well-Known Artist,
128/4 Viewforth, Edinburgh, EH10 4LN,
Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)7746 507 57
web: www.well-known-artist.com
Producer, Editor, Director of
Photography: Thomas Wotan Suski
Screenwriter: Andrew Kerr, Hugh Farrell
Production Designer: Maria Suoronou
Sound: Julien Pearly
Music: Ralph Zurmu
Èhle
Cast: Shakti Edwards, Ali de Souza, Liz
McFarlane-Davie
Budget: £15,000
Funding: Private, Reels, Pilton Video
Territories: All available
Director: Zakir Hossain
2007. DV Cam. 86 min
Production Company: Absurd,
235 Crawley Green Road, Luton,
Bedfordshire, LU2 0QJ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7984 754 153
email: zakir_hossain_film@yahoo.co.uk
Producer: Sky Visual
Screenwriter, Production Designer: Zakir
Hossain
Editor: H H M Munzir
Director of Photography: Moniruz Islam
Masum
Sound: M D Alal Uddin
Music: Noor Hossain
Cast: Runa Begum, Mostafa Kamal,
Sharoswati Dey
Budget: £2,000
Funding: Community Fund
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Feature Films
Bad Day
Banana Boys
Bane
Rebecca Ryan has been working as an
undercover agent for the Organised Crime
Division, posing as a taxi driver while
investigating London's south-side mob.
The story of two brothers, Aslam and Arif.
It's a distressing tale that examines the
choices today's generations make when
faced with unemployment.
When she finds her young daughter Lynn
brutally murdered she fears her cover has
been blown, so she turns renegade and
begins a brutal campaign of vengeance
against the mob she believes killed her
daughter.
One day the brothers accidentally meet
their old college friend, Jamal, who lies
to them about his profession and then
offers them work. The brothers agree to
work for him but then find themselves in
a trap that will change their lives forever.
As she trawls the seedy depths of
London's underworld hunting down her
daughter's killers, the lines between good
and evil, right and wrong, begin to blur,
as do her notions of justice and revenge.
Banana Boys is a hard hitting crime drama
that explores young people, drugs, gang
culture, unemployment and crime within
mixed communities.
Katherine awakes in an underground cell
with three other woman, Jane, Natasha
and Elaine. With complete amnesia,
Katherine and the other women have
little time to wonder where they are
before the arrival of the sadistic Dr
Murdoch and the mysterious Handsome
Man. The women soon discover they are
part of a gruesome experiment with no
obvious purpose. That night, Jane stays
awake long enough to witness the first
visit to their cell by the terrifying figure
of the blood splattered Surgeon. One by
one the Surgeon cuts a number into each
woman's skin, a four digit number, the
exact time he will return to kill them.
It falls to the world-weary OCD agent
Darius Cruise and his newly assigned hottempered partner Abby Barrett to track
down Rebecca and bring her in before all
hell breaks loose.
As implied by the title, the events take
place over a 24-hour period, with each of
the main characters having their own
problems to overcome as the day unfolds.
Director: Ian David Diaz
2008. HD. 101 min
Production Company: 7th 12th Collective
Ltd, 13 Scholey House, Ingrave Street,
Battersea, London, SW11 2SE, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7387 0580
email: iandiaztkz@yahoo.co.uk
Producer: Gena Helen Ashwell
Executive Producer: Frank Heilebrand
Screenwriter, Editor: Ian David Diaz
Director of Photography: Alan Dunlop
Production Designer: Christophe Spurling
Sound: 5A Studios Ltd
Music: Dominic Glynn
Cast: Claire Goose, Anthony Ofoegbu,
Donna Air, Robbie Gee
Budget: £500,000
Funding: Private
Territories: All available
Director: Zafar Iqbal
2007. Mini DV. 70 min
Production Company: Zafar Iqbal Films
Ltd, 2 Ashia Close, Rochdale, OL16 5ND,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7851 779 781
email: info@zafariqbalfilms.co.uk
Producer, Screenwriter: Zafar Iqbal
Editor: Vasilus Mercalous
Director of Photography: Varun Sharma
Production Designer: R H A Rahman
Sound: Duncan Parker
Music: Nursery of Naughtiness
Cast: Zafar Iqbal, Jayce Jonti, Nina
Gilhooly, Saba Andleeb
Budget: £2,000
Funding: Private
Territories: All available
Director: James Eaves
2008. HDV. 104 min
Production Company: Amber Pictures,
103 Shirley High Street, Shirley,
Southampton, SO16 4EY, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7782 373 899
email: james@amberpictures.co.uk
web: www.amberpictures.co.uk
Producer, Screenwriter, Editor: James
Eaves
Director of Photography: John Raggett
Production Designer: Harold Gasnier
Sound: Glen Yard
Music: Ronnie Doyle
Cast: Sophia Dawnay, Lisa Devlin, Tina
Barnes, Sylvia Robson
Funding: Private
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Feature Films
The Bank Job
Better Things
Big Things
Based on the true story of the 1971 Baker
Street bank robbery which was prevented
from being told for over 30 years because
of a government gagging order. The real
story of how one of the biggest robberies
in British history took place with no
arrests ever made nor money ever
recovered.
Better Things is a multi-narrative drama
depicting everyday life in small-town
England. We follow several characters
each dealing in their own particular way
with their relationships.
Richard, bored with his mundane
existence as a cycle courier, attempts to
make his film, A Distance Too Far, in a bid
to escape to a better life.
Director: Roger Donaldson
2008. 35mm. 110 min
UK Distributor: Lionsgate Films, Ariel
House, 74a Charlotte Street, London, W1T
4QJ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7299 8800, fax: +44 (0)20
7299 8801
email: awoodyatt@lionsgatefilms.co.uk
web: www.lionsgatefilms.co.uk
Producer: Steve Chasman, Charles Roven
Screenwriter: Dick Clement, Ian La frenais
Editor: John Gilbert
Director of Photography: Michael Coulter
Production Designer: Gavin Bocquet
Sound: Steve Burgess
Music: J Peter Robinson
Cast: Jason Stratham, Saffron Burrows,
Stephen Campbell Moore, Daniel Mays,
James Faulkner
As a day dawns in the Cotswolds a funeral
is taking place that will have bitter
repercussions for some of the community.
Close by, Rachel and Larry are reeling
against a first love gone wrong.
Meanwhile Mr Gladwin refuses to speak to
Mrs Gladwin over events of a long time
ago.
Following on from his multi-award-winning
and critically acclaimed short films,
Duane Hopkins presents a painterly view
of existence against a rarely seen rural
backdrop and its separate generations'
approach to life, love, loss and
intoxication.
Director: Duane Hopkins
2008. 35mm. 90 min
Production Company: Third Films,
3 Heaton Grove, Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE6 5NN, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7866 559 541
email: sammhaillay@hotmail.com
UK Distributor: Soda Pictures, 17 Blossom
Street, London, E1 6PL, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7377 1407, fax: +44 (0)20
7377 1406
email: kate@sodapictures.com
web: www.sodapictures.com
Producer: Samm Haillay, Rachel Robey
Executive Producer: Peter Carlton, Chris
Collins, Lizzie Francke
Screenwriter: Duane Hopkins
Editor: Christopher Barwell
Director of Photography: Lol Crawley
Production Designer: Jamie Leonard
Sound: Douglas MacDougall
Music: Dan Berridge
Cast: Liam McIlfatrick, Che Corr, Tara
Ballard, Megan Palmer, Kurt Taylor, Rachel
McIntyre, Patricia Loveland
Budget: £1.1 million
Funding: UK Film Council (NCF), Film4,
EM Media, GFO, NFM, ARTE, Abacus Film
Fund
Territories: All available except France,
Germany, UK
Driven by the belief that it will propel
him, his friends and his girlfriend to fame
and fortune, and the fear of ending up
like his family, the completion of his
`masterpiece' becomes the sole focus of
Richard's life.
So with a budget creeping into positive
numbers, Richard employs a rabble of
egomaniacs and incompetents. These
include his loyal friend Ray, chicken
slaughterer (and now producer).
Richard's likeable, mellow and quirky
personality transforms into that of an
angry, unappreciative tyrant who becomes
hell-bent on success. His relationship with
girlfriend Jemma deteriorates, as he is
unable to think past his ruthless
ambitions. Eventually, his constant barking
takes its toll on the cast and crew,
culminating in Richard throwing a tantrum
and banishing them all from the set. Even
Ray, who has been funding the production
with extra hours at the meat factory, is
ejected.
Met with indifference after crawling back
to his former crew, Richard realises his
dream is over for now and that his life,
without the millions and the showbiz golfbuddies, isn't so bad the way it is.
Director: Mark Devenport
2007. HD. 75 min
Production Company: Anonymous Room
Productions, 68 Castlegate, Newark,
Nottinghamshire, NG24 1BG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7976 724 242
email: lukedennis@anonymousroom.com
web: www.big-things.co.uk
Producer: Luke Dennis
Executive Producer: Paul Welsh
Screenwriter: Tony Claassen, Mark
Devenport
Editor: Nick Fenton
Director of Photography: John Ross
Sound: Grant Bridgeman
Music: Steve Blackman
Cast: Tony Claassen, Dean Palo, Jonny
Phillips, Micaiah Dring, Rupert Procter
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Feature Films
The Blade
The Blue Tower
The Boatmaker
Polash, a 14 year-old British-Bangladeshi
boy, suffers mental anguish after
accidentally causing the death of his
schoolfriend Freddy - the result of
getting caught in a violent clash with
classmates John and Nafiz. Polash's lonely
widowed mother cannot take the pain of
seeing her only son so tortured and seeks
help from her friend, psychiatrist Dr
Ahmed. Dr Ahmed works with Polash to
get his life back on track but soon
another dramatic incident shocks him
when he and Dr Ahmed are robbed by a
group of drug addicts. As a result, Polash
starts writing, which begins to help heal
his pain. Now, some years later, a
grownup John and Nafiz are together
again, terrorising and trying to gain
underworld control over various towns
along the east of England. They call upon
their old classmate Polash for a meeting,
coercing him into joining their forces.
Polash tries to deny them, but John and
Nafiz won't let him just walk away . . .
A quirky, offbeat love story with dark
comic touches. Thematically it shares
some territory with Gurinder Chadha's
Bend It Like Beckham, both films being
about family pressures on the leading
character, but this is much darker, with
shades of cult classics The Postman
Always Rings Twice or The Honeymoon
Killers.
A man wanders alone moving from town
to town in Northwest India. Once a brave
warrior, now a boatmaker for Yama, Lord
of Death. He is Dharayan and ferrying
souls is the price he pays for being
granted immortality as a warrior. But
Dharayan desires nothing more than to die
and be with his son, murdered by his
enemies.
Mohan is a young dreamer, unhappy in his
marriage, pressured by his father-in-law
into joining the family firm. With his
parents dead, for money he relies on the
support of his tyrannical bedridden
Auntie, Kamla, who delights in tormenting
her innocent nephew.
When Dharayan arrives at a new town, he
is met with suspicion and hostility except
from a young girl called Sonu who greets
him with kindness and friendship. Sonu's
charm begins to win over the emotionally
closed off boatmaker who forges a close
bond with the child and her widow
mother.
Director: Zakir Hossain
2008. DV Cam. 60 min
Production Company: Absurd, 235
Crawley Green Road, Luton, Bedfordshire,
LU2 0QJ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7984 754 153
email: zakir_hossain_film@yahoo.co.uk
Producer: Sky Visual
Screenwriter, Production Designer: Zakir
Hossain
Editor: Joynul Islam
Director of Photography, Sound: H H M
Munzir
Music: Noor Hossain
Cast: Rafiul Anwar, James Readfern,
Ashfaq Ahmed, Zia Ali, Kevin Barton
Budget: £1,000
Funding: Community Fund
Territories: All available
Then Mohan finds himself falling into a
love affair with Judy, the pretty nurse
sent to care for Kamla. It is a step that
will lead to surprise revelations, snatched
ecstasy, a botched robbery and
eventually . . . murder.
Director: Smita Bhide
2008. HDV. 85 min
Production Company: Monkey in Heaven
Films, 96d Lancaster Road, London, W11
1QS, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7792 1769, fax: +44 (0)20
7792 1769
email: jamie.nuttgens@virgin.net
Producer, Editor: Jamie Nuttgens
Screenwriter: Smita Bhide
Director of Photography: Annemarie
Lean-Vercoe
Sound: 5A Studios
Music: Sandy Nuttgens, Mike Scott
Cast: Abhin Galeya, Alice O'Connell,
Indira Joshi, Manjinder Virk, Jayvan Novak
Budget: £350,000
Funding: Private
Territories: All available
After making more boats than he can
recall, Dharayan learns he can finally be
with his son if he collects one last soul.
He begins his last task only to discover it
is for Sonu's mother. The young child begs
him not to take her mother away, forcing
Dharayan to choose between saving Sonu's
mother or joining his son.
Director: Ajay Patel
2007. HD. 67 min
Production Company: Sharda
Entertainment, Southdown Cottage,
Yapton Lane, Arundel, West Sussex, BN18
0AS, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7840 696 717
email: ajay@theboatmakerfilm.co.uk
Producer, Screenwriter: Ajay Patel
Executive Producer: Suren Patel,
Shilpesh Patel
Editor: Ajay Patel, Jimmy Bustos
Director of Photography: Dave Luxton
Production Designer: Rupesh Kosta
Sound: Kevin Pinto
Music: Brad Bowie
Cast: Raj Thakor, Asha Chavda, Brisha
Cheda
Budget: £30,000
Funding: Private
Territories: All available
9
Feature Films
Bodyguard: A New Beginning
Boy A
The Boy in the
Striped Pyjamas
A New Beginning focuses around the story
of Leung, the bodyguard of a Chinese
Triad boss, Wong, to whom his loyalty is
unrivalled. Living in Hong Kong, Wong
requests that his bodyguard travel to the
UK to protect a young British woman,
whose true identity is known only by
Wong himself. Even his own errant son,
Yuen, is kept in the dark, which leads to a
betrayal that threatens to destroy the
family and all that his father has worked
hard to protect.
Boy A is a powerful coming-of-age story
that looks at difficult questions
concerning rehabilitation and redemption
through the story of one young man. Jack,
at the age of 24, has spent most of his
young life in juvenile prisons for the
murder of another child. Released from
prison into a sometimes bewildering adult
world, Jack is given a new name, new
job, new home, a new life. But anonymity
is both a blessing and a curse as Jack has
to contend with not being able to tell the
people he gets to know, and love, of his
true past and the monstrous crime he
committed as a minor.
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is an
unusual Holocaust drama in which
everything is seen from the Nazi side of
the fence. The tragic follies of prejudice
are viewed through the innocent eyes of
Bruno, the nine year-old son of the
Kommandant at a death camp, whose
spontaneous friendship with a Jewish boy
has startling and unexpected
consequences.
Director: John Crawley
2007. HDV. 100 min
Production Company: Heyday Films,
5 Denmark Street, London, WC2H 8LP,
England, UK
email: office@heydayfilms.com
Director: Chee Keong Cheung
2008. HD. 90 min
Production Company: Intense
Productions, 5 Chelmsford Close,
Lancaster, LA1 4BJ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7970 651 252
email: director@intenseproductions.co.uk
web: www.intenseproductions.co.uk
International Sales: Park Entertainment,
Suite 12, 3rd Floor, 54 Broadwick Street,
London, W1F 7AH, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7434 4176, fax: +44 (0)20
7434 4179
email: mail@parkentertainment.com
web: www.parkentertainment.com
Producer: Chee Keong Cheung, Oliver
Morran, Mark Strange, Mike Leeder
Executive Producer: Jim Howell, Simon
Barnes, Chris Atkins, Luke Montague
Screenwriter: Chee Keong Cheung, Oliver
Morran
Editor: Mark Towns
Director of Photography: Henry Chung,
Steven Priovolos
Production Designer: Lola Mezquita
Sanchez
Sound: Vincent Watts
Music: Stuart Hancock
Cast: Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Vincent Sze,
Richard Ng, Carl Ng
Budget: £1 million
Funding: Private
Territories: All available except Latin
America
Production Company: Cuba Pictures,
28-29 Haymarket, London, SW1Y 4SP,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7393 4450
email: cuba@curtisbrown.co.uk
UK Distributor: Channel 4, 124 Horseferry
Road, London, SW1 2TX, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8396 4444
Producer: Lynn Horsford
Executive Producer: Tally Garner, Liza
Marshall, Nick Marston
Screenwriter: Mark O'Rowe
Editor: Lucia Zucchetti
Director of Photography: Rob Hardy
Production Designer: Jon Henson
Music: Paddy Cunneen
Cast: Andrew Garfield, Peter Mullan,
Siobhan Finneran, Alfie Owen
It is adapted from John Boyne's awardwinning novel of the same title.
Director: Mark Herman
2008. 35mm. 88 min
UK Distributor: Buena Vista International,
3 Queen Caroline Street, London, W6 9PE,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8222 674, fax: +44 (0)20
8222 795
web: www.bvimovies.com
Producer: David Heyman
Executive Producer: Christine Langan,
Mark Herman
Screenwriter: Mark Herman, John Boyne
(novel)
Editor: Michael Ellis
Director of Photography: BenoiÃt
Delhomme
Production Designer: Martin Childs
Music: James Horner
Cast: David Thewliss, Vera Farmiga, Asa
Butterfield, Rupert Friend
Funding: Miramax, BBC Films
Co-production: USA
10
Feature Films
Brideshead Revisited
Broken Lines
The Butterfly Tattoo
Adapted from one of the truly great works
of fiction of the 20th century, Brideshead
Revisited is a gorgeously evocative
romantic epic portraying a story of
forbidden love and the loss of innocence.
Brideshead Revisited is set in a golden
age pre-Second World War when
privileged aristocracy was falling into
decline. The film was shot wholly on
location in Oxford, England and Venice.
This is the story of Charles Ryder's
infatuation with Julia Flyte, daughter of
the aristocratic Marchmain family.
From humble beginnings in urban London,
a young Jewish man has done well for
himself financially and is now living with
his fiance
Âe in a wealthy suburb, in a
house which her father bought for them.
The sudden death of his father brings
mixed emotions. He attends the funeral
but feels unable to stay; he is still angry
with his mother for her infidelity, which
he believes destroyed his father's
happiness. He is determined that he will
be nothing like his mother. But all is not
well in his own relationship, and when he
meets a waitress in a local cafe
Â, he finds
himself drawn to her. She is in a
relationship too, with an ex-boxer who is
semi-paralysed from a stroke he suffered
after a bout, and who now needs
permanent care and attention. Although
both characters are aware that the other
has a partner, each of them is in a
relationship which no longer feels right.
The man feels more determined in
rejecting his partner; the girl struggles
with a sense of guilt in rejecting hers, but
being together makes them aware of their
potential for happiness, and also that
they have both given up on their own
dreams.
Violent revenge makes a nightmare of
love's young dream in this adaptation of
the acclaimed novel by Philip Pullman.
Chris and Jenny are teenage lovers from
the gritty side of modern Oxford. Chris, a
naive lad, suspended between school and
college, and Jenny, a free spirit seeking
to escape a traumatised childhood. Their
innocent passion is still fresh when they
are caught in the crossfire, as Carson, a
gangster with a grudge, comes looking for
Chris' boss to avenge events from long
ago. There are echoes of Romeo and
Juliet as heady romance gives way to
growing suspense when Carson closes in,
until, in a final eruption of violence, the
star-crossed lovers are sundered forever.
Director: Julian Jarrold
2008. 35mm. 132 min
Production Company: Ecosse Films,
8 Parsons Green, London, SW6 4TN,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7371 0290, fax: +44 (0)20
7736 3436
email: info@ecossefilms.com
UK Distributor: Buena Vista International,
3 Queen Caroline Street, London, W6 9PE,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8222 674, fax: +44 (0)20
8222 795
web: www.bvimovies.com
International Sales: HanWay Films, 24
Hanway Street, London, W1T 1UH,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7290 0750, fax: +44 (0)20
7290 0751
email: info@hanwayfilms.com
web: www.hanwayfilms.com
Producer: Robert Bernstein, Douglas Rae,
Kevin Rodder
Executive Producer: David N Thompson,
Nicola Finnan, Tim Haslam, Hugo Heppell
Screenwriter: Andrew Davies, Jeremy
Brock
Editor: Chris Gill
Director of Photography: Jess Hall
Production Designer: Alice Normington
Music: Adrian Johnston
Cast: Emma Thompson, Matthew Goode,
Ben Wishaw, Hayley Atwell, Michael
Gambon
Director: Sallie Aprahamian
2007. 35mm. 108 min
Production Company: Axiom Films
International Ltd, 2nd Floor, 87 Notting
Hill Gate, London, W11 3JZ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7243 3111
email: sophie@axiomfilms.co.uk
Producer: Douglas Cummins
Executive Producer: Charlotte Walls,
Nigel Thomas, Luke Montague, Jen
Gatien, Diandra Douglas
Screenwriter: Dan Fredenburgh, Doraly
Rosa
Editor: Brand Thumik
Director of Photography: Jean Louis
Bompoint
Production Designer: Mike Kane
Sound: Tim Barker
Music: Laura Rossi
Cast: Paul Bettany, Olivia Williams, Dan
Fredenburgh
Budget: £1.5 million
Funding: Private
Territories: All available
Director: Phil Hawkins
2008. HD. 100 min
Production Company: Dynamic
Entertainment DEH Ltd, Turkooislaan 41,
Utrecht, 3523GK, The Netherlands
tel: +31 645 316 930
email: visser@dynamic-enterprises.nl
Producer: Rik Visser, Jolies Van Emburg
Screenwriter: Stephen Potts
Editor: Phil Hawkins
Director of Photography: Michael
Costelloe
Production Designer: Gareth Thomas
Sound: Candy Studios
Music: Ludovico Einaudi
Cast: Duncan Stuart, Jessica Blake, Aidan
Magrath, Christopher Dane, Dan Morgan
Budget: £350,000
Funding: Private
Territories: All available
Co-production: The Netherlands
11
Feature Films
The Calling
Captain Eager
and the Mark of Voth
Cash and Curry
The story of a young university graduate
engaged in a modern lifestyle who shocks
her friends and family by announcing she
has a calling to join a closed order of
Benedictine nuns and give up the life they
had all assumed she was planning.
The surreal adventures of a damaged raygun hero questing through a B-movie
universe.
A fast-paced comedy drama set in multicultural London. Raj and his friends are
tired of being `errand boys' at the bottom
of the food chain. Ambition leads them
into the middle of a gang war between
two of the biggest drugs lords in London:
Gabbar and Isaac. Realising the
consequences of his actions, Raj seeks
refuge in the countryside with an old
friend, Tony, who runs the largest pirate
DVD manufacturing operation in London,
out of an abandoned farm. To elude
capture, Raj and his friends are forced to
submerge themselves in farm life.
Meanwhile, Gabbar and Isaac are hunting
them down - but who will find who first?
Director: Jan Dunn
2008. HD. 100 min
Production Company: Medb Films, 10-11
Nelson Crescent, Royal Harbour,
Ramsgate, Kent, CT11 9JF, England, UK
email: info@medbfilms.com
web: www.medbfilms.com
International Sales: Target
Entertainment, 86-88 Edgware Road, 2nd
Floor, Garfield House, London, W2 2EA,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)870 164 7474
email: info@target-tv.com
web: www.target-entertainment.com
Producer: Elaine Wickham
Executive Producer: Alison Rayson, Paul
Dixon
Screenwriter: Jan Dunn
Editor: Emma Collins
Director of Photography: Ole Bratt
Birkeland
Production Designer: Stevie Stewart
Sound: Maurice Hillier, Neil Collymore
Music: Clint Mansell
Cast: Brenda Blethyn, Emily Beecham,
Susannah York, Rita Tushingham, Tom
Stuart
Square-chinned Captain Eager arrives in
his wobbly Bakelite rocket, brought out of
mothballs by the sprawling, hi-tech
corporation Macro Space. The brief is to
investigate a maverick `client' - the
villianous Colonel Regamun is an enemy
from the past with an old fashioned
craving for revenge - and he is luring the
brave yet clunky Captain to a final Bmovie showdown. But along the journey
Eager learns to confront his (rubbery)
monsters from the past and he
triumphs . . . by understanding that his
enemy is human too.
Director: Simon DaVison
2007. HD. 95 min
Production Company: Imperious Films
Ltd, St Annes Cottage, Wardour, Wiltshire,
SP3 6RG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)171 787 1430
email: simonrdavison@btinternet.com
web: www.captaineager.com
UK Distributor: Institute of Contemporary
Arts, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7766 1448
email: mark.adams@ica.org.uk
web: www.ica.org.uk
Producer: Rebecca Bazzard
Executive Producer, Screenwriter,
Editor, Sound, Music: Simon DaVison
Director of Photography: Martin Hill
Production Designer: Damien Creagh
Cast: James Vaughan, Tamsin Greig,
Richard Leaf, Mark Heap, Lindsay Carr
Budget: £110,000
Funding: Private, sale and leaseback
Territories: All available except UK
Director: Sarjit Bains
2008. 35mm. 100 min
Production Company: Jaffa
Entertainment Ltd, 158 High Road,
Wealdstone, Harrow, Middlesex, HA3 7AX,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)870 486 9104
email: info@jaffa-entertainment.com
Producer: Christine Edwards
Executive Producer: Ameet Chaana
Screenwriter: Christine Edwards, Manish
Patel
Editor: Sarjit Bains
Director of Photography: Ciro Candia
Sound: John Hughes
Cast: Ameet Chana, Ronny Jhutti, Pooja
Shah, Manish Patel
12
Feature Films
Cass
Caught in the Act
Chemical Wedding
The incredible true story of how an
orphaned Jamaican baby, adopted by an
elderly white couple and brought up in an
all-white area of London, became one of
the most feared and respected men in
Britain. Cass grew up in a time before
political correctness and was forced to
endure racist bullying on a daily basis,
until one day when the years of pent up
anger came out in a violent burst. Cass
found through violence the respect he
never had and became addicted to the
buzz of fighting. His way of life finally
caught up with him when an attempted
assassination on his life saw him shot
three times at point blank range. His
inner strength somehow managed to keep
him alive but he was left with a dilemma:
whether to seek vengeance as the street
had taught him, or renounce his violent
past. This is the extraordinary story of his
life.
Imagine you are a group of oddballs
consisting of a less than bright fish seller,
an ageing alcoholic, a mummy's boy who
has an allergy to cats and a taste for
sadomasochism, a long-suffering commonlaw wife attempting to get pregnant
`before it's too late' and the dissatisfied
secret girlfriend of the mayor of a small
Welsh town.
Jack Parsons was a brilliant chemist and
inventor of the rocket fuel used for the
US space flight to the moon. He was also
a fanatical believer in the magic of
Aleister Crowley, the aging occultist. In
1947 Parsons and L Ron Hubbard were
performing Crowley's mystic rituals in a
house in Pasadena, California. Parsons
wrote excitedly to his occult leader,
Crowley.
Director: Jon S Baird
2008. s16mm. 100 min
Production Company: Cass Films,
10 Orange Street, Haymarket, London,
WC2H 7DQ, England, UK
UK Distributor: Optimum Releasing, 50
Marshall Street, London, W1F 9BQ,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7534 2700
email: info@optimumreleasing.com
web: www.optimumreleasing.com
Producer: Stefan Haller
Executive Producer: Will Clarke, Berry
Van Zweiten, Jon S Baird, Pierre Weisbein
Screenwriter: Jon S Baird
Editor: Dave Moyes
Director of Photography: Christopher
Ross
Production Designer: Daniel Taylor
Sound: Gareth John
Music: Matteo Scumaci
Cast: Nonso Anozie, Natalie Press, Tamer
Hassan, Linda Bassett, Peter Wight
You have never acted before, can only
meet if it's at the local pub and have
frittered away every penny ever given to
you on frivolous luxuries.
Now imagine that you have six weeks to
produce and perform a Shakespearean
play and convince the entire population of
a town in Germany that you are an
established, professional and artistic
theatre company. Meet the so-called
`Pontycel Players' who suddenly find
themselves entangled in a nightmare of
their own construction and are led unto
the breach by their Mayor, Eric Jenkins.
Under the strain of their own personal
traumas and conflicts, this endearingly
funny group of people must work together
if they are to save their town and their
homes and put on a performance of
Macbeth in front of a critical audience on
the stage of the German town twinned
with Pontycelwyddau.
Director: Matt Lipsey
2008. HD. 90 min
Production Company: Carnaby
International, New London House,
172 Drury Lane, London, WC2B 5QR,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7074 1275, fax: +44 (0)20
7074 1203
email: ian.hall@carnabyinternational.com
Screenwriter: Neil Savage, Steve Speirs
Editor: John Richards
Director of Photography: Francis De
Groote
Production Designer: Matthew Button
Cast: Steve Speirs, Freddie Jones, Ralph
Brown
Funding: EIS
Territories: All available
Nine months later while being visited by
two students, Crowley died. Missing from
his possessions was his pocket-watch. His
funeral took place in Brighton. The final
rites were performed by Louis Marlowe
reading extracts from Crowley's Book of
the Law. The Brighton Echo denounced
the ceremony as a Black Mass. In 1952
Parsons was blown up in his laboratory. L
Ron Hubbard, leader of the controversial
Church of Scientology, died on his yacht.
Did the issue end with these three deaths?
Would Crowley, as he claimed, ever return
from death to rule the world? Why did US
astronauts name a crater on the moon
after Parsons? Is L Ron Hubbard really
dead? What was generated by the
ceremony in California that seemed to
signal Crowley's demise? And what
happened to the missing pocket-watch?
Director: Julian Doyle
2008. 35 mm. 107 min
Production Company: Bill and Ben
Productions, 20 Great Chapel Street,
London, W1F 8FW, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7734 4933, fax: +44 (0)20
7788 3422
email: enquiries@billandben.net
UK Distributor: Warner Brothers UK,
98 Theobald's Road, London, WC1X 8WB,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7984 5400, fax: +44 (0)20
7982 5001
Producer: Malcolm Kohll, Justin Peyton,
Benjamin Timlett
Screenwriter: Julian Doyle, Bruce
Dickinson
Editor: Bill Jones
Director of Photography: Brian Herlihy
Production Designer: Mark Tanner
Music: Andre
 Jacquemin
Cast: Simon Callow, Kal Weber, Lucy
Cudden, Jud Charlton
13
Feature Films
City Rats
The Clan
Clubbed
Jim's throwing watermelons off his office
roof, testing the effect for a possible
suicide. Then there is Sammy on an
adjacent roof about to jump. Together
they set off searching for other ways out
than down. Sammy's ex-boyfriend, Dean,
an artist struggling with his creativity,
needs a muse - and who better than
Gina, the experimental prostitute with
dodgy legs, who lives upstairs. However,
Dean soon finds out that Gina never does
anything for free. Sexually confused Olly
is forced to look after his deaf-mute
brother Chris for the day. Not only does
Chris have gay feelings too, but is more
comfortable with them than Olly. They
embark on a searing quest through Soho's
gay community to help Chris lose his
virginity. No-one has more to hide than
oldest brother Pete. He's being stalked by
Carol, a timid old lady looking for her
son - a guy Pete knew from his violent
drug days. Fearfully Pete opens his frozen
heart to Carol and they begin a
treacherous journey to find her lost son.
By the end, each lost soul finds a solution
in darkness or in light.
A unique insight into a dark brutal world
of crime, corruption and violence that lies
deep within the hills of the Scottish
Highlands, based upon a decade of
undercover police surveillance that until
now has never been exposed. The story
unveils the existence of two feuding
crime families that have evolved from
ancient Scottish clans, the McKinleys and
the McNabs. The film focuses on the
growing relationship that has blossomed
between the two youngest members of
each clan, Cal McKinley and Nicole
McNab, as they struggle to cope with the
brutal savagery that they are being forced
to endure on a daily basis. When the two
decide to run off together they soon
discover that escaping from the claws of
their own clans was never going to be
that easy.
Clubbed is a journey through family and
fear set in the violent world of early
1980s clubland. Danny, a lonely factory
worker, is intimidated by life, depressed
and battered in front of his kids. On the
verge of a breakdown he decides to fight
back. His already bleak existence sinks
further into the abyss. He becomes
involved with a group of doormen who
take him in and give him the confidence
to stand his ground. As he is pulled
further into their world, he gets
embroiled with the local gangland boss,
building to a frightening and brutal
climax.
Director: Steve M Kelly
2007. s16mm. 96 min
Production Company: Face Films Ltd,
19 Mansfield Road, London, E11 2JN,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7988 285 343
email: will@facefilms.com
web: www.facefilms.com
Production Company: Scanner-Rhodes
Productions, 19 Ewellhurst Road, Ilford,
Essex, IG5 0PE, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8924 7219
email: dean@scanner-rhodes.co.uk
web: www.scanner-rhodes.co.uk
Producer: William Borthwick
Executive Producer: Ray Panthaki
Screenwriter: Simon Fantauzzo
Editor: Ben King
Director of Photography: Adam Levins
Production Designer: Amy Spicer
Sound, Music: Mark Maclaine
Cast: Tamer Hassan, Danny Dyer, Susan
Lynch, Ray Panthaki, Kenny Doughty
Director: Lee Hutcheson
2007. HD. 106 min
Production Company: Clan Films,
35 Albyn Place, Aberdeen, AB10 1YN,
Scotland, UK
International Sales, UK Distributor:
Aspect Film Ltd, 188a Belsize Road,
London, NW6 4AB, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7625 7796
email: hugh@aspectfilm.com
web: www.aspectfilm.com/theclan
Producer, Screenwriter, Editor, Director
of Photography: Lee Hutcheson
Production Designer: Graeme Joss
Sound: Harley Hutcheon
Music: Clannandrumma, Clandonia
Cast: James Cosmo, Emun Elliot, Siobhan
Reilly, Jimmy Lynch, Lee Hutcheson
Funding: Private
Territories: All available
Director: Neil Thompson
2008. 16mm. 95 min
Production Company: Formosa Films,
3 Mills Studios, Three Mill Lane, London,
E3 3DU, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8709 8700, fax: +44 (0)20
8709 8701
email: kellie@formosafilms.com
International Sales: AV Pictures Ltd,
Caparo House, 103 Baker Street, London,
W1U 6LN, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7317 0140, fax: +44 (0)20
7317 0144
email: jane@avpictures.co.uk
Producer: Martin Carr
Executive Producer: Paul Abbott, Lee
Thomas
Screenwriter: Geoff Thompson
Editor: David Kew
Director of Photography: Kate Stark
Production Designer: Simon Godfrey
Sound: Nigel Squibbs
Music: Paul Heard
Cast: Colin Salmon, Mel Raido, Maxine
Peake, Shaun Parkes, Scot Williams
Budget: £1.8 million
Funding: Private, EIS, Screen West
Midlands
14
Feature Films
Clubbing to Death
Coffee Sex You
Cold Earth
Clubbing to Death is set in the murky
world of club culture, where Dench, a
lowlife gangster, runs the five biggest
clubs in London, and supplies drugs to all
of them. Everything seems to be going
well until he gets greedy and decides to
rip off his supplier by hijacking the next
consignment before it reaches the UK.
Trouble is the guy he's been dealing with
forgot to mention that they belong to a
psychotic American holed up in Morocco.
Will Dench and his loyal right-hand man
Chris be able to stop the mad Yank's plans
to destroy his clubs and family before it's
too late?
Maria Del Conte, a 26 year-old attractive
and intelligent woman, has made a
decision to take her life on her 27th
birthday. Having had an unhappy and
troubled childhood, she moved to London
and carved out a successful career as an
investment banker in European media
investment. It is through one of her rich
clients, geeky 22 year-old Bruce Day, that
she is introduced to Michael - a smalltime film producer.
When Dallas, the daughter of top
celebrity couple Darryl and Lori Van Dyke,
disappears, Detectives Farrell and
Radcliffe are assigned to the high profile
case. It looks like the work of the same
serial kidnapper and murderer who has
struck twice before but all is not as it
seems. There are no clues, no ransom
note, no motive. Time is running out.
Kidnap victims are expected to survive
less than a week. How and why has the
little girl been taken?
Director: Lee Philips
2007. DV Cam. 90 min
Production Company: 4Ground Media
email: office@4ground.co.uk
Producer, Editor: Lee Philips, Mat Ware
Screenwriter: Lee Philips
Director of Photography: Mat Ware
Sound: Matt Wilton
Music: Apocalipz, Beau Courtney,
MC Creed, Henry Gorman
Cast: Shalimar Wimble, Craig Charles,
Ewen MacIntosh, Jakki Degg
Co-production: Tunisia
Maria finds a renewed interest in life by
her association with Michael, a
charismatic and worldly man, slightly
jaded by a life full of disappointment. He
asks her out for coffee. After many
refusals she finally agrees to meet. Maria
doesn't drink coffee . . . she orders
herbal tea. They start to meet on a
regular basis in front of a backdrop of
guerrilla filmmaking, young Russian trophy
girlfriends, beefcake actors and
temperamental directors in a modern-day,
multi-cultural London.
We discover the truth behind Maria's
birthday decision, the reason for Michael's
cynicism, Maria's new passion for strong
cappuccino, and observe an unusual
sexual and intimate chemistry develop
between the two of them. More is never
enough.
Director: Marcel Grant
2007. HD. 98 min
Production Company: Shipwreck Film,
Room 19, 34-35 Hatton Garden, London,
EC1V 8TD, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7813 638 299
email: info@shipwreckfilm.com
web: www.shipwreckfilm.com
Producer, Screenwriter: Marcel Grant
Executive Producer: Emma Meaden
Editor: Kant Pan
Director of Photography: John Record
Sound: Tony Jackson
Cast: Caspar Zafar, Rosie Fellner
To find out, the detectives have to go
deep into their underworld connections
and negotiate the tricky waters of
celebrity life. Dogging them every step of
the way is Alex Blight, a paparazzo
photographer who knows more than he
should and is also personally connected
with DS Farrell.
Old and new demons haunt the case and
the dark, dark secret at the heart of the
mystery will bring terror and finally death
to those that dare to search for the truth
amidst the cold, cold earth.
Director: Frank Falco
2008. HD. 101 min
Production Company: Bridgeway
Productions Ltd, Unit E19, Telford Road,
Bicester, OX26 4LD, England, UK
email: info@bridgewayproductions.com
Producer: Ernest Riera, Matt Taylor
Executive Producer: Doug Hawkes
Screenwriter: Frank Falco
Editor: Simon Cox
Director of Photography: Kit Fraser
Production Designer: Amy Louise Cook
Sound: Richard Neeb
Music: Ioannis Kourtis
Cast: Gary Daniels, Steven Elliot, Ben
Shockley
15
Feature Films
The Cottage
Counterfeit Butterfly
Crack Willow
In the dead of night, a car arrives at a
secluded country cottage. Bickering
constantly, brothers David and Peter climb
out to inspect the hideaway. It seems just
perfect for their plans. Although barely on
speaking terms, the pair have set aside
their differences for a quick moneymaking scheme, the kidnapping of mob
boss Arnie's daughter, whom they plan to
hold to ransom. Tracey, bound, gagged
and unconscious, is locked in the trunk of
the car.
Mercy King is headed nowhere. Trapped in
a loveless marriage to a former church
pastor she leads a lonely and unfulfilled
life. Steven Valentine lives downstairs
from the unhappy couple. He secretly
desires Mercy but her husband is in the
way. Steven will do whatever it takes to
possess the woman of his dreams, even if
that makes him an accomplice to murder.
Crack Willow is an affectionate portrait of
one man's struggle with death and
loneliness. Mark Walker's journey is an
exploration of emotions captured through
the use of vivid, powerful and imaginative
imagery. A compelling and evocative film
that treads new ground.
Aiding them in their ploy is Tracey's black
sheep step-brother Andrew. Screaming
threats and violent insults, Tracey fights
like a wildcat and the hapless trio begin
to panic and argue amongst themselves totally unaware that Andrew was
followed. Outside, two of Arnie's most
feared henchmen are already circling the
cottage.
With Arnie on his way and the game
almost up, Tracey turns the tables on her
captors and, with Peter as her hostage,
escapes through the nearby woods seeking
refuge in a remote farmhouse in the hope
of finding a telephone to alert her father.
As David and Andrew close in on her trail,
they soon discover something far more
terrifying is lurking in the darkness, the
Farmer, a monstrous, blood-thirsty serial
killer, and the stage is set for a
grotesquely comic battle for survival.
Director: Paul Andrew Williams
2008. 35mm. 92 min
Production Company: Steel Mill Pictures,
60 Berwick Street, 2nd Floor, London,
W1F 8SU, England, UK
email: info@steelmillpictures.co.uk
web: www.steelmillpictures.co.uk
Producer: Ken Marshall
Executive Producer: Martin Pope
Screenwriter: Paul Andrew Williams
Editor: Tom Hemings
Director of Photography: Christopher
Ross
Production Designer: Crispian Sallis
Music: Laura Rossi
Cast: Andy Serkis, Reece Shearsmith,
Steven O'Donnell, David Legeno, Jennifer
Ellison
Director: Marimba Easmon
2008. HDV. 94 min
Production Company: Ije Films, 14
Ingatestone Road, South Norwood,
London, SE25 4LG, England, UK
email: info@counterfeitbutterfly.com
web: www.counterfeitbutterfly.com
Producer, Screenwriter: Marimba Easmon
Executive Producer: Innocent Okey Onye
Editor: Lalit Goyal
Director of Photography: Rob Jones
Production Designer: Lindsay Swift
Sound: Santiago Posada
Music: Nicole Elizabeth Heel
Cast: Maria Thomas, Keith Eyles, Kevin
Golding
Director: Martin Radich
2008. HD. 89 min
Production Company: Perfume Films,
Unit 18, 6-10 Convent Street,
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG1 3LL,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7815 834 551
email: jane@perfumefilms.com
Producer: Jane Hooks, Tristan Goligher
Executive Producer: Mark Herbert, Kate
Ogborn
Screenwriter, Director of Photography:
Martin Radich
Editor: Andrew Haigh
Sound: Tim Barker
Music: James Edward Barker
Cast: Mark Bennett, Reg Bennett, Ryan
Mitchell, Beki Dakin, Oliver Dempster
16
Feature Films
The Dark Knight
Dark Rage
Dead Wood
Batman raises the stakes in his war on
crime. With the help of Lieutenant Jim
Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent,
Batman sets out to dismantle the
remaining criminal organisations that
plague the city streets. The partnership
proves to be effective, but they soon find
themselves prey to a reign of chaos
unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind
known to the terrified citizens of Gotham
as the Joker.
Ned Harris is a 50-something everyman.
Doting father. Loyal colleague.
Compassionate landlord. Serial killer.
Beneath the seemingly normal surface
resides a web of warped sensibilities,
spontaneous brutality and cold-blooded
murder. A psychiatrist would probably
blame Ned's peculiar childhood, but
what's Paul's excuse? Paul James is Ned's
long-standing tenant - callous and
calculating, with voyeuristic tendencies
and a bizarre sense of humour. So when
Kate and Jason, a young couple with
problems of their own, move into Ned's
building, they prove to be the catalyst for
a shocking turn of events. It's not long
before Ned's rapidly unravelling life
spirals completely out of control, as we
race towards a deadly conclusion. The
story culminates in a final showdown
between Ned and Paul, where they are
forced to confront their demons and
reveal their darkest secret. Dark Rage is a
twisted journey into a deeply disturbed
mind. Not for the faint-hearted!
Four friends escape the grime of the city
and head out into the woods for a
peaceful, relaxing weekend. Events take a
sinister turn when a mysterious girl
appears in their camp looking for her
boyfriend. Soon the nightmare begins as
they find themselves lost in an endless
wilderness stalked by a deadly force,
watching . . . waiting . . . taking them
one by one. As those left fight to survive
they will discover the true nature of fear.
Director: Christopher Nolan
2008. 35mm.
Production Company: Warner Brothers
UK, Warner House, 98 Theobald Road,
London, WC1X 8WB, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7984 5400, fax: +44 (0)20
7982 5001
Producer: Jordan Goldberg, Karl
McMillan, Christopher Nolan, Charles
Roven, Emma Thomas
Executive Producer: Kevin De La Noy,
Benjamin Melniker, Thomas Tull, Michael E
Uslan
Screenwriter: Jonathan Nolan,
Christopher Nolan
Editor: Lee Smith
Director of Photography: Wally Pfister
Production Designer: Nathan Crowley
Sound: Michael Babcock, Richard King
Music: Hans Zimmer
Cast: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Maggie
Gyllenhaal, Gary Oldman, Morgan
Freeman, Cillian Murphy, William Fichtner,
Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Anthony
Michael Hall, Eric Roberts
Co-production: USA
Director: Lee Akehurst
2008. HD. 95 min
Production Company: Media Killer Ltd,
2 Hidcote House, 6 Devonshire Avenue,
Sutton, Surrey, SM2 5JL, England, UK
email: info@mediakiller.com
web: www.mediakiller.com
Producer: Lee Akehurst, Lance Patrick,
Sarah Akehurst
Screenwriter: Lee Akehurst
Editor: Michael Bracewell
Director of Photography: Richard J Wood
Production Designer: Kelly Hogan
Sound, Music: Simon Richardson
Cast: Chris Dunne, Christopher Dane,
Sarah Akehurst, Helen Millar, Brett
Findlay, Neil Linpow, Kay Taylor
Territories: All available
Director: David Bryant, Sebastian Smith,
Richard Stiles
2007. DV Cam. 82 min
Production Company: Menan Films,
116 Farley Road, London, SE6 2AR,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7967 325 736
email: horror@menanfilms.com
International Sales: Horizon Motion
Pictures Ltd, Suite 237, 1271 Howe Street,
Vancouver, BC, V6Z 1RB, Canada
tel: +1 604 632 1707
email: film@horizonmotionpictures.com
Producer, Editor: David Bryant, Sebastian
Smith, Richard Stiles
Screenwriter: David Bryant
Sound: Sebastian Smith
Music: Adam Langston
Cast: Fergus March, Emily Juniper, John
Samuel Worsey, Rebecca Craven, Nine
Kwok
Budget: £15,000
Funding: Private
Territories: All available except North
America
17
Feature Films
Deadly Pursuit
Definitely Maybe
The Demon Within
Things get tough for Detective Michael
Denison when his department is targeted
by terrorists. He enters a fight for survival
and the truth while facing off the wrongs
of his past that have recently been dug
up. Denison learns that no one can be
trusted when a good friend betrays him,
and that survival is key.
Will Hayes, a 30-something Manhattan
dad, is in the midst of a divorce when his
ten year-old daughter Maya starts to
question him about his life before
marriage. Maya wants to know absolutely
everything about how her parents met
and fell in love. Will's story begins in
1992, as a young starry-eyed aspiring
politician who moves to New York from
Wisconsin in order to work on the Clinton
campaign. For Maya, Will relives his past
as an idealistic young man learning the ins
and outs of big city politics, and recounts
the history of his romantic relationships
with three very different women. On the
campaign, Will's best buddy is Russell
McCormack. They not only have similar
political aspirations, they share the same
type of girl problems, too. Will hopelessly
attempts a `PG' version of his story for his
daughter and changes the names so Maya
has to guess who he finally married. Is her
mother Will's college sweetheart, the
dependable girl next-door Emily? Is she his
longtime best friend and confidante, the
apolitical April? Or is she the free-spirited
but ambitious journalist Summer? As Maya
puts together the pieces of her dad's
romantic puzzle, she begins to understand
that love is not so simple or easy. And as
Will tells her his tale, Maya helps him to
understand that it's definitely never too
late to go back . . . and maybe even
possible to find a happy ending.
After their wedding, Debbie and Tom's car
breaks down on the way to the
honeymoon. Stranded in the middle of
nowhere and with darkness approaching,
they decide to find somewhere to stay
and set off, coming across a manor house.
It is their only chance of refuge that will
lead them into a situation neither of them
could have predicted. Debbie is intrigued
by the owner of the manor, Lincoln. He is
a very strange character and soon she
falls under his hypnotic gaze. She wants
to become like him, a demon. In order to
become a demon one must die, but it
must be a violent death or else one will
be stuck in purgatory and live as one of
the undead. To prove herself Debbie
embarks on a rampage of murders until
she is eventually killed, but not by the
violent means necessary. Is she a demon
or was it all a dream?
The law has two sides and rules will be
broken.
Director: Russ Diaper
2008. HD. 115 min
Production Company: Sledge Films,
105 Canterbury Avenue, Sholing,
Southampton, SO19 1EG, England, UK
Producer, Screenwriter, Editor: Russ
Diaper
Executive Producer: Scott Livingstone
Director of Photography: Russ Diaper,
Simon Black
Cast: Russ Diaper, Kim Sonderholm, Paul
Kelleher, Kelly-Marie Kerr, Damien
Mortimer
Budget: £5,000
Funding: Private
Territories: All available
Director: Adam Brooks
2008. 35mm. 111 min
UK Distributor: Universal Pictures
International UK, 76 Oxford Street,
London, W1D 1BS, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7307 5530, fax: +44 (0)20
3071 346
email: laura.mackenzie@nbcuni.com
Producer: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner
Executive Producer: Bobby Cohen
Screenwriter: Adam Brooks
Editor: Peter Teschner
Director of Photography: Florian Ballhaus
Music: Clint Mansell
Production Designer: Stephanie Carroll
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Isla Fisher, Elizabeth
Banks, Rachel Weisz, Abigail Breslin
Director: Harold Gasnier
2008. HD. 98 min
Production Company: 24 Carrot Films,
103 Shirley High Street, Southampton,
SO16 4EY, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)238 077 1958, fax: +44 (0)238
077 1915
email: hgasnier@aol.com
Producer: Carolyn Cole, Paul Davies
Screenwriter, Editor: Harold Gasnier
Director of Photography: Alex Ryle
Sound: Matthew Hatchard
Music: Daniel Selmon
Cast: Sophie Austin, Robert Wainwright,
Mitchell Powell, Jim Sturgeon
Funding: Private
Territories: All available
18
Feature Films
The Devil's Music
Diagnosis: Superstar
The Disappeared
The strange story of notorious shockrocker Erika Spawn, whose meteoric rise
to fame culminated in a series of violent
incidents and bizarre accusations. With
unprecedented access to those involved,
this film cuts through the rumours and
media spin to uncover the disturbing truth
behind her tale. As the film progresses,
the subject matter becomes stranger and
more unsettling.
The story of a London mental hospital set
to close after being sold to greedy
property developers. In a last-ditch effort
to save their home the patients and staff
decide to stage a sci-fi version of Romeo
and Juliet. Diagnosis Superstar is a film
about anyone who wants to stand for
what is right.
A psychological thriller set in London.
Following the disappearance of younger
brother Tom, Matthew tries to put his life
and sanity back together. However, the
past keeps coming back to haunt him.
Director: Pat Higgins
2008. HD. 89 min
Production Company: Jinx Media Ltd, PO
Box 2083, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, SS9 4WE,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)170 271 2415
email: pippa@jinxmedia.co.uk
web: www.jinxmedia.co.uk
Producer: Pippa Higgins
Screenwriter, Editor: Pat Higgins
Director of Photography: Alan Ronald
Production Designer: Lisa Poet
Music: Paul Sheldon
Cast: Victoria Hopkins, Cy Henty, Scott
Thomas, Jess-Luisa Flynn
Territories: All available
Director: Michael Tchoubouroff
2008. 35mm. 87 min
Production Company: Weeble Films,
31 Hartherly Grove, London, W2 5RB,
England, UK
mobile: +44 (0)7939 045 163
email: tchoubouroff@yahoo.com
Director: Johnny Kevorkian
2008. 16mm. 95 min
Production Company: Lost Tribe
Productions, Riverbank House, 1 Putney
Bridge Approach, London, SW6 3JD,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7731 7200, fax: +44 (0)20
7731 7200
email: losttribeproductions@gmail.com
Producer, Screenwriter: Michael
Tchoubouroff
Editor: Ben Nugent
Director of Photography: Dominik Rippl
Production Designer: Yasmin Al-Naib
Sound: Mark Verner
Music: Christopher Dominique
Cast: Giles Alderson, Martin Owen, Peter
Barrett, Alice Bird
Producer, Screenwriter: Neil Murphy,
Johnny Kevorkian
Executive Producer: Gabriel Simonian
Editor: Celia Haining
Director of Photography: Diego Rodriguez
Production Designer: Malin Lindholm
Sound: Matthew Gough
Music: Ilan Eshkeri
Cast: Harry Treadaway, Greg Wise, Alex
Jennings, Tom Felton
Budget: £200,000
Funding: Private
Funding: Private
19
Feature Films
The Disciple
Do Elephants Pray?
Dogging: A Love Story
Exploring the ramifications of the current
Iraq war through the lives of four transcultural friends living in Los Angeles as
they struggle to maintain the facËade of
contentment in the face of rising
dissatisfaction with personal life choices.
Frustrated by the soulless routine world
he is shackled to, the life of fastidious
advertising executive Callum descends
into poetic chaos when he meets the
free-spirited French seductress Malika who
promises to change his life forever,
providing he keeps her identity a secret.
The darkened corners of Newcastle's car
parks provide an unlikely setting for this
skewed romance about a young man's
introduction to the al fresco swinging
scene. A love story about sex, monogamy
(or not), the search for love and the joy
of dogging.
As his company mutinies over a make-orbreak campaign, led by the boisterous
Marrlen, Callum abandons everything to
rough it in a forest in Malika's native
France. Here he is subjected to
increasingly demoralising trials that
challenge his perception of the world,
revealing not only the hidden meaning to
his unfulfilled life but also the perfect
way to sell the unsellable product.
Director: Simon Ellis
2008. HD. 90 min
Things being to crumble beyond their
control following a visit from Michael, a
British Gulf War veteran in LA hoping to
reconnect with his estranged childhood
cousin, Jud, an artist who left Europe to
escape his military family.
When Michael displays none of the
typically negative post-war symptoms, but
appears instead to be humorous and
outgoing, he succeeds in coaxing the
group, together with their career-driven
South African friend, Mary, into
temporarily escaping the complex lies
they live. They abandon their protective
facËade of happiness and join him in
passionately embracing the richness and
beauty of Los Angeles.
As their tenuous boundaries begin to fray,
however, secrets are revealed and the
friends are forced to evaluate volatile
personal truths and confront their
suspicions about the deadly nature of
Michael's visit.
Director: Rodney Charles
2008. HD. 102 min
Production Company: The Disciple
Productions LLC, 222 South Rampart
Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90057, USA
tel: +1 323 356 1346
email: rodneycharles1@hotmail.com
Producer, Screenwriter: Rodney Charles
Editor: Asaf Eisenberg
Director of Photography: Bruce Francis
Cole
Production Designer: Beauchamp
Fontaine
Sound: Marcus Blanchard
Music: Rashid Lanie
Cast: Race Owen, Christopher James,
Charlie Charles, Agatha Nowicki, Rodney
Charles
Funding: Private
Director: Paul Hill
2008. s16mm. 110 min
Production Company: Elephant Features
Ltd, PO Box 44636, London, NI6 5TU,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8211 1888, fax: +44 (0)20
8211 1888
email: office@elephantfeatures.com
Producer: Paul Hills, Jonnie Hurn
Executive Producer: Kylie MaronVallorani, Neil Harris, Yorman Halbertstam
Screenwriter: Jonnie Hurn
Editor: Caroline Richards
Director of Photography: Roger Bonnici
Production Designer: Seanne Grasso
Sound: Axle Cheeng
Music: Marcel Barsotti
Cast: Jonnie Hurn, Julie Dray, Mark
Warren, Rosie Fellner, Grace Vallorani
Budget: £550,000
Funding: Private
Territories: All available
Production Company, UK Distributor:
Vertigo Films, The Big Room Studios,
77 Fortess Road, London, NW5 1AG,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7428 7555, fax: +44 (0)20
7485 9713
email: mail@vertigofilms.com
web: www.vertigofilms.com
Producer: Brock Norman Brock, Jane
Hooks, Allan Niblo, James Richardson
Screenwriter: Brock Norman Brock,
Michael Groom
Director of Photography: Robert Hardy
Production Designer: Sami Khan
Cast: Luke Treadaway, Sammy T Dobson,
Richard Riddell, Dirk Smith, Michael Socha
20
Feature Films
Don't Look At Me
(I'm Ugly In The Morning)
Doomsday
The Duchess
Following the lives of three estranged
adult siblings, grudgingly reunited after
their father's sudden death. When the
issue of their inheritance comes to the
fore and outside influences compete for
the sizable assets, their turbulent past
must be examined with renewed
relevance.
A lethal virus spreads throughout the
British Isles, infecting millions and killing
hundreds of thousands. To contain the
threat, acting authorities brutally
quarantine the country as it succumbs to
fear and chaos. The quarantine is
successful. Three decades later, the
Reaper virus violently resurfaces in a
major city. An elite group of specialists,
including Eden Sinclair, is urgently
dispatched into the still-quarantined
country to retrieve a cure by any means
necessary. Shut off from the rest of the
world, the unit must battle through a
landscape that has become a waking
nightmare.
In late 18th century England, no woman
was as celebrated and scrutinised as Lady
Georgiana Cavendish, the Duchess of
Devonshire. Beautiful, glamorous, and
adored by the public, Georgiana was the
most fascinating woman of the age. But
while her beauty and charisma made her
name, her extravagant tastes and
appetite for gambling and love made her
infamous. Married to the cool and distant
Duke of Devonshire, intimate of ministers
and princes, Georgiana was a fashion
icon, a doting mother, and a shrewd
political operator. But at the core of her
story is a desperate search for warmth
and love; from her passionate and
doomed affair with Earl Charles Grey to
her complex me
Ânage a
Á trois with her
husband and best friend, Lady Bess Foster.
Based on Amanda Foreman's best-selling
biography, Georgiana, Duchess of
Devonshire, The Duchess is a very
contemporary tale of fame, notoriety, and
the search for love.
In a world where family are simply a
formality, the three play a dangerous
game of deception that will destroy lives
and test the bonds of blood.
Director: Chris Purnell
2008. HD. 82 min
Production Company: Orphanage Films,
70 Salvesen Gardens, Edinburgh, EH4 5JR,
Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)7812 826 640
email: dontletmediewiththatlook@
yahoo.co.uk
Producer, Screenwriter, Editor,
Production Designer: Chris Purnell
Executive Producer: Andrew John Gray
Director of Photography: Andrew Begg
Sound: John Lemke
Music: Dez Kirkup
Budget: £30,000
Funding: Private
Territories: All available
Director: Neil Marshall
2008. 35mm. 108 min
UK Distributor: Universal Pictures
International UK, 76 Oxford Street,
London, W1D 1BS, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7307 5530, fax: +44 (0)20
3071 346
email: laura.mackenzie@nbcuni.com
Producer: Steven Paul, Benedict Carver
Executive Producer: Peter McAleese
Screenwriter: Neil Marshall
Editor: Andrew MacRitichie
Director of Photography: Sam McCurdy
Production Designer: Simon Bowles
Music: Tyler Bates
Cast: Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins, Alexander
Siddig
Co-production: South Africa, USA
Director: Saul Dibb
2008. 35mm. 100 min
Production Company: BBC Films, BBC
Grafton House, 379 Euston Road, London,
NW1 3AV, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7765 0251
UK Distributor: Pathe
 UK, Kent House,
14±17 Market Place, Great Titchfield
Street, London, W1W 8AR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7323 5151, fax: +44 (0)20
7631 5368
web: www.pathe.co.uk
Producer: Michael Kuhn, Gabrielle Tana
Executive Producer: Carolyn Marks
Blackwood
Screenwriter: Jeffrey Hatcher, Anders
Thomas Jensen
Editor: Masahiro Hirakubo
Director of Photography: Gyula Pados
Production Designer: Michael Carlin
Cast: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes,
Charlotte Rampling, Dominic Cooper,
Hayley Atwell
21
Feature Films
Dummy
The Dungeon Moor Killings
Eastern Promises
Dummy is a coming-of-age drama about
two brothers whose lives are thrown into
turmoil when their mother dies suddenly,
leaving them to fend for themselves.
Adam is determined to find evidence of
the existence of big cats that have been
reported over the years in remote areas
of Southwest Scotland. He convinces his
best friend Mark to go with him and after
an overnight stay at a country commune,
they are joined by two girls, Marina and
Summer, with the commune leader Phil
agreeing to act as their guide.
The mysterious and charismatic Russianborn Nikolai Luzhin is a driver for one of
London's most notorious organised crime
families of Eastern European origin.
Several lives - including Nikolai's own hang in the balance as a harrowing chain
of murder, deceit, and retribution
reverberates through the darkest corners
of both the family and London itself.
As they set off across Dungeon Moor,
there is talk of a Polish girl who recently
disappeared and a scientist working on a
secret project in an isolated farmhouse.
Director: David Cronenberg
2008. 35mm. 100 min
While Danny loses himself in music, sex
and drugs, his younger brother Jack takes
action - transforming a life-size
mannequin, with the help of some makeup and his mother's old clothes, into a
brand new `mummy' for him to talk to.
Jack's obsession with this new member of
the family leads to both comic
misunderstanding and bitter antagonism
as the pair battle through grief, anger and
denial. Finally, the boys' intense struggle
to survive in an upside-down world leads
to a new understanding that gives them
both hope for the future.
It becomes clear that Phil is leading them
on a journey where their lives are
threatened by more than roaming big
cats. Their rural adventure soon turns into
a nightmare.
Director: Matthew Thompson
2008. HD. 88 min
Director: Jim Hickey
2008. HD. 80 min
Production Company: Format Films Ltd,
11 Orange Row, Brighton, BN1 1UQ,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)1273 735716, fax: +44 (0)1273
738452
email: info@formatfilms.com
Production Company: Fredonia Films,
11 Fountain Close, 22 High Street,
Edinburgh, EH1 1TF, Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)131 556 1365
email: jimhickey1@virgin.net
Producer: Miranda Robinson
Executive Producer: Fiona Gillies, Nicola
Fenn, Sean Gascoine
Screenwriter: Michael Muller
Editor: Kant Pan
Director of Photography: David Langan
Production Designer: Phillip Barber
Sound: Nick Smith
Music: Clint Mansell
Cast: Aaron Johnson, Thomas Grant,
Therese Bradley, Emma Catherwood
Funding: Private
Production Company: Kudos Productions,
12-14 Amwell Street, London, EC1R 1UQ,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7812 3270, fax: +44 (0)20
7812 3271
email: info@kudosproductions.co.uk
web: www.kudosproductions.co.uk
International Sales: Focus Features
International, Oxford House, 4th Floor,
76 Oxford Street, London, W1D 1BS,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7307 5591
fax: +44 (0)20 7307 1348
Funding: Private
Producer: Paul Webster, Robert Lantos
Executive Producer: Jeff Abberley, Julia
Blackman, Steve Garrett, David M
Thompson
Screenwriter: Steve Knight
Editor: Ronald Sanders
Director of Photography: Peter Suschitzky
Production Designer: Carol Spier
Music: Howard Shore
Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts,
Vincent Cassel, Armin Mueller-Stahl
Territories: All available
Co-production: Canada, USA
Producer, Screenwriter: Jonathan Hickey,
Ross Crombie
Editor, Director of Photography: Jim
Hickey
Sound: Chris Conway
Music: Hector MacInnes
Cast: Gavin Paul, Ross Hornby, Gilchrist
Muir, Robin Mitchell, Maria Thordar
22
Feature Films
Ecology
The Edge of Love
The Englishman
Ecology is a feature film in three parts,
three characters and three stories to be
screened in any order, delivered as three
internal monologues narrated as voiceover. The story of a mother, a daughter
and a son, on holiday in Majorca. This is
not the Majorca of package holidays but a
writer's retreat, a location solar powered
and environmentally responsible. We are
caught in the rhythms of an urgent
repetition of events past and scraps of
imagined dialogue directed at but never
spoken to one another. Appearing to
reference a debate on the ethics of the
environment, Ecology turns the idea
towards the ethics of psychic recycling,
the debris passed on and re-circulated
among people. Yet its power resides in
the ability to pull us into each character's
internal world, to invite our complicity
with each point of view - and then in
moving on, to show us the error of our
ways.
Two feisty, free-spirited women are
connected by a brilliant charismatic poet
who loves them both.
Henry is not from England. An outsider.
He watches, noticing things, things like
the tap of the cafe
 woman's shoes as he
follows her, never getting close. Then the
world moves in on him. He is given an
apprentice at the garage, Andrew, a boy
sprung like a nervous whippet. Then
Svetla, arriving with her long fingernails
on his doorstep and needing a roof over
her head. First turning her away he then
has to let her in. When Andrew collapses
at work it's the same kind of obligation
that makes Henry bring him home; almost
forgetting he has a `wife'. Henry and
Svetla have to sleep in the same bed.
They don't touch. The closer you get the
more difficult things become. Getting
close never did Andrew any good either
and the growing warmth between the
three of them propels him into attacking
the very thing that could save him. He
engineers Svetla's removal so he can have
Henry for himself. When Henry finds out
Andrew, in turn, is rejected. Henry is
alone again. The world does not notice as
he follows the cafe
 woman into the park.
Some people have trouble getting close.
Director: Sarah Turner
2007. HD. 97 min
Main Contact: Sarah Turner, 21 West Cliff,
Kent, CT5 1DN, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)122 727 4634
email: sturner@bewitched.demon.co.uk
Producer, Screenwriter, Editor, Sound:
Sarah Turner
Director of Photography: Matthew
Walter, Alia Syed, Sarah Turner
Production Designer: Fiona Woods
Cast: Caroline Jay, Georgia Brown, Miriam
Gogill
Budget: £20,000
Funding: Arts Council England
Territories: All available
The passion and pathos of legendary poet
Dylan Thomas is told through the lives of two
extraordinary women. Vera Philips and Dylan
were each other's first loves who feel the
thunderbolt once more when they
unexpectedly meet in London ten years later.
Caitlin is his adventurous wife, wily at using
her beauty and always up for a bit of fun.
Despite their love-rival status, the women
form a surprising friendship - and though
bombs rain down on London, the trio indulge
in the glory of being young, and alive. When
Vera meets handsome officer William Killick,
Dylan resents his trio becoming a foursome.
Desire and guilt are complicated by love and
friendship in this real-life tale set in beautiful
London and majestic Welsh countryside.
Director: John Maybury
2008. 35mm. 104 min
Production Company: Jitterbug
Productions, 10/11 St Georges Mews,
London, NW1 8XE, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7483 3556, fax: +44 (0)20
7586 8063
email: anna@srpltd.co.uk
UK Distributor: Lionsgate Films, Ariel
House, 74a Charlotte Street, London, W1T
4QJ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7299 8800, fax: +44 (0)20
7299 8801
email: awoodyatt@lionsgatefilms.co.uk
web: www.lionsgatefilms.co.uk
International Sales: Capitol Films,
Bridgehouse, 63-65 North Wharf Road,
London, W2 1LA, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7298 6200, fax: +44 (0)20
7298 6201
email: films@capitolfilms.com
Producer: Rebekah Gilbertson, Sarah
Radclyffe
Executive Producer: David Bergstein, Linda
James, Hannah Leader, Joe Oppenheimer,
Tim Smith, David M Thompson
Screenwriter: Sharman Macdonald
Editor: Emma E Hickox
Director of Photography: Jonathan
Freeman
Production Designer: Alan MacDonald
Music: Angelo Badalamenti
Cast: Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian
Murphy, Matthew Rhys
Director: Ian Sellar
2007. HD. 86 min
Production Company: Mechanical Films
Ltd, 607 Wandsworth Road, London, SW8
3JD, England, UK
email: info@theenglishmanfilm.com
web: www.theenglishmanfilm.com
Producer: Teresa Mulqueen
Executive Producer: David Collins
Screenwriter: Brendan Grant, Ian Sellar
Editor: Helle le Fevre
Director of Photography: Charlotte Bruus
Christensen
Production Designer: Richard Hudson
Sound: Stefan Mork
Music: Chris White
Cast: Velibor Topic, Branka Katic, Aidan J
David
23
Feature Films
Faintheart
Filth and Wisdom
Flashbacks of a Fool
A romantic comedy set in the world of
battle re-enactments, about an
irresponsible guy who has to shape up in
order to win back his wife.
AK has come to England from the Ukraine.
AK is a philosopher (at least that's what
he claims to be), a poet, and an authority
on all aspects of life. At the same time,
he is following his grand plan to become
an international star. Global stardom is
how AK describes the goal that he and his
band are pursuing with their particular
brand of boisterous gypsy punk. For the
time being, however, he makes ends meet
by performing role play in women's
clothing for straight married men.
Joe Scott is a fading Hollywood star
whose hedonistic lifestyle has taken its
toll. Flashback to 1970s England where
Joe's rites of passage as a young man in a
tiny British seaside community lay the
foundations for the Hollywood dream he
goes on to experience.
Director: Vito Rocco
2008. HD. 90 min
Production Company, UK Distributor:
Vertigo Films, The Big Room Studios,
77 Fortess Road, London, NW5 1AG,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7428 7555, fax: +44 (0)20
7485 9713
email: mail@vertigofilms.com
web: www.vertigofilms.com
Producer: Rachel Connors, Judy
Counihan, Arvind Ethan David, James
Fabricant, Allan Niblo, Rupert Preston,
James Richardson
Executive Producer: Peter Carlton, Lee
Thomas, Rob Fraser, Nick Love, Travis Katz
Screenwriter: David Lemon
Editor: Neil Smith
Director of Photography: David
Katznelson
Production Designer: Morgan Kennedy
Music: Mike Batt
Cast: Eddie Marsan, Ewan Bremner,
Jessica Hynes, Bronagh Gallagher, Tim
Healy
AK shares a flat with two young women
named Juliette and Holly. Juliette dreams
of being a kind of Florence Nightingale of
the developing world. She is currently
working behind the counter at the local
drug store. Holly dreams of dancing with
the Royal Ballet. So far she hasn't been
able to earn a single penny with her
ballet though, and continues to `polish'
her skills as a pole dancer at Beechman's
Exotic Gentleman's Club.
These three distinctive personalities are
at the centre of a cinematic tale of
everyday life about people who are
obliged to take on jobs just to earn a
living, but who live in hope of one day
fulfilling their dreams.
Director: Madonna
2008. 35mm. 81 min
Production Company: Semtex Film,
72-74 Dean Street, London, W1D 3SG,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7437 3344, fax: +44 (0)20
7437 3355
email: nicola@hsilondon.co.uk
Executive Producer: Nicola Doring,
Madonna
Screenwriter: Dan Cadan
Director of Photography: Tim MauriceJones
Production Designer: Gideon Ponte
Cast: Eugene Hutz, Holly Weston, Vicky
McClure, Richard E Grant, Stephen
Graham
Director: Baillie Walsh
2007. 35mm. 114 min
Production Company: Left Turn Films,
The Chocolate Studios, Apt 18,
7 Shepherdess Place, London, N1 7LJ,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7663 6060
UK Distributor: Disney/Miramax UK,
3 Queen Caroline Street, London, W6 9PE,
England, UK
web: www.bvimovies.com
International Sales: Arclight Films, Bldg
22, Ower Avenue, Moore Park, Sydney
2021, Australia
web: www.arclightfilms.com
Producer: Lene Bausager, Damon Bryant
Executive Producer: Daniel Craig
Screenwriter: Baillie Walsh
Editor: Struan Clay
Director of Photography: John Mathieson
Production Designer: Laurence Dorman
Sound: Mark Auguste
Music: Richard Hartley
Cast: Daniel Craig, Harry Eden, Jodhi May,
Olivia Williams, Helen McCrory
Funding: Private
Territories: All available except UK
24
Feature Films
Flummox
Fragments
Franklyn
Sex, drugs, music. That's life.
Fragments is a double-murder-mystery
with fast paced twist after twist after
twist. It is filmed digitally and is
presented in black-and-white.
Preest is a masked vigilante detective,
searching for his nemesis on the streets of
Meanwhile City - a monolithic fantasy
metropolis ruthlessly governed by faith
and religious fervour. Emilia is a beautiful
art student, whose suicidal art projects
are becoming increasingly complex and
deadly.
This film is a mixture of genres: thriller,
horror, comedy, romance, drama, musical,
surreal, fantasy, sci-fi, noir and everything
else.
The film is essentially about reality, the
perception of reality and repression. It's
about a young man, John, trying to stave
off the feelings of belonging and notions
of madness. This narrative runs through
the heart of the film whilst others
intertwine with it. A serial killer, a
futuristic agent, a psychologist, a lover, a
friend and a transvestite all add to the
confusion and mayhem that create this
onslaught on the senses. Is his girlfriend
real? Is his best friend real? What is real?
And as John finds out: `You can't keep
running!'
The habitual dreamer can't seem to
decipher his dreams. Is the mysterious
transvestite the key? The final revelation
might be too much for some. Or does it
all fit? It's up to you.
Or is it?
Director: Sam Mason Bell, Riyadh Haque,
Pete Scott
2007. HD. 85 min
Production Company: Trashart Cinema
tel: +44 (0)7919 517 088
email: trashartcinema@googleworld.com
Production Company: Delta Factor
Productions
email: deltafactorprodctions@yahoo.co.uk
web: www.myspace.com/flummoxfilm
Producer: Sam Mason Bell, Riyadh Haque,
Pete Scott
Screenwriter: Sam Mason Bell
Editor: Pete Scott, Riyadh Haque
Director of Photography, Sound: Pete
Scott
Music: Chris Spurgeon
Cast: Ryan Barrington-Jones, Riyadh
Haque, Isabelle Dark, Chris Spurgeon,
Becca Coombes, Kate Elizabeth
McDermott
Director: Ross Nickson
2007. HD. 90 min
Production Company: Dubious Films
email: dubiousfilms@gmail.com
web: www.dubiousfilms.com,
www.myspace.com/fragmentsthemovie
Producer, Screenwriter, Editor, Sound:
Ross Nickson
Music: Michelle Lawson
Cast: Stacey Harding, Lindsay Morton,
Lynsey Wright, Zoe Richards, Abigail
Bentley
Milo is a heartbroken 20-something
desperately trying to find a way back to
the purity of first love. Esser is a broken
man, searching for his wayward son
amongst the streets of London's homeless.
Preest, Emilia, Milo and Esser couldn't be
further apart and their individual worlds
are set for a cataclysmic collision. In an
explosive finale, the path of a single
bullet will decide the fate of our four lost
souls.
Director: Gerald McMorrow
2008. 35mm.
Production Company: Recorded Picture
Company Ltd, 24 Hanway Street, London,
W1T 1UH, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7636 2251, fax: +44 (0)20
7636 2261
email: rpc@recordedpicture.com
web: www.recordedpicture.com
UK Distributor: The Contender
Entertainment Group, 120 New Cavendish
Street, London, W1W 6XX, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7907 3773, fax: +44 (0)20
7907 3777
email: twoods-scawen@
contendergroup.com
web: www.thecontendergroup.com
International Sales: HanWay Films, 24
Hanway Street, London, W1T 1UH,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7290 0750, fax: +44 (0)20
7290 0751
email: info@hanwayfilms.com
web: www.hanwayfilms.com
Producer: Jeremy Thomas
Executive Producer: Peter Watson
Screenwriter: Gerald McMorrow
Editor: Peter Cristelis
Director of Photography: Ben Davis
Production Designer: Laurence Dorman
Sound: Simon Hayes
Music: Joby Talbot
Cast: Eva Green, Ryan Phillipe, Sam Riley,
Bernard Hill
Co-production: France
25
Feature Films
Freedom Dance
Frequently Asked Questions
About Time Travel
Furor Rage of the Innocent
A woman in debt to the local underworld
boss devises a plan to earn her freedom.
Cheryl by day, Minsky by night. Matters
become complicated with the arrival of a
mysterious Russian - but the question is,
who's using who?
Three ordinary blokes may hold the fate
of the entire world in their hands when
they discover a rift in the space-time
continuum in the gents' of their local
pub. Shaun of the Dead meets Back to the
Future.
Director: Alan Brown
2008. Mini DV. 104 min
Director: Gareth Carrivick
2008. HD. 85 min
The story of an innocent woman in the
wrong place at the wrong time, her
dignity callously violated, with her very
being left to fester in an institution, until
the provocation of flashbacks provides the
catalytic rage for retribution against those
who did her wrong.
Production Company: Krown Films,
10 Barnard Lodge, Shaftsbury Avenue,
Barnet, London, EN5 5JP, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8364 9062
email: abrown@
freedomdancethemovie.co.uk
Production Company: Doglamp Films,
48 Charlotte Street, London, W1T 2NF,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8008 8080
email: smith.janderson@googlemail.com
Screenwriter: Alan Brown
Cast: Julia Vanellis, James Harrison, Mel
Mills
Budget: £15,000
Funding: Private
Territories: All available
UK Distributor: Lionsgate Films, Ariel
House, 74a Charlotte Street, London, W1T
4QJ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7299 8800, fax: +44 (0)20
7299 8801
email: awoodyatt@ lionsgatefilms.co.uk
web: www.lionsgatefilms.co.uk
Producer: Justin Anderson Smith
Executive Producer: Joe Oppenheimer,
David M Thompson
Screenwriter: Jamie Mathieson
Editor: Stuart Gazzard, Chris Blunden
Director of Photography: John Pardue
Production Designer: Kate Quinn
Sound: Clarity Post
Music: James L Venable
Cast: Chris O'Dowd, Dean Lennox Kelly,
Marc Wooton, Anna Faris, Meredith
MacNeil
Funding: BBC Films, HBO Films
Territories: All available except UK, USA
Director: Vic Marke
2007. Mini DV. 80 min
Production Company: NB Pictures,
41 Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol,
B59 4HL, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7815 888 870
email: nbpictures@hotmail.co.uk
Producer: Vic Marke, Robert Ho, Zara
Phythian
Screenwriter: Vic Marke
Cast: Zara Phython, Robert Ho
Budget: £20,000
Funding: Private
26
Feature Films
Genova
Good
Guantanamero
A contemporary family ghost story in the
vein of Don't Look Now mixed with the
sexiness of Stealing Beauty. The exotic
Italian town of Genova provides a fresh
start for Joe and his two young daughters
- a family seeking new lives after the
sudden death of their mother. Kelly, the
16 year-old, explores the sexy and
dangerous underbelly of this mysterious
new world, while the youngest, Mary, has
just seen the ghost of her mother
wandering the streets. Acclaimed
filmmaker Michael Winterbottom directs a
poignant tale of love and forgiveness.
Small consequences portend great
consequences in Good, based on the
acclaimed play by CP Taylor. Good
examines the life of `everyman' John
Halder, a `good' and decent individual
with family problems: a neurotic wife,
two demanding children and a mother
suffering from senile dementia. A
professor of literature, Halder explores his
personal circumstances in a novel
advocating compassionate euthanasia.
When the book is unexpectedly enlisted
by powerful political figures in support of
government propaganda, Halder finds his
career rising in an optimistic current of
nationalism and prosperity. Seemingly
inconsequential decisions lead to choices,
which lead to more choices, with
eventually devastating effect. The film
was shot entirely on location in Budapest,
Hungary.
After a violent storm, Ali awakens on a
deserted beach, sick and disoriented. How
he got there he does not know, but he does
know he needs to move on. They'll be
looking for him and he must keep moving.
Picked up by Ivan, a Cuban on his way to
Havana, Ali starts to become feverish. Ivan
notices the raw red marks left by the
shackles on Ali's wrists. Fearing they will be
caught, Ivan takes Ali to the apartment of
his sister Manuela, a dancer in Havana. At
first, she is apprehensive to take in this
tormented stranger, but she relents as she
feels drawn to this mysterious man.
Director: Michael Winterbottom
2008. 35mm.
Production Company: Revolution Films,
9a Dallington Street, London, EC1V 0BQ,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7566 0700, fax: +44 (0)20
7566 0701
email: info@revolution-films.com
web: www.revolution-films.com
International Sales: HanWay Films,
24 Hanway Street, London, W1T 1UH,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7290 0750, fax: +44 (0)20
7290 0751
email: info@hanwayfilms.com
web: www.hanwayfilms.com
Producer: Andrew Eaton
Executive Producer: Tessa Ross, Simon
Fawcett
Screenwriter: Laurence Coriat
Editor: Paul Monaghan, Michael
Winterbottom
Director of Photography: Marcel Zyskind
Production Designer: Marco Digby
Sound: Joakin Sundstro
Èm
Music: Melissa Parmenter
Cast: Colin Firth, Catherine Keener, Willa
Holland, Perla Haney-Jardine, Hope Davis
Director: Vincente Amorim
2008. 35mm. 99 min
Production Company: Good Films, 8 Dean
Street, London, W1D 3RL, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7292 3006, fax: +44 (0)20
7292 3009
International Sales: Odd Lot
International, 9601 Jefferson Boulevard,
Suite A, Culver City, CA 90232, USA
tel: +1 310 652 0999, fax: +1 310 652
0718
email: info@oddlotent.com
web: www.oddlotent.com
Producer: Miriam Segal, Kevin Loader,
Billy Dietrich, Sarah Boote, Dan Lupovitz
Executive Producer: Laurin Films
Screenwriter: John Wrathall
Editor: John Wilson
Director of Photography: Andrew Dunn
Production Designer: Andrew Laws
Sound: John Taylor
Music: Simon Lacey
Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Jason Isaacs, Jodie
Whittaker, Mark Strong, Anastasia Hille
Plunged into the music, colour, and
romance of Havana, Ali struggles to
separate fantasy from reality. He is haunted
by nightmares of the interrogation room
and the pain and humiliation he suffered
there, and by startling visions linking his
past and his present life. But are these
nightmares flashbacks to his experiences in
prison or just dreams of a tortured soul?
Director: Vicente Pen
Äarrocha
2007. s16mm. 90 min
Production Company: NDF International,
67a Belsize Park, London, NW3 4EH,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7586 5785, fax: +44 (0)20
7586 5217
email: ndfiltd@aol.com
International Sales: Peace Arch
Entertainment, Marina Towers North, 4640
Admiralty Way, Suite 710, Marina del Rey,
CA 90292, USA
tel: +1 310 776 7200, fax: +1 310 823 7147
email: jsultan@peacearch.com
Producer: Michiyo Yoshizaki, Iker Monfort
Executive Producer: Penny Wolf,
Tsugehiko Kadokawa
Screenwriter: Vicente Pen
Äarrocha, Philip
Palmer
Editor: Sam Sneade, Michael Bradsell
Director of Photography: Kiko De Larcia
Production Designer: Jose Luis
Arrizabalaga
Sound: John Downer
Music: Rich File
Cast: Rupert Evans, Natalia Verbeke,
Derek Jacobi
Budget: $6 million
Co-production: Spain, Japan
Territories: All available except Benelux,
Brazil, Greece, Japan, Latin America,
Middle East, Portugal, Scandinavia, UK
27
Feature Films
Gutbai, Charly
Happy-Go-Lucky
Hardly Bear to Look at You
The devastating consequences of oil
pollution on the coast of Rias Baixas force
Xaquin, a widowed fisherman, to work for
a local drug dealer. What at first became
a choice to support both his son and
father soon becomes a constant duel with
himself, his everyday life and the people
surrounding him. After a series of
unexpected events take place, Xaquin
ends up in a critical situation he wasn't
ready for.
Poppy is a young primary school teacher.
A free spirit, she is open and generous as funny and anarchic as she is focused
and responsible. She has time for
everybody, and whoever she meets falls in
love with her. She loves the children she
teaches, and works hard. She shares a flat
with a girlfriend, enjoys her social life, is
caring towards her younger sisters, and
takes flamenco and trampoline lessons.
When she starts driving lessons, her
maturity and her sense of humour help
her to deal with a manic instructor.
Comfortable with being single, she meets
through work a guy with whom she really
clicks.
An unflinching look at the addictive
nature of romantic obsession. Tracing a
two year cycle of unrequited love, this
character-driven drama follows a
`Feinschmecker' as he tries to seduce an
enigmatic street performer, leading to a
conclusion that will force us to reevaluate all that has gone on.
Director: Mike Leigh
2007. 35mm. 118 min
Producer: Huck Melnick, Jeremy Herman
Screenwriter: Jeremy Herman
Editor: Huck Melnick
Director of Photography: Steve Fabian
Sound: Guy Steer
Music: Jamie Frankel
Cast: Jeremy Herman, Anna Neil, Huck
Melnick, Beth Steel, Alex Claus
Director: Jorge Cassinello
2007. HDV. 57 min
Production Company, UK Distributor:
The London Film School, 24 Shelton
Street, London, WC2H 9UB, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7836 9642, fax: +44 (0)20
7497 3718
email: info@lfs.org.uk
web: www.lfs.org.uk
Producer: Carlos Pisseiro
Screenwriter, Editor: Jorge Cassinello
Director of Photography: Jerome Kim
Production Designer: Isaura Docampo
Sound: Nick Baldock
Music: Dimitri Scarlato
Cast: Luis Zahera, Xulio Abonjo, Santi
Prego
Budget: E6,000
Funding: The London Film School, Egaci,
Caurelecer SL
Co-production: Spain
Production Company: Thin Man Films,
9 Green Street, London, W1D 4DQ,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7734 7372, fax: +44 (0)20
7287 5228
UK Distributor: Momentum Pictures, 2nd
Floor, 184-192 Drummond Street, London,
NW1 3HP, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7391 6900
fax: +44 (0)20 7383 0404
web: www.momentumpictures.co.uk
International Sales: Summit, 77 Dean
Street, London, W1D 3HP, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7494 1724, fax: +44 (0)20
7494 1725
Producer: Simon Channing-Williams
Executive Producer: Gail Leigh
Screenwriter: Mike Leigh
Editor: Jim Clark
Director of Photography: Dick Pope BSC
Production Designer: Mark Tildesley
Music: Gary Yersmon
Cast: Sally Hawkins, Eddie Marsan, Alexis
Zegerman
Funding: UK Film Council, Film4 Summit,
Thin Man Films, Ingenious Film
Director: Huck Melnick
2008. Mini DV. 118 min
Production Company: Feinschmecker
Films Ltd, 3 Oakwood Court, 2 Nassington
Road, London, NW3 2UE, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7435 5843
email: huck@feinschmeckerfilms.com
Territories: All available
28
Feature Films
The Heavy
Helen
Hooked on a Ceiling
Sibling rivalry turns into betrayal between
two brothers, one a primary candidate for
Prime Minister, the other a henchman for
a successful yet shady businessman.
Presented with an opportunity to take
revenge against his brother, our anti-hero
must come to terms with the truth in a
world where you can trust no-one and
loyalty is rare.
An 18 year-old girl called Joy has
disappeared. When the police find some
of her clothes abandoned in local woods
they decide to step up the investigation.
Another girl called Helen is asked to play
Joy in a televised reconstruction that will
retrace her last known movements,
before she disappeared into the woods.
Joy was the girl who has everything - a
loving family, a handsome boyfriend and a
bright future. Helen, by contrast, has
lived a life in institutions, she doesn't
know who her parents were, and has
never been close to anyone. She is both
fearful of the future and pressured to
confront her past. As the day of the
reconstruction looms, she immerses
herself into the role of Joy. She visits
people and places that Joy knew, and
then quietly and carefully begins to
insinuate herself into the missing girl's
life, including Joy's devastated parents
and her nonchalant boyfriend. Is Helen
trying to find out what happened in the
woods that day? Or is she deliberately
losing herself in the role so she can
uncover clues to her own identity?
After finding the body of their housemate
hanging in the garage, four friends set out
to discover the reason behind his suicide.
They soon build up a picture of an Oxford
City Council solicitor overwhelmed by his
dealings with local councillors, national
politicians and even, perhaps, the CIA.
Compelled by the memory of their dead
friend, the team decide to engage the
enemy. After all, when a friend has
hooked himself to the ceiling, you want to
know why. Or do you?
Director: Marcus Warren
2008. 35mm.
Production Company: Parkland Pictures,
Riverbank House, One Putney Bridge
Approach, London, SW6 3JD, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7099 9212, fax: +44 (0)871
251 4089
email: john@parklandpictures.com
web: www.parklandpictures.com
Producer: John Cairns
Executive Producer: Mark Cellier, John
Daly
Screenwriter: Marcus Warren
Editor: David Head
Production Designer: Marcus Wookey
Music: Paul Oakenfold
Cast: Shannyn Sossamon, Vinnie Jones,
Christopher Lee, Sadie Frost, Adrian Frost
Director: Christine Molloy, Joe Lawlor
2008. 35mm. 79 min
Production Company: Desperate
Optimists, Flat 20, All Nations House,
2 Martello Street, London, E8 3PF,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7275 0144
email: info@desperateoptimists.com
web: www.desperateoptimists.com
Producer: Joe Lawlor
Screenwriter: Christine Molloy, Joe
Lawlor
Editor: Christine Molloy
Director of Photography: Ole Birkeland
Sound: Fonic
Music: Dennis McNulty
Cast: Annie Townsend, Sandie Malia,
Dennis Jobling, Sonia Saville, Danny
Groenland
Budget: £293,000
Funding: Dublin Docklands Development
Authority, Culture 10, Liverpool Culture
Company, Birmingham City Council, Arts
Council England
Territories: All available
Director: David B Graham
2007. Mini DV. 107 min
Production Company: Rainy Days Pictures
Ltd
tel: +44 (0)7816 550 946
email: dbg@rainydayspictures.com
Producer: David B Graham
Cast: Rebecca Branton, Edward Marsden,
Martin Parsons, Sarah Stanley
Funding: Private
Territories: All available
29
Feature Films
How About You
Hunger
Hush
Based on the short story by best-selling
novelist Maeve Binchy, this film tells the
story of Ellie, a young girl left in charge
of a residential home over the Christmas
period. Whilst most of the residents have
left to spend the festive period with their
families, four residents, known as `the
hardcore', remain. They have all led
interesting lives but now in their twilight
years they have become impossible to live
with - rude and objectionable but often
hilariously funny. In fact, their behaviour
is so terrible that the home faces closure
as potential new residents are put off by
their appalling antics. Ellie would appear
to be no match for the hardcore but when
she is pushed to the very limits, she
decides to take them on. She succeeds in
beating them at their own game and
manages to show them the error of their
ways. As well as changing them, she also
realises that the hardcore have changed
her too in quite an unexpected way.
Life in the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland,
with an interpretation of events surrounding
the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike, led by Bobby
Sands. The film provides a timely
exploration of what happens when body and
mind are pushed to the uttermost limit.
Tired and irritable, Zakes and Beth drive
home along the M1, a familiar journey full
of harshly lit service stations and bad
coffee. When a white truck narrowly
avoids hitting them, its back doors open
to reveal a woman terrified and
screaming caged up inside. Unsure if what
he has seen is real, Zakes calls the police
but drives on. Beth is furious that he
hasn't done more to help and at the next
petrol station storms off. When she
doesn't return, Zakes slowly realises that
she too has been snatched by the white
truck driver and is forced into a vicious
game of cat and mouse with a ruthless
killer who has terrifying plans for his
human cargo.
Director: Anthony Byrne
2007. 35mm. 90 min
Production Company: Ferndale Films,
Ardmore Studio, Bray, Co Wicklow, Ireland
tel: +353 127 693 50
International Sales: Bankside Films,
Douglas House, 3 Richmond Buildings,
W1D 3UE, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7734 3566
email: antonio@bankside-films.com
web: www.bankside-films.com
Producer: Noel Pearson
Executive Producer: Paul Brett, Jon
Diamond, Peter Hampden, Phil Hunt,
Compton Ross, Tim Smith
Screenwriter: Jean Pasley
Editor: Emma E Hickox
Director of Photography: Des Whelan
Production Designer: Tom McCullagh
Music: Niall Byrne
Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Hayley Atwell,
Imelda Staunton, Brenda Fricker, Joss
Ackland
Co-production: Ireland
Funding: Ferndale Films, Bill Godfrey,
Sarah Radclyffe Productions
Raymond Lohan is a prison officer in the
Maze Prison in Northern Ireland, 1981. A
new prisoner, Davey Gillen, resolutely
refuses to wear the prison uniform - he is
no common criminal. Joining the blanket
protest, he shares a filthy cell with another
`non-conforming' republican prisoner. A
riot erupts and the violence spreads beyond
the Maze; no prison officer is safe and
Raymond is shot dead. Bobby Sands meets
Father Dominic Moran. Their battle of
words illuminates the prisoners'
determination to begin another hunger
strike, through the priest's questioning of
motives and morality. Bobby's mind is
unchanged and the strike will begin.
Director: Mark Tonderai
2007. HD. 90 min
Director: Steve McQueen
2008. 35mm. 96 min
Production Company: Warp X, The
Workstation, Paternoster Row, Sheffield,
S1 2BX, England, UK
email: kate@warpx.co.uk
web: www.warpx.co.uk
Production Company: Blast! Films,
2 Imperial Works, Perren Street, London,
NW5 3ED, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7267 4260, fax: +44 (0)20
7485 2340
email: cbosworth@blastfilms.co.uk
UK Distributor: Optimum Releasing,
50 Marshall Street, London, W1F 9BQ,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7534 2700
email: info@optimumreleasing.com
web: www.optimumreleasing.com
International Sales: Icon Entertainment
International, 34 Lennox Street, Newton,
NSW 2042, Australia
tel: +61 28 594 9030, fax: +61 28 594
9031
email: jonathanp@beckers.com.au
Producer: Laura Hastings-Smith, Robin Gutch
Executive Producer: Jan Younghusband,
Peter Carlton, Linda James, Edmund
Coulthard, Iain Cannial
Screenwriter: Enda Walsh, Steve McQueen
Editor: Joe Walker
Director of Photography: Sean Bobbitt
Production Designer: Tom McCullagh
Sound: Paul Davies
Music: David Holmes, Leo Abrahams
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Liam
Cunningham, Stuart Graham, Brian
Milligan, Liam McMahon
Budget: £1.75 million
Funding: Channel 4, Film4, Northern
Ireland Screen, Broadcasting Commisson
of Ireland, Wales Creative IP Fund
Territories: All available except Belgium,
France, Greece, Luxembourg, UK TV
International Sales: Pathe
 UK, Kent
House, 14-17 Market Place, Great
Titchfield Street, London, W1W 8AR,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7323 5151, fax: +44 (0)20
7631 5368
web: www.pathe.co.uk
Producer: Zoe Stewart, Colin Mark
Herbert, Robin Gutch
Executive Producer: Peter Carlton, Lizzie
Francke, Hugo Heppell, Will Clarke
Screenwriter: Mark Tonderai
Editor: Victoria Boydell
Director of Photography: Phillip Blaubach
Production Designer: Sabine Hviid, Matt
Gant
Sound: Tim Barker, Greg Marshall
Music: Theo Park
Cast: Will Ash, Christine Bottomley
Budget: £1.5 million
Funding: UK Film Council, Film4, EM
Media, Screen Yorkshire, Fear Factory
Territories: All available except North
America
30
Feature Films
I Can't Think Straight
I Know You Know
Imaginary Summer
In the upper echelons of traditional
Middle Eastern society, Reema and Omar
prepare for the marriage of their
daughter, Tala. But back at work in
London, Tala encounters Leyla, a young
British Indian woman, who is dating Tala's
best friend, Ali. Tala sees something
unique in the artless, clumsy, sensitive
Leyla who secretly works to become a
writer. And Tala's forthright challenges to
Leyla's beliefs begin a journey of selfawareness for Leyla. As the women fall in
love, Tala's own sense of duty and
cultural restraint cause her to pull away
from Leyla and fly back to Jordan where
the preparations for an ostentatious
wedding are well under way. As family
members descend and the wedding day
approaches, the pressure mounts until
Tala finally cracks and extricates herself.
Back in London, Leyla is heartbroken but
learns to break free of her own self-doubt
and her mother's expectations, ditching
Ali and being honest with her parents
about her sexuality. When Ali and Leyla's
feisty sister Zara help throw Tala and
Leyla together again, Tala finds that her
own preconception of what love can be is
the final hurdle she must jump to win
Leyla back.
A coming-of-age drama about Jamie, an
11 year-old boy who is fascinated by his
father Charlie's espionage work until the
world of spies becomes all too real.
Charlie lives in his own reality - an
undercover agent, always on an important
mission, always on the move. Life for
Charlie is highly charged and on the edge.
He is unpredictable, explosive, yet
kindhearted and fiercely protective of
Jamie, who hero-worships his father until
he slowly begins to understand that
Charlie is occupying a quite different
reality.
11 year-old Jimmy is sent to live with his
grandparents on the island of Jersey, after
his mother's attempted suicide. His
grandparents didn't know he existed, and
his grandfather doesn't want anything to
do with him, but is forced to look after
him when his grandmother goes away. Life
looks better in summer until this new
found happiness is threatened by secrets
from the past, dating back to the German
occupation of the island.
Director: Shamim Sarif
2008. 35mm. 80 min
Production Company: Enlightenment
Productions, 87a Pimlico Road, Chelsea,
London, SW1 W8PH, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7802 615 050
email: hanan@enlightenmentproductions.com
web: www.enlightenmentproductions.com
Producer: Hanan Kattan
Executive Producer: Kelly Moss, Mervya
Wilson, Lisa Tchenguiz Imerman
Screenwriter: Shamim Sarif, Kelly Moss
Editor: David Martin
Director of Photography: Aseem Bajaj
Production Designer: Katie Carter
Music: Raiomond Mirza
Cast: Lisa Ray, Sheetal Sheth, Nina Wadia
Funding: Private
Territories: All available
The realisation for Jamie that his father is
not who he thought he was is
overwhelming. However, ultimately he
knows that he is going to have to accept
him on those terms, help him and love
him just the same for it.
Director: Justin Kerrigan
2008. 16mm. 84 min
Production Company: Parallax East,
Victoria Chambers, St Runwald Street,
Colchester, Essex, CO1 1HF, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)120 657 4909, fax: +44 (0)120
657 7669
email: vicky@parallaxindependent.co.uk
International Sales: The Little Film
Company, 12930 Ventura Boulevard, #822,
Studio City, CA 91604, USA
tel: +1 818 762 6999, fax: +1 818 301
2186
web: www.thelittlefilmcompany.com
Producer: Sally Hibbin
Executive Producer: Linda James,
Pauline Burt, Michael Henry, Sheryl
Crown, Robbie Little
Screenwriter: Justin Kerrigan
Editor: Stuart Gazzard
Director of Photography: Ed Wild
Production Designer: Cristina Casali
Sound: Ashok Kumar
Music: Guy Farley
Cast: Robert Carlyle, David Bradley, Arron
Fuller, Karl Johnson, Valerie Lilley
Territories: All available
Director: Rebecca Coley, Richard Hall
2008. HD. 91 min
Production Company: Spinky Films,
Waterloo Farms, Waterworxs Valley,
St Lawrence, JE3 1HQ, Jersey, Channel
Islands
tel: +44 (0)7797 887 502, fax: +44 (0)153
473 1568
email: info@spinkyfilms.com
web: www.jackblond.com
Producer: Rebecca Coley, Richard Hall
Screenwriter: Rebecca Coley
Editor: Peter Stewart
Director of Photography: Richard Hall
Production Designer: Chris Harrison
Sound: Michale Tostevin
Music: Marc Mitchell
Cast: Gareth Thomas, Cameron Cole,
Shirley Hafey, Brodie Train, Sally Banks
Budget: £250,000
Funding: Private, Jersey Tourism, Arts
Trust
Territories: All available
31
Feature Films
In Bruges
Incendiary
Incendiary
Two hit men, the younger, Ray, the older,
Ken, are sent to hide out in the Gothic
mediaeval town of Bruges, Belgium, after a
hit they were involved with in London went
wrong. Hired to execute a Catholic priest,
Ray also accidentally killed a seven yearold boy outside a confessional.
Two female kidnappers find themselves
dragged further and further into a
complex mystery fuelled by paranoia.
Everything starts to spiral out of control
as one of them suspects there is
something wrong in paradise.
Life is perfect for a young mother in her
London tower block home overlooking a
beautiful Georgian square. It's her little
boy's birthday and he couldn't be happier
as she waves him off to a big soccer
match with his dad. While they are away
she runs into Jasper Black, a journalist
who lives in one of the grand houses
below her window.
While awaiting instructions from their
boss, the volatile Harry Waters, who
ordered the priest's killing for reasons
only he knows, Ray attempts to deal with
his darkness and despair over the death of
the boy in this town that he can't bear,
while Ken, who adores the place, tries to
help his friend the best he can.
Ray meets a beautiful girl. Things start
looking up. Ken gets the order from Harry
to execute Ray. Things start looking down.
Romance and violence ensue. Honour and
dramatic reversals abound. There will be
dwarves and there will be drugs, and the
dark, cobbled streets will be riven with
blood and the retort of gunfire and the
sickening screams of the guilty and the
innocent. And few will get out of Bruges
alive.
Director: Martin McDonagh
2007. 35mm. 107 min
Production Company: Blueprint Pictures,
43-45 Charlotte Street, London, W1T
1RS, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7580 6915, fax: +44 (0)20
7580 6934
email: asst@blueprintpictures.com
International Sales: Focus Features,
100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City,
CA 91608, USA
tel: +1 818 777 1000
web: www.focusfeatures.com
Producer: Graham Broadbent, Pete
Czernin
Executive Producer: Tessa Ross, Jeff
Abberley, Julia Blackman
Screenwriter: Raymond Mearns
Editor: Jon Gregory
Director of Photography: Elgil Bryde
Production Designer: Michael Carlin
Sound: Alister Crocker
Music: Carter Burwell
Cast: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson,
Ralph Fiennes, Cle
Âmence Poe
Âsy
Funding: Focus Features, Film4, Scion
Co-production: Belgium
Director: Ross Nickson
2008. HD. 90 min
Production Company: Dubious Films
email: dubiousfilms@gmail.com
web: www.dubiousfilms.com,
www.myspace.com/fragmentsthemovie
Producer, Screenwriter, Editor: Ross
Nickson
Cast: Lindsay Morton, Stacey Harding,
Melsie Holder
The last time they met she was beside
herself with fear, whilst her husband was
away on bomb disposal duties. When
charming, sympathetic Jasper came on to
her as she took solace in a few drinks in
the local pub, she couldn't resist him.
On this sunny spring day she's tempted
again. Minutes later she can only watch in
horror as their illicit love-making is
interrupted by live television coverage of
explosions ripping through the soccer
stadium. Her perfect life is over.
Director: Sharon Maguire
2008. 35mm. 97 min
Production Company: Incendiary Ltd,
53 Ronalds Road, London, NS 1XF,
England, UK
email: inc@archerstreet.com
UK Distributor: Optimum Releasing,
50 Marshall Street, London, W1F 9BQ,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7534 2700
email: info@optimumreleasing.com
International Sales: Capitol Films,
Bridgehouse, 63-65 North Wharf Road,
London, W2 1LA, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7298 6200, fax: +44 (0)20
7298 6201
email: films@capitolfilms.com
Producer: Andy Paterson, Anand Tucker,
Adrienne Maguire
Executive Producer: Simon Fawcett,
Tessa Ross, Philip Erdoes, Daria Jovicic
Screenwriter: Sharon Maguire
Editor: Valerio Bonelli
Director of Photography: Ben Davis
Production Designer: Kave Quinn
Music: Shigero Umesamashi
Cast: Michelle Williams, Ewan McGregor,
Matthew Macfadyen
32
Feature Films
Inconceivable
Interview With a Politician
Is There Anybody There?
Infertile couples, singles, lesbians and gay
men (and the odd widow who needs the
inheritance) are all desperate for that one
thing that will change their lives forever a child. But are those in control of the IVF
process gods or monsters? And what are
those who hold the puppet strings really
capable of? Get ready for the Immaculate
Deception.
A fictional and racy, yet seemingly
topical, exploration of the ups and downs
of a mainstream politician's life, told as if
through a stage-managed docu-drama
format.
Set in 1980s seaside England, this is the
story of Edward, an unusual ten year-old
boy growing up in an old people's home
run by his parents. Whilst his mother
struggles to keep the family business
afloat and his father copes with the onset
of a mid-life crisis, Edward is busy taperecording the elderly residents to try and
discover what happens when they die.
Increasingly obsessed with ghosts and the
afterlife, Edward's is a rather lonely
existence until he meets Clarence, the
latest recruit to the home, a retired
magician with a liberating streak of
anarchy. Is There Anybody There? tells the
surprising and touching story of this odd
couple - a boy and an old man - facing
life together, with Edward learning to live
in the moment and Clarence coming to
terms with the past.
Director: Mary McGuckian
2008. 35mm. 105 min
Production Company: Pembridge
Pictures, 134 Percival Road, Enfield,
Middlesex, EN1 1QU, England, UK
tel: +33 4 93 76 62 61, fax: +33 4 93 01
73 19
email: info@pembridgepictures.com
International Sales: Highpoint Media
Group, Suite 16, Dean House Studios,
Greenwood Place, London, NW5 1LB,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7424 6870, fax: +44 (0)20
7485 3281
email: elisar@highpointfilms.co.uk
web: www.highpointfilms.co.uk
Producer: Mary McGuckian, Jeff Abberley,
Martin Katz
Screenwriter: Mary McGuckian
Editor: David Freemantle
Director of Photography: Mark Wolf
Production Designer: Max Gottlieb
Sound: Tom Bjelic
Music: Kevin Banks
Cast: Jennifer Tilly, Elizabeth McGovern,
Andie Macdowell, John Sessions, Lothaire
Bluteau
Co-production: Canada
Territories: All available
Director: Niranjan Kamatkar
2008. HDV. 91 min
Production Company: Wise Thoughts,
Wood Green Central Library, High Road,
London, N22 6XD, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8889 9555
email: niranjan@wisethoughts.org
Producer, Screenwriter: Niranjan
Kamatkar
Director of Photography: Jeremy Read
Production Designer: Lea Yehud
Music: Robert Jarvis
Cast: Antony Wheeler, Maurice Ord
Funding: Private
Territories: All available
Director: John Crowley
2008. 35mm. 93 min
Production Company: Heyday Films,
5 Denmark Street, London, WC2H 8LP,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7836 6333, fax: +44 (0)20
7836 6444
email: office@heydayfilms.com
Producer: David Heyman, Peter Saraf,
Marc Turtletaub
Executive Producer: Jeb Brody, David M
Thompson
Screenwriter: Peter Harness
Editor: Trevor Waite
Director of Photography: Rob Hardy
Production Designer: Kave Quinn
Cast: Michael Caine, Anne-Marie Duff,
David Morrissey, Rosemary Harris
33
Feature Films
Itch
Jack Says
Journal of a Contract Killer
Following Nathan McCarthy through three
days of his life as he wanders alone along
the streets of his depressing industrial
town. He has chance meetings with
strangers and he bumps into an old friend
in a pub, Paul Chapple, who turns out to
be a local small-time drug dealer and the
catalyst in changing his life.
Nathan has an itch he can't scratch. This
is the story of how he comes to terms
with his problems and how he deals with
it all in his own special way. His therapy is
about to begin.
Jack Says is a gripping contemporary film
noir thriller. Jack awakes with amnesia in
London next to the blood-soaked corpse
of the Guv'nor, a much-feared underworld
figure. Jack has just enough time and
sense to flee, and finding the address of
an old girlfriend, heads to Paris to lie low.
Always just one step ahead of the
pursuing British police, Jack rekindles old
feelings for his ex, Erin, imagining the life
he could have. But trouble follows a guy
like Jack, and he is soon drawn into a
web of deceit by the mysterious cabaret
singer Girl X, who wants his help in
dealing with the attentions of Garvey, a
woman not to be crossed. Soon Jack is
forced to deal with the consequences of a
series of tragic events, all the while
struggling to remember who he is, and
what he is capable of.
A taut action thriller about one woman's
quest for freedom and vengeance.
Stephanie Komack was once a high-class
hooker and assassin for the Italian mob,
now a single mother living a fairly
mundane existence. Her former employers
track her down to do one last job. The hit
goes wrong and Stephanie soon realises
the stark reality of her failure when her
daughter is taken from her as punishment.
Between her abducted child and the
explosive journal of her former life she
has been recording, Stephanie is now a
very dangerous woman with nothing to
lose.
Director: Jay Radosavljevic
2007. HD. 103 min
Director: Simon Phillips, Bob Komar
2008. HD. 89 min
Production Company: Handcrafted Films,
42a Salisbury Road, London, N4 1JZ,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7887 557 464
email: post@handcraftedfilms.net
web: www.handcraftedfilms.net
Production Company: Press On Features,
The South Lodge, Lammas Park Gardens,
Ealing, London, W5 5HZ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7955 215 922
email: simon.phillips@
pressonfeatures.com
Producer, Screenwriter: Jay
Radosavljevic
Editor: Matt Patrick, Jay Radosavljevic
Director of Photography: Matt Patrick
Sound: Richard Miller
Music: Jozef Fletcher, The Satellite
Inspectors
Cast: Paul Andrew, Kal Aise, Max Whatley
International Sales: Aspect Film Ltd,
188a Belsize Road, London, NW6 4AB,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7625 7796, fax: +44 (0)20
7993 5877
email: hugh@aspectfilm.com
Nathan has been suffering from years of
manic depression. He has been in and out
of institutions but nothing has helped him
so far - he is a man on the edge and is to
become totally unbalanced through a
series of seemingly random events.
Producer: Simon Phillips
Screenwriter: Alan Ronald
Editor: Paula Baker
Director of Photography: Bob Komar
Production Designer: Toby Meredith
Sound: Pinewood Studios
Music: David Beard
Cast: Simon Philips, Rita Ramnan, Rula
Lenska, Mike Reid, Eric Cantona
Budget: $100,000
Funding: Private
Territories: All available
Director: Tony Maylam
2007. HD. 90 min
Production Company: MJ Films Ltd,
39 Simpson Street, London, SW11 3HW,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7223 7102, fax: +44 (0)20
7585 1573
email: damiendamiani@aol.com
International Sales: Aspect Film Ltd,
188a Belsize Road, London, NW6 4AB,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7625 7796, fax: +44 (0)20
7993 5877
email: hugh@aspectfilm.com
web: www.aspectfilm.com
Producer: Michele Damiano
Screenwriter: Tony Maylam
Editor: Francis Moloney
Director of Photography: David Griffiths
Production Designer: Collete McWilliams
Sound: Alan Cridford
Music: Stephen W Parsons, Andrew Fisher
Cast: Justine Powell, Jake Canuso, Marco
Gambino, Adam Leese
Budget: £400,000
Funding: Private
Territories: All available
34
Feature Films
Just Ines
Land's End
The Lark
Tom Jackson is perceived as having
everything: he's handsome, has a
successful career, a great apartment in
London and a beautiful wife. However,
behind this illusion is a man living the life
that his dead father wanted him to live,
full of compromise, deceit, women, cutthroat business and money.
The story of Clare, a new mother with
post-natal depression who spends much of
her time sobbing under the kitchen table.
On Christmas Eve, in a desperate bid to
escape her cheating husband, Sebastian,
and get to the safety of her wealthy
father's house for Christmas, she enlists
the help of two homeless men, Reza and
Rory, to drive her from London to Land's
End in Cornwall.
A hypnotic nightmare world within which
Niamh is trapped with her children, by
the poisoned atmosphere outside. Amidst
the dereliction Niamh has made a home
for her family. But outside it seems that
anything might happen. Niamh is visited
by strange characters, including Doc and
Friday, and disturbing visions. She spends
her time trying to find respirators so she
and her children can leave this place and
go home, but has found only one.
Meanwhile she lives in fear of intrusions
from the ruined world outside and has
booby-trapped the entrances. A stranger,
Sean, falls victim to one of these traps.
Doc warns Niamh that others will come in
search of Sean. When the searchers arrive
Niamh's traps fail to stop them. They
have a secret that allows them to move
around outside without respirators and
seem to have plans for Niamh, who is
helpless to make them leave because she
needs their secret to escape her prison.
But it seems there is another force at
work within this dark world, bringing
death and the horrific realisation of the
meaning of it all.
Discovering that his trophy wife is leaving
him, he behaves in such a way that Tom is
forced to reassess who he is. After
spending six months in prison, Tom reestablishes himself in London, leading a
simple life. One night, after one of his
drinking sessions, he meets PJ, a 20 yearold lonely student, whom he befriends.
He enjoys being with PJ, as he doesn't
have to justify who he is.
As all this is going on, he notices the
beautiful, sad and aloof-looking French
woman, Ines, his next-door neighbour,
who is always immaculately dressed and
keeps a strict day-to-day routine. Tom
admires Ines from afar, watching her
coming and going from the apartment
block, desperate to meet her. Eventually
he does, even though it is when she is
unconscious in the hallway of the
apartment block.
Director: Marcel Grant
2008. HD. 96 min
Production Company: Shipwreck Film,
Room 19, 34-35 Hatton Garden, London,
EC1V 8TD, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7813 638 299
email: info@shipwreckfilm.com
web: www.shipwreckfilm.com
Producer: Marcel Grant, Emma Meaden
Screenwriter: Marcel Grant
Director of Photography: Michael Elphick
Production Designer: Kat Cappellazi
Cast: Daniel Weyman, Caroline Ducey,
Alice O'Connell, Barbara Cabrita
Despite Reza's lack of recent driving
experience and Rory's constant thirst for
alcohol the two men eventually prove
worthy escorts. The adventures on the
journey include a pit-stop at Granny's
house where she comforts Clare and
treats the men as heroes. All contribute
to her increasing recovery and, at last, a
precious bond with her baby, Becky, is
formed.
Director: Ruth Torjussen
2007. HD. 73 min
Production Company: Betty Mae
Productions, 34 Stanmer Park Road,
Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 7JJ, England,
UK
tel: +44 (0)1273 530556
email: ruth@bettymae.co.uk
Producer, Screenwriter: Ruth Torjussen
Executive Producer: Tim Edwards
Editor: Ian Grey
Director of Photography: Tania Freimuth
Sound: Tim Harrison
Music: John Torjussen
Cast: Lisa Bettany, Pano Masti, John
Gilligan
Budget: £6,000
Funding: Private
Territories: All available
Director: Steve Tanner, Paul Farmer, Mark
Jenkin
2007. HDV. 70 min
Production Company: War-Rag LLP,
3 Penlee Villas, Playing Place, Truro,
Cornwall, TR3 6EY, England, UK
email: paul.farmer@a39.net
Producer: Laura Hardman
Screenwriter: Paul Farmer
Editor: Mark Jenkin
Director of Photography: Morgan
Lowndes
Production Designer: Hana Backland
Music: Nick Harpley
Sound: Luke Power
Cast: Mary Woodvine, Mark Pearce, Philip
Jacobs, Helen Rule, Iain Marshall
Funding: Cornwall Film, A4A, Cornwall
Media Resource
Territories: All available
35
Feature Films
The Last Blood Line
Last Chance Harvey
Leaves
When the authenticity of ghost hunting TV
show Miracle Spirits is called into
question, the producers decide to ramp
up the stakes by visiting Austria's most
haunted location, Braach Castle. The
castle's current owners are initially found
to be warm and welcoming but as the
evening investigation continues the
presenter, psychic and crew sense
imminent danger. Is there a connection
between the history of vampire activity at
the castle and the current owners?
New Yorker Harvey Shine is on the verge
of losing his dead-end job as a jingle
writer. Warned by his boss that he has
just one more chance to deliver, Harvey
goes to London for a weekend to attend
his daughter's wedding but promises to be
back on Monday morning to make an
important meeting . . . or else.
The feature film debut of Ian Waugh is a
disorientating psychological drama
exploring the uncertainty of identity and
perception. Arriving at an isolated
farmhouse for a weekend holiday, David
and Leah hope to fix their breaking
relationship. Their sense of isolation is
shattered when they meet Michael, an
indeterminable local man, who invites
them to dinner that night. Tensions rise as
Michael manipulates the couple over
dinner, and the following night Leah has
gone missing. Michael arrives
unexpectedly and David cautiously follows
him into the woods to look for her.
Emerging at a dark loch, David is
overcome with emotion and runs into the
black waters, eliciting the arrival of
another stranger and a disorientating
descent into self.
Director: John C Evans
2008. HD. 90 min
Production Company: Short Feature
Production Company Ltd, 3 Caroline
Court, Caroline Street, Birmingham, B3
1TR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7980 954 506
email: info@shortfeatures.com
web: www.shortfeatures.com
International Sales: Centre Films Media
Sales
email: eleahy@centrefilmsales.com
Producer: John C Evans, Ernest Riera
Executive Producer: Andy Louka, Susan
Arnold
Screenwriter: John C Evans
Editor: Philip Arkinstall
Director of Photography: John Raggett
Production Designer: Amy Louise Cook
Music: Gary Judd
Cast: Mark Moraghan, Steve Hart, Palmer
Davis, Jonathan Sidgwick, Alison King
Harvey arrives in London only to learn his
daughter has chosen to have her
stepfather walk her down the aisle
instead of him. Doing his best to hide his
devastation, he leaves the wedding before
the reception in hopes of getting to the
airport on time, but misses his plane
anyway. When he calls his boss to explain,
he is fired on the spot.
Drowning his sorrows at the airport bar,
Harvey strikes up a conversation with Kate,
a slightly prickly, 40-something employee of
the Office of National Statistics. Kate,
whose life is limited to work, the occasional
humiliating blind date and endless phone
calls from her smothering mother, is
touched by Harvey, who finds himself
energised by her intelligence and
compassion. The growing connection
between the pair inspires both as they
unexpectedly transform one another's lives.
Director: Joel Hopkins
2008. 35mm.
Production Company: Overture Films,
9242 Beverly Boulevard, Suite 200,
Beverley Hills, CA 90210, USA
tel: +1 424 204 4000, fax: +1 424 204
4010
web: www.overturefilms.net
International Sales: Paramount Vantage
International, 5555 Melrose Avenue, Los
Angeles, CA 90038, USA
tel: +1 323 956 2000, fax: +1 323 862
2249
email: sales@paramountvantage.com
Producer: Tim Perell, Nicola Usborne
Executive Producer: Jawal Nga
Screenwriter: Joel Hopkins
Editor: Robin Sales
Director of Photography: John de Borman
Production Designer: Jon Henson
Sound: Mark Holding
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson,
Kathy Baker, James Brolin, Eileen Atkins,
Richard Schiff, Liane Balaban
Co-production: USA
Director: Ian Waugh
2008. HD. 75 min
Production Company: Marquisde, 199/3
Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, EH3 9RU,
Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)131 228 8878, fax: +44 (0)131
228 8878
email: ian@marquisde.co.uk
web: www.marquisde.co.uk
Production Company: Screen Academy
Scotland, Napier University, 2a Merchiston
Avenue, Edinburgh, EH10 4NU, Scotland,
UK
tel: +44 (0)131 455 2572, fax: +44 (0)131
455 2538
email: info@screenacademyscotland.ac.uk
web: www.screenacademyscotland.ac.uk
Producer, Editor: Ian Waugh
Screenwriter: Ian Waugh, Chris Dennis
Director of Photography: Andrew Begg
Sound: Nick Gibbon
Cast: Ewan Donald, Catriona McInnes,
Sean Campion, Michele Gallagher
Budget: £9,500
Funding: Screen Academy Scotland, South
West Scotland Screen Commission,
Marquisde
Territories: All available
36
Feature Films
Little Ashes
Losers Anonymous
Love Me Still
Little Ashes tells the extraordinary story
of the relationship between Salvador Dali,
Federico Garcia Lorca and Luis Bunuel - a
moving story of friendship, love and
betrayal, and a tale of the complexities
of young love and sexual identity.
Edward Butt is a very shy young man who
works as a gardener in a North London
park. His main adversary is a loudmouth
called Gary who relentlessly humiliates
him and makes every hour of work a
misery. Edward has no friends; his only
hobbies are fishing and listening to
classical music (which is constantly ruined
by the loud rock music coming from the
bedsit next to his). The dogshit-strewn
pavement he walks on to work every day
could be a metaphor for his life until one
night, with the help of Emma, a new
arrival at work, Edward discovers a
website called Losers Anonymous, a five
step plan to getting your own back on
your adversary. How many steps will
Edward have to take to be rid of Gary
once and for all? And if steps one to four
fail, will he be able to go to step five and
have Gary murdered?
It was just another day until destiny
stepped in and changed the fate of
Mickey and his family. As a result of an
armed robbery Mickey is facing eight
years in prison. His wife Gemma and little
girl Lucy are left to cope and we know
their bond of love will hold them
together, but then Mickey's brother Bobby
arrives and all of their lives are changed
forever.
Director: Paul Morrison
2007. HD. 106 min
Production Company: Met Film & TV,
126 Bolingbroke Grove, London, SW11
1DA, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7738 2727
email: info@metfilm-tv.co.uk
web: www.metfilm-tv.co.uk
International Sales: Katapult Film Sales,
228 Main Street, Suite C, Venice, CA
90291, USA
tel: +1 310 308 9010, fax: +1 310 358
0333
email: jenn@katapultfilms.com
web: www.katapultfilms.com
Producer: Jonny Persey, Carlo Dusi,
Jaume Vilalta
Executive Producer: Stephen Jarchow,
Paul Coulihan, Debra Stasson, Luke
Montagu
Screenwriter: Phillipa Goslett
Editor: Rachel Tunnard
Director of Photography: Adam
Suschitzky
Production Designer: Pere Francesc
Sound: Srdjan Kurpjel, Sacha Walker
Cast: Javier Beltran, Robert Pattison, Tom
Hardy, Marina Gatell
Director: Kevin W Smith
2008. HD. 84 min
Production Company: Canned Comedy
Productions, 32 Clovelly Road, London, N8
7RN, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8348 4079
email: kev.ws@virgin.net
Producer, Screenwriter: Kevin W Smith
Executive Producer: John Hall
Editor: Mark Talbot-Butler
Director of Photography: Dan Rack
Sound: Justin Smith
Music: Anders Sodergren
Cast: Sebastian Armesto, Lucy Barker,
Nick Nevern
Budget: £140,000
Funding: Private
Territories: All available
Director: Danny Hiller
2007. 35mm. 96 min
Production Company: Defiant Films,
26 St Annes Court, London, W1F OBL,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7287 1018
email: defiantfilms@hotmail.com
International Sales: Jinga Films,
22 Carnaby Street, London, W1F 7DB,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7287 0050, fax: +44 (0)20
7494 9492
email: rosana@jingafilms.com
web: www.jingafilms.com
Producer: Danny Hiller
Executive Producer: John Davey
Screenwriter: Paul Munns
Editor: Geraint Huw Reynolds
Director of Photography: Shane Daly
Production Designer: Nick Sommerville
Music: Paul Leonard-Morgan
Cast: Andrew Howard, Geoff Bell, Alex
Reid, Tom Bell
Budget: £1.5 million with deferrals
Funding: Private, UK tax break
Territories: All available
37
Feature Films
Made in Romania
Made of Honour
Man in a Box
The comedic, behind-the-scenes story of a
young English film producer who risks
everything to try and break into bigger,
more impressive productions. Disillusioned
after years of producing low budget genre
movies, the producer seizes the chance to
partner with an American actress and
produce The Tides of Reason, a period
drama set in Victorian Yorkshire.
Travelling to Los Angeles, the producer
meets a disreputable financier who agrees
to finance the project but only if the
production is filmed entirely in Romania
to take advantage of a complicated tax
deal. Way off the radar in deepest,
darkest rural Romania everything begins
to go horribly wrong for the producer as
he deals with wild dogs, missing actors,
the local mafia and worst of all, the film
director: an unstable, bi-polar ex-con who
turns out to have faked his directing
credentials. After a violent on-set
confrontation, the director is placed
under house arrest by local police while
the producer struggles to wrap up the
production. Later, to everyone's surprise,
the film is released and becomes a cult
hit. The producer however, is jailed and
only the director becomes a major
Hollywood player.
Tom leads a good life: he's sexy, he's
successful, and he knows he can always
rely on Hannah, his delightful best friend
and the one constant in his life. It's the
perfect set-up until Hannah goes overseas
to Scotland on a six-week business trip,
and Tom is stunned to realise how empty
his life is without her. He resolves that
upon her return, he'll ask Hannah to
marry him but is floored when he learns
that she has become engaged to a
handsome and wealthy Scotsman and
plans to move overseas. When Hannah
asks Tom to be her `maid' of honour, he
reluctantly agrees to fill the role, but
only so he can attempt to woo Hannah
and stop the wedding before it's too late.
How would you cope with being forced
into an empty room, with no hope of
escape, unknown eyes watching 24 hours
a day?
Director: Guy Jon Louthan
2007. 35mm. 91 min
Production Company: Celadon Motion
Pictures Ltd, 7887 Hillside Avenue, Los
Angeles, CA 90046, USA
tel: +1 323 876 0345
email: cmpltd@earthlink.net
Producer: Guy Jon Louthan
Executive Producer: Drew Katz
Screenwriter: Guy Jon Louthan, Neal
Monaghan
Editor: Mirela Muresan
Director of Photography: Gabriel Kosuth
Production Designer: Dan Toader
Sound: Gary J Coppola
Music: Trevor Gilchrist
Cast: Jennifer Tilly, Jason Fleming,
Elizabeth Hurley, Joe Shaw, Danny Huston
Budget: £500,000
Co-production: Romania, USA
Funding: Private
Territories: All available
Director: Paul Weiland
2007. 35mm. 102 min
UK Distributor: Sony Pictures Releasing,
25 Golden Square, London, W1F 9L,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7533 1100, fax: +44 (0)20
7533 1165
web: www.sonypictures.co.uk
Producer: Neal H Moritz
Executive Producer: Callum Greene,
Tania Landau, Amanda Lewis
Screenwriter: Adam Sztykiel
Editor: Richard Marks ACE
Director of Photography: Tony PierceRoberts BSC
Production Designer: Kalina Ivanov
Sound: Dennis Drummond
Music: Rupert Gregson-Williams
Cast: Patrick Dempsey, Michelle
Monaghan, Kevin McKidd, Kathleen
Quinlan, Sydney Pollack
Co-production: USA
Sean feels alone in his work. He feels
alone in his love life. Soon he will be
completely alone. Forever. He has no idea
why he is in the cell. As we see him trying
to hold together his sanity, only two
things offer hope, and both of those are
now threatened. It's a race against time
and despair to find out who is behind `the
man in a box'.
Director: Steven Rhys
2008. DV Cam. 76 min
Production Company: Films For Nothing,
19 Woodside Lodge, Tivoli Crescent,
Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 5ND, England,
UK
tel: +44 (0)1273 503422
email: thefirststeven@hotmail.co.uk
Producer: Robin Thomson
Screenwriter: Helen Reade, Mark Bowen,
Steven Rhys
Editor: Mel Harris
Director of Photography: Geoff Woods
Production Designer: Mark Bowen
Sound: Rob Speight
Music: Mel Harris
Cast: Alistair O'Loughlin, Claudine
Sinnett, Julian Jones, Maruisa Abela
Budget: £15,000
Funding: Private
Territories: All available
38
Feature Films
The Mandrake Root
Manifesto
Miss Pettigrew
Lives for a Day
Callimaco, a young Sardinian, returns
from studying in Paris and is overcome by
the beauty of Lucrezia, the virtuoso and
beautiful wife of the rich and foolish
lawyer Nicia. In his desire to bed her, he
engages the services of a dubious fixer,
Liguro, who knows that Nicia and Lucrezia
are desperate for a child. With Ligurio's
help, Callimaco, masquerading as a
doctor, convinces Nicia that the surest
way for his wife to conceive is by taking a
potion made from the mandrake root,
with the dire warning that the first man
to sleep with her will die within eight
days. Nicia agrees to a plan to kidnap an
unsuspecting man to sleep with his wife
and thereby draw out the poison, but of
course it is the disguised Callimaco who is
to be kidnapped. In order to persuade his
wife to agree, because she is so virtuous,
Nicia enlists the help of her mother, a
woman of questionable virtue, and her
confessor, a priest of equally dubious
morals. Ultimately Callimaco succeeds in
sleeping with Lucrezia, who herself
decides that due to the stupidity of her
husband and deception of her mother and
confessor, she will continue to be his lover
and `what her husband wanted for her to
have for one night, she now wants him to
have forever'.
A last will and testament in the age of
meaninglessness . . .
In 1939 London, Miss Guinevere Pettigrew
is a middle-aged governess who finds
herself unfairly dismissed from her job.
Without so much as severance pay, Miss
Pettigrew realizes that she must - for the
first time in two decades - seize the day.
This she does, by intercepting an
employment assignment outside of her
comfort level as `social secretary'.
Arriving at a penthouse apartment for the
interview, she is catapulted into the
glamorous world of an American actress
and singer, Delysia Lafosse.
Director: Malachi Bogdanon
2008. HD. 75 min
Production Company: European Drama
Network, 1 Poplar Cottage, Ickwield
Street, Beoley, Worcester, B98 9AP,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7754 888 180
email: simonwoods@europeandrama.com
Producer: Simon M Woods
Screenwriter: Malachi Bogdanon
Editor: Nat Higginbottom, Simon Woods
Director of Photography: Tony Yates
Production Designer: John Plush
Sound: Neil Hillman
Music: Christopher Ash
Cast: Geoffery Bateman, Den Woods,
Jonathan Owen
Budget: $180,000
Funding: Private, Screen West Midlands
Territories: All available
Theuth, a half-written character, must
confront the hand that wields the pen
that writes the line that stains the
silence.
A film that struggles to deal with the
nature of free will, the search for
identity, and the silence that comes at
the end of speech.
Director: Tom Metcalfe
2008. HD. 102 min
Production Company: Thus Spoke,
Malindi, Somerwood, Rodington,
Shropshire, SY4 4RF, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)195 277 0457
email: thusspoke@hotmail.co.uk
Producer: John Rowley, Tom Metcalfe
Screenwriter: Tom Metcalfe
Editor, Director of Photography: John
Rowley
Cast: James Palmer
Budget: £14,000
Funding: Private
Territories: All available
Within minutes, Miss Pettigrew finds
herself swept into a heady high-society
milieu - and, within hours, living it up.
Taking the `social secretary' designation
to heart, she tries to help her new friend
Delysia navigate a love life and career,
both of which are complicated by the
three men in Delysia's orbit: devoted
pianist Michael, intimidating nightclub
owner Nick, and impressionable junior
impresario Phil. Miss Pettigrew herself is
blushingly drawn to the gallant Joe, a
successful designer who is tenuously
engaged to haughty fashion maven Edythe
- the one person who senses that the
new `social secretary' may be out of her
element, and schemes to undermine her.
Over the next 24 hours, Guinevere and
Delysia will empower each other to
discover their romantic destinies.
Director: Bharat Nalluri
2008. 35mm. 105 min
UK Distributor: Momentum Pictures, 2nd
Floor, 184-192 Drummond Street, London,
NW1 3HP, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7388 1100, fax: +44 (0)20
7383 0404
web: www.momentumpictures.co.uk
Producer: Nellie Bellflower, Stephen
Garrett
Executive Producer: Paul Webster
Screenwriter: David Mageem, Simon
Beaufoy
Editor: Barney Pilling
Director of Photography: John de Borman
BSC
Production Designer: Sarah Greenwood
Music: Paul Englishby
Cast: Frances McDormand, Amy Adams,
Lee Pace, Ciara
Ân Hinds, Shirley
Henderson, Mark Strong, Tom Payne
39
Feature Films
Morris: A Life with Bells on
Mum and Dad
Next Time Ned
A heartwarming feature length comedy
shot in documentary format that follows
the fortunes of one of the leading Morris
teams in the country, Millsham Morris, and
in particular those of its leader, Derecq
Twist.
Mum and Dad, and their `adopted'
children, Birdie and Elbie, work at the
airport. The family live off whatever they
scavenge from cargo holds, offices and
hotels - including a steady stream of
transient workers who populate the
airport's soulless hub. When Lena, a
young Polish office cleaner, is befriended
by Birdie, she gets drawn into a
nightmarish world of torture, murder and
perversity. Imprisoned in a suburban
`House of Horrors' and designated a
mummy's girl, Lena's only options appear
to be to become part of the family - and
join them in their insanity - or die.
For almost 30 years Ned Randall has been
trying to make it as an actor. Now in his
40s his biggest claim to fame is playing a
corpse in Taggart. Always believing that
his big break is just around the corner he
is affectionately referred to as `Next Time
Ned' by his friends, family and the local
community. However Lady Luck may be on
Ned's side as a documentary crew have
decided to spend a week in his life in
order to discover what drives his pursuit
of a career in an industry whose doors
seem forever closed to him. Over the
course of the week we follow Ned to
several amusing but disastrous auditions,
witness his first go at stand-up comedy,
follow his attempt to find a theatre
willing to produce his one man show of
Reservoir Dogs: The Musical. We also join
him as he tries to reconcile his
relationship with his son and deal with his
ill mother.
Morris is a gentle and affectionate look at
an aspect of English culture which is in
the finest traditions of this country,
unapologetically eccentric, and towards
which there exists a huge amount of
goodwill.
The film's events take place in the
summer months in and around Dorset and
specifically centre around an idyllic
thatched country pub, the Traveller's
Staff.
The film is an unashamed celebration of
not only the English countryside but also
what it means to be English.
Director: Lucy Akhurst
2007. HD. 105 min
Production Company: Twist Films Ltd, 4th
Floor, 88 Onslow Gardens, London, SW7
3BS, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7244 0103
web: www.morrismovie.com
Producer: Charles Thomas Oldham
Editor: Nick Carew
Director of Photography: Roger Chapman
Production Designer: Caroline Story
Music: Richard Lumsden
Cast: Ian Hart, Derek Jacobi, Greg Wise,
Naomie Harris, Dominique Pinon
Director: Steven Sheil
2008. HD. 85 min
Production Company: 2am Films,
1 Lawford's Wharf, Lyme Street, London,
NW1 0SF, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7428 8800, fax: +44 (0)20
7428 8801
email: lisa@2amfilms.co.uk
web: www.2am.co.uk
Producer: Lisa Trnovski
Screenwriter: Steven Sheil
Editor: Leo Scott
Director of Photography: Jonathan Bloom
Production Designer: Jess Alexander
Sound: Ben Cross, Tom Hutchings
Cast: Perry Benson, Dido Miles, Olga
Fedori, Ainsley Howard, Toby Alexander
Budget: £100,000
Funding: Film London, EM Media
Territories: All available
Often hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking
but always entertaining.
Director: Thomas McCue
2008. HD. 80 min
Production Company: Shared Moment
Productions, 111 Union Street, Glasgow,
G1 3TA, Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)7999 222 270
email: shared_moment_productions@
yahoo.co.uk
Producer: Thomas McCue, Raymond
Mearns
Screenwriter: Thomas McCue
Director of Photography: Sean Walker
Production Designer: Rachael Ivancic
Sound: David McKeith
Music: Woodenbox, Raymond Mearns
Cast: Raymond Mearns, Scott Campbell,
Adrianne Boyd, Ian Barrie, Lynn Mulvenna
Budget: £3,000
Funding: Private
Territories: All available
40
Feature Films
The Other Boleyn Girl
Parkside Hell House
Peacefire
Based on the best-selling novel by Philippa
Gregory, this film is an engrossing and
sensual tale of intrigue, romance and
betrayal set against the backdrop of a
defining moment in history. Two sisters,
Anne and Mary Boleyn, are driven by their
ambitious father and uncle to advance the
family's power and status by courting the
affections of the King of England. Leaving
behind the simplicity of country life, the
girls are thrust into the dangerous and
thrilling world of court life - and what
began as a bid to help their family
develops into a rivalry between Anne and
Mary for the love of the King. Initially
Mary wins King Henry's favour and
becomes his mistress, bearing him an
illegitimate child. But Anne, clever,
cunning and fearless, edges aside both her
sister and Henry's wife, Queen Katherine
of Aragon, in her relentless pursuit of the
King. Despite Mary's genuine feelings for
Henry, her sister Anne has her sights set
on the ultimate prize, being the Queen of
England. As the Boleyn girls battle for the
love of a king - one driven by ambition,
the other by true affection - England is
torn apart. Despite the dramatic
consequences, the Boleyn girls ultimately
find strength and loyalty in each other,
and they remain forever connected by
their bond as sisters.
Kelly, a beautiful blonde 19 year-old
American rock chick, arrives in London,
ostensibly to join a band. But when things
don't go as planned, she is left alone and
stranded in a strange city. Kelly rents a
flat from Harry, a strange but jovial
landlord. Soon after, Kelly learns that her
selfish, uncaring mother is going to marry
her live-in partner whom Kelly loathes.
Peacefire is a moving account of one
young man's experience of crime and
punishment on his local housing estate.
Director: Justin Chadwick
2008. 35mm. 114 min
UK Distributor: Universal Pictures
International UK, 76 Oxford Street,
London, W1D 1BS, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7307 5530, fax: +44 (0)20
3071 346
email: laura.mackenzie@nbcuni.com
Producer: Alison Owen
Executive Producer: Scott Rudin, David M
Thompson
Screenwriter: Peter Morgan
Editor: Paul Knight, Carol Littleton ACE
Director of Photography: Kieran
McGuigan
Production Designer: John-Paul Kelly
Music: Paul Cantelon
Cast: Natalie Portman, Scarlett
Johansson, Eric Bana
Co-production: USA
Kelly soon meets David, a dashing young
fashion photographer, who offers to make
her a cover girl for a new magazine.
David takes Kelly on a boat ride up the
Thames river and to markets, taking
photos along the way.
Not having any money, Kelly starts to feel
pressure from Harry, who is in league with
a 300 year-old bisexual witch, both of
whom Kelly learns were hanged on
Parliament Hill in the 1600s and are
leaders of an undead cult.
Fed up with David's never-ending
promises of fame and fortune, as well as
Harry and the witch's manipulation, and
discovering that a friend has been
murdered, Kelly has had enough and packs
her bags, making plans to return home to
her mother, but finds to her horror that
she can't get out of the house.
Director: James White
2007. HDV. 83 min
Production Company: Hard House
Pictures, 2 Percy Street, London, W1P
9FA, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7813 257 996
email: c.murray2007@yahoo.com
web: www.parksidehellhouse.com
Producer: Caroline L Murray
Screenwriter: James White
Editor: M Jessee, J Halldorsson
Director of Photography: Ricardo
Nogueira
Sound: Alex Joseph
Music: Neel Dhorajiwala
Cast: Tiffany Mulheron, Jeremy Stephens,
Melissa Leigh, Jason Ebelthite, Rebecca
Pitkin
Territories: All available
Colin McNally couldn't give a toss about
the political situation in Northern Ireland.
He's too busy stealing cars with his mates.
But a chance encounter turns him into an
informer for the law and a target for
retribution for his father's old mates in
the IRA.
In the violent upheaval that follows, Colin
must struggle with the intense loyalty he
feels for his mates, the need to protect
his mother from her tragic past and the
political ideals of a dead father.
Director: Macdara Vallely
2008. HD. 87 min
Production Company: Mayfly
Entertainment, 1 Grantham Gardens, Co
Armagh, BT61 3DU, Northern Ireland, UK
tel: +44 (0)283 752 3872
email: macdarav@gmail.com
Producer: Chris Martin, Sarah Perry
Screenwriter, Editor: Macdara Vallely
Director of Photography: Nu
Âria Roldos
ACE
Production Designer: Konrad Haller
Sound: Michael Furjanic
Music: Brendan Dolan
Cast: John Travers, Pauline Goldsmith,
Gerry Doherty
Budget: £210,000
Funding: Private, Northern Ireland Screen
Territories: All available
Co-production: Ireland
41
Feature Films
Perfect Woman
Red Mist
Rez Bomb
Hundreds of beautiful women arrive at an
English castle believing they're taking
part in a reality game show to win the
chance to marry a gorgeous millionaire,
Danny. The reality is that the producer,
James, has a surgeon lined up to clone
their body parts in order to build the
perfect woman. However the surgeon and
his nurse have their own secret plan. The
presenter, Bob Long, springs a surprise on
the contestants the moment they arrive
and soon they realise how brutal the show
will be. They have to fight for the right to
be the perfect woman in a series of
challenges, everything from pole dancing
to wrestling. But someone is watching
them, every single moment. One pair of
eyes is the mysterious and strange
gardner Stanley, who is obsessed with the
lovelies. He falls for heroine Kara, the
contestant with more brains than the
other beauties. She is determined to find
out what the truth of the show is and why
the girls who win the challenges keep
disappearing. She soon discovers in the
world of reality television nothing is what
it appears and payback's a bitch.
A young doctor in a US hospital
administers a powerful and untested
cocktail of drugs to a coma victim. But
instead of curing him, it triggers a
powerful `out-of-body' experience and
enables the patient - a depraved and
dangerous loner - to inhabit other
people's bodies and, through them, take
revenge on the bullying medical students
who were accidentally responsible for his
condition. The doctor, who was herself a
part of this group, is also targeted. As her
colleagues are singled out and relentlessly
picked off, she realises that she can trust
no-one - friend or stranger - as this
comatose killer moves in and out of
bodies at will, getting ever closer as his
murderous supernatural powers increase.
Set on, and around, the poorest place in
the USA, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation,
this film is a love story/thriller about a
Lakota girl and a white guy who are very
much in love, but get into trouble with a
brutal money lender and must bail
themselves out.
Director: Deborah Groves, K AkesehTsakpo
2007. HD. 90 min
Production Company: Olympus
Productions, Ashgrove Road, Bristol,
BS3 3JP, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7859 032 608
email: contact@olympusfilms.co.uk
web: www.olyumpusfilms.co.uk
Producer: James E Bell
Screenwriter: Sam Snape
Editor: Scott Deeming
Director of Photography: Stuart Brereton
Production Designer: Joanna Shears
Sound: Grant Bridgeman
Cast: Caprice Bourret, Holly Davidson,
Angelica Bridges, Dave Prowse
Director: Paddy Breathnach
2008. HD. 90 min
Production Company: Generator
Entertainment, Twickenham Film Studios,
Middlesex, TW1 2AW, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8607 8848, fax: +44 (0)20
8607 0835
Producer: Simon Bosanquet, Mark
Huffam, Michael Kelly
Screenwriter: Spence Wright
Editor: Dermot Diskin
Director of Photography: Ruairi O'Brien
Production Designer: David Craig
Cast: Arielle Kebbel, Sarah Carter,
Stephen Dillane, Andrew Lee Potts
Director: Steven Lewis Simpson
2008. HD. 98 min
Production Company: Roaring Fire Film
Production Ltd, 24 Abbotshall Road, Cults,
Aberdeen, AB15 9JX, Scotland, UK
email: roaringfire@hotmail.com
Producer, Screenwriter, Editor, Director
of Photography, Sound: Steven Lewis
Simpson
Cast: Tamara Feldman, Trent Ford, Russell
Means, Chris Robinson
Territories: All available
42
Feature Films
Rocknrolla
Rupert Brockstein's
`Blood Red Letters'
Save Angel Hope
London's criminal underworld takes notice
of a Russian mobster's shady land deal, a
scam that puts millions of dollars up for
grabs.
Edward Jones, an English public school
boy in his early 20s wants to be a film
director. He meets Montague, a wayward
American with a large trust fund, who has
come to live in England to study. Edward
convinces Montague to fund his movie,
Blood Red Letters. Unfortunately, a fool
and his money are soon parted and a
plethora of con men arrive on scene. Soon
Rupert Brockstein, a 35 year-old American
psychopath, has taken over Blood Red
Letters and things go rapidly downhill for
everyone, including Rupert.
It is a simple swindle, well within the
talents of three capable con artists like
Vince, Henry and Renee. First, they invent
a nun, a healer, like Mother Theresa, only
much younger and sexier. They call her
Angel Hope and they give her a hospital in
the South Pacific. They then destroy the
hospital and launch a charity campaign to
rebuild it. With the noted generosity of
the Swiss people and self-serving officials
working for them, it seems like a slamdunk scam. Needless to say, there are no
more plans to build a new hospital.
Equally needless to say, things begin to go
wrong from the start.
Director: Guy Ritchie
2008. 35 mm.
Production Company: Dark Castle
Entertainment, 4000 Warner Boulevard,
Bldg 90, Burbank, CA 91522, USA
tel: +1 818 954 4490, fax: +1 818 954
3237
UK Distributor: Warner Brothers UK,
98 Theobald's Road, London, WC1X 8WB,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7984 5400, fax: +44 (0)20
7982 5001
Producer: Guy Ritchie, Steve Clark-Hall,
Susan Downey, Joel Silver
Executive Producer: Navid McIlhargey,
Steve Richards
Screenwriter: Guy Ritchie
Editor: James Herbert
Director of Photography: David Higgs
Production Designer: Richard Bridgland
Music: Steve Isles
Cast: Gerard Butler, Gemma Arterton,
Jeremy Piven, Thandie Newton
Director: Nick Tyrone
2008. HD. 84 min
Production Company: Solarmonite
Productions, 8 Edgehill Lodge,
153 Turnham Road, London, SE4 2LY,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7941 196 715
email: nicktyrone@gmail.com
Producer, Screenwriter, Director of
Photography, Production Designer: Nick
Tyrone
Editor: Veronique Pinot
Sound: Problem Child Studios
Music: Jarz
Cast: Giles Faulkner, Theo Herdman,
Dexter Fletcher, Sylvester McCoy, Hugh
Armstrong
Budget: £10,000
Funding: Private
Territories: All available
Director: Lukas Erni
2007. 35mm. 82 min
Production Company: T Films, 39 Val
Sainte Croix, L-1371, Luxembourg
tel: +352 452 122 , fax: +352 264 416 12
email: mayathyme@pt.lu
web: www.tfilms.lu
International Sales: Handmade Films
International, 38 Albemarle Street,
London, W15 4JG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7518 8230, fax: +44 (0)20
7518 8231
email: alexei.slater@handmadefilms.com
Producer: Terje Gaustad
Executive Producer: Guy Collins
Screenwriter: John Vorhaus
Editor: Markus Welter, Niven Howie
Director of Photography: Derek Suter
Production Designer: Frank Walsh
Music: Shawn Lee
Cast: Billy Boyd, Luke Mably, Alice Evans,
Eva Birthistle, Bernard Hill
Budget: E8 million
Territories: All available
Co-production: Luxembourg, Switzerland
43
Feature Films
The Secret of Moonacre
Seven Seconds to Heaven
Shifty
When 13 year-old Maria's father dies, she is
forced to leave her luxurious London life to
live with an eccentric uncle. Arriving at his
country estate, Maria finds a crumbling
world torn apart by an ancient feud with
the sinister De Noir family.
A dark thriller set in the seedy
underworld of prostitution and drugs.
Steve, a taxi driver, gets more than he
bargained for from his friendship with a
prostitute he drives for.
Chris arrives back in his hometown to visit
his best friend, Shifty, for the first time in
four long years. To Chris's dismay, Shifty,
a charismatic and intelligent guy, has
slipped into a career of dealing hard
drugs. Chris follows Shifty as he goes
about his daily routine but the sinister
reality of Shifty's career choice becomes
increasingly evident.
Maria soon discovers that she is the last Moon
Princess of Moonacre valley and only has until
the next full moon to end a deadly curse. But
when Maria meets Loveday, the beautiful
woman who lives in a hidden cave, she begins
to understand why her uncle is so reticent.
Guided by a hare, a giant dog and a
mystical white horse, Maria must overcome
her family's pride to unearth the secrets of
the past, save the valley and break the spell
that has divided her family for 5,000 moons.
Director: Gabor Csupo
2008. 35mm. 98 min
Production Company: Forgan Smith,
46 Graveney Road, London, SW17 0EH,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7432 3877
email: mgarlick@earthlink.net
UK Distributor: Warner Brothers UK,
Warner House, 98 Theobald Road, London,
WC1X 8WB, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7984 5400, fax: +44 (0)20
7982 5001
International Sales: Velvet Octopus, 3a
Lower James Street, London, W1F 9EH,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7287 1900
email: simon@velvetoctopus.com
Producer: Meredith Garlick, Monica
Penders, Jason Piette, Michael Cowan
Executive Producer: David Brown, Simon
Crowe, Victor Hadida, Matthew Joynes, Alex
Marshall, Jennifer Smith, Kaspar Strandskov
Screenwriter: Lucy Shuttleworth, Graham
Alborough
Editor: Jillian Rudd
Director of Photography: David Eggby ACS
Production Designer: Sophie Becher
Sound: Nigel Mills
Music: Christian Henson
Cast: Ioan Gruffudd, Tim Curry, Natascha
McElhone, Juliet Stevenson, Dakota Blue
Richards
Budget: $27 million
Funding: UK Film Council, Aramid
Entertainment
Territories: All available except France,
Greece, Portugal, Scandinavia, Spain, UK
Director: Caleb Lindsay
2008. HD. 78 min
Production Company: Acid Film
Productions, Flat 5, 157a Wokingham
Road, Reading, RG6 1LP, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)118 966 9323
email: alex.shonteff@virgin.net
Producer: Alex Shonteff
Executive Producer: Danny Gratten, Ian
Prince
Screenwriter, Editor: Caleb Lindsay
Director of Photography: Boyd Skinner
Production Designer: Victoria Torie
Ruskin
Sound, Music: Dai Maskell
Cast: James Fisher, Sam Zena, Rachel
Allinson, David O'Kelley
Budget: £90,000
Funding: Private
Territories: All available
Chris' presence causes a ripple in Shifty's
world as a rival drug dealer, Glen, plans
to set him up. Shifty suddenly finds that
his livelihood, family and both his and
Chris' lives are in imminent danger. Their
friendship is soon tested as they confront
the past and present and try to find a way
out alive.
Director: Eran Creevy
2008. 16mm.
Production Company: Between the Eyes,
50 Frith Street, London, W1D 4SQ,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7292 0554, fax: +44 (0)20
7437 0308
email: ben@betweentheeyes.co.uk
web: www.betweentheeyes.co.uk
Producer: Rory Aitken, Ben Pugh
Screenwriter: Eran Creevy
Editor: Kim Gaster
Director of Photography: Ed Wild
Production Designer: Erik Rehl
Cast: Riz Ahmed, Daniel Mays, Jason
Flemyng, Francesca Annis, Kate
Groombridge
Funding: Film London's Microwave
Territories: All available except UK TV
44
Feature Films
The Shrine
Simon and Emily
Sisterhood
A photograph of a silhouetted girl by a
lake is stuck on a wall and kissed. Over
time the image degrades, becomes inky,
until eventually all of its recognisable
features are gone and a hole has worn
through it. Alex clings on obsessing to the
memory of his lost love, Beatrice, and the
world passes him by as he descends into
alcohol, isolation and a deep depression.
Gone are the jokers of his past. Beatrice's
life doesn't go on any smoother continually affected by delusion and
paranoia, suggesting Alex's violent return.
This seems to reach its peak when her
new boyfriend is kidnapped, interrogated
and murdered. When did young love go so
badly wrong?
Simon and Emily are in love, but due to
their misspent youth they find themselves
having to collect souls to pay off their
debt to the devil. They make the most of
it and have fun in their cursed life - but
just as they're drawing close to hitting
their quota, a new man enters Emily's
life, and she's not so sure if she wants to
spend eternity with Simon after all.
Catherine is an independent, uptight,
status-obsessed, sophisticated British
woman living alone in London's Chelsea
and doing herself no favours by having an
affair with a married man.
Director: Duncan Catterall
2007. HD. 73 min
Production Company: Duncan Catterall
Productions, Brookfield House, Theydon
Avenue, Woburn Sands, Milton Keynes,
MK17 8PW, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7745 231 685
email: producer@duncancatterall.com
web: www.duncancatterall.com
Producer, Screenwriter, Editor: Duncan
Catterall
Executive Producer: Jason McGuinness
Director of Photography: Duncan
Catterall, Stephen Plaster
Production Designer, Sound: Stephen
Plaster
Music: Daniel J Grieff
Cast: Christopher Pizzey, Natasha Coulter
Director: Lee Isserow
2008. HD. 95 min
Production Company: Opiate of the
People Films, 80 Squires Lane, London, N3
2AH, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7890 290 399
email: lee@opiatefilms.com
web: www.opiatefilms.com
Producer: Kasja Palsson, Kelly Griffiths
Executive Producer: Tina Malone
Screenwriter, Editor, Director of
Photography: Lee Isserow
Production Designer: Emma Jane Revitt
Sound: Anna Bertmark
Music: Kevin Macleod
Cast: Ellis Kerkhoven, Jessica Florence,
Frank Jakeman, Edward Elks, Tina Malone
Budget: £10,000
Funding: Private
Territories: All available
Her world is turned upside down when she
comes home one day to find an uncouth
Kiwi woman drinking beer on her sofa.
Shirley announces that she is Catherine's
long lost half-sister. She claims that their
father, whom Catherine thought had died
before she was born, is still alive and
trying to make claims on both of their
properties following the simultaneous
death of their mothers.
Both girls eventually agree to work
together to track down their con-man
father in order to get rightful ownership
of their inheritance.
Director: Richard Wellings-Thomas
2008. 16mm. 91 min
Production Company: Sisterhood Film
Ltd, 22 Notting Hill Gate, Unit 403,
London, W11 3JE, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8962 0100, fax: +44 (0)20
8962 0100
email: sisterhoodfilms@hilarious.com
Producer: Emily Corcoran, Tim Hart
Executive Producer: Merryn Corcoran
Screenwriter: Emily Corcoran
Editor: James Nescott, Sean Barton
Director of Photography: Nathan
Shepherd, John Chrisstoffels
Production Designer: Nicola Dietmann
Sound: Vanesa Tate
Music: Paul Lawler
Cast: Nicholas Ball, Maria Charles,
Graham McTavish, Isabelle Defaut, Emily
Corcoran
Budget: £497,000
Funding: Private
Territories: All available
45
Feature Films
Skin
Somers Town
St Trinian's
Skin is one of the most bizarre and
moving true stories to emerge from
apartheid South Africa. Sandra Laing was
a coloured child born in the 1950s to two
Afrikaners, unaware of their black
ancestry. Her parents are rural
shopkeepers serving the local black
community, who lovingly bring her up as
their `white' little girl. But at the age of
ten, Sandra is driven out of white society.
The film follows Sandra's 30-year journey
from rejection to acceptance, betrayal to
reconciliation, as she struggles to define
her place in a changing world Ð and
triumphs against all odds.
Tommo, just turned 16 and released from
social care, runs away to London from a
lonely, difficult life in the Midlands.
Marek, a Polish immigrant, lives with his
father, who drinks with his friends most
evenings after working on a construction
site. Marek, a keen photographer, quiet
and sensitive, is not comfortable in his
father's world.
St Trinian's, the infamous school for young
ladies, is facing dire financial crisis. The
bank is threatening headmistress Camilla
Fritton with closure. Meanwhile her
unorthodox doctrine of free expression and
self empowerment is under threat from
new Education Minister Geoffrey Thwaites,
an old flame of Camilla's. But the St
Trinian's girls are smart, fearless and
determined to defend the school they love.
They need to unite and come up with the
cash fast. Head girl Kelly and newcomer
Annabelle gather together a motley crew to
pull off the heist of the century. They're
planning to steal a famous painting from
the National Gallery, but can their
combined cunning, girlish wiles and total
lack of shame win the day before the
authorities close them down for good?
Director: Anthony Fabian
2008. HD. 106 min
Producer: Bard Entertainments, 2nd
Floor, 7 Denmark Street, London, WC2H
8LZ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7240 6978, fax: +44 (0)20
7240 7088
email: office@bardentertainments.co.uk
International Sales: The Little Film
Company, 12930 Ventura Boulevard, #822,
Studio City, CA 91604, USA
tel: +1 818 762 6999, fax: +1 818 301
2186
email: robbie@thelittlefilmcompany.com
web: www.thelittlefilmcompany.com
Producer: Anthony Fabian, Genevieve
Hofmeyr, Margaret Matheson
Executive Producer: Simon Fawcett,
Robbie Little, Laurence Paltiel, Alasdair
MacCuish, Moses Silinda, Hellen Kalenga
Screenwriter: Helen Crawley, Jessie Keyt,
Helena Kriel
Editor: St John O'Rorke
Director of Photography: Dewald
Aukema, Jonathan Partridge
Production Designer: Billy Keam
Music: He
Âle
Áne Muddiman
Cast: Sophie Okonedo, Sam Neill, Alice
Krige
Funding: Aramid Entertainment, IDC,
NFVF, Lipsync Productions, UGC PH
Territories: All available except Benelux,
Brazil, France, Greece, Middle East,
Mexico, Scandinavia
Co-production: South Africa
Both struggle to make sense of their new
world and a chance meeting in Somers
Town, London, leads the two to form an
unexpected partnership. Unknown to his
father, Marek begins hiding Tommo in his
flat and the two boys begin to earn
money from an entrepreneurial and
eccentric neighbour, Graham. Maria, the
French waitress at their local cafe
Â,
already a photographic muse for Marek,
now becomes more of an obsession for
the two boys and the centre of all their
attention.
Director: Oliver Parker, Barnaby
Thompson
2007. 35mm. 100 min
When Maria suddenly leaves their lives,
the two boys are bereft. Tommo and
Marek seek escape through an evening of
drunken abandon, but are discovered by
Marek's father, who throws Tommo out
and all seems lost.
Production Company, International
Sales: Ealing Studios, Ealing Green,
London, W5 5EP, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8567 6655, fax: +44 (0)20
8758 8576
email: info@EalingStudios.com
Director: Shane Meadows
2008. HD. 75 min
UK Distributor: Entertainment Film,
108/110 Jermyn Street, London, SW1Y
6HB, England, UK
fax: +44 (0)20 7930 7744
email: ruthr@entertainment-Film.com
UK Distributor: Optimum Releasing,
50 Marshall Street, London, W1F 9BQ,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7534 2700
web: www.optimumreleasing.com
International Sales: The Works
International, 4th Floor, Portland House,
Great Portland Street, London, W1W 8QJ,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7612 1080, fax: +44 (0)20
7612 0091
web: www.theworkslimited.com
Producer: Barnaby Spurrier
Executive Producer: Greg Nugent, Nick
Mercer, Robert Saville
Screenwriter: Paul Fraser
Editor: Richard Graham
Director of Photography: Natasha Braier
Production Designer: Lisa Marie Hall
Music: Gavin Clarke
Cast: Piotr Jagiello, Thomas Turgoose,
Ireneusz Czop, Elisa Lasowski, Perry
Benson, Kate Dickie
Producer: Oliver Parker, Barnaby
Thompson
Executive Producer: Nigel Green, Rupert
Everett, James Spring
Screenwriter: Piers Ashworth, Nick
Moorcroft
Editor: Alex Mackie ACE
Director of Photography: Gavin Finney
BSC
Production Designer: Amanda McArthur
Sound: Max Hoskins
Music: Charlie Mole
Cast: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Lena
Headey, Russell Brand, Gemma Arterton
Budget: $13 million
Funding: Entertainment Film Distributors,
UK Film Council, Investec
Territories: All available except Australia,
Benelux, Brazil, Eastern Europe, Germany,
Greece, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Italy,
Middle East, New Zealand, Portugal,
Russia, Scandinavia, Turkey, UK
46
Feature Films
Stag Night of the Dead
Stone of Destiny
Summer
If the mysterious plague sweeping the
nation wasn't bad enough, Dean is still
going ahead with his doomed wedding
tomorrow morning. That leaves him with
a choice: pick up the buttonholes and
chocolate fountain as instructed by
bridezilla Elaine, or go with five mates
(and a stripper) to play `Zomball' at a top
secret military compound where you get
to shoot zombies with huge stun guns.
Disobeying the golden rule of Zomball
(`never never humiliate a zombie') the
stags face overwhelming odds from the
massed undead and each stag is hunted
down. The truth about Zomball is finally
revealed and suddenly the mother-in-law
is the least of Dean's problems.
Glasgow University, November 1950. Ian
Hamilton is an egotistical young law student
and member of the Scottish Covenant
Association, led by the charismatic John
MacCormick. MacCormick drafts a petition
asking London for Scottish self-rule. When
the government rejects the petition Ian hits
upon a bold plan to break into Westminster
Abbey and take back Scotland's greatest
symbol, the Stone of Destiny. Fuelled by his
ego and intense patriotism, Ian gathers two
other true believers: petite and pretty Kay
Mathieson, and burly hell-raiser Gavin
Vernon. After weeks planning the heist,
they're joined by the shy and studious Alan
Stuart. Their plan - to take the Stone on
Christmas Eve, while the English are `lying
in drink with their minds unbuttoned.' But
everything goes terribly wrong. Their first
attempt is foiled by a night watchman, who
finds Ian in the Abbey, and, thinking him
homeless, turns him out with a cheery
`Merry Christmas'. For three more days the
students, cold, broke and sleepless, search
for another way. When Kay falls ill, they
almost abandon the plot, but Kay, the fierce
patriot, refuses to allow it. Ian is moved by
her resolve and vows never to give up.
Shaun and Daz are vibrant kids, wasted by
their experience of education. All they
have is their friendship and, for Shaun, his
first love Katy. From the moment Shaun
steps into our world he is bound to lose.
Labelled as a violent bully, he destroys
himself and takes Daz with him.
Director: Neil Jones
2008. HD. 90 min
Production Company: Zomball Films Ltd,
4 Oak Crescent, Upper Caldecote,
Bedfordshire, SG18 9DH, England, UK
email: neil@hanlaufilms.com
web: www.stagnightofthedead.com
Producer, Screenwriter: Neil Jones
Editor: Ben Mitchell
Director of Photography: Richard Wood
Production Designer: Lianne Willis
Sound: Curzio Aloisi
Music: Chris Barnett
Cast: Sebastian Street, Bruce Lawrence,
Mike Busson, Sophie Lovell Anderson, Joe
Rainbow
Director: Charles Martin Smith
2008. 35mm. 96 min
Production Company: Infinity Features
Entertainment/The Mob Film Company,
319 Main Street, Vancouver, BC, V6A 2S9,
Canada
tel: +1 604 899 1077, fax: +1 604 688 2803
email: andrew@mobfilm.com
web: www.infinityfeatures.net
Producer: Robert Merilees, Andrew Boswell
Executive Producer: Terrence Yason,
Michael S Murphey, William Vince, Charles
Martin Smith, Carole Sheridan, Victor Loewy
Screenwriter: Charles Martin Smith
Editor: Fredrik Thorsen
Director of Photography: Glen Winter
Production Designer: Tom Sayer
Music: Mychael Danna
Cast: Charlie Cox, Kate Mara, Robert
Carlyle, Billy Boyd, Stephen McCole,
Ciaron Kelly
Budget: $11 million
Funding: Scottish Screen, Telefilm
Canada, Paradigm London, Glasgow Film
Office, tax credits
Territories: All available except Canada
Co-production: Canada
Shaun has 12 years to reflect on an
intense summer of love, sex and loyalty.
But Daz's imminent death forces Shaun to
go on a journey to confront his past. This
is the story of a man full of intelligence
and promise struggling to reclaim his life.
Director: Kenny Glenaan
2008. 35 mm. 95 min
Production Company: Sixteen Films, 2nd
Floor, 187 Wardour Street, London, W1F
82B, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7734 0168, fax: +44 (0)20
7439 4196
web: www.sixteenfilms.co.uk
UK Distributor: Vertigo Films, The Big
Room Studios, 77 Fortess Road, London,
NW5 1AG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7428 7555, fax: +44 (0)20
7485 9713
email: mail@vertigofilms.com
web: www.vertigofilms.com
International Sales: The Works, 4th Floor,
Portland House, 4 Great Portland Street,
London, W1W 8QJ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7612 1080, fax: +44 (0)20
7612 0091
web: www.theworkslimited.com
Producer: Camilla Bray
Executive Producer: Rebecca O'Brien,
Nigel Thomas
Screenwriter: Hugh Ellis
Editor: Kristina Heatherington
Director of Photography: Tony Slater-Ling
Production Designer: Jane Levick
Music: Stephen McKeon
Cast: Robert Carlyle, Steve Evets, Rachael
Blake, Michael Socha, Sean Kelly, Jo
Doherty, Joanna Tulej
Funding: EM Media, European Regional
Development Fund
Co-production: Germany
47
Feature Films
Sweeney Todd: The Demon
Barber of Fleet Street
Take Me to Your Leader
That Difficult
Second Album
A man unjustly sent to prison vows
revenge, not only for that cruel
punishment, but for the devastating
consequences of what happened to his
wife and daughter. When he returns to
reopen his barber shop, Sweeney Todd
becomes the Demon Barber of Fleet
Street who `shaved the heads of
gentlemen who never thereafter were
heard from again'.
Everybody is looking for success and the
story is no different for 55 year-old Corbin
West, who dreams of putting his name in
lights at the box office.
When British band The Fury announced
their first US tour, it seemed as if nothing
could stop them. A nation had fallen in
love with their high-octane, break-neck,
harmony-infused brand of skyscraping
rock'n'roll. Led by the enigmatic Scott
Fury, the world was at their feet. But as
quickly as they'd risen, they fell. Scott
broke up the band, and then disappeared.
Many claimed he was dead. Jessica Jones
is hoping he's not. A struggling wannabe
music journalist, she's had several years
of frustration and rejection trying to
break into the industry. Just when she's
on the verge of giving up, she's offered a
writer's position with one proviso - get
an interview with Scott Fury. Jessica must
track down Scott, find out where he's
been for the last ten years, get the
interview that will kickstart her career,
and come to terms with a new set of
songs that will change both their lives
forever.
Director: Tim Burton
2008. 35mm. 116 min
Production Company: Dreamworks SKG,
100 Universal City Plaza, Bldg 10,
Universal City, CA 91608, USA
tel: +1 818 733 7000, fax: +1 818 733
7574
email: dreamworksskg@publicist.com
web: www.dreamworks.com
International Sales: Warner Brothers UK,
98 Theobald's Road, London, WC1X 8WB,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7984 5400, fax: +44 (0)20
7982 5001
Producer: Katterli Frauenfelder, Derek
Frey, John Logan, Laurie MacDonald,
Walter F Parkes, Richard D Zanuck
Executive Producer: Patrick McCormick
Screenwriter: John Logan
Editor: Chris Lebenzon
Director of Photography: Dariusz Wolski
Production Designer: Dante Ferretti
Music: Stephen Sondheim
Cast: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham
Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall,
Sacha Baron Cohen
Co-production: USA
Armed with some money from a local
double-glazing firm, Corbin assembles an
eclectic mix of local amateurs and family
members to help bring his ambitious sci-fi
movie project to the big screen, with
himself in the starring role.
But are Corbin's dreams of stardom way
beyond his capabilities? Will he finally
receive the recognition he thinks he
deserves? And most importantly, can he
ever forgive his estranged mother for
naming him Shirley at birth?
A raw mockumentary-style film that
brings together a cast of colourful
characters in this comedic tale of
stardom.
Director: Keith Wright
2008. DV Cam. 71 min
Production Company: Frisson Film,
45 Kingfisher Walk, Ash, Surrey, GU12 6RF,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)125 232 7136
email: keith_wright@mac.com
web: www.frissonfilm.co.uk
Editor: Keith Wright
Music: Jim Howard
Cast: Roger Bingham, Tristan Cooper,
Grant Bridges, Penelope Ellis, Keith S
Wright
Funding: Private
Territories: All available
Director: Adam Simcox
2008. HD. 120 min
Production Company: Freestyle Films,
International Media Centre, Adelphi
House, The Crescent, Salford, M5 4WT,
England, UK
email: jessicajoneslovesthefury@
hotmail.com
Producer, Screenwriter: Adam Simcox
Editor: Nick Birtwistle
Sound, Music: Matthew Gidlow
48
Feature Films
That Samba Thing
Three and Out
Tiny Town
Five interlocking fictional stories depicting
the lives of Brazilians and Londoners who
co-exist under difficult emotional and
psychological circumstances. The turmoil
takes place against a backdrop of
haunting memories, broken dreams,
future hopes, exciting samba music and
the festival spirit of London's spectacular
Notting Hill carnival.
Combining comedic capers and painfully
funny truths about how far we would go
to change our lives.
Enzo and Niko met in Bosnia whilst serving
in the UN peacekeeping force. Both are
studying documentary film at the
University of Arts in London. Nina, who is
Niko's sister, arrives in London. She is an
aspiring fashion designer and has hopes of
making it in the London fashion scene.
Her deep Christian faith sustains her life.
Unfortunately, after just three days in
London, she is kidnapped by Stephan's
gang of pimps. It seems so true to Nina
that those favoured by God find their
paths set by thorns. Enzo and Niko, in
their search for Nina, find out that
London is a capital city for sex slaves and
she has become one of the many victims
of this cruel trade. The police have no
answers. Detective Murphy is a cynical
and heartless cop in Stephan's pay. Enzo
and Niko take the law into their own
hands. In the final shoot-out, Nina makes
a break for freedom, but at what cost?
Director: Teddy Hayes
2007. HD. 120 min
Production Company: SKD Theatrical
Productions Ltd, 41 Upper Heyshott,
Petersfield, GU31 4QA, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)173 023 1141, fax: +44 (0)173
023 1141
email: samba@londonpicturesltd.com
Producer: Teddy Hayes, Jennie Rosenthal,
Doug Abbott, JC Crissey, Martinho da Vila
Screenwriter: Teddy Hayes
Editor: Anthony Clarke
Director of Photography: Nathan A
Sheppard
Sound: Sebastian Hunstunton
Music: Martinho da Vila, Chris Jerome
Cast: Joseph Marcell, Martinho da Vila,
Saul Reichlin, Andrew Smith, John Elnaugh
You're a London tube driver and you've
had two `one-unders' in as many weeks.
You're traumatised but completely
blameless. Then you're told about the
`three and out' rule: three fatal accidents
within a month and you're out of a
job . . . but with a huge pay off! What do
you do? Take trauma counselling and drive
very, very carefully? Or do you seek out a
third `one-under', take the cash, pay off
your debts and retire to a Scottish idyll to
write your novel?
Director: Jonathan Gershfield
2008. 35mm. 108 min
Production Company: Rovinge Motion
Picture Company
email: action@rmpcplc.com
web: www@rovingemotionpictures.com
UK Distributor: Worldwide Bonus
Entertainment plc, 3rd Floor, 16 Upper
Woburn Place, London, WC1H 0AF,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8492 2784, fax: +44 (0)20
8343 7831
email: markg@wbeplc.com
web: www.wbeplc.com
Director: Mathi Alagan
2008. HD. 88 min
Production Company: Aruna Films Ltd,
6 Adcock Walk, Orpington, Kent, BR6 7SY,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7207 2405, fax: +44 (0)20
7207 2405
email: arunafilms@yahoo.co.uk
Producer: Ian Harries, Wayne Godfrey
Executive Producer: Aaron Gershfield
Screenwriter: Steve Lewis, Tony Owen
Editor: Jon Gregory
Director of Photography: Richard
Greatrex
Production Designer: Amanda McArthur
Sound: Alistair Crocker
Music: Trevor Jones
Cast: Mackenzie Crook, Colm Meaney,
Imelda Staunton, Gemma Arterton, Sir
Anthony Sher
Producer: Mathi Alagan, Marco Chiavarelli
Executive Producer: Ching Wai Wong
Screenwriter: Mathi Alagan, Alex Hunter
Editor: Roy Aruna,
Director of Photography: Denis Frolov
Production Designer: Alexei Akinfiev
Sound, Music: Kiron J
Cast: Annabelle Munro, Julien Guyonnet,
Alexei Akinfiev, Rebecca Jameson
Budget: £3 million
Territories: All available
Funding: Private
Budget: £96,000
Funding: Private
49
Feature Films
Tony
The Totenwackers
The Tournament
Tony doesn't have a nickname, he doesn't
leave cryptic clues, he doesn't have an
unorthodox cop on his tail, he hasn't any
smart catchphrases, he doesn't wear a
hockey mask or quote Shakespeare. But
Tony is a serial killer and he will never be
caught, not because he's clever, but
because nobody can imagine what a
monster they have in their midst. Forget
Hannibal or Freddy, this is Tony and he is
real.
The Lopez family have just finished
moving to their new home and are
immediately astonished to witness
unexplainable events: objects moving by
themselves and electric intermittences.
Eventually, Sara, the younger of the two
children, will be the first one to notice
that all the disturbances are caused every
time a neighbour walks by Sara's new
home. Now it will be up to Sara and her
best friend and classmate, Madhi, to
overcome their fears as they try to
discover why ghosts keep looming inside
her house. With the help of Sara's
neighbor John, a complete expert in
paranormal life and the beyond, they are
soon to find all answers.
Every seven years in an unsuspecting
town, the Tournament takes place, a
battle royale between 30 of the world's
deadliest assassins. The last man standing
receives a $10 million cash prize and the
title of World's #1, which itself carries the
legendary million dollar bullet price tag.
All fights are monitored 24 hours a day on
redirected CCTV cameras and broadcast
secretly to a ring of high-stake billionaire
gamblers. A gritty, multi-stranded actionthriller, The Tournament brings together
international killers from every imaginable
discipline in a blood-bathed contest to the
death. We follow the competition
favourites through stories of love,
betrayal, revenge and redemption as they
finally discover the true value of life.
Director: Gerard Johnson
2008. 16mm.
Production Company: Tightrope Pictures,
20 Greek Street, London, W1D 4DU,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7851 1300
email: dan@tightropepictures.com
Producer: Dan McCulloch
Executive Producer: Leonard Crooks
Screenwriter: Gerard Johnson
Editor: Ian Davies
Director of Photography: David Higgs
Music: Matt Johnson
Cast: Neil Maskell, Ricky Grover, Francis
Pope
(Spanish with English subtitles)
Director: Ibo
Ân Cormenzana
2007. 35mm.
Production Company: Future Film Group,
76 Dean Street, London, W1D 3SQ,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7009 6600, fax: +44 (0)20
7009 6602
email: info@futurefilmgroup.com
Production Company: Arcadia Motion
Pictures, Ciutat Granada 45, Barcelona
08005, Spain
tel: +34 93 309 50 31, fax: +34 93 300 52
11
email: info@arcadiamotionpictures.com
Executive Producer: Jose
 Luis Marco
Screenwriter: David Mun
Äoz, Antonio
Trashorras
Editor: Jose Luis Romeu
Director of Photography: Juan Benet
Production Designer: Javier Alvarin
Äo
Music: Eugenio Mira
Cast: Elisa Drabben, Jasper Harris,
Azzdine Benaji
Director: Scott Mann
2008. 35mm. 100 min
Production Company: Mann Made Films,
16 Chepstow House, Chepstow Street,
Manchester, M1 5JF, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)161 661 0578
International Sales: AV Pictures Ltd,
Caparo House, 3rd Floor, 103 Baker
Street, London, W1U 6LN, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7317 0140, fax: +44 (0)20
7224 5149
email: victor@avpictures.co.uk
Producer: Keith Bell
Executive Producer: Claus Clausen
Screenwriter: Nick Rowntree, Jonathan
Frank
Editor: Rob Hall
Director of Photography: Emil Topuzov
Sound: Aleksandar Simeonov
Music: George Acogny
Cast: Ving Rhames, Robert Carlyle, Kelly
Hu, Ian Somerhalder, Nick Rowntree
Budget: £3.5 million
Budget: E3 million
Funding: Private
Co-production: Spain
Territories: All available
50
Feature Films
Trouble Sleeping
Tuesday
Under the Bombs
A powerful drama based on real
experience. A group of refugees in
Edinburgh do what they must in order to
survive. Despite the watchful eye of the
security services they have found a way to
get on, but Ahmed's arrival changes
everything forever. Ahmed believes in
truth, a belief forged under torture. He
now seeks asylum but the courts don't
believe him. His quest for proof brings
him to Halla. She shares his past and a
secret that will destroy the people they
both love. When the truth has sustained
you, can you ever afford to let it go?
What happens when three groups of
people rob the same bank on the same
day? Told in a Rashomon style, the jigsaw
pieces come together to show who
`dunnit'.
Under the bombs, a woman searches for
her son. A man accompanies her. They
have nothing in common. Toni is Christian
and dreams of leaving the country. Zeina
is Shiite, and has emigrated to Dubai.
Back in Lebanon, to try and save her son,
the woman realises that she doesn't want
to leave anymore. Toni and Zeina fall in
love with each other - a response to the
death all around them.
Director: Robert Rae
2008. HD. 102 min
Producer: Jonathan Parsons, Sacha
Bennett
Executive Producer: Barry Van Zwieten,
Nigel Bliss, Paul Fournel
Screenwriter: Sacha Bennett
Editor: Jake Robertson
Director of Photography: Nic Lawson
Production Designer: Richard Hudson,
Ana Viana
Sound: Gernot Fuhrmann
Music: Edwin Sykes
Cast: John Simm, Philip Glenister, Ashley
Walters, Kevin McNally, Kate MacGowan
Production Company: Theatre Workshop,
34 Hamilton Place, Edinburgh, EH3 5AX,
Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)131 225 7942, fax: +44 (0)131
220 0112
email: ktough@twe.org.uk
web: www.theatre-workshop.com
Producer: Eddie Dick
Executive Producer: Leslie Finlay, Ewan
Angus
Screenwriter: Robert Rae, Ghazi Hussein
Editor: Tina Hetherington
Director of Photography: Ian Dodds
Production Designer: Laurel Wear
Sound: Chris Campion
Music: Jim Sutherland
Cast: Hassan Naama, Alia Alzougbi,
Waseem Uboaklain, Okan Yahsi, Robert
Softely, Seham Ali, Fouad Cherif, Nihat
Kaya
Budget: £386,750
Funding: BBC, Scottish Screen, Cool, City
of Edinburgh Council
Director: Sacha Bennett
2008. HD. 80 min
Production Company: Japan Films Ltd,
Gielgud Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue,
London, W1D 6AR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7292 4749
email: amy.zillmann@japanfilms.co.uk
web: www.japanfilms.co.uk
Funding: Private
Territories: All available
Director: Philippe Aractingi
2007. 35mm. 98 min
Production Company: Starfield
Productions, 50 Chiswick High Street,
London, W4 1SZ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8995 8060, fax: +44 (0)20
8994 1113
email: sales@memento-films.com
web: www.memento-films.com
International Sales: Memento Films,
6 Cite
 Paradis, 75010 Paris, France
tel: +33 1 53 34 90 20, fax: +33 1 42 47
11 24
email: sales@memento-films.com
web: www.memento-films.com
Producer: Philippe Aractingi, Herve
Â
Chabalier, FrancËois Cohen-Se
Âat, Paul
Raphae
Èl
Screenwriter: Michel Le
Âviant, Philippe
Aractingi
Music: Lazare Boghossian, Rene
 Aubry
Cast: Bshara Atallah, Rawia Elchab, Nada
Abou Farhat, Georges Khabbaz
Co-production: France, Lebanon
51
Feature Films
Underground
Vinyan
Whatever Happened
to Pete Blaggit?
In the UK suburbs, an underground
tournament is set to challenge 12 fighters
from different backgrounds to compete
for the prize of £500,000. They have been
handpicked for a no-holds-barred
competition that will push each fighter to
their limit.
Unable to accept the loss of their son in
the 2005 tsunami, Jeanne and Paul
Bellmer have remained in Phuket.
Desperately clinging to the fact that his
body was never recovered, Jeanne has
convinced herself that the boy was
kidnapped by traffickers in the chaos that
followed the catastrophe and that her son
is still alive. Paul is sceptical, but cannot
bring himself to shatter his wife's last
hope. Bribing the sinister Mr Gao to take
them by boat to the pirate-infested
jungles of the Thai/Burmese border, the
traumatised couple embark on a quest
that will plunge them through paranoia
and betrayal, ever deeper into an alien
universe, a supernatural realm where the
dead are never truly dead, and where
nightmares, obsession and horrifying
reality converge.
Pete is having a bad day, a bad year, a
bad life.
Each fighter has their own reason for
competing, and each will give everything
they've got to take the prize, but there
can be only one winner.
Director: Chee Keong Cheung
2007. DV Cam. 87 min
Production Company: Intense Productions
Ltd, 5 Chelmsford Close, Lancaster,
Lancashire, LA1 4BJ, England, UK
email: info@intenseproductions.co.uk
web: www.intenseproductions.co.uk
International Sales: Park Entertainment,
Suite 12, 3rd Floor, 54 Broadwick Street,
London, W1F 7AH, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7434 4176, fax: +44 (0)20
7434 4179
email: mail@parkentertainment.com
web: www.parkentertainment.com
Producer: Chee Keong Cheung, Oliver
Morran, Mark Strange
Executive Producer: Jim Howell, Simon
Barnes, Chris Atkins, Mike Leeder
Screenwriter: Chee Keong Cheung, Oliver
Morran
Editor: Mark Towns
Director of Photography: Jake Corbett,
Simon Dennis
Production Designer: Tony Noble
Sound: Vincent Watts
Music: Stuart Hancock
Cast: Mark Strange, Nathan Lewis, Fidel
Nanton, Liang Yang, Leon Sua
Budget: £500,000
Funding: Private
Territories: All available
Director: Fabrice du Welz
2007. 35mm. 95 min
Production Company: Pilchard
Productions Ltd, 12 Blackburn Court,
1 Bascombe Street, London, SW2 2YD,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8674 4196
email: alan.mitchell@
pilchardproductions.com
International Sales: Wild Bunch, 99 Rue
de la Verrerie, 75004 Paris, France
tel: +33 1 53 01 50 32, fax: +33 1 53 01
50 49
email: distribution@wildbunch.eu
web: www.wildbunch.biz
Producer: Lizzie Francke
Executive Producer: Peter Carlton
Screenwriter: Fabrice du Welz, Olly
Blackburn, David Greig
Editor: Colin Monie
Director of Photography: Benoit Debie
Production Designer: Arin Pinijvararak
Sound: Frederic Meert
Cast: Emmanuelle Be
Âart, Rufus Sewell
Co-production: France, Belgium
Pete Blaggit is a man desperate for a
second chance at life. For the past 20
years he's been responsible for the
downfall of his family business and now
Blagmore Wedding Videos is no longer the
leading company it once was. It seems
that life can't get any worse for Pete. But
it does. Strange unknown forces are
occurring in Pete's life that he can't
explain.
A story about one man's inner journey to
outer peace.
Director: Mark Jeavons
2007. s16mm. 100 min
Production Company: Sepia Films
email: markj_sepiafilms@hotmail.co.uk
web: www.sepiafilms.co.uk
Producer, Screenwriter, Editor: Mark
Jeavons
Executive Producer: Gabrielle Amies
Director of Photography: Charlie
Stanfield
Production Designer: Lola Mezquita
Sound: Dan Squier
Music: Phil Mountford
Cast: Rob Leetham, Adam Rickitt,
Gabrielle Amies, Andy Pandini
52
Feature Films
White Lightnin'
Wild Child
Wishbaby
White Lightnin' tells the captivating tale
of cult figure Jesco White, the last of the
great Appalachian mountain dancers.
The comic story of a rebellious American
teenager who, after numerous warnings
by her father, is sent to a strict all-girls
boarding school in the UK in an attempt
to straighten out her behaviour.
A savage fairytale set in a contemporary
urban landscape.
Submerged deep within the roots of a
backwoods culture, we find Jesco, a
tormented soul, struggling to deal with an
overwhelming desire to avenge his
father's brutal murder whilst combating
abject poverty, drug abuse, petty
crime and erratic mental instability.
Jesco, however, is a complex and
charming character whose violent and
abusive behaviour is contradicted by the
loving and deeply sensitive individual that
lies within. He is burdened by an innocent
and childlike inability to cope with a
world which consistently oppresses him
whilst also being plagued by a multiple
personality disorder in which Elvis Presley
and Jesus Christ inhabit his mind.
In a surreal world where life is cheap, the
insanity of Jesco's behaviour has its own
bizarre reality and, despite the brutality
of his experiences, his humour and his
charisma survive.
Director: Dominic Murphy
2008. 16mm. 90 min
Production Company: Film and Music
Entertainment, 142 Charing Cross Road,
London, WC2H 0LB, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7379 3973, fax: +44 (0)20
7691 9712
email: office@fame.uk.com
UK Distributor: Momentum Pictures, 2nd
Floor, 184-192 Drummond Street, London,
NW1 3HP, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7388 1100, fax: +44 (0)20
7383 0404
web: www.momentumpictures.co.uk
International Sales: Salt, 3rd Floor, 1a
Adpar Street, London, W2 1DE, England,
UK
email: info@salt-co.com
web: www.salt-co.com
Producer: Mike Downey, Sam Taylor
Screenwriter: Eddy Moretti, Shane Smith
Editor: Sam Sneade
Director of Photography: Tim MauriceJones
Cast: Edward Hogg, Carrie Fisher, Muse
Watson, Clay Steakley
Funding: UK Film Council
Director: Nick Moore
2008. 35mm. 100 min
Production Company: Working Title
Films, Oxford House, 76 Oxford Street,
London, W1D 1BS, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7307 3000
web: www.workingtitlefilms.com
UK Distributor: Universal Pictures
International UK, 76 Oxford Street,
London, W1D 1BS, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7307 5530, fax: +44 (0)20
3071 346
email: laura.mackenzie@nbcuni.com
Producer: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Diana
Phillips
Executive Producer: Debra Hayward, Liza
Chasin
Screenwriter: Lucy Dahl
Editor: Simon Cozens
Director of Photography: Chris Seager
Production Designer: Eve Stewart
Music: Michael Price
Cast: Emma Roberts, Natasha Richardson,
Shirley Henderson, Aidan Quinn, Nick
Frost
Co-production: USA, France
A troubled young black teenager, Maxine,
rescues an eccentric old white lady, Eve,
from being mugged by a mixed-race gang
of teens and is rewarded for her act of
kindness with the gift of a terrible secret:
how to make and operate a wishbaby doll.
Maxine thinks that the old lady is crazy,
but when Eve's wishbaby doll is used to
deliver a terrible punishment to the gang,
she realises that Eve was telling the
truth. A doll that can make your wishes
come true is an attractive item and so,
together, the odd couple perform an
ancient ritual and Maxine gives life to a
magic doll. This action releases Eve's
dead governess from the grave and
unleashes a violent storm of supernatural
activity.
Director: Stephen W Parsons
2008. HD. 80 min
Production Company: Bubblehead
Productions, 10 Primezone Mews, Haringey
Park, London, N8 9JP, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7424 7280
email: jacqueline.parsons@
googlemail.com
International Sales: Altadena Films,
Linton House, 39/51 Highgate Road,
London, NW5 1RS, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7424 7280, fax: +44 (0)20
7428 8936
email: neda@altadenafilms.com
Producer, Screenwriter, Sound: Stephen
W Parsons
Executive Producer: Jonathan Sothcott
Editor: Anke Trojan
Director of Photography: David G
Griffiths
Production Designer: David Endley
Music: Stephen W Parsons, Francis Haines
Cast: Tiana Benjamin, Fenella Fielding,
Doc Brown, Claire Fox
Budget: £180,000
Funding: Private
Territories: All available
53
Feature Films
Witch House: The
Legend of Petronel Haxley
WMD
The World Unseen
`Thou shall not suffer a witch to live',
screams hanging Judge John Stearne as he
leads Petronel Haxley to the gallows.
In 2002, the USA and the UK are pushing
to invade Iraq. Intelligence sources report
Saddam has biochemical weapons ready
for immediate launch - the perfect
justification for war.
In 1950s South Africa, apartheid is just
beginning. Free-spirited Amina has broken
all the rules of her own conventional
Indian community, and the new apartheidled government, by running a cafe
 with
Jacob her `coloured' business partner.
When she meets Miriam, a young
traditional wife and mother, their
unexpected attraction pushes Miriam to
question the rules that bind her. When
Amina helps Miriam's sister-in-law to hide
from the police, a chain of events is set
in motion that changes both women
forever.
This is England in the year 1640. Terror is
unleashed on the unsuspecting students
370 years later. A common link with the
past evokes retribution from hell.
Director: Mike McCarthy
2008. HD. 85 min
Production Company: Ironopolis Film
Company Ltd, Teesside Tech Centre, Eston
Road, Grangetown, Middlesbrough, TS6
6US, England, UK
email: info@ironopolisfilms.com
web: www.ironopolisfilms.com
Producer, Screenwriter: Mike McCarthy
Executive Producer: Geoff Stalker
Editor: Frank Saul
Director of Photography: Steve O'Brien
Sound: Tommy Hair
Cast: Bill Fellows, Damien Hannaway,
Alistair Chisholm, Tamzin Aitken, Natalie
Chapman
When Alex Morgan, an ordinary MI6 desk
officer, uncovers deliberate flaws in the
evidence being used to support the
invasion, he has to decide whether to risk
his career and even his safety in this
deceitful web of lies.
A fictional account inspired by real
events, WMD reveals what intelligence
circles really knew in the build-up to the
war. Did Saddam Hussein really possess
weapons of mass destruction? Does it even
matter?
`In times of universal deceit, telling the
truth becomes a revolutionary act' George Orwell
Director: David Holroyd
2008. DV Cam. 88 min
Production Company: WMD Film Ltd,
24a Hazelbourne Road, London, SW12 9NS,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8378 1455
email: christine@wmd-insidestory.com,
christine@patchwork-productions.co.uk
Producer: Christine Hartland
Executive Producer: Mark WatsonMitchell
Screenwriter: David Holroyd
Editor: Celia Haining
Director of Photography: Steve Buckland
Production Designer: James Lees
Music: Samuel Sim, Chris White
Cast: Simon Lenagan, Jo-Anne Knowles,
Burnell Tucker, Glenn Conroy, Henry
Everett
Budget: £50,000
Funding: Private
In a system that divides white from black
and women from men, what chance is
there for an unexpected love to survive?
From overcoming oppression to finding
personal freedom, from the hardships of a
loveless marriage to the hesitant joy of an
unexpected love affair, The World Unseen
transports the viewer to a vibrant,
colourful world that is universal.
Director: Shamim Sarif
2008. 35mm. 103 min
Production Company: Enlightenment
Production, 77 Cheyne Court, Royal
Hospital Road, SW3 5TT, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7802 615 050
email: hanan@enlightenmentproductions.com
web: www.enlightenmentproductions.com
Producer: Hanan Kattan
Executive Producer: Katherine Priestley,
Eliza Tchenguiz-Imermas
Screenwriter: Shamim Sarif
Editor: Ranelle Loots
Director of Photography: Mike Downie
Production Designer: Tanya Van Tonder
Sound: Rajendra Hedge
Music: Richard Blackford
Cast: Lisa Ray, Sheetal Sheth, Darvin
Dabas, Nandana Sen, Colin Muss
Funding: Private
Territories: All available except South
Africa
Co-production: South Africa
54
The Young Victoria
The Young Victoria chronicles Queen
Victoria's rise to power, focusing on the
early turbulent years of her reign and her
legendary romance and marriage to Prince
Albert.
Director: Jean-Marc Valle
Âe
2007. 35 mm
Production Company: GK Films, 3000
West Olympic Boulevard, Suite 1550,
Santa Monica, CA 90404, USA
tel: +1 310 315 1722, fax: +1 310 315
1723
email: info@initial-ent.com
UK Distributor: Momentum Pictures, 2nd
Floor, 184-192 Drummond Street, London,
NW1 3HP, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7388 1100, fax: +44 (0)20
7383 0404
web: www.momentumpictures.co.uk
International Sales: Initial Entertainment
Group, 3000 West Olympic Boulevard,
Suite 1550, Santa Monica, CA 90404, USA
tel: +1 310 315 1722, fax: +1 310 315
1723
email: info@initial-ent.com
Producer: Graham King, Martin Scorsese,
Tim Headington, Sarah Ferguson, Denis
O'Sullivan
Screenwriter: Julian Fellowes
Editor: Paul Jutras
Director of Photography: Hagen
Bogdanski
Production Designer: Patrice Vermette
Sound: Jim Greenhorn
Cast: Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul
Bettany, Jim Broadbent, Miranda
Richardson
Co-production: USA
Feature Films
55
Short Films
[03.23.27]
4 Kilometers
9-5 Cowboy
Following an unexplained road accident
on a country lane, we enter the
unconscious of the driver. Tormented by a
terrible incident in his past, he seeks
redemption for his actions.
Just four kilometres off the highway in
Southern Israel dwells a small Bedouin
community. Here, 15 year-old Hulud
cracks the barrier set on that highway and
with her young brother and sister she goes
on a journey that will enable her to let go
of the life she once wished for.
Go ahead . . . make my working day.
Director: Sam Smith
2007. Mini DV. 10 min
Production Company: Warped Noise
Productions, 49 Stafford Business Village,
Beaconside, Stafford, Staffordshire, ST18
0TW, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)1785 887887
email: dan@warpednoise.co.uk
Producer, Director of Photography: Dan
Hunt
Executive Producer: Gemma Kerr
Screenwriter: Sam Smith, Gwyn
Hemmings, Dan Hunt
Editor: Jim Skinner
Production Designer: Mark Kolodziejski
Sound: Gwyn Hemmings, Dan Hunt
Music: Sam Smith
Cast: C H Li, Chris Bott, Yuki Luo
14
A normal day at home for a young girl,
except it's her birthday.
Director: Asitha Ameresekere
2008. HD. 8 min 30 sec
Production Company: Punchi Films Ltd,
Flat 4, 17 Armadale Road, London, SW6
1JL, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7725 957 087
email: info@punchifilms.com
UK Distributor, International Sales:
Hamburg Short Film Agency, Friedensallee
7, Hamburg, D-22765, Germany
tel: +49 40 391 0630, fax: +49 40 3910
6320
email: sales@shortfilm.com
Producer, Screenwriter: Asitha
Ameresekere
Editor: Abraham Teweldebrhan
Director of Photography: Line Nikita
Blom
Production Designer: Michaela Wardop
Sound: Rob Thomas
Cast: Sarah Ridgeway, Tony Wadham,
Susan Cummins
Director: Miri Shapiro
2008. 35mm. 23 min 20 sec
Production Company: The London Film
School, 24 Shelton Street, London, WC2H
9UB, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7836 9642, fax: +44 (0)20
7497 3718
email: c.bright@lfs.org.uk
web: www.lfs.org.uk
Producer: Rajita Shah
Screenwriter: Miri Shapiro
Editor: Vanat Sermpol
Director of Photography: Paul Robinson
Production Designer: Romi Aboulafia
Sound: Lional Hicks, Yaniv Bitran
Music: Yehonatan Azar, Yaniv Fridel
Cast: Dima Taya, Abdalla Aqel, Estabrak
Aqel, Sirat Fakhory, Asmaa Shrawla
5 Items Only
A brief encounter between two strangers
in a unisex changing room.
Director: Mac & Fox
2007. Mini DV. 1 min
Production Company: Magic If Ltd,
35 Ashleigh Grove, Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE2 3DJ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)191 209 4282
email: macandfox@blueyonder.co.uk
Producer: Bev Fox, Dawn Furness
Executive Producer: Northern Film &
Media
Screenwriter: Bev Fox
Editor, Director of Photography: Ian
McClaughlin
Production Designer: Simon Henderson
Music: Mushi Mushi
Cast: Sam Neale, Joey Haydon, Zoe Kang
Director: Orson Ossman
2007. 16mm. 11 min 38 sec
Production Company: London Film
Academy, 52a Walham Grove, London,
SW6 1QR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7386 7711, fax: +44 (0)20
7381 6116
email: anna@londonfilmacademy.com
Producer: Adam Hitchen
Screenwriter: Bruno Massi
Editor: Sandun Seneviratne
Director of Photography: Alexis Lanitis
Sound, Music: David Hunt
Cast: Seamus John Allen, Alex Tanner
Accidental Encounter
Sasha, a beautiful woman in her 30s, has
been unhappily married for years to her
unfaithful and corrupt husband, Charlie.
When she meets Jack, an attractive man
in his 20s, an adulterous relationship
develops between them. As their night of
passion moves into morning, the day
reveals some unpleasant truths.
Director: Tamzin Haughton
2008. Mini DV. 15 min
Production Company: Tamzin Haughton
Films, 76a Avonmore Road, London, W14
8RS, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7966 233 219
email: mail@tamzinhaughton.com
Producer: Julian Rhind-Tutt, Luke FoordKelcey
Executive Producer: Focus Films West
Screenwriter: Tamzin Haughton
Editor: Xavier Valentine
Director of Photography: Stephen
Blackman
Cast: Johnny Hynes, Catherine Siggins
56
Short Films
Afternoon
The Air Catchers
The Allotment
The film begins in the wake of an
argument between Zahidah and her
daughter. Layla is unexpectedly cruel to
her mother before their paths diverge.
Layla skips school and loses her virginity
to an older man. Zahidah returns home
and transforms herself into a dominatrix
sex worker. In the afternoon, their paths
once again converge and things come to a
head.
A wry look at environmental issues and
the commercialisation of oxygen.
A largely improvised piece of dark comedy
which explores Laura and Joy's struggle
with Joy's disability on a supposedly fun
day out.
Director: Fyzal Boulifa
2008. HD. 10 min
Production Company, UK Distributor,
International Sales: B3 Media, PO Box
41000, London, SW2 1HN, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7274 2121
email: marc@b3media.net
Producer: Sue NG
Screenwriter: Fyzal Boulifa
Editor: Liz Roe
Director of Photography: Lol Crawley
Sound: David Heinemann, Shane Vahey
Music: Emily Williams
Cast: Victoria Michaels, Malika Siao, Joe
Bor, Peter Westbury
Ahoy!
A pirate captain and her scallywags drag a
large chest across the beach and into a
cave where they meet a mysterious
wench with a hoard of grog. But as they
start to relax a sudden unwanted
encounter forces a sharp return to the
reality of their situation.
Director: The Renowned Baker-Miles, Tara
Baker-Miles
2007. HD. 4 min
Production Company: Novantus Cinematic
Productions, PO Box 163, Jersey, JE4 8RJ,
Channel Islands
tel: +44 (0)7092 172 044, fax: +44 (0)7092
172 044
email: admin@novantus.co.uk
Producer: Tara Baker-Miles
Editor: Bruce Wayne
Director of Photography: The Renowned
Baker-Miles
Sound: Zachary Peel-McGregor
Music: Duncan Miller
Cast: Sally Somerville, Scoff McScofferson,
Alexis Marett, Agnieszka Baginska, Byran
Pill
Director: Barbara Parise-Browton
2007. DV Cam. 9 min 51 sec
Production Company: Plush Productions
Ltd, 8 Emmanuel Road, Hastings, East
Sussex, TN34 3LB, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)1424 428927
email: barbara@plushproductions.co.uk
web: www.plushproductions.co.uk
Producer, Production Designer: Ben
Browton
Screenwriter: Barbara Parise-Browton
Director of Photography: Alex Brattell
Editor: Nick Pilton
Music: Blue Eyed Sounds
Sound: Paul Gardner
Cast: Kirk Ronchetti, Alex Brattell, Ben
Browton, Barbara Parise-Browton, Tamsin
Harwood
Alex and Her Arse Truck
Alex and Her Arse Truck is a story about a
scooter riding zelophile called Baby Shoes,
his dogfart nymphomaniac girlfriend Alex,
her black lover Nylon, a mentalist called
Poubelles and a pair of drug dealing
lesbians called Manina and Javotte.
Director: Sean Conway
2007. 16mm. 15 min
Production Company: Third Films, 393
Two Ball Lonnen, Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE4 9SA, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)191 274 6024
email: info@seanconway.co.uk
Producer: Samm Haillay
Executive Producer: Rebecca MarkLawson, Jo McClellan
Screenwriter: Sean Conway
Editor: Dan Cheetham
Director of Photography: Lol Crawley
Production Designer: Joy Sanders
Music: Giuseppe Andrews
Cast: Danny Young, Gina Blondell
Director: Edward Sayers
2008. Mini DV. 14 min 10 sec
Production Company: Seven Productions
Ltd, 19 Ivor Street, London, NW1 9PJ,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7482 6862
email: ed@sevenproductions.co.uk
Producer, Editor: Edward Sayers
Screenwriter: Amanda Lawrence, Sarah
Toogood.
Music: Extreme Music
Cast: Amanda Lawrence, Sarah Toogood,
Chris Curran
The Amazing Hedge Puzzle
A policeman chases a purse snatcher into
a maze. He catches him but then can't
find his way out. The two men must work
together in order to survive.
Director: Alexander Winckler
2007. DV Cam. 10 min 4 sec
Production Company: Winckler Van
Tulleken, 61 Marshall Court, Warsham
Street, London, SW1P 4SZ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7977 927 962
email: alex.winckler@gmail.com
Producer: Jonathan Van Tulleken
Executive Producer, Screenwriter: Tim
Key, Tom Basden
Editor, Director of Photography:
Alexander Winckler
Sound: Jesse Ehredt
Cast: Tim Key, Tom Basden
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And Kill Them
And Kill Them follows a platoon of new
recruits through their first weeks in an
army training camp. When Lawrence's
failure to fall into line gets his platoon
into trouble, the peer pressure mounts.
Strangely, he begins to see Scarlet, the
pin-up poster on the wall of the barracks,
apparently come to life.
Director: Miranda Bowen
2007. DV Cam. 24 min
Production Company: IWC Media,
Gloucester Building, Kensington Village,
Avonmore Road, London, W14 8RF,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7013 4052, fax: +44 (0)20
7013 4001
email: helen.jenkins@iwcmedia.co.uk
International Sales: RDF Rights,
Beaumont House, Kensington Village,
Avonmore Road, London, W14 8RF,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7013 4435, fax: +44 (0)20
7013 4001
email: alison.carney@rdfmedia.com
Producer: Jim Spencer, Hannah Weaver
Executive Producer: Judy Counihan
Screenwriter: Seamus Hilley
Editor: David Gibson
Director of Photography: Christopher
Titus King
Production Designer: Eddy Andres
Sound: Anna Sulley
Cast: Alfie Allen, Sean Rea, Coral Beed
Andrew
A psychological romantic drama about one
man's struggle with his conscience as he
realises that he has become his own worst
hate: the `other' man. He must now
decide which is stronger, the hate that he
feels for himself, or the love that he feels
for his partner.
Director: Alex Barrett
2007. HD. 15 min
Production Company, UK Distributor,
International Sales: Roll With It
Productions Ltd, 42 Chiddingstone Street,
London, SW6 3TG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7747 620 206
email: rollwithitproductions@
googlemail.com
Producer: Angus Watts
Screenwriter: Alex Barrett
Editor: Murat Kebir
Director of Photography: Polly Morgan
Sound: Jason Creasey
Music: James McWilliam
Cast: Matt Warman, Sarah-Louise Young,
Christopher Tate, Angela Peters, Charlie
Palmer
An Jowl yn Agas Kegin
(The Devil in Your Kitchen)
Downtrodden Cornish chef Scotty Roades
is faced with bankruptcy, divorce and a
lifetime of mediocrity. Could an encounter
with the Lord of Darkness himself (who
just so happens to communicate in the
Cornish language) hold the answer? But
what's the cost of a deal with the Devil?
And just who is sat at table 18?
Director: Brett Harvey
2007. Mini DV. 14 min 10 sec
Production Company: O-Region, Fairview
House, Wagg Lane, Probus, Truro,
Cornwall, TR2 4JX, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)1872 321509
email: info@o-region.co.uk
Producer: Oliver Berry
Screenwriter, Editor: Brett Harvey
Director of Photography: Morgan
Lowndes
Production Designer: Hana Backland
Music: Wayne Chudley
Cast: Craig Johnson, Amanda Lawrence,
Phil Broadie, Arran Hawkins, Phillip
Schofield
Another Plaice
A man comes into conflict with modern
art when his favourite beach is invaded by
an army of rusty statues.
Director: Eddie Singleton
2007. Mini DV. 2 min 58 sec
Production Company: Azzurri Films, 8589 Duke Street, Liverpool, L1 5AP,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)151 707 733, fax: +44 (0)151
707 7733
email: ejs@azzurrifilms.co.uk
web: www.azzurrifilms.co.uk
Producer, Screenwriter, Editor: Eddie
Singleton
Cast: Gary Bird, Richard Sails
Anticlockwise
08.20: . . . This traffic is killing me!
08.40: Still stuck here. I'm sure that the
manager will not be happy with me if I'm
late again . . . 08.56: OK. I even have
time to empty the ashtray! 09.00: . . . NO!
At last, Matt, for once in your life, take a
stand and STOP THE CLOCKS!
Director: Dimitris Bavellas
2007. 16mm. 9 min 32 sec
Production Company: The Northern Film
School, Electric Press Building,
1 Millenium Square, Leeds, LS2 3AD,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)113 283 8000
email: calthedon@hotmail.com
UK Distributor, International Sales:
Dimitris Bavellas, 9 Alma Road,
Headingley, Leeds, LS6 2AH, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7772 587 170
email: tziga3@yahoo.com
Producer: Caleb Shaffer
Screenwriter: Dimitris Bavellas, Caleb
Shaffer
Editor: Oskar Idin
Director of Photography: Joe Macdonald
Production Designer: Sophia Katsoura
Sound: Dimitris Bavellas
Music: Pannonia Allstars Ska Orchestra
Cast: Dan Atkinson, Mick Murphy, Brendan
McCoy
The Applicant
Jack is optimistic, looking for a new job.
But when the rejections come flooding in,
he finds their impersonal responses
difficult to deal with and plays them at
their game.
Director: John Schwab
2007. HD. 10 min 15 sec
Production Company: Solution
Productions Ltd, 41 Casterbridge Road,
London, SE3 9AD, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7932 040 708
email: john@solutionfilms.com
Producer: Tim Beckmann
Screenwriter: Martin Scorer
Editor: Colin Sumsion
Director of Photography: Robin Fox
Production Designer: Jeni Munns
Sound: Jeff Richardson
Music: Krista Detor
Cast: Martin Scorer, Simon Jermond,
Michael Maloney, Tim Whitnail
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The Appointment
The Auction
Ball
Fischer, a paranoid writer, is woken in the
middle of the night by three inspectors
who issue him with a summons to see the
state physician. On arrival, he is injected
with hallucinogenic drugs and subjected
to a bizarre psychological experiment.
When he is rescued by Madeleine, he
mistakenly thinks his ordeal is over.
This enigmatic psycho-thriller takes place
in a North Wales town where a sexual
killer is on the prowl. Len Malcolm, an
oddball loner and computer geek,
becomes interested in Fran Cook. She
lives on her own in a dark and
claustrophobic flat with a front door that
won't close properly.
A man is woken by a ball thumping to a
stop at the bottom of the staircase in his
empty house. So who, or what, started it?
Groundhog Day for the damned.
Director: Aaron Greenwood
2007. HDV. 18 min
Director: Sion Griffiths
2007. HD. 11 min 13 sec
Production Company, International
Sales: Cat And Dog Films, 7 Stanley Road,
Cambridge, CB5 8LF, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7816 611 106
email: greenwood.aaron@gmail.com
web: www.aarongreenwood.co.uk
Production Company: Antena, Unit 2,
Cibyn, Caernarfon, Gwynedd, LL55 2BD,
Wales, UK
tel: +44 (0)1286 662200, fax: +44 (0)1286
678594
email: gill@antena.co.uk
web: www.antena.co.uk
Producer: Emily Blickem, Kate Robinson
Screenwriter, Editor: Aaron Greenwood
Director of Photography: A J Murray
Production Designer: Colin Dewar
Sound: Carl Homer
Music: Chris Conway
Cast: Andy Gathergood, Patrick Gordon,
Caroline Colomei
Arafat & I
Marwan is a Palestinian in love. He's finally
met Lisa, the girl he's going to marry.
Everything about her is perfect - she was
even born on the same day as Chairman
Arafat! But does Lisa know the significance
of this coincidence? And how far will
Marwan go to make her understand?
Director: Mahdi Fleifel
2008. 16mm. 15 min 10 sec
Production Company: National Film and
Television School, Beaconsfield Studios,
Station Road, Beaconsfield,
Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)1494 731457, fax: +44 (0)1494
674042
email: festivals@nfts.co.uk
web: www.nfts.co.uk
UK Distributor, International Sales:
Hemant Sharda, National Film and
Television School
tel: +44 (0)1494 731452, fax: +44 (0)1494
678583
email: hsharda@nfts.co.uk
Producer: Alexander Ronnberg
Screenwriter: M Fleifel
Editor: Mikael Svartdahl
Director of Photography: Daniel StaffordClark
Production Designer: James Morrall
Music: Roger Goula
Cast: M Fleifel, Zein Ja'afar, Ximena
Garcia Vera
Producer, Screenwriter: Sion Griffiths
Editor: Phil Bayley Hughes
Sound: Delyth Edwards
Cast: Llyr Evans, Bethan Marlow
Bad Juju
A journalist convinces her friends to take
part in a se
Âance as research for her next
big story. When the ritual unexpectedly
succeeds they learn that it isn't just
children who shouldn't play with dead
things.
Director: Matt Compton
2007. HD. 8 min
Production Company: Nefarious Films
tel: +44 (0)7739 189 721
email: matt@nefariousfilms.co.uk
web: www.nefariousfilms.co.uk
Producer, Screenwriter, Editor: Matt
Compton
Executive Producer: Gill Pryce
Director of Photography: Hugh
MacDonald
Sound: Josh O'Brien
Music: Aaryk Noctivagus
Cast: Gill Pryce, Karl Best, Rob Talbot,
Jacqui Adams
Director: Ewan Bailey
2008. HD. 14 min 35 sec
Production Company: Ewan Bailey Films,
57 Springfield Avenue, London, N10 3SX,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7775 522 217
email: ewan@ewanbaileyfilms.com
web: www.ewanbaileyfilms.com
Producer, Screenwriter, Editor, Director
of Photography, Production Designer:
Ewan Bailey
Bare Necessities
During the filming of a low budget
thriller-slash-horror about bears, the
producer discovers to his horror that his
film has already been made. His knee-jerk
reaction is to pull the shoot and cut his
losses but can the director persuade him
to take a different - and highly ethical
environmental tack?
Director: Kate Grey
2007. HD. 11 min 17 sec
Production Company: GH Films, 52 Criffel
Avenue, London, SW2 4BN, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8674 1543, fax: +44 (0)20
8674 1543
email: chris@presentationengineers.co.uk
Producer: Chris Hynes
Screenwriter: Kate Grey
Editor: Bes Nugest
Director of Photography: Sam Morris
Production Designer: Gabriella Aestelli
Cast: Rob Reina, Clare MacKenzie,
Amanda Liberman, Ben Blubeck
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The Beachcombers
A Bedtime Tale
The Bent Penny
Divided by the glittering expanse of the
River Thames, a pair of shy beachcombers
are drawn together through their search
for rare antiquities when a chance
discovery gives an ideal opportunity to
cross the river. The Beachcombers is a
heartwarming tale of friendship and love
set against the backdrop of modern
London.
Living with your half-deaf Granny is not
easy, especially for ten year-old Willie.
However when Willie pushes Granny to
tell something more scary, it becomes a
lot worse. Fantasy becomes reality when
the horrifying, child-abducting Hacker
arises. Willie must now face the monster
that he fears most of all.
Three stories are linked by a penny that
travels from person to person. The lives
of these seemingly unrelated people are
woven together through a twist of fate,
resulting in a unique form of justice.
Director: Chris Croucher, Mark Beynon
2008. 16mm. 10 min 12 sec
Production Company: Silvertip Films, 18
Northill Road, Ickwell, Bedfordshire, SG18
9ED, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7749 478 090
email: michaelberliner@gmail.com
Director: George Gannon
2008. 16mm. 15 min 20 sec
Production Company: London Film
Academy, 52a Walham Grove, London,
SW6 1QR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7386 7711, fax: +44 (0)20
7381 6116
email: anna@londonfilmacademy.com
Producer: Michael Berliner
Executive Producer: Geoff Cockwill,
Sunny Varkey
Screenwriter: Chris Croucher, Mark
Beynon
Editor: Trewin Cockwill
Director of Photography: Anna ValdezHanks
Production Designer: Catrin Meredydd
Sound: Mike Palmer
Music: Michael Ferguson, Blair Mowatt
Cast: Charity Wakefield, Rasmus Hardiker
Producer: Metehan Yilmaz
Screenwriter, Director of Photography:
Diana Vasquez
Editor: Niccollo Vitelli
Cast: Anna Calder Marshall, Brandon
Robinson
The Bedfordshire Clanger
Director: Carolina Giammetta, Schuman
Hoque
2007. HD. 24 min 40 sec
A disillusioned cyclist on a charity bike
ride gets lost riding through the unusual
region of Bedfordshire. He finds
inspiration from unexpected sources,
through which he experiences the
Bedfordshire clanger.
Director: Marc Mason
2007. 35mm. 27 min
Production Company: Five Feet Films
Ltd, 122b Union Street, Dunstable,
Bedfordshire, LU6 1HB, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)1582 723852, fax: +44 (0)1582
435190
email: lindachirrey@fivefeetfilms.com
web: www.fivefeetfilms.com
Producer: Linda Chirrey, Marc Mason
Screenwriter: Marc Mason
Editor: Jeanne Delasnerie
Director of Photography: Stuart
Biddlecombe
Production Designer: Emily Johnson
Sound: Rod Berling
Music: Ken Sykora
Cast: Luis Nicolas, Ray Dalgarno, Susan
Scott, Marsharee Birk
Before, After and . . . After
That
A short sweet romantic comedy that
brings fantasy, dreams and desire to life.
Production Company: Studio Schoque/
Growp, Studio 44, The Old Truman
Brewery, 91 Brick Lane, London, E1 6QL,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7770 6098
email: info@schoque.om
Producer: Carolina Giammetta, Schuman
Hoque
Screenwriter: Carolina Giammetta
Editor: Schuman Hoque
Director of Photography: Dusan Krnac
Music: Stephen Hudson
Cast: Catriona Yuill, Sam Massey, Gareth
Corke, Carolina Giammeta
Director: Darrel J Butlin
2007. HD. 16 min 47 sec
Production Company, UK Distributor,
International Sales: Eyebrid Blaze Film
Ltd, 12 Osborne Road, Clifton, Bristol, BS8
2HB, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7929 288 815
email: darrel@eyebridblaze.com
web: www.eyebridblaze.com
Producer: Jeremy Vivian
Screenwriter: Darrel J Butlin
Editor: Ed Ison, Darrel J Butlin
Director of Photography: Louie BystadCollins
Production Designer: Paul Galloway
Sound: David Brookfield
Music: Robert Jan Meyer
Cast: Olegar Fedoro, Simon Poland, Kay
Curram, Angus Barr, Toby Davies
Bereavement
We all at times have to deal with losing a
loved one. Bereavement portrays one
woman's loss as she candidly talks to
camera in this heartfelt document.
Director: Carl Medland
2008. HD. 5 min 23 sec
Production Company: Discovery Films UK,
44 Corbidge Court, Glaisher Street,
London, SE8 3ES, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7718 765 130
email: carlmedland@aol.com
web: www.discoveryfilmsuk.com
Producer, Screenwriter: Carl Medland
Editor: Arran Corbett
Director of Photography: Amerjeet Singh
Sadal
Cast: Jane Merrow, Carl Medland
60
Short Films
Bereft of Colour
Blood Road
Breather
When a blind artist regains her sight all of
her inspiration seems to have gone with
the darkness. Sight and vision will never
be the same.
Lithuania 1886. A cold and frustrated
police sergeant lashes out at a young
Jewish boy on the way to school. Years
later the boy's grandson returns to
discover acceptance and love.
A man finds a stone outside his house. He
picks it up, with unexpected
consequences.
Director: Alison Hassan
2007. 16mm. 10 min 16 sec
Production Company: London Film
Academy, 52a Walham Grove, London,
SW6 1QR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7386 7711, fax: +44 (0)20
7381 6116
Producer: Simon Gill
Screenwriter: Julio Garcia
Editor: Diana Buzzo
Director of Photography: William Tennant
Production Designer: Hiromi Sato
Sound: Yun Tae Smith
Music: Toph Smith
Cast: Harriet Muller, Gavin Brockwell
Big Bad Wolf
A story of a young girl who, in exploring
her boundaries and the darker aspects of
her own psyche, finds that such journeys
and experiences come at a price. In this
allegorical story, the characters of
Goldilocks, the Big Bad Wolf and Little
Red Riding Hood display their fairytale
archetypes.
Director: Shobina Jayaseelan
2007. s16mm. 6 min 15 sec
Main Contact: Shobina Jayaseelan,
108 Vale Royal House, 36 Newport Court,
London, WC2H 7QA, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7757 771 850
email: shobina.j@btinternet.com
Screenwriter: Shobina Jayaseelan
Editor: Jonathan Hardy
Director of Photography: Digby Elliot
Sound: Christopher Keith
Cast: Kathryn Usher, Rhia Coles, Philip
Hayden, Leigh Haywood
Director: Temple Clark
2007. 16mm. 22 min
Main Contact: Temple Clark, 48 Underhill
Road, London, SE22 0QT, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8229 2015, fax: +44 (0)20
8299 2015
email: templeclark@btinternet.com
Producer, Screenwriter, Production
Designer: Temple Clark
Editor: Robyn Whitehead
Director of Photography: David
Katznelson
Sound: Tom Heddy
Music: Richard Strange, David Coulter
Cast: Pip Torrens, Billy Clarke, Sadie
Vincent-Bennett, Adam Fletcher
Bondi 3000: The Making Of
The schizoid, snail-paced production of a
futuristic English epic about how the
British will reclaim Bondi from Australia in
the year 3000. Filmed entirely on location
in London, Bournemouth and Sydney's
Bondi Beach, this is a tale of the ultimate
tragedy.
Director: Michael Ebner
2007. HD. 19 min
Production Company: Pen And Picture,
MacQuarie House, 3a Southwood Avenue,
Bournemouth, BH6 3QA, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)1202 804746
email: fiona@penandpicture.com
web: www.penandpicture.com
Producer, Director of Photography:
Michael Ebner
Screenwriter: Mike Mills
Editor, Sound: Chris Gavellas
Music: Michael McGlynn
Cast: Ben Lawson, Simon Lee, Nolan Mills
Director: Peter Snowdon
2007. 16mm. 1 min 23 sec
Production Company: Gourna Films,
16 Longmeadows, Ponteland, Newcastle
upon Tyne, NE20 9DY, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)1661 823683
email: peter@redrice.net
web: www.gournafilms.wordpress.com
Producer, Screenwriter: Peter Snowdon
Editor: Bruno Tracy
Production Designer: Chris Coles
Sound: Ludovic Van Pachterbeke
Music: Paul Miskin
Cast: Scali Delpeyrat
Call Me by his Name
Seated in a living-room, a girl watches her
mother walk out the door without saying
goodbye once again. She goes upstairs to
her recently deceased brother's room. She
is sad but determined to change her life
forever.
Director: Sofia Hericson
2007. DVC Pro HD. 12 min 10 sec
Main Contact: Sofia Hericson, 9a Cadogan
Place, Preston, Lancashire, PR1 3TB,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7910 526 285
email: sofia.hericson@blueyonder.co.uk
Producer, Screenwriter, Editor,
Production Designer: Sofia Hericson
Director of Photography: Christopher
Higgins
Sound: Anthony Camm
Cast: Amy Barnes, Maija Ozolina
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Camille e Mariuccia
Cartwheels
The Chef's Letter
Elio reluctantly agrees to take Piero, his
intrusive old neighbour, to a distant police
station, and brings along his ex-girlfriend's
ferret, Layla. During the trip, these two
men help each other to accept the loss of
their women but not without some
misunderstandings.
From housewife to wonderwoman - the
power of pole dancing.
A successful chef who runs his kitchen
with precision unexpectedly falls in love
with a worker and decides to declare his
passion in a letter. But will suspicions of
intimacy between the easygoing kitchen
staff undermine the future he has
imagined?
Director: Samuele Romano
2008. Digibeta. 24 min
Production Company: The London Film
School, 24 Shelton Street, London, WC2H
9UB, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7836 9642, fax: +44 (0)20
7497 3718
email: c.bright@lfs.org.uk
web: www.lfs.org.uk
Director: Esther Hegarty
2008. HD. 5 min 17 sec
Main Contact: Esther Hegarty, Flat 4,
Daytone House, 1a Crescent Road,
London, SW20 8EY, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7790 845 967
email: estherhegarty@yahoo.com
UK Distributor: Icewhole Beta,
Underground X Ltd, 10 Orange Street,
Haymarket, London, WC2 7DH, England,
UK
Producer: Esther Hegarty, Eddie Harrison
Screenwriter: Eddie Harrison
Editor: James Curry
Director of Photography: David Marsh
Production Designer: Maggie Carroll
Sound: David Lascelles
Music: Jeff Danna
Cast: Beth Coringly, Nicky Smith, Matt
Hebden
Producer: Gabrielle Manfre
Screenwriter: Samuele Romano
Editor: Marco Battiloro
Director of Photography: Robert Wilson
Production Designer: Francesco Salvatore
Sound: Marco Oriunto
Music: Roby Meola
Cast: Maurizio Tabani, Umberto Terruso,
Munir Romdhani, Pino Ricci, Alessandro
Mucci
Chain
Canbury
An elderly man is tormented by local
youths and rejected by his own family,
causing him to explode in violence.
Canbury is a trilogy of stories concerning
the lives of six 20-somethings, dealing
with their journey and progression (or
lack thereof) beyond the confines of
adolescence.
Director: Alex Barrett
2008. HD. 12 min
Production Company, UK Distributor,
International Sales: Tiga Kali Studio, 61
Staunton Road, Kingston upon Thames,
Surrey, KT2 5TN, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8549 1235
email: tigakalistudio@googlemail.com
web: www.tigakalistudio.co.uk
Producer: Alex Barrett, Andrew Visser
Screenwriter: Alex Barrett, Charlotte
Coy, Sari Easton
Editor: Alex Barrett
Director of Photography: Ben Jones,
Daniel Rothschild, Andrew Visser
Sound, Music: Jason Creasey
Cast: Charlotte Coy, Sari Easton, Rachel
Bright, Lachlan McCall, James Groom
Director: Gregory Crosbie
2007. 16mm. 13 min 33 sec
Production Company, UK Distributor,
International Sales: Screen Academy
Scotland, Napier University, 2a Merchiston
Avenue, Edinburgh, EH10 4NU, Scotland,
UK
tel: +44 (0)131 455 2572, fax: +44 (0)131
455 2538
email: info@screenacademyscotland.ac.uk
web: www.screenacademyscotland.ac.uk
Producer: Mark McGhee, Rory O'Hara
Executive Producer: Robin MacPherson
Screenwriter: James Crosbie
Editor: Donny Bodcock
Director of Photography: Philip Robertson
Production Designer: Kara Ramsey
Sound: Alan Bruce
Music: Norman Mackay, Neil Hamilton
Cast: Peter Kelly, Stephen Clyde, Jamie
Quinn, Jay Houston
Director: Sybil H Mair
2008. 35mm. 14 min 10 sec
Production Company: Gaius Productions
Ltd, 9 Dale Street, Leamington Spa,
Warwickshire, CV32 5HH, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7739 041 920
email: sybilhmair@yahoo.co.uk
Producer, Screenwriter, Production
Designer: Sybil H Mair
Editor: Helle Le Fevre
Director of Photography: Charlotte Bruus
Christensen
Sound: Vincent Watts
Music: Stephen Daltry
Cast: Jonathan Firth, Ray Fearon, Layke
Anderson, Lauren Steventon
Chicane
After a violent and dreadful street attack
Kris will never be the same. Fear and
horror will rule his life until everything he
once loved has gone forever.
Director: Nathan T Heys
2007. 16mm. 10 min 42 sec
Production Company: London Film
Academy, 52a Walham Grove, London,
SW6 1QR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7386 7711, fax: +44 (0)20
7381 6116
email: anna@londonfilmacademy.com
Producer: Joseph A Adesunlaye
Screenwriter: Charlie Bray
Editor: Yaya Halawani
Director of Photography: Antonis
Bakopoulos
Sound: Barney Quinton
Cast: Nigel Mattison, Elyse Marks, Richard
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Christmas Bonus
The Circle
The Clay Wall
The love of Mack's life dumped him last
Christmas. What's worse is she kept the
ring he bought her. Now it's Christmas
again and Mack, without a bonus, hatches
a foolproof plan to steal his ex-girlfriend's
ring and pawn it for this year's presents.
What could go wrong? What could go
right?
A modern-day Western about redemption
and revenge. Sirjad draws a circle around
a derelict petrol station and decrees that
within this boundary he cannot be
touched. When a half-dead woman
collapses on the edge of his circle, he
takes her in to discover they are both
running from the same thing.
The Clay Wall is a story about a young
man's desire to escape himself. Bored by
provincial life he concocts a
hallucinogenic ointment that causes
visions of lycanthropy and tender sexual
violence. The film draws on adolescent
rites of passage and the history of
witchcraft in rural Scotland.
Director: Aaron Singer-Lee
2007. HD. 11 min
Director: Tinge Krishnan
2007. HD. 24 min
Director: Duncan Marquiss
2007. HD. 12 min
Production Company: Cinematic Gorillas,
Floor 4, 4 Croftdown Road, London, NW5
1EH, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7419 4580
email: aaron@cinematicgorillas.com
web: www.cinematicgorillas.com
Production Company: IWC Media,
Gloucester Building, Kensington Village,
Avonmore Road, London, W14 8RF,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7013 4052, fax: +44 (0)20
7013 4001
email: helen.jenkins@iwcmedia.co.uk
Production Company: Brocken Spectre,
The Producers Centre, 61 Holland Street,
Glasgow, G2 4NJ, Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)141 287 9224, fax: +44 (0)141
287 9513
email: rosie@brocken-spectre.com
Producer: Mikael N'Dour
Screenwriter: Aaron Singer-Lee
Editor: Johan Rock
Director of Photography: Pedro De La
Fuente
Sound: Henry Mackintosh
Music: Jalef
Cast: Samuel Anderson, Laura Murray,
Stephen John Holgate, Constance
Dalrymple
The Christmas Fairy
John and Hannah scramble off to bed to
wait for Santa Claus. Sarah, their
exhausted mother, waiting for her
husband to return from the pub, receives
a strange visitor who shows her just how
different life can be if only she believed
in the Christmas Fairy.
Director: Andi Reiss
2007. DV Cam. 10 min
Production Company: Spa Road Ltd,
17 Christchurch Road, Worthing, BN11 1JH,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7837 095 431
email: rebekah.s.wilkinson@gmail.com
International Sales: Yellow Productions
Ltd
tel: +44 (0)7775 713 363
email: info@yellowuk.biz
web: www.yellowuk.biz
Producer: Rebekah Wilkinson, Andi Reiss
Screenwriter: Rebekah Wilkinson
Editor: Andi Reiss
Director of Photography: Dave Rankin,
Boyd Skinner
Production Designer: Anita Desmarais
Sound: Russell Keefe
Music: Ishlo
Cast: Lorna Bennett, Jon Sidgwick, Ethan
Hammer, Sabrina Hammer, Sarah Bennett
International Sales: RDF Rights,
Beaumont House, Kensington Village,
Avonmore Road, London, W14 8RF,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7013 4435, fax: +44 (0)20
7013 4001
email: alison.carney@rdfmedia.com
Producer: Jim Spencer, Hannah Weaver
Executive Producer: Judy Counihan
Screenwriter: Waris Islam
Editor: Alastair Reid
Director of Photography: Lol Crawley
Production Designer: Jo Manser
Sound: Anna Sulley
Music: Chris Bangs, Chris Warren
Cast: Anthony Flanagan, Shobna Gulati,
Nicholas Aaron, Craig Gazey
Clair
Clair is a fiercely independent 16 yearold. She lives in a twilight world of threat
and violence. Kidnapped from her house
by one of her stepfather's associates, she
has to escape and do whatever she can to
survive.
Director: Kevin West
2008. Mini DV. 14 min
Production Company: West Film
Productions, 26 Farrier Road, Northwood,
Kirkby, Liverpool, L33 5XX, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7806 256 417
email: westfilm@hotmail.co.uk
Producer, Screenwriter, Editor, Director
of Photography, Sound, Music: Kevin
West
Cast: Sarah Gibbons, Ritchie Grice, Will
Cain, Kevin West, Les Rowlands
Producer: Rosie Crerar
Executive Producer: David Smith
Screenwriter, Music: Duncan Marquiss
Editor: Aldo Palumbo
Director of Photography: Kathleen Friend
Production Designer: Jade Strachan
Sound: John Cobban
Cast: William Ruane, Danielle Stewart
Close
Two women, a teenager and a schoolgirl,
share the same house in former East
Berlin. They cross each other every day
but hardly know one another. This
particular day, they all experience a
turning point in their lives. Forced by
their loneliness and the consequences of
events, they finally share their secrets.
Director: Theresa von Eltz
2007. HD. 30 min
Production Company: National Film and
Television School, Beaconsfield Studios,
Station Road, Beaconsfield,
Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)1494 731457, fax: +44 (0)1494
674042
email: festivals@nfts.co.uk
web: www.nfts.co.uk
UK Distributor, International Sales:
Hemant Sharda, National Film and
Television School
tel: +44 (0)1494 731452, fax: +44 (0)1494
678583
email: hsharda@nfts.co.uk
Producer: Yan Schoenefeld
Screenwriter: Theresa von Eltz
Editor: Brian Welsh
Director of Photography: Ula Pontikos
Music: Gary Sanctuary
63
Short Films
Clowns
Crass Transit
Curse of the Bands
In a world devoid of freedom, Barry
struggles to embrace his emotions and
views of society. But he is determined to
show the world the absolute truth.
A man wakes up to a car that won't start
and it all goes (literally) downhill from
there. All he wants to do is get to work!
Two ancient cursed Chi bracelets. Wearing
one grants you special powers. Wearing
both grants you immortality . . . at a
price. Two bands of friends, one good and
the other bad, possess one bracelet each.
Who will win the fight to get both? Who
will triumph in Curse of the Bands?
Director: Jaemes Gregory
2007. HD. 13 min
Production Company: HRF: Higher Reality
Films, Magic Town Media, Tower Bridge
Business Complex, London, SE16 4DG,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7909 991 581
email: jaemes_24@hotmail.com
Producer: Jaemes Gregory
Executive Producer: Hermann Djoumesst
Screenwriter: Gordon Robertson
Editor: Chris Chow, Maxim Nilov
Director of Photography: Ben Nazroo
Production Designer: Melanie Light
Sound: Edhvardo Portugal
Music: Ricky Baxter
Cast: Arin Alldridge, Benjamin Godley
Crafta Webb
11 year-old Anna is sure she never wanted
to be dragged to this new life in the
English countryside, until she discovers
Crafta Webb.
Director: Adrian Lambert
2007. Mini DV. 40 min
Production Company: The Rural Media
Company, Sullivan House, 72-80
Widemarsh Street, Hereford, HR4 9HG,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)1432 344039, fax: +44 (0)1432
270539
email: alisonc@ruralmedia.co.uk
web: www.ruralmedia.co.uk
Producer: Adrian Lambert
Screenwriter: Louise Osborn
Editor: John Humphreys
Director of Photography: Des Seal
Sound: Martin Finney
Music: Kim Humphrey
Cast: Robyn Collins, Jean Dubberly,
Raimonda Cioga-de-Almeida, Phil Morgan
Director: Jacqui Adams
2007. HD. 1 min
Main Contact: Jacqui Adams, 17 Cookhill
Road, London, SE2 9PD, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7947 865 222
email: jocastaisfabby@hotmail.com
Producer: Katheryn Needham
Screenwriter: Jacqui Adams
Editor: Harry Clegg
Director of Photography: Hugh Macdonald
Sound: KC Thiruchelvam
Music: Andy Stuteley
Cast: Colin Black, Karl Best
The Curry Club
John comes home to visit 30 years after
his death. As life goes on all around his
mother, Flossy, she sinks into seclusion.
Will John's visit from afar re-ignite her
and will daughter Susi persuade her to go
to the curry club where husband Bob and
neighbour Audrey are getting cosy?
Director: Rita Osei
2007. Digibeta. 15 min 55 sec
Production Company: Sugar & Water
Films, 21 Grove House, 16 Tudor Grove,
London, E9 7QP, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8985 0946
email: rita@sugarandwaterfilms.com
Producer, Screenwriter: Rita Osei
Editor: Paddy Payne
Director of Photography: Stein Stie
Production Designer: Nick Somerville
Sound: Johnny Lance
Cast: Lorren Joseph, Cleo Sylvestre,
Kenneth Cranham, Ruth Sheen, Polly
Nayler
Director: Shahid Karim
2008. DV Cam. 33 min 44 sec
Production Company: Deliverance Films,
100 Whitby Crescent, Woodthorpe,
Nottingham, NG5 4PR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7969 621 868
email: deliverance@cyberblurb.co.uk
Producer, Screenwriter, Editor, Director
of Photography: Shahid Karim
Sound, Music: Saleena Karim
Cast: Sharjeel Ahmed, Faraz Ayub, Jack
Butler, Adam Brown, John Savage
Das Dores
Das Dores tells the story of two teenagers
trapped in an abandoned petrol station
while running away from home. As they
are given the chance to reconsider if
eloping was such a good idea, strange
things begin to occur and it becomes clear
that beyond their actions lies another
repeating pattern.
Director: Gabriel Tupinamba
Â
2008. HD. 28 min
Production Company: Nonada Films, 1130
Avenida Atlantida, 12th Floor,
Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, 22021-000,
Brazil
tel: +55 212 105 9500, fax: +55 212 105
9501
email: gabrieltupinamba@mac.com
Producer, Screenwriter, Music: Gabriel
Tupinamba
Â
Executive Producer: Luis Vidal
Editor: Gabriel Tupinamba
Â, Armen
Antranikian
Director of Photography: Armen
Antranikian
Production Designer: Daniel Flaksman
Sound: Videosonics
Cast: Julia Gorman, Vicente Coelho
64
Short Films
The Date
Dead Cell
Deaden
The Date features one character, one
location (except a flashback at the
beginning and the end) and is told
entirely in sound and vision.
Voyeuristically shot, it centres on a 50something woman seemingly preparing for
her first date after her husband has left
her, but what dark secret is she hiding?
A young woman awakes in a cell. She has
done nothing to be there. She is going to
discover that she is guilty of having done
nothing.
You're bound and beaten on a forest floor.
Two masked men demand you speak or be
killed. How will you escape? Through fight
or flight? An exhilarating first person
narrative that throws the viewer headlong
into a nightmarish scenario. An adrenalinfuelled denouement of violent
consequence.
Director: Lisa Howells
2007. Mini DV. 10 min
Production Company: Independent,
61 Dunbar Street, West Norwood, SE27 9JY,
England, UK
email: lolagunn@yahoo.co.uk
Producer, Screenwriter: Lisa Howells
Editor: Ian Grey
Director of Photography: Alex Hill
Sound: Donald Bousted
Cast: Caroline Jay, Arthur Wilson, Polly
Whybrow
Director: Lou Ma Ho
2007. HDV. 31 min
Production Company: Oliwood
Productions, Top Floor Flat, 95 Chesterton
Road, London, W6 7RF, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7961 117 402
email: oliverharbottle@hotmail.com
web: www.oliwood.co.uk
Producer: Oli Harbottle, Marc-Olivier
Louveau
Screenwriter: Lou Ma Ho
Editor: Frederic Thoravel
Director of Photography: Michel Azous
Sound: Laurent Mauduit
Music: Steve Shehan
Cast: Mai Anh Le, Thierry Pietra
Co-production: France
Dave & David
A tragi-comedy of two briefly successful
actors and their attempt to resurrect the
tatters of their careers. They hole up in a
remote cottage to write their triumphant
comeback, determined to put their
differences behind them. If only human
nature worked that way.
Director: N G Bristow
2007. HDV. 18 min 8 sec
Production Company: First Gate Films,
119b Crofton Road, London, SE5 8LZ,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7773 777 234
email: n_g_bee@yahoo.co.uk
Producer, Screenwriter: N G Bristow
Editor: Sebastian Morrison
Director of Photography: Joachim
Bergamin
Sound: Rada Danilovic
Music: Stephen Murphy
Cast: Steve North, James Docherty,
Pauline McLynn, Ken Campbell, Tracy-Ann
Oberman
Dead Dog
A man sets out with his girlfriend to
confront the local gamekeeper when his
beloved dog goes missing. He holds his
fears at bay with a grisly revenge fantasy
but his feelings quickly overwhelm him
when his worst imaginings play out in real
life.
Director: Edward Jeffreys
2008. 16mm. 8 min
Production Company: Signal Films,
2 Lightburn Road, Ulverstone, Cumbria,
LA12 0AU, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)1229 838592
email: lorenaslater@gmail.com
web: www.shorelinefilms.com
Producer: Loren Slater, Kerry Kolbe
Screenwriter: Edward Jeffreys
Editor: Edd Maggs, Jon Levy
Director of Photography: Loren Slater,
Emma Dalesman
Production Designer: Jade Strachan
Sound: Matt Palmer
Music: John Tuff
Cast: Chloe Bale, Iain London, Adam
Grayson
Director: Jonathan Lieb
2008. 16mm. 10 min
Production Company: Subject to Change,
83c Downs Road, London, E5 8DS,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7793 839 259
email: lieb@fsmail.net
Producer, Screenwriter: Jonathan Lieb
Editor: Alex Lea
Director of Photography: Benjamin
Pritchard
Sound: Vince Watts
Music: Point B
Cast: Neil Webster, Bradley Benjamin
Decision
What once seemed like eternal love has
been forgotten and put away. All that's
left is loneliness, sorrow and pain. What
will it take for her to turn her life
around?
Director: Maddelena Patrese
2007. 16mm. 5 min 40 sec
Production Company: London Film
Academy, 52a Walham Grove, London,
SW6 1QR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7386 7711, fax: +44 (0)20
7381 6116
email: anna@londonfilmacademy.com
Producer: Patricia Chamah
Screenwriter: Yun Tae Kang
Editor: Linnea Gambari
Director of Photography: Jonathan
Andrews
Production Designer: Maria Sole Cortese
Music: Paul Tucker
Cast: Reiko Yoshioa, Stuart Bowman
65
Short Films
Detour
Dorothy
Eight Minutes
A simple road trip becomes a journey of
revenge after a motorist, still coping with
the untimely death of his daughter,
happens across the man who apparently
predicted her death.
Dorothy is lonely. She'd like a new friend.
So would her flatmate Vivian.
A down-and-out office worker is forced to
come to terms with his impending doom
when the sun suddenly explodes leaving
him, and the rest of the world, with only
minutes left to live.
Director: K Akeseh Tsakpo
2008. DV Cam. 11 min 37 sec
Production Company: Calling The Shots,
1 Gas Ferry Road, Bristol, BS1 6UN,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)117 930 0141
email: jeremy@callingtheshots.co.uk
International Sales: K Akeseh Tsakpo, 115
Stroud Road, Gloucester, GL1 5AH,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7766 075 091
email: cage75@hotmail.com
Executive Producer: Sarah-Jane Meredith
Screenwriter: K Akeseh Tsakpo, George
Hopkin
Editor: David Thompson
Director of Photography: Stuart Brereton
Production Designer: Valentina Cavellini
Sound: Pete Howell
Music: Stuart Fox
Cast: Simon Slater, Malcolm Hamilton,
Selina MacDonald
Domestics
A couple argue over ice cream. It seems
to be heading for a very sticky end.
Director: Rob Curry
2008. HD. 5 min
Production Company: Fifth Column Films,
32 Tremlett Grove, London, N19 5JY,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7753 604 923
email: film@fifthcolumn.org.uk
web: www.fifthcolumn.org.uk
UK Distributor: Maya Vision International,
3rd Floor, Kinghorn Street, London, EC1A
7HW, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7796 4842, fax: +44 (0)20
7796 4580
email: aaron@mayavisionint.com
Producer: Colin McKeown
Screenwriter: Anthony Fletcher
Cast: Maimie McCoy, John Lightbody
Director: Dorna Aslanzadeh
2007. HD. 21 min 9 sec
Production Company: National Film and
Television School, Beaconsfield Studios,
Station Road, Beaconsfield,
Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)1494 731457, fax: +44 (0)1494
674042
email: festivals@nfts.co.uk
web: www.nfts.co.uk
UK Distributor, International Sales:
Hemant Sharda, National Film and
Television School
tel: +44 (0)1494 731457, fax: +44 (0)1494
678583
email: hsharda@nfts.co.uk
Producer, Screenwriter: Dorna
Aslanzadeh
Editor: Mahdis Neghabian
Director of Photography: Lukas
Demgenski
Music: Foad Arbadi
Cast: Elmira Arikan, Bahador Foladi, Dan Li
The East Front
An old lady and her family are moving out
of their East London flat. Meanwhile,
architects and city planners are talking
about the expansion of the City's financial
district eastward. Two worlds collide in a
tragi-comic war, leaving no disillusionment
about losers and winners.
Director: Giannis Georgiou
2007. HD. 9 min 20 sec
Production Company: National Film and
Television School, Beaconsfield Studios,
Station Road, Beaconsfield,
Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)1494 731457, fax: +44 (0)1494
674042
email: festivals@nfts.co.uk
web: www.nfts.co.uk
International Sales, UK Distributor:
Hemant Sharda, National Film and
Television School
tel: +44 (0)1494 731452, fax: +44 (0)1494
678583
email: hsharda@nfts.co.uk
Producer, Screenwriter, Editor, Sound:
Giannis Georgiou
Director of Photography: Tania Freimuth
Music: Stefanos Kozanis
Cast: Debra Baker, Kamrul Hassan, Huggy
Leaver, Pamela Lyne, Christopher Doyle
Director: Joe Barton Atkinson
2007. HD. 15 min
Production Company: Westminster Film
School, Watford Road, Northwick Park,
Harrow, Middlesex, HA1 3TP, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7911 5000, fax: +44 (0)20
7911 5943
email: hortp@westminster.ac.uk
Producer: Rob Kelley, Lilit Adamyan
Screenwriter: Jason Ward
Editor: Rory Green
Director of Photography: James Leckey
Production Designer: Amy Cook
Sound: Alex Nunes
Cast: Harry Sarjeant, Vera Chok, Duncan
Barrett
El Espiritu de Animitas
(The Spirit of Animitas)
Two men, alone in the Atacama Desert:
one kills for pleasure, the other for
revenge - which one will achieve his
objective first?
Director: Tony Jopia
2008. Mini DV. 15 min
Production Company, UK Distributor,
International Sales: Jopia Productions,
Flat 6, Wroxton House, Church Street,
Wroxton, Banbury, OX15 6QF, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7710 329 396
email: tony@jopiaproductions.com
Producer: Tony Jopia, Alan Cerda
Screenwriter: Tony Clarke
Editor: Rick Homer, Shane Hope, Matt
McArthur
Director of Photography: Fernando van
Camps
Production Designer: Mario Jopia
Sound: Eddie Menez
Music: Matt Hickinbottom, The Voodoo
Killing Machine
Cast: Aldo Prieto Henriquez, Anita Fritis,
Geraldine Pouget, Waldo Ahumada Rocco
Co-production: Chile
66
Short Films
Emo
Encore
Eye Level
Following a breakdown, 27 year-old
Vincent gets a job at an out-of-town
furniture store, far from his previous life
in the ivory towers of Oxbridge. The staff
is almost entirely composed of teenagers
working summer jobs and Vincent finds
himself pretending to be 17 in order to fit
in.
When life has to come to an end sooner
than expected everything can be
completely miserable. But one last song
will make Jack Hector's journey a
pleasant one.
Eye Level follows private investigator
Frank Stanton's search for the mysterious
Marla, through the twisted mind of
Frank's unstable landlord Ray in a noiristic
vision of London.
Director: Yaya Halawani
2007. 16mm. 8 min 25 sec
Director: Justin Addleton
2008. HDV. 17 min 53 sec
Production Company: London Film
Academy, 52a Walham Grove, London,
SW6 1QR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7386 7711, fax: +44 (0)20
7381 6116
email: anna@londonfilmacademy.com
Main Contact: Justin Addleton, Flat 2,
2 Dalyell Road, London, SW9 9QR,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7775 677 110
email: addlepaps@hotmail.com
Director: China Moo Young
2007. DV Cam. 24 min
Production Company: IWC Media,
Gloucester Building, Kensington Village,
Avonmore Road, London, W14 8RF,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7013 4052, fax: +44 (0)20
7013 4001
email: helen.jenkins@iwcmedia.co.uk
International Sales: RDF Rights,
Beaumont House, Kensington Village,
Avonmore Road, London, W14 8RF,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7013 4435, fax: +44 (0)20
7013 4001
email: alison.carney@rdfmedia.com
Producer: Jim Spencer, Hannah Weaver
Executive Producer: Judy Counihan
Screenwriter: Nicole Taylor
Editor: David Gibson
Director of Photography: Christopher
Titus King
Production Designer: Eddy Andres
Sound: Anna Sulley
Music: Oskar Johnny Dave, Nick Powell
Cast: Jefferson Hall, Sandra Clark, Mhairi
Steenbock, Rachel Jackson
Empire of Modern Passivity
In a beautiful landscape, a conflict is
taking place between two ideologies.
Director: Joaquim Barreto, Martin Blazing
2007. HD. 8 min
Main Contact: Joaquim Barreto,
8 Rochester Court, Rochester Square,
London, NW1 9EL, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7910 539 957
email: pictures@joaquimbarreto.com
Producer: Joaquim Barreto
Screenwriter: Jimmy Razor
Editor: Martin Blazey, Matthew Torn
Director of Photography: Robert
McGowan
Sound: Javor Dimitrov
Music: Taigen Kawabe
Cast: Lilianne Cookson, Theodore Best
Producer: Andrew Adu-Amankwah
Screenwriter: Orson Ossman
Editor: Ivaylo Minov
Director of Photography: Sandun
Seneviratne
Production Designer: Steve Granger
Music: Will Jakeway
Cast: Hilary Sesta, Haruka Abe, Ross
Hampton, Lee Kavitz
Exit Strategy
It's a morning like any other and a
husband and wife lie asleep in apparent
bliss. But this morning the husband makes
a phone call and organises a little surprise
for his wife, her funeral. A black comedy
about a dysfunctional marriage in a
consumerist dystopia.
Director: Frederic Casella
2007. DV Cam. 8 min 30 sec
Production Company: Exit Strategy
Productions Ltd, 6/47 Linden Gardens,
London, W2 4HQ, England, UK
email: fred@exitstrategyproductions.com
Producer: Frederic Casella, Graham
Hodge
Screenwriter: Graham Hodge
Editor: Michael Duxbury
Director of Photography: Will Hutchinson
Sound: Paul Davies
Music: James Coleman
Cast: Miranda Raison, Ben Willbond,
Jonathan Ryland
Producer, Screenwriter: Justin Addleton
Editor: Chris Cox, Justin Addleton
Director of Photography: Sam Lidbetter
Sound: Steve McIngurney, Matthew Moore
Music: Tom Gilchrest, James Frostick
Cast: George Nelson, Pamela Flanagan,
Gregory Doherty, Aidan O'Neill, Jamie
Addleton
Faker
Faker is a bittersweet drama focusing on
a fleeting encounter between two
mismatched strangers during a bus
journey.
Director: Mark Chapman
2008. HD. 5 min
Production Company: Arpeggio Films,
50 Sackville Road, Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE6 5TA, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7932 795 231
email: chapmanmm@talk21.com
Producer: Mark Chapman, Will Sadler
Executive Producer: Victoria Johnson,
Ednie Wilson
Screenwriter, Editor, Sound: Mark
Chapman
Director of Photography: Kyle Heslop
Production Designer: Mike Myers
Music: Michael Storrie
Cast: John Winter, Beth Waterstone,
Andrea Watson
67
Short Films
A Fall
Fate and the Fedora Hat
First
A group of individuals living in an isolated
British seaside town are all witness to a
spectacle of biblical proportions.
Frank sits in a laundrette; an unlit
cigarette dangles in his mouth. He
reflects over the previous events that
brought him there and the mystery
woman he met in an alleyway.
Sophie, a teenager with learning
difficulties, is a talented pianist. When
her best friend Danko enters her into a
prestigious composer competition she
discovers that the world is not quite
ready for her unorthodox musical style.
Director: Jamie Quantrill
2007. HD. 35 min 30 sec
Main Contact: Jamie Quantrill, 8 St
Olaves Gardens, Walnut Tree Walk,
London, SE11 6DR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7803 049 153
email: jpquantrill@gmail.com
Producer, Screenwriter, Editor: Jamie
Quantrill
Director of Photography: John Ford
Production Designer: Andrew Edwards
Sound: Wayne Urquhurt
Music: Jonny Pilcher, Bradford Bailey
Cast: Pedro Rosa, Jack Snowling, George
Lupton, Joshua Parry, Lara Costa
Famous Last Words
A young woman boards a train on the
London Underground. Is she nervous? And
if so, why?
Director: Avril Evans
2007. 16mm. 7 min
Production Company, UK Distributor,
International Sales: Steps International,
PO Box 21545, Kloof Street, Capetown,
8008, South Africa
tel: +27 21 465 5805, fax: +27 21 465 5806
email: don@steps.co.za
Producer: Brian Tilley
Executive Producer: Don Edkins, Mette
Heide
Screenwriter: Avril Evans
Editor: Simon Thorne
Director of Photography: David Rom
Production Designer: Lewor Evans
Sound: Editstore
Cast: Manjinder Virk, Jan Dean, Frances
Redmond
Director: Michael McHugh
2008. HD. 13 min 53 sec
Production Company: 10 Story Films Ltd,
277 Eversholt Street, London, NW1 1BA,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7988 448 099
email: tenstoryfilms@gmail.com
Producer, Editor: Michael McHugh
Executive Producer, Production
Designer: Karen McHugh
Screenwriter: Michael McHugh, Angelo
Siderilis
Director of Photography: Mattias Nyberg
Sound: Bastian Kemmerich
Music: Steve Bond
Cast: Mark Hampton, Elin Edvinsson,
Horam Bleetman
Finders Keep
A modern fairytale, a house in the woods,
three wise women that have amazing
skills and our heroine Dorla, who can't
get her head round it at all.
Director: Shona Donaldson
2008. HD. 15 min 4 sec
Main Contact: Shona Donaldson,
Laeiszstrasse 17, Hamburg, D-20357,
Germany
tel: +49 40 4329 0455
email: sho_down@gmx.net
Screenwriter, Editor: Shona Donaldson
Director of Photography: Kamilla Nowicki
Sound: Nadir Al Badri
Music: Tillman Borck
Cast: Linda Gathu, Francesca Manzi,
Andrea Chialton, Maxine Brown
Co-production: Germany
Director: Tinge Krishnan
2007. 35mm. 6 min
Production Company: Disruptive Element
Films, Flat 2, 6 Colville Terrace, London,
W11 2BE, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7727 8296
web: www.disruptive.co.uk
Producer: Sacha Guttenstein
Screenwriter: Tinge Krishnan
Editor: Lewis Albrow
Director of Photography: Catherine Derry
Music: Chris Bangs
Cast: Kali Perkins, Chris Lodge, Celyn
Jones
Five Minutes to Five Steps
A dark horror about a man and his obsession
with hunting and cleansing homeless people.
Director: David Lumsden
2007. DV Cam. 6 min 56 sec
Production Company: Blimey Productions,
37 Guthrie Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1PW,
Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)7742 978 996
email: lumsden_david@yahoo.co.uk
Producer: Matt Brown
Screenwriter, Editor: David Lumsden
Director of Photography: Patrick Murray
Sound: Scott Young
Music: Steven Housgo
Cast: Timo Langer, Ben Somerville
Five Pound Note
A story of love, destiny, fate and incredible
coincidences. The film revolves around a
five pound note which begins its journey
after a guy and a girl meet in a club. She
writes her number on a five pound note
and leaves the club with her friends.
Director: Henry Hamilton
2007. DV Cam. 10 min 35 sec
Main Contact: Henry Hamilton, 136a
Muswell Hill Road, London, N10 3JD,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7977 273 638
email: tvhenry@gmail.com
Producer, Screenwriter, Editor: Henry
Hamilton
Cast: Angela Ayton, Simon Lewis Marriott,
James Bryant, Keith Whitehouse, Karl
Rose
68
Short Films
Flights
Foto
Gabriel
Within a winding Edinburgh stairwell, a
frail old man struggles to make his way up
the many flights to the summit.
Adam finds a mysterious roll of film. Its
pictures show him committing terrible
acts. Are they fakes or evidence? As he
searches for answers, he becomes unsure
of the truth.
The nature of true love? It turns out
heaven doesn't know . . . yet.
Director: Jamie Stone
2008. Digibeta. 3 min 10 sec
Production Company: 1A Productions,
Langshot Farm, Acre Valley Road,
Torrance, G64 4DL, Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)1360 620855
email: jamiemagnusstone@hotmail.com
Producer: Laura Clarke
Screenwriter, Editor: Jamie Stone
Director of Photography: Freddy
Bonafanti
Sound: Marcelo D'Oliviera
Music: Moondog
Cast: Charles B Carlton
The Flyer
Anna tries to establish a new life in
Scotland while struggling to save her longdistance relationship with childhood
sweetheart Pawel, who remains waiting in
Poland.
Director: Andrea Harkin
2008. HDV. 15 min 35 sec
Production Company: Pilton Video,
30 Ferry Road Avenue, Edinburgh, EH4
4BA, Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)131 343 1151, fax: +44 (0)131
343 2820
email: graham@piltonvideo.org
web: www.piltonvideo.org
Producer: Julie McIntosh
Screenwriter, Editor: Andrea Harkin
Director of Photography: David Liddell
Production Designer: Sophie Webb
Sound, Music: John Lemke
Cast: Aleksandra Kocela, Chris Somerville
Forna
A short film about a penis, of average
size, protruding from the ground at the
bottom of a garden. Longlisted for Best
British Short at the BIFAs.
Director: Oscar Sharp
2007. HD. 11 min
Production Company: Therefore Films, 26
Brockwell Park Gardens, London, SE24
9BL, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8674 7450
email: mroscar@gmail.com
Producer: Jennifer Handorf
Screenwriter: Oscar Sharp
Editor: Benjamin Outland
Director of Photography: Guy Routledge
Sound: Alex Joseph
Music: Neel Dhorajiwala
Cast: David Hale, Genevieve Swallow
Director: Tom Canning
2008. s16mm. 10 min 24 sec
Production Company: John Dog Films Ltd,
37a Newington Green, London, N16 9PR,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7779 263 523
email: tom@johndogfilms.com
Producer: Tom Canning, Jason Joseph
Screenwriter: Tom Canning
Editor: Tom Canning, Alex Weeks
Director of Photography: Ben Filby
Sound: Simon Hornett
Music: Mike Palmer
Cast: Graham Bowe, Jamie Treacher,
Stuart James Robinson
Fried String Hoppers
Threatened with deportation, Maaran's
only aim is to keep earning money to
support his imperilled sisters and brothers
in Sri Lanka, until the troubled love life of
his new English landlady encroaches.
Director: Kothai Kanthan
2007. HD. 30 min
Production Company: National Film and
Television School, Beaconsfield Studios,
Station Road, Beaconsfield,
Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)1494 731457, fax: +44 (0)1494
674042
email: festivals@nfts.co.uk
web: www.nfts.co.uk
UK Distributor, International Sales:
Hemant Sharda, National Film and
Television School
tel: +44 (0)1494 731452, fax: +44 (0)1494
678583
email: hsharda@nfts.co.uk
Producer, Screenwriter: Kothai Kanthan
Director of Photography: Kate Reid,
Richard Reed
Sound: Remi Huang
Music: Matthew Davidson
Cast: A Vaenthen, Merryl Thurairatnam,
Mayu Kanna, Caroline Taylor
Director: Julio Garcia
2007. 16mm. 8 min 28 sec
Production Company: London Film
Academy, 52a Walham Grove, London,
SW6 1QR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7386 7711, fax: +44 (0)20
7381 6116
email: anna@londonfilmacademy.com
Producer: Linnea Cambari
Screenwriter: Kenneth Fanning
Editor: Patricia Chamah, Diana Buzzo
Director of Photography: Jonathan
Andrews
Production Designer: Alena Ondrakona
Sound: Nicholaus Matthes
A German Grandchild's
Funeral
A German woman in England realises that
there is more to being German than being
German. The narrative sends the viewer
on an intimate, humorous and moving
journey, witnessing the woman dying to
her and her country's past.
Director: Silke Mansholt
2007. HD. 11 min
Main Contact: Silke Mansholt,
92 Centurion Road, Brighton, Sussex,
BN1 3LN, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)1273 327469
email: press@idiolectbooks.com
Producer, Screenwriter, Director of
Photography: Silke Mansholt
Editor: Silke Mansholt, Lili Morante
Music: Welvie Stonder, Billy Cowie
Cast: Silke Mansholt, Ruth Peters, Martin
Smith, Bhupendra Patel
Girl
The story of how David and Susan meet at
a train platform and of how they say
goodbye at the station exit. David is
Susan's lover - her actual boyfriend is
waiting outside the station.
Director: Armen Antranikian
2008. HD. 6 min 23 sec
Main Contact: Armen Antranikian, Flat
301, Amber Court, 2 Ellington Street,
London, N7 8PY, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7515 396 234
email: aantranikian@mac.com
Producer, Editor: Armen Antranikian
Screenwriter: Gabriel Tupinamba
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Sound: Alastair Nicholls
Music: Andrea Caro
Cast: Darren Bransford, Jennifer Evans,
Dean Loxton
69
Short Films
Gods on Mountains
Goldfish
The Gravity of Belief
Nikhil returns home from America a new
man in an old place, and makes a spiritual
journey with his father to the top of a
magnificent Himalayan mountain,
revealing secrets and emotions long
hidden.
A couple battle about whether to stay
together. In the same room two
Cantonese-speaking fish, in their tank,
discuss their own relationship. The
parallel is drawn between the humans
trapped in their own existence and the
fish who have less choice and work things
out.
Whilst walking in the country one
beautiful sunny day, city girl Sarah is
introduced to the concept of `Sky-falling'
by her country living friend Mr Bumpkin,
with unexpected results.
Director: Pravesh Kumar
2007. 16mm. 18 min
Production Company: Rifco Arts, The
West Wing, Stoke Road, Slough, SL2 5AY,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)1753 570700
email: pravesh@rifcoarts.com
Producer: Neerja Sharma
Executive Producer, Screenwriter:
Pravesh Kumar
Editor: Apurva Asrani
Director of Photography: Pushan Kriplani
Production Designer: Andy Kumar
Sound: Parikshit Lalvani
Music: Sumeet Chopra
Cast: Arjun Mathur, Dilip Shankar, Smita
Rharti
Director: Edward Sayers
2007. HD. 11 min 40 sec
Production Company: Seven Productions
Ltd
tel: +44 (0)20 7482 6862
email: ed@sevenproductions.co.uk
Producer: Rebecca West
Screenwriter: Edward Sayers
Editor: Struan Clay
Director of Photography: Ben Butler, Ed
Rutherford
Production Designer: Richard Selway
Sound: Tristan
Music: Simon Bass
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Caroline Carver
Going Home
Grandma's Funeral
If you were trapped, every day the same,
what would you do? Going Home is a film
about a man on a mission to find his way
back to what he knows.
A mother and her two grownup daughters
prepare for Grandma's funeral. Getting
dressed in Grandma's bedroom brings back
fond memories of the times the girls used
to play there as children. But poignancy
turns to laughter when the mother has
trouble with her wardrobe. Will they ever
get that skirt on?
Director: Stuart Ramsey, Ben Thompson
2008. Digibeta. 15 min
Production Company: Vantage Point
Films, 54 Gledhow Park Avenue, Chapel
Allerton, Leeds, LS7 4JN, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7779 307 356
email: info@vantagepointfilms.co.uk
Producer, Screenwriter: Stuart Ramsey,
Ben Thompson
Editor: James MacMillan
Director of Photography: Stephen Sands
Sound: Mickey Close
Music: Lunar Coup, Big Eyes
Cast: Pete Ivatts, Garth Maunders, David
Robertson, Faye Jenelle
Director: Paul Olding
2007. HD. 8 min 12 sec
Production Company, UK Distributor,
International Sales: Bongo Reef Pictures,
42 Pitfold Road, Lee, London, SE12 9HX,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7970 155 303
email: paul@bongoreefpictures.co.uk
web: www.bongoreefpictures.co.uk
Producer: Paul Olding
Screenwriter: Andrea Olding
Editor: Doug Bryson, Steve Crook
Director of Photography: Paul Cox
Production Designer: Nicole Northridge
Director: Martin Gooch
2008. 16mm. 4 min
Production Company: MGTV, 77 Beak
Street, Soho, London, W1F 9DB, England,
UK
tel: +44 (0)7887 945 821
email: goochling@hotmail.com
Producer, Screenwriter: Martin Gooch
Editor: Dave Berezai
Director of Photography: Pete Rowe
Sound: Mike Wyld
Music: Daniel Herbert
Cast: Alexandria Beck, Paul Ready
Guns
A British-Pakistani film set runner
transporting a load of replica guns gets
stuck in a London suburb in the middle of
the night.
Director: Mel Mercer
2008. HDV. 10 min
Production Company: Dryad Productions
tel: +44 (0)7943 545 717
email: info@dryadproductions.com
Producer, Screenwriter: Mel Mercer
Editor: Dominic Husband, Mel Mercer
Director of Photography: Mikolaj
Jaroszewicz
Sound: Nikos Nikolalaios, Marco Iavarone
Music: Gary Hughes
Cast: Imran Khan, Mace
Âo Bhardwaj
Hatemail
Postmen all over the country are being
harassed and robbed by a modern-day
highwayman. These robberies are
inextricably linked to a bizarre encounter
in a park many years before.
Director: Frazer Churchill
2008. HD. 12 min 15 sec
Production Company: 2FC Ltd, Unit 8,
The Old Schoolhouse, 2 Landsdowne
Drive, London, E8 3EZ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7989 401 910
email: frazer@2fc.co.uk
Producer: Mark Murrell
Screenwriter: Frazer Churchill
Editor: Kate Owen
Director of Photography: George
Richmond
Production Designer: Julian Nagel
Sound: 750mph
Music: Dov Waterman, Dan Churchill
Cast: Simon Kunz, Kieran Holloway, Jeff
Barnet, Angus Brown
70
Short Films
Have I Ever Happened?
HeavenScent
The Hero's Journey
An Iranian lesbian poet and cello player
whose application for asylum in the UK
has been refused shares her feelings
through poetry. This is her manifesto
about life and living in a tyrannical world
which is not isolated to any one place.
Tom is astoundingly bored at the office.
Until he finds love in the most
unexpected place, the gent's loo. But has
Tom let his grip on reality wander too far?
A modern reworking of the silent short. A
comic, even absurd, story bedded in by an
impressionistic soundscape.
Sam is playing with his light-sabre in a
fantasy world. Enemies are everywhere.
Suddenly, he is pitched into a real-life
ordeal when his mum comes back with
her lover. His imaginary world collides
with reality, his denial of a terrible truth
is threatened, and we discover whether
he is able to save his mother.
Director: Ramin Goudarzi-Nejad
2007. HD. 20 min
Production Company: Longer than Short
Film & Video Productions, 673 Finchley
Road, London, NW2 2JP, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7317 7079, fax: +44 (0)20
7806 8578
email: longerthanshort@yahoo.co.uk
Executive Producer: Farhang Afsarpour
Screenwriter, Editor, Director of
Photography: Ramin Goudarzi-Nejad
Production Designer: Sahba Lajevardi
Sound: Ramin Goudarzi-Nejad, Oliver
Wrigth
Music: Nordic Chelo
Cast: Soussan Farokhnia, Elizabeth
Mansfield
Heatsource
In rain-swept Birmingham a young French
woman shares a claustrophobic life with
her artist boyfriend. Their relationship has
intimacy but also silence and tension.
Isolated, she begins a new friendship. The
idea of returning home grows. Violence
breaks out. A decision is made but with
an unexpected emotional outcome.
Director: Daniel Whistler
2007. DV Cam. 37 min
Main Contact: Daniel Whistler, 12 St
Augustine's Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham,
B16 9JU, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)121 454 2104
email: danielwhistler@hotmail.com
Producer, Screenwriter, Director of
Photography: Daniel Whistler
Editor: Alex McAllister
Music: Jan Podliany
Cast: Veronique Leininger, Martin Davies,
Charlotte McKinney
Director: Frederic Casella
2007. DV Cam. 4 min 30 sec
Production Company: Exit Strategy
Productions Ltd, 6/47 Linden Gardens,
London, W2 4HQ, England, UK
email: fred@exitstrategyproductions.com
Producer: Frederic Casella, Graham
Hodge
Screenwriter: Graham Hodge
Editor: Michael Duxbury
Director of Photography: Will Hutchinson
Production Designer: Mike Luscombe
Sound: Paul Davies
Music: The Magnetic Fields
Cast: Jonathan Ryland
Her and Now
Five year-old Sam wants the stabilisers
taken off his bike but his single dad
refuses. Only a miracle will change his
mind.
Director: Sebastian Duthy
2007. HD. 10 min
Production Company: Bonobo
Productions, 23 Sekforde Street, London,
EC1R 0HL, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7968 481 395
email: sebduthy@yahoo.com
Producer: Louise Bush
Screenwriter, Editor: Sebastian Duthy
Director of Photography: Vince
McConnachie
Production Designer: Fred Duthy
Sound: Mike Wood
Music: Scott Doran, Casper Kedros
Cast: Mo Zainal, Sami Ali Dodd
Director: Jack Herbert
2008. HD. 6 min
Production Company: Redbag Pictures
Ltd, 370 Carshalton Road, Carshalton,
Surrey, SM5 3PT, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7977 406 789
email: barrington@
redbagpicturesltd.co.uk
web: www.redbagpictures.co.uk
Producer: Barrington Robinson
Screenwriter: Jack Herbert
Editor: Mike Green
Director of Photography: James Aspinall
Production Designer: Mia Summerville
Music: Ben Foster
Cast: Sam Spink, Phyllis Logan,
Christopher Fulford
Hit the Big Time
Two British hitmen try to turn their backs
on crime by going to Hollywood to sell
their life stories, but soon find themselves
with a brand new target.
Director: Helen Grace
2008. HD. 25 min
Production Company, International
Sales: Unity Films, 68 Trinity Court,
London, WC1X 8JY, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7802 299 182
email: unityfilms@email.com
web: www.unity-films.com
Producer: J C Mac, Helen Grace, Josh
Todd, Jason Hyde
Screenwriter: Chris Ryan, Helen Grace,
J C Mac, Jason Hyde
Editor: Kate Coggins
Director of Photography: Collis
Huntington
Production Designer: Josh Todd, Jason
Hyde
Sound: Adair Campbell
Music: Jonny Pearson, Andy Watts
Cast: Jason Hyde, J C Mac, William
Knight, Sean Park, Glen Beck
71
Short Films
The Hole of Space and
Time
A hard-drinking, burnt-out theatre actor
sits alone watching his penultimate
performance over and over on video. His
frustration builds as he struggles over the
question which has plagued him over the
last year. That is, until a random
encounter with a hole in the fabric of
space and time.
Director: Raza Mallal
2007. HD. 4 min
Production Company: Eyeline
Productions, Newsam Lodge, 53-55 Selby
Road, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS9 0EW,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)113 248 4444, fax: +44 (0)113
295 8013
email: philrochester@yahoo.co.uk
Producer, Editor: Raza Mallal, Phil
Rochester
Executive Producer: Shabeena Ayub
Screenwriter, Music: Phil Rochester
Director of Photography: Martyn Culpan
Production Designer: Maria Jaramilo
Cast: Robert Kennedy
Homicide: Division B
A thrilling and humorous comedy about
the British police. A serial killer threatens
to blow up a police station. With only a
limited amount of time, the Chief
Inspector must solve the problem using a
most unexpected tactic.
Director: Abner Pastoll
2008. 16mm. 9 min
Production Company: February Films,
147 Kings Road, London, SW3 5TX,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7807 478 245
email: films@februaryfilms.com
Producer: Junyoung Jang
Executive Producer: Abner Pastoll,
Junyoung Jang
Editor: Abner Pastoll, Kamma Pastoll
Sound: Libero Colimberti
Music: Laura Rossi
Cast: Edward Peel, Daniel Gosling, Tim
Downie, Anna Stokes, Lawrence Sheldon
Honor
How Not to Say I Love You
Honor is an actor; she is 28 years old and
lives alone in West London. We follow her
as she is getting ready for an important
audition. We discover how she perceives
reality and how her film character gets
mangled in her everyday life.
When Ben is dumped by his actress
girlfriend, Claire, he tracks her down at a
rehearsal and summons up the courage to
confront her. Under the glare of the stage
spotlights Ben gives us a lesson in how not
to say those three magic words.
Director: Fabiola Quiroz-Brown
2008. HD. 11 min
Director: Alex Sufit
2008. HD. 5 min 40 sec
Main Contact: Dolores Remedios,
8 Carlton Mansions, Holland Park Gardens,
London, W14 8DW, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7787 501 720, fax: +44 (0)20
7371 3704
email: remedios7@btopenworld.com
Production Company: Lexitricity Ltd, 25
Vereker Road, West Kensington, London,
W14 9JU, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7808 404 466
email: production@lexitricity.com
Producer, Screenwriter, Production
Designer: Fabiola Quiroz-Brown
Editor: Raimondo Aiello
Director of Photography: Christian
Manzutto, Laureana Toledo
Sound: Matt Faulkner
Music: Ian Brown
Cast: Phillipa Cooper, Aurelle Hoare
Horatio
Horatio is a mystical, ghost-like character
who briefly touches the lives of two
people. Signs appear and tokens are left.
Director: Louis Neethling
2008. HD. 10 min 30 sec
Production Company: Mutt & Jeff
Pictures Ltd, 32 Pield Heath Avenue,
Hillingdon, Middlesex, UB8 3PD, England,
UK
tel: +44 (0)1895 237332, fax: +44 (0)1895
237332
email: louis@muttandjeffpictures.com
Producer: Louis Neethling, Alison Lynch
Executive Producer: Louis Neethling, Joel
Kellhofer
Screenwriter: Alison Lynch
Editor: Louis Neethling
Director of Photography: Alex Ryle
Production Designer, Music: IDO
Sound: Dave Low
Cast: Bora Tukenmez, Heike Brunner,
Steven Webb, Carola Wisny
Producer, Screenwriter: Alex Sufit
Editor, Sound: Mark Curl
Director of Photography: Jay J Odedra
Music: Jamie Mortimer, Blue Bambinds
Cast: Lennard Sillevis, Olivia Mace, Dan
Skili
How to Pick Up Girls
A dull man. A vibrant girl. A lesson in how
to pick up girls!
Director: Dan Gitsham
2007. Mini DV. 4 min
Production Company: Sketchbook
Pictures, 15c Arlington Villas, Bristol, BS8
2EG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7865 081 557
email: dgitch@yahoo.com
Producer: Sophie Mair, Richard Garnett
Screenwriter: Dan Gitsham
Editor: Craig Chaplin
Director of Photography: Simon Wake
Production Designer: Sophie Mair
Sound, Music: Audioshelter
Cast: Kama Roberts, Tony Claassen
72
Short Films
Hysteria
I'm in Away From Here
Intercom
A group of teenagers embark on a night
out to see if a wicked new DJ set can
breathe new life into the town's old
nightclub. Guided by professionals,
Hysteria was produced by a group of
young people taking on the various roles
of cast and crew.
Weary of the world agitating his head,
Archie decides to take his head into
another place.
A woman and her uncommunicative
neighbours closely monitor a new tenant's
movements until they meet up via their
intercom to face the consequences.
Director: The Nerve Centre
2007. Mini DV. 10 min 20 sec
Production Company: First Light Movies,
The Bond, 180-182 Fazeley Street,
Birmingham, B5 5SE, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)121 753 4866
email: charlotte@firstlightmovies.com
Collaborators: Arron Burke, Anthony
McKeever, Nicola McCallion, Patricia
Dunlop, Stephen Doherty, Paul Fitzgerald,
Shaunghan Kivelhan, Jonathan Shiels,
Charles Conaghan, Connor Hegarty,
Kayleigh Breslin, Padraig Villa, Paul Harkin
I Am Leg End
A no-budget short with a fresh take on
the old 'Last Man on Earth' yarn.
Director: Stuart Elliott
2008. HD. 2 min 46 sec
Main Contact: Stuart Elliott, Flat 2/2,
469 Tantallon Road, Glasgow, G41 3HT,
Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)7855 251 033
email: funknoir2000@yahoo.co.uk
Producer, Screenwriter, Editor, Sound:
Stuart Elliott
Director of Photography: Stuart Elliott,
Billy Elliott
Music: Daniel Padden, Aberfeldy
Cast: Billy Elliott
I, Sisyphus
Condemned to carry a rock for eternity,
Sisyphus continues his task of man picks
up rock, man carries rock to the top, rock
falls, man descends, man picks up rock.
Director: Adam Alive
2007. HD. 11 min 30 sec
Production Company: Unbearable Films
Ltd
email: unbearablefilms@aol.com
Producer: Derek Shiel
Screenwriter: Adam Alive
Editor, Sound: Jeremy Nicholls
Director of Photography: Kaori Alive
Cast: Adam Alive
Director: Catriona MacInnes
2008. HD. 23 min 10 sec
Production Company: Screen Academy
Scotland, Napier University, 2a Merchiston
Avenue, Edinburgh, EH10 4NU, Scotland,
UK
tel: +44 (0)131 455 2572, fax: +44 (0)131
455 2538
email: info@screenacademyscotland.ac.uk
web: www.screenacademyscotland.ac.uk
Producer, Screenwriter: Catriona
MacInnes
Editor: Gordon Lockhart
Director of Photography: Alex Ryle
Sound: John Lemke
Music: 7VWWVW
Cast: Yvonne Briglmen, Carrie Mancini,
Duncan Rennie
Ignorance
A one shot, single take film revealing its
own creation, blurring sexuality and
exposing the power of performance.
Director: Liam Pearce
2008. HD. 8 min 39 sec
Production Company: Seventh Seal
Productions, Twin Pines, 65 Smyth Road,
Ashton, Bristol, BS3 2DS, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7984 055 757
email: scthechosen@hotmail.com,
5clemso2@salent.ac.uk
Producer: Sam Clements, Simon Renshaw
Screenwriter, Editor, Production
Designer: Liam Pearce
Director of Photography: Mike Le
Marechal
Sound: Liam Pearce, Simon Renshaw
Music: Simon Renshaw
Cast: Fred Le Doux
Director: Mark Gutteridge
2008. 35mm. 10 min
Production Company: Daylight Films,
Suite S209, Ealing Film Studios, Ealing
Green, London, W5 5EP, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8255 0742
email: info@daylightfilms.co.uk
Producer: Mark Gutteridge
Screenwriter: Mark Gutteridge, Aidan
Lean
Editor: Ian Seymour, Tamsin Jeffrey
Director of Photography: Dick Pope
Sound: Jack Gillies
Music: Arr Rhodri Davies, Mark Gutteridge
Cast: Jenny Agutter, Marc Warren, David
Calder, David Garry
In the National Interest
A Polish underground fighter comes to
London with firsthand evidence of the
Holocaust. The Joint Intelligence
Committee decides to bury his evidence
`in the national interest'. Even today, the
cover up continues.
Director: Phil Martin
2007. Mini DV. 14 min 33 sec
Production Company: Freewheel
Productions, Glebelands, Brockenhurst
Road, Ascot, Berkshire, SL5 9HB, England,
UK
tel: +44 (0)1344 622032
email: philipmartin@tiscali.co.uk
Producer: Kate Dooley
Screenwriter: Alex Martin
Editor: Phil Martin
Director of Photography: Geoff Addis
Cast: Chris Courteney, Kuba Pierzchalski
73
Short Films
In Transit to a Diversion
Jack Blond
Jewel and Eme
A thin thread connects the lives of three
people, a thread they have often sought
and sometimes wished to banish. By a
strange coincidence they find themselves
confronted with each other one late
afternoon. Will their paths finally cross on
a final diversion? Or will they simply
remain in a permanent state of transit?
Jack Blond, the guy who would be Bond!
Jack Blond is the story of a young man
with Down's syndrome who idolises James
Bond. He turns out to be special in more
ways than meets the eye.
15 years old and your life sucks. What can
you do? Jewel and Eme is a dark yet
redemptive tale set against a backdrop of
sexual and physical abuse.
Director: Blinkk
2007. 16mm. 9 min 28 sec
Production Company: OneSix7
Productions, 25 Lexington Street, London,
W1F 9AH, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7287 4167, fax: +44 (0)20
7439 0543
email: sara@onesix7productions.com
Producer: Abi Hodson
Screenwriter: Blinkk
Editor: Blinkk, Andy Phillips
Director of Photography: Ian Murray
Production Designer: Erik Rehl
Sound: Patrick Rowland
Music: Ian Williams
Cast: Rebecca Palmer, David Birkin, Colin
Bennett
Island
A maritime warden investigates an
unauthorised presence on a private island.
Director: Matt Palmer
2007. 35mm. 15 min
Production Company: Wellington Films,
Broadway Media Centre, 14-18 Broad
Street, Nottingham, NG1 3AL, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)115 840 0043
email: aclark@wellingtonfilms.co.uk
Producer: Alastair Clark, Rachel Robey
Executive Producer: Matthieu de
Braconier, Rebecca Mark-Lawson, Jo
McClellan
Screenwriter: Matt Palmer, Simon Grohe
Editor: Edd Maggs
Director of Photography: Bo Bilstrup
Production Designer: Jess Alexander
Cast: Bjarne Henriksen
Director: Rebecca Coley
2008. HD. 12 min 23 sec
Production Company: Spinky Films,
Waterloo Farms, Waterworxs Valley,
St Lawrence, Jersey, JE3 1HQ, Channel
Islands
tel: +44 (0)7797 887 502, fax: +44 (0)1534
731568
email: info@spinkyfilms.com
Producer, Screenwriter: Rebecca Coley
Editor: Philip Clyde-Smith
Director of Photography: Ashley Palin
Production Designer: Karen Allenet
Sound, Music: Marc Mitchell
Cast: Darren Renouf, Kim Fortune, Jolyon
Baker, Rebecca Eve, Lorraine Fiander
Jellyfish
The story follows three young men living
in the English countryside. Inspired and
driven by American rap culture the three
men begin a protection racket in their
local village.
Director: Gille Klabin
2007. 16mm. 22 min 25 sec
Main Contact: Gille Klabin, 54 Academy
Gardens, London, W9 1EJ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7771 956 737
email: gilleklabin@gmail.com
Producer: Mondi Howard
Screenwriter, Editor: Gille Klabin
Director of Photography: Glen Milner
Production Designer: Elliott Day
Sound: Stephen Green
Music: Eldad Guetta
Cast: Dan Moore, Allix Holland, Bobby
Windebank, Mark Klabin
Director: Matthew Lynch
2008. Digibeta. 19 min 55 sec
Production Company: Lodestone Films,
c/o 15b Churchill Road, Willesden,
London, NW2 5ED, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7796 817 135
email: lodestone_films@hotmail.co.uk
Producer: Jennifer Alexander Robinson,
Matthew Lynch
Screenwriter, Music: Jennifer Alexander
Robinson
Editor: John Ramsden
Director of Photography: Dan West
Production Designer: Matthew Lynch,
Jennifer Alexander Robinson
Sound: Stuart Piggott
Cast: Roseanne Stewart, Sarita Smith, Riz
Meedin, Claire Porter, Karolina Grace
Joel, the Superman
Ten year-old Joel is playing football when
he accidentally kills his pet goldfish.
Failing to receive support from his selfish
best friend and from his parents, who are
stuck in the mire of a violent marriage,
he retreats into an iconic persona to help
him through his pain.
Director: Ben Weiner
2008. HD. 9 min 56 sec
Production Company: Southwark Bridge
Films, Flat 2, 2 Temple Road, London, N8
7BY, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7868 652 163
email: bnwn@aol.com
Producer, Screenwriter: Ben Weiner
Editor: Rob Redford
Director of Photography: Darran Bragg
Sound: Cal Knightley
Music: Mike Jennings
Cast: Peter Kirkham, Louisa Clein, Tony
Clegg, Jack O'Connor
74
Short Films
Jump
Killing Time
Kings of London
Two worlds collide when Oscar has a
momentary lapse at the wheel of his car.
As he is left with the guilt of causing a
death, 18 year-old Laurie is left without a
mother but with a determination to bring
up his young sister alone.
Killing Time is a dark comedy based on a
short story by Alexei Sayle that tells the
tale of a 72 year-old pensioner, who
discovers a very productive way to spend
his time. Instead of killing his time he
spends his time killing.
Director: James Nunn
2007. HD. 17 min
Director: Konstantinos Fragkopoulos
2008. HD. 10 min
Kings Of London follows the fortunes of
two teenage brothers both named
Aristotle. The elder is struggling to get his
life on track whereas the younger one,
Little Aristotle, has found success as the
undisputed champion of the Ghetto
Riders, a group of young black horsemen
who race for money.
Production Company: Westminster Film
School, Watford Road, Northwick Park,
Harrow, Middlesex, HA1 3TP, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7911 5000 x4773, fax: +44
(0)20 7911 5943
email: hortp@westminster.ac.uk
Production Company: National Film and
Television School, Beaconsfield Studios,
Station Road, Beaconsfield,
Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)1494 731457, fax: +44 (0)1494
674042
email: festivals@nfts.co.uk
web: www.nfts.co.uk
Producer, Screenwriter: James Hanford
Editor: Richard Deeb
Director of Photography: James Nicholas
Fuller
Production Designer: Rachel Holland, Ben
Matthews, Steve Shaw
Sound: Rob Harper
Music: Maria Vatenina
K
15 year-old Kaylee encounters an
enigmatic stranger who compels her to reevaluate her future.
Director: Piers Thompson
2008. 16mm. 19 min 50 sec
Production Company: Hector Films Ltd,
Unit 6-6 Stirling Court, Marshall Street,
London, W1F 9BD, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7734 8330, fax: +44 (0)20
7734 8330
email: sophie@hectorfilms.co.uk
web: www.hectorfilms.co.uk
UK Distributor, International Sales: Cold
Little Eels Ltd, Unit 6-6 Stirling Court,
Marshall Street, London, W1F 9BD,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7775 688 878, fax: +44 (0)20
8969 7843
email: sophie@hectorfilms.co.uk
Producer: Sophie Venner
Screenwriter: Piers Thompson
Editor: Elise Traversi
Director of Photography: Tom Harari
Production Designer: Jonnie Elf
Sound: Doug Haywood
UK Distributor, International Sales:
Hemant Sharda, National Film and
Television School
tel: +44 (0)1494 731452, fax: +44 (0)1494
678583
email: hsharda@nfts.co.uk
Producer: Sunny Midha
Screenwriter: Ryan Baxrer
Editor: Josh Levinski
Director of Photography: Brian Fawcett
Sound: Susannah Lawrence
Music: Roger Goula
Cast: Dudley Sutton, Joy McBrin, Philip
Pritchard
Director: Sean Conway
2007. HD. 24 min
Production Company: IWC Media,
Gloucester Building, Kensington Village,
Avonmore Road, London, W14 8RF,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7013 4052, fax: +44 (0)20
7013 4001
email: helen.jenkins@iwcmedia.co.uk
International Sales: RDF Rights,
Beaumont House, Kensington Village,
Avonmore Road, London, W14 8RF,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7013 4435, fax: +44 (0)20
7013 4001
email: alison.carney@rdfmedia.com
Producer: Jim Spencer, Hannah Weaver
Executive Producer: Judy Counihan
Screenwriter: Sean Conway
Editor: Alastair Reid
Director of Photography: Lol Crawley
Production Designer: Jo Manser
Sound: Anna Sulley
Music: Anthony Lachucik, James Scholes,
Tim Reilly
Cast: Jumayn Hunter, Duane Henry,
Sandra Yaw, Dominique Moore
Knots
Knots is a philosophical short film that
tells the story of humanity in its double
chance to keep and accumulate things or
to free itself and seed, instead of
possessing. The man dies and is reborn in
a perpetual motion of chances to be.
Director: Matteo Pizzarello
2007. Super 8. 4 min 28 sec
Production Company: Miracles Pictures
Ltd, Flat 3, 40 Sinclair Road, London, W14
0NH, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7602 8618
email: matteo.pizzarello@
miraclespictures.com
Producer, Screenwriter, Editor, Director
of Photography, Sound, Music: Matteo
Pizzarello
Executive Producer: Leonardo Maria
Poggiali
Production Designer: Ernesto Nicolini
Cast: Franceso Maiorca
75
Short Films
A las Tres de la Tarde
(At Three in the Afternoon)
Last Hand
Lemonade
Barcelona, 1940. The Civil War has just
ended, and fascist Franco and his army
control the country. Merce has just given
birth to a beautiful baby and wants to
show it to its father.
With everything to win and everything to
lose, four anonymous players at a highrolling card game stake it all on the last
hand. Last chance to make a killing. Last
chance to beat the odds. The pressure's
on. Somebody's going to snap.
Here's to the kids that are different, the
kids with a mischievous streak, for when
they have grown, as history has shown,
it's their difference that makes them
unique.
Director: Cristina Escoda
2008. HDV. 9 min 47 sec
Director: Louise Lockwood
2008. HD. 1 min 17 sec
Production Company: Cut the Papaya,
49b Upper Tollington Park, London, N4
4DD, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7958 604 670
email: cristina.escoda@gmail.com
Production Company: BBC Scotland,
40 Pacific Quay, Glasgow, G51 1DA,
Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)141 422 6081
email: audrey.mcfadden@bbc.co.uk
Producer: Laia Grau
Executive Producer: Arcadi Escoda, Berta
Labajos
Screenwriter: Cristina Escoda
Editor: Estephan Wagner
Director of Photography: Neus Olle
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Production Designer: Maria Jose Juan
Sound: Christopher Wilson
Music: Roger Goula
Cast: Pau Roca, Ainhoa Roca, Jonatan
Minaya, Mariona Perrier
Producer: Audrey McFadden
Screenwriter: Gillian Christie
Editor: John Matthews
Director of Photography: Paul Dawson
Sound: Jim Renwick
Cast: David Hayman, Carmen Pieraccini,
James Watson, Gordon Brandie, Richard
Callan
Co-production: Spain
A lonely and miserable man, Richard,
finds a letter in the park. He tracks the
letter to a pretty young woman, Laura.
Richard falls in love with her and starts
stalking her. He manages to take her for a
drink. It turns out Laura is a serial killer
and she murders Richard in the end.
Last Chance Romance
A thought-provoking story about an old
woman at the end of her days, and the
surprise visitors that come to escort her
on her surreal journey to the great
beyond.
Director: Stacy Harrison
2008. HDV. 7 min 58 sec
Production Company: Shhhh!
Entertainment, 1 Church Close, Church
Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT17 4PT, England,
UK
tel: +44 (0)7971 868 473
email: stacylharrison@yahoo.com
Producer, Screenwriter, Production
Designer: Stacy Harrison
Editor: Eldon Snelgrove, Simon Ruben
Director of Photography: Steve Downer
Sound, Music: Mike Hall
Cast: Hannah Dea Warner, Ian Attfield,
Mark Mangan
Left Alone
Director: Jon Berntsen Husery
2008. Mini DV. 14 min
Production Company, UK Distributor:
Waste Management, 58 Lynmouth Road,
N16 6XL, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7726 442 456
email: jonbernts@gmail.com
Producer: Caio Comingues
Screenwriter, Editor: Jon Berntsen
Husery
Director of Photography: Nathaniel
Kassathun
Sound: Juan Delfin
Music: Moritz Schmittat
Director: Stefan Georgiou
2007. HD. 16 min
Production Company: Eyeline
Productions, Newsam Lodge, 53-55 Selby
Road, Leeds, LS9 0EW, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)113 248 4444, fax: +44 (0)113
295 8013
email: philrochester@yahoo.co.uk
UK Distirbutor, International Sales:
Hemant Sharda, National Film and
Television School, Beaconsfield Studios,
Station Road, Beaconsfield,
Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)1494 731452, fax: +44 (0)1494
678583
email: hsharda@nfts.co.uk
web: www.nfts.co.uk
Producer, Screenwriter, Editor: Stefan
Georgiou
Director of Photography: Tania Freimuth
Sound: Ben Woolnough
Music: Phil Zacharias
Cast: Sebastian Armesto, Samuel Bern,
Natalie Haverstock, Edward Dogliani
Let Me Show You Some
Things
This film deals with a fragile sibling
relationship that shifts constantly
between commitment and collapse. The
siblings take comfort from coveted
keepsakes and explore memories of their
shared childhood while sharing a cramped
bedsit. During three journeys out into the
world their experiences of each location
bring them closer together and push them
further apart.
Director: Sarah Tripp
2008. HDV. 30 min
Main Contact: Sarah Tripp
tel: +44 (0)7779 639 344
email: studio@sarahtripp.com
Production Company: Centre for
Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall
Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)141 352 4921
email: louise@cca-glasgow.com
Producer: Sarah Tripp, Paul Welsh
Screenwriter: Sarah Tripp
Director of Photography: David Liddell
Music: Various
Cast: Fiona Alexander, Jonny Shaw
76
Short Films
Let Me Speak
Life in Ruins
Lily
Nine year-old Harriet, a silent witness to
the hidden trauma of a disintegrating
family, struggles to reconcile the love of a
father with his own evident demons.
A documentary team travel to Scotland in
search of 'tradition', but end up with
something altogether more troubling.
As the only girl in her family, eight yearold Lily spends her days playing her own
particular games and trying to win the
attention of her eldest brother Darren.
One night, Lily sees far more than she
should have. Darren begs her to remain
silent but will she be able to keep such a
heavy secret?
Director: Ella Vakkasova
2007. HD. 19 min
Production Company: National Film and
Television School, Beaconsfield Studios,
Station Road, Beaconsfield,
Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)1494 731457, fax: +44 (0)1494
674042
email: festivals@nfts.co.uk
web: www.nfts.co.uk
UK Distributor, International Sales:
Hemant Sharda, National Film and
Television School
tel: +44 (0)1494 731452, fax: +44 (0)1494
678583
email: hsharda@nfts.co.uk
Producer, Screenwriter: Ella Vakkasova
Executive Producer: Cornelia Colonius
Editor: Christopher R Bell
Director of Photography: Xavi Amoros
Sound: David Hunt
Cast: Harriet Crawford, Joe Tucker, Lynsey
Beauchamp, Luke Beach
Lickle Bill Um
A bittersweet comedy about a mother and
daughter relationship. The daughter has
not managed to make much of her life
and resents her mother because she HAS.
So the daughter decides, as it is her 30th
birthday, that she is going to deal with
this inequality once and for all.
Director: Kate Hardie
2007. DV Cam. 24 min
Production Company: IWC Media,
Gloucester Building, Kensington Village,
Avonmore Road, London, W14 8RF,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7013 4052, fax: +44 (0)20
7013 4001
email: helen.jenkins@iwcmedia.co.uk
International Sales: RDF Rights,
Beaumont House, Kensington Village,
Avonmore Road, London, W14 8RF,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7013 4435, fax: +44 (0)20
7013 4001
email: alison.carney@rdfmedia.com
Producer: Jim Spencer, Hannah Weaver
Executive Producer: Judy Counihan
Screenwriter: Kate Hardie
Editor: Kant Pan
Director of Photography: Christopher
Titus King
Production Designer: Eddy Andres
Sound: Anna Sulley
Music: Matthew Davidson, Rosie Oddie
Cast: Imelda Staunton, Jim Carter, Amanda
Abbington, Reece Shearsmith, Dhafer L'Abidine
Director: Michael Cox, Sam Addison
2008. DV Cam. 12 min 44 sec
Production Company: Donside Pictures,
5 Granton Place, Aberdeen, AB10 6QX,
Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)7748 662 060
email: contact@donsidepictures.co.uk
web: www.donsidepictures.co.uk
Screenwriter: Sam Addison, Michael Cox
Editor, Sound: Michael Cox
Music: Gene Arnold
Cast: Sam Addison, Ben Walker, Craig
Stewart
Like Other People Do
A community of people respond to
unconditional giving in different ways.
Director: Alex Kelly
2008. 16mm. 5 min 3 sec
Main Contact: Alex Kelly, 25 Sinclair
House, Hastings Street, London, WC1H
9PZ, England, UK
mobile: +44 (0)7968 484 072
email: kellyalexgirl@hotmail.com
Producer, Screenwriter: Alex Kelly
Editor: Natasha Wilkinson
Director of Photography: Ed Wright
Sound: Munzie Singh
Music: Georgeweiss Benny Benjamin
Cast: Sagar Arya, Alison Gooke, Robert
Burt, David Holt
Director: Noe
Âmie Saglio
2007. HD. 15 min
Production Company: National Film and
Television School, Beaconsfield Studios,
Station Road, Beaconsfield,
Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)1494 731457, fax: +44 (0)1494
674042
email: festivals@nfts.co.uk
web: www.nfts.co.uk
UK Distributor, International Sales:
Hemant Sharda, National Film and
Television School
tel: +44 (0)1494 731452, fax: +44 (0)1494
678583
email: hsharda@nfts.co.uk
Producer: Noe
Âmie Saglio, Luana
Duchemin
Screenwriter: Noe
Âmie Saglio
Editor: Emily Morgan
Director of Photography: Brian Fawcett
Sound: Nick Loe
Music: John Greswell, Ben Nicholls, Chris
Taylor
Cast: Poppy Wigglesworth, Noah Young,
Levi Wigglesworth, Luana Duchemin,
Robert Goodman, Gillies Mackinnon
Lilya
A group of bored youngsters set off on a
quest to score some cocaine,
encountering the sinister underbelly of
the city in the process. Concurrently, a
Russian girl, Lilya, is forced to take a
dangerous journey to England as a drug
mule. As their paths speed towards each
other, both sides learn painful lessons.
Director: Chris Taylor
2007. HD. 10 min
Production Company: Superkrush Films,
20a Nun Street, Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE1 5AQ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)191 233 2001
email: chris@superkrush.com
web: www.superkrush.com
Producer: Chris Taylor, Kaja Amundsen
Screenwriter: Stephane Cochrane
Editor: Ben Mullins
Director of Photography: James McAleer
Production Designer: Joy Sanders
Sound: Dave Gibson
Music: Rory Craig, Simon Watkin
Cast: Micky Cochrane, Joy Sanders, Robyn
Wilkin
77
Short Films
Little Miss Badass
Long Distance
Love Does Grow on Trees
A sweet little girl wants to fit in with her
triplet sisters but keeps getting her ass
kicked all over town.
Ying is a young actress from Taipei. She
steals a cashbox and comes to Edinburgh
to visit her ex-boyfriend. How can they
sort out their problems together and
escape from the killers who chase Ying?
A coming of age comedy about a teenage
boy whose life is thrown into chaos when
he discovers porn magazines, girls and the
embarrassment that goes with both.
Director: Miv Evans
2008. HD. 13 min
Production Company: Access 2
Productions, 1149 North Clark Street,
# 303, Los Angeles, CA 90069, USA
tel: +1 310 854 0169
email: mivevans@access-2.co.uk
web: www.access-2.co.uk
Producer, Screenwriter, Production
Designer: Miv Evans
Editor: Trudy Yee
Director of Photography: Daniel
Colmenares
Sound: Tony Jacobson
Music: Kevin MacLeod
Cast: Courtney Robinson, Christina
Robinson, Alize Lozier, Brigitte Lozier,
Celine Lozier
London Love Story
Against the volatile landscape of innercity London, the tale of Jack and Hannah
unfolds. Intoxicated by love for her, Jack
reluctantly bids Hannah farewell. But life
in London is unpredictable, especially
after dark, and a chance encounter
changes everything. A moment of
senseless behaviour renders three lives
tragically changed forever.
Director: Alexander Thomas
2007. 16mm. 15 min 25 secs
Production Company: Cadence Films,
1/34 Lambert Road, Brixton, London,
SW2 5BE, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7946 895 657
email: alex.thomas@framestore-cfc.com
Producer: Alexander Thomas, Stuart
Robinson
Screenwriter: Alexander Thomas
Editor: Bill Smedley
Director of Photography: Jake Thomas
Production Designer: Alexander Thomas,
Tess Loe
Sound: Ashley Pope
Music: Andy Carroll
Cast: Frankie Fitzgerald, Alex Ellis, Lois
Winstone, Sam Oatley, Jay Brown
Director: Marina Pu
2008. 16mm. 30 min
Main Contact: Marina Pu, 34 Brune House,
Bell Lane, London, E1 7NW, England, UK
email: marinafilmmaker@yahoo.co.uk
Producer: Inigo Smith
Screenwriter, Editor: Marina Pu
Director of Photography: Grant McPhees
Sound: Urezza
Music: Rojordo
Cast: Kevin Thornton, Kevin Hung, Ching
Yi Wang
Co-production: Taiwan
Lost Night
A Bangladeshi cab driver picks up a
transvestite only to find a lifesaving
connection between them.
Director: Chris Loizou
2007. HD. 14 min 50 sec
Production Company: Luka Films, 54 Balf
Street, London, N1 9EG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7713 1504, fax: +44 (0)20
7713 5281
email: info@lukafilms.com
Producer: Chris Loizou, Kate Newbold
Screenwriter, Production Designer: Chris
Loizou
Editor: Ben Unwin
Director of Photography: Jorge Luengas
Sound: Jim Betteridge
Music: Dominic Beken, Anthony Adams
Cast: Christopher Elson, Mitesh Soni, Joe
Roberts
Director: Bevan Walsh
2008. 35mm. 10 min
Production Company: Keel Films,
1f Parsifal Road, London, NW6 1UG,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7431 9533
email: geraldine@keelfilms.com
Producer: Geraldine Patten
Screenwriter: Bevan Walsh
Editor: Dan Roberts
Director of Photography: Alan Stewart
Production Designer: Alexandra Walker
Music: Nathan Larson
Cast: Luke Ward-Wilkinson, El Krajewski,
Tom Brooke
Love Is . . . ?
Set against the gritty backdrop of South
London, Love Is . . . is the tale of
teenagers Carl and Tia. The pair struggle
to make sense of their young relationship,
amidst unfaithfulness, a miscarriage and a
breakdown in communication. With the
drama told through flashbacks, depth and
honesty are at the heart of this comingof-age story.
Director: Yemi Bamiro
2007. HDV. 7 min 37 sec
Production Company: Writers Block
Productions, 8 Argosy House, Windlass
Place, Deptford, London, SE8 3Q2,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7984 187 773
email: yemi_bamiro@hotmail.co.uk
Producer, Screenwriter: Yemi Bamiro
Editor: Jamie Mac
Director of Photography: Paul King
Music: Redroots, Adaggio
Cast: Myles Whittingham, Rosie Wilson,
Susan Younis
78
Short Films
Love Letters
Lucky Pants
Mary is a grieving widow whose past
unexpectedly comes flying back into her
life. The only way for Mary to find a new
path in life is by learning to let go, but
it's difficult to let go when the things
holding you back are the people you love.
Jack religiously wears his Lucky Pants on
match day, but does he know just how
lucky they are?
Director: Samantha Harrie
2008. 16mm. 25 min
Production Company: National Film and
Television School, Beaconsfield Studios,
Station Road, Beaconsfield,
Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)1494 731457, fax: +44 (0)1494
674042
email: festivals@nfts.co.uk
web: www.nfts.co.uk
International Sales, UK Distributor:
Hemant Sharda, National Film and
Television School
tel: +44 (0)1494 731452, fax: +44 (0)1494
674042
email: hsharda@nfts.co.uk
Producer: Jonathan Lewsley
Screenwriter: Samantha Harrie
Editor: Robbie Morrison
Director of Photography: Laura
Bellingham Sergeant
Sound: Gunnar Oskarsson
Music: Kylie Earl
Cast: Sandra Maitland, David Hargreaves,
Amy Marston, James Daffern, Casey
Hawkes
Love Me to Bits
A couple locked into shaming and blaming
each other are brought to their senses by
an encounter with a strangely perceptive,
lost little girl.
Director: Tom Tyrwhitt
2008. HD. 26 min
Production Company, International
Sales: Liza Brown
tel: +44 (0)1323 423664
email: hosta@hotmail.co.uk
Producer: Liza Brown
Executive Producer: Diana Eskell
Screenwriter: Tom Tyrwhitt
Editor: Bart Lewin
Director of Photography: Geraint
Warrington
Sound: Marcus Moll
Music: Ysarine Spevack
Cast: Alex Hardy, Diana Eskell, Katerina
Zoob, Rachel Heaton
Director: David Wallington
2008. HD. 4 min 30 sec
International Sales: OTT Films, 75 Cannon
Grove, Fetcham, Surrey, KT22 9LP,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)1372 376612
email: david-wallington@hotmail.com
Producer: Katheryn Needham
Executive Producer, Editor: David
Wallington
Screenwriter: David Wallington, Peter
Wallington
Director of Photography: Peter
Wallington
Sound, Music: Chris Nelthorpe
Cast: David Craik, Jacqui Adams
Macbeth's Disciple
Macbeth's disciple is an historical action
adventure film about the conflict between
ambition and honour, inspired by William
Shakespeare's Macbeth. Set in Scotland in
the year 1057.
Director: Jasmin Tempest
2008. HD. 21 min
Production Company: Spearean
Interactive Ltd, Tanglewood, St Leonards
Hill, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 4AL, England,
UK
tel: +44 (0)7767 446 309
email: jasmin@spearean.co.uk
Producer: Jasmin Tempest, Chris Nuttall
Screenwriter: Jasmin Tempest
Editor: Nadia Naimi
Director of Photography: Paul Wheeler
Sound: Chris Nuttall
Music: David Plunshon
Cast: Keith Dunphy, Roger Barclay,
Brendan Gregory
Madrugada (The Curious
Shape of my Peculiar
Family)
Max buys a rundown hotel by the sea, a
final attempt to make a new life. Frank,
his son and proud soldier, comes to visit,
secretly hoping to share Max's dream, but
finds his father in a more decrepit state
than the hotel.
Director: Michael Pearce
2008. 16mm. 21 min
Production Company: National Film and
Television School, Beaconsfield Studios,
Station Road, Beaconfield,
Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)1494 731457, fax: +44 (0)1494
674042
email: festivals@nfts.co.uk
web: www.nfts.co.uk
UK Distributor, International Sales:
Hemant Sharda, National Film and
Television School
tel: +44 (0)1494 731452, fax: +44 (0)1494
678583
email: hsharda@nfts.co.uk
Producer: Shay Elliot
Screenwriter: Michael Pearce
Editor: Sergio Vega Borrego
Director of Photography: Jean-Louis
Schuller
Production Designer: Louise Mathews
Sound: Steen Bondrop
Music: Gary Sanctuary
Cast: Eddie Webber, Aidan J David
The Magic
Harvey, a shy and modest young office
clerk, is struck down with `Illusionitis', a
rare compulsion to perform involuntary
magic tricks and grand illusions. His
outlandish affliction sees the normally
reserved Harvey lose his job, friends and
girlfriend, but soon attracts the attentions
of a most peculiar doctor. Can he find a
cure?
Director: Rory Rooney
2007. HD. 25 min
Production Company, International
Sales: Eight Trick Pony, Suite 328,
162-168 Regent Street, London, W13 5TD,
England, UK
email: rooney@eighttrickpony.com
web: www.eighttrickpony.com
Producer: Miles Wilkes
Screenwriter: Rory Rooney
Editor: Scot Crane
Director of Photography: Luke Scott
Production Designer: Johan Svenson
79
Short Films
Maxim
Merry Go Round
Mirror Image
Maxim tells the story of a man trying to
cope after the death of his wife.
`What is the difference between accident
and coincidence? An accident is when a
thing happens. A coincidence is when a
thing is going to happen and does.' Gertrude Stein
Peter, a 30 year-old shy office worker, is
looking for a girl of his dreams.
Unfortunately for him, he isn't exactly a
hit with the ladies.
Director: Benetty Bangoura
2007. DV Cam. 6 min 56 sec
Main Contact: Benetty Bangoura, Flat
7/1, 15 Scaraway Drive, Milton, Glasgow,
G22 7EY, Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)7886 904 783
email: benetty@hotmail.co.uk
Producer, Screenwriter: Benetty
Bangoura
Editor: Paul Wright
Director of Photography: Adam Campbell
Sound: Bob Whitney
Music: Alasdair Sim
Cast: Daniel Schutzmann, Jenny Hulse,
David Mullen, Sharon Young, Emma
Lambie
Maya
A lonely station master in an isolated
railway station endures `maya' (the
illusory appearance of the sensible world)
while within his soul there is a tortured
moment of loss.
Director: Makbul Chowdhury
2007. HD. 10 min
Production Company, UK Distributor,
International Sales: Bayla Connecting,
85 Studland Road, Hall Green,
Birmingham, B28 8ND, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)121 777 1952
email: banglaconnection@yahoo.co.uk
Producer: Makbul Chowdhury, Salma
Hussain
Screenwriter, Director of Photography,
Sound: Makbul Chowdhury
Cast: Dilip Chakraborti, Angaly Thorury
Shita, Ruhi Takoor
Director: Cecilie Owren
2007. HD. 10 min 30 sec
Production Company: National Film and
Television School, Beaconsfield Studios,
Station Road, Beaconsfield,
Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)1494 731457, fax: +44 (0)1494
674042
email: festivals@nfts.co.uk
web: www.nfts.co.uk
UK Distributor, International Sales:
Hemant Sharda, National Film and
Television School
tel: +44 (0)1494 731452, fax: +44 (0)1494
678583
email: hsharda@nfts.co.uk
Producer, Screenwriter, Director of
Photography: Cecilie Owren
Editor: Cecilie Owren, Fiona DeSouza
Production Designer: Richard Bradbury
Sound: Giannis Georgiou
Cast: Jodyanne Richardson, Freya
Waterhouse Lyngnes, Aimee Keble,
Barbara Wishere, Paul Ridley
Milk
Steph is trapped in a life that she never
aspired to with a partner who is
depressed and vicious while her family is
oblivious. She is forced to make a decision
that will change her life forever.
Director: Damien Hyde
2007. XD Cam. 14 min 45 sec
Production Company: The Frames Film
LLP, 165 Highfield Road, Glebefields
Estate, Tipton, DY4 0QT, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)121 530 1861
email: duritz_33@yahoo.co.uk
web: www.theframesfilm.co.uk
Producer: Mark Grainger, Matt Stroyde
Screenwriter: Mark Grainger, Matt
Stroyde, Matt Grainger
Editor: Matt Stroyde
Director of Photography: David ReynoldsLacey
Music: Speco, Alan Neilson
Cast: Anna Tyrie, Jamie Duncombe
Director: Dean Monarch
2007. HD. 10 min
Production Company: National Film and
Television School, Beaconsfield Studios,
Station Road, Beaconsfield,
Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)1494 731457, fax: +44 (0)1494
674042
email: festivals@nfts.co.uk
web: www.nfts.co.uk
UK Distributor, International Sales:
Hemant Sharda National Film and
Television School
tel: +44 (0)1494 731452, fax: +44 (0)1494
678583
email: hsharda@nfts.co.uk
Producer: James Heath
Screenwriter: Dean Monarch
Editor: Mark Mitchell
Director of Photography: Steve BrookeSmith
Music: Andrew Stuteley
Cast: Drew Kidger, Jennifer Tollady, Tom
Caley
Mo Yin
Life has turned out to be a real disaster.
In a world full of misery and sadness
nightmares can sometimes take you to the
dreamland you once belonged to.
Director: Simon Gill
2007. 16mm. 11 min 42 sec
Production Company: London Film
Academy, 52a Walham Grove, London,
SW6 1QR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7386 7711, fax: +44 (0)20
7381 6116
email: anna@londonfilmacademy.com
Producer: Kenneth Fanning
Screenwriter: Gary Clayton
Editor: Maddalena Parese
Director of Photography: Amaniel
Gebrehjwet
Production Designer: Ji Eun Oh
Sound: Julio Garcia
Cast: Frank Doddy, Haruka Abe
80
Short Films
Money
Moon People
Les Mouches (The Flies)
Two fellow bank robbers must decide
whether to quit the business after one of
them falls in love with a girl.
The golden rule says `write what you
know' but reality is the last thing Charlie
wants to write about. Through his
eccentric Nan and a mysterious painting,
Charlie discovers that whatever they tell
him at school, the best thing he knows is
completely invisible.
After a disappearance and a self-imposed
exile for ten years, Alex Queranne
abandons his life in London and returns
home to his estranged family in Brittany,
France. He attempts to make amends
with his mother and to bring his sheltered
and shy younger brother out of his shell.
Director: Martin Rhys Davies
2007. Digibeta. 11 min
Director: Leon Yan
2008. Digibeta. 26 min 30 sec
Production Company: Razrez Films, Unit
20, Fowlswick Lane, Allington,
Chippenham, SN14 6QE, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7527 901 948
email: martin@razrez.co.uk
Production Company: The London Film
School, 24 Shelton Street, London, WC2H
9UB, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7836 9642, fax: +44 (0)20
7497 3718
email: c.bright@lfs.org.uk
web: www.lfs.org.uk
Director: Christian Tanner
2007. 16mm. 7 min 40 sec
Production Company: The London Film
School, 24 Shelton Street, London, WC2H
9UB, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7836 9642, fax: +44 (0)20
7497 3718
email: c.bright@lfs.org.uk
web: www.lfs.org.uk
Producer: Christian Tanner, Andre
Sommerfield
Screenwriter, Editor: Christian Tanner
Director of photography: Nikolaos
Andritsakis
Sound: Allison Jackson
Cast: Torquill Deacon, Graham Bowe,
Sabrina Humbel, Michael Rothlisberger,
Doris Tobler
Monkey Nut Tales
A young girl's carefully crafted magical
world shatters when her mother is
hospitalised and her estranged grandma
comes to stay. The only way grandma can
communicate with her is via the
fantastical stories she tells. As they battle
over their new roles in the house, they
come to terms with their grief.
Producer: Rachel Drummond Hay
Executive, Producer: Sarah Jane
Meredith
Screenwriter, Editor: Martin Rhys Davies
Director of Photography: Mark
Chamberlain
Production Designer: Martin Rhys Davies,
Bridget Phelan
Sound: Paul Cowgill
Music: Stuart Gordon, Tracey Neil EllissBrooles
Cast: Jean Boht, Henry Finn, Deborah
Sheridan-Taylor
The Morse Collectors
Production Company: Lark Films
tel: +44 (0)7837 562 344
email: dcrosscup@gmail.com
Two children are forced to walk a fine
line between responsibility and childhood
fantasy. In the dripping taps of their
home, they discover hidden messages but
while the young boy is keen to accept
them as real, his elder sister struggles
with her own rationale. For if they are
real, who sent them?
International Sales: Jo Ho
email: missjoho@googlemail.com
Director: David Cooke
2008. HD. 16 min 26 sec
Producer: Debbie Crosscup, Tamsin Lyons
Screenwriter: Jo Ho
Editor: Herbert Hunger
Director of Photography: Chris Maris
Production Designer: Kim Frederiksen
Sound: Christopher Wilson
Music: Matthew Davidson
Cast: Charlotte Nguyen, Pik-Sen Lim,
Claire Perkins
Production Company: Hub Media,
28 Rosslyn Hill, Hampstead, London,
NW3 1NH, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7435 3315, fax: +44 (0)20
7435 5385
email: crawford@hub-media.com
Director: Jo Ho
2007. HD. 10 min
Producer: Crawford Anderson-Dillon, G
Sugarman
Screenwriter: Pol Mag Udhir
Editor: Andy Keil, Brian Philip Davis
Director of Photography: Angus Mitchell
Sound: Joe Goludie
Music: Joanna Marsh Griffiths
Cast: Oisin O'Connell, Katie Boyle
Producer: Leon Yan, Neigetie GlasgowMaeda
Screenwriter, Editor: Leon Yan
Director of Photography: Brian Udoff,
Paul Robinson
Production Designer: Vali Mahlouji
Sound: Hayden Anyasi
Cast: Alex Queranne, Nicolas Queranna,
Marie Quranna, Anna Lazaveric
Muna
Äfiq
Ali comes home drunk one day and his
father throws him out. He spends a night
rough on the streets. The next morning he
sees something that gives him the
strength to come home and face his
father.
Director: Shakil Mohammed
2008. Digibeta. 7 min 30 sec
Production Company, UK Distributor,
International Sales: Openhand Films,
81 Cranbury Road, Reading, Berkshire,
RG30 2XE, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7946 215 406
email: shakil_mohammed@nfts.co.uk
Producer: Bex Hopkins
Screenwriter: Shakil Mohammed
Editor: Liz Roe
Director of Photography: Jonathan
Harvey
Production Designer: Holly Franklyn
Sound: Ricardo Fonseca, Linda Brennon
Music: Gary Sanctuary
Cast: Nicholas Prasad, Harmage Singh
Kalirai, Nina Wadia
81
Short Films
My Desert
The Nightclub
The Object
A woman finds strength in being alone, at
home and in her thoughts, while slowly
being pulled deeper into her private
world. Elsewhere, a man struggles with
absence and tries to escape into his
fantasies.
An uneasy young man fails to impress a
young woman in a nightclub, but he has a
remarkable ability he intends to use to his
advantage. Only the lady is spoken for . . .
This is a story about a bunch of stupid
greedy people in a parallel universe, not
too dissimilar to ours. It opens on two men
who discover something they've never
seen before in a field. It ends in tears.
Director: Catherine Bennett, Pedro
Machado
2007. DV Cam. 11 min 51 sec
UK Distributor, International Sales: Pedro
Machado, 34 Galleria Court, Sumner Road,
London, SE15 6PW, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7252 4994
email: email@pedromachado.co.uk
Director: Charlie Bray
2007. 16mm. 8 min 10 sec
Production Company: London Film
Academy, 52a Walham Grove, London,
SW6 1QR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7386 7711, fax: +44 (0)20
7381 6116
email: anna@londonfilmacademy.com
Producer: Catherine Bennett, Pedro
Machado
Screenwriter: Paul Davies
Editor: Lucy Cash, Pedro Machado
Music: Jules Maxwell
Cast: Catherne Bennett, Pedro Machado
Producer: Alex Stein
Screenwriter: Sandun Seneviratne
Editor: Yaya Halawani
Director of Photography: Alexis Lanitis
Production Designer: Steven Granger
Music: Tim Ineson
Cast: Ray Alley, Chris Anderson, Helen
Abbott, John Sharpe
My Singing Girl
No Regrets
A short film about a young man's trip to
London. Bruce, a young Scotsman, travels
to the big city in search of an exciting
and promising future.
70 years ago, a young man joined the
army to fight for his country. Now, in the
autumn of his life, he thinks back about
the good times and the bad times.
Director: Andreas Steen Sorensen
2007. HD. 17 min
Director: Martin Nigel Davey
2008. Mini DV. 3 min
Production Company: National Film and
Television School, Beaconsfield Studios,
Station Road, Beaconsfield,
Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)1494 731457, fax: +44 (0)1494
674042
email: festivals@nfts.co.uk
web: www.nfts.co.uk
Production Company: Davey Films,
140 Kendal Rise, West Midlands, B45 9PS,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7713 341 349
email: daveyfilms@aol.com
UK Distributor, International Sales:
Hemant Sharda, National Film and
Television School
tel: +44 (0)1494 731452, fax: +44 (0)1494
678583
email: hsharda@nfts.co.uk
Producer: Malika Mezeli, James Heath
Screenwriter, Editor: Andreas Steen
Sorensen
Director of Photography: Bertil Mulvad
Sound: Curzio Aloisi
Music: Leif Nielsen
Cast: Alex Price, Angela Bleasdale,
Bethany Simpson, Francie J Exell, Drew
Kidger, Anthony James Berowne
Producer: Martin Nigel Davey, Philip Pugh
Screenwriter: Martin Nigel Davey
Editor: Kevin Powis
Director of Photography: Philip Pugh
Cast: Cpt C F Barton
Director: Leslie Ali
2007. HD. 6 min
Production Company: Partizan, 40/42
Lexington Street, London, W1F 0LN,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7851 0200, fax: +44 (0)20
7851 0249
email: fr.producers@partizan.com
web: www.partizan.com
UK Distributor, International Sales:
Riders to Sea Ltd, Flat 2, 34 Howitt Road,
London, NW3 4LJ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7939 136 104
email: isibeal@mac.com
Producer: Isibeal Ballance
Screenwriter: Leslie Ali, Paul Caiozzo,
Nathan Frank, Brandon Mugar
Editor: Alaster Jordan
Director of Photography: Ben Moulden
Production Designer: Joe Rapapport
Sound: Mark Verner
Music: Eric Neuveux
Cast: Morgan Thomas, Ken Collard,
Victoria Wicks, Geraldine O'Reilley
Odd Shoe
Joe has a problem. While the other kids in
the neighbourhood are strolling around in
the newest, latest footwear, Joe's
battered old trainers are falling apart.
Not cool for a loner trying to summon the
courage to talk to Alice, the girl-nextdoor, until the day he gets his hands on a
new pair of shoes.
Director: Paul Cotter
2007. HD. 10 min
Production Company: Whistling Thorn
Films Ltd, 25 Marine Square, Brighton,
BN2 1DN, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)1273 606727
email: lou.spain@
whistlingthornfilms.co.uk
Producer: Lou Spain
Executive Producer: Miranda Robinson
Screenwriter: Clare Bloomfield
Editor: Jeff Nolan
Director of Photography: Jean Philippe
Gossart
Production Designer: Andrea Hefford
Sound: Paul Rodgers
Cast: Joe Mead, Paige Lees
82
Short Films
One in Four
Out of Nowhere
Outcasts
Haunted by his involvement in a suicide,
train driver Sion struggles to communicate
and comprehend the consequences
somebody else's decision could have on
his life.
A large publisher rants and raves over a
novelist's latest manuscript but as he
nears the end of his praise something
unexpected happens.
A girl in love, a pop star in peril and a
gang on the run - somebody's going to
get burned.
Director: Matti Harju
2008. 16mm. 19 min
Production Company: National Film and
Television School, Beaconsfield Studios,
Station Road, Beaconsfield,
Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)1494 731457, fax: +44 (0)1494
674042
email: festivals@nfts.co.uk
web: www.nfts.co.uk
UK Distributor, International Sales:
Hemant Sharda, National Film and
Television School
tel: +44 (0)1494 731452, fax: +44 (0)1494
678583
email: hsharda@nfts.co.uk
Director: Gary Fannin
2007. HD. 1 min 38 sec
Production Company: Solution
Productions Ltd, 41 Casterbridge Road,
London, SE3 9AD, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7932 040 708
email: john@solutionfilms.com
Producer: John Schwab
Screenwriter: Martin Scorer
Editor: Colin Sumsion
Director of Photography: Robin Fox
Production Designer: Jeni Munns
Sound: Daniel Klimke, Geoff Richardson
Music: Krista Detor
Cast: Howard Ward
Producer: Innis Moore
Screenwriter: Matti Harju
Editor: Maya Maffioli
Director of Photography: Benjamin
Kracun
Sound: Gunnar Oskarsson
Music: Gareth Lockrane
Cast: Sian Tudor Owen, Barry Latchford,
Deborah MacLaren
Out There
The Ostrich Tapes
Production Company: White Light Films,
306 Cortis Road, London, SW15 6XQ,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7906 696 645
email: ed@whitelightfilms.org
Two friends in the middle of nowhere try
to come to terms with their lives. Mid-life
crises have nothing on these two. With a
disintegrating marriage and his best pal
for company, Roddy decides to take
matters into his own hands. How far will
their friendship be tested?
Director: Gavin Gilmour
2008. DV Cam. 41 min
Production Company: Rock Cottage
Films, Mill O'Brae, Midmar, Inverurie,
Aberdeenshire, AB51 7NB, Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)7751 532 527
email: ggilmour@avcmedia.com
Producer: Gavin Gilmour, Neil Barton
Screenwriter, Editor: Gavin Gilmour
Director of Photography: Dougal Thomson
Cast: Shaun Paul McGrath, Alex Donald
The fractured relationship between an
English couple renovating a remote guest
house in the south of France begins to
disintegrate when they learn that the
woods around their house may be infested
with dangerous wild animals.
Director: Edward McGown
2008. HD. 22 min
Producer: Roopesh Parekh
Executive Producer: Luke Montagu, Tara
Dean
Screenwriter: Michael Waldon
Editor: Brett Irwin
Director of Photography: Mike Muschamp
Production Designer: Fabrice Spelta
Sound: Liam Abel
Music: Ruth Chain
Cast: Jamie Foreman, Lucy Russell, Tom
Mison
Director: Ian Clark
2008. HD. 24 min 35 sec
Production Company: National Film and
Television School, Beaconsfield Studios,
Station Road, Beaconsfield,
Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)1494 731457, fax: +44 (0)1494
674042
email: festivals@nfts.co.uk
web: www.nfts.co.uk
UK Distributor, International Sales:
Hemant Sharda, National Film and
Television School
tel: +44 (0)1494 731452, fax: +44 (0)1494
678583
email: hsharda@nfts.co.uk
Producer: Megan Stuart Wallace
Screenwriter: Simon Brooke, Ian Clark,
Megan Stuart Wallace
Editor: Nse Asuquo
Director of Photography: Stuart Bentley
Production Designer: Cara Brower
Sound: Dominic Fitzgerald
Music: Gary Sanctuary
Cast: Jamie Beddard, Cerrie Burnell,
Jennifer-Jay Ellison, Ben Goffe, Kier Mills
Perfect
A sometimes fantastical love story set in
Notting Hill, Perfect tells what happens
when Adam and Liberty's paths cross and
how their worlds impact on each other.
Director: Chris Obi
2008. HD. 21 min
Production Company: M17 Digital, Unit
10a, Impress HSE, Mansell Road, London,
W3 7QH, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8740 6060
email: mitch@m17digital.com
Producer: Mitch Ogugua
Screenwriter: Chris Obi
Editor: Phil McDonald
Director of Photography: Ben Cole
Production Designer: Verity Woolf
Music: Mitch Ogugua
Cast: George Fisher, Poppy Delevigne,
Charlie Cox, Gemma Atherton, Julian
Glover
83
Short Films
Pink
Playing Dead
The Problem with Pets
John spends the night of his birthday
hiding the pink t-shirt his daughter gave
him, but soon the lads have spotted it. As
the beer flows things get out of hand.
John unleashes his anger on his mate
Billy, who tumbles to the floor, apparently
lifeless. Terrified, John flees the scene
unsure, what exactly he did.
When Rani discovers that her parents
haven't been honest about her adoption,
she is plunged into emotional mayhem. All
her friends are far too caught up with
their own dramas of identity and family
to notice Rani's predicament.
A dark comedy about Monica, a seven
year-old girl who blames her mum's new
boyfriend for the sudden and dramatic
deaths of her pets. She decides to exact
her revenge.
Director: Michael Baig-Clifford
2008. DV Cam. 18 min
Regional Screen Agency: Screen WM,
9 Regent Place, Birmingham, B1 3NJ,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)121 265 7120, fax: +44 (0)121
265 7180
email: dan.lawson@screenwm.co.uk
Producer: Natasha Carlish
Screenwriter: Geoff Thompson
Editor: Stephen Killick
Director of Photography: Phil Chavannes
Production Designer: Russ Ellams
Sound: Keith Friday
Music: Jeremy Villecourt
Cast: Ronnie Fox, Charlotte Flannagan,
Maxine Peake, Julian Walsh, Martin
Hancock
Player
The story of a claustrophobic relationship
between a single mother and her piano
prodigy son. Arriving in a tight-knit rural
community, the pair become embroiled in
local romances which push their own
relationship to boiling point.
Director: Mary Nighy
2008. 16mm. 19 min 51 sec
Main Contact: Mary Nighy, 34 Imperial
Hall, 104-122 City Road, London, EC1V
2NR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7872 170 772
email: bing_700@hotmail.com
Producer: Mary Nighy, Sam Hodges
Executive Producer: Greene Light Films,
Mike Bryan, Anthony Wix
Screenwriter: Sam Hodges
Editor: Christopher Robin Bell
Director of Photography: Charlie
Stanfield
Production Designer: Zoe Franklin
Sound: Matthew Gough
Music: Don MacDonald
Cast: Pete Postlethwaite, Haydn Gwynne,
Sam Hodges, Celia Imrie
Director: Pratibha Parmar
2008. HD. 12 min 30 sec
Production Company: Kali Films, 78
Fonthill Road, London, N4 3HT, England,
UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7561 9541
email: info@kalifilms.com
Producer: Matthew Lloyd
Screenwriter: Liz Heery, Pratibha Parmar
Editor: Nicholas Fernandez
Director of Photography: Nick Knowland
Music: Steve Isles
Cast: Nite Mistry, Keatan Makki, Helen
Clapp, Cerrie Burnell
Pour Quoi
Parkour? Non! Pour Quoi, the free-jumping
art form sweeping the globe. Learn from
the masters, Baptiste and Vitron.
Director: Bev Fox
2007. Mini DV. 4 min
Production Company: Magic If Ltd,
35 Ashleigh Grove, Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE2 3DJ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)191 209 4282
email: macandfox@blueyonder.co.uk
Producer: Bev Fox
Editor, Music: Ian McClaughlin
Director of Photography: Carl Kennedy
Cast: Ian McClaughlin, Chris Price
The Problem with Liking
the Person You Have Sex
With
Love is most desired. Nothing is scarier. A
male prostitute and a virgin turning 30
have to face their worst fears to learn to
trust. Can they save each other?
Director: Draken Sly
2007. 16mm. 13 min 40 sec
Main Contact: Gabi Arnold, 8 McWilliam
Close, Talbot Village, BH12 5HP, England,
UK
tel: +44 (0)7707 423 901
email: arnold60903@yahoo.de
Producer: Amy Mobley
Executive Producer, Director of
Photography: Phil Peel
Screenwriter: Draken Sly
Editor: Jonathan Hardy, David Simpson
Production Designer: G
Sound: Jonathan Hardy
Music: The Drunken Sailors
Cast: Alasdair Shanks, Clare Cameron,
Geraldine Cottalorda, Craig Norman
Director: Catriona Craig
2008. HD. 10 min
Production Company, UK Distributor,
International Sales: Screen Academy
Scotland, Napier University, 2a Merchiston
Avenue, Edinburgh, EH10 4NU, Scotland,
UK
tel: +44 (0)131 455 2572, fax: +44 (0)131
455 2538
email: info@screenacademyscotland.ac.uk
web: www.screenacademyscotland.ac.uk
Producer: Susan Wright
Screenwriter: Frances O'Neill
Editor: Tom Martin
Director of Photography: Garry Torrance
Production Designer: Willem Van
Heemstra
Sound: Nairn Beattie
Music: John Walden
Cast: Eva Brunjes, Suzanne McKenzie,
Nick Tizzard
The Promise
In an age where the viewer can watch
public executions online, ordinary
slaughter and routine atrocity make us
numb to the pain of human beings. The
Promise looks at this final moment from
the victim's perspective
Director: Luke Losey
2007. HSD Cam. 3 min 47 sec
Production Company, UK Distributor,
International Sales: Neath Films Ltd, 15
St Giles Tower, Gables Close, London, SE5
7QE, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7708 0266, fax: +44 (0)20
7708 0266
email: maverick@neathfilms.com
Producer: Maverick Litchfield-Kelly
Executive Producer: Anton Califano
Screenwriter: Cathianne Hall
Editor: Richard Wolf
Director of Photography: Tobia Sempi
Production Designer: Fiona Sail
Sound: Tim Harrison
Cast: Stefana Brancastle, Abigail Hercules
84
Short Films
Pull
Quiet
Ralph
A claustrophobic story dealing with the
absurdity of life. In any given afternoon,
or morning, Alex and his father perform a
kind of Russian roulette ritual, possibly for
the last time.
Nicola was trafficked into the UK after
the promise of a legitimate job but ended
up forced into work at Rocky's brothel.
One evening she escapes to make a
desperate phone call but Rocky finds her
and drags her to the house where she's
coerced to get ready for work.
Fifteen year-old Ralph travels alone to
the south of France to tell his best friend
Claire that he loves her. However, Claire
thinks of Ralph as a little brother and has
no idea he is coming.
Director: Sergio Alvarez-Uribe
2007. HDV. 6 min 57 sec
Main Contact: Sergio Alvarez-Uribe,
11 London Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6LZ,
Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)131 557 3243
email: seralvarezuribe@gmail.com
Producer, Screenwriter: Sergio AlvarezUribe
Executive Producer: Alejandro AlvarezUribe
Editor, Sound: Danjel Bugeja
Director of Photography: Filip Syczynski
Cast: Joe Bugeja, Elek Kish
Quantum
An ex quantum physicist is struggling to
continue his existence in society. The
strains of his monotonous job and his
crumbling relationship with his wife drive
him back towards his secret past. With
the help of the mysterious Professor, he is
able to reconstruct the machine that once
before led to his downfall.
Director: Jonathon Crewe
2008. Mini DV. 27 min 3 sec
Production Company: The Human Factory
email: jon@thehumanfactory.info
Producer: Lucy West
Screenwriter: Jonathan Crewe
Editor: Dominic Stevens
Director of Photography: Michael Franklin
Sound, Music: Nate Connelly
Cast: Adrian Annis, Jenny Wheeler, Ben
Woodwiss
A Quick Beep
A photocopy machine is used as a
metaphoric device in showing how a
human brain may process various
globalised events.
Director: Yuan Tian
2008. DV Cam. 2 min 30 sec
UK Distributor: University of Bristol,
Department of Drama, Theatre, Film &
Television, Cantocks Close, Bristol, BS8
1UP, England, UK
email: tc7996@bris.ac.uk,
kate.withers@bristol.ac.uk
Producer: Tricia Chen
Executive Producer: Colin O'Neill
Screenwriter: Nikolaus Schulz-Dornburg
Editor: Tadhg Peavoy
Sound: Eirini Loukatou
Music: Blair Mowat
Cast: Tadhg Peavoy
Director: Izaskun Arandia
2007. Mini DV. 4 min 50 sec
Main Contact: Izaskun Arandia
email: izar@email.com
Producer, Screenwriter, Editor: Izaskun
Arandia
Cast: Michaela Tempeanu, Earl Ling,
Justyna Polijanska, Aspasia Falouka, Mek
Rahamani
The Rabbit & the
Woodcutter
In a fantasy world the love of his girl is
the only thing that keeps Rabbit alive.
When she starts wooing the lumberjack,
Rabbit is left aside and decides to take
revenge. Sadly his actions don't get him
anywhere closer to his object of
affection.
Director: Ivaylo Minov
2007. 16mm. 7 min 42 sec
Production Company: London Film
Academy, 52a Walham Grove, London,
SW6 1QR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7386 7711, fax: +44 (0)20
7381 6116
email: anna@londonfilmacademy.com
Producer: Joanne Hurley
Screenwriter: Ji-Sung Lee
Editor: Marc Schmidheiny
Director of Photography: Nathan Tiney
Production Designer: Ji-Eun Oh
Sound, Music: Kaloyan Dimitron
Cast: Darius Helvadjian, Helena AardeyYaralli
Director: Alex Winckler
2008. 16mm. 13 min 10 sec
Production Company: Parkville Pictures,
4a Parkville Road, London, SW6 7BX,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7836 551 683, fax: +44 (0)5601
521 582
email: olivier@parkvillepictures.com
web: www.parkvillepictures.com
Producer: Olivier Kaempfer
Screenwriter: Alex Winckler
Editor: Joe Randall-Cutler
Director of Photography: Liam Iandoli
Sound: Thomas Joyce
Music: Daniel Elms
Cast: Ralph Laurilla, Emily Seale Jones,
Julie Dray, Jean-FrancËois Malet
Reality Won't Bite
Jack Fogg works as a musical theatre
director. In his world, artificiality is
normal and emotion is all performance.
Shortly after burying his pet dog, Jack is
visited by a man claiming to be Sparky
reincarnated. This shifts his perspective
on things. Reality Won't Bite is a comic
film about the journey to find happiness.
Director: Marius Olteanu
2008. s16mm. 25 min 25 sec
Production Company: National Film and
Television School, Beaconsfield Studios,
Station Road, Beaconsfield,
Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)1494 731457, fax: +44 (0)1494
674042
email: festivals@nfts.co.uk
web: www.nfts.co.uk
UK Distributor, International Sales:
Hemant Sharda, National Film and
Television School
tel: +44 (0)1494 731452, fax: +44 (0)1494
678583
email: hsharda@nfts.co.uk
Producer: Jessica Levick
Screenwriter: Stewart Thomson
Editor: Andrea Cuadrado
Director of Photography: Kristjan-Jaak
Nuudi
Sound: Kinda Brenon
Music: Gareth Lockrane
Cast: Henry Miller, Tim Plester, Andree
Bernard, Richard Sails, Ross Finnie
85
Short Films
Reasonable Excuse
The Recruit
Relentless Thirst
High heels, corsets and sheer decadence.
A film about a 20-something PR executive
called Laila. A dark heroine, who's trying
to move on from an incident in LA but
somehow gets caught up in the mind
games of individuals around her with
spine-chilling consequences, linking her to
the haunting incidents of her past.
Shane is a young man recruited by the
army after a prolonged period of
unemployment. He arrives unannounced in
Glasgow to spend his last free days with
Owen, a childhood friend. Expecting a
drinking spree, Shane is disturbed to
discover Owen's new life has no place for
an unruly, violent friend.
Alcoholic assault weapon experts Liam
and Mike once again have to brave the
monster-infested forest in search of beer.
Director: Samona Naomi Williams
2008. HD. 30 min 8 sec
Director: Cosmo Wallace
2008. HD. 26 min
Production Company: IFactory Films,
Suite B, 29 Harley Street, London, W1G
9QR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8821 0076, fax: +44 (0)20
7504 8578
email: samonanaomi@ifactoryfilms.com
Production Company: New Film Army,
2/2, 110 Brunswick Street, Glasgow, G1
1TF, Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)7813 602 041
email: cosmo.wallace@gmail.com
Producer: Michael Djaba
Screenwriter: Samona Naomi Williams
Editor: Sonia Godding
Director of Photography: Winstan Whitter
Sound: Paul Guiver
Music: Samson Dedewo
Cast: Natalie Steward, Shola Ama, Nolan
Weekes, Tony Streeter, Kwaku Ankomah
Producer: Mike Fisher
Screenwriter: Cosmo Wallace
Editor: Cosmo Wallace, Mike Fisher
Director of Photography: Paul
O'Callaghan
Sound: Esme Wallace
Music: James William Hindle
Cast: Ioan Waight, Stephanie Morris,
Cosmo Wallace
Recipe for Love
The Red Shoes
Lonely heart Valerie makes wedding cakes
for brides, wondering when her time will
come. Then a timid man with a bizarre
baking request knocks on her door.
Based on the horrifying Hans Andersen
fairy story, The Red Shoes is a tale of
greed and morality. After being given the
chance of a new life, a young orphan is
drawn to steal a pair of red dancing
shoes, with tragic consequences.
Director: Debbie Sutton
2008. Mini DV. 10 min
Production Company: Strife Productions,
22 Austin Road, Birmingham, B21 8NV,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)121 551 6066
email: debbie.sutton1@btinternet.com
Producer, Screenwriter: Debbie Sutton,
Charmaine Russell
Editor: Philip Arkinstall
Director of Photography: Mark Jeavons
Production Designer: Debbie Sutton
Sound: Mark Jeavons
Music: Richard Toomer
Cast: David Perks, Bella Hamblin
Director: Lyndsey Walker
2007. HDV. 19 min
Production Company: Wright Walker
Productions, 28 Hawthorn Place, Carlisle,
Cumbria, CA2 7GZ, London, UK
tel: +44 (0)1228 540296
email: jonny@wrightwalker.co.uk
Producer, Editor, Sound: Jonathan Wright
Screenwriter, Production Designer:
Lyndsey Walker
Director of Photography: Edward Cooper,
Jonathan Wright
Music: Chris Mooney
Cast: Melissa Clarke, Alex Morrison, Robyn
Dickinson, Irene Joyce, Brenda Graham
Director: Liam Comerford, Mike Connor
2007. Mini DV. 19 min
Production Company: Secret 7000 Film
Group, 20 Ferndale Close, Werrington,
ST9 0PQ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7988 135 195
email: liam@sitesurge.com
Producer, Editor: Liam Comerford, Mike
Connor
Screenwriter, Sound, Music: Liam
Comerford
Director of Photography: Mike Connor
Cast: Simon Plant, Mike Connor, Liam
Comerford
Revenge
Being CEO of Jouvence Cosmetics is not an
easy job for Mr Finchley. Spa treatment in
his office is not enough to satisfy his
vanity. Nature will find its own way to give
him a lesson he will never forget.
Director: Marina Ferreira
2007. 16mm. 7 min 21 sec
Production Company: London Film
Academy, 52a Walham Grove, London,
SW6 1QR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7386 7711, fax: +44 (0)20
7381 6116
email: anna@londonfilmacademy.com
Producer: Yair Halawani
Screenwriter: Marc Schmidhriny
Editor: Orson Ossman
Director of Photography: Antonis
Bakopoulos
Production Designer: Chryssanty Kofido
Cast: Luke De Lacey, Helena Pardy-Yaralli,
Stewart Brown
Ripple
One small random act of malice forces an
ordinary man off the safe road and on to
a dark journey that he'll never forget.
Director: Paul Gowers
2007. 16mm. 18 min 55 sec
Production Company: Wilder Ltd,
21 Little Portland Street, London,
W1W 8BT, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7631 3417
email: richardbatty@wilderfilms.co.uk
Producer: Rob Merces
Screenwriter: Richard Batty
Editor: Russ Clapham
Director of Photography: Brett Turnbull
Production Designer: Huw Arther
Sound: Andy Coles
Music: Michael Conn
Cast: Ben Crompton, Lucy Holt, Glenn
Doherty, Bill Thomas
86
Short Films
Ruby XX Jack
Safe Zone
Saudade
How do we find our `other half'? Do we
find them, or do they find us? And what if
the face doesn't fit? The clock is ticking.
Ruby is trapped. Will Jack, Ruby's lost
love, wait for her?
A soldier returns from the war in
Afghanistan and discovers the peace he
wants is hard to find. Seeking refuge,
solace and safety in the English
countryside he is harassed by an
increasingly threatening individual.
A psychological romantic short film, about
a conflict that occurs between two people
and their contrasting existences.
Director: Peter Speyer
2008. Mini DV. 7 min
Production Company: Staff Productions,
27 Tansley Close, Camden Road, London,
N7 0HP, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7962 322 976
email: rubyxxjack@gmail.com
web: www.myspace.com/rubyxxjack
Director: Carlo Ortu
2007. HDV. 16 min
Production Company: Sugarspun Pictures,
20b Links Road, Tooting, London, SW17
9ET, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7899 984 562
email: carlo@sugarspunpictures.com
Producer: Julio Bonet
Screenwriter, Production Designer:
Simone Glover
Editor: Fredrik Bellizia
Director of Photography: Karl Watkins
Sound: Peter Hodges
Music: Paddy Cunneen
Cast: Madeleine Dunbar, Brian Ashworth,
Paul Thompson
Producer: Andrea Farrena
Screenwriter: Carlo Ortu
Editor: Dan Roberts
Director of Photography: David Procter
Production Designer: Tom Jarrett
Sound: Ben Hood
Music: Stuart Briner
Cast: Ian Attfield, Colin Holt, Caroline
George
Rule 2
Samantha
A young British soldier comes to terms
with the impact of the war in the Middle
East on himself and his family.
When her beloved grandmother finally
dies, a part of Sam's life is also over. Her
new life is a party, but at some point she
will have to go home.
Director: Joost Zoetebier
2007. 16mm. 8 min 50 sec
Production Company: London Film
Academy, 52a Walham Grove, London,
SW6 1QR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7386 7711, fax: +44 (0)20
7381 6116
email: anna@londonfilmacademy.com
Producer: Riman Abu Osba
Screenwriter: George Gannon
Editor: Avdhesh Mohla
Director of Photography: Claudio Napoli
Sound: Nick Ryan
Director: Siri Rodnes
2008. 16mm. 15 min
Production Company: Siri Rodnes Films,
7 Mentone Terrace, Edinburgh, EH9 2DG,
Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)7861 227 886
email: films@sirirodnes.com
Producer: Alexa Shaw-Champion
Screenwriter, Production Designer: Siri
Rodnes
Editor: Siri Rodnes, Maja Borg
Director of Photography: Patrick Murray
Sound: Martin Johnson
Cast: Amanda Ryan, Suzanne Donaldson,
Alistair Gillies, Sarah Harworth, Sophie
McCabe
Director: Chen Jo-Pu
2008. HD. 22 min
Production Company: Northern Media
School, 58 Huntingtower Road, Sheffield,
S11 7GT, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7809 678 903
email: ropuchen@hotmail.com
Producer: Dita Saraswati Legowo
Screenwriter: Chen Jo-Pu
Director of Photography: Jonathon
Bartley
Sound: Oliver Phillips
Cast: James Leece, Zoe Pepper, Megan
Thom, Jay Storey
Sessions of the Mind
A tale of two women, Jemima, who
attempted to kill her boyfriend, and her
troubled psychologist, Victoria. Session by
session the minds of the two women
transfuse and they are transported to a
world that will bring forth a terrifying and
dormant connection.
Director: Uisdean Murray
2008. HD. 48 min
Production Company: Lily Island Films,
(3/2) 42 Apsley Street, Partick, Glasgow,
G11 7SW, Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)141 586 9657
email: uisdean@wherejemimalives.com
Producer, Screenwriter, Editor, Director
of Photography: Uisdean Murray
Music: Philip Kovac
Cast: Joy McAvoy, Jo Menzer
87
Short Films
Shadowed
Shahaadah
Sight Test
A young man suspects that a shadow is
out to harm him. As he takes ever more
drastic measures to rid himself of the
shadow, he finds his life spiralling out of
control. However, does he need to be
saved from himself?
Ray and Saleem are best friends, living in
what seems to be a harmonious
multicultural society in East London. But
when Saleem's sister becomes pregnant
with Ray's child, racial, religious and
political tensions explode.
A myopic young cellist navigates her way
through a new life in London.
Director: Joseph A Adesunlaye
2007. 16mm. 6 min 1 sec
Director: Janny Sadler
2007. 16mm. 17 min
Production Company: London Film
Academy, 52a Walham Grove, London,
SW6 1QR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7386 7711, fax: +44 (0)20
7381 6116
email: anna@londonfilmacademy.com
Production Company: Westminster Film
School, Watford Road, Northwick Park,
Harrow, Middlesex, HA1 3TP, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7911 5000, fax: +44 (0)20
7911 5943
email: hortp@westminster.ac.uk
Producer: Sandun Seneviratne
Screenwriter: Antonis Bakopoulos
Editor: Alexis Lanitis
Director of Photography: Lauren Irwin
Production Designer: Hannah Wiggins
Music: Adam Lewis
Cast: Mark Jackson, Jerzy Kwokowski
Producer: Mamoon Ahmed, Andrea
Colomb
Screenwriter: Joe Barton Atkinson
Editor: Kat Gobel
Director of Photography: Min Soo Kim
Production Designer: Iain Dodds
Cast: Piers Harrison, Shefali Verma, Imran
Mirza, Neet Mohan, Herenimo Sehmi
Shadows
When the fear of being alone and the
stress of finalising her thesis add up,
Monica's world turns inside out. Is it all a
product of her imagination or is there
someone or something stalking her in her
own house?
Director: William Tennant
2007. 16mm. 12 min 26 sec
Production Company: London Film
Academy, 52a Walham Grove, London,
SW6 1QR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7386 7711, fax: +44 (0)20
7381 6116
email: anna@londonfilmacademy.com
Producer: Patricia Chamah
Screenwriter: Amaniel Gebrehiwet
Editor: Linnea Gambari
Director of Photography: Diana Bruzzo
Production Designer: Gabriea Restelli
Sound: Simon Gill
Music: Nic Capelle
Cast: Diane Beck
Sheriff of Penitence
Director: Joseph Knowles
2008. Digibeta. 17 min
Production Company: The London Film
School, 24 Shelton Street, London, WC2H
9UB, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7836 9642, fax: +44 (0)20
7497 3718
email: c.bright@lfs.org.uk
web: www.lfs.org.uk
Producer: James Youngs
Screenwriter: Joseph Knowles, Guy Lodge
Editor: Allison Jackson
Director of Photography: éystein Essen
Lundstrùm
Production Designer: Vali Mahlouji
Sound: Allison Jackson
Music: Dimitri Scarlato
Cast: Candice Melton, Tim Butler, Joseph
Pitcher, Monti Mill, Gem Carmella
Silent Noise
Guy Stockwell's acting career peaked
when he was a star in his teens. Now
approaching 30, he's reduced to starring
in a low budget Western aimed at Indian
TV. When he decides to stand up to the
tyrannical director, things begin to get
messy.
Jo is constantly having her sleep disturbed
by the cries of the baby next door. There
has always been a buggy outside the
neighbour's but she has never actually
seen the baby. However, when she hears
the news of her older sister's pregnancy,
she stops hearing the baby's cries and
even the buggy disappears.
Director: Peter Butler
2007. Mini DV. 13 min
Director: Nozomi Matsuyama
2007. HD. 15 min
Production Company: Westminster Film
School, Watford Road, Northwick Park,
Harrow, Middlesex, HA1 3TP, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7911 5000, fax: +44 (0)20
7911 5943
email: hortp@westminster.ac.uk
UK Distributor: Edinburgh College of Art,
Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, EH3 9DF,
Scotland, UK
email: imozon8130@yahoo.co.uk
Producer: Jannika Oberg
Screenwriter: Nate Broook
Âsparcieux
Editor: Oce
Âanne E
Director of Photography: Harry
Courtenay-Bishop
Sound: Libin Cheng
Cast: James Butler, Zoe Richards, Alain
English, Sharif Dorani
Producer, Screenwriter, Editor: Nozomi
Matsuyama
Director of Photography: Tali Yankelevich
Sound: Lin Zhang
Music: My Electric Love Affair
Cast: Loren Owen, Kelly Crow, Scott
Hawes
88
Short Films
Silly Billy
Small Change
Steve and Chrissie are on holiday and soon
learn why you shouldn't tell lies to
strange men in strange local shops.
The tale of a boy alone at a party, who
has a magical encounter with a strange
old man.
Director: Paul Colwill
2008. HD. 11 min
Director: Christopher Jones
2007. HDV. 5 min 20 sec
Director: Steve Rainbow
2008. Mini DV. 4 min 30 sec
Production Company: TUKC/Threeseven
Films, 4 Washington Square, Easington
Village, Peterlee, Durham, SR8 3AH,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)191 527 3642
email: paul.colwill@tiscali.co.uk
Production Company: Pea Soup,
28 Highworth Road, Bristol, BS4 4AG,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7779 574 472
email: chris@chrisjonesdop.co.uk
Production Company: Rainbow,
172 Douglas Road, Birmingham, B27 6HN,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7835 947 697
email: steve_rainbow@hotmail.com
Producer: Rosie Kuhn
Screenwriter: Christopher Jones
Editor: Will Martin
Director of Photography: Suzie Lavelle
Production Designer: Lizzie Dwyer
Music: Joe Cook
Cast: Beau Pollard, Bill Stuart
Producer, Screenwriter: Steve Rainbow
Executive Producer: Henry Angell-James
Editor: Dan Jones
Director of Photography: Ian Brow
Production Designer: Andrew Loxley
Sound: Michael Calahan
Music: Martin Fisher
Cast: Cathy Clarke, Andrew Loxley
Producer: Dom O'Neil
Screenwriter: Paul Colwill
Editor: Nick Light
Director of Photography: James McAleer
Sound, Music: Mudshark Audio
Cast: Chris Price, Michelle Lyndsey, Joe
Teague
Slapper
A young boy watches a strange and brutal
televised fight in a crowded bar: a
masked man vs the people's champion.
Two years ago, James' alcoholic father
was forced to leave him and his mother,
but promised he'd be back to make them
proud. Is the man in the mask James'
father, finally returning as a hero?
Director: Chiwetel Ejiofor
2008. 35mm. 15 min
Production Company: Dry Dock Films,
10-11 St Georges Mews, London, NW1
8XE, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7971 975 664
email: beck.farhall@gmail.com
Producer: Rebecca Farhall, Vana
MacKinnon
Screenwriter: Chiwetel Ejiofor
Editor: Joe Walker
Director of Photography: Baz Irvine
Music: Simon Boswell
Cast: Iain Glen, Bill Nighy, Cal Macaninch,
Nathaniel Gleed, Melanie Kilburn
Small Dark Places
All Tim wants is to overcome his fears and
live a normal life. However as his memory
starts to fail him his grip on reality also
starts to slip.
Director: Susie Watson
2008. HD. 24 min
Production Company: BBC, 37 Southey
Road, London, N15 5LJ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7980 213 089
email: susannah_watson@yahoo.com
UK Distributor, International Sales: BBC
Rights & Business Affairs, Room 220,
Drama Building, TVC, Wood Lane, London,
W12 7RJ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8576 1879
email: zoe.lawrence@bbc.co.uk
Producer: Susie Watson, Kathleen McLynn
Executive Producer: Ruth Caleb
Screenwriter: Susie Watson
Editor: Emilliano Battista
Director of Photography: Anne-Marie
Lean-Vercoe
Production Designer: Marketa Korinova
Sound: Ian MacBeth
Music: Roger Goula Sarda
Cast: Tom Brooke, Caroline Blakison,
Joanna Christie, Liam Garrigan, Zoe
Tapper
A Small Silent Film About
Death
Just one letter out of place can make a
big difference.
Something Changed
Romantic coming-of-age drama set on a
Saturday night in Glasgow about a young
couple coming to terms with the changes
in their relationship.
Director: Robert McKillop
2007. Mini DV. 20 min
Production Company: Stepping Stones,
27 East Norton Place, Edinburgh, EH7 5DR,
Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)131 661 9863
email: robertmckillop@gmail.com
Producer: Ama Purkis, Ally Kay
Screenwriter, Director of Photography:
Robert McKillop
Editor: Emma Richards
Sound: Rob Walker
Cast: Lorna Anderson, Chris Stirling,
Richard Rankin, Jonny Carlin, James
Allenby
89
Short Films
Son
Soul Mates
Speechless
Son tells the story of an underground
theatre director and the possessive grip
he holds over his female colleague and
her young son James. James' unhappy
world unfolds in the confines of the
theatre's vaults where soon reality and
fiction become indistinguishable.
Jack and Sadie are on their last legs.
Nobody visits, life is spent in the living
room and there's little to do but bicker
over who has the most illnesses. One day,
a young doctor visits and suddenly it is a
battle for attention, as they rediscover
their old verve.
D has plenty of time on his hands. He
could be doing all sort of things but
generally he isn't doing very much.
Disillusioned with just about everything
around him, he takes solace in gangsta
rap and bags of family-sized crisps and
texting.
Director: Daniel Mulloy
2007. s16mm. 17 min 30 sec
Director: Alan de Pellette
2008. DVC Pro HD. 13 min 30 sec
Director: James Cooper
2007. HDV. 7 min
Production Company: Sister Films, 39-43
Brewer Street, London, W1F 9UD,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7851 2000, fax: +44 (0)20
7851 2001
email: ohna@rattlingstick.com
Production Company: Aficionado Films
Ltd, The Attic, 84 Nithsdale Road,
Glasgow, G41 5RA, Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)845 329 6945
email: alan@aficionadofilms.com
Production Company: Stickler Films, 33
Dalmeny Road, London, N7 0DX, England,
UK
tel: +44 (0)7961 137 117
email: james@sticklerfilms.co.uk
Producer: Ohna Falby
Screenwriter: Daniel Mulloy
Editor: Dan Robinson
Director of Photography: Robbie Ryan
Sound: Robert Bourke
Cast: Glenn Doherty, Nathalie Press
Producer, Screenwriter: Alan de Pellette
Editor: Martin Dick
Director of Photography: Jason Weidner
Sound: John Cobban
Music: Raymond Paterson
Cast: Sheila Donald, Alex Howden,
Jonathan Rush
Producer, Screenwriter, Editor: James
Cooper
Director of Photography: Steve Smith
Cast: Anthony Cozens, Ben Qreshi
Souljah
The Space You Leave
Stanlake, an effeminate young African
asylum-seeker, is bullied by thugs on the
rough estate where he and his mother
have been housed. One day things go too
far.
14 year-old Tommy arrives with his older
brother and father at their holiday home
in Sicily. Escaping the strained atmosphere
between them, he finds relief by
befriending a Sicilian stranger. However, a
visit to the local ruin stirs a painful family
memory and an unspoken truth.
Director: Rikki Beadle-Blair
2008. HD. 10 min
Production Company, UK Distrubutor,
International Sales: B3 Media, PO Box
41000, London, SW2 1HN, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7274 2121
email: marc@b3media.net
Producer: John R. Gordon, Rikki BeadleBlair, Carleen Beadle
Executive Producer: Marc Boothe, Erinma
Ochu
Screenwriter: John R. Gordon
Editor: Joe Carey
Director of Photography: Patrick Smith
Sound, Music: Rikki Beadle-Blair
Cast: Ludvig Bonin, Jason Maza, Jai
Rajani, Joel Dommett, Olivette ColeWilson
Director: Theresa von Eltz
2008. HD. 25 min
Production Company: National Film and
Television School, Beaconsfield Studios,
Station Road, Beaconsfield,
Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)1494 731457, fax: +44 (0)1494
674042
email: festivals@nfts.co.uk
web: www.nfts.co.uk
UK Distributor, International Sales:
Hemant Sharda, National Film and
Television School
tel: +44 (0)1494 731452, fax: +44 (0)1494
678583
email: hsharda@nfts.co.uk
Producer: Gavin Humphries, Laura Rees
Screenwriter: Theresa von Eltz
Editor: Brian Welsh
Director of Photography: Ula Pontikos
Sound: Matt Kemp, Ricardo Fonseca
Music: Kylie Earl
Cast: Dan Unwin, Robert Jarvis, Kit
Jackson, Carla Juri
Star
A movie starlet becomes the obsession of
a photographer who sees beyond her
facade. The film looks at the modern
fascination with celebrity image through
the lens of Azreal, the angel of death.
Director: Becky Preston
2008. HD. 4 min
Production Company: Tread Softly
Productions, 1 MacDuff Road, London,
SW11 4DA, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7939 268 632
email: info@treadsoftlyfilms.com
Producer: Christine Cheung
Executive Producer: Becky Preston,
Pearse Sheeham
Screenwriter: Becky Preston
Editor: Michael Zeigermann
Director of Photography: Adam
Etherington
Music: Various
Cast: Joanna Christie, Rhys Lawson
90
Short Films
Stone
Stuck
Survivor
In South London, a 15 year-old boy tries
to cope with his girlfriend's abortion.
Obtaining money from his uncle, he
accompanies her to the clinic. But when
he encounters a herd of deer in a nearby
park, a private anguish rises up and
threatens to overwhelm him.
Leeann works as a cleaner in her old high
school. Her work is repetitive and lonely
and her male supervisor is always spying
on her. One day, an older man appears in
the school playground - the chewing gum
removal man. His work is also repetitive
and lonely . . . or so it seems to Leeann.
What happens when a Rwandan genocide
survivor meets a young man from Darfur?
This is the tale of a friendship made on
fragile emotional grounds. A subtle
treatment of a complex subject, set in
the world of London's night cleaners.
Director: Matt Wilkinson
2007. Mini DV. 12 min
Director: Graham Drysdale
2007. HD. 15 min
Production Company: 67 Films,
67 Parliament Hill Mansions, Lissenden
Gardens, London, NW5 1NB, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7284 4407
email: mattwilkinson8@gmail.com
Production Company, UK Distributor,
International Sales: Pilton Video, 30 Ferry
Road Avenue, Edinburgh, EH4 4BA,
Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)131 343 1151, fax: +44 (0)131
343 2820
email: joel@piltonvideo.org
Producer: Imogen West
Screenwriter, Editor: Matt Wilkinson
Director of Photography: Olivier Cariou
Sound: David Hunt
Music: David Benke
Cast: Frank Harper, Linda Armstrong,
Lewis Taylor, Courtney Day
Strawberry Street
A surreal poignant drama depicting street
crime through the eyes of a seven yearold girl. A little girl wakes up in the
middle of the night and wanders the
streets. She encounters various
melancholy incidents throughout her
journey.
Director: Alex Soteriades
2008. HD. 7 min
Production Company, UK Distributor: Tea
Party Productions, 92 Broadlands Avenue,
Enfield, London, EN3 5AQ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7790 568 480, +44 (0)7949 036
938, fax: +44 (0)20 7249 7979
email: evo_fq300@hotmail.com,
jorgechristou@hotmail.co.uk
Producer, Screenwriter, Editor: George
Christou
Director of Photography: Nabeel Arshad
Sound, Music: Konstantinos Tsahourides
Cast: Ellie Papas, Kevin Barnicoat, Niven
Chimasamy, Sadie Tonks, Andy
Constantinou
Director: Nicole Volavka
2007. Digibeta. 15 min
Production Company: The London Film
School, 24 Shelton Street, London, WC2H
9UB, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7240 0161, fax: +44 (0)20
7497 3718
email: c.bright@lfs.org.uk
web: www.lfs.org.uk
Producer: Graham Drysdale
Screenwriter: Graham Drysdale, Fergus
Robb
Editor: Alex Perry, Graham Drysdale
Director of Photography: Minttu
Mantynen
Sound: Dougie Fairgrieve
Music: Craig Drysdale
Cast: Leeann Hogg, Elek Nathan Kish,
Dave Pickering
Producer: Mark Pallis, Aaron Reid, Jeavon
Smith
Screenwriter: Gabriel Vallejo
Editor: Samuel Wyndham
Director of Photography: Christine Lalla
Production Designer: Steve Wilson
Sound: Rajeev Morabito
Music: Natalie Holt
Cast: Shaun Parkes, Nuer Benjamin-Makar,
Cyri Nri, Jonathan McDermott, Abdul
Popoola
Survey No 257
The Sweetest Sound
Four strangers, locked in a windowless
room to complete a survey, soon realise
they have something more sinister in
common: they all share the same
recurring dream.
When Ally bumps into her ex, Ben, she's
surprised to find him a changed man.
When she left him five years earlier,
pregnant with another man's baby, Ben's
life was in free-fall. Since then it's Ally's
life that has collapsed, whilst Ben's life
seems to have transformed beyond all
recognition.
Director: Zeb Lamb
2008. HD. 10 min
Production Company: Zen Media Ltd,
77 Campbell Gordon Way, London,
NW2 6RW, England, UK
Producer: Richard Jay
Executive Producer: Mica Mullin
Screenwriter: Zeb Lamb
Editor, Sound: Adam Barton
Director of Photography: Stein Stie
Production Designer: Marie Blunck
Music: Creepy Morrows, The Duke Spirit
Cast: Karl Collins, Emil Marwa, Charlotte
Riley, Paul M Meston
Director: Jamie Rafn
2008. DV Cam. 13 min
Production Company: Jamie Rafn Ltd,
86a Sinclair Road, London, W14 0NJ,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7957 326 763
email: rafnjamie@yahoo.co.uk
Producer, Screenwriter: Jamie Rafn
Editor: Kate Owen
Director of Photography: Jamie Rafn,
Marc Charach
Sound: Matt Strong
Music: Holly Butler
Cast: Isabel Walker, Adam Tabraham,
Lizzie Rainbow
91
Short Films
Taxi For the Comedian
Tell Me What To Do
/t¦ek/ (Check)
Jimmy Cakes is an old-school dinosaur
comedian, whose comic influences stretch
not that much further than Bernard
Manning. When he is sent to a comedy
club with a nearly all-black clientele, he
finds his sense of humour is pushed to the
limit, as witnessed by the documentary
crew who are filming this comic legend.
Fletcher is a middle-aged man who finds
his life taking an unexpected turn when
he is left alone to enjoy all that has been
denied to him for many years. As his
indulgence increases, excess mounts
excess, and he soon hankers for discipline
and routine. But who is there to tell him
what to do?
The dark story of an unhappy dollmaker,
whose dissatisfaction with his own
existence results in destroying the lives of
others. How will his struggle end?
Director: Simone Antoine
2008. HD. 10 min
Director: Ji Sung Lee
2007. 16mm. 11 min 4 sec
Production Company, UK Distributor,
International Sales: B3 Media, PO Box
41000, London, SW2 1HN, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7274 2121
email: marc@b3media.net
Production Company: London Film
Academy, 52a Walham Grove, London,
SW6 1QR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7386 7711, fax: +44 (0)20
7381 6116
email: anna@londonfilmacademy.com
Producer: Wendy Bevan-Mogg
Executive Producer: Marc Boothe, Erinma
Ochu
Screenwriter: Matt Blaize
Editor: Richard Mitchell, Monkey Science
Director of Photography: Daniel Keane
Production Designer: Paul Zahibi
Sound: Finn Curry
Music: Mark Adair
Cast: Joshua Amtwi, Kamel Aujla,
Stephen-Lubega Balyejjusa, Anthony
Chisholm, Colin Edwards
Taximan
Young Bosnian immigrant Ivan works in
London as a minicab driver. When he
thinks he's the happiest man on earth, he
loses everything.
Director: Henrik Norrthon
2008. HDV. 22 min
Production Company: The London Film
School, 24 Shelton Street, London, WC2H
9UB, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7240 0161, fax: +44 (0)20
7497 3718
email: c.bright@lfs.org.uk
web: www.lfs.org.uk
Producer: Henrik Norrthon, Suzanne
Kapitzky
Screenwriter, Editor, Director of
Photography: Henrik Norrthon
Production Designer: Nina Aufderheide
Sound: Paul Keating
Music: Moby, Teknikcirkus, Karl Alm
Cast: Branko Tomovic, Christina Noland,
Marija Karan, Fenton Gee, Michelle
Frances
Producer: Joanne Hurley
Screenwriter: Ivaylo Minov
Editor: Charlie Bray
Director of Photography: Marc
Schmidheiny
Production Designer: Hilary Statts
Music: Dakey
Cast: Paddy Flecther, Barbara Langley
Terra Firma
Quentin is an entertainer onboard a North
Sea passenger ferry. He has just split from
his wife and daughters and is living at sea
literally and emotionally. One night
Quentin meets the partner and daughter
of the woman he is having an affair with.
The time he spends with the daughter,
Angelina, moves Quentin to confront his
life on land.
Director: Johnny Barrington
2007. HD. 28 min
Production Company, International
Sales: Sigma Films, Film City Glasgow,
4 Sommerton Road, Glasgow, G51 2LY,
Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)141 445 0400, fax: +44 (0)141
445 6900
email: anna@sigmafilms.com
Producer: Anna Duffield
Executive Producer: Kate Ogborn
Screenwriter: Johnny Barrington
Editor: Chris Wyatt
Director of Photography: Simon Tindall
Production Designer: Kara Ramsay
Sound: Savalas
Music: Charlie Jefferson
Cast: Michael Smiley, Natasha Watson,
Jamie Michie, Jo Hartley
Director: Karolina Malinowska
2008. Mini DV. 6 min 27 sec
Main Contact: Karolina Malinowska, Ulica
Dabrowki, 2/10, Koszalin, 75-055, Poland
tel: +44 (0)7935 737 852
email: majoryty@googlemail.com
Producer: Karolina Malinowska,
Charmaine Gilbert
Screenwriter, Editor, Production
Designer: Karolina Malinowska
Director of Photography: Karolina
Malinowska, Lucy Sneddon
Music: Paagolina Malinowska
Cast: Alan Ireby, Desiree Quintero Marin,
Lucy Sneddon, Alanna Kerr
The Thai Bride
An Asian-style ghost story set in the
suffocating suburbs of London. When
Panan arrives from Thailand to start her
marriage with Gordon, she finds settling
into her new life harder than expected.
She senses another woman in the house.
Is Panan imagining this sinister presence
or is she being haunted?
Director: Corinna Faith
2007. DV Cam. 24 min
Production Company: IWC Media,
Gloucester Building, Kensington Village,
Avonmore Road, London, W14 8RF,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7013 4052, fax: +44 (0)20
7013 4001
email: helen.jenkins@iwcmedia.co.uk
International Sales: RDF Rights,
Beaumont House, Kensington Village,
Avonmore Road, London, W14 8RF,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7013 4435, fax: +44 (0)20
7013 4001
email: alison.carney@rdfmedia.com
Producer: Jim Spencer, Hannah Weaver
Executive Producer: Judy Counihan
Screenwriter: Corinna Faith
Editor: Kant Pan
Director of Photography: Christopher
Titus King
Production Designer: Eddy Andres
Sound, Music: Max De Wardener
Cast: Lourdes Faberes, Terence Hillyer,
Flora Nicholson, Antoinette Sym
92
Short Films
Thinspiration
Tide
Tùmt and I
A story about anorexia set in the
seventeenth century. Eva and Anna are
young novices at an austere convent.
When Anna takes the Lenten fast to
extremes, wild rumours about her holiness
being to spread. Hoping to save her
friend, Eva is forced to confront the
culture that condones such hysteria.
He kisses her. Is this the beginning of a
great love or the end? A short film which
plays with the audience's perception . . .
backwards.
Shlebhian writes home about his first few
months in England with his brother Tùmt.
Life in England is not quite what the
brothers were expecting and Shlebhian
voices his difficulty in acclimatising to
British culture. Humorous and poignant, a
touching document to isolation in a new
culture.
Director: Harry Burton
2008. HD. 24 min
Production Company: IWC Media,
Gloucester Building, Kensington Village,
Avonmore Road, London, W14 8RF,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7013 4052, fax: +44 (0)20
7013 4001
email: helen.jenkins@iwcmedia.co.uk
International Sales: RDF Rights,
Beaumont House, Kensington Village,
Avonmore Road, London, W14 8RF,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7013 4435, fax: +44 (0)20
7013 4001
email: alison.carney@rdfmedia.com
Producer: Jim Spencer, Hannah Weaver
Executive Producer: Judy Counihan
Screenwriter: Ruth McCane
Editor: David Gibson
Director of Photography: Lol Crawley
Production Designer: Jo Manser
Sound: Anna Sulley
Music: Bev Lee Harling
Cast: Sian Thomas, Lucinda Dryzek, Karen
Gillan, Sara James, Sue Vincent
Thou Shalt Not
Alone in an alienating oil-dry future,
Hunter pursues a preternatural urge to
obtain petroleum regardless of the
consequences and of its limited use in the
regressive world around him.
Director: Michael Byrne
2007. Mini DV. 8 min 19 sec
Production Company: Cracked Films,
44a Cranwich Road, Stoke Newington,
London, N16 5JN, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8801 305
email: fall_of_babylon@hotmail.com
web: www.crackedfilms.co.uk
UK Distributor: Max Brill, Cracked Films,
44a Cranwich Road, Stoke Newington,
London, N16 5JN, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8880 1305
email: max.brill@crackedfilms.co.uk
Producer: Viki Walden
Screenwriter: Michael Byrne
Editor: Juha Puupera
È
Director of Photography: Ben White
Sound, Music: Robin Eden
Cast: Oliver Lord, Robin Eden
Director: Felix Wiedemann
2007. s16mm. 5 min 55 sec
Production Company: National Film and
Television School, Beaconsfield Studios,
Station Road, Beaconsfield,
Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)1494 731457, fax: +44 (0)1494
674042
email: festivals@nfts.co.uk
web: www.nfts.co.uk
UK Distributor, International Sales:
Hemant Sharda, National Film and
Television School
tel: +44 (0)1494 731452, fax: +44 (0)1494
678583
email: hsharda@nfts.co.uk
Screenwriter, Editor, Director of
Photography: Felix Wiedemann
Music: Roger Goula
Cast: Claire Louise Amias, Ben-Bela
Boehm, Vanessa Whyte
Tomorrow's Forecast
A mysterious friend helps Darren
remember the recent events of his past
that will shape his future.
Director: David Hewitt
2007. Digibeta. 15 min 40 sec
Production Company, UK Distributor,
International Sales: Satellite Pictures Ltd,
20 Honeyman Close, London, NW6 7AZ,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8451 5212
email: info@satellite-pictures.co.uk
Producer: Mani Sohanpal
Screenwriter: David Hewitt
Editor: Alex Sutcliffe
Director of Photography: Dominik Rippl
Production Designer: Liz Colbert
Sound, Music: Ben Walker
Cast: James Hillier, Remi Nichole
Director: Daz Spencer, Joe Barcham
2007. Mini DV. 3 min 5 sec
Main Contact: Darren W Robinson,
16 Buttermere, Augustus Street, Camden,
London, NW1 3TE, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7870 887 792
email: dal.whittaker.robinson@gmail.com
Producer: Joe Barcham
Screenwriter, Music: D W Robinson
Editor, Sound: Daz Spencer, Joe Barcham
Director of Photography: Daz Spencer
Production Designer: D W Robinson, D L
Lankester
Cast: D W Robinson, David L Lankester
Traces
A brief encounter between a woman and
a man along the deserted east coast of
England, in the winter. The woman, who
has lost her desire to live, becomes the
subject of the man's voyeurism and
photographic lens.
Director: Sandesh de Rijk
2007. Mini DV. 20 min
Production Company: National Film and
Television School, Beaconsfield Studios,
Station Road, Beaconsfield,
Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)1494 731457, fax: +44 (0)1494
674042
email: festivals@nfts.co.uk
web: www.nfts.co.uk
UK Distributor, International Sales:
Hemant Sharda, National Film and
Television School
tel: +44 (0)1494 731452, fax: +44 (0)1494
678583
email: hsharda@nfts.co.uk
Producer: Samantha Hermann
Screenwriter: Sandesh de Rijk
Editor: Sander Kuiper
Director of Photography: Gerko Jonker
Sound: Bouk Bouwmeester
Music: Minko Kalsbeek
Cast: Charlotte Allam, Mark Carter
93
Short Films
Training Daljinder
Trapped
Triple Word
Daljinder, a young trainee minicab driver,
is paired up with Mick, a veteran cabbie,
in order to learn the minicab trade.
However Daljinder soon finds out that
Mick's teachings range from the immoral
to the illegal, and begins to wonder
whether this is the trade for him.
Jack becomes ill from the mould on the
wall. Like a monster it eats into his
health and imagination. Living in terrible
conditions the family are forced to move
from place to place as their world falls
apart around them, with only red tape to
bind them.
Director: Ben Slotover
2007. HDV. 15 min 15 sec
Director: Rowland Jobson
2008. 16mm. 21 min
In a future cold war, people have
prepared to evacuate to Mars should
missiles fire. Three students launch their
escape pod only to discover
entertainment has been somewhat
overlooked. One room, three friends, a
guitar and a Scrabble board. A two-year
journey suddenly feels like a horribly long
time.
Production Company: Blunt Productions,
55 Lady Somerset Road, London, NW5 1TY,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7209 3549, fax: +44 (0)20
7209 9569
email: ben@bluntproductions.com
web: www.mickmovie.com
Production Company: Seefood Ltd,
7 Denmark Street, London, WC2H 8LZ,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7870 1113
email: info@seefood.tv
Producer, Editor, Music: Ben Slotover
Screenwriter: Paul Elliott, Ben Slotover
Director of Photography: Arsenio Assin
Sound: Tim Robinson
Cast: Paul Elliott, Amit Shah, Vimal
Stephens
Train Trip
When a man takes the train he expects to
have a quiet trip. The coach is empty
except for a stunningly beautiful woman
who can't take her eyes off him. All he
has to do is get up and talk. But will he?
Producer: Zoe Webster
Screenwriter: Rowland Jobson
Editor: Matteo Pizzarello
Director of Photography: Tony Imi
Production Designer: Caroline Collinge
Sound: Tate Music
Music: Rob Lord
Cast: Patsy Palmer, Steven Elder, James
Wilson, Molly Kerrigan
Trip
An emotional tale of what happens when
a father tries to do the right thing by his
two daughters but chooses the worst way
to go about it.
Director: Ery Nzaramba
2007. Mini DV. 4 min 6 sec
Director: Harry Wootliff
2007. 16mm. 15 min
Production Company: Maliza Productions,
Flat 13, 113 Oxford Road, Oxford, OX4
2ES, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7778 042 017
email: ery@nzaramba.com
Production Company: Yipp Films, Office
Two, Maling Studios, Hoults Estates Ltd,
Walker Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6
2HL, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)191 224 1555, fax: +44 (0)191
224 2555
email: info@yippfilms.com
Producer, Screenwriter, Editor, Sound:
Ery Nzaramba
Director of Photography: Courtney
Townsend
Cast: Chara Jackson, Paul Clerkin, Ery
Nzaramba
UK Distributor: Katie Metcalfe, Future
Shorts, 34-35 Berwick Street, London,
W1F 8RP, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7734 3883
email: katie@futureshorts.com
Producer: Patrick Collerton
Executive Producer: Iris Maor
Screenwriter: Harry Wootliff
Editor: Tim Fulford
Director of Photography: Lol Crawley
Production Designer: Dalia Gellert
Sound: Chris Wilson
Music: Mat Davidson
Cast: Sam Hazeldine, Karis Igoe, Chloe
Garner. Sara Fellows
Director: Paul Allen, Jamie Bolton
2008. 16mm. 7 min 6 sec
Production Company: 33 Story
Productions, 33 Florentia Street, Cathays,
Cardiff, CF24 4PE, Wales, UK
tel: +44 (0)7971 428 318
email: pallen33@googlemail.com
web: www.33story.com
Producer: Marisa Castella
Screenwriter: Paul Allen
Editor: Chris Rees
Director of Photography: Richard
Surridge
Production Designer: Ben Morson
Sound: Benjamin Brundle
Music: Gareth Bonello
Cast: Paul Tonkin, Greg Upham, Thomas
Rhys Nicholas
Un Riff para Lazaro
Lazaro, a young trumpet player from La
Havana, prepares a music exam with a
new trumpet mouthpiece. One day this
trumpet mouthpiece disappears. Lazaro
decides to look for his father, who is also
a trumpeter.
(Spanish with English subtitles).
Director: Re
Âmi Borgeaud
2007. 16mm. 17 min 42 sec
Production Company: The London Film
School, 24 Shelton Street, London, WC2H
9UB, England
tel: +44 (0)20 7836 9642, fax: +44 (0)20
7497 3718
email: c.bright@lfs.org.uk
web: www.lfs.org.uk
Producer: Irina Ruiz
Screenwriter, Sound: Remi Borgeand
Editor: Miri Shapiro
Director of Photography: Luis Naymias Jr
Music: Loic Boujol
Cast: Julio Boujol, Keyla Ramos
Co-production: Switzerland, Cuba
94
Short Films
Unborn
Undertow
Up
An infertile woman moves into a
delapidated house with her husband,
where she becomes convinced she can
hear her unborn child crying for her.
Two men wander the streets of a deserted
city. Neither has any memory of how they
came to be there. In a busy city a woman
grieves. As a series of strange events and
suppressed memories manifest, the two
worlds begin to collide.
Try all your life to succeed, get on, don't
stop, do what you're told, listen to your
mother and above all don't turn back.
There is only ever one direction . . . up.
Director: Justin Trefgarne
2008. 16mm. 11 min
Production Company: Trinamite
Productions Ltd, The Elm Coach House,
Church Lane, Chipping Norton,
Oxfordshire, OX7 5NS, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7734 415 096
email: francine@trinamiteproductions.com
web: www.trinamiteproductions.com
Producer: Francine Heywood, Laura Giles,
Ernest Riera, Sarah Parfitt
Executive Producer: David Kraftman
Screenwriter: Justin Trefgarne
Editor: Andy Shelley
Director of Photography: James Leckey
È zkural
Production Designer: Eren O
Sound: Ian MacBeth
Music: Molly Trefgarne
Cast: Dan Fredeburgh, Molly Gaisford,
Simon Kunz, Sasha Billingham
Underground
Sylvana looks after Sam's Grandad. Sam
arrives at Grandad's house, excited to
show him a bug. But something has
happened to Grandad. The event unites
him with Sylvana in unexpected ways.
Director: Oonagh Kearney
2007. HD. 18 min 30 sec
Production Company: National Film and
Television School, Beaconsfield Studios,
Station Road, Beaconsfield,
Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)1494 731457, fax: +44 (0)1494
674042
email: festivals@nfts.co.uk
web: www.nfts.co.uk
UK Distributor, International Sales:
Hemant Sharda, National Film and
Television School
tel: +44 (0)1494 731452, fax: +44 (0)1494
678583
email: hsharda@nfts.co.uk
Producer, Screenwriter: Oonagh Kearney
Editor: Charlotte Munch Bengtsen
Director of Photography: Duncan Telford
Sound: Dominic Fitzgerald
Music: Catrin Jones
Cast: Max Fewsten, Melody Lovich, Dan
Meaden, Jody Elen Machin, Martin Glyn
Murray
Director: Neil McEnery-West
2007. Mini DV. 27 min 50 sec
Main Contact: Neil McEnery-West,
61 Winns Terrace, Walthamstow, London,
E17 5EJ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7986 009 097
email: nmcenerywest@googlemail.com
web: www.mcenerywest.co.uk
Producer, Editor, Director of
Photography: Neil McEnery-West
Screenwriter: Antony Woodruff, Neil
McEnery-West
Sound: Doug Haywood
Music: Ruth Chan
Cast: Matthew Jure, Paul Mills, Clea
McEnery-West
Uninvited
Harry, a tormented writer, finds himself
lost in the middle of nowhere. Seeking
help in a forgotten pub he finds a new
and unusual story. With every sip of his
drink he watches a story unfold.
Director: Shaune Harrison
2007. HD. 12 min 45 sec
Production Company: Futurist Films,
10 Pond Lane, Chalfont St Peter, SL9 9HZ,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7887 771 534
email: shaunekate@aol.com
Producer: Kerri Trounce
Screenwriter: Kerri Trounce, Shaune
Harrison
Editor: Ben Clayton
Director of Photography: Lisa Thomson
Production Designer: Tez Palmer
Sound: Ben Clayton, Andy Caller
Music: Paul Lord
Cast: Frazer Douglas, Rachel Sheridan,
Dominik Golding, Andy Hunt
Director: Dan Moss
2008. 16mm. 10 min 58 sec
Production Company: Hekate Films,
16 Dunsmore Road, London, N16 5PW,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7840 113 883
email: danhekate@hotmail.com
Producer: Dan Moss, Gabi Norland
Screenwriter: Dan Moss, Megan George
Editor: Anne Kliem
Director of Photography: Gabi Norland
Sound: Hue Jah Fink
Music: Stitch
Cast: Dave, Rebecca Steele, Nick Ewans,
Ken Collard
Vani
In remote areas of Pakistan, a custom in
which young girls are forcibly married to
rival clan members to resolve disputes
still takes place. Although desperate
actions are taken against it, every day
innocent women sacrifice their lives to
Vani.
Director: Shafia Bhatti
2008. DV Cam. 21 min
Production Company: Sheffield Hallam
University, Psalter Lane Campus, Psalter
Lane, Sheffield, S11 8YZ, England, UK
email: s.sprung@shu,ac.uk,
r.p.wright@shu.ac.uk
Producer: Shafia Bhatti
Screenwriter: Iftekhar Haider, Zaibun
Pasha
Editor: Varsha Bansal
Director of Photography: Dilnawaz
Ahmed
Sound: Jon Willis
Cast: Bakhtawar, Zahid Ali, Semee Khan,
Amjad Sandhu, Saira Khan
95
Short Films
Veils
Vespers
The Voice
A modern London diaspora story about a
Jewish bride and a Palestinian groom on
their wedding day. But this is not a
standard Romeo and Juliet story of
forbidden love - as time begins to run
out, the families race towards a surprising
thought-provoking climax.
The last man walks alone, always. Vespers
is a visual spectacle that can best be
described as a Victorian-era 28 Days
Later.
A period drama set in Sicily, 1910. A blind
aristocrat falls in love with his mother's
nurse. Their perfect relationship is
interrupted when a doctor arrives with a
cure for his blindness and the nurse
becomes unsure about her looks. Based on
a story by Luigi Picardello.
Director: Dan Susman
2007. HD. 13 min
Production Company: Film Foundry
tel: +44 (0)7812 110 073
email: dansusman@gmail.com
Producer: Kirsty Peart, Jane McGee,
Taimoor Sobhan
Screenwriter: Dan Susman
Editor: Melanie Leblond
Director of Photography: Frank Dow
Production Designer: Rosy Thomas
Sound: Videosonics
Music: Chris Hobson
Cast: Maureen Lipman, David Horovitch,
Ray Panthaki
Vermin
When Gary has to lift a squeaky
floorboard in a house he is helping
refurbish, he is surprised to find a nest of
accountants living underneath. But while
he is enchanted by their industrious
activity, his boss is less happy, and calls in
the exterminator.
Director: Robin Morgan
2007. DV Cam. 8 min
Production Company: Boogle Eyes,
106 Wellmeadow Road, London, SE6 1HW,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7946 536 962
email: captainbrolly@gmail.com
Producer: Simon Aldous, Robin Morgan
Screenwriter: Simon Aldous
Editor: Amy Kane
Director of Photography: Phil Connolly
Production Designer: Alex Bailey
Music: Tom Miles
Cast: Peter Herbert, Andrew Guyver, Gill
Stoker
Director: David Lilley, Stephen Gray
2008. HD. 6 min
Production Company: Loonatik and
Drinks, 21 Melrose Street, Sherwood,
Nottingham, NG5 2JP, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7717 531 253
email: info@loonatikanddrinks.com
Producer, Screenwriter: David Lilley
Editor: David Lilley, Stephen Gray
Director of Photography: Stephen Gray
Sound: Barry Parsons
Music: Kubilam Uner
Cast: Kevin Norcross, Georgia Blake
View of the Spider
View of the Spider looks into the world of
a pro female boxer who is preparing for
the big fight with a romanticised outlook
of reality. How far would you go to live
the dream?
Director: George Millar, Sharon Race
2007. Mini DV. 16 min 55 sec
Production Company: Cet, 3 Southview
West, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 5PP,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)191 209 5031
email: cet@btinternet.com
Screenwriter: Sharon Race
Director of Photography: Harry
Henderson
Production Designer: M C Race
Cast: Sharon Race, George J McVeagh,
Christina Kiernan
Director: Dennis Madden
2007. 16mm. 20 min
Production Company, International
Sales: Magor Films, 9 The Vale, London,
N10 1AH, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7958 495 539
email: dennismadden@hotmail.com
Producer: Mike Unwin, Trevor Porter
Screenwriter, Director of Photography:
Dennis Madden
Editor: Sam Jones
Production Designer: Georgina Roberts
Sound: James Corless
Music: Peter Morris
Cast: Ellie Collier, Will Garthwaite,
Michael Kirk
The Voices Inside
Listen, and you'll hear.
Director: Paul Dolmen
2008. Mini DV. 7 min 25 sec
Production Company, UK Distributor,
International Sales: Dolmen Pictures,
197 Daw End Lane, Walsall, West
Midlands, WS4 1LD, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7778 347 652
Producer, Screenwriter, Editor: Paul
Dolmen
Music: Aidan Goldstraw
Cast: Malcolm Trahearn, Gillian Starling,
Simon Norris, Rita Kemp
96
Short Films
Void
Watch Me!
The Weaker Sex
Rehan is a young Muslim who has become
disillusioned with life in modern Britain
and has reached a point where he feels
lost in the void between the two very
different worlds. Having been seduced by
extremists he is left standing at a
crossroads and must decide which road to
take.
Tom and younger brother Stuart escape
from a violent street gang - by using
their mobile phones.
A woman's journey takes an unexpected
turn as an apparent twist of fate turns
out to be something more sinister.
Director: Leuan Morris
2008. HD. 13 min
Director: Louise Catherall
2007. Mini DV. 6 min 39 sec
Production Company: Fiction Factory Ltd,
1-2 Mount Stuart Square, Cardiff Bay,
Cardiff, CF10 5EE, Wales, UK
tel: +44 (0)2920 300320, fax: +44 (0)2920
300321
email: mail@fictionfactoryfilms.com
Main Contact: Louise Catherall, 51 Glebe
Way, West Wickham, Kent, BR4 9HP,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7806 946 681
email: lcatherall@ntlworld.com
Director: Paul Carmichael
2007. 16mm. 7 min 54 sec
Production Company: London Film
Academy, 52a Walham Grove, London,
SW6 1QR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7386 7711, fax: +44 (0)20
7381 6116
email: anna@londonfilmacademy.com
Producer: Yun Tae Kang
Screenwriter: Akram Hassan
Editor: Gary Clayton
Director of Photography: Hagendra
Prasad
Production Designer: Chryssanthy Kofidoy
Sound: Gary Clayton
Cast: Irfan Hussain, Daphne Alexander,
Hajaz Akram, Hamza Jeetooa
The Waiting Room
Two men at the twilight of their lives
share a hospital room and are forced to
hear each other's differing world views.
Director: Max Davies
2008. HD. 14 min 55 sec
Production Company: Sandbox,
163 Sulivan Court, London, SW6 3DN,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7956 505 688
Producer: Nick Saunders
Screenwriter: James Higginson
Editor: Jay Costello
Director of Photography: Michael Hannan
Production Designer: Claire Hannan
Sound: Martin Reekie
Cast: David Barnaby, David Forest
Producer: Catrin Rees
Screenwriter: Leuan Morris
Editor: Aloma Blackmore
Director of Photography: Jonathon Bloom
Production Designer: Sue Jackson-Potter
Music: Aaron Trinder, Chris Butterworth
Cast: Tom Cullen, Tomos Ryan, Jordan
Barnard, Julie Barclay
We are all Rwandans
A day in the life of six Rwandan students
whose school was attacked by rebels in
the aftermath of the genocide. Their
refusal to betray each other cost them
dearly.
Director: Debs Gardner-Paterson
2007. HD. 25 min
Production Company: Catsiye,
30a Ladbroke Square, London, W11 3NB,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)775 261 3701
email: debs@catsiye.com
Producer: Sven Pannell, Ayuub Kasasa
Mago
Screenwriter: Ayuub Kasasa Mago, Debs
Gardner-Paterson
Editor: Miikka Leskinen
Director of Photography: Tim Neeves
Sound: Robin Pender, Chris Booth
Music: Bernie Gardner
Cast: Solange Liza Umhire, Viateur
Munderere, Kennedy J Mazimpaka, Sonia
Uwimbabazi, Aloys Twungubumwe
Producer, Screenwriter, Editor, Director
of Photography: Louise Catherall
Sound: Jo Byrne
Cast: Debra Baker, Georgie Calverley,
Russell Gibbs
What Goes Around
When a young man avenges his cousin's
dignity by stabbing her drug-dealing sex
buddy in a moment of rage, he sets off a
chain of bloody events that leads to his
own death.
Director: Nic Penrake
2007. 16mm. 10 min 43 sec
Production Company: Penrake
Productions Ltd, 113 Swinderby Road,
Wembley, London, HAO 4SE, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7779 102 348, fax: +44 (0)20
8632 0373
email: nic_penrake@hotmail.com
Producer: Nic Penrake, Nick Franco,
Roopesh Parekh
Screenwriter, Production Designer: Nic
Penrake
Editor: Dan Gethic
Director of Photography: Zillah Bowes
Music: Jim Meacock
97
Short Films
Wheelspin
When the Oil Ran Out
The Wilds
Angie has her part-time job and her yoga
while John has his car lot. He sees
himself as better than most, he's a
player (or so he thinks). Marriage hasn't
kept him faithful. John is never satisfied,
he wants more and unfortunately for
him, he gets it.
This film takes a brief look into the future
to predict how life will change for
ordinary people when oil is scarce.
Following a chain of brutal child deaths in
a secluded North Yorkshire village, a local
farmer journeys out into the wilds to
discover the fate of his missing son.
Director: Michael Burns
2007. DV Cam. 14 min 45 sec
Production Company: Bright Light Films
Ltd, 40 Oakdene Avenue, Chislehurst,
Kent, BR7 6EA, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7710 513 484
email: brightlightfilms@onetel.com
Producer: Matt Dadley
Screenwriter: Michael Burns
Editor: Chris Brown
Director of Photography: Cliff Harden
Sound: Sharmi Naidoo
Music: Soul Step
Cast: Michael O'Flaherty, Piers Norman,
Ellenor Draper
When Mars Meets Venus
A compilation of different sketches,
intended as a pilot for a sketch show.
These are presented as `runners', i.e.
recurring segments giving the film a
unified effect. The themes covered
include relationships, new age mystics and
image makeovers, which are all relevant
to the title.
Director: Kyra Williams, Theresa Cole,
Charlotte Thornton
2007. DV Cam. 8 min
Production Company: Dilemmas, Flat 12,
26 Dartmouth Road, Forest Hill, London,
SE23 3XU, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8699 3799
email: theresacole80@hotmail.co.uk
Producer: Theresa Cole
Screenwriter: Tom Fisher
Editor, Director of Photography, Sound,
Music: James Esposito
Cast: Theresa Cole, Charles Armstrong,
Charlotte Thornton, David Stoller, Andrew
Conway
Director: Chinyere Deacon-Smith
2008. Mini DV. 5 min
Production Company: Classic Art
Productions, 12c Flodden Road,
Camberwell, London, SE5 9LN, England,
UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7274 6627
email: classieart@hotmail.co.uk
Producer, Screenwriter, Editor: Chinyere
Deacon-Smith
Music: Jason Ogwo, Daniel Deacon-Smith,
Aaron Sinclair
Cast: Daniel Deacon-Smith, Alice
O'Malley, Luke Sinclair, Aaron Sinclair,
Nathan Sinclair
White Collar Crime
After discovering his wife has been having
an affair, a vicar's crisis of faith is lived
out on the paintball field. His masterful
combat skills soon become apparent while
he hunts down his enemy with a passion
reserved only for sinners. But will he
regain his faith before he meets his true
enemy?
Director: Keir MacKenzie
2007. DV Cam. 14 min
Production Company: Wet Fish Films,
Leftside Productions, Flat 1, 58 Dudley
Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN1 1LF,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7796 617 144
Producer: Keir MacKenzie, Andrew Swann
Screenwriter: Keir MacKenzie
Editor: Andrew Swann
Director of Photography: Graeme
Maxwell
Music: The Atkins Project
Cast: Colin Holt, Georgina Sutton. Ian
Attfield, Daniel Jarus, Oliver Ward-Lewis
Director: Matthew D Ridley
2007. 16mm. 15 min
Production Company, UK Distributor,
International Sales: The Northern Film
School, c/o Electric Press, F Block Stores,
Calverley Street, Leeds, England, LS1
3HE, UK
tel: +44 (0)113 812 8035, fax: +44 (0)113
812 8080
email: n.kidd@leedsmet.ac.uk
Producer, Screenwriter: Matthew D
Ridley
Editor: Tamsin Spivey
Director of Photography: Adam Cor
Sound: Tim Gait
Cast: Steve Granger, Katey PurkissMcEndoo, Benjamin Purkiss-McEndoo
Winding Down
An ageing clock repairman struggles
against the fading of the light.
Director: Richard Parkin
2008. HD. 12 min 42 sec
Production Company: Red Ray Films,
15 The Parade, Donaghadee, BT21 0AE,
Northern Ireland, UK
tel: +44 (0)794 984 6005
email: richard@parkin.uk.net
Producer: Villi Ragnarsson
Screenwriter, Editor: Richard Parkin
Director of Photography: Angus Mitchell
Production Designer: Christine Savage
Music: Graeme G Stewart
Cast: Derek Halligan, Barry Etherson,
Helena Bereen
The Window
A man who lives in a TV, in a shop
window, falls in love with a mannequin
from the shop across the street.
Director: Ana Vilenica
2007. HD. 8 min 28 sec
Production Company: Pebble Film &
Theatre Productions Ltd, 24 Parliament
Hill, London, NW3 2TN, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)776 951 5380
email: slobodan@pebbleft.com
Producer: Slobodan Karajlovic
Executive Producer, Screenwriter: Ana
Vilencia, Slobodan Karajlovic
Editor: Anne Kliem
Director of Photography: Harald Beeker
Production Designer: Katharine Fry
Sound: Samir Foco
Music: Dado Dehan
Cast: Gordon Cowell
98
Short Films
Wings of Blue Angels
Wishful Filming
Without a Face
Lives intertwine and experiences are
shared amongst strangers in Bangkok, a
city of millions where the chance of
finding a connection with someone
happens in ways you least expect. This is
exactly what happens to Farr and Nuam,
two women leading very different lives
who find love in very different places.
Life and movies have so much in common.
First impressions, attracting the people
you like, and most of all attaining the
love of the desired one is never easy . . .
but it can happen sometimes.
A young woman heads home after a party.
She stumbles across a man lying injured in
the road. As she tries to help him an
ambulance silently appears out of the
darkness and it soon becomes clear, this is
no ordinary ambulance and help is not
what it is here for.
Director: Ong Chantarangkul
2008. 35mm. 29 min 19 sec
Production Company: The London Film
School, 24 Shelton Street, London, WC2H
9UB, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7240 0161, fax: +44 (0)20
7497 3718
email: c.bright@lfs.org.uk
web: www.lfs.org.uk
Producer: Natalie Higashi
Screenwriter: Ong Chantarangkul
Editor: Vanat Sermpol
Director of Photography: Pramett
Chankrasae
Production Designer: Wittoya
Chaimongkol
Sound: Preethep Boondej
Cast: Sinitta Booyasak, Dolloros
Dechapratumwon, Ananda Everingham,
Thiti Vechabul
Wish
Two girls, two boys, a game where nobody
wins.
Director: Matt Day
2007. 7 min 48 sec
Production Company: Quark Films Ltd,
10 Denmark Street, London, WC2H 8LS,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7714 237 776
email: anna@quarkfilms.com
Producer: Anna Higgs
Screenwriter: Matt Day
Editor: Jay Moss
Director of Photography: Christopher
Ross
Production Designer: Eva Kuntz
Sound: Stuart Miller
Music: Norwell & Green
Cast: Imogen Poots, Scarlett Patterson,
Christian Cooke, Jack Bence
Director: Amaniel Ghebrehiwet
2007. 16mm. 7 min 29 sec
Production Company: London Film
Academy, 52a Walham Grove, London,
SW6 1QR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7386 7711, fax: +44 (0)20
7381 6116
email: anna@londonfilmacademy.com
Producer: Julio Garcia
Screenwriter: Simon Gill
Editor: William Tennant
Director of Photography: Kenneth
Fanning
Production Designer: Hiromi Sato
Withindoors
Withindoors is an edgy atmospheric piece
steeped around the theme of paranoia
and its effect on Lewis, a young man with
agoraphobia crippled by anxiety. After his
girlfriend leaves him he attempts to chase
after her by breaking free from the
confines of his house.
Director: Russell Webber
2008. HD. 7 min
Production Company: Met Film School,
Ealing Studios, London, W5 5EP, England,
UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8280 9118
email: rob@metfilm.co.uk
International Sales: Russell Webber,
4 South Island Place, Oval, London,
SW9 0DX, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7894 220 886
email: russ_webber@hotmail.com
Producer, Screenwriter, Editor: Russell
Webber
Director of Photography: Leo Leigh
Sound, Music: Simon Richardson
Cast: Michael Dixon, Megan Maczko
Director: Richard P Wheildon
2008. HD. 10 min
Production Company: The Gel Pool,
169 Clive Road, Dulwich, London,
SE21 8DF, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7913 396 803
email: banddamned@gmail.com
Producer: Richard P Wheildon, Emma
Finn
Screenwriter, Editor, Production
Designer: Richard P Wheildon
Director of Photography: David Beaumont
Sound: Jo Tyler
Music: Richard P Wheildon
Cast: Helen Heaslip, Ben Evans, Nick
Danan, Emma Finn
Working Late
A man works late into the night. Will he
ever be able to leave the office?
Director: Jacqui Adams
2007. HD. 1 min
Main Contact: Jacqui Adams, 17 Cookhill
Road, London, SE2 9PD, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7947 865 222
email: jocastaisfabby@hotmail.com
Producer, Screenwriter: Jacqui Adams
Editor: Marc Knapton
Director of Photography: Kevin Magee
Music: Ant Neely
Cast: Colin Black, Leilani Holmes
99
Short Films
A World Without
Wrestling the Duvet
Yesterday's News
You are invited into a world of dance,
music and photography, passions that
drive and define Mike's uniqueness. When
taking a closer look ask yourself, what
truly defines you?
Seven am and Malcolm needs to wake up,
but his duvet has other plans.
Joy struggles to keep her family together
on Christmas Eve. Her explosive husband
is haunted by his service in Iraq, their son
craves a normal festive period and a
surprise visitor arrives unexpectedly. This
Christmas will be an experience never to
be forgotten.
Director: Gurmit Samra
2007. HD. 13 min
Production Company: Brand G Films,
Studio 2/b, Chocolate Factory, 4 Coburg
Street, Wood Green, London, N22 6UJ,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7812 027 701
email: gurmitsamra@brandgmedia.com
Producer, Screenwriter, Editor: Gurmit
Samra
Director of Photography, Production
Designer: Ajay Chag
Sound, Music: Niraj Chag
Cast: James Fogerty, Mia Partridge,
Nathan Croct
Wounded Knee
When cowboy Mike smashes his knee in
the annual roundup, things look bad for
his future until one night he finds the
answer lying dead in the road.
Director: Emma Burge
2008. 35mm. 20 min 59 sec
Production Company: Hayhead Films,
60 Paxton Road, London, W4 2QX,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8994 1902
email: emma.burge@snapper.demon.co.uk
Producer, Screenwriter: Emma Burge
Editor: Chris Gill
Director of Photography: Tony Slater-Ling
Production Designer: Daniel Stevens
Sound: Clarity
Music: Tim Atack
Cast: Phil Davis, Joe Dempsie, John
Fortune, David Gillespie
Director: Mac & Fox
2007. Mini DV. 1 min
Production Company: Magic If Ltd,
35 Ashleigh Grove, Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE2 3DJ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)191 209 4282
email: macandfox@blueyonder.co.uk
Producer, Screenwriter: Bev Fox
Executive Producer: Northern Film &
Media
Editor: Ian McLaughlin
Director of Photography: Ian McLaughlin
Cast: Chris Price, Gary Kitching, Carl
Kennedy
Yalda
A colourful musical journey of a woman's
tangled past and her complex
relationships with lovers and family. The
protagonist's journey to a swimming pool
is interwoven with remembered past
situations. An encounter with a company
of synchronised swimmers is juxtaposed
with her decision to have an operation
she hopes will change her future for good.
Director: Esther Johnson
2007. DVC Pro HD. 15 min
Production Company, UK Distributor,
International Sales: Blanche Pictures,
3 Fulcrum, 22 Furnival Street, Sheffield,
South Yorkshire, S1 4LG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)7866 586 248
email: esther@blanchepictures.com
web: www.blanchepictures.com
Producer, Production Designer: Esther
Johnson
Screenwriter: Mehrdad Seyf
Editor: Esther Johnson, Sue Giovanni
Director of Photography: Lynda Hall
Sound: Peter Ringrose
Music: David Pickvance
Cast: Erin Brodie, Aquabatix, Clem Elton
Director: Graham Fitzpatrick
2008. HD. 17 min
Production Company, UK Distributor,
International Sales: Pilton Video, 30 Ferry
Road Avenue, Edinburgh, EH4 4BA,
Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)131 343 1151, fax: +44 (0)131
343 2820
email: info@piltonvideo.org,
graham@piltonvideo.org
Producer: Steven Cook
Executive Producer: Joel Venet
Screenwriter: Helen Chambers
Editor: Graham Fitzpatrick
Director of Photography: Grant McPhee
Production Designer: Philip Chan
Sound: Paul Chan
Music: Paul Mottriam
Cast: Alison Lilley, Ben Lilley, Elek Kish
You Me and Captain
Longbridge
Isolated by the abrupt death of his father,
11 year-old Luke struggles to come to
terms with his inner feelings of hurt and
loss. It is only when his imagination begins
to take over that Luke begins to find an
outlet for his raw emotion set against a
majestic world of fantasy.
Director: Kenny Doughty
2007. 35mm. 15 min 56 sec
Production Company, International
Sales: Swing It Films Ltd, The Park Lodge,
Park Avenue, Wortley, Sheffield, South
Yorkshire, S35 7DR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)114 288 7941
email: swingitfilms@gmail.com
Producer, Screenwriter: Caroline Carver
Executive Producer: Michael Gleissner,
Kacy Andrews
Editor: Kristoffer Villarino
Director of Photography: David Odd BSC
Production Designer: Stuart Hudson
Sound: Peter Baldock
Music: Norwell & Green
Cast: Joseph Fiennes, Chris Larkin, Callum
Williams, Guy Williams
100
Index - Feature Films
25Gs
4
A
Deadly Pursuit
17
I
Definitely Maybe
17
I Can't Think Straight
30
The Demon Within
17
I Know You Know
30
Abraham's Point
4
The Devil's Music
18
Imaginary Summer
30
Adulthood
4
Diagnosis: Superstar
18
In Bruges
31
The Agent
5
The Disappeared
18
Incendiary
31
All Secrets
5
The Disciple
19
Incendiary
31
The Auction
5
Do Elephants Pray?
19
Inconceivable
32
Dogging: A Love Story
19
Interview With a Politician
32
Is There Anybody There?
32
Itch
33
B
Don't Look at Me
(I'm Ugly In The Morning)
20
Bad Day
6
Banana Boys
6
Doomsday
Bane
6
The Duchess
20
The Bank Job
7
Dummy
21
Better Things
7
The Dungeon Moor Killings
21
Big Things
7
The Blade
8
E
The Blue Tower
8
Eastern Promises
21
The Boatmaker
8
Ecology
22
Bodyguard: A New Beginning
9
The Edge of Love
22
Boy A
9
The Englishman
22
20
The Boy in the Striped
Pyjamas
9
F
Brideshead Revisited
10
Faintheart
23
Broken Lines
10
Filth and Wisdom
23
The Butterfly Tattoo
10
Flashbacks of a Fool
23
Flummox
24
C
The Calling
11
Captain Eager and
the Mark of Voth
11
J
Jack Says
33
Journal of a Contract Killer
33
Just Ines
34
L
Land's End
34
The Lark
34
The Last Blood Line
35
Last Chance Harvey
35
Leaves
35
Little Ashes
36
Losers Anonymous
36
Love Me Still
36
Fragments
24
Franklyn
24
M
Freedom Dance
25
Made in Romania
37
Made of Honour
37
25
Man in a Box
37
25
The Mandrake Root
38
Manifesto
38
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
38
Frequently Asked Questions
About Time Travel
Cash and Curry
11
Cass
12
Caught in the Act
12
Chemical Wedding
12
G
City Rats
13
Genova
26
Morris: A Life with Bells on
39
The Clan
13
Good
26
Mum and Dad
39
Clubbed
13
Guantanamero
26
Clubbing to Death
14
Gutbai, Charly
27
Coffee Sex You
14
Cold Earth
14
H
The Cottage
15
Happy-Go-Lucky
27
Counterfeit Butterfly
15
Hardly Bear to Look at You
27
Crack Willow
15
The Heavy
28
Helen
28
Furor - Rage of the Innocent
N
Next Time Ned
39
O
The Other Boleyn Girl
40
Hooked on a Ceiling
28
P
16
How About You
29
Parkside Hell House
40
Dark Rage
16
Hunger
29
Peacefire
40
Dead Wood
16
Hush
29
Perfect Woman
41
D
The Dark Knight
101
Index - Feature Films
R
Stone of Destiny
46
U
41
Summer
46
Under the Bombs
50
Rez Bomb
41
Sweeney Todd: The Demon
Underground
51
Rocknrolla
42
Barber of Fleet Street
Red Mist
47
V
Rupert Brockstein's
`Blood Red Letters'
42
S
T
Vinyan
Take Me to Your Leader
47
That Difficult Second Album
47
W
51
Save Angel Hope
42
That Samba Thing
48
Whatever Happened to Pete Blaggit?
51
The Secret of Moonacre
43
Three and Out
48
White Lightnin'
52
Seven Seconds to Heaven
43
Tiny Town
48
Wild Child
52
Shifty
43
Tony
49
Wishbaby
52
The Shrine
44
The Totenwackers
49
Witch House: The Legend
Simon and Emily
44
The Tournament
49
Sisterhood
44
Trouble Sleeping
50
WMD
53
Skin
45
Tuesday
50
The World Unseen
53
of Petronel Haxley
Somers Town
45
St Trinian's
45
Y
Stag Night of the Dead
46
The Young Victoria
53
54
102
Index - Short Films
[03.23.27]
55
The Chef's Letter
61
Forna
68
14
55
Chicane
61
Foto
68
4 Kilometers
55
Christmas Bonus
62
Fried String Hoppers
68
5 Items Only
55
The Christmas Fairy
62
9-5 Cowboy
55
The Circle
62
G
Clair
62
Gabriel
A German Grandchild's
A
68
The Clay Wall
62
Accidental Encounter
55
Close
62
Afternoon
56
Clowns
63
Girl
68
Ahoy!
56
Crafta Webb
63
Gods on Mountains
69
The Air Catchers
56
Crass Transit
63
Going Home
69
Alex and her Arse Truck
56
The Curry Club
63
Goldfish
69
The Allotment
56
Curse of the Bands
63
Grandma's Funeral
69
The Amazing Hedge Puzzle
56
The Gravity of Belief
69
And Kill Them
57
D
Guns
69
Andrew
57
Das Dores
Funeral
68
63
The Date
64
H
57
Dave & David
64
Hatemail
69
Another Plaice
57
Dead Cell
64
Have I Ever Happened?
70
Anticlockwise
57
Dead Dog
64
Heatsource
70
The Applicant
57
Deaden
64
HeavenScent
70
The Appointment
58
Decision
64
Her and Now
70
Arafat & I
58
Detour
65
The Hero's Journey
70
The Auction
58
Domestics
65
Hit the Big Time
70
Dorothy
65
The Hole of Space and Time
71
Homicide: Division B
71
Honor
71
An Jowl yn Agas Kegin
(The Devil in Your Kitchen)
B
Bad Juju
58
E
Ball
58
The East Front
65
Horatio
71
Bare Necessities
58
Eight Minutes
65
How Not to Say I Love You
71
The Beachcombers
59
El Espiritu de Animitas
How to Pick Up Girls
71
The Bedfordshire Clanger
59
Hysteria
72
A Bedtime Tale
59
Before, After and . . .
(The Spirit of Animitas)
65
Emo
66
Empire of Modern Passivity
66
I
After That
59
Encore
66
I Am Leg End
72
The Bent Penny
59
Exit Strategy
66
I, Sisyphus
72
Bereavement
59
Eye Level
66
I'm in Away From Here
72
Bereft of Colour
60
Ignorance
72
Big Bad Wolf
60
F
Intercom
72
Blood Road
60
Faker
66
In the National Interest
72
Bondi 3000: The Making Of
60
A Fall
67
In Transit to a Diversion
73
Breather
60
Famous Last Words
67
Island
73
Fate and the Fedora Hat
67
Finders Keep
67
J
C
Call Me by his Name
60
First
67
Jack Blond
73
Camille e Mariuccia
61
Five Minutes to Five Steps
67
Jellyfish
73
Canbury
61
Five Pound Note
67
Jewel and Eme
73
Cartwheels
61
Flights
68
Joel, the Superman
73
Chain
61
The Flyer
68
Jump
74
103
Index - Short Films
K
N
Sessions of the Mind
86
K
74
The Nightclub
81
Shadowed
87
Killing Time
74
No Regrets
81
Shadows
87
Kings of London
74
Shahaadah
87
Knots
74
O
The Object
Sheriff of Penitence
87
81
Sight Test
87
L
Odd Shoe
81
Silent Noise
87
A las Tres de la Tarde
One in Four
82
Silly Billy
88
75
The Ostrich Tapes
82
Slapper
88
Last Chance Romance
75
Out of Nowhere
82
Small Change
88
Last Hand
75
Out There
82
Small Dark Places
88
Left Alone
75
Outcasts
82
A Small Silent Film
Lemonade
75
Let Me Show You Some Things
75
P
Let Me Speak
76
Perfect
Lickle Bill Um
76
Pink
Life in Ruins
76
Like Other People Do
76
Lily
(At Three in the afternoon)
About Death
88
Something Changed
88
82
Son
89
83
Souljah
89
Player
83
Soul Mates
89
Playing Dead
83
The Space You Leave
89
76
Pour Quoi
83
Speechless
89
Lilya
76
The Problem with Liking
Star
89
Little Miss Badass
77
the Person You Have
Stone
90
London Love Story
77
83
Strawberry Street
90
Long Distance
77
The Problem with Pets
83
Stuck
90
Lost Night
77
The Promise
83
Survey No 257
90
Love Does Grow on Trees
77
Pull
84
Survivor
90
Love Is . . . ?
77
The Sweetest Sound
90
Love Letters
78
Q
Love Me to Bits
78
Quantum
84
T
Lucky Pants
78
A Quick Beep
84
Taxi for the Comedian
91
Quiet
84
Taximan
91
Tell Me What To Do
91
Sex With
M
Macbeth's Disciple
78
Madrugada (The Curious Shape
R
Terra Firma
91
The Rabbit & the Woodcutter
84
/t¦ek/ (Check)
91
78
Ralph
84
The Thai Bride
91
The Magic
78
Reality Won't Bite
84
Thinspiration
92
Maxim
79
Reasonable Excuse
85
Thou Shalt Not
92
Maya
79
Recipe for Love
85
Tide
92
Merry Go Round
79
The Recruit
85
Tomorrow's Forecast
92
Milk
79
The Red Shoes
85
Tùmt and I
92
Mirror Image
79
Relentless Thirst
85
Traces
92
Mo Yin
79
Revenge
85
Training Daljinder
93
Money
80
Ripple
85
Train Trip
93
Monkey Nut Tales
80
Ruby XX Jack
86
Trapped
93
Moon People
80
Rule 2
86
Trip
93
The Morse Collectors
80
Triple Word
93
Les Mouches (The Flies)
80
S
Muna
Äfiq
80
Safe Zone
My Desert
81
My Singing Girl
81
of my Peculiar Family)
86
U
Samantha
86
Un Riff para Lazaro
93
Saudade
86
Unborn
94
104
Index - Short Films
Underground
94
W
Wish
98
Undertow
94
The Waiting Room
96
Wishful Filming
98
Uninvited
94
Watch Me!
96
Withindoors
98
Up
94
We are all Rwandans
96
Without a Face
98
The Weaker Sex
96
Working Late
98
What Goes Around
96
A World Without
99
V
Vani
94
Wheelspin
97
Wounded Knee
99
Veils
95
When Mars Meets Venus
97
Wrestling the Duvet
99
Vermin
95
When the Oil Ran Out
97
Vespers
95
White Collar Crime
97
Y
View of the Spider
95
The Wilds
97
Yalda
99
The Voice
95
Winding Down
97
Yesterday's News
99
The Voices Inside
95
The Window
97
You Me and
Void
96
Wings of Blue Angels
98
Captain Longbridge
99
105
Thanks
Robbie Allen, Scottish Screen
Jillian Balfour, Screen Academy Scotland
Jacqui Barr, BBC Films
Chrissy Bright, London Film School
Louise Donoghue, EIFF
Sally Hodgson, EM Media
David Hooper, Artlogic
Doug Kelly, EIFF
Stewart Kemsley, Department of Culture, Media and Sport
Kate Lambert, Pathe
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Claire Lewis, First Light Movies
Anna MacDonald, London Film Academy
Laura MacKenzie, Universal Pictures International UK
Michele Marcoux, Screen Academy Scotland
Macey Martini, British Council
Will Massa, Screen Yorkshire
Christine Morrow, Northern Ireland Screen
Katy Moylan, Film and Music Entertainment
Sonia Pachmayer, Focus Features
Adam Partridge, The Film Agency Wales
Samantha Perahia, UK Film Council
Lucy Powell, Momentum Pictures
Anne Quinn, Northern Ireland Screen
Helen Ross, Northern Film and Media
Hemant Sharda, National Film and Television School
Penny Skuse, Wales Screen Commission
Lynne Stanford, Screen West Midlands
Gabriel Topalian, Screen South
Angela Topping, UK Film Council
Arilda Tymko, South West Screen
Leslie Vuchot, HanWay Films
Caroline Ward, B3 Media
Alison Williams, Film London