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Contents
The Edinburgh International Film Festival
would like to acknowledge the enormous
support given to Film UK by sponsors,
Foreword by Ginnie Atkinson
Managing Director, EIFF
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Foreword by Colin Cameron
Controller, Network Development, BBC Scotland
3
Film UK features
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friends and supporters.
Film UK & Industry Consultant: Mary Davies
Film UK shorts
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Index – feature films
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Index – short films
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Thanks
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Film UK & Industry Co-ordinator: Bryony McIntyre
Film UK & Industry Assistant: David Hepburn
Edinburgh International Film Festival
In the Film UK Guide to British Film, we have aimed to include information on all British fiction,
Tel: +44 (0)131 228 4051
feature and short films produced between July 2002 and July 2003. Each film listing includes contact
Fax: +44 (0)131 229 5501
information for the film’s producer, international sales agent and UK distributor, if applicable. The
Email: filmuk@edfilmfest.org.uk
listings include over 120 feature films and over 400 shorts. We apologise if any eligible films have not
made it into the Guide.
Editor:
Bryony McIntyre
Assistant Editor:
David Hepburn
The film and credits in this Guide are those submitted by producers, sales agents and distributors
for inclusion, and credits are not contractual.
The Film UK Guide to British Film is given to all industry delegates registered at the Edinburgh
Design:
999 Design, Trinity Towers, 33 Lynedoch Street,
Glasgow G3 6AA, Scotland, UK.
Tel: +44 (0)141 332 2684, Fax: +44 (0)141 333 9195
www.999design.co.uk
International Film Festival 2003 and is made available worldwide through the British Council.
A pdf version of the Guide can be downloaded from the Film UK website at www.filmuk.org.uk
The Film UK Videotheque operates during the Film Festival and stocks viewing cassettes of as many
Origination:
Melville Crawford Associates,
11 Dean Park Mews,
Edinburgh EH4 1EE, Scotland, UK.
Tel: +44 (0)131 343 2661, Fax: +44 (0)131 343 6272
www.melvillecrawford.co.uk
of the films in the Guide as we are able to obtain. We are happy to pass on any enquiries about the
films to the appropriate contacts.
denotes that a film is showing in the Edinburgh International Film Festival programme.
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Welcome to the 2003 edition
of the Guide to British Film
The Guide to British Film is now in its ninth year of production and has grown
from a small brochure to this densely populated book containing as many as
possible of the fiction features and shorts completed in the last 12 months.
The demand for the Guide proves that there is a need for such a resource and it is now
available as part of the EIFF web service on www.filmuk.org.uk. Eight thousand copies of
the 2002 Guide have been downloaded from the website to date and almost four
thousand copies of the 2001 Guide, retrospectively. Both of these, plus the 2003
publication will continue to be available in this way.
The FILM UK banner signposts British filmmaking and events that are relevant to all
concerned with British cinema and includes the Industry Office, run by Mary Davies,
Industry Events and the FILM UK Videotheque where all the British films that were
available to us on VHS, can be seen.
The Edinburgh International Film Festival is a networking focus for the whole community,
both national and international, who are looking at the UK’s new film product and the
industry in Britain.
This year’s Guide To British Film was once again produced in co-operation with the
British Council and we are delighted that BBC Scotland continue as sponsors of FILM
UK and the Guide.
Ginnie Atkinson
Managing Director, EIFF
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BBC Scotland is proud of its long-standing association with FILM UK – one that
goes back to the inception of Edinburgh’s specific industry focus on British film
in 1995.
We continue to have much in common: both of us are driven by a desire to seek out and
support new talent in film production, be it in writing, directing, producing or performing.
We both depend on the imagination of those talents for our success. We are both rooted
in Scotland, drawing our strengths from its many creative energies, but with ambitions
that are not limited by its borders.
Through our Oscar-winning Tartan Shorts scheme; through popular television series’ like
Monarch of the Glen; challenging drama such as Frank Deasy’s Real Men, and our
commitment to feature films such as Lynne Ramsay’s Morvern Callar, drama from BBC
Scotland continues to entertain and challenge audiences throughout the UK and around
the world.
We are committed to expanding our ambitions and giving opportunities to new talent to
stretch their abilities and reach new levels of success. FILM UK is an important part of
that process: it is both a showcase for the widest range of British talent and an
unbeatable opportunity to meet, strike deals and enjoy all the energies Edinburgh
provides at this time of year.
Colin Cameron
Controller, Network Development, BBC Scotland
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Feature Films
16 Years of Alcohol
33 x Around the Sun
Afterlife
Based on Richard Jobson's acclaimed semiautobiographical novel of the same name,
16 Years of Alcohol, is a gritty tale of one
man's inner journey of self-discovery, as he
escapes from the tyranny of the past and
tries to come to terms with an identity forged
in violence and betrayal.
Shot on location in Edinburgh, the film
follows the life of Frankie Mac (Kevin
McKidd) in three distinct periods of his life.
As a young boy, he watches his father lose
himself in alcohol and philandering ways.
As a teenager, he's the leader of a gang that
lives for music and violence, developing his
first taste for life and alcohol. As a man, he
attempts to reform his character, turning to
acting and a new relationship with Mary
(Susan Lynch). However, he can never
escape the shadow of his past which
threatens to unravel his new world of hope
and self-respect.
A film about a man who goes in search of a
cup of tea and finds a new identity instead.
Loosely based on the myth of Orpheus,
journeying into the underworld in search of
his love Euridice, it relocates the story to the
streets of East London, summoning up a
netherworld of street people, backward
policemen, two-bob ranters and a jaded film
crew.
The story of two siblings – Kenny and
Roberta Miller. Kenny is young, free and
totally irresponsible. Roberta is bright,
artistically gifted and completely reliable.
They live the quiet life at home in Ayrshire
with their mother, May. Two very different
people. Two very different lives. But for
Roberta this is more a case of necessity than
desire. Roberta has Down's Syndrome.
She is May's pride and joy. Her greatest
achievement. Something May never tires of
saying. And something Kenny is very tired of
hearing. May and Kenny don't always see
eye to eye. But rather than go to war with
May over this, Kenny does what he does best
and opts out. He's got his own life to live and
he's too busy living it to the full.
The family's world is turned upside down
when May is diagnosed with terminal cancer
and they are confronted with the reality of
their situation.
May turns to her son. Surely he'll do his duty
and look after Roberta – it’s what May has
always expected. Kenny is left reeling. He
turns on May. How can she expect one of her
children to sacrifice himself for the sake of
the other? May's response is short. And to
the point. Love. But can Kenny do what his
mother asks? Or will he do what he's always
done and just walk away?
DIRECTOR: Richard Jobson
2002. 35mm. 102 min
Production Company: Vestry Films Ltd/S2S
Films, Unit 27, City Business Centre, Lower
Road, London, SE16 2XB, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)20 7064 4620
email: atkinsc@s2s.co.uk
UK Distributor: Tartan Films, Atlantic House,
5 Wardour Street, London, W1D 6PB, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7494 1400 fax: +44 (0)20
7439 1922
email: info@metro-tartan.co.uk
web: www.metro-tartan.co.uk
Producers: Hamish McAlpine, Mark Burton
Executive Producer: Steve McIntyre, Michael J
Werner, Wouter Barendrecht
Screenwriter: Richard Jobson
Director of Photography: John Rohdes
Cast: Kevin McKidd, Laura Fraser, Ewan
Bremner, Susan Lynch
Budget: £450 000
Funding: Metro Tartan, Fortissimo, Scottish
Screen
Territories sold: All available except UK
DIRECTOR: John Hardwick
2003. Digibeta. 58 min
Production Company: Panoptican Pictures
Ltd, 12 Padbury Court, London, E2 7EH,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7729 7352
fax: +44 (0)20 7729 4429
email: derrin.schlesinger@virgin.net
Producer: Derrin Schlesinger
Screenwriter: John Hardwick
Editor: John Hardwick
Director of Photography: Danny Cohen
Production Designer: Emily Jenkins
Sound: Peter Wobser
Music: Patrick Fitzgerald
Cast: Lars Rudolph, Eileen Walsh
Budget: £325 000
Funding: London Production Fund, East
London Film Fund
Territories sold: All available
DIRECTOR: Alison Peebles
2003. 35mm. 104 min 30 sec
Production Company: Gabriel Films Ltd,
The Tower, 48 Cleveden Drive, Glasgow, G12
0NY, Scotland, UK. tel: +44 (0)141 357 4148
fax: +44 (0)141 357 4148
email: ros@gabrielfilms.co.uk
web: www.gabrielfilms.co.uk
Producers: Catherine Aitken, Ros Borland
Screenwriter: Andrea Gibb
Editor: Colin Monie
Director of Photography: Grant Scott
Cameron
Production Designer: Jacqueline Smith
Sound: Becky Thomson
Music: Paddy Cunneen
Cast: Kevin McKidd, Lindsay Duncan, Paula
Sage, Shirley Henderson, James Laurenson
Budget: £950 000
Funding: Scottish Screen, SMG
Territories sold: All available except Scottish
TV rights
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Feature Films
American Cousins
Ashes and Sand
Asylum
Roberto (Gerald Lepkowski) has led a
peaceful and sheltered life. Working in his
Italian grandfather’s shop in Glasgow, his
world revolves around fish and chips, ice
cream and the lovely Alice (Shirley
Henderson) his waitress and best friend,
with whom he is secretly in love.
Life gets very complicated for Roberto when
some American Cousins call asking if they
can stay for a few days. What he does not
realise is that Settimo (Dan Hedaya) and
Gino (Danny Nucci) are not who they claim
to be. They are two mobsters in hiding from
the Ukrainian Mafia and they are relying on
their Scottish family to help them out.
However, cousin Roberto is far from the
tough guy they expected. His strengths are
fish frying and stamp collecting. He thinks a
Magnum 45 is a type of ice cream!
Now it is up to Roberto to save the day. He
must rediscover his roots, see off the
Ukrainian Mafia, save his grandfather’s
shop, win the heart of the girl of his dreams,
and single-handedly redefine the structure of
the Chianti industry – and he’s only got one
week to do it!
American Cousins is a feel good comedy
about life, love, fish and chips, ice cream,
guns and gangsters.
Daniel, an ambitious and handsome
detective sergeant (Nick Moran) takes on the
tough contemporary world of a teenage girl
in Brighton. But to the dismay of his police
partner (Victoria Scarborough), he is
relentlessly stalked by a fifteen year-old gang
leader (Lara Belmont) who dreams of escape
for them both to a romantic tropical island.
As their mutual and forbidden desire
increases, events move inexorably to a
denouement of tortured and sexual longing
and eventual tragedy.
Hayley's gang of fourteen year-old girls are
on the rampage, mugging young male
tourists on Brighton's sea-front. Hayley is
half-adolescent and half-woman, as raw and
violent as any male counterpart, and just as
calculating. She is determined that they will
escape their poverty, their crumbling families
and dead end prospects by stealing enough
money to leave Brighton. The gang thinks
she wants to go to London. However, secretly
Hayley has almost saved up enough money
to take them to Bali, a tropical paradise full,
she imagines, of beautiful, androgynous
young men. Here she and the gang will find
the happiness they crave.
When Hayley sees Daniel, a young detective,
arresting a robbery suspect she is transfixed.
Charismatic, handsome, tough, but also
strangely vulnerable, he personifies her
desires. She falls in love and lust. She must
have him at any cost.
Asylum focuses on three young Kurdish
refugees fleeing political persecution by
smuggling themselves into England. Their
future is threatened as their genuine claims
become buried in red tape and they seek
refuge in a church.
Despite their Muslim faith, a Catholic priest,
Father Michael (Dai Bradley), feels bound to
champion their cause. As the situation
becomes the focus of escalating media and
police attention, not only does the dramatic
conclusion demonstrate the limits of human
compassion but also the indirect cruelties of
the entire system.
DIRECTOR: Donald Coutts
2002. 35mm. 97 min
Production Company: Bard Entertainments
Ltd, 7 Denmark Street, London, WC2H 8LZ,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7240 7144
fax: +44 (0)20 7240 7088
email: office@bardentertainment.co.uk
web: www.bardentertainment.co.uk
UK Distributor: Icon Film Distribution Ltd,
4th Floor, 180 Wardour Street, London, W1F
8FX, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7494 8100
fax: +44 (0)20 7494 8101
email: pandora@icon-entertainment.co.uk
web: www.iconmovies.co.uk
Producer: Margaret Matheson
Executive Producers: Robert Bevan, Keith
Hayley, Charlie Savill
Screenwriter: Sergio Casci
Editor: Lindy Cameron
Director of Photography: Jerry Kelly
Production Designer: Andy Harris
Sound: Martin Belshaw
Music: Donald Shaw
Cast: Danny Nucci, Shirley Henderson, Gerald
Lepkowski, Vincent Pastore
Funding: Little Wings Films Ltd, Scottish
Screen, Scottish Screen National Lottery Fund,
Glasgow Film Office
DIRECTOR: Bob Blagden
2003. 35mm. 108 min
Production Company: Open Road Films,
The Studio, 37 Redington Road, London, NW3
7QY, England, UK.
web: www.ashesandsand.com
Sales Agent: Lightning Entertainment, 1801
Avenue of the Stars 1035, CA 90036, USA. tel:
+1 310 201 0980 fax: +1 310 201 0852
email: liza@lightning-ent.com
Producers: Andrew Holmes Peter WatsonWood, Liam Badger, Nigel Thomas
Executive Producers: Nigel Thomas, Peter
Watson-Wood
Screenwriter: Judy Upton
Editor: Luke Dunkley
Director of Photography: Chris Seager
Production Designer: Mark Raggert
Sound: John Cochrane
Music: Michael Price
Cast: Nick Moran, Lara Belmont, Victoria
Scarborough
Territories sold: All available.
DIRECTOR: Nigel Roffe Barker
2002. 35mm. 101 min
Production Company: Maximise Ltd,
73 Burlington Lane, London, W4 3ET, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)20 8747 4731
email: mellie@roffe-barker.freeserve.co.uk
Sales Agent: Anne Billard, 51 Ormonde
Terrace, London, NW8 7LR, England. tel: +44
(0)20 7483 4570 fax: +44 (0)20 7483 4570
email: annebillard@yahoo.co.uk
Producer: Melloney Roffe
Executive Producer: David Rodgers
Screenwriter: Simon Ricketts
Editor: David Roffe
Director of Photography: Alexander Metcalfe
Production Designer: Becky Duncan
Music: Stuart Briner
Cast: Nabil Elouahabi, Dai Bradley, Fuman Dar
Budget: £1.5 million
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Feature Films
Banshee
Berserker
Beyond Recognition
Set in London 2000, this unsettling mood
piece revolves around a young girl (Iris
Palmer), alone and aimless in the capital.
She stays at a deserted flat, vandalising the
stripped walls, with supposed permission
from the absent owner.
One morning, a friend of the owner (Damien
Wilson), barges his way in, eager to find a
missing package. Once inside the flat, he
proceeds to question and proposition the
timid resident, vowing to return at a later
date.
That night in a nightclub toilet, a wild rocker
(Damian Le Bas) corners the girl and warns
of a dark cloud hanging over her. The
following day the bullying stranger returns to
the flat only this time with a more aggressive
intent. Venturing out from her secluded
world once again, the girl is this time
approached on an underground train by a
demented old woman. Ranting incessantly,
the alarming witch throws a pig heart at the
hapless girl. Traumatised by this bizarre
encounter, she hides away in the flat, away
from the madness that seems to wait for her
outside.
A mysterious and violent sickness
overcomes her. A new personality begins to
take form and out of a nervous wreck
emerges a primal and brutal rage.
The dark ages; a Viking warlord defies his
God, Odin, causing a terrible curse to fall
upon his family. The warlord's eldest son,
Barek is condemned to immortal life,
doomed to an endless cycle of death, rebirth,
violence and insanity.
In present day Stockholm, Barek's latest
reincarnation escapes from an asylum,
pursued by the Berserkers. With time
running out, Barek races to uncover the
riddle of his past as the Berserkers close in
and the forces of darkness surround him.
Brother must face brother in a final
confrontation, as a terrifying secret is
revealed.
Beyond Recognition is the story of an
affluent cosmetic surgeon, Jeffrey Mills, and
his dangerous encounters with an
underworld organisation who want him to
change the face of their leader Matzo.
With a maze of increasingly sinister tactics
of persuasion, Matzo and his gang thrust
Mills into an evil world, far removed from his
own. Mills soon finds himself lost in a
remote town in Italy, hunted by the FBI for
murder – his life and career in ruins. Police
conspiracies, poison, abduction, corruption
and extreme confusion reign, with Mills
desperately searching for answers and some
way to claw his life back.
Will he succumb to the pressure? Should he
trust the FBI agents who say they're there to
help? Whose is the body found in his car?
And who's really pulling the strings? Mills is
manipulated by powers beyond his control,
beyond reason and beyond the law,
culminating in a fast and frenetic
conclusion, with an unexpected twist at the
end.
An explosive psychological thriller set in
upstate New York and the Italian Alps.
DIRECTOR: Ben Cobb
Production Company: Cinema Neurotica,
35 Harford House, Tavistock Crescent, London,
W11 1AY, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7243
1930
email: bansheecobb@yahoo.co.uk
web: www.bansheemovie.com
Producer: Ben Cobb
Executive Producers: Ben Cobb, Richard
Cover
Screenwriter: Ben Cobb
Editor: Ben Cobb
Directors of Photography: Richard Cover, Ben
Cobb
Production Designer: Ben Cobb
Sound: Darko Moclinikar
Music: Twisted Nerve Records, Mum & Dad
Cast: Iris Palmer, Damien Wilson, Damian Le
Bas, Margaret Jackman
Budget: £4000
Funding: Private investment
DIRECTOR: Paul Matthews
2002. 35mm. 87 min 30 sec
Production Company: Peakviewing
Transatlantic, Suite 6, Avionics House,
Quedgeley Enterprise Centre, Naas Lane,
Quedgeley, Gloucestershire, GL2 4SN,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)1452 722 202 fax:
+44 (0)1452 723 302
email: jbsales@peakviewing.co.uk
web: www.peakviewing.co.uk
Producers: Elizabeth Matthews, Paul
Matthews
Executive Producer: Peter Matthews
Screenwriter: Paul Matthews
Editor: Peter Davies
Director of Photography: Vincent G Cox
Production Designer: Edward Thomas
Sound: Taran Sound Studios
Music: Mark Thomas
Cast: Paul Johansson, Craig Sheffer, Kari
Wuhrer, Patrick Bergin
Territories sold: All available except Latin
America, Australia, South Africa
DIRECTOR: Tom Muschamp
Production Company: Freefall Productions,
16 Cedar Court, Colney Hatch Lane, London,
N10 1EE, England. tel: +44 (0)20 8374 4568
fax: +44 (0)20 7537 4973
email: info@freefallproductions.com
web: www.freefallproductions.com
Producers: Tom Muschamp, Rebecca Ralph
Farella
Executive Producers: Stefano Clementel,
Maxim Yampolsky, Robert Scorrano
Screenwriter: Tom Muschamp
Editor: Melanie Bigeard
Director of Photography: Neil Oseman
Production Designer: Kristin Cortina
Sound: Daniel Pugh, Tim Wheeler
Music: Matt Manning, Mike Hatchard
Cast: Jimmie Jones, Deborah Martin, Patrick
Holder, Aimee Denaro
Budget: US$800 000
Funding: Private investment, product
placement
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Feature Films
Blackball
Blind Flight
The Blind Spot
Comedy set in the world of bowls. Try as he
might, the roguishly handsome Cliff Starkey
just can’t keep out of trouble. In his sleepy
hometown on the English coast, nothing
much inspires him, apart from bowls.
Cliff has always preferred to play by his own
rules much to the disapproval of the
regimented, elderly fraternity. Before long,
the bad boy of bowls is turning the sedate
and very English pastime upside down with
hysterical results.
Blind Flight is the true account of the
kidnapping of Brian Keenan and his
subsequent captivity with John McCarthy in
the Lebanon in 1986.
Brian Keenan and John McCarthy spent four
and a half years together, confined
underground and chained to the wall of their
cell. The two men, pawns in a game of
international politics, were utterly different in
personality, physical appearance and
background.
The bullish working-class Irish Republican
Keenan, who went to the Lebanon as a
teacher to escape the horrors of Belfast, and
his youthful English cellmate, the handsome,
charming, upper-class McCarthy, a journalist
ironically reporting on Keenan’s own
captivity, could easily have found each other
at opposite ends of a gun barrel in the
streets of Keenan’s Belfast. Instead, in the
face of the most acute deprivation and under
the constant threat of death at the hands of
their captors, they forged a relationship that
transcended all that appeared to divide
them.
Blind Flight tells the compelling story of this
extraordinary relationship as both men
resurrect their deepest memories, feelings,
fears and loves which makes the film a ‘love
story’ in the fullest and most humanistic
sense.
The Blind Spot is a 90-minute dark
metaphysical thriller, which takes place in
Brighton over one weekend, and delves deep
into the realms of the human condition,
addressing challenging themes such as
guilt, redemption, and loss.
After a gruelling week filming in London,
actor Joseph Lockhart takes the train home
to Brighton, to relax and recharge. Instead,
however, when he discovers a dead body on
the beach clutching a tatty photograph, his
weekend spirals into a journey of surreal
consequences and ultimate fate.
Joe's obsessive quest to discover the identity
of the dead body leads him to an encounter
with a mysterious girl, who he convinces
himself is connected to the murder on the
beach. By playing detective and solving his
own clues, Joe gradually unlocks the blind
spot in his own soul and conscience,
resulting in the ultimate revelation and the
brutal truth of an incident from his past he
thought he had concluded.
DIRECTOR: Mel Smith
2003. 35mm. 96 min
Production Company: Midfield Films, 60
Berwick Street, London, W1F 8SU, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7434 1101 fax: +44 (0)20
7434 2201
Sales Agent, UK Distributor: Icon Film
Distribution Ltd, 4th Floor, 180 Wardour Street,
London, W1F 8FX, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20
7494 8100 fax: +44 (0)20 7494 8101
email: www.iconmovies.co.uk
Producer: James Gay-Rees
Screenwriter: Tom Firth
Editor: Chris Blunden
Director of Photography: Vernon Layton
Production Designer: Grenville Horner
Music: Steven Warbeck
Cast: Paul Kaye, James Cromwell, Johnny
Vegas, Alice Evans, Bernard Cribbins
DIRECTOR: John Furse
2003. 35mm. 90 min
Production Company: Parallax Pictures,
7 Denmark Street, London, WC2H 8LZ,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7836 1478
fax: +44 (0)20 7497 8062
web: www.parallaxindependent.co.uk
Sales Agent: Moviehouse Entertainment,
9 Grafton Mews, London, W1T 5HZ, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7380 3999 fax: +44 (0)20
7380 3998
email: info@moviehouseent.com
web: www.moviehouseent.com
UK Distributor: Optimum Releasing,
9 Rathbone Place, London, W1T 1HW,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7637 5403
fax: +44 (0)20 7637 5408
email: danny@optimumreleasing.com
web: www.optimumreleasing.com
Producer: Sally Hibbin
Editor: Kristina Hetherington
Director of Photography: Ian Wilson
Production Designer: Andrew Saunders
Sound: Stuart Bruce
Music: Stephen McKeon
Cast: Ian Hart, Linus Roche
Co-production
Funding: UK Film Council, Scottish Screen,
Irish Film Board, Northern Ireland Film & TV
Commission, Glasgow Film Office, Matrix Film
Finances, ZDF, The Royal Bank of Scotland
Territories sold: Contact Moviehouse
Entertainment
DIRECTOR: Tim Kirkby
Production Company: Cryptic Colouration Ltd,
60 Exmouth Road, London, E17 7QQ, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)20 8926 7070
email: tim@cryptic-colouration.co.uk
web: www.cryptic-colouration.co.uk
Sales Agent, UK Distributor: Avalon Motion
Pictures Ltd, 4a Exmoor Street, London, W10
6BD, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7598 8000
fax: +44 (0)20 7598 7300
email: roba@avalonuk.com
Producer: Tim Kirkby
Executive Producers: Richard Allen-Turner,
Jon Thoday
Screenwriter: Tim Kirkby
Editor: Dan Nelson
Director of Photography: Dominic Greyer
Sound: Lester Barnes
Music: Manjit Singh Rajiya
Cast: Ray Bullock Junior, Sarah-Louise Young,
Michael Instone
Budget: £15 000
Funding: Avalon Motion Pictures Ltd
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Feature Films
Bodysong
The Bone Hunter
Bootleg
A movie that tells the story of an archetypal
human life using images taken from all
around the world and the last 100 years of
cinema.
The images span the microcosm, inside the
body, through the individual – the first cry of
a new born baby – to the macrocosm –
accumulated archive footage of ritual
celebration and the carnage of war.
The editing, music, and the mythical
narrative arc of the material is designed to
take the viewer on a rollercoaster tour of the
human body and life cycle. Every possible
depiction of the human life from microscopic
medical images to portraits and newsreels,
from births to deaths, are cut to a powerful
music track by Jonny Greenwood of
Radiohead to create a powerful and highly
emotional film, with peaks of ecstasy and
troughs of despair.
The power of this film derives from the force
of numbers; each face, each person, each
body, each glimpse of anatomy, is both
abstracted and dignified by being part of a
huge flow, a torrent of humanity larger than
any of us can conceive.
The film is supported by a highly innovative
web project which can be seen at
www.bodysong.com.
In 575 AD a shipwrecked band of Romans
are escorting a reluctant widow, Hennini, to
her destination beyond Hadrian’s Wall,
where she must marry the mercenary
chieftan Cathen. While crossing Hadrian’s
wall the Roman’s are violently attacked by a
roving band of Angle soldiers.
Meanwhile, Fingal has fallen on hard times.
He is so poor that he can’t even afford oxen
to pull his plough. When he meets a
stranger, Domal of Trool, who offers to give
him money to enlist him in the search for the
abducted bride, Fingal accepts the
challenge. Domal’s chief, Cathen, is an ugly,
money-grubbing mercenary soldier who was
a past enemy of Fingal. Cathen and Fingal
are uneasy partners, but they decide to work
together to defeat the abductor, Aedgar, chief
of the Angle band, who they see as the
common enemy.
While searching the countryside Fingle and
Domal come upon the shipwrecked Greek
monk called Regulus, who is also searching
for Hennini because she has his precious
lost cargo of the bones of St. Andrew, the
first Apostle of Christ. Regulus, Fingal and
Domal go together to seek out Hennini,
whose value has increased because she
carries the bones.
Smudger and Huntley certainly know
injustice when they see it – and injustice is
exactly what they see when the Good for You
political party come into power and ban
chocolate.
Not easily defeated, however, the
enterprising duo manage, with the help of
sweet shop proprietor, Mrs Bubby, to set up
an underground trade. But when their plans
are foiled by the Chocolate Police, it is time
to take action – drastic action – and stage a
chocolate revolution!
DIRECTOR: Simon Pummell
2003. 35mm. 83 min
Production Company: Hot Property Films,
27 Newman Street, London, W1T 1PP,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7323 9466
fax: +44 (0)20 7323 9467
Sales Agent: Pathé International, Kent House,
14-17 Market Place, London, W1W 8AR,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7323 5151
fax: +44 (0)20 7323 1773
email: info@pathe-uk.com
web: www.pathe.co.uk
UK Distributor: Pathé Pictures, Kent House,
Market Place, London, W1W 8AR, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7323 5151 fax: +44 (0)20
7631 3568
Producer: Janine Marmot
Executive Producers: Robin Gutch, Paul
Trijbits
Screenwriter: Simon Pummell
Editor: Daniel Goddard
Music: Jonny Greenwood
Budget: £1 million
Funding: Film Four Lab, UK Film Council New Cinema Fund, The Hospital Group
Territories sold: All available except UK,
Benelux, Czech Republic, Hungary and Israel
DIRECTOR: Robbie Moffat
2003. 35mm. 104 min
Production Company: Sales Agent: Palm Tree
UK Ltd, North Lodge, Nether Place,
Mauchline, Ayrshire, KA5 5SS, Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)1290 553 322 fax: +44 (0)1290 553
073
email: palmtreeG1@aol.com
web: www.deevee.net
Producer: Mairi Sutherland
Screenwriter: Robbie Moffat
Editor: Douglas Aitken
Director of Photography: Rob Ramsay
Sound: Robin Rankin
Music: Fergus Black
Cast: Michael E Rodgers, James Watson,
Lynsey Baxter, Oliver Cotton
Territories sold: All available except Russia
and CIS
DIRECTOR: Ian Gilmour
Sales Agent: High Point Film & Television Ltd,
25 Elizabeth Mews, London, NW3 4UH,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7586 3686
fax: +44 (0)20 7586 3117
email: piers@highpointfilms.co.uk
web: www.highpointfilms.co.uk
Producer: Gwan Burnett
Executive Producers: Elaine Sperber, Diane
Kale
Screenwriters: Alex Shearer, Paul Smith
Editor: Strutts Psyridis
Director of Photography: Craig Barden
Production Designer: Otello Stolfo
Music: David Hirschfelder
Cast: Gemma Jones, Martin Jarvis, Steven
Coller, Anthony Hammer
Co-production
Funding: BBC, Strand Productions Visionview
Territories sold: All available except UK and
Ireland
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Feature Films
Brannigan’s March
Bright Young Things
Butterfly Man
On losing his job, Philip Brannigan finds
himself unable to return home to face the
family with the news. His entire material
world is about to collapse. In his confused
state, and challenged by an elderly stranger,
he adopts a religious sandwich board found
in the park where he has spent the night.
And so begins his journey across the UK.
What at first seems like the aimless
wanderings of a confused man, gradually
turns into a specific march towards
Brannigan's childhood home. It is a journey
carried out on foot over a period of five or six
days and one that takes him from the west of
England to the east coast.
On this journey, Brannigan experiences a
number of encounters which are fuelled by
the message on his sandwich board: 'The
Meek Shall Inherit the Earth'. These are
experiences that range from the sublime to
the brutal, the mundane to the revelatory.
They are experiences and encounters that
reveal a changing external social landscape,
as well as an evolving inner spiritual world.
This is an experiential story: we are invited to
immerse ourselves in the detail of
Brannigan's experience and to see the
imagery of the everyday contemporary world
in a mythological and mystical light.
Set in the 1930's, the world of the Bright
Young Things is one of nightclubs, dancing,
jazz and speed. Their lives revolve around an
endless series of parties and pleasure
seeking: motorcars, jazz bands, gossip
journalism, drugs, gramophones.
Our young hero, Adam, needs to get enough
money to marry the beautiful Nina. His
friends – eccentric, wild and louche are
entirely shocking to the older generation.
Inevitably, however, the frantic pace of living
takes its toll and one by one they begin to
crash and burn, self-destructing in the
search for newer and faster sensations.
Having split up with his girlfriend upon
arrival in Bangkok, a young English
backpacker, Adam (Stuart Laing), arrives on
an island in the Gulf of Thailand. During a
game of volleyball on the beach, he notices a
beautiful Thai girl. When the volleyball
knocks over the girl's som tam salad, he
hurriedly overpays the vendor for another
dish. She is touched by his generosity. He is
called back to the game, but when he next
looks around, she is gone.
Adam is on the lookout for the girl that
evening, and meets a seemingly friendly expat bar owner called Joey (Francis Magee).
By luck he finds her in the back room of a
local massage parlour that Joey takes him
to. Their intimacy is developed by a sensual
massage, a simple conversation and the
arrangement to meet the next day. Against
an exotic backdrop the girl, Em, takes Adam
to a waterfall. He wins her affection and she
his...
DIRECTOR: Erik Knudsen
Production Company: One Day Films,
26 Woodlands Avenue, Todmorden,
Lancashire, OL14 5LT, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)1706 813 742 fax: +44 (0)1706 813 742
email: janet.knudsen@btinternet.com
web: www.onedayfilms.com
Producer: Erik Knudsen
Screenwriter: Erik Knudsen
Editor: Erik Knudsen
Director of Photography: Erik Knudsen
Sound: John Adams
Music: Derek Scott
Cast: Philip Fowler, Tom Lack, Vanessa
Kerfoot, Paul Hand
Budget: £100 000
DIRECTOR: Stephen Fry
2003. 35mm. 99 min
Production Company: Revolution Films Ltd,
9a Dallington Street, London, EC1V 0BQ,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7566 0700
fax: +44 (0)20 7566 0701
email: email@revolution-films.com
Sales Agent: 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 1081
web: www.theworksltd.com
UK Distributor: Icon Film Distribution Ltd, 4th
Floor, 180 Wardour Street, London, W1F 8FX,
+44 (0)20 7494 8101
Producers: Miranda Davies, Gina Carter
Executive Producers: Andrew Eaton, Michael
Winterbottom
Screenwriter: Stephen Fry, based on the novel
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
Editor: Alex Mackie ACE
Director of Photography: Henry Braham
Production Designer: Michael Howells
Music: Anne Dudley, Chris Lowe, Neil Tennant
Cast: Stephen Campbell Moore, Emily
Mortimer, Michael Sheen, Peter O'Toole,
Richard E Grant
Funding: The Film Consortium, UK Film
Council, Visionview, Icon Film Distribution,
Revolution Films.
Territories sold: All available except Portugal,
UK, South Africa, Greece, Australia, New
Zealand.
DIRECTOR: Kaprice Kea
2002. 35mm. 94 min
Production Company, UK Distributor: De
Warrenne Pictures Ltd, St Anne's House, 3
Diadem Court, London, W1D 3EF, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7734 7648 fax: +44 (0)8701
312 631
email: tom@dewarrenne.com
web: www.butterflyman.co.uk
Sales Agent: Shoreline Entertainment, 1875
Century Park East, Suite 600, Los Angeles, CA
90067, USA. tel: +1 310 551 2060 fax: +1 310
201 0729
email: mruskin@shorelineentertainment.com
web: www.shorelineentertainment.com
Producer: Tom Waller
Executive Producer: Michael Pritchett
Screenwriter: Kaprice Kea
Editor: William Watts
Director of Photography: Mark Duffield
Production Designer: Fay Garrett
Sound: Hugh Graham
Music: Stephen Bently-Klein
Cast: Stuart Laing, Mamee Nakprasitte,
Francis Magee, Abigail Good
Budget: £1 million
Funding: De Warrenne Pictures
Territories sold: All available except Brazil,
Benelux, Russia CIS, Thailand
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Feature Films
Calendar Girls
Capital Punishment
Cargo
When Annie’s husband dies of leukaemia,
her best friend Chris comes up with a novel
way to raise money for the hospital that
cared for him. Why not produce a calendar
featuring the two of them and fellow
Women’s Institute members in traditional WI
poses – making jam, pressing flowers,
knitting – but just to make it more
interesting why not have them in the nude?
News of the scheme spreads fast round their
small village in the Yorkshire Dales and
before long the women are hitting the
headlines at home and abroad, an
inspiration to millions of women around the
world. But this sudden celebrity starts to
take over their lives and, during a publicity
trip to Hollywood, the friendship between
Chris and Annie is put to the test.
A tough, uncompromising tale of life-long
friendship and hard choices, Capital
Punishment is a clash of ideals, deceit,
betrayal, and danger set against the
backdrop of the rogue and legitimate sides
of London's black cabs.
Three ex-boxers who start out life with the
same chances – none – collide over major
moral dilemmas. When Dave can't repay a
loan to his friend Russell, his old buddy
offers him a driving job that will earn him
more than he can imagine. Once Dave
realises he's actually running drugs, he
wants out. But now he's a witness to murder,
and leaving the business may cost him his
life.
Branko wants to work. Mira just wants to
forget. Damia needs a better standard of
health and Ivan simply wants a second
chance.
But in becoming freight in their bid for a
better life, these four characters are tossed
together in the back of a lorry to begin a
terrifying struggle for their survival from
Croatia to Britain.
Based upon a series of true stories Cargo is
the intense tale of four refugees escaping
from Croatia to the UK in the back of a truck
in the early 1990's. It was shot in only ten
days in January 2003 at Pinewood Studios
and emphasises that refugees, regardless of
where they have come from or from what
economic scenario they are escaping, are
desperate people resorting to desperate
measures.
DIRECTOR: Nigel Cole
2002. 35mm. 108 min
Production Company: Harbour Pictures,
11 Langton Street, London, SW10 0JL,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7351 7070
fax: +44 (0)20 7352 3528
email: info@harbourpictures.com
Sales Agent, UK Distributor: Buena Vista
International (UK) Ltd, 3 Queen Caroline
Street, Hammersmith, London, W6 9PE,
+44 (0)20 8222 1534
Producers: Nick Barton, Suzanne Mackie
Executive Producer: Nik Powell
Screenwriters: Juliette Towhidi, Tim Firth
Editor: Michael Parker
Director of Photography: Ashley Rowe
Production Designer: Martin Childs
Sound: Tim Fraser
Music: Patrick Doyle
Cast: Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, Penelope
Wilton, Annette Crosbie, Celia Imrie
Budget: £7 million
Funding: Buena Vista International
DIRECTOR: Adrian Vitoria
2002. 35mm. 90 min
Production Company: Real People
Productions, 9 Westbourne Grove, Westcliff on
Sea, Essex, SS0 9TG, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)7889 950 306 fax: +44 (0)1702 311 909
email: darrenstuart@blueyonder.co.uk
web: www.realpeopleproductions.co.uk
Sales Agent: Cinemavault Releasing, 434
Queen Street East, Toronto, Ontario, M5A 1T5,
Canada. tel: +1 416 363 6060 fax: +1 416 363
2305
email: admin@cinemavault.com
UK Distributor: Paramount International,
45 Beadon Road, Hammersmith, London, W6
0EG, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 8741 9333
fax: +44 (0)20 8741 5690
Producers: Darren Stuart, Tony O'Leary
Screenwriters: Tony O'Leary, Steven Kendall
Editor: Chris Muckle
Director of Photography: Mark Hamilton
Production Designer: Ray Hopkin
Sound: Peter Hodges
Music: Henry Olsen
Cast: Richard Driscoll, Sam Callis, Deborah
Sheridan Taylor
Funding: Private Investment, Sale and
Leaseback
DIRECTOR: Andi Reiss
Production Company, Sales Agent, UK
Distributor: Yellow Productions Ltd, 7 Thackigy
End, 119 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6LB,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7775 713 363
email: info@yellowuk.biz
web: www.yellowuk.biz/www.cargofilm.com
Producers: Karen Vaughan, Andi Reiss
Executive Producer: Tudor Jones
Screenwriters: Andi Reiss, Tudor Jones
Editor: Xavier Russell
Director of Photography: Paul Wheeler BSC
Production Designer: Christophe Spurling
Sound: John Burns
Music: Steve Isles
Cast: Daniella Nardini, Heathcote Williams,
Velibor Topic
Budget: £50 000
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Feature Films
Chaos and Cadavers
Cheeky
Cloud Cuckoo Land
When a young newly-wed couple – the geeky,
bespectacled Edward (Nick Moran) and the
innocent but dangerously alluring Samantha
(Keeley Hawes) – turn up at the majestic and
remote country house hotel where they are
planning to spend their honeymoon, they
find that the place has been taken over by
the high-spirited members of an
Undertakers' Annual Convention.
But their attempts at romance are quickly
dampened as they become helplessly
embroiled in an intriguing whodunit when
the Head of the Funeral Directors'
Association dies in bizarre circumstances.
Toyshop owner Harry Sankey (David
Thewlis) leads a simple life in the quiet
Northern town of Gigglewaite, but the
sudden and tragic death of Nancy, his
beloved wife and the idolised mother of his
estranged son, Sam (Sean Ward), soon turns
it all upside down.
He then finds himself trying to cope, just as
unsuccessfully, with the unusual role of quiz
show contestant, believing it to be Nancy’s
last wish for him to participate in the popular
but bizarre TV show “Cheeky”, hosted by the
brilliantly cheesy Alf Price (Johnny Vegas).
Once persuaded, Harry reluctantly joins the
crazy show and coincidentally meets another
Nancy (Trudi Styler), his charming fellow
contestant, who attempts to draw him out of
his misery.
Sandy Kenyon (Steve Varden) is an aircraft
enthusiast who dreams one day he will be
able to fly. But he has one problem, he has
cerebal palsy, leaving him with serious
mobility problems.
Most people that Sandy meets find it hard to
believe he will ever achieve his dream.
Sandy and his grandfather Victor (Derek
Jacobi) spend their spare time searching
aircraft wrecks. When Sandy learns that a
valuable mystery wreck is still missing in the
Lake District, he decides to leave the safety
of his care home and set out alone to try and
find it.
Sandy's quest for independence is not a
smooth ride. He faces suspicion and hostility
as he now begins his new life. But as his
true potential is revealed, magical things
happen. Lucy (Boo Pearce) breaks down her
prejudices to become his lover, and a strange
group of travellers help him in his quest.
Ultimately, Sandy achieves his dream,
though not in the way he had planned!
DIRECTOR: Niklaus Hilber
2003. 35mm. 87 min
Production Company: Matador Pictures,
Po Box 937, Brookwood, Woking, GU24 OXQ,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)1483 472 332
fax: +44 (0)1483 486 684
email: nt@matadorpictures.com
web: www.matadorpictures.com
Sales Agent: Fireworks Pictures, 421 South
Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills, California, CA
90212, USA. tel: +1 310 789 4700 fax: +1 310
789 4747
email: info@fireworkspix.com
web: www.fireworkspix.com
Producers: Peter Watson-Wood, Nigel
Thomas, Lukas Hobt
Executive Producers: Lauri Apelian, Kurt
Steiner, Mark Halberli
Screenwriters: Niklaus Hilber, Drew Bird
Editor: Michael Shaerer
Director of Photography: Tony Imi BSC
Production Designer: Simon Waters
Sound: Alistair Crocker
Music: Warren Bennett
Cast: Nick Moran, Keeley Hawes, Ian McNeice
Budget: Medium
Co-production
Funding: Azure Film Financing PLC
DIRECTOR: David Thewlis
2003. 35mm. 90 min
Production Company: Xingu Films,
12 Cleveland Row, London, SW1A 1DH,
+44 (0)20 7451 0601
email: travis@xingufilms.com
Sales Agent: EuropaCorp, 137 rue du
Faubourg, Saint Honore, 75008 Paris, France.
tel: +33 1 53 83 03 03 fax: +33 1 53 83 03 70
email: gmelin@europacorp.com
Producers: Travis Swords, Trudie Styler
Screenwriter: David Thewlis
Editor: John Wilson
Director of Photography: Oliver Stapleton
Production Designer: Eve Stewart
Sound: Tim Fraser
Music: Dario Marianelli
Cast: David Thewlis, Trudie Styler, Johnny
Vegas, Ian Hart, Lesley Sharp
Co-production
Funding: EuropaCorp 50%, Equity Financing
50%
DIRECTOR: Matt Dickinson
2003. 35mm. 90 min
Production Company: Airborne Productions,
52 North Poulner Road, Ringwood, BH24 3LS,
+44 (0)1425 472 892
email: zanzibarfilms@aol.com
web: www.cloud-cuckoo-land.info
Producer: Chris Bradley
Screenwriters: Steve Varden, Matt Dickinson
Editor: Rachel Meyrick
Director of Photography: Andy Martin
Sound: Richard Pilcher
Music: Ed Poole, Andy White
Cast: Derek Jacobi, Steve Varden, Boo Pearce,
Jane Wall, Billy Fane
Budget: US$2.5 million
Funding: EIS
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Feature Films
Code 46
Day of the Sirens
Deadwood
Code 46 is a love story set in Shanghai, the
day after tomorrow. William (Tim Robbins) is
sent there for 24 hours to investigate a fraud
at the Sphinx insurance company. Having
taken an empathy virus he is able to read
suspects’ minds.
Maria (Samantha Morton) is an employee of
Sphinx where she creates ‘papelles’, a form
of insurance cover, passport and visa rolled
into one. Without papelles people are
consigned to live in sub-cultures, unable to
travel outside their own zones.
William’s enquiries soon reveal that Maria is
the person who has been selling fake
papelles to those Sphinx refuses to trade
with. He knows that it is his duty to hand
Maria over to the authorities. However,
forces greater than the both of them are at
work and William finds himself unable to
turn her in. Instead, he falls deeply in love
with her – a move that will change his life
forever.
London is under attack from a terrorist
group. Albert Page is a lonely old man who
lives on a desolate council estate. Alone in
the community and vulnerable, he is
targeted by a local gang of boys who mug
him and then target his home. Geoff and
Amanda are expecting their first child. They
spend most of their day being directed back
and forth across the city trying to reach a
hospital where Amanda can give birth.
Lisa Shaw is promoted to senior police
detective. That morning she finds that she is
pregnant and does not know how to break
the news to her husband. Angel and Carmen
are two Spanish tourists that meet and fall in
love in London. They have both just arrived
and don’t understand the chaos around
them, believing that London is always like
this.
Radio DJ Domo Childs picks up on the story
early in the morning and quickly gives the
terrorist a name, the Siren Killer. The story
quickly becomes the main news story of the
day, as the Siren Killer’s list of shooting
incidents quickly grows and the scale of his
actions begin to effect the whole of the City,
quickly bringing London to a standstill.
Deadwood is a black and comic film noir, a
tale of three guys who dream of making a
movie, of becoming players in the game of
life. Then, out of the shadows, comes this
weird actor guy who offers them his life story
on a plate. Off they set on a journey of
adventure, optimism, exploitation and
ultimately death!
DIRECTOR: Michael Winterbottom
2003. 35mm. 90 min
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7566 0700
fax: +44 (0)20 7566 0701
8QJ, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7612 1080
fax: +44 (0)20 7612 1081
UK Distributor: BBC Films, 1 Mortimer Street,
London, W1T 3JA, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20
7580 4468
web: www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfilm
Producer: Andrew Eaton
Executive Producers: Robert Jones, David M
Thompson
Screenwriter: Frank Cottrell Boyce
Editor: Peter Christelis
Director of Photography: Marcel Zyskind
Production Designer: Mark Tildesley
Sound: Stuart Wilson
Cast: Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton, Om
Puri, Jeanne Balibar, Togo Igawa
Funding: UK Film Council - Premiere Fund,
BBC Films and United Artists
Territories sold: All available except Russia,
Greece, Italy, Turkey, Japan, Portugal and UK
DIRECTOR: Ray Brady
2003. 35mm. 92 min
Production Company: Imaginary Films,
8 Cotton's Gardens, Shoreditch, London, E2
8DN, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7613 5882
email: brady@imagfilm.demon.co.uk
web: www.imaginaryfilms.com
Sales Agent: Eddie Leahy, Centre Film Sales
Ltd, 45 Ceder Grove, Ealing, London, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)20 8566 2388 fax: +44 (0)20
8566 2388
email: eleahy@centrefilmsales.com
UK Distributor: Boudicca, 8 Cotton's Gardens,
Shoreditch, London, E2 8DN, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)20 7613 5882
email: brady@imagfilm.demon.co.uk
web: www.boudiccfilms.com
Producers: Deba Brady, Ray Brady
Executive Producer: Lance Bryce-Borthwick
Screenwriter: Ray Brady
Editor: Mark Tran-Tremble
Director of Photography: Tom Theakstone
Sound: Vincent Watts
Music: Vincent Watts
Cast: Saeed Jaffrey, Rik Mayall, Galit
Hershkovitz, Michael Chomiak, Des Brady
Budget: £1 million
Funding: Private Investment
DIRECTOR: Simon Ubsdell
2002. 35mm. 95 min
Production Company: The Electric Theatre Co
Ltd, 19-20 Poland Street, London, W1F 8QF,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7973 469 036
fax: +44 (0)20 7434 9140
email: film@ironhillpictures.demon.co.uk
Producer: Mark Ubsdell
Executive Producer: John Goldstone
Screenwriter: Simon Ubsdell
Editor: Oliver Potterton
Director of Photography: Brett Turnbull
Production Designer: Peter Gordon
Sound: Paul Gilbert
Music: John Krane
Cast: Jack Davenport, David Soul, Dexter
Fletcher, Angus Deayton
Budget: £750 000
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Feature Films
The Death of Klinghoffer
The Debt
Die Another Day
October 1985. Four young Palestinians –
Omar, Mamoud, Rambo and Molqi – are
lined up against a wall in an Italian police
station. Marilyn Klinghoffer, an American
woman, walks into the room and faces the
men. She spits into the face of one of them,
who glares back at her defiantly.
The film is a screen adaptation of John
Adams' opera, based around the hijacking in
1985 of a cruise liner by Palestinian gunmen.
The narrative is interspersed with flashbacks
providing historical background and
perspective to the event.
When it comes to cracking safes, Geoff
Dresner is the only man for the job. Only
now, after too many prison meals, he's had
enough and wants to go straight. But when
his son-in-law lands himself with a large
debt to a shady businessman, Geoff finds
that a life of crime is harder to shake off than
he thought.
Forced into one last job to protect his family,
it does not take long for him to raise the
suspicions of detective Ed Foster. Desperate
for a promotion and desperate for a result,
he will stop at nothing to bring Geoff down.
Thrown into the equation is James Hilden,
the neurotic young lawyer given the job of
defending Geoff. But with one or two
problems of his own, it is a daily challenge
just to keep his mind on work.
As each man must fight to protect himself
against the other. Will true justice ever win
through?
Die Another Day starts with a spectacular
hovercraft chase through a deadly minefield
in the demilitarised zone separating North
and South Korea. From Hong Kong to Cuba
to London, James Bond (Pierce Brosnan)
circles the globe in his quest to unmask a
traitor and prevent a war of catastrophic
proportions. On his way he crosses paths
with Jinx (Oscar-winner Halle Berry) and
Miranda Frost, women who will play vital
roles in his adventure.
Hot on the trail of evil megalomaniac Gustav
Graves (Toby Stephens) and his ruthless
right-hand man Zao (Rick Yune), Bond
travels to Iceland and into the villans lair, a
fantastic palace built entirely of ice, where
he experiences first hand the power of a new
hi-tech weapon. Ultimately it all leads to an
explosive confrontation – and unforgettable
conclusion – back in Korea where it all
started.
DIRECTOR: Jon Jones
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7586 3686
fax: +44 (0)20 7586 3117
Producer: Pier Wilkie
Executive Producers: Sally Hanes, Laura
Mackie
Screenwriter: Richard McBrien
Editor: Nick Arthurs
Director of Photography: John Pardue
Production Designer: Lynn Whitehead
Sound: Giancarlo Dellapina
Music: Martin Phipps
Cast: Warren Clarke, Hugo Speer, Lee
Williams
Co-production
Territories sold: All available except UK &
Ireland
DIRECTOR: Lee Tamahori
2002. 35mm. 132 min 46 sec
Production Company: Eon Productions,
138 Piccadilly, London, W1J 7NR, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7493 7953 fax: +44 (0)20
7408 1236
web: www.jamesbond.com
UK Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, 31-32
Soho Square, London, W1D 3AP, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)20 7437 7766 fax: +44 (0)20 7734
2170
web: www.fox.co.uk
Producers: Michael G Wilson, Barbara
Broccoli
Executive Producer: Anthony Waye
Screenwriters: Neal Purvis, Robert Wade
Editor: Christian Wagner
Director of Photography: David Tattersall BSC
Production Designer: Peter Lament
Sound: Chris Munro
Music: David Arnold
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, Judi Dench,
John Cleese, Toby Stephens
Territories sold: All sold
DIRECTOR: Penny Woolcock
2003. 35mm. 120 min
Production Company: Blast Films, 2 Imperial
Works, Perren Street, London, NW5 3ED,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7267 4260
email: mbaptiste@blastfilms.co.uk
web: www.blastfilms.co.uk
Producer: Madonna Baptiste
Executive Producer: Jan Yonnuhusband
Screenwriter: Penny Woolcock
Editor: Brand Thumin
Director of Photography: Graham Smith
Production Designer: John Ellis
Sound: Mike Hatch
Music: John Adams
Cast: Yvonne Howard, Sanford Sylvan,
Christopher Maltman
Funding: FilmFour, Channel 4
Territories sold: Sold to UK and Ireland,
Standard and Non-standard TV. US and UK
theatrical rights available.
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Feature Films
Do I Love You?
Dot the i
The Dreamers
Marina has questions. Why is she a lesbian?
Is she in love with her girlfriend Romy? What
made her this way and is she doing the right
thing?
She embarks on a quest to find out some
answers. Should she cheat on her girlfriend?
Should she renegotiate men? Should she
have a baby or produce a masterpiece?
Her journey is mirrored in the meetings and
chance encounters she has with ex-lovers,
friends and strangers across London.
Through their stories, Marina begins to
unravel her own maze of confusion and
arrives at a surprising conclusion.
Dot the i is a love triangle, a dark comedy
with a twist. The story centres on three
characters: Carmen, a fiery Spanish girl
about to get married; Barnaby, her posh
fiancé with dark ambitions; and Kit, a
struggling actor who tears up their
relationship.
On Carmen's hen night, according to French
tradition, a kiss is arranged by the Maitre d'
at the restaurant. This is how Carmen and
Kit meet. It’s a very good kiss, too good. It’s
chemical, passionate, and very dangerous.
So she runs.
Torn between her safe, secure fiancé and the
chance at gut-wrenching and passionate
love, Carmen is in a state of indecision. She
avoids her heart, and goes with her head –
and marries Barnaby. Until she realises she’s
made a terrible mistake and runs from her
wedding bed to Kit.
As the situation intensifies, Carmen embarks
on a journey in which she’ll be forced to
learn that things are never quite what they
seem. This twisted tale toys with illusion and
reality, passion and artifice.
Paris, 1968 – students are out on the streets,
and revolution is in the air. Teenage siblings
Danielle and Guillaume befriend Matthew, an
American student living in Paris. All three of
them are fanatical cinéphiles, and they
spend their days and nights passionately
watching movies at the Cinématheque.
With their parents away, Danielle and her
brother invite Matthew to move in with them,
and the three youngsters soon find
themselves unable to leave the apartment –
at first playing movie trivia games, but soon
participating in a complex psychological and
sexual dynamic. Meanwhile, on the city
streets, the student demonstrations reach
boiling point.
DIRECTOR: Lisa Gornick
Production Company: Valiant Doll, 10 Haig
House, Shipton Street, London, E2 7RZ,
+44 (0)20 7613 5402
email: lisag@valiantdoll.co.uk
Screenwriter: Lisa Gornick
Editors: Maya T Harris, Diarmid Scrimshaw
Directors of Photography: Inge Blackman,
Michael Needham
Sound: Sophie Meyer
Music: Reuben Gonzales
Cast: Lisa Gornick, Raquel Cassidy, Sarah
Patterson, Kate McGoldrick, Ruth Posner
Budget: £4000
DIRECTOR: Matthew Parkhill
2003. 35mm. 92 min
Production Company: Arcane Pictures, 46
Wetherby Mansions, Earls Court Square,
London, SW5 9DJ, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20
7244 6590 fax: +44 (0)20 7565 4495
email: info@arcanepictures.com
web: www.arcanepictures.com
Sales Agent: Summit Entertainment, 77 Dean
Street, London, W1D 3SH, England, UK. tel:
+44 (0)20 7494 1724 fax: +44 (0)20 7494 1725
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
Producers: Meg Thomson, George Duffield
Executive Producer: David Garrett
Screenwriter: Matthew Parkhill
Editor: Jon Harris
Director of Photography: Affonso Beato
Production Designer: Tom Burton
Music: Javier Navarrate
Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal, Natalia Verbeke,
James D’Arcy
Co-production
Territories sold: Sold worldwide except Korea
DIRECTOR: Bernardo Bertolucci
2003. 35mm. 120 min
Production Company: Recorded Picture
Company, 24 Hanway Street, London, W1T
1UH, England, UK. tel: +44 (0) 20 7636 2251
fax: +44 (0) 20 7636 2261
email: info@recordedpicture.com
Sales Agent: Hanway Films, 24 Hanway
Street, London, W1 IUH, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)20 7290 0750 fax: +44 (0)20 7290 0751
email: info@hanwayfilms.com
UK Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox,
31-32 Soho Square, London, W1D 3AP,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7437 7766
fax: +44 (0)20 7734 2170
web: www.fox.co.uk
Producer: Jeremy Thomas
Screenwriter: Gilbert Adair
Editor: Jacopo Quandri
Director of Photography: Fabio Chainchetti
Production Designer: Jean Rabiasse
Sound: Stuart Wilson
Cast: Michael Pitt, Louis Garrell, Eva Green
Budget: US$15 million
Co-production
Funding: UK/French/Italian co-production
Territories sold: All territories sold except
Korea, Taiwan.
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Feature Films
Eating Cake
The Emperor’s Wife
Eroica
Three Midlanders, pretentious Greg,
unreliable Stan and ex-forces waster Ant, set
themselves up in an East London flat share.
As their alcohol fuelled lifestyles swing into
action and personalities start to grate on
each other, the cloud imposed by Stan's
down-to-earth common sense girlfriend Judy,
starts to loom menacingly, particularly for
the zealously misanthropic Ant. Will Stan be
able to have his cake and eat it too?
In a distant land the law dictates that the
Emperor must take a new wife if his current
Empress does not bear a son within seven
years of marriage. On the night of their sixth
wedding anniversary, the Emperor summons
the Chamberlain, his loyal servant and
confidant. The two men begin the covert
operation to find and prepare a virgin
candidate who might become the new
Emperor’s Wife.
A beautiful virgin, Sabah, who is sold by her
mother, is secretly transported by the
Chamberlain into an isolated wing of the
Imperial Palace. In this prison of fairytale
rooms furnished with Imperial gifts, Sabah is
tutored by the Imperial Masters. The
Emperor and Chamberlain secretly keep an
eye on Sabah’s progresses, but Sabah’s
violent protests nearly sabotage the entire
operation. The Chamberlain, falling in love
with Sabah, enters the secret wing to win
her affection. Quite a sacrifice: in order to
safeguard Sabah’s virginity, any man
entering the secret wing must become a
eunuch. Also the law claims that if the
current Empress conceives a child within the
next year, everyone in this secret wing must
be executed.
The Empress discovers this conspiracy
against her and the only way to save her life
is playing the Emperor and the Chamberlain
off against each other.
Set over the course of a single day in June
1804, as Beethoven rehearses the orchestra
for the first play-through of his latest
masterpiece, at the Viennese palace of his
patron, Prince Lobokowitz. Eroica tells the
stories behind the music: of the composer’s
unrequited love for an unattainable woman,
and the politics of the royal court.
With music by the acclaimed Orchestre
Revolutionaire et Romantique, conducted by
Sir Eliot Gardiner, and starring Ian Hart,
wonderfully convincing as the composer, it’s
a treat for music lovers and cinephiles alike.
DIRECTOR: Stephen Ellis
Production Company: Microfilm Productions,
10 Kelvedon Way, Rugeley, Staffordshire,
WS15 2SQ, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)1889 802
907
email: steve@microfilmproductions.co.uk
web: www.microfilmproductions.co.uk
Producer: Alan Carr
Executive Producers: Stephen Ellis, Des
Thomas, Simon Cheung
Screenwriter: Alan Carr
Editor: Ashley Stevens
Director of Photography: Stephen Ellis
Sound: Simon Cheung
Music: Daniel Saunders
Cast: Alan Carr, Laurence Saunders, Carl
Harris, Rachel Gilberthorpe
DIRECTOR: Julien Vrebos
2003. 35mm. 97 min
Production Company: The Emperor's Wife BV,
Sumatrakade 611, Amsterdam, 1019PS, The
Netherlands. tel: +31 2 03 44 51 82 fax: +31 2
03 34 45 145
email: suzanne@a-film.nl
web: www.emperorswife.com
Producer: San Fu Maltha
Screenwriters: Paul Ruven, Emjay Rechsteiner
Editor: Mark Bynens
Director of Photography: Toni Malamatenios
Production Designer: Wilbert Van Dorp
Sound: Micheal Cox
Music: Maxton Beesley, Jeremy Meehan
Cast: Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Max Beesley,
Rosana Pastor, Leticia Dolera, Claire Johnston
Budget: €3.5 million
Co-production
Funding: Dutch tax shelter
Territories sold: All available except Benelux,
Portugal, Thailand, Cyprus, Greece, Baltic
States, CIS
DIRECTOR: Simon Cellan Jones
Production Company: BBC Drama, Room
D202, Centre House, 56 Wood Lane, London,
W12 7SB, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 8576
7207 fax: +44 (0)20 8225 7604
email: liza.marshall@bbc.co.uk
Producer: Liza Marshall
Executive Producers: Peter Manuira, Hilary
Salmon
Screenwriter: Nick Dear
Editor: Joe Walker
Director of Photography: Barry Ackroyd
Production Designer: David Roger
Sound: Richard Manton
Music: Beethoven
Cast: Ian Hart, Tim Piggot-Smith, Frank Finlay,
Clare Skinner, Jack Davenport
Budget: £1 million
Funding: BBC
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Feature Films
Face at the Window
Fakers
Fear X
Young refugee, Erri, has seen more than
most boys his age will ever see in a lifetime.
After witnessing the murder of his entire
village and family, he comes to England to
seek asylum. Moreover, as key witness to
these terrible events, he knows he may never
return to his country again. Hunted both by
vicious war criminals and the UK authorities,
it looks as though Erri has no one to turn to.
That is, until he meets three British children,
who decide to take the law into their own
hands, and hide him away.
But the net soon closes in, and the children
are left with few options. They have become
locked in a dangerous game of hide and
seek, where Erri's own life is at stake.
Fakers is an off-beat, comedy crime caper set
in the London art world. Nick Edwards
(Matthew Rhys) owes £50 000 and has no
way of paying-off wannabe crime lord Foster
Wright (Art Malik). That is until he stumbles
across a lost sketch by legendary Italian
artist Antonio Fraccini. Problem is it's only
worth £15 000. A plan is hatched; to forge the
drawing and sell it to five Mayfair galleries
within an hour before anyone cottons onto
the fact there's a scam going down.
Fakers is a high-spirited and overtly
optimistic romp through the territory of trust,
love, ingenuity and the desperation involved
in trying to survive.
After his wife has been murdered, apparently
at random, by a sniper in a shopping centre,
security guard Harry Cain (John Turturro)
goes on a one-man mission to find her killer,
a journey that takes him to the darkest side
of human nature – and into the realms of
madness.
Stunningly visualised, genuinely creepy (in a
way that recalls both David Lynch and
Kubrick’s The Shining), this meditative
mystery plays like a nightmare – one that
will haunt you for weeks, if not months
afterwards.
DIRECTOR: Graeme Harper
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7586 3686
fax: +44 (0)20 7586 3117
Producer: Josephine Ward
Executive Producer: Elaine Sperber
Screenwriter: Barry Purchese
Editor: John Paroussi
Director of Photography: Peter Morgan
Production Designer: Martin Methven
Sound: Tim Humphries
Music: Debbie Wiseman
Cast: Angelo Andreou, Nica de Kuenieswarter,
Simon Anderson
Budget: £885 000
Co-production
Territories sold: All available excluding UK
and Ireland
DIRECTOR: Richard Janes
2003. 35mm. 86 min
Production Company: Kleparski & Bee
Productions Ltd, Po Box 29756, London, NW3
4FT, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7267 0913
fax: +44 (0)20 7267 0913
email: claire@kleparski-bee.co.uk
web: www.kleparski-bee.co.uk
Producers: Claire Bee, Todd Kleparski
Executive Producers: Rosemary Chambers,
Florence Hetherington, R Kirkland,
Christopher S J Sheply
Screenwriter: Paul Gerstenberger
Editor: Adam Green
Director of Photography: Balazs Bolygo
Production Designer: Jason Harris
Sound: Patrick Quirke, Keith Tunney
Music: Kevin Sergent
Cast: Matthew Rhys, Kate Ashfield, Art Malik,
Tony Haygarth, Tom Chambers
DIRECTOR: Nicolas Winding Refn
2003. 35mm. 91 min
Production Company: NWR Aps, Peblinge
Dossering 18, DK-2200, Copenhagen N,
Denmark. tel: +45 35 37 42 32 fax: +45 35 37
42 30
email: nwr@nwraps.dk
Sales Agent: Moviehouse Entertainment,
9 Grafton Mews, London, W1T 5HZ, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7380 3999 fax: +44 (0)20
7380 3998
email: info@moviehouseent.com
web: www.moviehouseent.com
UK Distributor: Matrix Film Finance Ltd,
Gossard House, 7-8 Saville Row, London, W1S
3PE, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7292 0800
fax: +44 (0)20 7287 1338
email: info@matrixgroup.co.uk
web: www.matrixgroup.co.uk
Producers: Henrik Danstrup, Nicolas Winding
Refn
Executive Producer: Rupert Preston
Screenwriters: Nicolas Winding Refn, Hubert
Selby Jr
Editor: Anne Osterud
Director of Photography: Larry Smith
Production Designer: Peter De Neergaard
Sound: Jens Bonding, Peter Schultz
Music: Brian Eno, Peter Schwalm
Cast: John Turturro, Deborah Unger, James
Remar
Co-production
Funding: Egmont, Royal Bank of Scotland,
Matrix Film Finance
Denmark
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Feature Films
Finding Fortune
Helen Fortuno, an Italian living in London,
has not heard from her brother Frank for two
years. She receives a cryptic postcard from
him with enough information to track him
down to a Buddhist retreat in Scotland.
Along for the ride is London girl Sylvia who
is using Helen's search for her brother as her
chance to leave her psycho husband Gordon.
Arriving at the monastery, they are told by a
monk that Frank, failing to fit in, has moved
on with tantric student Fiona. At her cottage
they find Fiona has been abandoned by
Frank and has a baby daughter by him. Frank
has gone to live on the coast and doesn't
want to be found. The two women continue
their search but when the forger of Frank's
new identity is murdered, Sylvia realises they
are involved in something bigger than just
looking for Helen's brother.
DIRECTOR: Robbie Moffat
2003. 35mm. 105 min
Production Company, Sales Agent: Palm Tree
UK Ltd, North Lodge, Nether Place,
Mauchline, Ayrshire, KA5 5SS, Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)1290 553 322 fax: +44 (0)1290 553
073
email: palmtreeG1@aol.com
web: www.deevee.net
Producer: Mairi Sutherland
Screenwriter: Robbie Moffat
Editor: Richard Vint
Director of Photography: Bob Ramsey
Production Designer: Peter Horn
Sound: Owen Miller
Music: Fergus Black
Cast: Ilaria D’Elia, Victoria Pritchard, Jason
Harvey, Joanne Kate Rodgers
Territories sold: All available except
Russia/CIS
Five Moons Square
(Piazza Delle Cinque
Lune)
The day before his retirement Judge Saracini
(Donald Sutherland) under the threat of a
gun receives an envelope with an old 8mm
film. The film shows the cold-blooded killing
of five men and the abduction of another. It
is previously unknown footage of the
kidnapping of the President of the Italian
Christian Democratic party Aldo Moro and
the brutal murder of his escort in Rome on
March 16th, 1978.
With the help of his ex-pupil Fernanda Doni,
now a judge herself, and Branco, his old time
friend and personal escort, Saracini starts a
personal investigation that takes him and his
friends into a conspiracy that goes up to the
highest levels of Italian and International
politics.
High risks are taken and dangerous grounds
are walked upon. The peril reaches its peak
with the accident that kills Judge Doni’s
husband.
Caught in a web of power, Judge Saracini
receives an invitation he cannot refuse. The
summons will end the private enquiry and
leave the public enigma still a mystery.
DIRECTOR: Renzo Martinelli
2003. 35mm. 110 min
Production Company: Spice Factory, 81 The
Promenade, Peacehaven, Brighton, East
Sussex, BN10 8LS, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)
1273 585 275 fax: +44 (0)1273 585 304
email: info@spicefactory.co.uk
Sales Agent: Arclight Films Pty Ltd, Building
22, Box 40, Fox Studios Australia, Driver
Avenue, Moore Park, NSW 2021, Australia.
tel: +61 (0)299 558 825 fax: +61 (0)299 558
828
web: www.arclightfilms.com
Producers: Renzo Martinelli, Michael Cowan,
Jason Piette, Pete Maggi
Executive Producers: Alex Marshall, Peter
James, James Simpson
Screenwriters: Renzo Martinelli, Fabio
Campus
Editor: Massimo Quaglia
Director of Photography: Blasco Giurato
Production Designer: Franco Vanorio
Music: Paolo Buonvino
Cast: Donald Sutherland, Giancarlo Giannini,
Stefania Rocca, F Murray Abraham
Co-production
Greece, Israel, Portugal, Turkey, Baltic States,
Romania, Russia, Former Yugoslavia, Brazil
Four Eyes
After being knocked out, an erratic Paul
Hunt believes he has been the victim of a
mugging, robbed of £1000, a deposit for his
new house. Relationships are already
strained between his new wife and his
elderly father who all live under the same
roof. Paul is now under pressure at his new
job as a double glazing sales man for tyrant
Big Al, under pressure to care for his
devoting father and under pressure to raise
the money back, before his pregnant wife
finds out.
Life just gets worse for the trainee salesman
as his boss forces him to wear glasses, –
“They make you look 17% more intelligent”,
his new company car looks like Tweetie Pie
on wheels, and his pregnant girlfriend’s on
his back to get a new home. Made on a
shoestring, yet glittering with wit and
invention – and jam-packed with brilliant setpieces – Finnigan’s digital feature is a superb
example of Scottish independent
filmmaking.
DIRECTOR: Duncan Finnigan
2003. Beta SP. 74 min
Production Company: FIN Scotland
Productions, 45 Blair Road, Coatbridge, North
Lanarkshire, ML5 1JQ, Scotland, UK. tel: +44
(0)1236 420 417
email: finscotland@hotmail.com
web: www.finscotland.com
Producers: Duncan Finnigan, Wilma Smith
Screenwriter: Duncan Finnigan
Editor: Duncan Finnigan
Director of Photography: Wilma Smith
Sound: Wilma Smith
Cast: Duncan Finnigan, John Smith, Gordan
Grant
Budget: £5000
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George and the Dragon
The first crusade to free the Holy Land has
ended. A mass of weary knights, squires,
soldiers of fortune and priests are making
their way home across a Europe that has
changed forever. An age of legends and
mystery is about to unfold. George, a
handsome English knight, unsettled by the
horrendous bloodletting he witnessed in
Palestine, desires to hang up his sword and
settle down to a quiet, peaceful life. On
returning to England, George heads north
where he’s heard the land is good, the
population sparse and of a kindly King
named Edgaar.
He finds King Edgaar in a terrible state. His
beautiful daughter, Lunna has recently
disappeared. In return for a small plot of
land, George agrees to search for Princess
Lunna. With Edgaar’s faithful servant,
Elmendorf, George sets out.
George discovers both the princess and the
truth behind her strange disappearance. The
quest now set before them ends in a love, a
lie and a legend that has lasted a thousand
years.
DIRECTOR: Tom Reeve
2003. 35mm. 90 min
Production Company: The Carousel Picture
Company, rue de la Cimenterie, 1337,
Luxembourg. tel: +352 26 42 42 01 fax: +352
26 42 42 01
web: www.carousel.lu
Sales Agent: MDP Worldwide, 1875 Century
Park East #2000, Los Angeles, CA 90067, USA.
tel: +1 310 226 8300 fax: +1 310 226 8350
email: info@mdpworldwide.com
web: www.mdpworldwide.com
Producers: Romais Schroeder, Todo Moyer
Executive Producers: Frank Hubner, Jeremy
Saunders
Screenwriters: Tom Reeve, Michael Bures
Director of Photography: Joast Van
Starrenburg
Music: Gast Waltzing
Cast: James Purefoy, Piper Perard, Patrick
Swayze
Co-production
Feature Films
Girl With a Pearl
Earring
Set in 17th century Holland, Girl With A
Pearl Earring tells the imagined and highly
suspenseful story behind one of Vermeer’s
greatest and most enigmatic paintings. Griet,
a tile maker’s daughter, is forced by tragedy
to become a maid for the master painter.
Fascinated by his craft, she soon shows an
aptitude for helping in his studio, where she
finds herself drawn to the man and his world
of colour and light. As she becomes part of
his work, their growing intimacy spreads
disruption and jealousy within his ordered
household and beyond, fuelling a scandal
which threatens to ruin them all.
DIRECTOR: Peter Webber
2002. 35mm. 91 min
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7323 5151
fax: +44 (0)20 7323 1773
+44 (0)20 7631 3568
Producer: Andy Paterson
Screenwriter: Olivia Hetreed based on the
novel by Tracey Chevalier
Editor: Kate Evans
Director of Photography: Eduardo Serra
Production Designer: Ben Van Os
Sound: Carlos Thoss
Cast: Colin Firth, Scarlett Johansson, Tom
Wilkinson, Cillian Murphy
Budget: approx £10 million
Give and Take and Take
Will Kane is a med school drop out, and an
existential loner whose hate of the system
had led him to drifting into both low and
high end crime capers, with best bud Ricky
Hammond. With action in short supply, they
agree to take a mule job from reliable French
connection Pierre, who is doing small drug
jobs for two East End gangsters, who also
happen to be local rivals.
When Pierre dies, due to overeating 67
packets of condoms filled with heroin for a
mule job he was about to perform, Will and
Ricky recover the drugs with a knife and
some crude medical know-how. All hell
breaks loose when Willie C, an old friend of
Will's, suspects that they killed Pierre in
order to nick the drugs. With tragedy, soul
searching, old loves reacquainted, and a hail
of bullets, this is a situation that few will
come out of.
DIRECTOR: Jaspreet Singh Grewal
Production Company: Troubled Children
Films, 52 Grosvenor Road, Ilford, Essex, IG1
1LA, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 8252 0829
email: jaspreetsg@hotmail.com
Sales Agent: Echelon Entertainment, 8831
Sunset Boulevard #300, West Hollywood, CA
90069, USA. tel: +1 310 652 2893 fax: +1 310
652 6237
email: john@echelonent.com
web: www.echelonent.com
Producer: Jaspreet Singh Grewal
Screenwriter: Jaspreet Singh Grewal
Editor: Jaspreet Singh Grewal
Sound: Gareth Lewis Herjeet
Music: Shane Walsh, Kee Lewis
Cast: Tom Bird, John Enthoven, Johanna
Graham, James Arden, Frank Scantori
Budget: £10 000
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Feature Films
Gladiatress
Gobsmacked!
Goldfish Memoirs
Clumsy village outcast Worthaboutapig is
shockingly chosen to rescue her kidnapped
sister Dwyfuc from the Romans. Armed with
only a goose, her mission seems hopeless,
until the gods help her find her long lost
sister Smirgut the Fierce.
Together the sisters encounter soothsayers,
gladiators, barbarians, and even lawyers in
their perilous quest. Once reunited these
three unlikely heroines set out to save Celtic
Britain by thwarting the Roman invasion in
their own unique and outrageous style,
proving that girl power was alive and kicking
arse even in 55 BC.
Bossy feminist bus driver Sandra hates
passengers. Driving her old bus to town her
fares include Oilkie, a games freak heading
for a mega cyber show, Grandad and
Richmond on their weekly trip to the cinema,
macho Tash eager for the Saturday soccer
match, and dreamy teenager Denise, with
her fantasy phone calls to a rock guitarist in
New York. It seems like just an ordinary
boring day.
Sandra crashes into the classic car of a
devious businessman Choker and his spoilt
daughter Juliet and while continuing with
them through the countryside, the bus
breaks down. When they are joined by an
eccentric hitch-hiking Morris Dancer, called
Walter, it is obvious that the day is far from
ordinary. By the time a rescue bus arrives
their personal problems have been solved,
friendships have been made, true romance
has blossomed – oh, and mother and baby
are doing just fine.
Goldfish Memoirs is a film that focuses on
five middle-class Roman Catholic
schoolboys: George, Edmund, Berty, Harry
and Matthew. Through a series of loosely
connected and ambiguous events the film
looks at the relationship between the boys
and explores universal themes of
individualism, tribalism, violence, freedom
and love.
With minimal dialogue composed from
contemporary speech and the
Shakespearean stage, the film employs a
stylised structure as we follow the group of
boys and gradually come to understand the
relationships and friendships within.
Using a bold, original and uncompromising
form, Goldfish Memoirs presents a
surprisingly fresh perspective on the
ensemble piece, offering a subtle range and
understated performances from the excellent
young cast.
DIRECTOR: Brian Grant
2003. 35mm. 90 min
Production Company: Mission Pictures,
23 Golden Square, London, W1R 3PA,
+44 (0)20 7734 6202
email: info@missionpictures.net
Sales Agent, UK Distributor: Icon Film
Distribution Ltd, 4th Floor, 180 Wardour Street,
London, W1F 8FX, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20
7494 8100 fax: +44 (0)20 7494 8101
Producer: Damian Jones
Executive Producer: Andrew Hauptman
Screenwriter: Nick Whitby
Editor: Fiona Colbeck
Director of Photography: Witold Stok
Production Designer: Crispian Sallis
Cast: Fiona Allen, Sally Phillips, Doon
MacKichan
DIRECTOR: Gabriel Kern
2003. 35mm. 80 min
Production Company: PeterPix Productions,
Beacon House, Woodley Park, Skelmersdale,
Lancashire, WN8 6UR, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)1695 733 310 fax: +44 (0)1695 733 310
email: mail@peterpixproductions.com
web: www.peterpixproductions.com
Sales Agent: Ardent International Sales Ltd,
The Old Stables, Bagshot Park, Bagshot,
Surrey, GU19 5PJ, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)1276 700 800 fax: +44 (0)1276 700 801
email: ardent@ardent-productions.ltd.uk
web: www.ardent-productions.ltd.uk
Producer: Peter Tong
Screenwriter: Peter Tong
Editor: Bridget Reiss
Director of Photography: Daniel Whistler
Production Designer: Nat Law
Sound: Richard Armstrong
Music: Don Woods
Cast: Beryl Flint, Gabi Kern, David Williams,
John Lanasis
DIRECTOR: Cas Beau Cohen
Production Company: 2nd Century Cinema
Ltd, 40a Yukon Road, London , SW12 9PX,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 8772 6445
email: goldfish@2ccfilm.co.uk
web: www.2ccfilm.co.uk
Producer: Philip Wood
Screenwriter: Cas Beau Cohen
Editor: Mark Murphy
Director of Photography: Cas Beau Cohen
Sound: Marco Barion
Music: Jay Line
Cast: Nathaniel Martello-White, Jack
Baverstock, Alex Dawson, Gyesi Noah, Michael
Bithell
Budget: £45 000
Funding: Private sponsorship, deferred fees
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Feature Films
Gordon Bennett
Hacked Off
Gordon is about to be 40. Perhaps it is time
to grow up.
Gordon Bennett is a small time drug dealer
who bypasses the normal responsibilites of a
working man and father. He drifts through
life like a puff of marijuana smoke on a
summer breeze. His saving grace is a
romantic imagination coupled with an
optimistic belief that his life will get better.
Over the forty-eight hours that take him to
the night of his fortieth birthday his
optimism is mangled by a series of events
instigated by friends, family and fate,
coincidences that should make him change
his life for good.
The film begins with a council tax dispute
and ends with a stabbing on a council estate
pavement. All this via a vengeful father, a
burglarising ex-wife, a custom dream car,
two Danish junkies, half a kilo of coke in a
goldfish bowl, three singing villains with
varying degrees of psychosis, a very bad trip,
a mysterious stripper, a disappearing boat on
the River Thames and too much marijuana.
Fifteen years ago in the French rural village
of Basquerville, Jacques Sykes executed all
the adults in a brutal act of revenge. Now,
after escaping from a mental asylum, he's on
the hunt again in the guise of his first victim,
a telephone repairman.
The following day, eight students arrive in
the region to party at a remote cottage,
ignorant to the massive manhunt ensuing.
Amongst the dysfunctional group are
couples Owen and Amy and Faye and Jenny,
techno-geek Lewis and his prim sister
Rachel, Winch the moron and Dutch
hitchhiker, David.
As night falls, their frolics are rudely
interrupted by a police officer. Warning them
of the escaped assailant, he soon becomes
the next victim.
As tensions fray and suspicions rise, the
atmosphere quickly turns bleak as the group
find themselves trapped, dispersed and, one
by one, at the mercy of Sykes and the tools
of his new trade.
During the bloody night, Sykes stockpiles his
prey into a makeshift morgue until Rachel,
the sole-survivor, exacts a fitting revenge
upon Sykes and puts an end to his relentless
killing spree.
Six months later, Rachel has struggled to
rebuild her life in the city. Unbeknown, Sykes
returns to finish his job enforcing the
premise that no one escapes the ‘Butcher of
Basquerville’ alive!
Hacked Off carefully blends humour with
chilling horror to create a fulfilling homage
to the traditional slasher movie.
DIRECTORS: Timothy Brinkhurst, Matthew
Zajac
Production Company: BZ Productions, 15/1
Bellevue Street, Edinburgh, EH7 4BX,
Scotland, UK. tel: +44 (0)131 556 6637
email: matthew@radzac.fsnet.co.uk
Producers: Timothy Brinkhurst, Matthew Zajac
Screenwriters: Timothy Brinkhurst, Matthew
Zajac
Editors: Timothy Brinkhurst, Matthew Zajac
Director of Photography: Timothy Brinkhurst
Sound: Timothy Brinkhurst
Music: Timothy Brinkhurst
Cast: Matthew Zajac, Bernie Shanley, Kezia
Hinchey, Clinton Blake, Virginia Radcliffe
DIRECTOR: Andrew Weild
2003. DVD. 82 min
Production Company: Chipboard Productions,
Po Box 1087, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, PE32 1YZ,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)870 241 4276
fax: +44 (0)1553 630 851
email: mail@hacked-off.com
web: www.hacked-off.com
Producer: Fraser Barsby
Screenwriters: Fraser Barsby, Andrew Weild
Editors: Fraser Barsby, Andrew Weild
Director of Photography: Andrew Weild
Production Designer: Fraser Barsby
Sound: Fraser Barsby
Music: Vanilla Pod
Cast: Liam Browne, Ross Maxwell, Layla
Stewart, Adam Stride, Tori Wheatman
Budget: £8000
Harry Potter and The
Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter has not had a good summer. It
seems as if Harry's best friends Ron Weasley
and Hermione Granger have forgotten him
as they haven't replied to a single one of his
letters. Then, suddenly and mysteriously,
house-elf Dobby appears in Harry's bedroom
and warns him of great danger if he should
attempt to return to Hogwarts School of
Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Dobby is so eager to prevent Harry from
returning to Hogwarts, he has blocked all of
Ron and Hermione's correspondence from
reaching Harry. But despite the elf's
mischievous efforts, the ever-determined
Harry is rescued from the Dursleys' dreary
clutches by Ron and his brothers – with the
aid of a flying car! – and whisked into the
warmth of the Weasley household.
But when Harry and Ron are suspiciously
prevented from entering Platform 9 3/4 and
boarding the Hogwarts Express back to
school, the boys take emergency action to
avoid being late for the new term – only to
incur the wrath of Professor Snape, who
calls for their expulsion after they crash the
flying Ford Anglia into Hogwarts' enchanted
Whomping Willow tree.
The new Defense Against the Dark Arts
Professor, Gilderoy Lockhart is outshone only
by his own vanity. Lockhart craves the
attention that Harry shuns and is all too
willing to associate himself with Hogwarts'
young hero. But not even Lockhart can offer
an explanation for the sinister new terror
that is gripping the school. Now all eyes are
on Harry, and his friends are beginning to
doubt him. Everyone, that is, except Ron,
Hermione and fragile young Ginny, whose
focus has turned to her mysterious new diary.
But Harry is not about to let his friends down
and, with or without the support of Gilderoy
Lockhart, he will confront the dark force
lurking in his beloved school.
DIRECTOR: Chris Columbus
2002. 35mm. 161 min
UK Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
International Distribution, Warner House,
98 Theobalds Road, London, WC1X 8WB,
+44 (0)20 7984 5231
Producer: David Heyman
Executive Producers: Chris Columbus, Mark
Radcliffe, Michael Barnathan, David Barron
Screenwriters: Steve Kloves, based on the
novel by J K Rowling
Editor: Peter Honess ACE
Director of Photography: Roger Pratt
Sound: John Midgley
Music: John Williams
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert
Grint, Kenneth Branagh, John Cleese
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Feature Films
Headrush
Hellbreeder
The Honeymooners
Headrush is a crazy caper comedy about two
young stoners Charlie and T-Bag, orbiting
society in a haze of dope and dreams. But
when Charlie gets dumped by his girlfirend
Vicky, and kicked off the dole, he crashes to
earth desperate to get her back. T-Bag hears
on the grapevine that a notorious underworld
criminal is looking for new mules, so Charlie
conceives an elaborate scam to smuggle a
consignment of cocaine back from
Amsterdam.
As their scam unfolds, a series of comic
coincedences begin to unravel their carefully
laid plans resulting in both the gangsters
and the cops hot on their trail. The proverbial
fish out of water, Charlie and T-Bag find
themselves sinking deeper and deeper into
trouble.
Five years ago Alice saw her son murdered;
now every day is consumed with the need to
find his killer. In the sleepy town of Ludlow
the arrival of the mysterious stranger Alice
suspects to be the killer of her son coincides
with a renewed spate of horrific child
murders.
Now a weary drunk detective must uncover
the truth behind the killings before another
child is killed and Alice must face the
unbelievable truth that the man she
suspected of killing her son is actually a
demon hunter and that the horror that has
been ravaging the town is in fact the
Hellbreed – an evil creature in the guise of a
clown. Can Alice and the demon hunter find
and kill the Hellbreed before insanity, grief
and guilt break her mind.
Hellbreeder is a dark Stephen King-style
yarn about the monsters that lurk in the dark
shadows of our everyday life.
A jilted groom and a highly-strung waitress
make an unlikely alliance and find
themselves in the depths of rural Ireland.
Together they begin a hilarious and chaotic
adventure that will change both their lives.
DIRECTOR: Shimmy Marcus
2003. 35mm. 85 min
Production Company: Zanzibar Productions,
12 Magennis Place, Dublin 2, Ireland.
tel: +353 1 671 9480 fax: +353 1 671 9481
email: zanzibar@gofree.indigo.ie
web: www.zanzibarfilms.net/
www.headrushthemovie.com
Producer: Edwina Forkin
Executive Producer: Tristan Orphan Lynch
Screenwriter: Shimmy Marcus
Editor: Joe Marcus
Director of Photography: Owen McPolin
Production Designer: Lauren Mellet
Sound: Dan Birch
Music: Adam Orphan Lynch
Cast: Wuzza Conlon, Gavin Kelty, Laura Pyper,
Gavin Railty, Stephen Berkoff
Budget: €1 million
Co-production
Funding: Irish Film Board, Rotterdam Film
Fund, NPS, Paradiso Extravision RTE,
Mezzanine Fund
Territories sold: All available except Benelux
and Ireland
DIRECTORS: James Eaves, Johannes Roberts
Production Company: Catncage Pictures,
1 Red Car Street, Shirley, Southampton, SO15
5LL, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7788 134 068
fax: +44 (0)2380 361 353
Sales Agent: American World Pictures, 6355
Topanga Canyon Boulevard, Suite 428,
Woodland Hills, CA 91367, USA. tel: +1 818
715 1480 fax: +1 818 715 1081
email: info@americanworldpictures.com
web: www.americanworldpictures.com
Producers: James Eaves, Johannes Roberts
Executive Producers: James Eaves, Anne
McMeehan
Screenwriters: James Eaves, Johannes
Roberts
Editor: Peter Dobson
Director of Photography: John Ragget
Production Designer: Natasha Oakes
Sound: Richard Whittle
Music: Johannes Roberts
Cast: Dominique Pinon, Darren Day, Lyndie
Uphill
Budget: £50 000
Territories sold: All available except USA,
Canada, France, Greece, India, Mexico,
Portugal, Former Yugoslavia
DIRECTOR: Karl Golden
2003. 35mm. 88 min
Production Company: Utah Films, 25 Burdett
Road, London, E3 4TU, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)20 8980 3706 fax: +44 (0)20 8553 3437
email: utah.films@virgin.net
web: www.thehoneymooners.co.uk
Sales Agent: Darwin & Associates, 77 Beak
Street, Soho, London, W1F 9DB, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)20 7813 2109 fax: +44 (0)20 7813
2102
email: l.darwin@virgin.net
UK Distributor: Verve Pictures, 155 Oxford
Street, London, W1D 2JH, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)20 7287 27 28 fax: +44 (0)20 7287
9817
email: colin@vervepics.com
Producers: Martin Brinkler, Martina Niland
Executive Producers: David Collins, Lucy
Darwin
Screenwriter: Karl Golden
Editor: Martin Brinkler
Director of Photography: Darren Tiernan
Production Designer: Steven Daly
Sound: Paul Maynes
Music: Niall Byrne
Cast: Alex Reid, Jonathan Byrne, Justine
Mitchell, Conor Mullen
Co-production
Funding: Northern Ireland Film Commission,
Irish Film Board
Ireland
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Honour Thy Father
(Aime Ton Père)
Paul, an apparently stable and independent
twenty-eight year-old, decides to abduct his
own father, Leo Shephard, a famous writer
who has just been awarded the Nobel Prize
for literature. For a few days the entire world
will think that Leo Shephard has been killed
in a road accident.
Deep inside, Paul doesn't really know what
he loves or hates about his wonderful,
sarcastic, ferocious bastard of a father –
except maybe that he looks like him.
During Paul and Leo's trip, which will take
them all the way from the French Alps to the
Baltic Sea, the two men confront, threaten,
pursue and fight each other ferociously. They
accuse and confess to each other and then,
after all sorts of upsets, they finally uncover
the moment that holds within it the secret
that has kept them bound together for
twenty years.
DIRECTOR: Jacob Berger
2002. 35mm. 103 min
Production Company: Spice Factory,
81 The Promenade, Peacehaven, Brighton,
East Sussex, BN10 8LS, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)1273 585 275 fax: +44 (0)1273 585 304
Sales Agent: President Films, Immeuble Le
Barjac, Boulevard Vistor, 75015 Paris, France.
tel: +33 1 44 25 01 01 fax: +33 1 44 25 01 83
email: presidentfilms@francetv.com
Producers: Gérard Depardieu, Jean-Pierre
Guérin
Executive Producers: Michael Cowan, Jason
Piette, David Rogers
Screenwriters: Pascal Barollier, Jacob Berger,
Ed Radtke
Editor: Cathy Chamorey
Director of Photography: Pascal Marti
Production Designers: Pierre Allard, Kay
Brown, Ivan Nillas
Sound: Steve Cook
Music: Jean-Claude Petit
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Guillaume Depardieu
Co-production
Territories sold: All available except France,
Canada and Switzerland
Feature Films
I Am David
The I Inside
Bulgaria 1952. Twelve year-old David escapes
from the labour camp where he has lived
most of his life. He races for freedom and
stows away on a cargo ship bound for Italy.
He comes across some children playing
around an old shed. The shed catches fire
with a little girl trapped inside and David
rescues her. Her grateful parents take him in
but, unable to trust them, David runs away.
At the Swiss border, he meets an artist
named Sophie, who takes David to a
bookshop where he sees a book that was
written by a woman who lost her husband
and son at the end of the war. He recognises
the photo on the dust-jacket as his mother.
Urgent arrangements are made for David to
fly to Denmark where, on the airport runway
in Copenhagen he has an emotional reunion
with his mother.
When Simon awakens in the hospital with
amnesia, after a near-death experience, he
discovers it is the year 2002 and he can't
remember the last two years of his life. He
learns he has a wife Anna, who claims that
he murdered his brother, Peter. Then he
passes out, waking to a different doctor,
different year – it's 2000 and he doesn't have
a wife. Did he travel through time, or is it all
in his mind?
Simon starts piecing together the events
leading to his unconscious arrival at the
hospital. In his mind, he relives the fateful
night when he has an argument with his
brother, ending when Simon pushes him out
a window. Later, at the morgue, he sees that
Peter is still alive and that it is his future wife
Anna, who actually killed him. Knowing that
Anna helped him kill Peter, for which she
later blackmails him, he goes back in time to
intercept her. He saves Peter's life, strangling
Anna in turn. However, Peter also has the
ability to alter the past, and he uses it in a
way that punishes Simon for all of eternity.
DIRECTOR: Paul Feig
2002. 35mm. 95 min
Production Company: Film & General
Productions, 4 Bradbrook House, Studio
Place, Kinnerton Street, London, SW1X 8EL,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7235 4495
fax: +44 (0)20 7245 9853
email: cparsons@filmgen.co.uk
Sales Agent: Summit Entertainment, 77 Dean
Street, London, W1D 3SH, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)20 7494 1724 fax: +44 (0)20 7494
1725
Producers: Davina Belling, Clive Parsons,
Lauren Levine
Executive Producer: Walden Media
Screenwriter: Paul Feig from a novel by Anne
Holm
Editor: Alan Strachan
Director of Photography: Roman Osin
Production Designer: Giovanni Natalucci
Sound: Simon Reuben, David E Stone
Music: Stuart Copeland
Cast: Ben Tibber, Maria Bonnevie, James
Caviezel, Joan Plowright
Budget: $8 million
Co-production
Funding: Walden Media
DIRECTOR: Roland Suso Richter
2003. 35mm. 110 min
Sales Agent: MDP Worldwide, 1875 Century
Park East #2000, Los Angeles, CA 90067, USA.
tel: +1 310 226 8300 fax: +1 310 226 8350
email: info@mdpworldwide.com
web: www.mdpworldwide.com
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7323 5151
fax: +44 (0)20 7631 3568
Producers: Rudy Cohen, Mark Damon
Executive Producers: Andreas Elosch, Stewart
Hall
Screenwriters: Michael Corney, Timothy
Bogart
Editor: Jonathan Rudd
Director of Photography: Martin Langer
Production Designer: Allan Starski
Music: Nicholas Pike
Cast: Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Polley, Piper
Perabo
Co-production
Funding: German/UK Co-production
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Feature Films
I’ll Be There
A washed-up 80's pop star suddenly has a
new direction in life when he discovers that
he has a teenage daughter, Olivia, in Cardiff,
Wales. The result of a weekend affair he had
back at the height of his fame produced
Olivia, a newpaper delivery girl for the South
Wales Echo.
He arrives in the small Welsh town,
unsettling the life of his ex-lover while
inspiring his newfound daughter to follow in
his footsteps with a musical career of her
own, against the wishes of her mother.
DIRECTOR: Craig Ferguson
2003. 35mm. 90 min
+44 (0)20 7984 5231
Producer: James G Robinson
Executive Producer: Guy McElwaine
Screenwriters: Craig Ferguson, Philip
McGrade
Editor: Sheldon Kahn
Director of Photography: Ian Wilson
Production Designer: Tim Harvey
Music: Trevor Jones
Cast: Craig Ferguson, Charlotte Church,
Jemma Redgrave, Joss Ackland, Ralph Brown
Co-production
I'll Sleep When I'm
Dead
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead is a taut,
provocative character-driven thriller about
contemporary life, justice and revenge. Will
Graham (Clive Owen), a legendary London
gangster, has given up the crime life to seek
solace in the rural forest-land of North West
Wales. His past will always affect him – he
hardly sleeps; works without credentials – as
he tries to make peace with himself.
His young, womanising, street-smart brother
Davey (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers), to whom
he’s devoted, is a dashing, minor criminal.
After scoring a deal and partying late into
the night, he’s followed home and attacked.
Sensing something is amiss, Will is pulled
back to the city. Shocked and distraught,
Will’s antennae are re-tuned to the rush of
London as he begins to investigate the
disturbing event.
He seeks the counsel of his former gangmates, ignites the jealousy of crime boss
Turner (Ken Stott), visits the distressed Mrs
Bartz (Sylvia Syms), tracks the mysterious
Boad (Malcolm McDowell) and rekindles his
relationship with Helen (Charlotte
Rampling), the wise, romantic restauranteur.
DIRECTOR: Mike Hodges
2003. 35mm. 104 min
Production Company: Will and Company
Productions Ltd, c/o The Film Editors, 6-10
Lexington Street, London, W1F 0LB, England,
UK. tel: +1 208 455 3457 fax: +1 208 453 1136
email: kapsm@aol.com
Sales Agent: Seven Arts Signature
International, 9595 Wilshire Boulevard #1000,
Beverly Hills, CA 90212, USA. tel: +1 310 887
3830 fax: +1 310 887 3840
email: salesinfo@saspix.com
Producers: Mike Kaplan, Michael Corrente
Executive Producer: Roger Marino
Screenwriter: Trevor Preston
Editor: Paul Carlin
Director of Photography: Mike Garfath BSC
Production Designer: Jon Bunker
Sound: George Richards, Max Bygrave
Music: Simon Fisher Turner
Cast: Clive Owen, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers,
Malcolm McDowell, Charlotte Rampling, Ken
Stott
Budget: Moderate
Funding: Revere Pictures, Seven Arts
Territories sold: Contact Seven Arts
Iced Lolly
Iced Lolly is a wild ride through the minds of
those who love the summertime and have
seen the ocean sparkle like a million
diamonds beneath the setting sun.
Amidst the excitement of an Australian
summer Stel makes plans. His friend and
colleague Spesh is returning home from
London on a three day whirlwind tour to
collect the ice which has remained hidden
since he masterminded Australia's biggest
ever diamond heist.
Spesh's friends are not the only ones eager
to see him. Corporation detectives Besthead
and Bellend and waiting, hungry to settle an
old score. The Corporation knows Spesh cooridinated the plot but have never traced the
missing stash. Under the furious demands of
their beautiful but scheming boss, it's the
Corporation's last chance to close the case
for good.
Aware of the watchful eyes of the
Corporation, our heros lead their pursuers on
a merry chase. So begins a tale of surf, sun
and diamonds.
DIRECTORS: Seumas Next, Stephan Kern
2003. Digebeta. 87 min
Production Company: Occidental Films, Box
533, 2 Old Brompton Road, London, SW7 3DQ,
+44 (0)20 7581 4445
email: info@golfdelta.com
web: www.occidentalfilms.com
Sales Agent: Kelly and Co, Level 17, Santos
House, 91 King William Street, Adelaide, 5000,
Australia. tel: +61 8 82 05 08 39 fax: +61 8 82
05 08 09
email: jkelly@kellyco.com.au
web: www.kellyco.com.au
Producers: Ben Warner, Michael Clarkin
Screenwriters: Seumas Next, Stephan Kern
Editor: Jason Munn
Director of Photography: Greg Penniket
Production Designer: Col Courtfield
Sound: Tamara Penniket
Music: Mark Soloman
Cast: David Mackey, Tanya Hush, Andrew
Cienciala, Klara Lisy
Co-production
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Feature Films
In America
In the Name of Buddha
In This World
Intimately told by their eleven year-old
daughter Christy (Sarah Bolger), a child wise
beyond her years, is a coming of age story
about an Irish couple (Samantha Morton,
Paddy Considine) trying to find their way In
America.
To Christy and her younger sister Ariel
(played by real life sister Emma Bolger),
America is a place of magic where anything
is possible. To their parents, it represents a
place to begin anew. Carried by the girls’
youthful hope and faith, the family finds the
heart to live and love again. Together they
find home.
In The Name Of Buddha is about a Tamil
medical student, forced to flee his home
country and flee to Britain. He narrates his
harrowing story to the immigration officer to
become a refugee. The film depicts his and
his family’s experiences concerning human
rights and random violence, a result of a
conflict where violence only begets new
violence.
Local freedom fighters, the Sri Lankan army
and Indian peacekeepers all play their parts
in this grotesque predicament, and the
vicious circle can only be solved by a
genuine will for peace, independent of race
and religion.
With its spectacular images, great music and
strong scenes, this feature film is a topical
cry for peace.
This compelling film follows refugees Jamal
and Enayatullah as they travel overland to
London, passing through Iran, Turkey, Italy
and France. Their fictitious journey is a
distillation of the experiences of a multitude
of real life asylum seekers and migrants –
courageous and resourceful people seeking
a better life but whose stories so often end in
tragedy.
DIRECTOR: Jim Sheridan
2002. 35mm. 105 min
Production Company: Hell's Kitchen,
21 Mespil Road, Dublin 4, Ireland. tel: +353
1667 5599
tel: +44 (0)20 7437 7766 fax: +44 (0)20 7734
2170
web: www.fox.co.uk
Producers: Jim Sheridan, Arthur Lappin,
Paul Myler
Screenwriters: Jim Sheridan, Naomi Sheridan,
Kirsten Sheridan
Editor: Naomi Geraghty
Director of Photography: Declan Quinn
Production Designer: Mark Geraghty
Sound: Daniel Birch
Music: Gavin Friday, Maurice Seezer
Cast: Samantha Morton, Paddy Considine,
Sarah Bolger, Emma Bolger, Djimon Hounsou
Co-production
Funding: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Territories sold: Worldwide rights owned by
Twentieth Century Fox
DIRECTOR: Rajesh Touchriver
2002. 35mm. 146 min
Production Company: Da'sai Films
International Ltd, 33 Walsworth Road, Hitchin,
SG4 9ST, England, UK . tel: +44 (0)1462 623
257 fax: +44 (0)1462 623 257
email: sai@dasaifilmsinternational.co.uk
web: www.dasaifilmsinternational.co.uk/
www.inthenameofbuddha.com
Producers: Sai George, K Shan Mugaathas
Executive Producer: Mariayamma Antoivy
Screenwriter: Sai George
Editor: Ranjan Abraham
Director of Photography: Iain Joseph
Production Designer: Sunil Babu
Sound: Ajith Abraham
Music: Rajmani
Cast: Shiju, Sonyia
Budget: £850 000
Co-production
DIRECTOR: Michael Winterbottom
2002. 35mm. 90 min
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7566 0700
fax: +44 (0)20 7566 0701
8QJ, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7612 1080
fax: +44 (0)20 7612 1081
UK Distributor: ICA Cinema, 12 Carlton House
Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)20 7766 1415 fax: +44 (0)20 7306
0122
web: www.ica.org.uk
Producers: Andrew Eaton, Anita Overland
Executive Producers: Chris Auty, David M
Thompson
Screenwriter: Tony Grisoni
Editor: Peter Christelis
Director of Photography: Marcel Zyskind
Sound: Joakim Sondstrom, Stuart Wilson
Cast: Jamal Udin Torabi, Enayatullah
Funding: The Film Consortium, BBC Films and
UK Film Council
Territories sold: All sold except South America
and the Far East (except Japan and Hong
Kong)
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Feature Films
Intermission
Jericho Mansions
Johnny English
A couple break up briefly (the intermission of
the title), sending ripples through the lives of
everyone around them. Ripples that become
shockwaves as a film-maker teams up with a
cop for a journey into violence: a jilted wife
plots revenge on her husband; three men
team up for a daring kidnap-robbery.
These and other stories collide, dovetail and
climax in extreme ways, pushing the couple
toward a reunion which in turn restores a
kind of order.
Leonard Grey is the superintendent of
Jericho Mansions. His world may be small
but he cares for every inch of it. The fading
wallpaper in the entrance hall, the ageing
carpet on the stairs, the clank of the elevator
and above all, the faint but continuous
refrain of lives being lived around him. For
the last thirty years the building has been his
universe. Beyond the front door of the
apartment block lies a terrifying agoraphobic
nightmare into which, for as long as he can
remember, he has never dared to venture.
But Leonard’s sanctuary is beginning to
crumble; forces are conspiring to kick him
out. Constant accusations by Lily Melnik, the
landlady, of stealing worthless items from
her apartment, stirrings of discontent among
the residents, infidelities and finally a
murder.
Bill Cherry, one of the building’s inhabitants
is found dead, his body thrown down the
garbage chute. Though the cops believe they
have their killer and motive – a jealous
tenant taking revenge on his wife’s lover –
Leonard begins to discover clues that point
to a different kind of killer. Himself.
Rowan Atkinson, the brilliant physical
comedian whose outrageous pratfalls and
subversively innocent humour have made
him a star in hilarious classics from the cult
UK series Blackadder to the worldwide hit
Bean, is back on the big screen in the family
comedy Johnny English.
When Her Majesty’s crown jewels are stolen
by a conniving Frenchman (John Malkovich),
who also plans to steal the queen’s throne,
Johnny English (Atkinson), a bit unseasoned
but intensely enthusiastic, is thrown onto the
case. Fast cars, high tech gadgets, top secret
info – Johnny can hardly believe it. He may
be in over his head, but his courage and
dedication are unmatched, especially after
he meets double agent Lorna Campbell
(Natalie Imbruglia) and discovers that falling
in love makes saving the nation even more
exciting.
DIRECTOR: John Crowley
2003. 35mm. 90 min
Production Company: Company of Wolves
UK, 1st Floor, Linton House, 24 Wells Street,
London, W1T 3PH, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20
7323 4060 fax: +44 (0)20 7323 0456
email: cofwolves@aol.com
Sales Agent: Portman Film and Television Ltd,
21-25 St. Anne's Court, London, W1F OBJ,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7494 8024
fax: +44 (0)20 7494 8046
email: sales@portmanfilm.com
UK Distributor: Buena Vista International (UK)
Ltd, 3 Queen Caroline Street, Hammersmith,
London, W6 9PE, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20
8222 1000 fax: +44 (0)20 8222 1534
Producers: Neil Jordan, Stephen Woolley, Alan
Moloney
Executive Producers: UK Film Council, Irish
Film Board
Screenwriter: Mark O’ Rowe
Editor: Lucia Zuchetti
Director of Photography: Ryszard
Lenckzewski
Production Designer: Tom Conroy
Sound: Brendan Deasy
Cast: Colin Farrell, Kelly MacDonald, Cillian
Murphy, Shirley Henderson, Colm Meaney
Co-production
Funding: UK Film Council - New Cinema Fund
DIRECTOR: Alberto Sciamma
2003. 35mm. 97 min
Sussex, BN10 8LS, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)1273 585 275 fax: +44 (0)1273 585 304
Sales Agent: Vine International Pictures, VIP
House, Greenacres, New Road Hill, Downe,
Orpington, Kent, BR6 7JA, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)1689 854 123 fax: +44 (0)1689 850
990
email: info@vine-international.co.uk
web: www.vine-international.co.uk
Producers: Jason Piette, Michael Cowan,
Jean-Marc Felio, Claude Léger
Executive Producers: Kate Robbins, Peter
James, Suzanne Lyons, Michael Mosca,
Jonathan Vanger, Alex Marshall, Jan Vocke
Screenwriters: Peter James, Suzanne Lyons,
Kate Rubbins, James Simpson
Editor: Yves Langlois
Director of Photography: Alastair Meux
Production Designer: Richard Tassé
Sound: Louis Marion
Music: Dan Jones
Cast: James Caan, Jennifer Tilly, Genevieve
Bujold, Maribel Verdu
Budget: CA$10.5 million
Co-production
Territories sold: Most available
DIRECTOR: Peter Howitt
2003. 35mm. 87 min 20 sec
Production Company: Working Title Films,
Oxford House, 76 Oxford Street, London, W1N
9FD, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7307 3000
fax: +44 (0)20 7307 3001
UK Distributor: UIP, 12 Golden Square,
London, W1A 2JL, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20
7534 5200 fax: +44 (0)20 7534 5202
web: www.uip.com
Producers: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Mark
Huffam, Debra Hayward, Liza Chasin, Jo Burn
Executive Producers: Rowan Atkinson, Peter
Bennett Jones
Screenwriters: Neal Purvis, Robert Wade,
William Davies
Editor: Robin Sales
Director of Photography: Remi Adefarasin
BSC
Production Designer: Chris Seagers
Sound: Glenn Freemantle
Music: Edward Shearmur
Cast: Rowan Atkinson, Natalie Imbruglia, Ben
Miller, John Malkovitch
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Feature Films
Kiss of Life
The Last Horror Movie
The Late Twentieth
Kiss of Life is an intricate and moving
journey into the heart of a family.
Helen lives with her children and her father
in London. Her husband John is an aidworker who has been away from home for
many months. Helen is feeling the strain of
his absence and desperately awaits his
return. On the way to school one morning,
Helen is killed in a car accident. Miles away,
in war-torn Eastern Europe, John is unaware
of his wife's death.
And Helen herself is similarly unaware. So
begins a three day odyssey that involves all
of the members of Helen's family: the
children and Grandpa struggling with their
loss; John travelling home through
dangerous terrain; and Helen journeying
through the space between life and death,
freed only when she and her husband are
able to reconcile their differences and
experience the full meaning of their love for
one another.
The fine line between fiction and reality
becomes blurred when a horror video rental
is used by a serial killer to morally justify his
crimes to the world. What starts off as a
conventional teen slasher, transforms into a
stark and disturbing journey through the
mind of Max Parry, a mild mannered
wedding photographer, with a taste for
human flesh.
When his girlfriend is accidentally shot dead
in a bungled, drug fuelled hold up at a
corner shop, Ali goes vigilante, hunting
down the drug barons whose business gives
rise to this kind of desperation.
Institutionalised after killing one such drug
dealer, Ali escapes, only to witness a girl
being murdered. He becomes obsessed with
tracking down her killer, Tom, and we are led
into Tom's world of clubs, drugs and women.
DIRECTOR: Emily Young
2003. 35mm. 86 min
Production Company: Wild Horses Film
Company Ltd, 131a Kilburn Park Road,
London, NW6 5LD, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20
7328 1661
email: ggpltd@aol.com
Sales Agent: Celluloid Dreams, 2 rue Turgot,
75009 Paris, France. tel: +33 1 49 70 03 70
fax: +33 1 49 70 03 71
web: www.celluloid-dreams.com
UK Distributor: Artificial Eye, 14 King Street,
London, WC2E 8HN, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)20 7240 5353 fax: +44 (0)20 7240 5242
email: info@artificial-eye.com
web: www.artificial-eye.com
Producer: Gayle Griffiths
Executive Producers: Cat Villiers, Chiara
Menage, Paul Trijbits, David M Thompson, Bill
Allan
Screenwriter: Emily Young
Editor: David Charap
Director of Photography: Wojciech Szepel
Production Designer: Jane Morton
Sound: Ronald Bailey
Music: Murray Gold
Cast: Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Peter Mullan,
Millie Findlay, James E Martin, David Warner
Funding: UK Film Council - New Cinema Fund,
Baker Street Media Finance, BBC Films, Haut
et Court
France, Mexico, Japan, Benelux, Turkey, Israel,
Russia
DIRECTOR: Julian Richards
2003. 35mm. 80 min
Production Company: Prolific Films,
90 Salisbury Road, London, NW6 6PA,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7372 5495
fax: +44 (0)20 7372 5495
email: jr@prolificfilms.co.uk
Sales Agent: Gavin Film, 65-66 Dean Street,
London, W1D 4PL, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20
8432 2327 fax: +44 (0)20 7437 3903
email: billgavin@hotmail.com
Producer: Zorana Piggott
Executive Producer: Julian Richards
Screenwriter: James Handel
Editor: Claus Whelisch
Director of Photography: Chris St John-Smith
Production Designer: Bettina Eberhard
Sound: Simon Lambros
Music: Simon Lambros
Cast: Kevin Howarth, Mark Stevenson, Antonia
Beamish, Jonathan Coote
Budget: $1 million
Territories sold: All available except UK, US,
Portugal
DIRECTOR: Hadi Hajaig
2002. 35mm. 80 min
Production Company: Timeless Pictures Plc,
585a Fulham Road, London, SW6 5UA,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7323 3814
fax: +44 (0)20 7436 7405
email: hadi@ukonline.co.uk
Sales Agent: Salvation Films Ltd, 3 Dewhurst
House, Winnett Street, London, W1D 6JY,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7494 1186
fax: +44 (0)20 7287 0153
email: info@salvation-films.com
web: www.salvation-films.com
UK Distributor: Mandrake Media, 3 Dewhurst
House, Winnett Street, London, W10 6JY,
+44 (0)20 7287 0153
web: www.mandrakemedia.com
Producer: Hadi Hajaig
Screenwriter: Hadi Hajaig
Editor: Hadi Hajaig
Director of Photography: Peter Ellmore
Production Designer: Josh Grace
Sound: Steven Murphy
Music: Simon Lambros
Cast: Justin Allder, John Webber, Sam Loggin,
Hannah Watkins
Budget: £1 million
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Lava
LD 50
Little Scars
Smiggy – one of life’s also-rans – and Philip
– who’s not even in the race – set out on a
simple mission: to avenge Philip’s brother,
Stevie who, after a fight with Darrel, is left
silent, staring and starved. They hatch a plan
over breakfast – beautifully cooked by the
brother’s drunk and defeated dad and go
shopping for the appropriate kit.
This leads them to Mister Aladdin from
whom they purchase a firearm: a 1920’s
Spanish revolver, rusty with a dodgy
mechanism. And it’s off on field manoeuvres
they go.
Discovering the place is right in the middle
of the Notting Hill Carnival, Smiggy’s the
first to arrive at Darrel’s flat. Darrel isn’t
there, but his girlfriend Julie is. She’s
waiting for Neville a drug-dealer from
Reigate. And she’s waiting for him because
she has just stolen a kilo of Silver Leaf
cocaine from Claude and his Yardies and
wants to sell it on. But she’s never met
Neville so when Smiggy rings the bell…
When she offers him a line he takes it, but
cocaine, in the hands of Smiggy, releases all
his misguided heroic macho fantasies. When
Neville does arrive and gets lippy, Smiggy
shoots him. When Claude the angry Yardie
arrives looking for his Silver Leaf and
revenge, Smiggy shoots him too.
In the chaos that ensues, Julie gets shot.
Julie’s friend Maxine gets shot. Claude’s
right hand man Curtis gets shot. Smiggy
also shoots Philip. Smiggy also shoots
Smiggy. One person does survive though,
Darrel, although he might have a problem
explaining this one away to his probation
officer.
A free-spirited group of young animal rights
activists break into an animal research
facility in order to get video footage of grisly
experiments for their LD-50 website. When
cocky group leader, Gary, wanders into a
booby-trapped office, his leg gets caught in a
hidden steel trap. Unable to free himself, the
group panic as they hear the sound of
approaching police sirens. Believing that the
survival of the group is the most important
thing, they flee the building, leaving Gary
behind. Gary is taken away in handcuffs as
the group’s van drives away under the cover
of darkness.
Troubled by an unspoken, collective guilt, the
group disbands.
One year later, Gary sends a mysterious,
encoded message to his brother, Danny, the
group’s videographer and all round techhead. Danny is sure that Gary is in trouble,
and appeals to the group to reconvene.
Reluctantly, they agree to go on one more
mission to find out what happened to Gary
and to investigate the mysterious MultiTech
lab that Gary mentions in his e-mail. But, it
is only a fact-finding mission – they will
sneak in, find Gary, and get out quickly.
Nick and Tatjana enter into a passionate love
affair and in doing so unlock Tatjana's selfdestructive past. Can Tatjana reconcile with
her demons to find happiness with Nick?
DIRECTOR: Joe Tucker
2002. 35mm. 96 min
Sales Agent: Storm Entertainment,
127 Broadway # 200, Santa Monica, CA 90401,
USA. tel: +1 310 656 2500 fax: +1 310 656
2510
email: storment95@aol.com
Producers: Michael Riley, Gregor Truter
Executive Producer: Andreas Lehmann
Screenwriter: Joe Tucker
Editor: St John O'Rorke
Directors of Photography: Jan Liggetti, Roger
Eaton
Production Designer: Philip Robinson
Sound: Simon Fisher-Turner
Music: Simon Fisher-Turner
Cast: Joe Tucker, James Holmes, Nicola
Stapleton, Grahame Fox
DIRECTOR: Simon De Selva
2003. 35mm. 93 min
Production Company: Random Harvest
Pictures, Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath,
Buckinghamshire, SL0 0NH, England, UK. tel:
+44 (0)1753 783 900 fax: +44 (0)1753 630 651
email: films@randomharvest.co.uk
web: www.randomharvest.co.uk
Sales Agent: First Look Media / Overseas Film
Group, 8000 Sunset Boulevard, East
Penthouse, Los Angeles, CA 90046, USA. tel:
+1 323 337 1000 fax: +1 323 337 1037
email: info@firstlookmedia.com
web: www.firstlookmedia.com
8222 1000 fax: +44 (0)20 8222 1534
Producers: Alistair MacLean-Clark, Basil
Stephens
Executive Producers: Melvin Singer, Tim
Smith, Carlo Dusi
Screenwriter: Matthew McGuchan
Editor: Kant Pan
Director of Photography: Robin Vidgeon
Production Designer: Humphrey Jaegler
Sound: Clive Derbyshire
Music: Michael Price
Cast: Kate Towne, Melanie Brown, Tom Hardy,
Phil Winchester, Stephen Lord
Budget: £5 million
Funding: Section 48, Sale and Leaseback, Gap
Financing, American Bank Finance
Territories sold: All available except France,
Germany, Spain, Scandinavia, Russia, UK,
Benelux
DIRECTOR: Jan Bauer
Distributor: National Film and Television
School, Beaconsfield Studios, Station Road,
Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)1494 731 457
fax: +44 (0)1494 674 042
email: festivals@nftsfilm-tv.ac.uk
web: www.nftsfilm-tv.ac.uk
Producer: Teresa Mulqueen
Screenwriter: Jan Bauer
Editor: Helle le Levre
Director of Photography: Tanja Koop
Music: David Schweitzer
Cast: Ana Geislerova, Alan Westaway, Rad
Lazar, Vesna Orel, Claire Cox
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Feature Films
Love’s Brother
Luminal
Man Dancin’
In despair of ever finding love, the insecure
Angelo uses a photo of his handsome
brother Gino to convince a beautiful Italian
girl across the sea to marry him. Gino's
delighted for Angelo, but when he lays eyes
on his brother's betrothed, it's love at first
sight.
Touching and funny, sentimental and heartwarming, this is a magical, sweetly nostalgic
journey about roots, family, sacrifice and the
power of true love.
In the year 2010, drugs and sexual excesses
are the dominant forces that shape the lives
of Europe’s teenagers, and London and Paris
are at the centre of this chemical nation. No
child can shelter from this storm of abusive
substances and nowhere is this more visible
than in the daily lives of Demon and Davi.
The two teenage girls have embraced drug
culture and now spend their days sleeping
and using the dark hours to explore life’s
chemical and sexual possibilities. Young and
naïve, they have become the possessions of
a schizophrenic mentor and pimp, Ryu. Too
messed up on the drugs he gives them to
notice that their lives have been stolen, they
have accepted this vampiric version of life.
Demon and Davi’s illusions are shattered
when their friend is sadistically tortured by
one of the sex clients, with the knowing
permission of Ryu. Horrified, they fail in an
attempt to kill their false protector.
Realising that they carry with them the past
they are trying to escape from, they attempt
to clean up. An obsessed Ryu finds them.
Now back in his clutches, Ryu begins his
theatrical and brutal revenge. The
hopelessness of Demon and Davi seems
complete.
Demon, now clean, is stronger and able to
find the courage to attempt a dangerous
escape. Finally in control of their destiny,
they have a future worth living for.
Man Dancin' is a ganster movie with a
difference. After being detained at Her
Majesty's pleasure, Jimmy Kerrigan returns
to his family home in a tough Glaswegian
estate.
It's only been a few years but the Glasgow
that he knew has changed, and more
importantly to those who knew him, so has
Jimmy Kerrigan – dramatically. Sparks fly
when the new hits the old and the events
that follow will soon change Kerrigan, his
friends and his world forever.
DIRECTOR: Jan Sardi
2003. 35mm. 103 min
Production Company: Love's Brother
Productions, 5th Floor, 83-84 Berwick Street,
London, W1F 8TS, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20
7437 3128 fax: +44 (0)20 7437 3129
email: mail@srpltd.co.uk
Sales Agent: Arclight Films, 1201/39 McLaren
Street, North Sydney, 2060, Australia. tel: +61
(0) 2 99 55 88 25 fax: +61 (0) 2 99 55 88 28
email: info@arclightfilms.com
Producers: Jane Scott, Sarah Radclyffe
Executive Producers: Jane Scott, Bill Godfrey
Screenwriter: Jan Sardi
Editor: Veromka Jenet
Director of Photography: Andrew Lesnie
Production Designer: Paul Heath
Sound: Gary Wilkins
Music: Stephen Warbeck
Cast: Giovanni Ribisi, Adam Garcia, Amelia
Warner, Sicuia de Sants
Co-production
Funding: AFFC, Film Victoria, CZ Bank,
Ingenious Media
Territories sold: All available except Australia,
Italy, Germany, Benelux, Baltic States,
Scandinavia (not including Iceland)
Switzerland, Israel, Greece, Middle East,
Former Yugoslavia
DIRECTOR: Andrea Vecchiato
2002. 35mm. 100 min
Production Company, Sales Agent: Dreyco
Productions, Unit 2.1, 70 York Way, London, N1
9AG, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7689 8126
fax: +44 (0)20 7689 0007
email: info@hadaly.com
web: www.luminalthemovie.com
Producer: Alex Tate
Executive Producer: Leo Pescarolo
Screenwriters: Andrea Vecchiato, Isabella
Santacroce
Editor: Ailo Auguste
Director of Photography: Mark Lebon
Production Designer: Nic Tuft
Sound: Simeon Warburton
Music: Gavin McGregor Rossdale, Michael
Nyman
Cast: Denis Lavant, Maria Mann Papas,
Jemeela Mustchin
Territories sold: All available except Italy
DIRECTOR: Norman Stone
2003. 35mm. 114 min
Production Company: 1A Films/Festival Films,
c/o Festival House, Tranquil Passage,
Blackheath, London, SE3 0BJ, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)20 8297 9999 fax: +44 (0)20 8297
1155
email: info@festivalfilm.com
web: www.mandancin.com
Producer: Ray Marshall
Executive Producer: Peter Barber-Fleming
Screenwriter: Sergio Casci
Editor: Colin Goudie
Director of Photography: Mike Fox
Production Designer: Ash Wilkinson
Sound: Tommy Hair, Worldwide
Music: Colin Towns
Cast: Alex Ferns, Tom Georgeson, Kenneth
Cranham, James Cosmo, Jenny Faulds
Budget: Under £1 million
Funding: Film Partnership, Scottish Screen
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Feature Films
Map of the Universe
Monsieur N
Moonlight
The past. Paul X has been run over by a
black cab in London. He is unconscious. He
has been sent to a negative dimension.
There he discovers a whole map of the
universe and meets his alter ego. After
recovering from his coma he finds a way to
return to the negative dimension and drag
his friends along with him. This process
distracts his time warp system and creates
another alter ego. One in the positive and
one in the negative dimension. Moving
between the future and the past the distance
between one story and another is gradually
erased.
Unable to control their frequent departures
from the negative and positive dimension,
Paul and his friends are in danger of losing
their sanity.
TV game show host Dr Kelvin, has one
obsession; to dutifully cure anyone with a
slight sign of disturbance and each week he
analyses the mental health of two new
contestants. Paul and his friends have
signed up for the show.
Heathcote, a young English officer, arrives
on the island where Napoleon is being held
prisoner. His mission is to keep a close
watch on his military idol. Lowe, the new
Governor of the island, has just arrived too
and rules the island like a prison. Napoleon's
valet and childhood friend, Cipriani, waits on
this little world. This microcosm of the
French court stands united in continuing to
treat Napoleon with the utmost respect.
An escape plot is hatched by an American
pirate and the former Grande Armée general.
They plan to carry the Emperor away from
Saint Helena on board the mythical Flying
Dutchman and it becomes increasingly clear
to Heathcote that Napoleon has a plan.
Heathcote remembers the day when he lost
Napoleon who galloped off across
Deadwood Plain. He now realises that this
allowed Napoleon to calculate the time
needed to reach the coast. Everything for the
escape goes as planned but, at the last
minute, Napoleon seems to change his
mind. Napoleon's rescuers are killed in the
course of a bloody battle.
We see Napoleon on his deathbed clearly
finding some comfort in the priest at his
side. In front of Napoleon’s coffin, Heathcote
gathers together the threads of the story and
realises that Napoleon's only chance of
leaving the island was to stop being the
Emperor. Cipriani laid down his life so that
Napoleon could live an ordinary life at last.
Heathcote likes to think that this return to a
simple and anonymous life is the finest proof
of Napoleon's tactical genius.
Clara is thirteen and basically too clever by
half for her age. She lives in an exclusive
neighbourhood near the airport. Today she
has her first period, an event greeted with
excessive enthusiasm by her parents. She
doesn’t have much of an emotional bond
with either.
Clara flees to the shed down in the garden
and finds a blood-covered boy of her own
age. He is a drug-runner who was put on a
plane in a Central Asian country with a belly
full of bags of heroin, to be killed after being
used as human packaging.
Clara knows that things are getting too hot
to handle. She decides to flee with the boy to
her parents unused house in Luxembourg.
She tells her parents she is going to stay
with a girlfriend. After several adventures
and a lift from a driver with less than
honourable intentions, a night in an idyllic
holiday home and a journey in the back of a
truck, Clara and the boy finally reach
Aachen, not far from where his trip started.
Somehow Clara and the boy realise –
without saying it – that there is no way back,
that fate has bonded them together to the
bitter end. That gives them a kind of
freedom, makes them overconfident. They
seem to have lived their lives at high speed.
When they wake, they see in front of their
very eyes how another young drugs runner is
in danger of becoming the next victim. They
heroically sacrifice their lives to break out of
the vicious circle.
DIRECTOR: Nick Peterson
2003. 35mm. 92 min
Production Company, Sales Agent: Global
Films, Po Box 3808, London, N1 3JX, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7537 4882 fax: +44 (0)20
537 9285
email: film@mnenonics.co.uk
web: www.mnenonics.co.uk
Producer: Tom Norwood
Executive Producer: Laurent Mercier
Screenwriter: Nick Peterson
Editor: Tom Norwood
Director of Photography: David Radaeker
Production Designer: Tom Norwood
Sound: Mike Read
Music: Virtual Alien
Cast: Dolly Di Rosso, Jimmy Ryland, John
Watehouse, Stewart Timings
Budget: £373 000
Funding: Global Films, Barclays Film Finance
DIRECTOR: Antoine de Caunes
2003. 35mm. 130 min
Production Company: Scion Films, 18 Soho
Square, London, W1D 3QL, England, UK. tel:
+44 (0)20 7025 8445 fax: +44 (0)20 7025 8133
email: info@scionfilms.com
web: www.scionfilms.com
Sales Agent: Studio Canal, Service Technique,
74 Bis rue Lauriston, 75116 Paris, France. tel:
+33 1 44 34 21 33
web: www.monsieur-n-lefilm.com
Producers: Marie Castille, Meution Schaar,
Kara Walters, Jeff Abberley
Screenwriter: Rene Manzor
Editor: Joele van Effenterre
Director of Photography: Piere Aim
Production Designer: Patrick Durand
Sound: Dominique Eicher
Music: Stephen Eicher
Cast: Jay Rodan, Phillipe Torreton, Richard E
Grant
Budget: £10 million
Co-production
Funding: French subsidies, Pre-sale, Sales and
Leaseback
Territories sold: All available except France
DIRECTOR: Paula van der Oest
2002. 35mm. 91 min
Sussex, BN10 8LS, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)1273 585 275 fax: +44 (0)1273 585 304
Sales Agent: Arclight Films Pty Ltd, Building
22, Box 40, Fox Studios Australia, Driver
Avenue, Moore Park, NSW 2021, Australia.
tel: +61 2 99 55 88 25 fax: +61 2 99 55 88 28
Producers: Emjay Rechsteiner, Michael
Cowan, Jason Piette
Executive Producers: Emjay Rechsteiner, Dirk
Jan Weijers, David Rogers, Alex Marshall, Sam
Fumaltha
Screenwriter: Carel Donck
Editor: Sander Vos
Director of Photography: Guido van Gennep
Production Designer: Harry Ammerlaan
Sound: Tim Alban
Music: Bob Last, Fons Merkies
Cast: Laurien van den Broeck, Hunter
Bussemaker, Johan Leyson, Jemma Redgrave,
Andrew Howard
Budget: £2 million
Co-production
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Feature Films
The Mother
My House in Umbria
Ned Kelly
May is 65. An ordinary granny from the
suburbs. When her mother dies she finds
herself thrown upon the mercy of her far-toobusy metropolitan children.
Stuck in London, far from home, her kids
abusing or avoiding her, she feels that life for
her is more or less over.
Until... The granny from the sticks, the old
lady you don't even notice in the
supermarket, the broken woman whose life
is finished, falls headlong, suddenly,
rapturously, disarmingly, girlishly, carnally in
love.
With a man half her age. Who just happens
to be fucking her daughter as well.
From the acid pen of Hanif Kureishi comes
another brilliant and shocking slice of
modern metropolitan life.
After a bomb destroys a railway carriage, the
four survivors repair to the villa of one Mrs
Delahunty, a writer of romance novels, a
woman with a past. The other survivors are
an aging British general, a young German
man and Aimee, an American girl orphaned
in the blast.
As these four strangers recover in Umbria's
countryside and become friends, Aimee's
uncle, a cold and childless academic who
studies red carpenter ants, arrives to fetch
her. Mrs Delahunty, fearing this may not be
in Aimee's best interests, begins to drink
heavily, and fails in her attempts to connect
with Aimee's uncle. Meanwhile, a persistent
detective investigates the blast.
Australia, 1880s. After a brutal childhood at
the hands of the police and the subsequent
death of his father, sixteen year-old Ned Kelly
is imprisoned on the trumped up charge of
stealing a horse.
Emerging four years later, Ned is hardened
but vows to go straight. He works as a farmhand on the estate of an English land-owner,
while making money on the side as a bareknuckle boxer.
But the system is prejudiced against firstgeneration Irish immigrants, to the point that
when a police officer assaults Ned’s sister
Kate, it is Ned and his mother who are
charged with attempted murder.
Forced to go on the run, Ned is determined
to avenge his family and strike back at a
system that wrongs them all. He forms a
gang with his young brother, Dan and two
friends. Together, they cut a trail through the
Outback, holding up towns and robbing
banks while giving the police the run-around.
Ned's reputation as an invincible outlaw
grows. When the authorities bring in the
formidable Superintendent Hare and an
army of police to catch Ned Kelly, Ned plans
an extraordinary showdown. It is an event
which will cement his status as the
legendary revolutionary hero of the
Australian underclass forever.
DIRECTOR: Roger Michell
2003. 35mm. 111 min
Production Company: Free Range Films,
36 Marshall Street, London, W1V 1LL, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7287 5110 fax: +44 (0)20
7287 3770
UK Distributor: Momentum Pictures,
2nd Floor, 184-192 Drummond Street, London,
1100 fax: +44 (0)20 7383 0404
Producer: Kevin Loader
Executive Producers: Stephen Evans, Angus
Finney, Tracey Scoffield, David M Thompson
Screenwriter: Hanif Kureishi
Editors: Nicolas Gaster, Kim Gaster
Director of Photography: Alwin Kuchler
Production Designer: Mark Tildesley
Sound: Danny Hambrook, Tim Alban
Music: Jeremy Sams
Cast: Daniel Craig, Cathryn Bradshaw, Oliver
Ford Davies, Steven MacKintosh, Anne Reid
DIRECTOR: Richard Loncraine
2003. 35mm. 102 min 58 sec
Production Company: Canine Films, c/o HBO
Films London, Warner House, 98 Theobalds
Road, London, WC1X 8WB. tel: +44 (0)20 7984
5051 fax: +44 (0)20 7984 5052
Sales Agent: HBO Films London, Warner
House, 98 Theobalds Road, London, WC1X
8WB, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7984 5051
fax: +44 (0)20 7984 5052
email: margaret.gordon@hbo.com
Producers: Frank Doelger, Ann Wingate, M V
Pugini
Screenwriter: Hugh Whitemore from a novel
by William Trevor
Editor: Humphrey Dixon
Director of Photography: Marco Pontecorvo
Production Designer: Luciana Arrighi
Music: Claudio Capponi
Cast: Maggie Smith, Chris Cooper, Timothy
Spall, Ronnie Barker
Co-production
Funding: Canine Films, Panorama Films
Territories sold: All available except Australia,
New Zealand, Israel, South America
DIRECTOR: Gregor Jordan
2002. 35mm. 110 min
Production Company: Working Title Films,
Oxford House, 76 Oxford Street, London, W1N
9FD, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7307 3000
fax: +44 (0)20 7307 3001
UK Distributor: UIP, 12 Golden Square,
London, W1A 2JL, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20
7534 5200 fax: +44 (0)20 7534 5202
web: www.uip.com
Producers: Debra Hayward, Liza Chasin
Executive Producers: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner,
Tim White
Screenwriter: John Michael McDonagh
Editor: Jon Gregory ACE
Director of Photography: Oliver Stapleton
BSC
Production Designer: Steven Jones-Evans
Sound: Gary Wilkins
Music: Klaus Badelt
Cast: Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom, Naomi
Watts, Geoffrey Rush
Co-production
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Never Play with the
Dead
Craig is a college student with a business
plan. He and six friends have broken into a
derelict asylum to stage the party of the year
and get rich in the process. With DJ Lux on
the decks, Lee's spectacular light show and
sexy Victoria pouring the drinks, how can
they fail? But as the team set up things go
horribly wrong.
Sarah becomes convinced that they are not
alone, and as the panic rises the asylum
begins to take on a life of its own. Walls
disappear, then reappear and the group are
forced further and further into the
mysterious depths of the building, where
something ancient and sinister is waiting for
them.
DIRECTOR: Ray Kilby
Production Company: Mediabus Industries
Ltd, 46 Crispin Street, London, E1 6HQ,
+44 (0)20 7247 9684
email: production@screenpartners.com
Sales Agent: Centre Film Sales Ltd, 45 Cedar
Grove, Ealing, London, W5 4A5, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)20 8566 2388 fax: +44 (0)20 8566
2388
Producer: Natalie Herview
Executive Producer: Chris Dalton
Screenwriter: David Fedash
Editor: Marc Thornton
Director of Photography: Andy Martin
Production Designer: Susan Kaye
Sound: James Kenning, Ian Pickford
Music: Kevin Farrell
Cast: Mark Homer, Richard Harison, Louisa M
Haig
Territories sold: All available except Thailand
and Brazil
Nicholas Nickleby
Nine Lives
From one of Charles Dickens' most masterful
novels come some of his most unforgettable
characters, vibrantly and movingly brought
to life by a star-studded, award-winning cast.
When his father dies, young Nicholas' family
is left penniless, and he, his sister, and his
mother venture to London to seek help from
their wealthy Uncle Ralph. Unfortunately,
Ralph's intentions are less than benficent,
and the family is split apart.
Nicholas is sent to teach at Dotheboys Hall,
a squalid school for orphan boys run by the
cruel and abusive Wackford Squeers. Within
the dark, grim walls of Dotheboys, Nicholas
befriends a kindhearted and mistreated boy
named Smike, and together they run away,
setting off on an adventure to reunite the
Nickleby family and build a new home of
their own.
Tim plans to spend his 21st birthday at his
family’s Scottish estate with eight of his
closest friends. No-one minds that a
snowstorm has cut them off from the rest of
the outside world. Everything is set for the
perfect weekend, until one of the guests
stumbles across an old history of the house
with the power to unleash the horrors of
Scotland’s past.
The book tells the story of Murray, an old
Scot patriot murdered during the English
invasion. Intent on exacting bloody revenge
on the reunited English friends, Murray
posesses the body of each guest and turns
him into a murderer. It is survival of the
fittest as the friendships are pushed to the
limit. Only one will survive.
DIRECTOR: Douglas McGrath
2002. 35mm. 132 min
Production Company: Thin Man Films,
9 Greek Street, London, W1D 4DQ, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7734 7372 fax: +44 (0)20
7287 5228
email: info@thinman.co.uk
tel: +44 (0)20 7437 7766 fax: +44 (0)20 7734
2170
web: www.fox.co.uk
Producers: Simon Channing-Williams, John
Hart, Jeff Sharp
Executive Producers: Gail Egan, Michael
Hogan, Robert Kessel
Screenwriter: Douglas McGrath
Editor: Lesley Walker
Director of Photography: Dick Pope
Sound: Tim Cavagin
Music: Rachel Portman
Cast: Charlie Hunnam, Anne Hathaway,
Christopher Plummer, Jim Broadbent, Stella
Gonet
Co-production
DIRECTOR: Andrew Green
2002. 35mm. 85 min
Production Company: A & A Films, 1020
Pointwest, 116 Cromwell Road, London, SW7
4XN, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7341 0160
fax: +44 (0)20 7341 0169
email: aandafilms@yahoo.com
Sales Agent: Dream Entertainment Inc,
8489 West 3rd Street #1038, Los Angeles,
CA 90048, USA. tel: +1 323 655 5501
fax: +1 323 655 5603
email: dreamenter@aol.com
web: www.dreamentertainment.net
Producers: Giles Hattersley, Nik Korda
Executive Producer: Alexander Green
Screenwriter: Andrew Green
Editor: Paul Knight
Production Designer: Nick Palmer
Sound: Clive Derbyshire
Music: White Noise Entertainment
Cast: Paris Hilton, Lex Shrapnel, Amelia
Warner, Patrick Kennedy
Budget: £2 million
Funding: A&A Productions
Territories sold: All available except USA, Italy,
Mexico, Benelux
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Octane
One For The Road
One Last Chance
A Jeep travels along a night time freeway;
Senga Wilson is behind the wheel, tired,
drawn & tense. In the passenger seat is her
daughter Nat. There is a mother and
daughter tension in the air; Senga is starting
to fall asleep and Nat insists they pull over.
Just before they rejoin the freeway, Senga
stops at an ATM. Meanwhile Nat invites a
young girl backpacker into the car knowing it
will annoy her mother. Later, Nat’s father
rings to say Nat’s birthday gift has been left
behind and once again the two pull off the
freeway to wait for him.
The gift is tickets to a concert that Senga
has forbidden Nat to attend. The three have
a terrible fight and Nat screams at her and
runs. Senga sees Nat and a strange couple
climbing into an RV. She screams and
rushes after Nat, but it’s too late.
Senga runs to her Jeep and sets off after the
RV. Moments later the backpacker’s belt
tightens around her throat. In front of them a
silver fuel tanker suddenly brakes. The door
opens and the backpacker climbs out leaving
Senga slumped unconscious, blood dripping
from her temple.
One For The Road is a British anti-buddy
movie exploring the frailty and weakness of
male bonding. A black comedy, following the
lives of four men who meet on a
rehabilitation course for drink drivers who
have lost their licences.
Jimmy is young, ambitious and desperate to
sell his late father’s business; Paul has been
salesman of the year three times running;
Richard is a retired millionaire property
developer and Mark, likeable and honest, is a
marijuana dependant taxi driver come parttime philosopher.
Very quickly they realise the course is the
networking opportunity of a lifetime as Paul,
Mark and Jimmy plot to relieve Richard of
some of his wealth. However, unbeknown to
them, he is savvy to their plans and is always
one step ahead.
An innovative black comedy, the film pushes
the boundaries of digital video technology as
it follows the events of the week long course,
bonding over the idiocy of Role Play, the
battlefields of Paintball, nights of drinking
and impotent passion, and an end-of-course
celebration round the pool at the
millionaire’s mansion.
Tullybride is a one-horse town in the arseend of the Scottish Highlands. Nothing
much happens in Tullybridge, until three
friends, Fitz (Jamie Sives), Nellie (Iain
Robertson) and Seany (Kevin McKidd)
accidently find gold
This discovery triggers a series of
increasingly absurd and desperate events,
made worse when their foolproof
moneymaking scheme reaches the ears of
Harry (Jimmy Chisholm), Chairman of the
Curling Club and local Big Man.
DIRECTOR: Marcus Adams
2003. 35mm. 90 min
Production Company: Random Harvest
Pictures, Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath,
Buckinghamshire, SL0 0NH, England, UK. tel:
+44 (0)1753 783 900 fax: +44 (0)1753 630 651
email: films@randomharvest.co.uk
web: www.randomharvest.co.uk
Sales Agent: First Look Media / Overseas Film
Group, 8000 Sunset Boulevard, East
Penthouse, Los Angeles, CA 90046, USA. tel:
+1 323 337 1000 fax: +1 323 337 1037
email: info@firstlookmedia.com
web: www.firstlookmedia.com
8222 1000 fax: +44 (0)20 8222 1534
Producers: Alistair MacLean-Clark, Basil
Stephens
Executive Producers: Tim Smith, Melvyn
Singer, Carlo Dusi
Screenwriter: Stephen Volk
Editor: Trevor Waite
Production Designer: Max Gottlieb
Sound: Alistair Crocker
Music: Orbital, Simon Boswell
Cast: Madeleine Stowe, Norman Reedus, Bijou
Phillips, Mischa Barton, Jonathan Rhys-Myers
Budget: £8 million
Co-production
Funding: EIS, Section 48, Sale and Leaseback.
Luxembourg Subsidies
DIRECTOR: Chris Cooke
2003. 35mm. 96 min
Production Company: One for the Road Films,
Mappery Hall Drive, Nottingham, NG3 5EP,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7580 8182
fax: +44 (0)20 7580 8185
Producer: Kate Ogborn
Executive Producers: Peter Carlton, Paul
Trijbits, Robin Gutch
Screenwriter: Chris Cooke
Editor: Nick Fenton
Director of Photography: Nick Gordon Smith
Production Designer: Jason Carlin
Sound: Tim Barker
Music: Steve Blackman
Cast: Rupert Procter, Greg Chisholm, Mark
Davenport, Hywel Bennett, Julie Legrand
Budget: £680 000
Emmi, FilmFour Lab
Territories sold: All available except UK TV
DIRECTOR: Stewart Svaasand
2003. 35mm. 96 min
Production Company: Hero Film Productions
Ltd, 23-24 Greek Street, London, W1V 5LG,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7287 4060
fax: +44 (0)20 7287 4994
Sales Agent: Myriad Pictures, Cavendish
House, 51-55 Mortimer Street, London, W1W
8HJ, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7580 9200
fax: +44 (0)20 7290 0844
1100 fax: +44 (0)20 7383 0404
Producer: Anne Bats
Executive Producer: Dougray Scott
Screenwriters: Gill Humpherston, Stewart
Svaasand
Editor: St John O'Rourke
Director of Photography: Svein Krouel
Production Designer: Pat Campbell
Sound: Brian Milliken
Music: Donald Shaw
Cast: James Sives, Kevin McKidd, Iain
Robertson, Dougray Scott, Neve McKintosh
Co-production
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Feature Films
One Love
Owning Mahowny
Penetration Angst
One Love tells the tale of Kassa, a young
Rasta songwriter desperate to be heard and
Serena the lead singer in a church gospel
band. Two strangers from opposite sides of
the track socially, musically and religiously
until fate brings them together at a studio
where they are recording entries for a major
music competition with their respective
groups.
Serena’s encounter with Kassa leaves her
confused. She is overwhelmed by desire, but
also steeped in guilt as she is engaged to
Aaron, the gospel choir’s keyboardist. Kassa,
a man in love with his music, has also been
spell bound by Serena’s vocal and visual
beauty. He can’t get her out of his head and
despite the realities of their religious
differences he pursues what he knows to be
the impossible.
Meanwhile, Aaron has become suspicious of
Serena and Kassa’s relationship. Driven by
jealousy he plants drugs on Kassa and
informs the police. Kassa and Serena are
jailed but when she is bailed by her Father
she returns to the church only to discover
that Aaron framed Kassa.
With a few hours to the finals, Aaron is
arrested, and Kassa is released. Driven by
their eagerness to win the competition both
bands turn up at the concert venue. On
stage, Kassa, broken-hearted, cannot sing a
note. Serena comes to his rescue, surprising
him by singing his song. The two bands
come together to realise their one dream. As
the two very different groups come together
the final concert turns into a celebration of
one heart, one song and One Love.
Polite, mild-mannered Dan Mahowny is an
assistant bank manager with a head for
numbers, a knack for making decisions, and
a devastating appetite for gambling. He is
the unlikely hero who takes on two of the
financial institutions everyone loves to hate,
the bank and the casino, and, for a brief
while, he wins.
The most remarkable thing about this
phenomenal story of $10.2 million of
siphoned bank funds, staggering levels of
embezzlement, and millions upon millions of
dollars funnelled through the gambling
networks, is that its central character is
unphenomenal. He doesn’t gamble for
material wealth and he isn’t interested in the
glamorous perks casinos offer big spenders.
It never occurs to him to save any of his
winnings. He lives for the thrill of the bet.
And that thrill drives him to incredible
lengths of ingenuity and stamina. He is, in
the purest sense imaginable, an addict.
The backdrop of the story is 1982, deemed by
economists as the beginning of the
excessively profitable Reagan bull market.
Banking confidence is high and scrutiny is
low. This tidily overlaps with the world of
casinos, which are a stock exchange for the
libido. It is a limitless world based on win or
lose, where the win always seems within
reach, yet stretches to infinity.
In a small village, shy bookseller Dennis falls
in love with Helen, a nineteen year-old
student. Their relationship is troubled by the
fact that all men who get in close contact
with Helen suddenly disappear. Terrified,
Helen leaves the village and moves to
London.
After a while, she meets a decent young
policeman, who insists on marrying her, even
though he knows she doesn't want to get too
close to him. On their honeymoon they are
kidnapped by a couple of bank robbers – a
hapless Dennis and his new domineering
girlfriend. A black comedy about making
new friends and the fears concerned with
physical relationships.
DIRECTORS: Rick Elgood, Don Letts
2003. 35mm. 96 min
Production Company: Scala Productions,
15 Frith Street, London, W1D 4RE, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7734 7060 fax: +44 (0)20
7437 3248
email: scalaprods@aol.com
Producers: Bjern Eivino, Shelaagh Ferrell,
Yvonne Deutschmann, Ola K Hunnes
Executive Producers: Nik Powell, Finola
Dwyer, Paul Trijbits, Bjerg Veland
Screenwriter: Trevor Rhone
Editor: Jon Endre Merk
Director of Photography: John Christian
Rosenlund
Sound: Rosie Straker
Music: Simon Bass, Kleanthi Boutis
Cast: Vas Blackwood, Ky-Mani Marley, Cherine
Anderson, Idris Elba
Budget: US$2.4 million
Co-production
Norwegian Film Institute, Baker Street Media
Finance.
Territories sold: All except UK, Germany,
Benelux, Scandinavia (theatrical)
DIRECTOR: Richard Kwietniowski
2003. 35mm. 105 min
Production Company: Alliance Atlantis
Motion Picture Distribution, 175 Bloor Street
East, Toronto, Ontario, M4W 8R8, Canada.
tel: +1 416 967 1174 fax: +1 416 960 0971
email: charlotte.mickie@allianceatlantis.com
1100 fax: +44 (0)20 7383 0404
Producer: Seaton McLean
Executive Producer: Edward R Pressman
Screenwriter: Maurice Chauvet
Editor: Mike Munn
Director of Photography: Oliver Curtis
Production Designer: Taavo Soodor
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Minnie Driver,
Maury Chaykin, John Hurt
Co-production
Funding: Telefilm Canada, The Harold
Greenberg Fund, The Canadian Film or Video
Tax Credit
Spain, Poland, USA, Greece, Cyprus, Pan Latin
America, Australia, Scandinavia, Iceland,
Israel, Singapore, Portugal, Turkey, Middle East
DIRECTOR: Wolfgang Büld
Production Companies: Purple Orange Films,
10a Merton Road, London, SW18 1QY,
England, UK.
email: info@purpleorangefilm.com
web: www.purpleorangefilm.com
Co-production Company: Dark Black Films,
Lilienstrasse 32, D-20095, Hamburg, Germany.
tel: +49 49 33 06 90 email:
darkblackbueld@hotmail.com
Sales Agent, UK Distributor: Salvation Films,
3 Dewhurst House, Winett Street, London,
W1D 6JY, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7494
1186 fax: +44 (0)20 7287 0153
email: info@salvation-films.com
web: www.salvation-films.com
Producers: Nick P Coe, Wolfgang Büld
Screenwriter: Wofgang Büld
Director of Photography: Uwe Bohrer
Production Designer: Ian Courtney
Cast: Fiona Horsey, Paul Conway, Jaye
Macauley
Budget: $350 000
Co-production
Germany
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Feature Films
Photo Finish
A Place to Stay
The Principles of Lust
Photo Finish is a psychological drama of
double adultery, lust, betrayal and revenge.
When Joe Wilde's girlfriend leaves him for a
married man he spirals into a matrix of
devastated obsession.
Cynically seducing the vulnerable wife of his
hated rival, he cruelly manipulates her
affections into a tool of destruction and
revenge, dragging all of the quartet into his
nightmare. But the ultimate consequence of
his mad despair is even more lethal than he
could have imagined.
A tragic love story between a traveller and a
Gypsy woman, set against a backdrop of
rural prejudice, brought together by
mysterious crop formations appearing in the
magical landscape around them. A tale of
fate and human capacity for endurance in an
uncaring world.
The West Country is a part of England that
evokes ancient memories. The sacred land of
Stonehenge, crop circles and Ley-lines.
Along these ancient roads have come
strangers, itinerants and Gypsies. People
mistreated by society because of their beliefs
and values. A way of life where people come
before property and financial value, and
where others are judged by what they are
rather than what they look like or what they
have.
Choosing to flee the decay of the big cities,
hiding themselves away in woods and
secluded pieces of farmland, these travellers
live on the outskirts of an antagonistic
society.
A Place To Stay is a heartbreaking story of
star-crossed lovers, set in a magical
landscape that is all too quickly slipping
away. It is about the grandest and most
humble aspects of human life, about fate,
and how people manage to live in an
uncaring world by creating ideals by which
to live, and dreams to live for. It’s about
people, the planet and beyond.
The Principles Of Lust is an emotionally
charged drama about a man who must
choose between the love of his life and the
extreme temptations offered by his renegade
friend.
Paul (Alec Newman) falls in love with
Juliette (Sienna Guillory) and begins a
passionate affair. At the same time, he
befriends a charismatic and dangerous risktaker, Billy (Marc Warren), who exposes Paul
to a different side of life. When the initial fire
in Juliette and Paul’s relationship begins to
wane, Paul is torn between settling down
with her or following Billy on his quest for an
endless high.
DIRECTOR: Douglas McFerran
2003. 35mm. 94 min
Production Company: S Films, 28 Cathnor
Road, London, W12 9JA, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)20 8354 2154 fax: +44 (0)20 8743
6655
email: info@sfilms.org.uk
Producers: Christopher Simon, Douglas
McFerran
Screenwriter: Douglas McFerran
Editor: Adam Barton
Director of Photography: Leon Willis
Production Designer: John Roberts
Sound: Tom Thorley
Cast: Aidan Gillen, James Purefoy, Alexander
Staden, Collette Brown
DIRECTOR: Marcus Thompson
2002. 35mm. 105 min
Production Company: Hollywood Daze Motion
Pictures UK, 21 Cromwell Avenue, London,
W6 9LA, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 8748
2704
email: biggest@broadway78.freeserve.co.uk
Sales Agent: Firstupfilm International,
3 Sheldon Square, London, W2 6PS, England,
UK. tel: + 44 (0)20 7339 9000 fax: + 44 (0)20
7339 9017
email: andrewsr@wjbchiltern.com
web: www.firstupfilm.biz
Producer: Marcus Thompson
Executive Producer: Paul Springer
Screenwriter: Marcus Thompson
Editor: Marcus Thompson
Director of Photography: Mirko Beutler
Sound: Chris Ralli, Pinewood Studios
Music: Colm O'Maonlai, Les Mystere de Voix
Bulgares
Cast: Colm O'Maonlai, Amanda Ray-King
Budget: $3.5 million
Funding: British Tax and Private Equity
Territories sold: All available except Thailand
(DVD, Home video)
DIRECTOR: Penny Woolcock
2002. 35mm. 108 min
Production Company: Blast Films, 2 Imperial
Works, Perren Street, London, NW5 3ED,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7267 4260
email: mbaptiste@blastfilms.co.uk
web: www.blastfilms.co.uk
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7323 5151
fax: +44 (0)20 7323 1773
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7323 5151
fax: +44 (0)20 7631 3568
email: info@pathe-uk.co.uk
Producer: Madonna Baptiste
Screenwriter: Penny Woolcock
Editor: Brand Thumim
Director of Photography: Graham Smith
Production Designer: Joanne Baker
Sound: Stuart Bruce
Music: Andy Cowton
Cast: Alec Newman, Marc Warren, Sienna
Gullory
Co-production
Funding: FilmFour, Yorkshire Media Production
Agency
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Feature Films
The Prodigal
Promoted to Glory
Refuge
For years Ronnie McGann has controlled the
Birmingham underworld. Now one of his exemployees, Micky Harrington, is treading on
his patch. Vic Stevens, having just served a
prison sentence, yearns to start afresh.
Having a one-night stand, though, with a
mysterious woman turns out to be more than
he bargained for and soon Vic becomes the
‘pawn’ as gangland warfare threatens to
erupt. Will Vic survive and will he choose the
right side?
A contemporary film drama without a doctor,
lawyer or policeman in sight. This is a
moving, life-affirming and often humorous
tale of the power of love, loss and
redemption in the inner city.
Mike (Ken Stott), a homeless, threatening
drunk sees a vision among a throng of
Christmas shoppers. She's Annie (Lesley
Manville), a Salvation Army captain. He
lurches across the street to her and is hit by
a bus.
Miraculously he survives but apparently with
no memory of his past. All he remembers is
Annie and instantly falling in love.
Determined to turn his life around for her, he
commits himself to the detox centre that she
runs with her disapproving fiancé Major
Nigel Hurst (Kevin Whatley).
But in order to win Annie, Mike needs all the
determination, charm and cunning he can
muster. The path to true love is never easy,
and Mike's quest for Annie is a unique
odyssey with an ending both happy and not
so.
Refuge follows a couple who return to the
place they first met, exotic and seductive
Goa, in the hope that this holiday will lift
them out of the emotional and sexual
despondency that their relationship has
lapsed into. However, they remain trapped in
their pattern of social routine until their
encounter with a beautiful, enigmatic local
girl instigates a confrontation between
husband and wife, which uncovers secrets
that they had kept, not only from each other
but from themselves.
Refuge explores the ensuing emotional
lanscape while simultaneously calling into
question the nature of images by asking:
what are the truths behind the picture
postcard photographs that adorn our lives?
When confronted with these truths, do we
seek refuge in a time-frozen moment, a
photograph's hubris?
DIRECTOR: Ben Sampays
Production Company: Tiger Films Ltd,
55 Riding House Street, London, W1P 7PS,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 8317 7450
fax: +44 (0)20 7436 2290
email: tigermovies@aol.com
Sales Agent: Liberty International
Entertainment Inc, 1990 Westwood Boulevard,
Penthouse, Los Angeles, CA 90025, USA.
tel: +1 310 474 4456 fax: +1 310 474 7455
email: admin@libertyinteractive.com
web: www.libertyinteractive.com
Producer: Jon Morrey
Executive Producers: Bryan Raven, Anton
Hicks
Screenwriter: Paul Edwards
Editor: Daniel Veljanouski
Director of Photography: Gurmej Badesha
Production Designer: Igor Joveshki
Sound: Dave Hunt
Music: Dany Nussbaumer
Cast: Kevin Quinn, Jon-Paul Gates, Ivana
Basic, Peter Lochburn, Peter Stenson
Budget: £700 000
Funding: Private equity
Territories sold: All available except Brazil
(TV), Holland (TV)
DIRECTOR: Richard Spence
2003. 16mm. 90 min
Production Company: Talkback Thames,
1 Stephen Street, London, W1T 1AL, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7691 6422 fax: +44 (0)20
7691 6072
Sales Agent, UK Distributor: FID, 1 Stephen
Street, London, W1T 1AL, England, UK. tel:
+44 (0)20 7691 6000
email: david.ellender@freemantlemedia.com
Producer: Kenith Trodd
Executive Producer: Chris Parr
Screenwriter: Rob Heyland
Editor: Andrew John McCelland
Director of Photography: Peter Middleton
Production Designer: Rob Harris
Music: Carl Davis
Cast: Ken Stott, Lesley Manville, Kevin
Whately
Funding: ITV Television, Talkback Thames
DIRECTOR: Narain Jashanmal
Production Company: Park and 60 Second
Productions, 97b Lexham Gardens, London,
W8 6JN, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7799 692
542 fax: +44 (0)20 7370 5029
email: parkand60second@hotmail.com
web: www.refuge-film.com
Producer: Narain Jashanmal
Executive Producer: Micky Jashanmal
Screenwriter: Narain Jashanmal
Editor: Narain Jashanmal
Director of Photography: Tom Grubbs
Production Designer: Eveline Jashanmal
Sound: Paul Davies
Music: Paul Rose
Cast: Sarita Choudhury, Madelaine Potter,
Philip Tabor
Budget: £200 000
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Rosetta: Prima Donna
Assoluta
Milan, Italy, 1960. Rosetta Susannah Di
Curci, the feted colouratura soprano, is on
the brink of superstardom when doctors
diagnose a cancerous polyp on her vocal
chords. Rosetta chooses to have surgery but
knows she will never perform again in
public.
Forty years later, Rosetta lives as a recluse in
a city in the north of England. The spectre of
her career failure continues to haunt her.
Into Rosetta’s life comes Eddie Banks, owner
of a small independent record shop. Eddie
fights to maintain his prime-site business
against cut-throat competition and corrupt
estate agents.
Against the backdrop of their own personal
traumas, Eddie helps Rosetta to rediscover
her zest for life. In return, she shares her
unique personal philosophy with him.
Fearing she will become ill again, Rosetta
makes contact with the daughter she gave
up for adoption forty years ago.
DIRECTOR: K D Barker
Production Company: Patricia Grant, Water
on the Rock Ltd, Po Box 20, Leeds, LS8 2ZZ,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)113 265 0881
email: contact@wotr.co.uk
web: www.wotr.co.uk
Producer: K D Barker
Executive Producer: Roy Grierson
Screenwriter: K D Barker
Editor: Alan Bucknall
Director of Photography: Sally Kumar
Sound: Gordon Linton
Cast: Louise Graham, Helen Grady, Daniel
Martell Gardiner
Budget: Low
Feature Films
Senses
Shimkent Hotel
Senses is a feature length portmanteau film
divided into five parts. Each part is named
after its story's protagonist, is written and
directed by a different person, and set in a
different part of the world.
The stories are not directly related to one
another except through their thematic link to
one of the five senses, and, in the
portmanteau tradition, each story is very
different in terms of narrative, tone, and
adopted approach to its theme, crossing
genre boundaries to give Senses a broad and
rich appeal.
A French neurologist arrives at the run-down
Shimkent Hotel, Kazakhstan, where he
encounters a solitary young man, suffering
from amnesia and obviously deep in shock
after some catastrophe.
As they begin treatment, the patient slowly
recounts his story – a tale involving
industrial intrigue, cultural incomprehension,
a get-rich-quick scheme which goes horribly
wrong, and a desperate flight for survival
across the Pakistani border. Shot on
analogue video, with superb desolate
landscapes and settings. Utterly gripping
and very, very strange indeed.
DIRECTORS: Norma Nebot, John Marsala,
Jamie Palmer, Naruna Kaplan de Macedo,
Coke Ayala
Distribution: 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
Producers: Adam Coop, John Marsala,
Nathaniel McCullagh, Naruna Kaplan de
Macedo, Coke Ayala
Executive Producers: Lisa Marie Russo,
Rebecca O'Brien, Ben Gibson
Screenwriters: Norma Nebot, John Marsala,
Jamie Palmer, Naruna Kaplan de Macedo,
Coke Ayala,
Editors: Rachel Igel, Dan Sherwin, Tony
French, Mariko Montpetit, Davide Sordella
Directors of Photography: Nathanial Aron,
Andrés Garcés
Production Designers: John Marsala, JoAnn
Vara, Annemarie Woods, Alexandre Vivet,
Gabriel Rodriguez
Sound: Raphaël Mouterde, Rob Blake, Mick
Glossop, Mariko Montpetit, Maria Castro
Music: Raphaël Mouterde, Daniel Gareh, Marc
Teitler, Max Greenwood
Cast: Vanessa Earl, Bryonie Pritchard, Craig
Zisel, James G McCaffrey, Dominic Letts,
Jo Martin, Mahri Steenbock, Walter Dickerson,
Sole Villavicencio, Ignacio Hurtado
Funding: The London Film School and various
others
DIRECTOR: Charles de Meaux
2002. 35mm. 92 min
Production Company: Donaldson Polakoff
Productions Ltd, 8 Great James Street,
London, WC1N 3DA, England, UK. tel: +33 1
40 26 10 87 fax: +33 1 40 26 10 78
email: jgdonaldson@jgdonaldson.com
Producers: Gil Donaldson, Xavier Douroux
Screenwriter: Charles de Meaux
Editor: Charles de Meaux
Director of Photography: Charles de Meaux
Sound: Charles de Meaux
Music: Charles de Meaux, Vladimir Kardev,
Pierre Miksiloff
Cast: Yann Collette, Caroline Ducey, Romain
Duris, Thibault de Montalembert, Melvil
Poupaud
Budget: £750 000
Co-production
Territories sold: All available except France
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Feature Films
Shiner
Shootout
Sitting Ducks
Michael Caine stars as Billy Shiner Simpson,
a small time boxing promoter with big ideas.
In a crucial match which could lead to a
place in the world title fight, Billy pits his
only son Eddie 'Golden Boy' against Frank
Spedding's American champion Michael
'Mikey' Peck.
Billy is convinced his son was 'got at', but
before he can find out the truth a shot rings
out and Eddie falls dying to the ground. Billy
accuses enemies, friends and family, but the
real killer is not revealed until the shocking
and explosive final act.
It's the year 2002, it’s the film industry. Like
in many others, the power of the unions has
been halted. Anyone can call himself a
Director, Producer or a Cinematographer.
Shootout is an intelligent comedy and love
story about a group of young aspiring
filmmakers on the first day of their shoot,
who come together with one target in mind:
to get that crucial first shot out of the way
and into the can.
Set in the winter of 2002, at the height of
British media hysteria over the massive
influx of asylum seekers into the country,
Sitting Ducks is a comedy about a slightly
naïve group of Romany Gypsies who come to
London to escape the discrimination they
suffered in former Yugoslavia.
Through a twist of fate they find themselves
in the smart house of a television executive
and his ambitious wife. Events spiral out of
control when an ambitious Tory politician
gets involved.
DIRECTOR: John Irvin
Sales Agent: Storm Entertainment,
127 Broadway # 200, Santa Monica, CA 90401,
USA. tel: +1 310 656 2500 fax: +1 310 656
2510
email: storment95@aol.com
Producers: Geoffrey Reeve, Jim Reeve
Executive Producers: Laura Towinsky, Berry
Towinsky
Screenwriter: Scott Cherry
Editor: Jan Crafford
Director of Photography: Mike Molloy
Production Designer: Austin Spriggs
Music: Dennis Muirhead
Cast: Michael Caine, Martin Laudau, Frances
Barber, Frank Harper, Andy Serkis
DIRECTOR: Maikl Hap
2003. 35mm. 82 min
Production Company: Archistudio Ltd,
70 Millmead Business Centre, Millmead Road,
London, N17 9QU, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20
8365 9081 fax: +44 (0)20 8365 9129
email: archistudio@btclick.com
web: www.archistudio.org.uk
Sales Agent, UK Distributor: Poseidon Film
Distributors Ltd, Hammer House, 117 Wardour
Street, London, W1V 3TD, England, UK. tel:
+44 (0)20 7734 4441 fax: +44 (0)20 7437 0638
email: poseidon@poseidonfilms.com
web: www.poseidonfilms.com
Producer: Maikl Hap
Executive Producer: Joe Dunton
Editor: Ben Lester
Director of Photography: Dan Rack
Production Designer: Tara Ward
Sound: Anthony Standring
Music: Graham Slack
Cast: Caroline Burns Cooke, Suzy Harvey, Tina
D'Cruz, Deanne Pepperrell, Maria Mortensen
Budget: £495 000
DIRECTOR: Gerald Fox
2003. 35mm. 83 min
Production Company: Synergy Films London
Ltd, 29 Linden Gardens, London, W2 4HH,
+44 (0)20 7221 3247
email: geraldmfox@aol.com
web: www.safilms.com
Sales Agent: Giants Entertainment Inc, 10600
Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 501, Los Angeles,
California, CA 90024, USA. tel: +1 310 475
7510 fax: +1 310 475 7470
email: dadon@giantsfilms.com
web: www.giantsfilms.com
Producers: Gerald Fox, Jacky Fox
Executive Producer: Nick Adam
Screenwriters: Gerald Fox, Alice Bragg
Editor: Tony Webb
Director of Photography: Dave Meadows
Production Designer: Gerald Fox
Music: Dado Jehan
Cast: Annabel Mullion, Serge Soric
Budget: £100 000
Territories sold: UK and some others
available.
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Skagerrak
Skagerrak is the story of being struck by
happiness when you least expect it. In their
late twenties and tired of partying their way
around the world, Danish Marie and Irish
Sophie come ashore in Northern Scotland.
After another drunken night they are soon
parted from their accumulated cash. Out of
money and out of luck, ambitious Sophie
pressures Marie into accepting a lucrative
job as surrogate mother.
Months later, Marie finds herself alone, life
having taken a dramatic turn. Heavily
pregnant, and waiting to terminate her
pregnancy, she's on the run from the future
parents, searching for Sophie's old flame,
Ken. In case of mistaken identity, Marie ends
up hiding with three strange men in a seedy
Glasgow garage. But then happiness strikes
again.
DIRECTOR: Soren Kragh-Jacobson
2003. 35mm. 104 min
Production Company: Umbrella Productions,
74 Victoria Crescent Road, Glasgow, G12 9JN,
Scotland, UK. tel: +44 (0)141 587 6146
fax: +44 (0)141 587 6147
email: umbrella.productions@virgin.net
Co-production Company: Nimbus Films,
Filmbyen 20, Hvidore, DK-2650, Denmark. tel:
+45 36 34 09 10 fax: +45 36 34 09 11
email: balder@nimbusfilms.dk
Sales Agent: Trust Film Sales, Filmbyen 12,
Hvidovre, DK- 2650, Denmark. tel: +45 36 86
87 88 fax: +45 36 77 44 48
email: trust@trust-film.dk
web: www.trust-film.dk
Producers: David Muir, Lars Bredo Ranbek,
Bo Erhardt
Screenwriters: Soren Kragh-Jacobson, Anders
Thomas Jensen
Editor: Valdis Oskarsdottir
Director of Photography: Eric Kress
Production Designer: Anders Engelbrecht
Sound: Peter Brill, Hans Moller
Music: Jacob Groth
Still Photographer: Ole Kragh Jacobsen
Cast: Iben Hjejle, Martin Henderson, Brinagh
Gallagher, Ewan Bremner, Gary Lewis
Budget: £3 million
Co-production
Funding: BBC Films, Scottish Screen,
Glasgow Film Office, Danish Film Institute,
Egmont Entertainment, Film I Vast Sweden
Territories sold: All available except Nordic,
Germany, Spain
Feature Films
Small Cuts (Petites
Coupures)
Petite Coupures tells the story of Bruno
(Daniel Auteuil), a communist newspaper
journalist suffering a mid-life crisis. Torn
between his wife Gaëlle (Emmanuelle Devos)
and his young girlfriend Nathalie (Ludivine
Sagnier), his political beliefs battered by the
wind of history, Bruno seems to have lost his
bearings. After responding to a call for help
from his uncle (Jean Yanne), who is fighting
a losing battle for re-election as the
communist mayor of a small town near
Grenoble, Bruno gets lost in a dark forest.
There he meets Béatrice (Kristin Scott
Thomas), who does nothing to stop him
getting even more lost.
DIRECTOR: Pascal Bonitzer
2002. 35mm. 95 min
Production Company: Axiom Films Limited,
12 D'Arblay Street, London, WIV 3FP, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7287 7720 fax: +44 (0)20
7287 7740
email: mail@axiomfilms.co.uk
Sales Agent: Flach Pyramide International,
5 rue Chevalier de St George, 75008 Paris,
France. tel: +33 1 42 96 02 20 fax: +33 1 40 20
05 51
web: www.flach-pyramide.com
UK Distributor: Artificial Eye, 14 King Street,
London, WC2E 8HN, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)20 7240 5353 fax: +44 (0)20 7240 5242
email: info@artificial-eye.com
web: www.artificial-eye.com
Producers: Jean-Michel Rey, Philippe Liégeois
Executive Producer: Piere Wallon
Screenwriter: Pascal Bonitzer
Editor: Suzanne Koch
Director of Photography: William
Lubtchansky
Production Designer: Emmanuel de
Chauvigny
Sound: Frédéric Ullmann
Music: John Scott
Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Pascale Bussiéres,
Ludivine Sagnier, Kristin Scott-Thomas
Co-production
Solid Air
When the stakes are this high, does anyone
win? A thrilling and complex drama, Solid
Air is set in the twin worlds of litigation and
high-stakes gambling. Robert Houston,
facing an untimely death from asbestosis,
finds the courage to pursue a civil case
against his former employers.
To the chagrin of Nicola Blyth, his young,
ambitious lawyer, Robert rejects an out-ofcourt settlement offer. As the case becomes
ever more protracted, Robert’s suspicions
are aroused with the sudden arrival of Robert
Junior, his only son and a compulsive
gambler, who soon takes up his father’s
quest for justice.
Beneath Junior’s altruism lies an
uncomfortable truth. In debt and on the run
from wealthy businessman, John Doran,
following a disastrous loss at the poker
table, Junior’s only hope is to get his hands
on his father’s settlement. But hope, like
luck, is in short supply. As father and son set
out to find a witness to testify on Robert’s
behalf, suspicion turns to torment as Robert
learns of his son’s true motives. As the story
unfolds, the true cost of Junior’s betrayal is
revealed.
DIRECTOR: May Miles Thomas
2003. 35mm. 113 min
Production Company: Elemental Films,
37 Garnethill Street, Glasgow, G3 6QD,
Scotland, UK. tel: +44 (0)141 332 0375
fax: +44 (0)141 332 0375
email: owen@elementalfilms.co.uk
web: www.elementalfilms.co.uk
1100 fax: +44 (0)20 7383 0404
Producer: Owen Thomas
Screenwriter: May Miles Thomas
Editor: May Miles Thomas
Production Designer: Jacqueline Smith
Music: Bobby James Henry
Cast: Maurice Roeves, Brian McCardie, Kathy
Kiera Clarke
Budget: £850 000
Funding: Scottish Screen, Glasgow Film Fund
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Feature Films
Song for a Raggy Boy
Strayed (Les Egares)
Suzie Gold
Ireland, 1939. Franklin, a former soldier is
appointed by the principal as the lay teacher
to St. Jude's Reformatory School, although
the Bishop and most of the other Brothers
are against it. Franklin's teaching methods
are diametrically opposite to the Brothers'.
While the latter revert to verbal and physical
abuse, Franklin tries to build up a
relationship based on trust with the boys,
discovers their hidden talents and teaches
them to read and appreciate poetry. Mercier,
an exceptionally talented boy helps him with
this task.
Intercut with the development of Franklin's
relationship with the boys is a series of
flashbacks of Franklin's involvement in the
Spanish Civil War, where he falls in love with
Rosa who gets killed as a war prisoner.
Some weeks into the New Year, Brother
John, intent on finding out why Franklin has
decided to come and teach at St. Jude's,
beats Mercier to death.
Franklin resigns. But as he stands on the
school yard, one of the boys recites a poem
that Franklin taught him. The boy then runs
to Franklin and hugs him. Franklin knows he
can never leave St. Jude’s.
June, 1940. The Germans are on their way to
Paris. Odile gives in to general panic and
finds herself and her two children in the
Exodus Road. She's a school teacher who
sincerely believes in quality education. Her
son Philippe is top of his class, he's twelve.
His little sister Cathy knows they are going
south. The German Stuka attack and bomb
the column of refugees. Within a few
minutes, Odile and her children have lost
everything. A strange young boy with shaved
hair, dressed like a clown, drives them into
the countryside. His name is Yvan and he's
sixteen.
What should they do, go through the forest
or go back on the bloody road? Yvan finds a
large abandoned house and they move in.
Who is this young boy who lies consistently,
but takes care of them? Odile instinctively
doesn't trust him, but the kids love him. The
encounter with the young boy opens for
Odile, a strange parenthesis during the
wildness of the war.
As Suzie Gold’s sister prepares to get
married, it seems only natural that Suzie’s
thoughts should turn to the state of her own
love-life. While her doting but dysfunctional
family desperately want her to be happy –
preferably by finding a good Jewish boy to
settle down with – Suzie meets Darren, a boy
from work. But the relationship sours when
Suzie finds herself unable to bring him
home, worried that he won’t match up to her
family’s exacting (double) standards.
Heartbroken, Suzie begins to question her
role in life, and develops a need to break
away from the family and traditions that
have always defined her. She is soon
approached by perfect son-in-law material
who quickly assumes, as does her family,
that she will marry him. While the pressure
builds for her to tie the knot, Suzie is forced
to decide what she really wants out of life –
and whether to follow the path laid out for
her, or to make her own way through
uncharted territory.
A romantic comedy set in the vibrant world
of North London, full of humour, spunk and
warmth, Suzie Gold conveys the universal
struggle of finding one’s true identity amidst
social conventions and family tradition.
DIRECTOR: Aisling Walsh
2003. 35mm. 85 min
Production Company: Subotica Entertainment
Ltd, 55 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin 2, Ireland.
tel: +353 (0)1 662 2226 fax: +353 (0)1 662
2227
email: subotica@indigo.ie
Sales Agent: Lolafilms UK Ltd, 15 Tilton
Street, London, SW6 7LP, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)20 7381 0665 fax: +44 (0)20 7681
1204
Producers: Tristan Lynch, Dominic Wright
Executive Producer: John McDonnell
Screenwriters: Aisling Walsh, Patrick Galvin,
Kevin Murphy
Editor: Bryan Oates
Director of Photography: Peter Robertson
Production Designer: John Hand
Music: Richard Blackford
Cast: Aidan Quinn, Iain Glen, Marc Warren,
Simone Bendix
Co-production
Funding: Ireland, UK, Denmark, Spain
Territories sold: All available except
Australasia, Benelux, Colombia, Ecuador,
Greece, Hong Kong, Iceland, Ireland, Israel,
Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, Portugal, Scandinavia,
Spain, Venezuela
DIRECTOR: André Téchiné
2003. 35mm. 95 min
Production Company: Spice Factory,
81 The Promenade, Peacehaven, Brighton,
East Sussex, BN10 8LS, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)1273 585 275 fax: +44 (0)1273 585
304
Sales Agent: Wild Bunch, 47 rue Dumont
D'Urville, 75116 Paris, France. tel: +33 1 44 43
43 84 fax: +33 1 44 43 43 03
Producers: Jean-Pierre Ramsay-Levi, Michael
Cowan
Executive Producers: Adam Betteridge, David
Rogers, Pierre Heros
Screenwriters: Gilles Taurand, Andrew
Téchiné
Editor: Martine Giordano
Director of Photography: Agnès Godard
Production Designer: Zé Branco
Sound: Jean-Raphaël Dedieu
Music: Phillipe Sarde
Cast: Emmanuelle Beart, G Leprice-Ringu,
G Ulliel
Co-production
DIRECTOR: Ric Cantor
2002. 35mm. 93 min
Production Company: Greenwolf Films,
1-2 Old Barrack Yard, London, SW1X 7NP,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7663 6469
fax: +44 (0)20 7663 6364
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7323 5151
fax: +44 (0)20 7323 1773
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7323 5151
fax: +44 (0)20 7631 3568
Producer: Rebecca Green
Screenwriters: Ric Cantor, Carry Franelin, Lisa
Ratner
Editor: Mike Ellis
Director of Photography: Daf Hobson
Production Designer: Amanda McArthur
Sound: Tony Dawe
Music: James Hyman
Cast: Summer Pheonix, Leo Gregory, Ashley
Powell
Budget: £5 million
Funding: Inside Track, Pathe, UK Film Council,
Sky, Isle of Man Film and Television Fund
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Feature Films
Telephone Detectives
This Little Life
Three Blind Mice
It is the last episode of the TV game show
Telephone Detectives. When murder
becomes entertainment the drive for high
ratings tip a small cable show into the world
of the psychopath. A viewer's video sets the
spectre of death loose in the studio. Are they
still playing the game or are they in the
hands of the killer? In a gameshow of
murder the viewers collect clues to win the
prize of a lifetime. In the final episode the
crew must collect the clues to win the prize
of life.
Luke is born prematurely weighing only one
pound and four ounces. He is too small to be
cradled in his mother's arms but can be held
in the palm of her hand. Everything possible
is done to keep him alive, but what does her
son want?
Luke's mother, Sadie, desperately wants him
to have a voice and, through her friendship
with a young boy, mother and son find a way
to talk.
A contemporary cyber-thriller, Three Blind
Mice tells the story of Thomas, a London
based computer programmer who, in his
spare time, visits ‘webcam’ sites – grainy
video portals into people’s lives.
As Thomas is visiting an online
acquaintance he accidentally witnesses her
brutal murder, and is hopelessly unable to
act in time to save her. When police
cybercrime investigator Claire is assigned to
the case, she works with Thomas to
eventually uncover a bizarre ring of murders
that have been organised to be viewed live
on the web. As Thomas' life spirals out of
control, he has to face the terrifying fact that
he could well be the next victim.
DIRECTOR: Mark Reynaud
Production Company: Mediabus Industries
Ltd, 46 Crispin Street, London, E1 6HQ,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7247 3444
fax: +44 (0)20 7247 9684
email: production@screenpartners.com
Sales Agent: Centre Film Sales Ltd, 45 Cedar
Grove, Ealing, London, W5 4A5, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)20 8566 2388 fax: +44 (0)20 8566
2388
Producer: Natalie Herview
Executive Producer: William Mariani
Screenwriters: Andrew Walsh, Sven Hughes
Editor: Mark Thornton
Director of Photography: Chris Morry
Production Designer: Hugh Durrant
Sound: James Kenning
Music: Kevin Farrell
Cast: Daniel Hill, Anthony Biggs, Shona
Lindsay
Territories sold: All available except Thailand,
Brazil, Russia
DIRECTOR: Sarah Gavron
Production Company: Common Features,
5 Charlotte Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1
4XF, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)191 261 8808 fax:
+44 (0)191 261 8809
email: commonfeatures@compuserve.com
Sales Agent: BBC Worldwide, Room E224,
80 Wood Lane, London, W12 0TT, UK.
tel: +44 (0)20 8433 2261 fax: +44 (0)20 8433
3944
email: helen.jackson@bbc.co.uk
Producer: Stewart MacKinnon
Executive Producers: David M Thompson,
Paul Trijbits
Screenwriter: Rosemary Kay
Editor: Bill Diver
Director of Photography: David Katznelson
Production Designer: David Munns
Cast: Kate Ashfield, David Morrissey, Peter
Mullan
BBC Films
DIRECTOR: Mathias Ledoux
2002. 35mm. 98 min
Sales Agent: Beyond Films & Beyond
Distribution, 22 Newman Street, London, W1T
IPH, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7636 9611
fax: +44 (0)20 7636 9614
web: www.beyond.com.au
Producers: Guillaume Godard, Maryvonne Le
Meur
Executive Producers: Baker St Media Finance,
Keith Evans, Emma Hayter
Screenwriters: Mikael Olivier, Raymond
Clarinard
Editor: Jennifer Auge
Director of Photography: Stephane Leparc
Production Designer: Ian Watson
Sound: Bridget Driscoll, Alan O'Duffy
Cast: Edward Furlong, Emilia Fox, Chiwetel
Ejiofor, Peter Wright, Ben Miles
Co-production
Funding: UK/French Co-production
Territories sold: All available except Bulgaria,
Greece, CIS/Baltic States, Iceland, USA,
Canada, Japan, Asia, Thailand, Portugal,
Australia, New Zealand, Benelux, South Africa,
Scandinavia, Turkey, Israel, Taiwan, Former
Yugoslavia, Germany.
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Feature Films
To Kill a King
Sir Thomas Fairfax (Dougray Scott), though
aristocratic by birth, commanded the
Parliamentary armies during the English
Civil Wars. In the aftermath of years of
bloodshed and chaos, Fairfax found himself
increasingly stranded between his loyalty to
the revolutionary cause of his comrade
Oliver Cromwell (Tim Roth) and the loyalty
he owed to his wife Lady Anne (Olivia
Williams) and their shared class. Cromwell’s
determination to change the face of English
society led directly to the Execution of King
Charles I – an act of treachery that Fairfax
was unable to condone.
DIRECTOR: Mike Barker
2002. 35mm. 102 min
Production Company, Sales Agent: Hanway
Films, 24 Hanway Street, London, W1 IUH,
+44 (0)20 7290 0751
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7323 5151
fax: +44 (0)20 7631 3568
Producer: Kevin Loader
Executive Producers: Tony Miller, Peter
Watson, Paul Webster
Screenwriter: Jenny Mayhew
Editor: Guy Bensley
Director of Photography: Eigil Bryld
Production Designer: Sophie Becher
Sound: David Crozier
Music: Richard G Mitchell
Cast: Tim Roth, Dougray Scott, Olivia Williams
Territories sold: Contact Hanway Films
The Tulse Luper
Suitcases: Part 1 – The
Moab Story
The film covers some sixty years of recent
history from 1928 when Uranium was
discovered, to the collapse of the Berlin Wall
in 1989.
Tulse Luper is caught up in a life of prisons
using his prison time inventing projects and
and engaging with his jailers in all manner
of plots and adventures. Luper’s reputation
as a writer and project-maker grows and a
Luper Symposium and Exhibition is held in
New York. The central exhibit of the
conference is a collection of 92 suitcases
that Luper had supposedly been associated
with in his travels and prisons. Over the
years, the suitcases come to light all over the
world. On the last evening of the Luper
Conference, suitcase 92 – is opened.
DIRECTOR: Peter Greenaway
2003. HD. 127 min
Production Company: Kasander Productions,
Goldcrest Postproduction Facilities, Room 203,
65-66 Dean Street, London, W1D 4PL,
+44 (0)20 7437 3903
email: kasander@kasanderfilm.nl
web: www.kasanderfilm.nl/
www.tulselupernetwork.com
Sales Agent: Fortissimo Films Sales, Veemarkt
77-79, 1019 DA Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
tel: +31 (0)20 627 3215 fax: +31 (0)20 626 1155
email: info@fortissimo.nl
web: www.fortissimo.nl
UK Distributor: Tartan Films, Atlantic House,
5 Wardour Street, London, W1D 6PB, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7494 1400 fax: +44 (0)20
7439 1922
email: info@metro-tartan.co.uk
web: www.metro-tartan.co.uk
Producer: Kees Kasander
Screenwriter: Peter Greenaway
Editor: Elmer Leupen
Director of Photography: Reinier Van
Brummeler
Production Designers: Marton Agh, Billy
Lelieveld, Pirra Bettina Schmidt
Music: Borut Krzisnik
Cast: JJ Feild, Steven Mackintosh, Caroline
Dhavernas, Scot Williams, Drew Mulligan
Co-production
Funding: UK, Spain, Italy, Russia, Hungary
and Germany
Territories sold: All available except USA,
France, Germany, Australia, Japan
Twisted
Jamie and Jody are identical twin brothers.
They not only share their appearance, they
also share Candy, Jody’s high-school sweetheart. Another thing the twins share is a
passion for killing; their preference being
high-school students, people closer to their
own age.
Jamie dreams up innovative ways to market
himself and his brother to the media.
However he is quick to learn that they need a
reason for their extracurricular activities. The
reason? One Vincent Fox, Hollywood action
star. Who better to blame? Who better to kill?
After a number of killings, Kristina, Candy’s
confidente, gets suspicious. The twins kill
Kristina rather unceremoniously. Candy
decides to pay the twins a social call, only to
witness her boyfriends' decapitating her best
friend.
Jamie and Jody kidnap Vincent Fox and take
him to a high-school party. The police show
up, as does the media; Jamie demands that
a news crew documents the last moments of
Vincent Fox. The rules are pretty simple –
“We’re going to kill Vincent Fox live on TV!”
DIRECTOR: Nicholas Ralph
Production Company: No Logo Films, Unit 2,
Arley Hill, Cotham, Bristol, BS6 SPR, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)117 373 0624
email: nologofilms@yahoo.co.uk
Producer: Felix O'Keefe
Executive Producer: Jon Seven
Screenwriter: Matthew Lucey
Editor: Edward Chung
Director of Photography: Dermot Fontain
Production Designer: Aimee Woods
Sound: Adam Rounds
Music: Dan Clark
Cast: David Money, Paul Money, Melina
Ferridra
Budget: £50 000
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Feature Films
The Ultimate Truth
The Virgin Of Liverpool
What a Girl Wants
Jeda, a feckless young Australian, lives in
rural Hampshire with his girlfriend Stacey.
His daily routine if cheap beer and bad telly
is alarmingly disrupted by a chance
confrontation with the arrogant and middleclass Monty.
He finds that he must prove his own worth to
Stacey, Monty and the world and realises
that the best way to achieve this is to start
his own political party. The film then charts
his strange and hilarious journey, the
eccentric characters he meets and the
ludicrous situation in which he and his
friends find themselves.
Eventually Jeda finds success, but of a kind
he did not expect. Will Jeda keep Stacey?
Will he confront his inner demons? Will he
save the world? Can he get out of bed?
Joanne Conlon’s local church are replacing
their statue of the Virgin Mary. Joanne is
appalled as her grandmother claims she
once saw this statue cry. She takes the
Madonna home. But her father, Frank, has
just been sacked. Joanne’s mother, Sylvia
becomes an instant success as a bingo
caller, but Frank is furious – shouldn’t he be
the breadwinner?
Joanne’s Aunt Doreen places the statue
inside her chip shop. That evening the statue
cries once more. Now people come from
miles to see the miracle! The local priest
offers to take the statue back home. It
doesn’t stay in the church long. When the
back of the statue’s head comes off a
sponge falls out. Doreen had “encouraged”
the Virgin to cry so she could sell more
chips!
Sylvia is offered a singing assignment, but
Frank forbids it. His anger and jealousy boil
over. He throws the statue into the Mersey.
Sylvia jumps in after it. Frank jumps in to
save his wife, forgetting he can’t swim.
Husband, wife and Mother of God are all
saved by emergency helicopter.
Joanne finds the perfect home for the icon,
on the grave of her grandmother. As the
Virgin stands on the grave, the icon starts to
cry – all by herself!
Daphne, a free-spirited American 19 year-old
(Amanda Bynes) raised by her equally freespirited mother goes to England to establish
a relationship with her father (Colin Firth),
who turns out to be a prominent political
figure heavily involved in social customs.
Daphne must attempt to fit in with the social
requirements demanded of her, while also
getting to know her father, dealing with his
territorial other daughter, and maintaining
her own self-identity.
DIRECTOR: Nick Clark
Production Company: WYSIWYG Films Ltd,
36 Claydon Road, Horsell, Woking, Surrey,
GU21 4XE, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)1483 851
653
email: tom@wysiwygfilms.com
web: www.wysiwygfilms.com
Producer: Tom Swanston
Executive Producer: Tom Swanston
Screenwriters: Nick Clark, Tom Swanston
Editors: Nick Clark, Tom Swanston
Director of Photography: Hugh Lambert
Production Designer: Tom Swanston
Sound: Justin Bryant
Music: James McIlwraith
Cast: Keir Howeld, Jackson Wright, William
Gregory, Jonathan Rhodes, Keeley Mills
Budget: £33 000
DIRECTOR: Lee Donaldson
2003. 35mm. 91 min
Production Company: The Mob Film Co,
10-11 Great Russell Street, London, WC1B
3NH, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7580 8142
fax: +44 (0)20 7255 1721
email: mail@mobfilm.com
web: www.mobfilm.com
Sales Agent: Senator International, 8666
Wilshire Boulevard, Beverley Hills, CA 90211,
USA. tel: +1 310 360 1441 fax: +1 310 360
1447
email: jd@senatorentertainment.com
Producers: Andrew Boswell, Vadim Jean
Screenwriter: Gil Brailey
Editors: Sean Barton, Kristina Hetherington
Director of Photography: Jakob Ihre
Production Designer: Ricky Eyres
Sound: Mike Lax, Tommy Hair
Music: David Hughes
Cast: Ricky Tomlinson, Johnny Vegas, Imelda
Staunton
Co-production
Funding: Senator Entertainment
Territories sold: All available except Germany
and Spain
DIRECTOR: Dennie Gordon
2002. 35mm. 105 min
+44 (0)20 7984 5231
Producers: Denise DiNori, Bill Gerber, Hunt
Lowry
Executive Producers: E K Gaylord, Alison
Greenspan, Casey La Scala
Screenwriters: Jenny Bicks, Elizabeth
Chandler, William Douglas Home
Editor: Chuck McClelland
Director of Photography: Andrew Dunn BSC
Production Designer: Michael Carlin
Music: Rupert Gregson-Williams
Cast: Amanda Bynes, Colin Firth, Kelly
Preston, Anna Chancellor, Jonathan Pryce
Co-production
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Feature Films
Who Can I Turn To?
Set in a city like London. Tony is the guy all
the guys want to be like and all the girls
want to sleep with. Nearing forty and still
dealing, ducking and diving, Tony hides a
secret and it is not until his girlfriend
discovers that she is HIV positive that Tony’s
world starts to come in on him.
Tony wonders, in a world full of friends, who
can he turn to? We realise that by telling
friends and those around you that are close
you might be surprised at the positive
response you may receive, even from the
most unexpected quarters.
We watch a circle of friends fall apart and
reunite to a finale where tragedy strikes. We
see a lost soul feel that there is no hope. Too
late for them, but hopefully not too late for
you.
DIRECTOR: Andy Issac
2003. 35mm. 90 min
Production Company: The Film Exchange, 7
Cornwall Crescent, London, W11 1PH,
(0)20 7792 9802
email: andy@thefilmexchange.biz
Producer: Andy Issac
Screewriter: Andy Issac
Editor: Tanya Throulia
Director of Photography: Nic Lawson
Sound: Roger Johnson
Music: Jonathan Paxman
Cast: David Easter, Graham Kent, Geraldine
Gardner, Lindsay Carr, Kate Loustan
Wilbur (Wants to Kill
Himself)
Wilbur wants to kill himself, but is yet to
succeed. Even though he has a unique
magnetism, especially with the ladies, his
wit and charm can't disguise his pessimism.
Quite contrary to his younger brother,
Harbour who is an incurable optimist, and
providing for Wilbur's happiness is his
purpose in life. These two eccentric brothers
in their 30's live in Glasgow, where they have
inherited a dilapidated bookshop, the only
memory of their recently deceased father.
After yet another failed suicide attempt
Harbour convinces Wilbur to move in with
him in the apartment above the book-shop.
Instead of Wilbur, Harbour finds love in the
shape of shy and beautiful single mother
Alice, who works at night cleaning the
hospital, where she collects books left by the
patients, which she then sell at the book
shop.
Soon Alice and her young daughter Mary
move into the book-shop with Harbour and
Wilbur, and together the four of them
discover a little happiness in life; Alice
comes out of her shell, Mary finds a family
and Wilbur begins to find some meaning in
life. Although Harbour has never been
happier, he carries a dark secret, which
cannot be hidden forever.
DIRECTOR: Lone Scherfig
2003. 35mm. 109 min
Production Company: Zentropa Productions,
Avedoer Tvaervej, 10, Hvidovre, 2650, Denmark
tel: +45 3678 0055 fax: +45 3678 0077
Sales Agent: Trust Film Sales, Filmbyen 12,
Hvidovre, DK- 2650, Denmark. tel: +45 36 86
87 88 fax: +45 36 77 44 48
email: trust@trust-film.dk
web: www.trust-film.dk
UK Distributor: Icon Film Distribution Ltd,
4th Floor, 180 Wardour Street, London, W1F
8FX, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7494 8100
fax: +44 (0)20 7494 8101
Producer: Sisse Graum Olsen
Executive Producer: Peter Aalbæk Jensen
Screenwriters: Lone Scherfig, Anders Thomas
Jensen
Editor: Gerd Tjur
Director of Photography: Jørgen Johansson
Production Designer: Jette Lehmann
Sound: Des Hamilton
Music: Joakim Holbek
Cast: Jamie Sives, Shirley Henderson, Adrian
Rawlins, Lisa McKinlay, Mads Mikkelsen
Co-production
Wondrous Oblivion
Eleven year-old David Wiseman is mad about
cricket but no good at it. He has all the kit
but none of the skill, and he’s a laughing
stock at school. So when a Jamaican family
move in next door and build a cricket net in
the back garden, David is in seventh heaven.
But this is 1960’s England, and when the
neighbours start to make life difficult for the
new arrivals, David’s Jewish family is caught
in the middle, and he has to choose between
fitting in and standing up for the new friends
who have turned his world upside down.
DIRECTOR: Paul Morrisson
2003. 35mm. 106 min
Production Company: APT Film & Television,
225a Brecknock Road, Tufnell Park, London,
N19 5AA, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7284
1695 fax: +44 (0)20 7482 1587
email: admin@aptfilms.com
web: www.aptfilms.com
+44 (0)20 7323 1773
1100 fax: +44 (0)20 7383 0404
Producer: Jonny Persey
Executive Producers: Michael Kuhn, Kevin
Loader
Screenwriter: Paul Morrison
Editor: David Freeman
Director of Photography: Nina Kellgren
Sound: Danny Hambrook
Music: Ilona Sekacz
Cast: Delroy Lindo, Emily Woof, Stanley
Townsend, Sam Smith
Funding: Qwerty Films
Australia
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The Wooden Camera
Young Adam
Two thirteen year-old boys – Madiba and
Sipho – play along the railway line in
Kayelitsha, a township close to Capetown. A
dead man is tossed from a passing train,
clutching an attaché case. Inside, the boys
discover a gun and a video camera. Sipho
takes the gun, Madiba the camera.
Madiba hides the camera within a makeshift
wooden box to avoid losing his new toy.
Through the lens, his everyday surroundings
take on a strange new beauty.
Sipho becomes a gang leader, operating out
of Capetown, accompanied by Madiba who
is more interested in filming luxurious city
life than crime.
Madiba films a young white girl, Estelle,
stealing a book from a bookstore, which she
gives him as she leaves. Estelle is from a
prominent white middle-class family. She’s
eager to embrace the new South Africa but
her family won’t allow her to do so.
Estelle often thinks of Madiba and he, too,
dreams of the white girl who held her hand
out to him. They reunite days later and a
strong friendship develops between them.
From the first steps of a young
cinematographer who changes the
perception of his township to the tragic
death of Sipho, The Wooden Camera tells
the story of a friendship between two
misunderstood kids, who want to give a
chance to the impossible.
Set in a steamy Glasgow of the early 1950’s,
the film focuses on the existential crisis of
Joe (Ewan McGregor), a rootless young
drifter who finds work on a barge owned by
the down-to-earth Les (Peter Mullan) and his
enigmatic wife Ella (Tilda Swinton). One
afternoon Joe and Les happen upon a corpse
of a young woman floating in the water.
Accident? Suicide? Murder?
As the police investigate the case and a
suspect is arrested, it becomes evident that
Joe knows more about the drowned woman
than he is letting on. Meanwhile, against the
background of this mysterious death and the
murder investigation, Joe and Ella embark
on an intimate and passionate affair.
DIRECTOR: Ntshavheni Wa Luruli
2003. 35mm. 90 min
Production Company: Tall Stories, Studio 40,
Clink Street Studio, 1 Clink Street, London,
SE1 9DG, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7357
8050 fax: +44 (0)20 7357 0889
email: ben@tallstories.net
Sales Agent: Fortissimo Films Sales, Veemarkt
77-79, 1019 DA Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
tel: +31 (0)20 627 3215 fax: +31 (0)20 626 1155
email: info@fortissimo.nl
web: www.fortissimo.nl
Producers: Olivier Delahaye, Ben Woolford
Executive Producers: Eddie Mbalo, Paul
Trijbits, Wouter Barendrecht
Screenwriters: Yves Buclet, Peter Speyer
Editor: Kako Kelber
Director of Photography: Gordon Spooner
Production Designer: Jean-Vincent Puzos
Sound: Chris Martin
Music: Phil Sawyer
Cast: Junior Singo, Dana Dragella, Innocent
Msibango, Jean-Pierre Cassel
Co-production
Funding: UK Film Council, Fond Sud, NFVF,
Fond ADC Sud, Fortissimo, The European
Commission
DIRECTOR: David Mackenzie
2002. 35mm. 98 min
Production Company: Recorded Picture
Company, 24 Hanway Street, London, W1P
9DD, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7636 2251
fax: +44 (0)20 7636 2261
email: info@recordedpicture.com
Sales Agent: Hanway Films, 24 Hanway
Street, London, W1 IUH, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)20 7290 0768 fax: +44 (0)20 7290
0751
98 Theobalds Road, London, WC1X 8WB , UK.
tel: +44 (0)20 7984 5222 fax: +44 (0)20 7984
5231
Producers: Jeremy Thomas, Alexandra Stone,
Nick O'Hagan, Jim Reeve
Associate Producers: Peter Watson, Stephen
Mallmann, Gillian Berrie
Screenwriter: David MacKenzie
Editor: Colin Monie
Director of Photography: Giles Nuttgens
Production Designer: Laurence Dorman
Sound: Colin Nicholson
Music: David Byrne
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton, Peter
Mullan, Emily Mortimer, Jack McElhone
Funding: UK Film Council - Premiere Fund,
Scottish Screen
Territories sold: Sold to Benelux, Baltic States,
Czech Republic, France, Greece. Available for
German Speaking, Switzerland, Middle East,
China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan,
Vietnam, SE Asia Satellite Rights, South
America, Australia, USA, Canada.
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Short Films
10 Again
4:37
A-Z
DIRECTOR: Simon Ellis
Beta SP. 10 min
DIRECTOR: Dan Turner
Digibeta. 9 min 15 sec
DIRECTOR: Anthony Ferretti
35mm. 6 min 28 sec
Production Company: Bub Ltd,
35 Ravensmore Road, Sherwood, Nottingham,
NG5 2AH, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)115 841
1258
email: simonellis@bubtowers.com
Sales Agent: Network Ireland TV, 23 South
Frederick Street, Dublin 2, Ireland. tel: +353 1
635 1942 fax: +353 1 670 1493
email: info@network-irl-tv.com
web: www.network-irl-tv.com
Production Company: Damyan Filmworks,
86 Vernon Road, Stratford, London, EI5 4DG,
+44 (0)20 8650 1385
email: amy@damyan-filmworks.com
web: www.damyan-filmworks.com
Production Company: 75 The Grove, Palmers
Green, London, N13 5LD, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)7957 482 402
email: anthonyferretti@hotmail.com
Producer: Jane Hooks. Screenwriters: Simon
Ellis, Gail Thornley. DoP: Simon Ellis.
Cast: Abigail Freeman, Ryan Bruce, Terry
Haywood, Luke Ellis, Jack Ellis.
Three pre pubescent tales about unrequited
love, unattainable cool and remarkable bras.
The 1:10 Scale Score
DIRECTOR: Tim Cunningham
Digibeta. 10 min
Producer: Amy Thornton. Screenwriter: Dan
Turner. DoP: Jorge Luengas. Cast: Luke Mably,
Liza Walker.
When something goes bump in the night,
most people have the sense to realise it’s
little more than the pipes or radiator settling
down. Jay, on the other hand, is a different
matter. One minor creak and he’s convinced
there’s someone in the house. Despite
girlfriend Amy’s reassurance, Jay’s not so
sure, and heads downstairs to investigate.
7%
DIRECTOR: Christophe Williams
Digibeta. 15 min
Production Company: Igloo, 5 Carlisle Street,
Soho, London, W1D 3BL, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)20 7734 0698 fax: +44 (0)20 7437
2260
email: giles@iglooprod.com
Producer: Rachel Robey. Screenwriter: Tim
Cunningham. Cast: Greg Chisolm, Tom
Charnock, Rupert Proctor, Steve Hillman.
Producer: Giles Skillicorn. Screenwriter:
Christophe Williams. DoP: Gary Shaw.
Cast: Darren Morfitt, Helen Latham, Rachael
Steggal.
420 Seconds of Love
DIRECTOR: Sarah Walker
Digibeta. 10 min
Production Company: 420 Seconds of Love,
172-176 High Street, Quarry Bank, West
Midlands, DY5 2AB, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)121 602 6020 fax: +44 (0)121 602 2774
email: whitecated@aol.com
Producers: Sarah Walker, Emma HeathcoteJames. Screenwriter: Sarah Walker.
DoP: Stephen Finberg. Cast: Elaine Tan, Brian
Brady, OT Fagbonele, Mathew Jones.
A short film about love and the diverse
relationships a girl encounters before finding
herself.
Told to deliver a briefcase to the central
London office by midday, things just go from
bad to worse for Steph, as she has the worst
day of her life.
Aftermath
DIRECTORS: Ashar Aftab, Steve Pool
Digibeta. 40 min
Sales Agent, UK Distributor: Short Circuit
Films, The Workstation, 15 Paternoster Row,
Sheffield, S1 2BX, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)114 221 0569 fax: +44 (0)114 249 2293
email: info@shortcircuitfilms.com
web: www.shortcircuitfilms.com
This is an off-beat comedy drama about
about a gang of professional thieves as they
plan an armoured car robbery using a very
badly made scale model. An exciting heist
story, complete with car chases, stunts and
explosions, is realised on the cheap, using
DV technology, cardboard models and
matchbox cars.
Producers: Sarah Holmes, Anthony Ferretti.
Screenwriter: Anthony Ferretti. DoP: Erik
Wilson. Cast: Mari-Claire Turley, Huggy Leaver,
Jake Wood, Ray Panthaki.
Turning the notions of physical strength
between the sexes on its head, 7% examines
issues of power, obsession and violence,
when one man’s fixation culminates in his
downfall.
91/2 Minutes
DIRECTORS: Josh Appignanesi, Misha
Manson-Smith
35mm. 10 min 10 sec
Production Company: Mercenary Films,
40 Newman Street, London, W1T 1QZ,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7631 3545
fax: +44 (0)20 7631 3546
email: studio@mercenaryfilms.co.uk
web: www.mercenaryfilms.co.uk
Sales Agent: Miramax International, Elsley
House, 24-30 Great Titchfield Street, London,
W1P 7AD, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7535
8300 fax: +44 (0)20 7535 8301
Producer: Ollie Madden. Screenwriters: Josh
Appignanesi, Misha Manson-Smith. DoP: Baz
Irvine. Cast: David Tennant, Zoe Telford,
Felicité Du Jev, Markus Markov.
A romantic comedy about two Londoners on
a blind date. Too busy to bother getting to
know each other, they fantasise a whole
relationship – meeting, sex, the split – in only
91/2 minutes.
Production Company: Aftab & Pool, 31/3
Fettes Row, Edinburgh, EH3 6RH, Scotland,
UK. tel: +44 (0)7903 223 095
email: steve_pool1@hotmail.com
Producers: Ashar Aftab, Steve Pool.
Screenwriters: Ashar Aftab, Mark Pool, Steve
Pool. Cast: Chris Lang, Riaz Ahmad, Khalid
Naqvi.
Trevor is a young white male who, in his
early 20’s, is struggling to find himself and
meaning in his life in a media dominated
world.
Alan
DIRECTOR: Darren Cliff
Production Company: Cliff Productions,
32 Lark Vale, Aylesbury, HP19 0YH, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)129 642 9278
email: darren@cliffproductions.co.uk
web: www.cliffproductions.co.uk
Producer: Darren Cliff. Screenwriters: Darren
Cliff, Adam Maslowski. DoP: Adam Maslowski.
Cast: Gary Reynolds, Martyn Kynsey, David
Bird.
With binoculars, a notepad and timetable at
the ready, Alan walks through a typical day
for a train enthusiast. He tells some
interesting stories of rare traction sightings
before revealing the harsh reality of being
terrorised at school, all because of his love
for trains. What eventually unfolds is a
lifelong secret of how he overcame the
bullying.
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All About the Wiggle
DIRECTORS: Richard Treister, Evar Morovy
Production Company: Treister-Morovy
Productions, 15 Adley Street, London, E5 0DY,
England, UK. tel: +44(0)20 7682 0109
email: richst@blueyonder.co.uk
Producers: Richard Treister, Evar Morovy.
DoP: Rick Treister. Cast: Anthony Barton,
Rebecca Probyn.
All About the Wiggle follows three clubbers –
Tara, Clive and Max, who flee an illegal rave
after it’s been raided by the police. The
machiavellian influence of Max soon plunges
all of their lives into chaos, self-doubt and
uncertainty.
All Fall Down
DIRECTOR: Peter Hedley
Digibeta. 22 min
Production Company: Paperweight Films,
31 Newbury Court, Bletchey, Buckinghamshire,
MK3 5NJ, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)1908 371
160
email: peter_hedley@yahoo.co.uk
Producer: Frederik Gunther. Screenwriter:
Peter Hedley. DoP: Ross McWhannel.
Cast: Elio Ruggieri, Alex Kelly, Stephen Sobal.
A love triangle with a twist, a broken lift and
a briefcase containing fifty grand. With time
running out, someone’s bound to get hurt.
But who?
All Over Brazil
DIRECTOR: David Andrew Ward
35mm. 10 min
Production Company: Posh Pictures,
420 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD,
Scotland, UK. tel: +44 (0)141 946 2693
fax: +44 (0)7974 081 934
email: mail@poshpic.com
web: www.poshpic.com
Sales Agent: SND Films, Po Box 15703, 1001
NE Amsterdam, The Netherlands. tel: +31 20
404 0707 fax: +31 20 404 0708
email: info@sndfilms.com
web: www.sndfilms.com
UK Distributor: Scottish Screen, 249 West
George Street, Glasgow, G2 4QE, Scotland,
UK. tel: +44 (0)141 302 1700 fax: +44 (0)141
302 1711
email: info@scottishscreen.com
web: www.scottishscreen.com
Producer: Garfield Kennedy. Screenwriter:
Jamie Halvin. DoP: Shane Daly. Cast: Iain de
Caestecker, Frank Gallagher, Gemma Morrison.
With Scotland in the 1974 World Cup
everything looks rosy – but thirteen year-old
Stephen, is more into Glam Rock than the
Beautiful Game – in direct conflict with his
football-mad Dad.
Short Films
And the Red Man
Went Green
An Angel Meets the
Devil
DIRECTOR: Ruth Meehan
35mm. 1 min 40 sec
DIRECTOR: Jeff Vine
Beta SP. 5 min 15 sec
Production Company: BreakThru Films,
2nd Floor, Highgate Business Centre, 33
Greenwood Place, London, NW5 2LB, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7428 3934 fax: +44 (0)20
7428 3963
email: magnus@breakthrufilms.co.uk
Production Company, Sales Agent,
UK Distributor: Great Guns, 43-45 Camden
Road, London, NW1 9LR, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)20 7692 4444 fax: +44 (0)20 7692
4422
email: greatguns@greatguns.com
web: www.greatguns.com
Producer: Hugh Welchman. Screenwriter:
Ruth Meehan. DoP: Nanu Segal.
Cast: Elizabeth Ross, Bruce Alexander.
Producer: Kojo Abban. Screenwriters: Joe
Hosp, Carlie Harns. DoP: Nic Knowland.
Cast: Tom Bird, Trevor Cooper.
A fragile old lady timidly makes her way
through the city streets and is unexpectedly
swept off her feet.
A film about an angel’s revenge on a heroin
dealer.
Andout
Ant Muzak
DIRECTOR: Duncan Sim
Digibeta. 15 min
DIRECTOR: Ben Gregor
35mm. 9 min 22 sec
Production Company: Green, Crasken Farm,
Falmouth Road, Helston, TR13 0PF, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)1326 561 431
email: duncan@sim.demon.co.uk,
jmason30@hotmail.com
Production Company: Channelcom
Narratives, 84 Macready House, 75 Crawford
Street, London, W1H 5LP, England, UK. tel:
+44 (0)20 7224 9379 fax: +44 (0)20 7224 9816
email: ben@channelcom.tv
web: www.channelcom.tv
Producers: Jane Mason, Duncan Sim.
Screenwriters: Jane Mason, Duncan Sim.
DoP: Duncan Sim. Cast: Amanda Lawrence,
Jane Mason, Simon Sim.
On a bedroom floor a disturbed woman
remembers dancing and diving with a girl in
a red dress. As light creeps up through the
floor she spies her friend lost in a desolate
world of chains and darkness. The woman
leaves, going past the cabbage field and over
the cliff face, until finally arriving at the
harbour wall. Before the sea she dresses
herself in lights and stands with arms
outstretched, as night falls around her.
Angel
DIRECTOR: Tom Williams
Production Company: Telescope Pictures Ltd,
Twickenham Film Studios, St Margarets,
Twickenham, TW1 2AW, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)20 8607 8875 fax: +44 (0)20 8607 8879
Producer: Justine Redfern. Screenwriter: Tom
Williams. DoP: Charles Bennett. Cast: Amber
Batty, Sebastian Dunn.
A man and a woman keep on bumping into
each other on the London Underground.
Over the course of a year, and a series of
these random meetings, they fall in love.
Producers: Ben Gregor, Tim Piester, Claire
Mason. Screenwriter: Tim Piester.
DoP: Crighton Bone. Cast: Nick Moran,
Mackenzie Crook, Steve Oram, Tom Meeten,
Gary Tibbs.
Adam and the Ants go on an eventful late
night shopping trip.
The Antique
DIRECTOR: Ian Vernon
Beta SP. 20 min
Production Company: Biffa Productions,
20 Ruskin Road, Manchester, Greater
Manchester, M25 9GL, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)161 773 7670
email: ian.vernon@freeuk.com
web: www.biffa.t.v.freeuk.com
Producer: Ian Vernon. Screenwriter: Ian
Vernon. DoP: Ian Vernon. Cast: Tim Murphy,
Katherine McGregor, Janette Driver.
A horrific trail of events is unleashed when a
package arrives for Tom, in Los Angeles. His
brother, a vicar, had posted it from England,
before killing himself. Possession and
murder follow.
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Aperitif
Ashes in the Sand
Avatar
DIRECTOR: Chris Croucher
Digibeta. 25 min
DIRECTOR: Anthony Laverty
Digibeta. 10 min
DIRECTOR: Nicolai Amter
35mm. 8 min 18 sec
Production Company: Hoojoo Productions,
Nutscale House, Tunbridge Lane, Bramsmott,
GU30 7SP, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7741 085
837 fax: +44 (0)1428 723 983
email: info@hoojoo.co.uk
web: www.hoojoo.co.uk
(0)114 221 0569 fax: +44 (0)114 249 2293
Production Company: Pixel Generator Ltd,
29a St Louis Road, London, SE27 9QN,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7770 613 703
email: mail@amter.com
web: www.amter.com
Producer: Chris Croucher. Screenwriters:
Chris Croucher, Mark Beynon. DoP: James
Shutt. Cast: Keith Seymour, Charlie Vincent,
Ross McGrath, Kathryn Croucher, Norman
Miller.
Producers: Ian D Fleming, Damon H Bead.
Screenwriter: Anthony Laverty. Cast: Emma
Cleasby.
The year is 2004. Governments from every
country on Planet Earth have now banned
the consumption of meat. Scientists have
been able to prove that meat-eaters have
homicidal instincts due to meat
consumption. Welcome to the meat-free
future!
Arranged Marriage
Susan, a young mother, spends a day at the
beach with her children, trying to build lost
relationships. She is haunted by ghosts from
the past.
Ate Mile
DIRECTORS: Ed Broughton, Neil Logan,
Richard Boa
Digibeta. 8 min
DIRECTOR: G D Jayalakshmi
35mm. 14 min 55 sec
Production Company: Nerd Development,
1F2, 6 East London Street, Edinburgh, EH7
4BH, Scotland, UK. tel: +44 (0)131 556 3370
email: nerddevelopment@aol.com
Production Company: Jayamac Productions
Ltd, 16, Marlborough Way, Yardley Gobion,
Northamptonshire, NN12 7TU, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)1908 542 004 fax: +44 (0)1908 542
004
email: jayamac@yahoo.com
Producers: Ed Broughton, Neil Logan, Richard
Boa. Screenwriters: Ed Broughton, Neil
Logan, Richard Boa. DoP: Ed Broughton, Neil
Logan, Richard Boa.
Producer: Pam Haigh. Screenwriter: G D
Jayalakshmi. DoP: M S Arumugam.
Cast: Archie Panjabi, H G Dattatreya, Laxmi
Chandrashekar.
Shashi, a second generation Scottish-Indian
girl, has fallen in love with a white boy. So
her parents pack her off to India to arrange a
more suitable match. But none of them have
reckoned with grandfather.
Arrive
DIRECTOR: Ed Holdsworth
Production Company: Onedotzero, Unit 212,
Curtain House, 134-146 Curtain Road, London,
EC2A 3AR, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7729
0072 fax: +44 (0)20 7729 0057
email: claire@onedotzero.com
web: www.onedotzero.com
Producer: Ed Holdsworth. DoP: Ed
Holdsworth.
Based on Holdsworth’s first trip to the city of
Tokyo this is a meditation on travel and
arrival. The film perfectly communicates the
explosion of the senses and audio-visual burst
that intoxicates you on your arrival in the
multi-layered metropolis.
Ate Mile is a feel-good comedy epic, on a
truly minumental scale. Set in an M&M
wrapper inhabited by chocolate puppets; we
follow the life of the outcast Whitey as he
overcomes racism and violence in his
neighbourhood to make a stand for what he
believes in: true love and keeping it real.
Atomic Theory
DIRECTOR: Mariana Paredes Pelaez
Beta SP. 19 min
Distributor: London Film School, 24 Shelton
Street, London, WC2H 9UB, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)20 7836 9642 fax: +44 (0)20 7497
3718
web: www.lfs.org.uk
Producer: Mariana Paredes Pelaez.
Screenwriter: Mariana Paredes Pelaez.
DoP: Steven Priovolos. Cast: James Wren,
Jenni Lush, Isabella King, Brian Norbury.
Terry is a renowned scientist trapped in his
routine. Little by little his life starts falling
apart, forcing him to reconsider what he
wants from his life.
Producer: Nicolai Amter. Screenwriter: Hyan
Thiboutot. DoP: Matthew Woolf. Cast: John
Kay Steel, Tony Renshaw, Camille Natta.
London, 2024. A computer virus is taking
over the Flight Control’s network. John and
Jack set out to destroy the virus. They
discover their nemesis Avatar is, in fact, a
beautiful woman with a cruel-set sneer. But,
not everything is what it seems...
Babel
DIRECTOR: Barry Hale
Beta SP. 4 min
Production Company: Threshold Studios Ltd,
69b Kettering Road, Northampton, NN1 4AW,
+44 (0)1604 233 346
email: barry@thresholdstudios.tv
web: www.thresholdstudios.tv
Producer: Barry Hale. Screenwriters:
Prisoners of HMP Wellingborough. Cast:
Prisoners of HMP Wellingborough.
Made by prisoners of HMP Wellingborough,
Babel is a visual poem about the fruitless
search for peace in an overcrowded world.
The rage and frustration of incarceration is
unsettlingly familiar.
Baby’s Blood
DIRECTOR: Natasha Westlake
Production Company: Idetic Films, Po Box
664, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 3WN, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)20 8940 2754
email: ideticfilms@hotmail.com
Producer: Natasha Westlake. Screenwriter:
Natasha Westlake. DoP: Johann Cruickshank.
Cast: Joshua Piehl, Alexander Winterkam,
Ross Brooks.
Seated in an unusual bar, a slightly
intoxicated and rather troubled man is
offered an ominous looking cocktail,
intriguingly named Baby’s Blood by an
altogether too pleasant bartender. But will he
drink the simmering concoction or will he let
his imagination get the better of him?
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Baggage
Bev
DIRECTOR: Greg McManus
DIRECTOR: Jenny Jones
DV. 10 min
Production Company: The Arts Institute at
Bournemouth, Wallisdown, Poole, Dorset,
BH12 5HH, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)1202 363
274 fax: +44 (0)1202 537 729
email: psellwood@aib.ac.uk
web: www.aib.ac.uk
Production Company: Charlotte Bates, 2F2,
63 Bread Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9AH,
Scotland, UK. tel: +44 (0)7786 560 498
email: charmagrar@hotmail.com
Producer: Graeme Renson. Screenwriter:
Greg McManus. DoP: Tash Gamper. Cast:
Spencer Burrows, Bahi Ghubril, Catherine
Kirk.
Producer: Charlotte Bates. Screenwriter:
Jenny Jones. DoP: Andrew Begg. Cast: Sarah
Thoms, Ewan Downey, Gary Dobson.
This is the story of a man who finds himself
trapped in a lifestyle in which he knows his
days are numbered. Through a series of
vignettes we find out how he got there and
the choice he must eventually make.
When Bev is forced into early retirement
after discovering she has narcolepsy she
thinks that her career as a spy is over. That is
until Eric Stanz wants to find the
headquarters of SPI – Secret Private
Investigations. Will she be able to control her
sleepy disease and protect the secret base of
SPI?
The Bells
Big Girl Little Girl
DIRECTOR: David Hevey
DIRECTOR: Amelia Hann
35mm. 8 min 37 sec
Production Company: Holy Cow Productions,
24 Tabor Road, London, W6 OBW, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)20 8741 5196 fax: +44 (0)20
8748 1976
email: lh@holycowuk.com
Production Company: Loose Cannon
Productions, 49 St Stephens Gardens, London,
W2 5NA, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7889 894
508, +44 (0)7887 902 110
email: hartlandc@aol.com
Producer: Leigh Hurst. Screenwriters: David
Havey, Bet Balcome. DoP: Chris Cox. Cast:
Marlene Crilly, Bill Thomas, Kelly Mumford,
Billy Seymour.
Producer: Christine Hartland. Screenwriter:
Amelia Hann. DoP: Nemone Mercer. Cast:
Dan Antopolski, Melanie Gutteridge, Molly
McMorrow, Robert Reina, Donna McCabe.
On a cold summer day a bag lady and wino
at the end of their lives and two young
people at the beginning of theirs, meet at
seperate places within a church graveyard.
As the old couple get closer and closer
through cans of drink and talk of families
and children long since gone, the young
couple are pulled apart because of a baby
neither planned nor wanted.
Seven year old Lucy loves her uncle. One
evening he brings an unexpected guest to
dinner: his girlfriend. Lucy has a fight on her
hands. In her struggle to win back her
uncle’s undivided affection Lucy finds
herself trapped in a world of big girls and
little girls.
Binman
Bench
DIRECTOR: Graham Woolnough
35mm. 4 min
Production Company: Graham English
Productions, 2 Roymont Crescent, Wellesley
Road, Twickenham, TW2 5SE, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)20 8894 7175 fax: +44 (0)20 8894
7497
email: grahamenglishproductions@compuserve.com
Producer: Graham Woolnough. Screenwriter:
Graham Woolnough. DoP: Chris Hartley.
Cast: Ken Drury, James Greene.
What could possess a Scotsman to recite the
most patriotic speech of the English? A
haunted park bench?
DIRECTOR: Abass Collier
Production Company: Nero Star, 31 Acorn
Walk, Rotherhithe Street, London, SE15 5EW,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7958 968 104
email: abasscollier@btopenworld.com
Producer: Scot Larken-Scott. Screenwriter:
Abass Collier. DoP: Flemming Jetmar.
Cast: Tony Taras, Andy Blacksmith, Gemma
Layton, Mark Smith.
Binman has a passion for collecting antiques
from bin bags. The ring he picks up from a
fitness centre has Threesome inscribed on it.
The double meaning creates confusion and
leads to the Binman’s psychological
disintegration.
Binsy’s Birthday
Motorbike
DIRECTOR: Aled Smith
35mm. 3 min 33 sec
UK Distributor: Sgrîn - Media Agency for
Wales, The Bank, 10 Mount Stuart Square,
Cardiff Bay, Cardiff, CF10 5EE, Wales, UK.
tel: +44 (0)29 2033 3313 fax: +44 (0)29 2033
3320
web: www.sgrin.co.uk
Producers: Humphrey James, Paul HartWilden. Screenwriter: Desmond Barry.
DoP: Peter Thornton. Cast: Mark Bishop,
Jonathon Jones, Ifan Huw Dafydd, Tessa
French, Craig Osbourne.
Binsy’s birthday is coming up and he’s
desperate to buy a motorbike. When a
compensation scam nets him £1000, his
troubles should be over. If only life were that
easy.
Birt Dynely
DIRECTOR: Paul Farmer
Production Company: Aurora Digital Films,
Trenarlett, St Tudy, Bodmin, Kernow, PL30 3PR,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)1208 851 810
email: beatrix@aurorafilms.demon.co.uk
UK Distributor: A39 Live !& Media, 3 Penlee
Villas, Playing Place, Truro, Kernow, TR3 6EY,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)1872 865 176
fax: +44 (0)1872 865 176
email: info@a39lm.freeserve.co.uk
Producer: Beatrix Milburn. Screenwriter: Paul
Farmer. DoP: George Greene, Mark Jenkin.
Cast: Nick Darke, Paul Farmer, Sue Farmer.
Birt Dynely is set in Falmouth, Cornwall, and
is a surreal comedy fiction. A strange tale of
loss, ambition and endeavour, the ending is
a tragic retreat into fantasy. It is the allegory
of both a mythical beach and a life
suffocated in the choking folds of political
apathy and the pursuit of profit.
A Blank Slate
DIRECTOR: Kevin Owens
Production Company: AMB Media, Po Box
129, Washington, Tyne & Wear, NE38 0YJ,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)191 495 0000
email: mn@ambmedia.com
Producer: Matthew Newman. Screenwriter:
Kevin Owens. DoP: Tom Saunders.
Cast: Richard Reay, Sarah Kathryn Southern,
Richard Makepeace, James Taylor, Bill Steel.
A day-in-the-surreal-life of sad-sack Edward
Bates, incorporating his seething boss, a
jovial wise man, a crazy punk, some misfit
Goths and a girl who is not all that she
seems.
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Blood Money
Boogaloo
Breaking Point
DIRECTOR: Philip Jones
DIRECTOR: Marianne Jenkins
35mm. 10 min
DIRECTOR: Russell Razzaque
Beta SP. 14 min
Production Company: Artistic Productions
Ltd, Plas-y-pant, Brynmadoc Road, Wrexham,
LL11 5UP, Wales, UK. tel: +44 (0)7785 281667
email: info@artistic-productions.net
Production Company: TP Films Ltd, 8
Mandeville Courtyard, Warriner Gardens,
London, SW11 4NB, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)20 7622 7522 fax: +44 (0)20 7622 7523
email: tp.films@msn.com
Production Company: Prodigy Productions, 10
Elland House, Copenhagen Place, London, E14
7EL, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7967 732 786
email: drrazzaque@mailcity.com
Producer: Philip Jones. Screenwriter: Philip
Jones. DoP: Philip Jones. Cast: Andy
Brobecci, Melvyn Crabtree, Tom Wontner.
When inveterate gambler Johnny is late with
his payments to debt collector Ron, he
resorts to unusual means to get the money
and gains strange powers in the process.
Tales of the Unexpected meets the Twilight
Zone.
Bloody Magic
DIRECTOR: James Reggel
Production Company: 43 Denison Close,
London, N2 0JU, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7803
891 361
email: Jamesreggel@aol.com
web: www.bloodymagic.com
Producer: James Reggel. Screenwriter: James
Reggel. DoP: Melissa Byers. Cast: Andy
Nyman, Sam Maddox, Chris Power, Roger
Watkins, Elizabeth Hopley.
Bloody Magic is a story of Zack, an eleven
year-old schoolboy, whose family is visited
by three debt collectors. A demand for
money is made and the men wait for
payment. Zack takes his cue and the magic
show starts but who wants to watch? And
more importantly, is he any good?
Blueprint
DIRECTOR: Nick Kirk
Production Company: Caught On Film
Productions, 29 Shelby Close, Nottingham,
NG7 2FL, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)1159 789
863
email: amd@alidew.freeserve.co.uk
Producer: Alison Dewar. Screenwriter: Nick
Kirk. DoP: Nick Kirk. Cast: Lou Webb, Sally
Siner.
An eminent research scientist who’s on the
verge of a major breakthrough shares a taxi
with the woman who cleans her laboratory.
They seem to be at opposite ends of the
intellectual spectrum. However, the journey
takes an unexpected twist, forcing the
scientist to reconsider everything she
thought she knew.
Producers: Samantha Thomas, Tasmia Power.
Screenwriter: Marianne Jenkins. DoP: Simon
Hume. Cast: Sue Johnston, Julie-Kate Oliver,
Jane Lucas, Libby Machin.
A fifty-something woman, tells her story of
falling in love, in her disco bathroom.
Producer: Russell Razzaque. Screenwriter:
Russell Razzaque. DoP: Boyd Skinner.
Cast: Rob Cother, Karla Nessbach.
A video suicide note is being recorded by a
man who has recently discovered his wife's
infidelity. Things take a chilling twist as he
delivers his last words and prepares to end
his life before the camera.
Book Cover
Breathe
DIRECTOR: Sam Leifer
Digibeta. 5 min
DIRECTOR: Samantha Harrie
Beta SP. 5 min
Production Company: Suetonius Productions,
44 Downshire Hill, London, NW3 1NU,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7973 482 923
fax: +44 (0)207 435 3070
email: teddyleifer@hotmail.com
Production Company: Flat 2, 30 Princes
Avenue, Toxteth, Liverpool, L8 2UP, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)151 727 1258
email: sam.harrie@ukonline.co.uk
Producer: Teddy Leifer. Screenwriter: Sam
Leifer. Cast: Jonny Berliner, Joe Allen, Robin
Grey, Jean Spark, Yoav Segal.
Armed with a guitar and his big red tour bus,
Jonny Berliner is a musician on a mission:
‘Never trust a woman cos you think she’s
your lover, never fear your saviour just
because you think that he’s a mugger, never
hate a fat boy just because of his blubber
and never judge a book by its cover.’
Warning: Contains heavy make-up.
Producer: Samantha Harrie. Screenwriter:
Samantha Harrie. DoP: Martin Pauline. Cast:
Claire Jones, Helen Brady, Lorraine Sass.
Trapped by unfinished homework on a
Sunday afternoon, Kelly’s bored and
irritable. Sharing a bedroom with her elderly
grandmother is at the centre of Kelly’s
teenage discontent and the sleeping old
woman is the target for her resentment.
Bred in the Bone
Break
DIRECTOR: Justin Keil
DIRECTOR: Ian Waugh
Production Company: First Hand Films,
8 Dolby Road, London, SW6 3NE, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)7979 606 535
email: justinkeil@aol.com
Production Company: 12 Bellerby Drive,
Ouston, Chester-Le-Street, County Durham,
DH2 1TW, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7971 602
565
email: ianwaugh-@hotmail.com
Producer: Ian Waugh. Screenwriter: Ian
Waugh. DoP: Benjamin Kracun. Cast: Keith
Hutchison, Mike Duffy.
An anonymous man arrives alone at an
isolated cabin. On entering he discovers a
dormant old man. Alterations in place,
linearity and character distort perception.
Everything changes once inside.
Producer: Alison Sterling. Screenwriter:
Justin Keil. DoP: Terry Flaxton. Cast: Mike
Hattward, Ronnie Quirke, Richard Mayes.
A boy reluctantly goes to live with his
poacher grandfather and whilst having to
deal with destructive in-comers, must come
to terms with his predicament.
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Brown Paper Bag
DIRECTOR: Michael Baig Clifford
Digibeta. 13 min
Production Company: Dreamfinder
Productions, 114a Poplar Road, Bearwood,
Birmingham, B66 4AP, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)121 429 9800 fax: +44 (0)121 429 9008
email: natasha@dreamfinder.net
web: www.dreamfinder.net
Producers: Natasha Carlish, Mark Leveson.
Screenwriter: Geoff Thompson. DoP: Phil
Chinannes. Cast: Ronnie Fox, Jo McInnes,
Den Woods, Richard Coad, Paul Nolan.
A story of love, loss, and denial, Brown
Paper Bag charts the harrowing journey of
an alcoholic couple on the road to selfdestruction.
Short Films
Bushido: the Way of
the Warrior
DIRECTOR: Susan Jacobson
35mm. 6 min
Production Company: Pistachio Pictures,
49 Beaufort Mansions, Beaufort Street,
London, SW3 5AF, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20
7352 2237 fax: +44 (0)20 7352 2237
email: susan@pistachio.co.uk
Producer: Alex Boden. Screenwriters: Susan
Jacobson, Anna Reeves. DoP: Nic Lawson.
Cast: Eiji Kusuhara, Hiroshi Yoshinuma,
Duncan Fisk.
Following his master’s murder, a samurai
must commit a most honorable suicide.
However, he cannot control his desire to
avenge his master’s death.
Burn Baby Burn
DIRECTOR: Chris Scurfield
Production Company: 375 City Road, London,
EC1V 1NB, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7931 778
616 fax: +44 (0)20 7833 2185
email: chris_scurfield@yahoo.com
Producer: Jane McGee. Screenwriter: Chris
Scurfield. DoP: Karl Rooney. Cast: Jennifer
Thorne, George Keeler, Rosie Yarrow.
Bust
DIRECTOR: Jon Sen
Digibeta. 5 min
Sales Agent: Short Circuit Films, The
Workstation, 15 Paternoster Row, Sheffield,
S1 2BX, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)114 221 0569
fax: +44 (0)114 249 2293
An elderly woman prepares a pre-funeral
gathering. She is supported by her friends
and family as she expresses her sorrow that
her husband cannot be with them. But at the
crematorium we see that things are not as
they first appeared in this darkly comic take
on death and the living.
Producer: Ellen Roseblade. Screenwriter:
Kevin Saunders. Cast: Cavan Clerkin, Gus
Brown, Michael Bertenshaw.
Bus Root
Button Man
DIRECTOR: Hannah Holland
DIRECTOR: Mark Ash
Beta SP. 6 min
Production Company: Outburst, 4 Merrick
Square, London, SE1 4JB, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)794 652 4381 fax: +44 (0)20 8673
3394
email: hannahholland@yahoo.co.uk
Production Company: Out & Out Films,
25 Marchmont Road, Edinburgh, EH9 1HY,
Scotland, UK. tel: +44 (0)7775 991 273
email: mark@outandoutfilms.co.uk
web: www.outandoutfilms.co.uk
Producer: Emma Cairns. Screenwriters:
Hannah Holland, Becky Botton, Barney
Calmen. DoP: Ben Joiner. Cast: All the
members of the Bus Root film workshop.
Producer: Mark Ash. Screenwriter: Mark Ash.
DoP: Matt Pinder. Cast: Michael Frame,
Neil Gray.
One man. Two cops. Three mind altering
substances. Sit back. Inhale deeply, and
enjoy...
The Bypass
DIRECTOR: Amit Kumar
35mm. 20 min
Production Company: Yaffle Films Ltd,
29 Whitcomb St, London, WC2 7EP, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7930 4442 fax: +44 (0)20
7930 4441
email: yafflefilms@yahoo.co.uk
Sales Agent, UK Distributor: UK Film
Council, 10 Little Portland Street, London,
W1W 7JG, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7861
7861 fax: +44 (0)20 7861 7862
email: info@filmcouncil.org.uk
web: www.filmcouncil.org.uk
Producer: Trevor Ingman. Screenwriter: Amit
Kumar. DoP: Rajeev Roni. Cast: Nawazuddin,
Sundar Dan Detha, Irafan Khan.
A circular tale that takes place on a desert
road off the beaten track, where danger lurks
around every corner and no one is safe from
the violence that brews in the heat of the
desert, especially the Honeymooning couple
who decide to take the bypass.
Cacophony
DIRECTOR: Anna T De V Thomson
Beta SP. 12 min
Production Company: De Ventos Films,
456c Hackney Road, Bethnal Green, E2 9E9,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7881 657 916
email: anntxdr@aol.com
Producer: Jane Jones. Screenwriter: Anna T
De V Thomson. DoP: Lester de Havilland.
Cast: Matt Sharpe.
Cacophony explores the way we are
influenced by the noises around us. It
follows a musician trapped in a world where
sound becomes solid and music has both a
physical and sonic resonance.
The Call
DIRECTOR: Theo Delaney
35mm. 12 min
Production Company: Hotspur & Argyle,
4th Floor, 25 Lexington Street, London, W1F
9AG, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7439 3130
fax: +44 (0)20 7439 3075
email: danny@hotspurandargyle.co.uk
web: www.hotspurandargyle.com
A man runs. Why? Where?
The universal experience of riding on the top
deck of a London bus unfolds through the
lives and eyes of South London school kids,
rude boys and appalled woman here, from
Middle England.
Producer: Daniel Fleet. Screenwriter: John
McNally. DoP: Ben Butler. Cast: Louise
Lombard, Joel Trill.
An urban nightmare in which a nineteen
year-old answers a phone he finds in the
street. At the other end is a woman intent on
seduction. It seems she’s pushing sexual
buttons and drawing him towards her. He
soon discovers she’s up to much more than
that.
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Candy Bar Kid
Championship
DIRECTOR: Shan Khan
35mm. 4 min
DIRECTOR: Phil Claydon
Beta SP. 10 min
Production Company: Eye-Cue Films, 5th
Floor, 74 Newman Street, London, W1 3EC,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)1484 322 969
fax: +44 (0)1484 300 199
email: ben@eye-cuefilms.com
web: www.eye-cuefilms.com
Production Company: Mercury Films Ltd,
47 Lianfair Rd, Cardiff, CF11 9QA, Wales, UK.
tel: +44 (0)2920 225 333
email: mercury.films@btconnect.com
Producer: Benjamin Johns. Screenwriter:
Shan Khan. DoP: Paul Gavin. Cast: Harris
Khan, Mark Tonderai.
I can’t share this moment with anyone.
When I want my treat, I go to my special
place, where no-one can see. And when I’m
there it don’t matter that the city is so bitter
because no-one can touch me, it’s just me
and my candy...Sweet.
The Cappuccino King
DIRECTORS: Ciro Candia, Roberto Candia
Production Company: Candia Films,
77 Russell Road, London, SW19 1QN, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)20 8540 5248
email: cirocandia@yahoo.com
Producer: Pablo D’Adamo. Screenwriters:
Ciro Candia, Roberto Candia. DoP: Ciro
Candia. Cast: Guiseppe Nacca, Andreas
Pampoulides, Fabrizio Di Verniere.
In the world of coffee the Italians are still
kings. In the London coffee bar scene there
is only one Cappuccino King! A short, frothy
comedy where the moves and grooves of the
Cappuccino King dazzle an unsuspecting
customer.
Carnt Sleep (Pas
Sommeil)
DIRECTOR: Owen Oppenheimer
Production Company: Panoptican Pictures
Ltd, 12 Padbury Court, London, E2 7EH,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7729 7352
fax: +44 (0)20 7729 4429
Sales Agent: Britshorts Ltd, 25 Beak Street,
London, W1F 9RT, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20
7734 2277 fax: +44 (0)20 7734 2242
email: contactus@britshorts.com
web: www.britshorts.com
Producer: Derrin Schlesinger. Screenwriters:
Christine Marshall, Owen Oppenheimer.
DoP: David Matches. Cast: Loo Brealey, Jamie
Iddon.
A boy. A girl. A love story of sorts. In a highrise, two flatmates endure a restless night
dancing, smoking, eavesdropping,
headbanging and fighting their feelings for
each other.
Producer: Eliane Huss. Screenwriter: John
Butterworth. DoP: Peter Thornton.
Cast: Nicholas Ball.
It's half time at an amateur ladies football
match. George, the manager, has to tame
love, passion and a pigeon in order to stop
his team from mutiny.
A Changed Man
DIRECTOR: Jens Jonsson
35mm. 20 min
Distributor: Stink, 87 Lancaster Road, London,
W11 1QQ. tel: +44 (0)20 7908 9400 fax: +44
(0)20 7908 9500
email: claire@stink.com
web: www.stink.tv
Producer: Robert Herman. Screenwriter: Jens
Jonsson. DoP: Askild Vik Edvarsen. Cast:
Rupert Proctor, Victor McGuire, Eoin McCarthy,
Martin Savage, Clare Rushbrook
Christopher, 35, arrives at his school reunion
a changed man. Over the past twenty years
he has moved to a new town and built a new
identity for himself. His old classmates have
trouble accepting his new confidence.
Christopher, on the other hand, is prepared
to fight to be recognised and accepted.
Charity
DIRECTOR: Pippa Marks
Production Company: The Cut Ltd,
23 Medfield Street, Roehampton, London,
SW15 4JY, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7771 628
712
email: pip@pmarks.demon.co.uk
Producer: Jonathan Scott. Screenwriter:
Pippa Marks. DoP: Nemone Mercer.
Cast: Christopher Eccleston.
In a hardware shop, a man endeavours to fix
a plastic Sooty, that has only one eye. After
trying a number of solutions, the man finds
the most suitable conclusion.
Charley Harry’s
Wondrous Nothing
DIRECTOR: Esther May Campbell
Production Company: E P Films, Top Flat,
40 Burgley Road, Bristol, B56 5BN, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)796 648 3852, +44 (0)117 904
4710
email: esthermaycampbell@yahoo.com
web: www.esthermaycampbell.com
Sales Agent, UK Distributor: Picture This
Moving Image, Spike Island Studios, 40
Sydney Row, Bristol, BS1 6UU, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)117 925 7010 fax: +44 (0)117 925
7040
email: info@picturethis.demon.co.uk
web: www.picturethismovingimage.co.uk
Producer: Luke Youngman. Screenwriters:
Esther May Campbell, Paul Galloway.
DoP: Mike Fox. Cast: Lewis Boalch.
Amidst the sand dunes, under a starry sky, a
breeze passes through the long grass and
over to Charley Harry as he recalls the
insignificant moment he understood the
significance of his relationship with his
freckles and the stars.
Chasing Angels
DIRECTOR: Emilie Irvin
Production Company: Lunasee Films Ltd,
14b Calthorpe Street, London, WC1 0JS,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7813 2707
email: graziana.testa@blueyonder.co.uk
Producer: Graziana Testa. Screenwriter:
Emilie Irvin. DoP: Duncan Telford, Kate Stark.
Cast: Alexander Newland, Pookey Quesnell,
Jenny McCrindle, Laurence Penry-Jones.
Ditched by his long-suffering girlfriend, Mole
hooks up with coke dealer Lara and hangeron Neil. An evening of drug induced
paranoia unfolds, and Mole overdoses. As
the chemicals collide with his nervous
system, he is suddenly hit by the life and the
love he is about to lose.
Cheese Makes You
Dream
DIRECTOR: Kara Miller
35mm. 5 min 30 sec
Production Company: Arawak Films,
6 Ferndale Road, Leytonstone, London, E11
3DN, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 8925 0314
email: kara@cheesemakesyoudream.com
web: www.cheesemakesyoudream.com
Producers: John Hart, Lynn Roberts.
Screenwriter: Kara Miller. DoP: Mattias
Nyberg. Cast: Dudley Sutton, Tamsin Greig.
Cheese Makes You Dream is a day in the life
of Jim O’Connor, an acutely lonely pensioner
with high hopes and a subscription to a
golden oldie dating service.
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Chipping Away
Circle Line
Claverdeek
DIRECTOR: Bobby Ruge
Beta. 9 min 4 sec
DIRECTORS: Jeremy Brettingham, D Blyde
DIRECTOR: Dominic Santana
35mm. 11 min 16 sec
Production Company: 17 Dovedale Drive,
Burnley, BB12 8XD, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)1282 424 838
email: bobbyruge@hotmail.com
Production Company: East Northeast Ltd,
Glebe Farmhouse, Wells Road, North Creake,
Norfolk, NR21 9LG, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)1328 730 430 fax: +44 (0)1328 730 444
email: jb@eastnortheast.co.uk
web: www.eastnortheast.co.uk
Production Company: Santana Bros, 9-10 Jew
Street, Brighton, Sussex, BH1 1UT, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)1273 245 873 fax: +44 (0)1273
245 873
email: dominic.santana@virgin.net
Producer: Monika Baker. Screenwriter: Bobby
Ruge. DoP: Sam Mitchell. Cast: Colin Ferrie,
Adam Tomkin, Syra Hynd.
Christopher has a secret series of obsessivecompulsive routines, which he does
everyday. These routines are jeopardising his
relationship with his girlfriend Samantha
and he realises he might lose her. Can he
reveal that side of him to her and save their
relationship?
Producers: Jeremy Brettingham, Douglas
Blyde. Screenwriter: Lorento Bedini. DoP:
Jeremy Brettingham. Cast: Sarah Harwood,
John Wallis.
A girl sleeping rough in an isolated rural
train station is given a ticket by an enigmatic
stranger – a ticket for a journey that will
transform her life.
Chocolate Kiss
City Life – Outside In
DIRECTORS: Steven Benson, Wayne Benson
DV. 40 min
DIRECTOR: Brian Percival
35mm. 17 min 4 sec
Production Company: De Novo Pictures,
8 Ferngrove, Portrush, County Antrim, BT56
8SQ, N. Ireland, UK. tel: +44 (0)2870 823 368
email: scb2000001@aol.com
Production Company: Granada TV Ltd, Quay
Street, Manchester, M60 9EA, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)161 827 2586 fax: +44 (0)161 953
0285
email: gary.connelly@granadamedia.com
Sales Agent: Granada Media International,
48 Leicester Square, London, WC2H 7FB,
+44 (0)20 7633 2999
email: caroline.torrance@granadamedia.com
Producers: Steven Benson, Wayne Benson.
Screenwriter: Steven Benson. DoP: Steven
Benson, Wayne Benson. Cast: William
Burniston, Peter Nicholson, Andrea Watson,
Stephen O’Malley.
Neglectful father David Munroe is about to
venture into every parent’s worst nightmare
when he begins to suspect the motives of his
ten year-old son’s school teacher.
The Choir
DIRECTOR: Angela M Murray
35mm. 10 min 30 sec
Production Company: c/o 28 Victoria Crecent
Road, Glasgow, G12 9DD, Scotland, UK. tel:
+44 (0)141 339 8619
George Street, Glasgow, G2 4QE, Scotland, UK.
tel: +44 (0)141 302 1700 fax: +44 (0)141 302
1711
Producer: Robbie Sandison. Screenwriter:
Angela M Murray. DoP: Balazs Bolygo.
Cast: Fergus Nimmo, Ruaridh Pritchard, Peter
Strain, Aisling Gilbert.
For as long as he can remember Leslie has
wanted to be one of the hard guys. Today he
starts a new school and this time he might
just make it, if only he can resist the lure of
joining... The Choir.
Producer: Rebecca Hodgson. Screenwriter:
Cally Phillips. DoP: Geoff Boyle. Cast: Iain
McKee, Joanne Froggatt, James Cartwright.
Paul is a very ordinary guy with a 9-5 job and
a house that he moved into and never
decorated. While browsing the plants section
of the local DIY store, he spots Stephanie. In
an unlikely courtship, Paul keeps returning
to the store searching for her, and finds
himself buying more and more plants.
Clara
DIRECTOR: Jules Rampton
Beta SP. 10 min
Production Company: Film U – Film and
Moving Image at Leeds Metropolitan
University, 3 Queen Square, Leeds, LS2 8AF,
+44 (0)113 283 1901
email: t.papadoulakis@lmu.ac.uk
web: www.lmu.ac.uk
Producer: Catherine Ann Luebbert.
Screenwriter: Jules Rampton. DoP: Ann
Boyle. Cast: Katie Ronson, Jackie Howe, Philip
Elliot, Anne Sinclair, Sam Arrowsmith.
Clara is set in the 1950s, and follows a young
girl who undergoes an operation to gain her
sight. The operation is a success and she
experiences seeing for the first time in her
life. However, as the day progresses and it
starts to get darker, she fears she is losing
her sight again.
Producer: Santana Bros. Screenwriter: Lee
Santana. DoP: Patrick Crockart. Cast: Tim
Vine, John Archer.
The extraordinary story of one man’s
obsession with another man’s happiness.
Clinic
DIRECTOR: Fiona O’Donnell
Production Company: Decoupage Films,
42a Renmuir Street, London, SW17 9SS,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 8767 6102
email: fi_odonnell@hotmail.com
web: www.ultravioletfilms.bravepages.com
Producer: Fiona O’Donnell. Screenwriter:
Fiona O’Donnell. DoP: Giuseppe Gallo.
Cast: David McAllister, Rosie Alvarez, Kathryn
Grey.
On a routine medical in a private clinic, a
young woman is weighed, measured and
drawn into a deadly trap.
Clutch
DIRECTOR: Carol Stevens
Digibeta. 5 min
fax: +44 (0)114 249 2293
Producer: Christopher Frederick.
Screenwriter: Carol Stevens. Cast: Zara
Langston-McRink, Nathan Cable, David
Plimmer.
Clutch has a poetic realist narrative that
explores the cusp between childhood and
adulthood. It involves a girl, a pony and
mutant eggs.
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Cold Light of Day
The Commuter
The Confidence Trick
DIRECTOR: Zam Salim
DIRECTOR: Martin Pickles
35mm. 1 min 30 sec
DIRECTORS: Jon Gilbert, Christopher Ross
35mm. 14 min
Production Company: Incidental Pictures,
1/3, 10 Leyden Gardens, Glasgow, G20 9TR,
Scotland, UK. tel: +44 (0)141 589 0848
fax: zam@zoom.co.uk
Production Company: GM Film, 67 Ballater
Road, London, SW2 5QX, England, UK. tel:
+44 (0)7887 608 457
email: gmfilm@hotmail.com
web: www.gmfilm.co.uk
Sales Agent: Dazzle Films, Impact Studios,
12-18 Hoxton Square, Shoreditch, London, N1
6NG, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7739 7716
fax: +44 (0)20 7613 4485
email: sales@dazzlefilms.co.uk
Production Company: Wild Honey Ltd,
47 Summerhouse Lane, Harmondsworth,
Middlesex, UB7 0AW, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)7740 075 078
email: wildhoneyltd@hotmail.com
Producer: Martin Pickles. Screenwriter:
Martin Pickles. DoP: Martin Pickles, Jonathan
Mercer. Cast: Pat Reid.
Walter hates the way he looks and dreams of
looking like his self-assured colleague,
Etienne. But when a miracle makes his
dream come true, and he gets the chance to
live the life he always craved, Walter comes
to realise that happiness is more than skin
deep.
Producer: Zam Salim. Screenwriter: Zam
Salim. DoP: Peter O’Rourke. Cast: Alan
McCafferty, Ruth Lyons, Kevin Thomson.
A hit with audiences, Cold Light of Day,
follows Billy on his quest for the most
elusive of all objects: an acceptable birthday
present for his girlfriend. Told in a kinetic,
fast-paced style, Cold Light of Day hilariously
explores the madness for the modern
shopping experience
Comfort Blanket
The Commuter is a surrealist film in which
an office-worker shaves his face off every
morning in order to blend in with all the
other faceless commuters.
DIRECTOR: Chris Steele
Beta SP. 6 min
The Computer Virus
Production Company: Idyllica Films,
7 Copperas Lane, Droylsden, Tameside,
Lancashire, M43 6HP, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)161 370 2266
email: idyllica@msn.com
DIRECTOR: Jesse Chambers
35mm. 12 min
Producer: Chris Steele. Screenwriter: Chris
Steele. DoP: Eric Perry. Cast: Richard Powell,
Sarah Natali.
A striking surrealist film affirming beauty as
religion via intricate symbolism. A young
man obsessively chasing a romantic ideal.
Commuter
DIRECTOR: Greg Browning
Production Company: Silicon 19 Media,
The Basement, 3a Landsdown Terrace Lane,
Cheltenham, GL50 2JU, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)1242 580 929 fax: +44 (0)1242 580 929
email: greg.browning@silicon19.co.uk
web: www.silicon19.co.uk
Producers: Greg Browning, Robin Clarke.
Screenwriter: Robin Clarke. DoP: Greg
Browning. Cast: Robin Clarke, Mary Ragg.
A very short film about the rural metropolis.
Boy. Girl. Car. Bus.
Production Company: Data Films Ltd, 20a
Christchurch Hill, London, NW3 1LG, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7419 2948 fax: +44 (0)20
7419 2948
email: jesse.chambers@blueyonder.co.uk
Producer: Lola Cary. Screenwriter: Jesse
Chambers. DoP: Bruce Jackson.
Cast: Michael Brown, Felicite Du Jeu, David
Gant.
In this surreal musical comedy, a love sick
computer programmer unleashes a
devastating computer virus on his
colleagues. The charming but deadly
animated virus goes on to conquer the
world, destroying first language and then
cosmic order. The Computer Virus is an allsinging, all-dancing romp through the
complexities of communication in the
modern world.
Conchie
DIRECTOR: Euan Coombs
Digibeta. 15 min
Production Company: Blue Moon
Independent Film, 62 Waterloo Street, Hove,
East Sussex, BN3 1AH, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)1273 711 672
email: euanc@supanet.com
Producer: Euan Coombs. Screenwriter: Euan
Coombs. DoP: Jon Wilson. Cast: Rhys
Williams, Matthew Stewart.
At the beginning of the Second World War, a
twelve-year-old boy struggles to come to
terms with the knowledge that his father, an
itinerant farmworker, is a conscientious
objector, a conchie, and is refusing to fight.
Producers: Jon Gilbert, Christopher Ross.
Screenwriter: Jon Gilbert. DoP: Christopher
Ross. Cast: Daniel Lapaine, Jeremy Sheffield,
Tove Hellkvist.
Confused
DIRECTOR: Camille Griffin
Digibeta. 17 min
Production Company: 4 Mall Studios, Tasker
Road, London, NW3 2YS, England, UK. tel:
+44 (0)7958 495 553
email: camillebontemps@yahoo.com
Producers: Camille Griffin, Laura Evans.
Screenwriter: Camille Griffin. DoP: Collin
Watkinson. Cast: Anna Chancellor, Heike
Matatsch.
A dark and ironic comment on modern day
relationships. We circle six characters whose
lives coincidentally engage and collide with
one another. Where we see loss and deceit
for one person we find hope and truth for
another.
Creation
DIRECTOR: Nic Wistreich
Digibeta. 16 min
Production Company: Netribution Ltd,
142 Southgate Road, London, N1 3HX,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7241 2227
email: nic@netribution.co.uk
web: www.netribution.co.uk
Producer: Jane McGee. Screenwriter: Nic
Wistreich. DoP: Mathew Titterton.
Cast: Rachael Halliwell.
Playwright Chloe has writer’s block. Driven
to an exhausted frenzy, things take a
disturbing turn when her typewriter begins
writing for her. Is she losing her mind or
battling a dark malevolent force?
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Cross My Heart
Cupboard Love
Cut & Run
DIRECTOR: Avie Luthra
35mm. 22 min
DIRECTOR: Emma Farrell
35mm. 12 min 30 sec
DIRECTOR: Cassius Rayner
Digibeta. 18 min
UK Distributor: National Film and Television
+44 (0)1494 674 042
Production Company: Six Foot High Films Ltd,
15-17 Middle Street, Brighton, East Sussex,
BN1 1AL, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7980 648
892, +44 (0)1273 201 322
email: emma.farrell@sixfoothighfilms.com
web: www.sixfoothighfilms.com
Production Company: Badboy Films,
26 Darfield Road, London, SE4 1ER, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)20 8692 2043
email: cassius@rayner-b.fsnet.co.uk
web: www.cutandrunmovie.co.uk
Producer: Bex Hopkins. Screenwriter: Avie
Luthra. DoP: Simon Vickery. Cast: Pushpinder
Chani, Sophie Okonedo, Badi Uzzaman, Saeed
Jaffrey.
When Ajay introduces his black girlfriend to
Uncle Vikram, the shock kills him instantly!
A strange will, a few white lies and a video
tape later, the Asian community is in an
uproar. But will Ajay get to keep everything
he so desperately wants?
Producer: Emma Farrell. Screenwriter: Emma
Farrell. DoP: Jeanie Martin. Cast: Rebecca
Gallacher, Vanessa Hehir.
A tale of female jealousy and chocolate
spread. Can overweight Debbie keep thin
friend Ange away from the two things she
loves the most?
Cups, Pipes and
Switches
Crossroads
DIRECTOR: Sandra Mareska Baid
Beta. 4 min 2 sec
DIRECTOR: Rosanna Negrotti
Digibeta. 21 min
Production Company: University of Essex,
Keynes Tower, 10/10 Wivenhoe Park,
Colchester, CO4 3SQ, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)1206 535 870
email: hlu@essex.ac.uk
Production Company: Pop One, 47 Middleton
Avenue, Greenford, Middlesex, UB6 8BG,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7944 976 827
fax: +44 (0)208 575 8601
email: rosanna@orange.net
Producer: Heidi Ali. Screenwriter: Rosanna
Negrotti. DoP: Mark Carey. Cast: Leslie
Grantham, Andrea Thornton, Luke de Lacey,
Nicholas Sidi, Heather McHale.
Crossroads is a romantic comedy confused
about it’s own genre. A Hollywood dream
fused with a made-for-TV nightmare, no
wonder everyone is arguing.
Cry
DIRECTOR: Steven Sheil
Production Company: Intermedia,
19 Heathcote Street, Nottingham, NG1 3AF,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)115 955 6909
fax: +44 (0)115 955 5996
email: helensolomon@intermedia.fs.business.co.uk
web: www.intermedianotts.co.uk
UK Distributor: Short Circuit Films, The
fax: +44 (0)114 249 2293
Producer: Rachel Robey. Screenwriter: Steven
Sheil. DoP: Chris Cooke. Cast: Micaiah Dring,
Katherine Morrant.
The last reel of a lost horror film. An
experiment in terror.
Producer: Sandra Mareska Baid.
Screenwriter: Sandra Mareska Baid.
DoP: Sandra Mareska Baid. Cast: University of
Essex students.
Cups, Pipes and Switches is about how the
human facial expression has extended to
switches and other inanimate objects, how
pipes look like neck joints and the back of
the head with the ears sticking out,
resembles a cup.
Curry and Irn-Bru
DIRECTOR: Annie George
Production Company: Cat A Productions,
18 Eastfield, Edinburgh, EH15 2PN, Scotland,
UK. tel: +44 (0)131 669 8337
email: annieandjo@aol.com
Producer: Annie George. Screenwriter: John
Maley. DoP: Mark Raeburn. Cast: Umran
Javaid, Sheraz Moad, Mohneeb Iqbal, Majid
Bashir.
A powerful expression of young people’s
experiences of multi-cultural Glasgow. Raw,
edgy and laced with dark humour.
Producer: Cassius Rayner. Screenwriter:
Cassius Rayner. DoP: Gareth Hughes.
Cast: Chris Curran, Michael Rochester,
Victoria Jeffrey, Tatiana Strauss.
Cut and Run takes a reality biting account of
what life is like for a family in one of
London’s many council estates. A family that
is tested to the limits as their world gets
turned upside down.
The Cut
16mm. 1 min 16 sec
Production Company: The Cut, 23 Medfield
Street, Roehampton, London, SW15 4JY,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7771 628 712
Pippa Marks. DoP: Nemone Mercer.
Cast: Kristen McMenamy.
A young hairdresser imagines venting her
frustration upon a rather annoying and
talkative client.
Czechoslovakians
DIRECTORS: Ian Anderson, Raeph Ballantyne
Digibeta. 12 min
Production Company: B – List Productions,
21/7 Edina Place, Edinburgh, EH7 5RN,
Scotland, UK. tel: +44 (0)7449 027 224
email: raeph@b-list.net
Producer: Raeph Ballantyne. Screenwriter:
Ian Anderson. Cast: Robert F Mack, James
Ferguson, Sarah Gray, Jamie Begg, John
Macauly.
They’re not wanted. They don’t fit in. You’ll
never meet them. But they’re there. Behind
every door marked Staff Only, the bottom
layers of society fight their private battles.
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Daisy Chain
Danny’s Found Jesus
Dead Wood
DIRECTOR: Paul Hardy
DIRECTORS: Chris Blaine, Ben Blaine
Digibeta. 7 min
DIRECTORS: David Bryant, Sebastian Smith,
Richard Stiles
Beta SP. 2 min
Production Company: 43 Primrose Hill Street,
Hillfields, Coventry, CV1 4AH, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)7986 486 072
email: paulh1001@yahoo.co.uk
Production Company: Charlie Productions
Ltd, Brook House Studios, Bluebridge Road,
Brookmans Park, Hertfordshire, AL9 7SX,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)1707 656 531
email: ben@charlieproductions.co.uk
web: www.charlieproductions.co.uk
Producer: Paul Hardy. Screenwriter: Paul
Hardy. DoP: Tom Wright. Cast: Sarah Annison,
Simon Lowe.
Annabel tells Bruce a secret and he tells
Caitlin, and she tells Derek, and he tells
Emma, and she is the one the secret’s about!
Producers: Chris Blaine, Ben Blaine.
Screenwriter: Ben Blaine. DoP: Oliver Russell.
Cast: Keith Malin, Nick Simons, Tim Samuels,
Oliver Broad.
Devout atheist Keith Malin has an
embarassing personal revelation.
Dancer
DIRECTOR: Ewan Stewart
Production Company: Cineworks - GMAC,
3rd Floor, 34 Albion Street, Glasgow, G1 1LH,
Scotland, UK. tel: +44 (0)141 553 2620
fax: +44 (0)141 553 2660
email: info@cineworks.co.uk
web: www.cineworks.co.uk
tel: +44 (0)141 302 1700 fax: +44 (0)141 302
1711
Producer: David Hancock. Screenwriter:
Ewan Stewart. DoP: Sam Mitchell. Cast: Brian
Sandy Nelson, Billy McElhaney, James Martin.
This film chronicles the trials of a painter,
Brian, who is trying to trace the identity of
the elusive Ray Bolger. His discovery leads
him along a well-known road.
Dead Air
DIRECTOR: Richard Max
Digibeta. 8 min
Production Company: Sosho Production,
30 Percy Street, London, WI 9FF, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)20 7636 9644 fax: +44 (0)20 7636
9645
email: vito@sosho.co.uk
web: www.sosho.co.uk
Producer: Vito Di Rosa. Screenwriter: Ben
Edwards. DoP: Oliver Schofield. Cast: Dan
Strauss, Lindsey Coulson.
A black comedy about a local early morning
radio DJ who finds out his wife is having an
affair. He plans the perfect revenge, but,
surprisingly, things don’t go according to
plan.
Production Company: Groovy Badger, Po Box
39002, London, E2 9YP, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)7831 431 019 fax: +44 (0)870 124 5135
email: info@jackandjill.tv
web: www.jackandjill.tv
Producers: David Bryant, Sebastian Smith,
Richard Stiles. Screenwriters: David Bryant,
Sebastian Smith, Richard Stiles. DoP: David
Bryant, Sebastian Smith, Richard Stiles.
Cast: Isabelle Knolles, Alex Fung.
An idyllic summers day in a secluded
woodland clearing soon turns to terror for an
unsuspecting young couple. A modern day
retelling of a classic urban myth. Beware of
the woods...
DEF
DIRECTOR: Ian Clark
35mm. 13 min
Production Company: Salad Films Ltd,
12 Gander Hill, Haywards Heath, West Sussex,
RH16 1QX, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7968 771
883 fax: +44 (0)1444 454 748
email: craig@saladfilms.com
web: www.saladfilms.com
7734 2277 fax: +44 (0)20 7734 2242
A Dead End Story
Producer: Craig Winchcombe. Screenwriter:
Ian Clark. DoP: Caitlin Buchanan.
Cast: Matthew Royce, Simon Dixon, David
Ellington.
Dangle
DIRECTOR: Carlos Armella
Tony, a deaf teenager isolated from his peers,
dreams of being a rapper.
DIRECTOR: Phil Traill
35mm. 6 min
tel: +44 (0)20 7836 9642 fax: +44 (0)20 7497
3718
web: www.lfs.org.uk
Production Company: Picture Farm Ltd, 159b
King Street, Hammersmith, London, W6 9JT,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7956 604 137
fax: +44 (0)20 8563 7365
email: philtraill@hotmail.com
Producer: Tini Horwarth. Screenwriter: Phil
Traill. DoP: Claudia Marcel. Cast: Phil Traill.
A man finds a rope hanging from the sky.
Producer: Stephano Lazzaro. Screenwriter:
Carlos Armella. Cast: Dominic Green, Beatriz
Batarda, Jeremy Young, Tony Parkin.
In a world devastated by war and hatred,
Mark and Valerie fall in love, but are torn
apart when they become victims of a bomb
exploding in a building. Mark wakes up in
hospital and finds he has been diagnosed
with a life-threatening illness. Valerie is
missing and is suspected to be the bomber.
Mark must choose to either go it alone or
run off to search for Valerie and his lost
happiness.
Deja Vu
DIRECTOR: Chris Thompson
Mini DV. 7 min 30 sec
Production Company: Insh House, Kincraig
by Kingussie, PH21 1NU, Scotland, UK.
tel: +44 (0)7787 870 634
email: sea_t@rocketmail.com
Producer: Chris Thompson. Screenwriter:
Chris Thompson. DoP: Ed Edwards.
Cast: Kjartan Behm, Jenny Jones.
Greg and Gemma are the last two standing
after a very long night. Perceptions change
at this time of night as Greg finds out when
he begins to have deja vu, and again, and
again, until he thinks he might be seeing
into the future.
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Delayed
Does God Play Football
Dose
DIRECTOR: Anthony Blanco
Beta SP. 21 min
DIRECTOR: Michael Walker
35mm. 10 min 50 sec
DIRECTOR: Samuel Donovan
16mm. 6 min
Production Company: Lucid Monkey,
5 Borough Square, London, SE1 1PX, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)7973 106 286 fax: +44 (0)20
7403 1083
email: anthonyblanco@lucidmonkey.com
Production Company: Silver Cloud Television,
Ivy Cottage, Main Street Elvington, Elvington,
York, YO41 4AA, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)1904
607 625 fax: +44 (0)1904 607 625
email: info@silvercloudltd.com
tel: +44 (0)141 302 1700 fax: +44 (0)141 302
1711
Production Company: 21 Upland Grove,
Oakwood, Leeds, LS8 2SX, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)7815 054 631
email: samueldonovan@hotmail.com
Producer: Anthony Blanco. Screenwriter:
Graham Harden. DoP: Andy Chan. Cast: Paul
M Ford, Jon Chevalier.
Set in an airport, the film explores the
complexity of conversations in public places.
As an unrelated spectator, the viewer
examines how these exchanges form and
break bonds and relationships.
DIY Hard
Producers: Becky Knapp, Jonathan Brown.
Screenwriter: Michael Walker. DoP: Philip
Robertson. Cast: Helen McCrory, Kevin
McKidd, Michael De Burca.
Tommy is a seven year-old boy without a
father, who fills the gaps in his life by
believing he is Jesus Christ.
DIRECTOR: Pat Holden
35mm. 10 min
UK Distributor: First Film Foundation,
9 Bourlet Close, London, W1W 7BP, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7580 2111 fax: +44 (0)20
7580 2116
email: andrea@firstfilm.demon.co.uk
Sales agent: Dazzle Films, Impact Studios,
6NG, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7739 7716
fax: +44 (0)20 7613 4485
Producer: Andrea Cornwell. Screenwriter:
Linda Cotterie. DoP: James Welland.
Cast: David Thewlis, Alison Steadman.
The least you’d expect after breaking out of
prison and taking a woman hostage in her
own home is a clean and tidy environment to
make your demands. Then the police arrive...
Production Company: Ziggy Productions,
11 Offley Road, Sandbach, Cheshire, CW11
1GY, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)1270 760 824
email: clivesmedley@aol.com
Producer: Michael Cooper. Screenwriter:
Olivia Smedley. Cast: Corinne Coward, Ged
Mulherin, Sue Parkinson.
Doctor's Mark contains three interlaced
monologues filmed during a normal working
day in a cancer hospital. Each monologue
presents a different perspective of illness
and mortality. Unexpected, surreal and
ironic.
Jack is a charming, arrogant and
charismatic car salesman, who has to deal
with some home truths after a recent visit to
the sexually transmitted disease clinic. After
living every bachelor’s nightmare of calling
previous conquests, will Jack learn from his
misdemeanors?
Double Therapy
Don’t Worry Dad
DIRECTOR: Jake Barnes
DIRECTOR: Anna Farthing
Production Company: iBrotha, 19 Kilburn
Lane, London, W10 4AE, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)7974 419 932 fax: +44 (0)20 8932 3513
email: ibrotha@ibrotha.co.uk
web: www.ibrotha.co.uk
Sales Agent: 8 College Road, Clifton, Bristol,
BS8 3JB, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)117 974
4823 email: annafarthing@aol.com
Producer: Anna Farthing. Screenwriters:
Anna Farthing, Peter Kesterton. DoP: Andrew
Kemp. Cast: Richard Ahsam, Mabel Moll,
Adam Dodd.
A story based on an urban myth, told and
retold among parents with young children.
You leave your kid in the car for a minute
and when you come back, she’s gone. Where
is she? What has happened to her? What do
you say to your wife? And if you find her, will
she have changed?
Doctor’s Mark
DIRECTOR: Olivia Smedley
DVD. 43 min
Producer: Alistair Chenery. Screenwriter:
Samuel Donovan. DoP: John Michael Daly.
Cast: Chris Waghorn, Julie Thursham,
Jasmine Maya.
The Door
DIRECTORS: Nick White, Ollie Campbell
35mm. 3 min 47 sec
Production Company: Area 17, 36 Upper
Redlands Road, Reading, RG1 5JP, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)7970 930 029 fax: +44 (0)8701
241 299
email: nick@area17.co.uk
Producers: Nick White, Ollie Campbell.
Screenwriters: Nick White, Ollie Campbell.
DoP: David Raedeker. Cast: Bijan
Daneshmand, Liz Bower, Ivan Ronaldson.
A man and a woman find a sense of
individuality at the door to an exclusive club.
A mysterious, dark, hyperreal film about
identity and superficiality.
Producer: Aidan Williams. Screenwriter: Jake
Barnes. DoP: J P Seresin, Wayne Garbutt.
Cast: Vania Cardoso, Mark Bolton, Bijan
Daneshmand.
An interpreter in a therapy session tries to
get treatment too.
Drifting Under Water
DIRECTOR: Liam Winn
Production Company: 35 Westfields, Sandale
Road, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, PE30 4SB,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7887 731 032, +44
(0)1202 511 862,
email: liamwinn@hotmail.com
Producer: Liam Winn. Screenwriter: Liam
Winn. DoP: Tash Gamper. Cast: Bonita
McKinney, Euan MacNaughton, Maurice
Thorogood, Daryl Webster, Ingrid Evans.
Harriett lives within a feuding community far
out at sea. She is frustrated with her life and
dreams of returning to the mainland; a place
she hasn’t seen since early childhood. She
carries a photograph of a house, and
believing she may still have family there,
stows away on a fuel barge to follow her
dream.
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Dudley’s Ducks
The Early Days
Egg
DIRECTOR: Martin Gent
DIRECTOR: Chris Stevenson
35mm. 10 min 42 sec
DIRECTOR: Clive Richards
35mm. 3 min 44 sec
+44 (0)1494 674 042
Production Company, Sales Agent: First Foot
Films, 5-6 Clipstone Street, London, W1W 6BB.
tel: +44 (0)20 7255 1346
email: contact@firstfootfilms.com
Production Company: All Films Ltd, 3rd Floor,
19 Margaret Street, London, W1W 8RR,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7612 0190
fax: +44 (0)20 7612 0199
email: simon.plant@allfilms.co.uk
12 - 18 Hoxton Square, Shoreditch, London, N1
6NG, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7739 7716
fax: +44 (0)20 7613 4485
Producer: Martin Gent. Screenwriter: Martin
Gent. DoP: Vladimir Trivic. Cast: Andrew
Dunford, Jerome Wright.
Dudley works on a production line, checking
the quality of plastic ducks. He’s meant to
destroy the rejects, but Dudley has different
ideas.
The Duel
DIRECTOR: Simon Beattie
Digibeta. 23 min
Production Company: Prairie Song Films,
4 Manse Lane, Galashiels, TD1 1NB, Scotland,
UK. tel: +44 (0)1896 756 402
email: walt85@hotmail.com
Producer: Brian Devlin. Screenwriter: Brian
Devlin. Cast: Brian Reid, Marc Deans, Robin
Williamson, Jo Jo Sutherland.
Two brothers are accused of attempted
murder following a housebreak. They blame
each other and it’s not clear who’s culpable.
Their lawyer tries to look for a bargaining
position, and a 12th century statute that
entitles co-accused to fight a duel rather that
submit to trial, offers that opportunity.
Dunc & Greg
DIRECTOR: Clive Flowers
35mm. 4 min 36 sec
tel: +44 (0)29 2033 3313 fax: +44 (0)29 2033
3320
Producer: Suzanne Phillips. Screenwriter:
Gareth Hunt. DoP: Rory Taylor. Cast: Arwel
Gruffydd, Morgan Rhys.
Dunc wakes up in a garden shed with his
penis locked in a vice. A practical joke? The
only person he can ask is Greg, and there’s a
decision to make.
Producers: Peter La Terriere, Kenton Allen.
Screenwriter: Paul Waite. DoP: Derek Suter.
Cast: George Yiasoumi, Sukie Smith, TracyAnn Oberman, Ronni Ancona, Keith Allen.
Dexter and Hermione are actors working as
a neanderthal couple in a living history
museum. Their relationship is under strain
and Hermione leaves. Dexter is left to cope
on his own. But not for too long.
Producer: Simon Plant. Screenwriter: Clive
Richards. DoP: Davis Luther. Cast: Neal Wach.
A man turns into an egg and dies.
Eddie Loves Mary
Electra
DIRECTOR: Hannah Rothschild
35mm. 9 min 34 sec
DIRECTOR: Alessandro Carretta
Production Company: Clandestine Films Ltd,
c/o Duncan Heath, ICM, 76 Oxford Street,
London W1, London, UK. tel: +44 (0)7932 040
911 fax: +44 (0)20 7286 2626
email: hannahr@dircon.co.uk
Sales Agent, UK Distributor: Dazzle Films,
Impact Studios, 12-18 Hoxton Square,
Shoreditch, London, N1 6NG, England, UK. tel:
+44 (0)20 7739 7716 fax: +44 (0)20 7613 4485
Production Company: Nightpiece Films,
247 Marlborough Road, Gillingham, Kent, ME7
5HS, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)1634 574 433
email: exittheatre@yahoo.com
Producer: Nicky Kentish Barnes.
Screenwriter: Hannah Rothschild. DoP: David
Katznelson. Cast: Gina McKee, Kevin McNally,
Katrin Cartlidge, Steven Mackintosh.
In a small part of town, graffiti starts
appearing. Eddie loves Mary is sprayed
everywhere. As a result local Eddie’s and
Mary’s start to fall in love. The police and
local TV station vie to find the real Eddie or
Mary. Can you guess who?
Eddie’s Sticky End
DIRECTOR: Martin Gooch
Digibeta. 12 min
Shoreditch, London, N1 6NG, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)20 7739 7716 fax: +44 (0)20 7613
4485
Producer: Martin Gooch. Screenwriter: Martin
Gooch. DoP: Pete Rowe. Cast: Mark Felgate,
Charlie Lemmer, Jason Attar, Lizzie Roper.
Something was eating his lard. Something
weird is happening to Eddie Smallcock.
Perhaps the eccentric Dr Steamchugger and
his beautiful assistant Mrs Heliotrope may
just be able to help…
Producer: Alessandro Carretta. Screenwriter:
Alessandro Carretta. DoP: Alessandro
Carretta. Cast: Anna Martin, Natalie Hill, Paul
Bass, Alessandro Carretta.
Based on the Sophoclean tragedy, newcomer
Alessandro Carretta offers a stylised, nobudget take on the enduring themes of
tragedy and revenge.
Elegy
DIRECTOR: Nigel Kent
16mm. 1 min 30 sec
Production Company: Elodie SA, 2
Westbourne Avenue, Prestwick, Ayrshire, KA9
1JB, Scotland, UK. tel: +44 (0)7950 837 928
email: nigelelodie@hotmail.com
Producers: Nigel Kent, Helen Wright.
Screenwriter: Nigel Kent, based on a poem by
Christina Rossetti. DoP: Amy Newstead. Cast:
Anne Marsham, Arabella Velasco.
An adaptation of a poem by Christina
Rossetti, which explores the impact of death
and unrequited love.
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The Embalmer’s
Daughter
DIRECTOR: Carol White
35mm. 4 min 25 sec
Distributor: Sgrîn - Media Agency for Wales,
The Bank, 10 Mount Stuart Square, Cardiff
Bay, Cardiff, CF10 5EE, Wales, UK. tel: +44
(0)29 2033 3313 fax: +44 (0)29 2033 3320
Short Films
Euston Road
Expectation
DIRECTOR: Toa Stappard
35mm. 8 min
DIRECTORS: Chris Thompson, Simon
O’Doherty
Mini DV. 4 min
Production Company: HRH Productions,
10 Golden Square, London, W1, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)207 439 1155
email: eustonroad@hrhproductions.com
Producer: Bella Bunce. Screenwriter: Tristram
Pye. DoP: Lucy Bristow. Cast: Paul Bettany,
Charlie Condou.
Carol White. DoP: Rory Taylor. Cast: Sally
Richards, Elfed Logi, Jeanette Nelson, Guto
Williams, Francis Jarman.
A fast car. Two men talking in a hotel bar.
Seven questions in eight minutes. It’s 9pm
on Euston Road. Figure it out.
Emily works in a funeral parlour. Lonely and
clinically shy, her hopeless yearning for love
is inflamed by an old man’s passionate
goodbye to his dead wife. Then fate strikes.
Evening Caller
Emotions
UK Distributor: Film U – Film and Moving
Image at Leeds Metropolitan University, 3
Queen Square, Leeds, LS2 8AF, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)113 283 2600 fax: +44 (0)113 283
1901
web: www.lmu.ac.uk
Beta. 6 min 37 sec
(0)1206 535 870
Producer: Sandra Mareska Baid.
Screenwriter: Sandra Mareska Baid.
DoP: Sandra Mareska Baid. Cast: University of
Essex students.
DIRECTOR: Ghassan Abdallah
35mm. 18 min
Producer: Ghassan Abdallah. Screenwriter:
Ghassan Abdallah. DoP: Tanja Koop.
Cast: Tayseer Idress, Najwa Alwan, Iman
Jaber, Hayma Ismael.
Emotions is filmed with different coloured
lenses, to portray how a person experiencing
various emotions sees his surroundings.
Life and death are the only facts of reality.
But human nature tends not to genuinely
accept that! An aging war veteran, a
grandfather and head of his family, tries his
best to apply these facts of life, even if this
leads to a huge sacrifice.
The End
Exit
DIRECTORS: Tim Clayton, Rob Crowther
35mm. 1 min 30 sec
DIRECTOR: Lucy Wallace
Production Company: Mutineer Films,
41 Pembroke Road, Muswell Hill, London, N10
2HX, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 8365 3341
email: info@mutineerfilms.com
web: www.mutineerfilms.com
12 - 18 Hoxton Square, Shoreditch, London, N1
6NG, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7739 7716
fax: +44 (0)20 7613 4485
Production Company: The Arts Institute at
Bournemouth, Wallisdown, Poole, Dorset,
BH12 5HH, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)1202 363
274 fax: +44 (0)1202 537 729
email: psellwood@aib.ac.uk
web: www.aib.ac.uk
Producers: Tim Clayton, Rob Crowther.
Screenwriters: Tim Clayton, Rob Crowther.
DoP: Simon Vickery. Cast: Mike Hayley.
Producer: James Parker. Screenwriters:
James Parker, Lucy Wallace. DoP: Robert
Hodges. Cast: John Hurt, Jane Kahler, Jamie
Lee, Rupert Blake.
In a hotel in 1912 a mysterious old man
entertains guests with an unusual parlour
trick. But is the outcome all that it seems?
Production Company: Insh House, Kincraig
by Kingussie, PH21 1NU, Scotland, UK.
tel: +44 (0)7787 870 634
email: sea_t@rocketmail.com
Screenwriter: Chris Thompson. DoP: Simon
O’Doherty. Cast: Bruno Frayling-Kelly, Sandy
Tait.
“I will get into the next house.” This is the
mantra of the door-to-door salesman, but
this one seems very determined, a little too
determined, to get into the next house.
Eyeliner
DIRECTOR: Michael Tchoubouroff
Production Company: Weeble Films,
30 Hatherley Grove, London, W2 5RB, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)7939 045 163
email: tchoubouroff@yahoo.com
Producer: Michael Tchoubouroff.
Screenwriter: Michael Tchoubouroff.
DoP: Dominik Rippl. Cast: Joe Rainbow, Alex
Perkins, Harriet Halfhead.
This is a story about the nightmare that
surrounds the making of any no-budget film.
The director has never made a film before,
his crew consists of one camera man, actors
walk out or forget their lines, but the
director’s blunt, hyper and naïve personality
will help him through.
f2point8
DIRECTOR: Paul Hills
35mm. 19 min
Production Company: Provocative Pictures,
Suite 215, The Linen Hall, 162-168 Regent
Street, London, W18 5TB, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)207 439 3734 fax: +44 (0)207 734
6839
email: amaranth@amaranth.demon.co.uk
6NG, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7739 7716
fax: +44 (0)20 7613 4485
Producers: Paul Hills, Carole Hayman.
Screenwriter: Carole Hayman. DoP: Roger
Bonnici. Cast: Jody Jameson, Wil Johnson,
Marc Warren.
You have 90 seconds to live... all of you!
An erotic and funny film following a young
woman’s journey from innocence to
experience. Chloe, a naïve young teacher, is
looking for something, though she’s not sure
what.
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Fake Cop Club
Fellow Travellers
First to See the Sun
DIRECTOR: David Fryer
DIRECTOR: Grant Thoburn
DIRECTOR: Joe Tunmer
Digibeta. 9 min
Production Company: Screenworks, Studio
One, 13 Dale Street, Carlisle, CA2 5JT,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7092 374 726
fax: +44 (0)7092 209 617
email: production@screenworks.uk.com
web: www.screenworks.uk.com
Production Company: 4 Tankerville Terrace,
Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE2 3AH, England, UK.
email: gthoburn@yahoo.com
Production Company: Red Film, 9 Cowper
Street, Hove, East Sussex, BN3 5BP, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)7958 921 501
fax: +44 (0)114 249 2293
Producer: Damien Beed. Screenwriter: David
Fryer. DoP: Damien Beed. Cast: Steve
Emmerson, Tom Fisher, Bridget Ladymann.
Chuckle Boy is paranoid and disillusioned,
haunted by the spectre of the elusive
Monkey. He seems destined to live a life of
torment until he finds an amigo in God-Boy.
The two set on a glory quest to find the
Monkey, culminating in the horrific
realisation of all Chuckle Boy’s fears...
A Family Man
DIRECTOR: John Shahnazarian
35mm. 15 min
Production Company: Greenlight Films,
27 Poland Street, London, W1F 8QN, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7292 0610 fax: +44 (0)20
7434 2552
email: richard@greenlightfilms.co.uk
Producers: Richard Wingfield, Tara Fitzgerald.
Screenwriter: Andrew Muir. DoP: Eric
Maddison. Cast: Rupert Penry-Jones, Adam
James.
What lies behind the face that masks the
stranger opposite you? Do you know? Do you
want to know? When that mask is removed
will you be prepared to confront...yourself?
Feetsteps
DIRECTOR: Duncan Nicoll
Production Company: Duck Films, 18 Myrtle
Terrace, Edinburgh, EH11 1PF, Scotland, UK.
tel: +44 (0)131 477 2458
email: zakcopping@hotmail.com
tel: +44 (0)141 302 1700 fax: +44 (0)141 302
1711
Producer: Zack Copping. Screenwriter:
Duncan Nicoll. DoP: Scott Ward. Cast: Russell
Anderson, Liam Brennan, Jenny Ryan, Alec
Purves, Derek Munn.
A nightmarish short which follows Nick
through an increasingly dark night of the
soul. His wife's about to give birth and he's
missed the last train home. If only he hadn't
stayed for that one for the road...
Producer: Northern Film and Media.
Screenwriter: Grant Thoburn. DoP: Tunji
Akinsehinwa. Cast: Fiona MacPherson.
Returning home one evening on the bus, a
librarian recieves some unexpected
attention.
Filling
DIRECTOR: James Brailsford
Beta SP. 7 min
Production Company: Northern Media
School, The Workstation, 15 Paternoster Row,
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S1 2BX, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)114 225 4617 fax: +44 (0)114
225 4606
email: s.sprung@shu.ac.uk
Producer: Catherine Middleton. Screenwriter:
James Brailsford. DoP: Paul Wiseman.
Cast: Tim Wild, Christopher Hallam.
The story of a boy whose fear of the dentist
leads his overactive imagination to run wild
as he waits for his appointment.
Fingers X’d
DIRECTOR: Greg Crutwell
Beta SP. 18 min
Production Company: Head Gear Films,
5 Bianca House, Crondall Street, London, N1
6PS, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7729 6267
fax: +44 (0)20 7729 6263
email: lorissimo@hotmail.com
web: www.headgearfilms.com
Producer: Loris Vigiani. Screenwriter: Greg
Crutwell. DoP: Bon Dickinson. Cast: Nicholas
Woodeson, Collum Convey, Chrissie Cotteril.
A surreal football comedy about two men
who want to be women and a woman who
wants to be a man.
Producer: Richard Landy. Screenwriter: Joe
Tunmer. Cast: Alison Irvine, Randall Berger.
Placed on opposing teams in a vicious game
of street hockey, Alicia and Julian’s
relationship is pushed to its furthest
extreme. In front of a worldwide online
audience of baying gamblers, their love and
respect for each other is tested beyond all
reasonable means.
Fishy
DIRECTOR: Déva Palmier
35mm. 9 min 57 sec
Production Company: Déva Films, 18 Topmast
Point, Westferry Road, Isle of Dogs, London,
E14 8SL, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7987
2353 fax: +44 (0)20 7987 2353
email: deva@devafilms.com
web: www.devafilms.com
Producers: Andreas Thatcher, Déva Palmier.
Screenwriter: Déva Palmier. DoP: Jon Felix.
Cast: Shirley Henderson, Anne Lacy.
As Glenda’s love for her goldfish deepens,
she develops an appetite for fish food and
mimics his fishy movements. Wearing an
orange swimming costume with a black
mark on the back, Glenda colours her skin
orange and tests the water with her toes.
Flood
DIRECTOR: Guy Paterson
Beta SP. 13 min
Production Company: 48 Kelvin Court,
Anniesland, Glasgow, G12 0AE, Scotland, UK.
tel: +44 (0)7989 744 704
email: guy.p@rocketmail.com
Producer: Athena Kalkopoulou. Screenwriter:
David Marks. DoP: Limin Wang.
Cast: Katarina Olsson, Ian Hemmings, Robert
E A Wilson.
Ann is an agoraphobic, forced to venture
outside into her surroundings in search of
her lost cat. On the way she meets a host of
unexpected and unlikely characters as she
learns to face her fears.
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Forest
Friday Night In
Gasp
DIRECTOR: Teresa Murray
Beta SP. 12 min
DIRECTOR: Ruth Coulson
35mm. 8 min
DIRECTOR: Abby Warrilow
Production Company: Envision Women,
1 Warrington Road, Richmond, Surrey, TW10
6SJ, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 8948 3286
email: teresa_murray@lycos.com
Production Company: Rumour Productions,
Ground Floor, 173 Dalling Road, London, W6
0ES, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7932 033 954
fax: +44 (0)20 8749 8810
email: ruth_coulson@hotmail.com/
production@rumourfilms.biz
Production Company: Cagoule Productions,
2F1, 63 Comely Bank Avenue, Edinburgh, EH4
1ET, Scotland, UK. tel: +44 (0)7974 662 817
email: abby@cagouleproductions.tv
web: www.cagouleproductions.tv
Producer: Teresa Murray. Screenwriter: Teresa
Murray. DoP: Teresa Murray. Cast: Arabella
Velasco.
Forest explores the boundaries of identity,
fact and fiction in the portrayal of a woman’s
breakdown after the birth of her child.
Juxtaposing a video-diary with excerpts from
the feminist novella The Yellow Wallpaper,
the film discusses postnatal depression as
symptomatic of society rather than simply
the affected individual.
Producers: Ruth Coulson, Kevin Kolovich.
Screenwriters: Matthew Banks, Ruth Coulson.
DoP: Gavin Struthers. Cast: Richard Coyle,
Flora Montgomery, Claire Goose, Tam
Williams.
At her civilised dinner party Jenny delights
in telling her friends all about her new
perfect boyfriend. Cheryl is single and not so
happy. Unable to listen to the drone of
domestic bliss any longer, she decides to
take matters into her own hands.
Fourteen
DIRECTOR: Daniel Mitelpunkt
Digibeta. 32 min
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
Producer: Daniel Mitelpunkt, Netta Azgad.
Screenwriters: Daniel Mitelpunkt. DoP: Paula
Huidobro. Cast: Daryl Vinall, Mathew Cullum,
Rhiannon Thomas.
Fourteen tells the story of Peter, age
fourteen, and his relationship with his
neurotic cousin and a detached local girl.
While on a two week break in Crawley, West
Sussex he has nothing to do and no
television set with which to play his beloved
Playstation.
Fred’s Mate
DIRECTOR: Richard Platt
Digibeta. 5 min
Production Company, Sales Agent: City Kids
Screenwriting, 37b Ainsworth Road, Hackney,
London, E9 7JE, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20
8985 9133
email: tracy@brabin.freeserve.co.uk
Producer: Tracy Brabin. Screenwriter: Fred
Blundun. DoP: Jason Olive. Cast: Fred
Blundun, David Belcher, Paul Bradley,
Penelope McGhie, Martin Ball.
Fred realises that not enough chess sets are
available in the shops and sets about
changing the situation by visiting a chess set
manufacturing company.
Frozen
DIRECTOR: Emile Guertin
Digibeta. 17 min
+44 (0)1494 674 042
Producer: Mark Riley. Screenwriters: Emile
Guertin, Peter Devonald. Cast: Johan Pearson,
Patrick Ross, Claudial Coulter, Maria
Mortensen.
Producer: Shona Donaldson. Screenwriter:
Abby Warrilow. DoP: Peter Warrilow. Cast: Tara
Hodgson, Peter Russel, Jennifer Patterson.
A film based around the theme of breathing.
With the intention to create dance
choregraphy in sub-zero temperatures,
frozen breath is as visible and important as
the physical movement itself.
Gearhead
DIRECTOR: Joe Magee
Beta SP. 9 min
Production Company: Periphery, 61 Stackpool
Road, Southville, Bristol, BS3 1NL, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)117 902 0550
email: magee@periphery.co.uk
web: www.periphery.co.uk/gearhead
Producer: Joe Magee. Screenwriters: Matt
Kirk, Simon Willis, Nick Giles, Joe Magee.
DoP: Joe Magee. Cast: Matt Kirk.
On a bleak English housing estate, a
disfunctional teenager is living in a loop.
Driven by a daily mission, he will stop at
nothing until it is achieved. Reduced to
being a mere automaton, his mannerisms
become more deranged and absurd as the
day continues, and there's only one thing on
his mind.
A futuristic, urban tale of one man’s journey
into another man’s pain.
Girl on a Cycle
Frozen Assets
DIRECTOR: David Council
Production Company: La Belle Allee
Productions Ltd, 49 Peel Street, Glasgow, G11
5LU, Scotland, UK. tel: +44 (0)141 339 3457
fax: +44 (0)141 339 3457
email: karen@labelleallee.com
web: www.labelleallee.com
tel: +44 (0)141 302 1700 fax: +44 (0)141 302
1711
Producer: Karen Smyth. Screenwriter: Lowri
Garland. DoP: Michael Brennan.
Cast: Katherine Wiles, Alan Oke.
In Frozen Assets, sexy soprano Lucy fends
off omnivorous tenor ‘Il Barolo’ using only
her beautiful voice. Equal parts horror
musical and technicolor silent film, Frozen
Assets is a darkly comic look at the nature of
power and the power of dreams.
DIRECTOR: Rachel Wang
Production Company: Chocolate Films Ltd,
3 Barry Court, Lessar Avenue, London, SW4
9HH, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 8675 9542
fax: +44 (0)20 8675 9542
email: mark@chocolatefilms.com
web: www.chocolatefilms.com
Producer: Mark Currie. Screenwriter: Rachel
Wang. DoP: Alec Mills BSC. Cast: Sean
Hughes, Nicholas Rowe, Sandra Huggett.
Harry hires a private eye to follow his
girlfriend Rose as he can’t handle her
tempermental behaviour. Is she a psycho or
just a girl on a cycle? A homage to 1960’s
thrillers.
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Good Night
DIRECTOR: Chun Sun-Young
35mm. 15 min
tel: +44 (0)113 283 2600 fax: +44 (0)113 283
1901
web: www.lmu.ac.uk
The Greek Man from
Pakistan
DIRECTOR: Nicolas Piere
Digibeta. 9 min
Production Company: Snakeheads
Productions, 46 Park Road, Great Sankey,
Warrington, Cheshire, WA5 3EB, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)7949 636 269
email: nicolaspiere@hotmail.com
Guilty
DIRECTORS: Richard Hull, Robert Hull
Beta. 20 min
Production Company: Block and Ball
Productions, 7 Leyton Road, Southampton,
SO14 0PX, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)7919 427 297
web: www.blockandball.com
Producer: Nicolas Piere. Screenwriter:
Nicolas Piere. DoP: David Read.
Cast: Andreas Philippou, Alan Mitchel, Stuart
Worthington.
Producers: Richard Hull, Robert Hull.
Screenwriters: Richard Hull, Denise Baden.
DoP: Robert Hull. Cast: Chris Brassington,
Gareth Miller, Colin Chaiman, Ruth Gibson,
Spencer Burrows.
A black comedy exploring the torment of a
British born Greek male who is constantly
subject to racial abuse by being mistaken as
a Pakistani.
A young man wakes up in a police cell with
no memory of how he ended up there.
Slowly he begins to piece together
fragmented memories of the previous night.
Green
Haircut Hardman
DIRECTOR: Martyn Pick
DIRECTOR: Graham Ball
Beta SP. 15 min
Production Company: Riverchild Films, c/o
Fragile Films Ltd, 97-99 Dean Street, London,
W1D 3TE, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7287
6200 fax: +44 (0)20 7287 0069
email: stella@riverchildfilms.co.uk
UK Distributor: Bermuda Shorts, 1 Lower
John Street, London, W1F 9DT, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)20 7437 7335 fax: +44 (0)20 7437
7334
email: martyn@bermudashorts.com
web: www.bermudashorts.com
Production Company: S-I-A Films Ltd, 6 Lime
Street, Sutton-In-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire,
NG17 4GB, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)1623 405
731
email: s_i_afilms@nyc.com
Producers: Tanaya Higgins, Iain Thomson
Screenwriter: Vito Rocco. DoP: Simon
Chaudoir Cast: Lewis Hunt, Donald Pelmear
Producer: Phil Burgess. Screenwriter: Patrizia
Sgaravato. DoP: Karl Watkins. Cast: Eira
Griffiths.
Charming black comedy about a shy young
boy who is forced to deal with the death of
his best friend. By using his fertile
imagination and passion for electronics, the
boy temporarily resurrects his friend.
However things start to change when the
dead friend begins to take on a life of his
own.
Emotionally and physically deprived, sixty
five-year-old Lorna welcomes the advances
of her sixty-year-old neighbour, Edwin,
especially when they mean food. But her
thoughts turn to her sixty-year-old husband,
Frank, when she finds out that he has been
deliberately starving her. Enraged, she
satisfies her appetite with a vengeance.
Producer: Yoav Factor. Screenwriter: Chun
Sun-Young. DoP: Anne Boyle. Cast: In-sook
Chappel, Dolly Nkem Unachukwu, Amy
Barbara Elyrod.
A young Korean student feels isolated
studying in Britain. In her part-time job as a
care assistant she finds her co-workers
aggrevating and the residents maddening.
Oppressed and tired, she longs for home.
Goodbye Cruel World
DIRECTOR: Vito Rocco
35mm. 11 min 30 sec
The Goodbye Plane
The Guest
DIRECTOR: David Bartlett
35mm. 20 min
DIRECTOR: Simon Overton
35mm. 16 min
Production Company: Kewhaven Pictures,
17 Dover Terrace, Sandycombe Road, Kew,
Surrey, TW9 2EF, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20
8940 5759/+44 (0)7867 548 252
email: wilpoole@hotmail.com
web: www.kewhavenpictures.com
Sales Agent: Dawn Sharpless, Dazzle Films,
+44 (0)20 7739 7716 fax: +44 (0)20 7613 4485
email: dawn@dazzlefilms.co.uk
+44 (0)1494 674 042
Producer: Will Poole. Screenwriter: David
Bartlett. DoP: Andy Jackson. Cast: Edward
Hardwicke, Dudley Sutton, Adam Rayner.
An elderly organist mourns the death of a
young ballet dancer. After pressure, he
reveals how he deserted the love of his life
when he was a Spitfire pilot during the war.
Producer: Irena Taskovski. Screenwriter:
Simon Overton. DoP: James Morton-Haworth.
Cast: Ged Simmons, Paul Moriarty, Glenna
Morrison.
Alec, an unemployed professional, helps his
wife Kathy run a bed and breakfast. A new
guest, Mr Kirkwood, a charming
businessman, arrives and unleashes deep
feelings of jealousy and paranoia from some
dark corner of Alec’s mind.
Producers: Graham Ball, Rob Kingsbury, Kane
Williams. Screenwriter: Graham Ball. DoP:
Jonathan Padley. Cast: Brett Penny, Scott
Smith, Brian Jones.
Tony Baxter is a man on the edge, beaten
down by the world. Determined to re-affirm
his worth, he tracks his self imposed
nemesis across a nocturnal London, for one
final showdown.
The Hairy Eyeball
DIRECTOR: Marcus Baron
Beta SP. 10 min
Production Company: 21 Spring House,
Margery Street, London, WC1X OHT, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)207 833 0455
email: marcus.baron@virgin.net
Producer: Baron McGing. Screenwriter:
Marcus Baron. DoP: Alistair Meaux.
Cast: Paul Simper, Paul Puttner, Nigel Barret.
You are about to enter the world of the
deeply unusual. A disorientating,
Kafkaesque nightmare. A condemned
dungeon of distasteful vanity where comedy
meets conceptual art. A displaced colony of
the bizzare where no prisoners are taken and
your wildest, most unpleasant hallucinations
come vividly to life.
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Hard Labour
Hear No Evil
Heckled
DIRECTOR: Oliver Krimpas
Digibeta. 10 min
DIRECTOR: Amanda Mundin
Digebeta. 10 min
DIRECTOR: Jessica Raine
Beta SP. 10 min
Production Company: Wiggin-O'Neal Films,
26a Compton Avenue, Brighton, BN1 3PN.
tel: +44 (0)7971 000 017
email: mail@alexoneal.co.uk
web: www.wigginoneal.co.uk
Workstation, 15 Paternoster Row, Sheffield, S1
2BX, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)114 221 0569
fax: +44 (0)114 249 2293
Production Company: Wellington Films Ltd,
Broadway Media Centre, 14-8 Broad Street,
Nottingham, NG1 3AL, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)115 840 0043 fax: +44 (0)115 840 0484
email: al@wellingtonfilms.co.uk
web: www.wellingtonfilms.co.uk
Production Company: Buddy Diver
Productions, 1, 1F1, South Oxford Street,
Edinburgh, EH8 9QF, Scotland, UK. tel: +44
(0)131 662 0128
email: pumpkin_jess@hotmail.com
Producer: Alex O’Neal. Screenwriter: Lucy
Floyd. DoP: Julian Pugh-Cook. Cast: Alice
Evans, Zelda Tinska, Dominic Mafham.
Two women fall pregnant by the same man,
but who will be left holding the baby?
The Hare
DIRECTOR: Elaine McChesney
Beta SP. 11 min
Production Company: Angel Jumps
Productions, Flat 1/R, 1 Buchanan Terrace,
Oban, PA34 5DF, Scotland, UK. tel: +44
(0)1631 564 414
email: madelaine@globalnet.co.uk
Producer: Elaine McChesney. Screenwriter:
Elaine McChesney. DoP: Ray Tallan. Cast: Carl
Pickard, Heather Dick, Christopher Thompson.
A soldier happens upon legendary rebel The
Hare. On seeing him hanged from a tree, the
rebel’s lover exacts her misfired revenge.
Harold the Amazing
Contortionist Pig
DIRECTOR: Carl Prechezer
35mm. 8 min 18 sec
Production Company: First Foot Films Ltd,
Bolsover House, 5-6 Clipstone Street, London,
W1W 6BB, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7255
1346 fax: +44 (0)20 7636 5222
web: www.firstfootfilms.com
Producers: Peter La Terriere, Kenton Allen,
Kirstie Macleod. Screenwriter: Ewan Kilgour.
DoP: Philippe Piffeteau. Cast: Charles De’ath,
Adrian McLoughin, Nicholas Chagrin, John
Benfield, Josephine Butler.
Harold and the Amazing Contortionist Pig is
a wonderfully comic tale of trotters, jam jars,
and a lioness called Linda.
Producers: Al Clark, Rachel Robey.
Screenwriter: Amanda Mundin. DoP: Neil
Roberts. Cast: Nick Gallagher, Deepa Shastri,
Mark Whiteley.
Dave is a hapless electrician who stumbles
into Aisha, a seemingly suicidal deaf woman,
whilst on a routine call out. Filled with pity,
he decides that he must save her. Is she the
damsel in distress that he believes her to be,
or is he the one in need of tender loving
care?
Heaven
DIRECTOR: Sam Bennetts
Digibeta. 11 min
Production Company: Igloo, 5 Carlisle Street,
Soho, London, W1D 3BL, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)20 7734 0698 fax: +44 (0)20 7437
2260.
email: giles@iglooprod.com
Producer: Giles Skillicorn. Screenwriter: Sam
Bennetts. DoP: Tom Spark. Cast: Rose Bryne,
Toby Schmitz.
Angie and Davie are in love. However, the
mood is tainted by their conversation about
death. We witness Davie’s perspective of
Angie’s death and he blames himself. He is
traumatised by the loss of her. Guilt
overwhelmes him and he takes his own life.
Heavenly
DIRECTOR: Michael Wright
Digibeta. 10 min
Production Company: Michael Wright
Productions, 19 Etloe Road, Westbury Park,
Bristol, B56 7NZ, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)117
923 9418 fax: +44 (0)117 946 7318
email: hi6iki@dial.pipex.com
Producers: Abbie Ross, John Woolley.
Screenwriter: Michael Wright. DoP: Peter
Sorg. Cast: Clive Kneller, Michelle Bunyan,
Richard Laing, Jonathan Barraclouch.
Deep in the basement of the Grand Hotel, a
lone dishwasher attempts to deal with an
impossible workload of dirty dishes. His
routine of drudgery is broken when he falls
in love with an angel who appears in a TV
commercial for washing up liquid…
Screenwriters: Steve Tanner, Jon Keene.
Cast: Grey Cleugh, Iain Mossman.
Tuckwell can’t sleep. Take a peek at what
goes on in his mind and his flat as we follow
him through one night of frustration. This is
his journey, where his every feeling is echoed
by the strong soundtrack. Will Tuckwell ever
find peace?
Hello, Friend
DIRECTOR: Graham Linehan
35mm. 11 min 38 sec
1346 fax: +44 (0)20 7636 5222
Producers: Peter La Terriere, Kenton Allen.
Screenwriters: Graham Linehan, Robert
Popper. DoP: Neve Cunningham. Cast: Martin
Savage, Helen Grace.
Hello, Friend charts the sinister workings of
a piece of computer software called Praemus
which appears to have a mind of its own.
A very funny horror film.
Hello Son
DIRECTOR: Richard Pawelko
35mm. 3 min 55 sec
Distributor: Sgrîn - Media Agency for Wales,
The Bank, 10 Mount Stuart Square, Cardiff
Bay, Cardiff, CF10 5EE, Wales, UK. tel: +44
(0)29 2033 3313 fax: +44 (0)29 2033 3320
Richard Pawelko. DoP: Rory Taylor. Cast: Chris
Conway, Sharon Little, Bob Blythe.
When Dad contacts his son to ask how Mum
is getting on, the last thing anyone expects
are two dead bodies and a communication
breakdown.
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Heroes
Hit & Run
Hook, Line and Stinker
DIRECTOR: Jimmy McAleavey
35mm. 8 min 50 sec
DIRECTORS: Sebastian Smith, Richard Stiles
Beta SP. 4 min
DIRECTOR: John Hoare
Production Company: Hot Shot Films Ltd,
37-39 Queen Street, Belfast, BT1 6EA, N.
Ireland, UK. tel: +44 (0)28 9031 3332 fax: +44
(0)28 9032 6608
Production Company: Groovy Badger, Po Box
39002, London, E2 9YP, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)7831 431 019 fax: +44 (0)870 124 5135
email: info@jackandjill.tv
web: www.jackandjill.tv
Production Company: Lighthouse Pictures,
89 Mayfield Road, London, N8 9LN, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)20 8374 6847 fax: +44 (0)20
8374 6924
email: john@mandy.com
web: www.mandy.com/hls
Producer: Brendan Byrne. Screenwriter:
Jimmy McAleavey. DoP: John T Davis.
Cast: Jimmy Doran, Lalor Roddy, Laine Megan,
Calum Whyte, Sean Kearns.
Heroes is a moving story about a young
Belfast boy looking for a role model in an
age when heroes do not seem to exist, and
those who you take to be heroic are not what
they seem.
Hide and Seek
DIRECTOR: Nicolas Demetriou
16mm. 10 min
Production Company: Kilmaurs Films Ltd,
9 Kilmaurs Road, Edinburgh, EH16 5DA,
Scotland, UK. tel: +44 (0)7718 166 756
email: hsfilm@hotmail.com
Producer: Joanna McKinlay. Screenwriter:
Nicolas Demetriou. DoP: Emily Upton.
Cast: Alix Moumtzis, Mem Ferda, Ben Brown.
A fantasy stricken woman’s desire for
escape. From her self-imposed captivity, an
impossible love may be her only salvation.
Highly Strung
DIRECTOR: Tim Frewer
Production Company: Finest Hour
Productions, Top Flat, 56 Blomfield Road,
London, W9 2PD, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20
7286 8461 fax: +44 (0)20 7286 8461
email: tim@fhpltd.demon.co.uk
Producer: Tim Frewer. Screenwriter: Tim
Frewer. DoP: Gerry Dawson. Cast: Sophie
Turner, David Griffiths, Diana Marchmont, Lee
Walker.
David and Suzy are having an affair when
the shit hits the fan at the local tennis club.
When the couple are forced to play each
other in the annual mixed doubles
tournament, their lies and infidelities are
painfully exposed.
Producers: Sebastian Smith, Richard Stiles.
Screenwriter: Richard Stiles. DoP: Sebastian
Smith, Richard Stiles. Cast: Claudia Duffy,
David Rooney, Patrick Walton.
A Good Samaritan stops to help a girl who is
lying in the middle of the road. But he is
unaware that things are not what they seem.
Someone waits in the darkness. Someone
with a video camera.
The Hitchhiking Game
DIRECTOR: Shane Davey
Production Company: Ex-matelot Films,
1 Kemerton Road, London, SE5 9AP, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)7974 757 645
email: grendalpr@aol.com
Producer: Pippa Suren. Screenwriter: Nikki
Heywood. DoP: Talal Khoury. Cast: Laura
Donaghey, Jean David Beroard.
A young couple on the first day of their
vacation begin a sexual role playing game
that starts innocently. However, as they begin
to recognise previously unseen and darker
facets of each other’s personalities, the
game takes a dangerous and sinister turn.
Home
Producer: John Hoare. Screenwriter: Maureen
Campbell. DoP: David Langan. Cast: Lorraine
Pilkington, Ruairi Conaghan, Joseph
Monaghan.
Hook, Line and Stinker is a character-driven
comedy set in London’s Irish community.
Eight year-old Dan must decide: is his
mother’s new boyfriend a friend or foe? The
answer is in the fish.
Horroresque-RetroBattle-Fest: The Pitch
DIRECTOR: Sarah Tripp
Digibeta. 3 min
Production Company: Vehicle, 197 Garrioch
Road, Glasgow, G20 8RL, Scotland, UK.
tel: +44 (0)141 946 8918
email: info@sarahtripp.com
web: www.lovefastvehicles.com
Producer: Sarah Tripp. Screenwriters: Sarah
Tripp, Jenny Brownrigg. DoP: Simon Vicory.
Cast: Ewan Robb, James Gilbert, Andrew
Donaldson.
This is the final rehearsal for the perfect
pitch about the ultimate war movie.
Visualised through a combination of digital
video and 3D animation this micro-movie is
about an AWOL film and an AWOL film
maker.
DIRECTOR: Christina Ioakimidi
16mm. 21 min 2 sec
tel: +44 (0)20 7836 9642 fax: +44 (0)20 7497
3718
web: www.lfs.org.uk
Producer: Tania Meneguzzi. Screenwriter:
Christina Ioakimidi. DoP: Andreas Garces.
Cast: Holly Denoon, Mike Chomiack.
The portrait of Ellie, a dreamy, fragile
character balancing on the line between
reality and fantasy, is trying to answer
questions concerning love, commitment,
marriage and family.
The Host
DIRECTOR: Simon Hynd
Digibeta. 10 min
Production Company: Simple Films,
13/7 Lochrin Terrace, Edinburgh, EH3 9QL,
Scotland, UK. tel: +44 (0)131 229 9336
email: simon@simplefilms.org.uk
web: www.simplefilms.org.uk
+44 (0)20 7739 7716 fax: +44 (0)20 7613 4485
Producer: Sanna Pajula. Screenwriter: Simon
Hynd. DoP: Simon Hynd. Cast: Niall Fulton,
Matthew Bill Boyd, Christopher Stevenson,
Cara Jane Roberts, Lee Scott.
A disturbed comedy. The host’s home has
been descended upon by a group of
uninvited guests. He tries his best to protect
himself until making an abominable
aquaintance. As they get to know each other
it transpires that they share more in common
than the host would care to admit.
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Hot Dog
DIRECTOR: Crispin Whittell
35mm. 15 min
Production Company: Watermark Films,
c/o 89 Linden Gardens, London, W2 4EX,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7770 964 210
email: harriet@angeleye.co.uk
Producer: Crispin Whittell. Screenwriter:
Crispin Whittell. DoP: Sam Garwood.
Cast: Tim McInnerny, Stephen Mangan, Pippa
Haywood.
“You’re in charge of the meat remember?”
The neighbours are coming round for supper.
Geoffrey’s making the stroganoff. This is a
sweetly sick comedy of parenthood, pest
control and a dog that won’t stop barking.
House to Rob
DIRECTOR: Lesley Syme
Beta SP. 4 min
Production Company: 38 Sherwood Road,
Croydon, CR0 7DH, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)20 8656 9525
email: lesley.syme@btopenworld.com
Producer: Kate O’Hearn. Screenwriter: Anton
Gitsov. DoP: Eddie Taylor. Cast: Barry
Robinson, Daniel Dempster, Lenny Love, Alex
Conadcare, Byron Thomas.
A homeowner invites intruders into his home
with bizarre results.
How Do You Kill A Dog
DIRECTORS: Ross McNicol, Ewan McNicol
Production Company: 2FR, 67 Warrender Park
Road, Edinburgh, EH9 1ES, Scotland, UK.
tel: +44 (0)7813 888 761email:
ewanmcnicol@hotmail.com
Producers: Ross McNicol, Ewan McNicol.
Screenwriters: Ross McNicol, Ewan McNicol.
DoP: Ewan McNicol. Cast: Phoebe Mercedes
Fox, Simon March.
A man’s personality is in a state of flux –
from moral apathy to an intense fear of
being judged. In the English countryside he
finds himself with a girl and a chihuahua.
Short Films
How to Tell When a
Relationship is Over
DIRECTOR: Tony Roche
Digibeta. 6 min
Production Company: Tony Roche
Productions, 14 Franconia Road, Clapham,
London, SW4 9ND, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)7931 901 708
email: tony.roche@bbc.co.uk
+44 (0)20 7739 7716 fax: +44 (0)20 7613 4485
Producer: Jim Spencer. Screenwriter: Tony
Roche. DoP: Dan Rack. Cast: Julian Barratt,
Susan Earl, Grant Gillespie.
The story of a couple splitting up in fifteen
different ways.
How We Met
DIRECTOR: Rachel Mathews
Production Company: Rough Sea
Productions, 191 Trewhitt Road, Heaton,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 5DY, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)191 224 4301
email: marklavender@btinternet.com
Sales Agent: 3 Watergate Building,
58 Sandhill, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3RG,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)191 230 4078
email: rachel@mathews11.freeserve.co.uk
Producer: Mark Lavender. Screenwriter:
Rachel Mathews. DoP: Sam McCurdy.
Cast: Emily Barber, Karl Thompson.
In the battle of the sexes, who ultimately
wins? Sean hides in Catlin’s roof and films
her with her stolen camcorder. When Caitlin
realises she is being watched she decides to
turn the table on her voyeur.
I Can Feel the Distance
DIRECTOR: Pearl Howie
Beta SP. 3 min
Production Company: Flying Maching Films
Ltd, 22 Keats Close, Mead Park, Wimbledon,
London, SW19 1TU, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)20 8543 3635 fax: +44 (0)20 8543 3635
email: flyingmachinefilms@hotmail.com
Producer: Pearl Howie. DoP: Pearl Howie.
Cast: Sally Reeve.
I Can Feel the Distance uses simple
techniques to illustrate the breakdown in
communication in a long distance
relationship.
I’m Not Going
DIRECTOR: Vesna Cudic
35mm. 15 min
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)1494 731 457
fax: +44 (0)1494 674 042
Producer: Camilla Bray. Screenwriter: Melanie
Martinez. DoP: Sarah Bartles-Smith. Cast:
Mariline Pienaar, Rebecca Egan, Simon
Coates, Jade Carpenter, Orla Lavery.
That was the year we were going to the
seaside for our summer holiday. But
something always happened whenever we
tried to do anything together.
iBrotha
DIRECTOR: Jake Barnes
Production Company: iBrotha, 19 Kilburn
Lane, London, W10 4AE, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)7974 419 932 fax: +44 (0)20 8932 3513
email: ibrotha@ibrotha.co.uk
web: www.ibrotha.co.uk
Producer: Aidan Williams. Screenwriter: Jake
Barnes. DoP: J P Seresin. Cast: Neil Rayment,
Nick Ewans, Ashvin Joshi.
A white man defends Macintosh computers
using the tactics of Malcolm X.
In Sight
DIRECTOR: Asitha Ameresekere
Digibeta. 17 min
Production Company: Wanna Play Ltd,
70 Hartley Down, Purley, Surrey, CR8 4EB,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7808 768 496
fax: +44 (0)20 7321 4060
email: mu@wanna-play.co.uk
web: www.wanna-play.co.uk
Producer: Mu Ali. Screenwriters: Asitha
Ameresekere, Mu Ali. DoP: Chris Collingridge.
Cast: James Schumann, Susannah Coster.
In Sight is about a man who decides to see
things differently. Over 24 hours he must
choose between continuing to face these
new challenges or return to his old way of
life. His experiences are mirrored by
interviews with ordinary people facing
similar questions in their own lives.
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Incident 55
Interloper
Jetpac Willy
DIRECTOR: Joe Rosen
Beta SP. 10 min
DIRECTOR: Robert Ford
35mm. 7 min 40 sec
DIRECTOR: David Palmer
35mm. 10 min
Production Company: The Picture Press,
49 Parkholme Road, London, E8 3AQ, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)7949 854 671
email: sinclairwill@hotmail.com
Production Company: 16 Irwell Grove, Eccles,
Manchester, M30 0ES, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)7801 845 805, +44 (0)7973 192 918
fax: +44 (0)161 789 3182
email: producer@interloperfilms.com
web: www.interloperfilms.com
Production Company: Lithium Films,
176a Braemar Avenue, London, NW10 0DS,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7711 318 838
email: super8dave@hotmail.com
Sales Agent, UK Distributor: Britshorts Ltd,
25 Beak Street, London, W1F 9RT, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7734 2277 fax: +44 (0)20
7734 2242
Producer: Joe Rosen. Screenwriter: Joe
Rosen. DoP: Nic Schroeder. Cast: Nick Ewans,
Ed Sanders.
Whilst fishing on the bank of a canal, Trev
tests a new super-bait and waxes lyrical on
it’s virtues. Rocky shows little interest until a
monster from the depths sinks it’s teeth into
more than just the bait.
Producer: Erinma Ochu. Screenwriter: Erinma
Ochu. DoP: Nanu Segal. Cast: Chris Jack,
Claire Lever, Tom Sharkey, Gina Lamb, Jim
Whelan.
Interloper (in-ter-lop-er) – a noun
1. an intruder.
2. a person who interferes in others’ affairs,
especially for profit.
Inside an Uncle
DIRECTOR: David Cairns
35mm. 9 min 22 sec
Production Company: Sprocketeers Ltd,
113/6 Leith Walk, Edinburgh, EH6 8NP,
Scotland, UK. tel: +44 (0)131 554 4539
email: sprocketeers@hotmail.com
George Street, Glasgow, G2 4QE, Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)141 302 1700 fax: +44 (0)141 302
1711
Producer: Claire Kerr. Screenwriter: David
Cairns. DoP: Scott Ward. Cast: Richard
Callan, Jack Richardson, Robert Findlay.
A freewheeling comedy where we learn
literally what we already know.
Metaphorically – inside every adult there is a
child working the controls. Seven year-old
Gavin discovers that his babysitter, Uncle
Bob, has a small boy inside him, making him
work. What happens when Gavin decides
that he wants a go?
Inside Out
DIRECTOR: Oliver Knott
35mm. 20 min
Production Company: OK Films Ltd,
Colebrook House, Pembury Road, Tonbridge,
Kent, TN11 0QD, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)1892 822 239 fax: +44 (0)1892 822 464
email: sam@ok-films.com
Producers: Samantha Schubert, Harry
Rushton. Screenwriter: Bader Ben Hirsi.
DoP: David Byrne. Cast: Louiza Patikas, Aden
Gillet, Bob Mercer.
Alone in a large country house, Laura starts
to see and hear things. As night falls her
psychosis intensifies, leading to a shattering
and terrifying discovery.
Ironic
DIRECTOR: Rouzie Hassanova
Production Company: VTR Ltd,
64 Dean Street, Soho, London, W1D 4QQ,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7437 0026
fax: +44 (0)20 7439 9427
email: ruzie46@hotmail.com
Producer: Rouzie Hassanova. Screenwriter:
Rouzie Hassanova. DoP: Roz Shearn.
Cast: Jon Paul Hevey, Alexandra Ruffin, Greg
Friend, Rouzie Hassanova.
Ironic illuminates the complexity of human
emotions when it comes to love. The short
comedy drama is about that one chance that
you might have to do the right thing by
someone. A touching and disturbing true
story.
Jeff Farnsworth
Producer: David Palmer. Screenwriter: David
Palmer. DoP: Ross McLennan, Mark Barrs.
Cast: Oliver Milburn, Tim Vine, Zöe Faithfull.
Jetpac Willy has a dream, a mouse and a
launch program. When tragedy turns his
world and bedroom upside down, flatmates
Saskia and Eric help keep him on track. Can
disappointment lead to triumph? Can sexual
healing build a bridge to the cosmos? “We
are all lying in the gutter but some of us are
looking at the stars”
The Job
DIRECTOR: Stephen Lloyd Jackson
Digibeta. 13 min
Production Company: Droplip Productions,
1a Gassiot Road, Tooting Broadway, London,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7956 432 684
email: droplippro@hotmail.com
Producers: Stephen Lloyd Jackson, Lauren
Pushkin. Screenwriter: Stephen Lloyd
Jackson. DoP: Nathan A Sheppard. Cast: Toby
Bowman, Jon Campling, Dayne Beccand.
The Job is a fast action, short film about a
gang planning their next job. With names
like Slash and Jimmy Fingers the characters
make for a gripping testosterone driven tale
with a twist.
DIRECTOR: Paul Cotter
Production Company: Riverchild Films,
c/o Fragile Films Ltd, 97-99 Dean Street,
London, W1D 3TE, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20
7287 6200 fax: +44 (0)20 7287 0069
email: stella@riverchildfilms.co.uk
Producer: Marie Frick. Screenwriter: Bruce
Terris. DoP: Alan Thatcher. Cast: Joe Calarco,
Rich Komenich, Dan Flannery.
They say it pays to be persistent. Ross is in
the wrong job. He’s a middle-class kid trying
to be a bouncer at a nightclub. The harder he
tries to succeed, the harder his struggle
becomes. Can persistence succeed where
aptitude fails?
Jogger
DIRECTOR: Tariq Ali
Digibeta. 10 min
Cardiff Bay, Cardiff, CF10 5EE, Wales, UK. tel:
+44 (0)29 2033 3313 fax: +44 (0)29 2033 3320
Producer: Tariq Ali. Screenwriter: Tariq Ali.
DoP: Guto Wynn Jones. Cast: Shahid Ahmed,
Sian McDowall, Huw Rhys, Rhys Morris.
The Jogger follows the experiences and
thoughts of a Muslim taxi driver as he goes
on his nightly run. His run allows him to
work through the experiences of his day and
the feeling about the world around him post
September 11th.
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Jubilee Pool
Knock Knock
Lament
DIRECTOR: Nick Harpley
Digibeta. 5 min
DIRECTOR: Sam Noor
DIRECTOR: Graham Eatough
Production Company: Aurora Digital Films,
Trenarlett, St Tudy, Bodmin, Kernow, PL30 3PR,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)1208 851 810
email: beatrix@aurorafilms.demon.co.uk
UK Distributor: South West Screen, St.
Bartholomews Court, Lewins Mead, Bristol,
BS1 5BT, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)117 952
9977 fax: +44 (0)117 952 9988
email: info@swscreen.co.uk
web: www.swscreen.co.uk
Production Company: Noor Dattani,
43 Stone Crescent, Bedfont, Middlesex, TW14
9PH, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7957 482 722
email: noor_dattani@yahoo.co.uk
web: www.noordattani.co.uk
Production Company: Gerard Sampaio,
Scotland, UK. tel: +44 (0)7957 272 032
email: gerard@sampaio.com
Producer: Beatrix A Milburn. Screenwriter:
Nick Harpley. DoP: Andrew Trewartha.
Cast: Mark Pearce, Sky Neal.
At the end of his performance, a concert
pianist is caught in a moment, full of
narcissistic anxiety, awaiting the rapturous
applause. He finds himself in a different
place, interstitial and hyper-real.
K
DIRECTOR: Yann Caloghiris
Beta SP. 13 min
Production Company: Scarabee Films,
93 Beresford Road, London, N8 0AG, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)7973 729 011
email: info@kthemovie.com
web: www.kthemovie.com
Producer: Leonie Simmons. Screenwriters:
Yann Caloghiris, Tom Leader, Elliot Jenkins,
Nathan Walker.
DoP: Nathan Walker. Cast: Alisdair McKee,
Graham Bill, Samantha Eden, Ella Azad, Leona
Walker.
Finding refuge in his diary, a grieving son
writes about his maddening obsession with
the sea faring myth ‘K’. Years later his diary
is found by an old seaman.
Killing Time
DIRECTOR: Zadoc Nava
35mm. 8 min
Production Company: Sonatine Films,
3 Roydon Mansions, 32 Junction Road,
London, N19 5RE, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20
7272 6893 fax: +44 (0)20 7281 5843
email: zadoc.nava@virgin.net
Producer: Tim Katz. Screenwriter: Zadoc
Nava. DoP: Tony Miller. Cast: Anna Wilson
Jones, Ewart James Walters.
Killing time is a dark, tense, noirish
encounter about loyalty, morality, race and
unspoken desire between a young prostitute
and a mini-cab driver. Compelling, stylish
and intriguing, the film is an unusual take on
the comfort of strangers.
Producer: Meera Dattani. Screenwriter: Sam
Noor. DoP: Jun Keung Cheung. Cast: Christie
Miller, Meera Dattani, Sam Noor.
House hunting was never meant to be easy.
But sometimes you might get more than you
bargained for...
The Knowledge
Producer: Gerard Sampaio. Screenwriter:
Graham Eatough. DoP: Ray Tallan. Cast: Paul
Blair.
In this bittersweet comedy, we observe a
relationship in its final death throws. Told
entirely from the point of view of one who
has chosen to end the relationship, we watch
through her eyes as her former partner first
feigns indifference to the situation and then
starts to reveal his true feelings.
DIRECTOR: Steff Penny
Digibeta. 10 min
The Landlord
2BX, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)114 221 0569
fax: +44 (0)114 249 2293
DIRECTOR: Paula Simms
Beta SP. 30 min
Producer: Miranda Robinson. Screenwriter:
Steff Penny. Cast: Tobias Menzies, Lucy
Russell.
Carrie and David plan the perfect fling. She
suggests they tell each other their sexual
preferences, but when it’s his turn, he just
can’t. Carrie manipulates David into
recording his fantasies, but we realise Carrie
has other plans in her mind.
Kurb
DIRECTOR: Simon Gretton
Beta SP. 9 min
Production Company: 63a Barmouth Road,
London, SW18 2DT, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)20 8877 0914
email: kpms.gretton@virgin.net
Production Company: First Take Ltd, 13 Hope
Street, Liverpool, L1 9BH, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)151 708 5767 fax: +44 (0)151 709
2613
email: lynne@first-take.demon.co.uk
web: www.first-take.demon.co.uk
Producer: Lynne Harwood. Screenwriters:
Sarah Subhani, Andrew Ness. DoP: Jane
Marie Fagan. Cast: Martyn Avery-Williams,
Samantha Barron, Adam Baird, Glen Eagle,
Maria Paul.
Friends. We all have them, we all need them.
But how strong are our relationships? Three
groups of students are about to find out as
the landlord puts their loyalties to the test.
The Last Days Of
Dobson
DIRECTOR: William Sinclair
Producer: Anthea Benjamin. Screenwriter:
Simon Gretton. DoP: Emma Strain.
Cast: Christina Cuttel, Jessica Cornish, Glen
Cuttel, Barry Home.
Production Company: The Picture Press,
49 Parkholme Road, London, E8 3AQ, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)7949 854 671
email: sinclairwill@hotmail.com
Kurb is a short drama about a group of
teenagers hanging around in an inner
London car park. Over the course of a
volatile day, dark aspects of teenage
behaviour become unmasked.
Producer: William Sinclair. Screenwriter:
William Sinclair. DoP: Marcus Domleo.
Cast: Sue Scott Davidson, Nicola
Cunningham, Jonathan Reason.
A young girl is tied up in an unknown
location. Detective Dobson visits the girl’s
mother, boyfriend and grandfather. The girl is
being kept in a man’s attic. The man is
revealed to be Dobson’s husband.
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Last Night
Learning to Drown
Lift
DIRECTOR: Murray Buesst
DIRECTOR: Paul Harrison
Digibeta. 8 min
DIRECTORS: Duncan Rennie, Will Andrews
Beta SP. 1 min
Production Company: 34 Leverton Street,
London, NW5 2PG, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)20 7485 4029
email: murray.buesst@freeuk.com
2BX, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)114 221 0569
fax: +44 (0)114 249 2293
Production Company: My Girlfriend’s
Productions, 3F1 1 Marchmont Street,
Edinburgh, EH9 1EJ, Scotland, UK. tel: +44
(0)7803 130 701
email: duncan@edinburghmediabase.com
Producer: Murray Buesst. Screenwriter:
Murray Buesst. DoP: Murray Buesst.
Cast: John DiBenedetto, Shelton Rose, Craig
Di Francia.
On his final beat before retiring, a New York
cop comes across a young black kid drinking
in the park. The encounter touches them
both in a way that neither could have
foreseen.
The Last Waltz
DIRECTOR: Matt Brereton
Production Company: iCue Productions,
2/7 Academy Street, Edinburgh, EH6 7EE,
Scotland, UK. tel: +44 (0)7974 446 229
email: iceproductions@hotmail.com
Producer: Ben Fleming. DoP: Sophia
Antonatou. Cast: Stephen Collins, Sarah
Seizbach, Stewart Laing.
A dark story of love, betrayal, passion,
jealousy and a duel to the death. Two starcrossed young lovers take a trip to the
fairground, and fall under the menacing
shadow of Eugene Onegin. Stop this ride,
I want to get off.
Lazarus
Producer: Mark Lavender. Screenwriter: Paul
Harrison.
Producers: Duncan Rennie, Will Andrews.
DoP: Edward Edwards. Cast: Will Andrews,
Peter Boggon, Garth Cruikshank, Ewan John.
An atmospheric monologue. A woman
wanders a beach and remembers with pain
and happiness, her past.
You know that effect that happens to your TV
when a mobile phone goes off near it? Well,
this poor bastard suffers the same fate.
Left Turn
Listening
DIRECTOR: Sean Ellis
35mm. 15 min
DIRECTOR: Kenneth Branagh
35mm. 23 min
Production Company: Ugly Duckling Films,
1a Hollywood Road, London, SW10 9HS,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7376 7730
fax: +44 (0)20 3767 806
email: wli@post.harvard.edu
web: www.uglyducklingfilms.com
Sales Agent: BFI - British Film Institute,
21 Stephen Street, London, W1T 1LN, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7255 1444 fax: +44 (0)20
7580 5830
email: john.flahive@bfi.org.uk
web: www.bfi.org.uk
Sales Agent: Hofflund Polone, 9465 Wilshire
Boulevard, Suite 820, Beverly Hills, California,
90212, USA. tel: +1 310 432 1463
fax: +1 310 859 7250
email: berwick@hofflundpolone.com
Producer: Lene Bausager. Screenwriter: Sean
Ellis. DoP: Alex Barber. Cast: Lucy Russell,
Andy Tiernan, Heather Jay Jones.
Julie has a bad dream. Is it an omen of
something that is rapidly approaching to
destroy her waking life?
Producers: David Barron, Malory Clifford.
Screenwriter: Kenneth Branagh. DoP: Alex
Thomson BSC. Cast: Frances Barber, Paul
McGann, Nanette Newman.
The story concerns life at a spiritual retreat
where a man and a woman encounter one
another whilst searching for their own inner
peace. The values of the house require that
they do not speak. Their relationship
becomes painfully complicated as a result.
Listening is a poignant, bittersweet romance.
Little Big Head
DIRECTOR: Abigail Docherty
Life’s a Beach
Production Company: Yellow Hill Films,
14 1F2 Marlborough Street, Edinburgh, EH15
2BG, Scotland, UK. tel: +44 (0)131 657 2686
email: abigail_docherty@yahoo.co.uk
DIRECTOR: Cassius Rayner
Digibeta. 14 min
Producer: Martha Shacolas. Screenwriter:
Abigail Docherty. DoP: Robin Fox. Cast: Tom
McGovern, Harriet Hunter.
Production Company: Badboy Films,
26 Darfield Rd, London, SE4 1ER, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)20 8692 2043
email: cassius@rayner-b.fsnet.co.uk
web: www.cutandrunmovie.co.uk
What would happen if love could bring back
the dead? Lazarus is an unusual love story
set in France, during World War One.
Producer: Cassius Rayner. Screenwriter:
Cassius Rayner. DoP: Gareth Hughes.
Cast: Jim Weaver, Cassius Rayner.
Two bored young men living in a seaside
retirement town decide to re-invent
themselves as master criminals. One thing
they overlooked is that they have no
braincells. Trouble soon follows.
DIRECTOR: David Sandreuter
Digibeta. 12 min
Production Company: Cineworks - GMAC,
Scotland, UK. tel: +44 (0)141 553 2620
fax: +44 (0)141 553 2660
tel: +44 (0)141 302 1700 fax: +44 (0)141 302
1711
Producer: Lucy Brown. Screenwriter: David
Sandreuter. DoP: Ian Dodds. Cast: William
Wallace, Maureen Allan, James Bryce.
Teachers!! Exhausted by kids who will only
pay attention to what they're interested in?
Tired of having your entire class disrupted by
that one cheeky brat? Nurilin is the quick fix
you need to deal with disruptive children. It's
easy to administer and completely painless.
Use it – for their sake. Available from your
local chemist or by mail order.
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Live Bait
Loophole
DIRECTOR: James Popplewell
Beta SP. 10 min
DIRECTOR: Enrico Tessarin
Digibeta. 15 min
Production Company: Handheld Ltd, 43a The
Cut, Waterloo, London, SE1 8LF, tel: +44 (0)20
7401 7341
email: popplewell_brown@hotmail.com
web: www.handheld-production.co.uk
Production Company: Intermezzo Films UK,
43 Highland Crescent, Highland Road,
London, SE19 1DS, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)7990 644 587
email: enrico_tessarin@yahoo.com
Producer: Stuart Brown. Screenwriters: Stuart
Brown, James Popplewell. DoP: Mark Cowley.
Cast: Alex Moss.
Producer: Pietro Dioni. Screenwriters: Enrico
Tessarin, Cat Muir. DoP: Matthew Woolf.
Cast: Jerome Ashworth, Rachel Brooksby,
John Enthoven, John Kay Steel.
Live Bait is a short comedy about a group of
boys who go fishing together. A new girl
moves to where they live and all the boys fall
for her. However, they prove to be as
unsuccessful at gaining her attention as they
are at catching fish.
Women are genetically programmed to
change partner every four years. What
happens when the relationship clock of a
couple reads 3 years, 11 months, 30 days, 23
hours and 55 minutes?
London Birds Can’t Fly
Lost and Found
DIRECTOR: Sarah Turner
DIRECTOR: Toby Haynes
35mm. 15 min
Production Company: Spirit Dance UK, 30
Percy Street, London, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)7957 643 235
web: www.brazen.tv
Sales Agent: Bewitched, 7 Greencoat
Mansions, Greencoat Row, London, SW1P
1PG, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7834 0126
email: sturner@bewitched.demon.co.uk
+44 (0)1494 674 042
Producer: Jules Hussey. Screenwriter: Sarah
Turner. DoP: Natasha Braier. Cast: Lucy
Brooks, Toyah Frantzen, Samantha Robson.
Producer: Tora Young. Screenwriter: Jess
Williams. Cast: Phil Daniels, Christopher
Cazenove, Alistair McGowan, Apple Brook,
Leah Fletcher.
London Birds Can’t Fly explores the shifting
mental states of a fifteen year-old girl named
Ash. Adolescent sexuality is brutal. A raw
moment of sexual awakening ensures Ash’s
rejection, but it also ensures her rejection
from her world in South London.
Look at Me
DIRECTOR: Lucas Roche
Digibeta. 10 min
2BX, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)114 221 0569
fax: +44 (0)114 249 2293
Producer: Rachel Robey. Screenwriter: Lucas
Roche. Cast: James Hooton, Roger Sloman,
Anna Karen.
Toby was Robert’s only friend. Toby ran away.
Now Robert wants to kill himself – and he
wants you to watch.
A lost property store manager finds
temptation gets the better of him when the
answer to his problems is handed in at the
store.
Love Me or Leave
Me Alone
DIRECTOR: Duane Hopkins
35mm. 15 min
Production Company: Third, 3 Heaton Grove,
Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE6 5NN, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)191 240 4590 fax: +44 (0)191 240
4590
email: sammhaillay@hotmail.com
Producer: Samm Haillay. Screenwriter: Duane
Hopkins. DoP: Lou Cranley. Cast: Jay Firkins,
Zoe Rietti.
A young boy. A young girl. Against the
backdrop of the countryside they try to
understand and express their feelings for
each other. A study in the articulations and
limitations of first love.
Love Me Tender...ish
DIRECTOR: Pearl Howie
Beta SP. 15 min
Production Company: Flying Maching Films
Ltd, 22 Keats Close, Mead Park, Wimbledon,
London, SW19 1TU, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)20 8543 3635 fax: +44 (0)20 8543 3635
email: flyingmachinefilms@hotmail.com
Producer: Pearl Howie. Screenwriter: Pearl
Howie. DoP: Kasie Moore. Cast: Darren
Murphy, Beatrice Savoretti.
Guy and Caroline meet on a blind date. They
are both bitter, twisted and jaded, and decide
quickly that they are not right for each other
– but perfect for a quick fling.
Love Your Neighbour
Love Lies Bleeding
DIRECTOR: James Bloom
35mm. 9 min
DIRECTOR: Nigel Kent
16mm. 1 min 30 sec
Production Company: Love Your Productions,
8 Elm Estate, Weston Street, London, SE1 4BY,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7900 245 541
email: james@loveyour.net
+44 (0)20 7739 7716 fax: +44 (0)20 7613 4485
Production Company: Elodie SA,
2 Westbourne Avenue, Prestwick, Ayrshire,
KA9 1JB, Scotland, UK. tel: +44 (0)7950 837
928 email: nigelelodie@hotmail.com
Producers: Nigel Kent, Helen Wright.
Screenwriter: Nigel Kent, based on a poem by
Christina Rosetti. DoP: Andy Newstead. Cast:
Anne Marsham, Arabella Velasco.
An adaptation of a poem by Christina
Rossetti, which explores the impact of death
and unrequited love.
Producers: Chris Golding, James Bloom.
Screenwriter: James Bloom. DoP: Ed Mash.
Cast: Cavan Clerkin, Peter Shea.
Two men come to blows over a flock of
miniature sheep. Can Kevin keep his
extraordinary breed safe from public
exposure? Will Tony successfully abduct and
exploit them? Dark humour and special
effects collide in this skewed suburban tale.
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Loved, Alone
Lullabelle
DIRECTOR: Indra Bhose
35mm. 15 min
DIRECTORS: Gemma Page, Tanya Ludgya
35mm. 13 min
Production Company: Dark Cloud
Productions, 57 Dawn Lane, Southington,
CT 06489, USA. tel: +1 860 620 1918
fax: +1 800 620 1986
email: darkcloudprod@aol.com
Production Company: Fable Factory Films,
Nash House, St George Street, London, W1S
2FQ, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7493 9596
fax: +44 (0)20 7493 9596
email: gemma@fablefactoryfilms.com
Producer: Georgina Capristo-Gajdosik.
Screenwriter: Georgina Capristo-Gajdosik.
DoP: Paul Gavin. Cast: Beth Winslet, Alexis
Conran, Roger Winslet, Alison McKenzie.
Producers: Gemma Page, Tanya Ludgya.
Screenwriters: Gemma Page, Tanya Ludgya.
DoP: Antony Shearn. Cast: Michael Kirk,
Jackie Morisson, Su Pollard, Christopher
Biggins.
Auden Taylor has come home to rekindle
feelings for a childhood sweetheart, Tristan
Somers, these days an admitted womaniser.
But is it possible he’d change for her?
Low Street
DIRECTOR: Tom Petch
35mm. 9 min 30 sec
Production Company: Salt Film, 37 Foley
Street, London, W1W 7TN, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)20 7637 7885 fax: +44 (0)20 7637
7885
email: tom@saltfilm.com
web: www.saltfilm.com
Producer: Alex Quennell. Screenwriter: Tom
Petch. DoP: Ross Kirkman. Cast: Denis
Lavant, Patrick Baladi.
A traveller seeks shelter from a religious
hermit and finds out more about himself
than he bargained for.
Low Tide
When a misanthropic marionette collector
steals a distressed puppet from a local
antique shop, he doesn’t realise that the
owner will go to any lengths to get her back.
Lullabelle is an uplifting, offbeat, almost love
story about one man’s struggle to break
through his isolation.
Macbeth
DIRECTOR: Andy Cockerill
Production Company: 1 Riverview Cottages,
Upper Sunbury Road, Hampton, TW12 2DT,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 8979 7710
email: lynnjamo@yahoo.co.uk
Producer: Lynn James. Screenwriter: Andy
Cockerill, adapted from William Shakespeare.
DoP: Andy Cockerill. Cast: Anneli Page, Peter
Gardiner.
A tense, atmospheric short examining the
relationship between a narcoleptic Macbeth
and his powerful, manipulative wife. The film
uses striking, stylised imagery to reveal how
a man can be persuaded to murder.
DIRECTOR: James Iles
Beta SP. 12 min
Production Company: Zephlight Pictures,
7 Windsor Close, Runtington, West Sussex,
BN16 3TJ, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)1903 771
432 fax: +44 (0)1903 773 873
email: jamesiles82@aol.com
Producer: James Iles. Screenwriter: James
Iles. DoP: James Iles. Cast: Sam Walker,
Penny Hunter, Alexander Iles.
After being away for a few years, Michelle
returns to the town where she grew up. She
meets an old friend who now works in a local
pub. Michelle becomes suspicious that she
is hiding a dark secret and soon discovers a
mystery dying to be solved.
Madness of Two
(Folie a Deux)
DIRECTOR: Nicola Mills
Production Company: Dragon’s Eye Films,
39 Marischal Road, Lewisham, London, SE13
5LE, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 8852 6539
email: nic.mills@btopenworld.com
Producers: Tom Hallett, Nicola Mills.
Screenwriter: Nicola Mills. DoP: Jamie
Parisiss. Cast: Lesley Rowan, Giles Alderson,
Eva Crompton.
Dr. Lilith Folie is suddenly overwhelmed by
her biological clock: she’s desperate to have
a child. When an opportunity arises for her
to solve her problem she grabs it.
Unfortunately Lilith doesn’t get quite what
she expects.
Making Dogs
DIRECTOR: Marko Fuchs
35mm. 5 min 15 sec
tel: +44 (0)113 283 2600 fax: +44 (0)113 283
1901
web: www.lmu.ac.uk
Producer: Simon Cheung. Screenwriter:
Marko Fuchs. DoP: Fabian Wagner.
Cast: Hayden Amos, Howard Karloff, Rachel
Harvey, Stephen Noble.
When six year-old Josh sees two dogs
mating, his world changes. Josh’s father will
have a lot of explaining to do. Making Dogs
is a comedy about the beauty of innocence.
Machine
DIRECTOR: Jonathan Bentovim
35mm. 15 min 30 sec
tel: +44 (0)20 7836 9642 fax: +44 (0)20 7497
3718
web: www.lfs.org.uk
Producer: Claire Bee. Screenwriters:
Jonathan Bentovim, Emily Harris. DoP: Dusan
Todorovic. Cast: Brian Teles, Angus Lindsey.
In a small town, the local dog shampooer
tries to travel through time to escape his
boring and repetitive daily routine.
Man At The Window
DIRECTOR: Heidi Bartlett
Production Company: Emergency
Productions, 51b Monteith Row, Glasgow,
G40 1AU, Scotland, UK. tel: +44 (0)141 556
3748 fax: +44 (0)141 556 3740
email: info@emergencyproductions.com
tel: +44 (0)141 302 1700 fax: +44 (0)141 302
1711
Producer: Kathy Proctor. Screenwriters: Drew
Tasker, Mike Dear. DoP: Scott Ward. Cast: Ian
Hanmore, Jenny Ryan, Susan Coyle, Ann
Easton, Jamie Proctor.
An intimate portrait of a psychiatric patient
tormented by the relentless clanging of the
hospital bell.
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Marionettes
DIRECTOR: Juan Solari
Beta SP. 17 min
Production Company: Solar Dreams
Productions Ltd, 1 Shelburne Court, 3 Carlton
Drive, Putney, London, SW15 2DQ, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)7985 200 312
email: juansolari@yahoo.com
Producers: Giovanna Hernandez, Luis Padua.
Screenwriter: Juan Solari. DoP: Juan Solari.
Cast: Miguel Angel Plaza, Sarah Tortell, Mike
McAlpine.
Depravity, evil and death meet in the
immoral life of a puppet maker and street
performer. Marionettes is an erotic-thriller
which reflects on a world in which goodness
seems not to exist.
The Marriage
Counsellor
DIRECTORS: Raymond Friel, Derek Boyle
Production Company: Emergency
Productions, 51b Monteith Row, Glasgow,
G40 1AU, Scotland, UK. tel: +44 (0)141 556
3748 fax: +44 (0)141 556 3740
email: info@emergencyproductions.com
web: www.emergencyproductions.com
tel: +44 (0)141 302 1700 fax: +44 (0)141 302
1711
Producer: Kathy Proctor. Screenwriters:
Raymond Friel, Derek Boyle. DoP: Kristin
McMahon. Cast: George Drennan, Rod Young,
Kate Dickie.
David Morgan is a marriage counsellor on
the verge of a nervous breakdown. His wife,
never mind anyone else’s, is about to leave
him and his gambling is getting out of
control.
Marry Me
DIRECTOR: Richie Winearls
Beta SP. 17 min
Production Company: Molton Rock,
4h Peabody Buildings, Herbrand Street,
London, WC1N 1JS, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)20 7833 4302
email: richie@moltonrock.com
Producer: Richie Winearls. Screenwriter:
Frances Lima. DoP: Mark Chamberlain.
Cast: Sandra Voe, Barbara Keogh.
Peggy and Lilly are sisters and have lived
together all their lives. Neither of them have
a worry between them. As long as no-one
else tries to take Lilly away, because Peggy
couldn’t stand for that, she really couldn’t let
them.
Short Films
The Marvellous
Handshake
Medium* *Inside my
Head
DIRECTOR: Tim Hogg
35mm. 3 min 38 sec
DIRECTOR: David Paterson
Beta SP. 15 min
tel: +44 (0)29 2033 3313 fax: +44 (0)29 2033
3320
Production Company: Jericho Rumpus
Productions, 60 Novar Drive, Hyndland,
Glasgow, G12 9TZ, Scotland, UK. tel: +44
(0)141 357 4222
email: dxpaterson@hotmail.com
Producers: Humphrey James, Paul HartWilden. Screenwriters: Tim Hogg, Patrick
McNamara, George Millburn. DoP: Peter
Thornton. Cast: Siwan Morris, Lionel
Fanthorpe.
Producer: David Paterson. Screenwriter:
David Paterson. DoP: David Paterson. Cast:
Craig McFarlane.
A literal interpretation of the conflicts of a
troubled mind.
A young woman gets to grip with the perfect
interview technique, armed with some handy
advice from her father.
Melvin: Portrait of a
Player
A Matter of Taste
DIRECTOR: Lawrence Coke
17 min
DIRECTOR: Peter Bullock
Digibeta. 10 min
Production Company: Redbag Pictures,
Hale Villas, 370 Carshalton Road, Carshalton,
Surrey, SM5 3PT, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20
8773 9068
email: redbagpictures@hotmail.com
Production Company: Peachey Films,
70 Galton Road, Bearwood, Birmingham, B67
5JU, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)121 420 3038
email: peacheyfilms@yahoo.com
Producer: Alison Stevens. Screenwriter: Peter
Bullock. DoP: Nick Hart. Cast: Susan Brown.
Ruby is fanatical about food. Her life has
been enriched by the melting pot of culture
in her native Birmingham. In contrast, her
husband’s intolerance of foreign food is as
outdated as his attitude towards the
neighbours. However, Ruby’s already onto
her next course...
Cast: Duane Carter, Damian Carter, Daniel
Dempster, Will Roach, Gabriella Vidale.
The film is an entirely improvised spoof
documentary that is based around a fictional
character called Melvin Cartright. Melvin
believes that he is God’s gift to women, but
in reality nothing could be further from the
truth.
Men in the Street
A Means To An End
DIRECTOR: Simon Sprackling
35mm. 4 min 30 sec
DIRECTOR: Theo Davies
35mm. 43 min 45 sec
Production Company: Proactive Pictures,
17 Culverhouse Gardens, London, SW16 2TX,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7564 8809
email: proactivepix@aol.com
Production Company: Green Mango Films,
6 Pennington Road, Southborough, Tunbridge
Wells, Kent, TN4 0SL, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)7968 595 195, +44 (0)7768 125 273
email: theodavies@hotmail.com
Producer: Mark Cox. Screenwriter: Theo
Davies. DoP: Theo Davies. Cast: Ben Davies,
Clara Davies, John Moses, Justin Camm, Clive
Hart.
A film noir set in the isolated surroundings
of the dense English countryside. We follow
Hugo, £60 000 in debt with only a week to
acquire the money.
Producers: Simon Sprackling, Lawrence
Gornall. Screenwriter: Simon Sprackling.
DoP: Sam Moon. Cast: Andrew Alston, Adam
Tedder, Tim James.
Three street drinkers take a refreshing look
at social classification, the cult of astrology
and the mechanics of global capitalism.
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The Message Storm
DIRECTOR: Toby Meakins
Production Company: Faith Film Company
Ltd, 5b Stratheden Parade, Blackheath,
London, SE3 7SX, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20
8305 0784
email: faithfilms@btopenworld.com
2BX, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)114 221 0569
fax: +44 (0)114 249 2293
Producer: Amanda Girling. Screenwriter:
Simon Allen. DoP: Steve Albins. Cast: Louise
Dumayne, Tom Stobo, Anthony Wise.
Dark supernatural drama. When a grieving
woman has a mysterious encounter with a
supernatural courier, she remembers her
dead lover’s promise that he would send her
a photograph of Heaven. Soon she must face
the ultimate human question and decide
whether she really wants to know the truth of
what lies beyond life.
Monkey Bastard!
(Sala Bandar!)
DIRECTOR: Roopinder S Sood
35mm. 12 min 39 sec
Production Company: Line of Sight Films,
1 Burrows Mews, London, SE1 8LD, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7620 2727 fax: +44 (0)207
620 2727 email: neermeen@hotmail.com
Producer: Neerja Narayanan. Screenwriter:
Roopinder S. Sood. DoP: Vishnu Rao.
Cast: Piyush Mishra, Tanishtha Chatterjee,
Subrat Dutta.
Set in small town India, Monkey Bastard! is
a darkly ironic melodrama of star-crossed
lovers Gulshan and Manisha. Their forbidden
love seems to be free from Manisha’s
overbearing, lecherous husband.
The Most Beautiful
Man in the World
DIRECTOR: Alicia Duffy
35mm. 5 min 33 sec
Missing
DIRECTOR: Nodlag Houlihan
35mm. 17 min 6 sec
Production Company: 7 Oxford Villas,
Guiseley, Leeds, LS20 9AD, England, UK. tel:
+44 (0)1943 871 085
email: ldominey@yahoo.com
web: www.missingproductions.com
Producer: Nodlag Houlihan. Screenwriter:
Anne Boyle. DoP: Anne Boyle. Cast: Chris
Fitzgerald, Edele Burke, Aine O’Sullivan.
A young girl in rural Ireland goes missing in
mysterious circumstances. No trace of her
can be found. A documentary crew try to
piece together her story but it’s not as easy
as it seems. The most difficult thing is
proving that she ever existed at all.
Mobile
DIRECTOR: Andrew Fettis
Production Company: Fettis Films Ltd, Little
Haigh, Flaxton Road, Strensall, York, YO32
5KQ, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7974 979 373
fax: +44 (0)20 7681 3598
email: andrew.fettis@virgin.net
web: www.fettisfilms.com
Producer: Andrew Fettis. Screenwriters:
Improvised. DoP: Andy Pilling. Cast: Matt
Bourne, Eleanor Laurence, Richie Dobson,
Crystal Condie, Christie Miller.
Jamie keeps in contact with the world
through his mobile phone; he’s just not
himself without it...
Production Company: BreakThru Films,
2nd Floor, Highgate Business Centre, 33
Greenwood Place, London, NW5 2LB, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7428 3934 fax: +44 (0)20
7428 3963
email: magnus@breakthrufilms.co.uk
Producer: Hugh Welchman. Screenwriter:
Alicia Duffy. DoP: Nanu Segal. Cast: Anton
Saunders, Holly Bishop, Page Bishop, Julee
Moorcroft.
On a hot lazy day a small girl searches for
something to do. Aimlessly she wanders into
the path of a stranger...
The Most Boring
Woman in the World
DIRECTOR: Anthony Carpendale
Production Company: Subterranean Films,
29 Shelley Street, Kingsley Park, Northampton,
Northamptonshire, NN2 7HZ, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)7787 776 950
email: ant@subcentral.co.uk
web: www.subcentral.co.uk
Producers: Anthony Carpendale, Rossie
Bilton. Screenwriters: Michael Petrie, Anthony
Carpendale, Christopher Fowler. DoP: Anthony
Carpendale. Cast: Vivien Grahame, Gibb
Sutherland, Sarah Tortell, Alfie Laws, Charlie
Laws.
A downtrodden housewife dreams of
escaping from her boring existence and
adulterous husband. She decides to take
control of her life, with the aid of a wok and
a selection of stainless steel kitchen knives.
The Mourners
DIRECTOR: Dominic Burdess
Digibeta. 25 min
Production Company: 62 North Crofts,
Sydenham Hill, London, SE23 3PS, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)7767 896 795
email: dominic.burdess@virgin.net
Producer: Dominic Burdess. Screenwriter:
Dominic Burdess. DoP: Jay McCoy.
Cast: Peter Copley, Abigail Burdess, Dominic
Burdess.
A tragicomedy about two superheroes whose
jobs are to attend the funerals of everybody
who dies without anyone to mourn them.
Mr Theobald
DIRECTOR: Simon Burrill
Production Company: Collingwood, Ulley
Road, Kennington, Ashford, Kent, TN24 9HV,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7881 854 978
email: simonburrill@yahoo.com
Producer: Miles Wilkes. Screenwriter: Simon
Burrill. DoP: Will Elliott Bex. Cast: Sean
Simpson, Charlotte Burton.
A bold, original and darkly humorous fairy
tale, mixing live action and animation. An
autonomous worker, mined day-in-day-out
for information, discovers a unique form of
bovine meditation.
Mrs Meitlemeihr
DIRECTOR: Graham Rose
35mm. 30 min
Production Company: Rose Hackney Barber,
5/6 Kingly Street, London, W1B 5PF, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7439 6697 fax: +44 (0)20
7439 4102
email: mrs_m@rosehackneybarber.com
Producer: Kate Taylor. Screenwriters: Jeff
Rawle, Graham Rose. DoP: Clive Tickner.
Cast: Udo Kier, John Levitt.
“The war has hardened your heart... if only I
could melt it for you...” Lenny Veldermann
had a date with history. It would turn out to
be his worst nightmare.
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Mulit
The N7
DIRECTOR: Ivan Zacharias
35mm. 9 min 41 sec
DIRECTOR: Jenny Lee
Production Company: Stink Productions,
87 Lancaster Road, London, W11 1QQ,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7908 9400
fax: +44 (0)20 7908 9500
web: www.stink.tv
Production Company: J’Ouvert Film
Productions Ltd, Po Box 44407, London, SE1
7TS, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7261 0277
fax: +44 (0)20 7261 0277
email: jenny.lee@jouvertfilms.com
web: www.jouvertfilms.com
Producers: Nick Landon, Nathy Aviram.
Screenwriters: Joseph Mazzaferro, Lynn
Branecky. DoP: Jan Velicky. Cast: Raja Vaid,
Richa Pallod, Vejay Raaz, Anupam Shyam,
Kiran Pande.
Set in Mumbai, Mulit is the story of a famous
local hairdresser who falls in love with the
Prime Minister’s daughter and changes the
world of fashion with the invention of the
mullet. Mulit is a story of love, music,
intrigue, jealousy, dance, and revenge.
Ned Warking: Living
with Death
DIRECTOR: Gurchetan Singh
Production Company: Weirdkid Productions,
96 Wheeler Avenue, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN2
7HN, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7786 565 748
email: singhgurchetan@hotmail.com
Producer: Jenny Lee. Screenwriter: Jenny Lee.
DoP: David Le May. Cast: Tunde Makinde,
Charles Banjoko.
Producer: Gurchetan Singh. Screenwriter:
Gurchetan Singh. DoP: Pru Fowler. Cast:
David Marx, Laura Rawlings, Tim Doughty.
The N7 is the story of what a very special
London night bus means to two young
homeless men. It takes us on a journey at
night through the streets of London; and on
a journey through two lives.
How would you feel if you were dead? This
fictional documentary takes a darkly comical
look into the world of Ned Warking’s life
after death. We follow Ned’s naïve
aspirations as he tries to grapple with his
work life, social life and his wife’s refusal to
indulge in necrophilia.
A Naked Eye
My Father Eduardo
DIRECTOR: Milan Babic
35mm. 14 min
+44 (0)1494 674 042
Producer: Emi-Lou May. Screenwriter: Milan
Babic. DoP: Adnan Hemani. Cast: Ljupco
Todorovski, Vesna Stanojevic, Yehan Jehan,
Flutra Kastrati.
A boy idealises his absent father and hopes
for his return home. One day, he does return.
DIRECTOR: Mick Heaver
35mm. 15 min 40 sec
Production Company: Floyd Film Productions
Ltd, 55 Cotland Acres, Redhill, Surrey, RH1
6JZ, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)1737 244 145
fax: +44 (0)7881 629 033
email: floyd.films@virgin.net
Producer: Mick Heaver. Screenwriter: Sarah
Duncan. DoP: David Penfold. Cast: Fliss
Walton, David Roecliffe, Sean Oliver, Catherine
Laurence, Paul Richard Jackson.
A Naked Eye follows the story of Nick and
Louise, a seemingly perfectly suited couple,
in the two week period leading to their
wedding day. All arrangements have been
finalised and the scene is set for their big
day. However, following a dinner party, a
situation arises which leads Louise to start
questioning her choice of life partner. Should
she follow her head or her heart?
New World
DIRECTOR: Oliver Irving
Production Company: Clock That Little Lot,
5 Knole Road, Sevenoaks, TN13 3XH, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)845 456 8286
email: oliverirving@yahoo.co.uk
Producer: Oliver Irving. Screenwriters:
Rueben Irving, Oliver Irving. DoP: Paul Swann.
Cast: Malcolm Tierney, Michael Irving, Chris
Hanley, Powell Jones.
Set in the near future, against a backdrop of
ecological crisis, a leading environmentalist
enters the bizarre sphere of the world’s most
powerful men, and discovers their true
intentions.
Nicolas on Tour
My Wrongs 8245-8249
and 117
Natural Wonder
DIRECTOR: Christophe Istace
35mm. 9 min 52 sec
DIRECTOR: Chris Morris
35mm. 12 min 15 sec
DIRECTOR: Dee Meaden
Beta SP. 11 min
Production Company: Warp Films, 32-34
Gordon House Road, London, NW5 1LP,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7284 8366
fax: +44 (0)20 7284 8360
email: production@warpfilms.com
web: www.warpfilms.com
Production Company: Natural Wonder
Productions, 24 Christchurch House,
Christchurch Road, Brixton Hill, London, SW2
3UA, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 8671 8140
email: deemeaden@excite.com
Production Company: Three Second Film
Productions Ltd, 129 Cathedral Road, Cardiff,
CF11 9UY, Wales, UK. tel: +44 (0)7890 525 085
email: christophe_istace@yahoo.co.uk
Producer: Mark Herbert. Screenwriter: Chris
Morris. DoP: Danny Cohen. Cast: Paddy
Considine.
My wrongs 8245-8249 and 117 is about a man
who no longer uses his name because he’s
decided he’s ceased to deserve one, and a
dog called Rothko.
Producer: Dee Meaden. Screenwriter: Dee
Meaden. DoP: Patrick Glackan. Cast: Dan
Meaden, Gavin Persand.
A desperately optomistic father embarks
upon a bizarre project. He creates a forest
scene in the kitchen of his claustrophobic
home, in a bid to engage with his troubled,
distant son.
Producer: Christophe Istace. Screenwriter:
Christophe Istace. DoP: Richard Stewart.
Cast: Nicolas Duvauchel, Kerry Sanson.
Nicolas, a French comedian is on tour of
Britain with his one-man show. After the first
show as he is talking with some people from
the audience in a bar, he encounters Elisa.
Will he be able to face his sudden feeling for
her? He’s only got three days!
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No Verbal Response
Notoriety
On All Floors
DIRECTOR: Helena Smith
35mm. 15 min
DIRECTOR: Reyna Rosenshein
35mm. 22 min
DIRECTOR: Geoff Evans
35mm. 4 min 12 sec
Production Company: DMS Films Ltd,
369 Burnt Oak Broadway, Edgware, Middlesex,
HA8 5XZ, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 8951
6060 fax: +44 (0)20 8951 6050
email: danny@argonaut.com
Production Company: Worldwind
Entertainment, 233 Wilshire Boulevard Suite
400, Los Angeles, CA 90019, USA. tel: +1 310
917 1067 fax: +1 310 589 0043
email: reyna@worldwindent.com
7734 2277 fax: +44 (0)20 7734 2242
tel: +44 (0)29 2033 3313 fax: +44 (0)29 2033
3320
Producer: Daniel M San. Screenwriter:
Helena Smith. DoP: Nemone Mercer.
Cast: Lena Headey, Michael Luxton, Larrisa
Murray, Sam Bond, Hazel Douglas.
Dr. Megan Pillay is on call for 24 hours when
a young man, Martin, arives in a coma. She
is determined to save him but her colleagues
are not so sure. Is he brain dead? A decision
has to be made.
Noodle Soup
DIRECTOR: Toru Tokikawa
35mm. 8 min 6 sec
Production Company: @radical.media,
140 Wardour Street, London, W1F 8ZT,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7432 6800
fax: +44 (0)20 7432 6899
email: ward@radicalmedia.com
web: www.radicalmedia.com
Producer: Toru Tokikawa. Screenwriter: Toru
Tokikawa. DoP: Toru Tokikawa. Cast: Senz, Li
Li, Min Man Ma, Christine Mingo, Laurent
Brechet.
It’s a sticky summer evening in New York
City. Senz, a streetwise buddy, orders noodle
soup in a homely Chinese restaurant. He
realises that he has forgotten his money. A
tough chef kicks him into a darkroom behind
the kitchen as punishment.
Producer: Reyna Rosenshein. Screenwriter:
Reyna Rosenshein. DoP: Michael Hardwick.
Cast: Ryan Bailey, Shanola Hampton, Marci
Brickhouse.
Notoriety is a psychological thriller about a
female photographer, Roxanne, who has lost
faith in her ability to create art. Raped in her
studio by a co-worker. Her cameras go off
accidentally. The pictures of the rape find
their way to an art gallery, Roxanne is given
a show and becomes a huge success. When
the gallery owner asks for more pictures,
Roxanne turns to murder to protect her new
found fame.
The Nugget Run
DIRECTOR: Michael Wadding
Digibeta. 11 min
Production Company: 41a Melford Road,
London, SE22 0AQ, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)7939 153 143
email: michael.wadding@btinternet.com
Producer: Michael Wadding. Screenwriter:
David Eldridge. DoP: Paul Lang. Cast: Daniel
Ryan, Danny Worters, Russel Tovey.
Simon’s first task in his new job at a banking
firm, is a bizarre gambling game in which
the traders bet on how many chicken
nuggets Simon can eat in 2 minutes. It may
be his last.
Of Camera
DIRECTOR: Steven Eastwood
Production Company: Dazed Film & TV, 112116 Old Street, London, EC1V 9BG, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7549 6840 fax: +44 (0)20
7336 0966
email: laura@confused.co.uk
Producer: Catherine Peters. Screenwriter:
Steven Eastwood. DoP: Nick Gordon Smith.
Cast: Sharon Smith, Matt Rudkin.
A couple struggle to be together in the same
space. They can’t get along, because of a
clash of formats. The woman exists on
videotape; the man exists on film.
Craig Handley. DoP: Rory Taylor. Cast: Rhys
Morris, Jason May, Catrin Mara, Dean
Keohane, Tom Lewis.
When a lift fails and five individuals are
trapped, fearing for their lives, strange things
can happen.
On The Job
DIRECTOR: Jonathan Gilbert
Production Company: Will Van Der Vlugt Film
Productions, 126 Great Portland Street,
London, W1W 6PR, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7255
2722 fax: +44 (0)20 7255 2922
email: london@scossa.com
web: www.willvandervlugtfilmproductions.com
Producer: Lucy McDowall. Screenwriter: Tim
Anderson. DoP: Alex Wakeford. Cast: Richard
Rycroft, Blaine Greaves.
A reclusive, long-term unemployed man is
visited by a weathered DSS officer. The
interview is repeatedly undermined and
disrupted by the actions of a scruffy dog.
One Day
DIRECTOR: Joan-Lluis Ramisa
Production Company: Joan-Lluis Ramisa,
18 Sandford Road, Bristol, BS8 4QG, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)7816 274 617
email: jollura@hotmail.com
Sales Agent: University of Bristol, Department
of Drama, Cantocks Close, Woodland Road,
Bristol, BS8 1UP, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)117
928 7838 fax: +44 (0)117 928 8251
email: coli.oneil@bris.ac.uk
Producer: Kate Thomas. Screenwriter: Anna
Paulinyi. DoP: Sarah Bentley. Cast: Lesley
Rowan, Rana Fowler, Will James, Pete
Townsend, Tim Prior.
One Day is a surreal musical short that
explores the hopes, dreams and
disillusionments of an ordinary group of
people who share more than a place.
Passers-by who do not know where they are
going, but wish to leave some baggage
behind.
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One Previous Owner
Peeper
Perfect
DIRECTOR: Giles Greenwood
35mm. 5 min
DIRECTOR: Richard Valentine
Beta SP. 10 min
DIRECTOR: Rankin Waddell
35mm. 13 min
Production Company: Great Guns, 43-45
Camden Road, London, NW1 9LR, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7642 4444 fax: +44 (0)20
7692 4422
email: greatguns@greatguns.com
web: www.greatguns.com
Production Company: Kat Pictures Ltd,
85-87 Bayham Street, Camden Town, London,
NW1 0AG, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7692
5677 fax: +44 (0)20 7900 1919
web: www.katpictures.com
Production Company: Dazed Film & TV, 112116 Old Street, London, EC1V 9BG, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7549 6840 fax: +44 (0)20
7336 0966
email: laura@confused.co.uk
6NG, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7739 7716
fax: +44 (0)20 7613 4485
Producer: Matt Powell. Screenwriters: Joe
Hosp, Charlie Harns. DoP: Nic Knowland.
Cast: Tom Bird, Trevor Cooper.
A homeless guy is given a drill by a stranger
and makes the best of a bad situation.
Out of the Cold
Producers: Kim Tyler, Miles Chen, Dana
Pemberton. Screenwriter: Richard Valentine.
DoP: Trent Opaloch. Cast: Shayne Litwiller,
Kim Tyler, Dana Pemberton, Sandra Steier.
Carter is a desperate screenwriter fighting a
terminal case of writer’s block. His luck
changes when he discovers a small peephole
in his wall that gives him access to the next
apartment. Inspiration turns into fear when
he witnesses more and more bizarre events
that ultimately result in murder.
DIRECTOR: Nic Shearer
Digibeta. 17 min
Production Company: 3 Sisters Films Ltd,
51 Partick Hill Road, Glasgow, G11 5AB,
Scotland, UK. tel: +44 (0)141 334 3137
fax: +44 (0)141 334 9457
web: www.3sistersfilms.com
tel: +44 (0)141 302 1700 fax: +44 (0)141 302
1711
Producer: Arabella Page Croft. Screenwriter:
Nic Shearer. DoP: Gavin Struthers.
Cast: Kathleen McDermott, Therese Bradley,
Charlie Daish, Fergus Haigh, Donna Morrison.
Peeping Tim
DIRECTOR: Philip Richardson
Production Company: No Name Pictures,
104 William Bonney Estate, London, SW4 7JF,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7939 509 216
web: www.nonamepictures.co.uk
Producers: Olivier Lauchenauer, Philip
Richardson. Screenwriter: Philip Richardson.
DoP: Philip Richardson. Cast: Peter Dombi,
Elisabeth Charbonneau.
Producer: Laura Hastings-Smith.
Screenwriter: Simon Ashdown. DoP: Julian
Court. Cast: Kate Ashfield, Marc Warren.
A thriller/love story set in a perfect world: the
film opens up a brief window into the
relationship between two lovers. Tension
builds and their dark secret is exposed but,
however twisted or shocking, Perfect
uncovers the very human drama of what it is
to be in love and to love.
Perfect Eyes
DIRECTOR: Chris Steele
Production Company: Idyllica Films,
7 Copperas Lane, Droylsden, Tameside,
Lancashire, M43 6HP, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)161 370 2266
email: idyllica@msn.com
Producer: Chris Steele. Screenwriter: Chris
Steele. DoP: Diane Griffiths, Paul Wilshaw.
Cast: Mimi Lane, Ben Faulks, Sarah Donnelly.
The story of Patrick, a ten year-old boy
growing up in a small coastal fishing village
and his fall from innocence into experience.
Peeping Tim is an intimate and detailed view
of a voyeur who prides himself on his skills
and anonymity. But his world comes unstuck
when confronted by a lady with nothing to
hide.
Paw
Perfect
DIRECTOR: Duncan Nicoll
DIRECTOR: Anya Camilleri
35mm. 15 min
Pest
Production Company: Posh Pictures,
420 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD,
Scotland, UK. tel: +44 (0)141 946 2693
fax: +44 (0)7974 081 934
email: mail@poshpic.com
web: www.poshpic.com
Production Company: The Comedy Unit,
Glasgow TV and Film Studios, Glasgow Media
Park, Craigmont Street, Glasgow, G20 9BT,
Scotland, UK. tel: +44 (0)141 305 6666
fax: +44 (0)141 305 6600
email: comedyunit@comedyunit.co.uk
web: www.comedyunit.co.uk
tel: +44 (0)141 302 1700 fax: +44 (0)141 302
1711
DIRECTOR: James Farrant
Digibeta. 14 min
Producer: David Griffith. Screenwriter: Chris
Bowman. DoP: Duncan Finnigan. Cast: Lisa
May Cooper, Christopher Liam, Neil Benedict.
Leaving a wedding party, a vanilla couple
stumble across a severed bear’s paw in the
woods. Repelled but strangely fascinated by
their discovery, they take the paw home
where it begins to exercise a growing
psycho-sexual influence over their lives.
Producer: April Chamberlain. Screenwriter:
Jonathan Goodfellow. DoP: Jan Richter.
Cast: Ford Kiernan, Stephen Moyer, Roy
Sampson, Mar Cox, Yvonne Simpson.
A quirky and darkly comic fable in which a
newly redundant estate agent takes his
revenge in the world in a most unexpected
way. Mark is cursed with a sense of his own
extraordinary destiny, but as a result he has
lost touch with the banal reality in which he
is forced to live.
Dreamy visuals evoke a college student’s
overwhelming attraction towards femininity
beneath wistful summer skies. A celebration
of awakening sensuality on the sportsfield.
Production Company: JF Productions,
13 Fountain Street, Whitstable, Kent, CT5 1HA,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)1227 261 548
email: jfproductions@telco4u.net
Producer: Yvonne Cole. Screenwriter: James
Farrant. DoP: Jonathan Beach. Cast: Oliver
Dinsdale, David Cox.
Jonathan has the neighbours from hell. He
tries to ignore them but cockroaches invade
his flat. He calls the Pest Control to finally
exterminate all of his pests.
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Pick Up Put Down
Poles Apart
DIRECTOR: Nick Parish
Beta SP. 11 min
DIRECTOR: Richard Wellings-Thomas
Production Company: Flat 8, Electric Loft,
9-11 London Lane, London, E8 3PR, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)7887 598 952
email: powchurch@hotmail.com
Production Company: Gangster Pictures,
Top Floor, 67 Southbridge Road, Croydon,
London, CR0 1AG, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)7790 005 416
email: toby@gangsterpictures.com
Producer: Jason Hocking. Screenwriter: Nick
Parish. DoP: Matt Broad. Cast: Marisol
Grandon, John McGuinness.
She had made a mistake. The consequences
of a heavy night’s indulgence begins to
distort her perception, allowing his
insensitivity to torment her.
Picture-Negative
DIRECTOR: Paul Stevenson
Mini DV. 20 min
Production Company: Seventyeight
Productions, Woodlands House, Strathallan,
Forgandenny, Perth, PH12 9EG, Scotland, UK.
tel: +44 (0)7909 987 207 fax: +44 (0)173 881
5050
email: pseventyeight@hotmail.com
Producer: Paul Stevenson. Screenwriter: Paul
Stevenson. Cast: Rory Nunn, Paul Carter,
Sophia McBride.
Picture-Negative is a very dark and stylish
thriller. A young writer has his life thrown
into turmoil by a seemingly unknown stalker.
Set in a generic town, with eye catching
urban sprawl as the back-drop, the complex
and sinister narrative evolves.
Plastic Wolves
DIRECTOR: Caradog Wolfe James
16mm. 12 min
Production Company: Grey Wolfe
Productions, 42 Park Place, Brynmill,
Swansea, SA2 0DJ, Wales, UK. tel: +44
(0)1792 467 234
email: caradogj@hotmail.com
Producer: Maverick Kelly. Screenwriter:
Caradog Wolfe James. DoP: Ben Fox, Ben
Jones. Cast: Gareth Rhys Davis, Jon
Millington, Geraint Pickard.
Plastic Wolves tells the story of a young
man’s first day at work as a salesman. He
soon discovers that the company he works
for is corrupt and institutionally racist, and
he has to decide whether he makes a sale
and keep his job or return to the dole queue.
Producer: Toby White. Screenwriter: Richard
Wellings-Thomas. DoP: Nathan Sheppard.
Cast: Sacha Tahta, Polly Moore, Lisa Reygate.
Potatoes – A Layman’s
Guide
DIRECTOR: Matt Smith
Beta SP. 2 min
Production Company: Rubberductions
Limited, 125 St Michaels Hill, Bristol, B52 8BS,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7973 174 118
email: andy@rubberductions.com
web: www.rubberductions.com
Producer: Andrew Parkhouse. Screenwriter:
Matt Smith.
A psychological sexual thriller in which a
man, on discovering his wife is having a
lesbian affair, seeks revenge on her and her
lover with tragic consequences.
A short mock documentary investigating the
origins of a staple food.
Pork Chop
A Prayer From the
Living
DIRECTOR: David Paton
Digibeta. 10 min
Prodcution Company: Cineworks - GMAC, 3rd
Floor, 34 Albion Street, Glasgow, G1 1LH,
Scotland, UK. tel: +44 (0)141 553 2620 fax:
+44 (0)141 553 2660
tel: +44 (0)141 302 1700 fax: +44 (0)141 302
1711
Producer: Angela Smith. Screenwriter: Ricky
Callan. DoP: Minttu Mantyen. Cast: Anna
Hepburn, Malcolm Shields, Anne Downie,
Ricky Callan.
Ruby is a widow who apparently struggles
through the twilight of her life with daily
trips to her local shops. This meek old lady is
bullied and confused by the local butcher
and dim-witted sweet shop owner. However,
as afternoon approaches, a secret reveals a
different side to Ruby’s life.
DIRECTOR: Alex Reuben
Beta SP. 14 min
Production Company: Snakeheads
Productions, 46 Park Road, Great Sankey,
Warrington, Cheshire, WA5 3EB, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)7949 636 269
email: nicolaspiere@hotmail.com
Producer: Alex Reuben. Screenwriter: Alex
Reuben. DoP: A J Murray. Cast: Olu Taiwo,
Afua Awuku, Dave Williams.
Based on a short story by Ben Okri. Sol, a
tall Somalian guide, leads a group of
Western journalists and soldiers through an
empty, desert town. He is on a personal
quest to find his lost lover and family, and
won’t stop until he reaches his goal. Ben
Okri’s story is vibrantly transposed from the
deserts of Africa into accapella and
movement upon the streets of London.
The Primrose Place
DIRECTOR: Jaap Mees
Beta SP. 10 min
Post
DIRECTOR: Phil Traill
35mm. 8 min 30 sec
1346 fax: +44 (0)20 7636 5222
Producers: Adrian Sturges, Peter La Terriere,
Kenton Allen. Screenwriter: Phil Traill.
DoP: Marcel Zyskind. Cast: Eddie Marsan,
Jennie Cox, Hugh Ross.
Post tells the tale of an office loser who goes
outside for a fag and finds himself leaning
against a magical lamp post.
Production Company: Free Spirits Film
Production, Flat 3, 130 Muswell Hill Road,
London, N10 3JD, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20
8444 2668
email: jmees30272@aol.com
web: www.free_spirits_film.co.uk
Producer: Alan Thompson. Screenwriter: Jaap
Mees adapted from a novel by H E Bates. DoP:
Jaap Mees. Cast: Justin McCarron, Giovanna
Villa.
An unusual chance meeting between a man
with a troubled past and a woman working
in No Man’s Orchard.
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The Pristina Sacrifice
Pucker Up!
Putting Down The King
DIRECTOR: Robin Gray
Digibeta. 10 min
DIRECTOR: Katie Aidley
Digibeta. 6 min
DIRECTOR: Kate Robinson
Production Company: Architrave Films,
10 Broomgate Court, Lanark, ML11 9EE,
Scotland, UK. tel: +44 (0)7739 043 942
email: robingray@postmasters.co.uk
web: www.thepristinasacrifice.com
Production Company: Kat and Bull Stories,
49 Ellen Wilkenson House, Usk Street, London,
E2 0QH, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7796 313 422
email: katandbullstories@hotmail.com
Production Company: G F 35 Warrington
Crescent, Maida Vale, London, W9 1EJ,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7289 6434
email: k8ty@clara.co.uk
Producer: Stephanie Turnbull.
Screenwriter: Katie Aidley. DoP: Faye.
Cast: Darrel Heath, Marie Laura Belli.
Producer: Nigel Wooll. Screenwriters:
Stephanie Clark, Kate Robinson. DoP: David
Kerr. Cast: Bill Paterson, Nickolas Grace,
Kenny Doughty.
Producer: Robin Gray. Screenwriter: Robin
Gray. DoP: David Lees. Cast: Nicholas Cowell,
Michael Redmond, Eve Stylia.
In war-torn Kosovo, a young man struggles
to defeat his older rival at chess. But where
will he find the elusive manoeuvre that will
bring him victory.
A caretaker comes up with a devious way to
fight the lipstick war.
Puss Puss
The Projectionist
DIRECTOR: Susan Everett
Beta SP. 9 min
DIRECTOR: Christian Alexander
Production Company: Dave The Horse
Productions, 18 Moorgate Drive, Kippax,
Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS25 7QT, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)113 286 5001 fax: +44 (0)113 286
5001
email: susan.everett@ukgateway.net
2BX, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)114 221 0569
fax: +44 (0)114 249 2293
Production Company: Redberry Film,
26 Glover Road, Hanham, Bristol, BS15 3JZ,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)117 961 0965
Producer: Christian Alexander. Screenwriter:
Christian Alexander. DoP: Christian Alexander.
Cast: Christian Alexander.
Shows the plight of the projectionist's search
for a meaningful and soulful existence in a
world controlled by the inhuman, automated
monotony of the revolving mechanical world.
The Prophecy
DIRECTOR: Tom Van der Velpen
tel: +44 (0)113 283 2600 fax: +44 (0)113 283
1901
web: www.lmu.ac.uk
Producer: Karen Barber. Screenwriter: Susan
Everett. DoP: Chris Greenwood. Cast: Clare
Kerrigan, Francis Jameson.
Katie sees her boyfriend’s cat as a rival for
his affections, and would dearly love to see
the back of it. But when the unlucky black
cat gets squashed, stunned Katie feels
responsible, thus taking drastic steps to save
the unfortunate cat – and her relationship.
Two old friends display their differing values
on life and friendship when, unbeknownst to
each other, they both commission the same
piece of artwork from a local craftsman. Only
when James makes a gift of his
commissioned piece to his friend does Alfred
realise the true value of friendship.
Putting on the Blitz
DIRECTOR: Magnus Wake
Production Company: Wake Productions,
8 Silverknowes Hill, Edinburgh, EH4 5HE,
Scotland, UK. tel: +44 (0)131 622 0227
email: magnus@thewakesplace.co.uk
Producer: Magnus Wake. Screenwriter: Moray
Nairn. Cast: Alistair Dinnie, Sarah Henderson,
Richard Burjo, Jason Orringe, Janet De Vigne.
A seven minute snap-shot of an amateur
theatre group putting on The Blitz, a WW2
musical. Politics, drama and bad acting!
Three screens, three sides of the story,
filmed simultaneously.
The Rabbit
Put your Coat on
DIRECTOR: James Edge
Beta SP. 13 min
DIRECTOR: Solon Papadopolous
Digibeta. 5 min
Production Company: Mannfilms, The
Smithyhouse, Station Road, Ballasalla, Isle of
Man, IM9 2DD, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7624
495 516
email: mannfilms@manx.net
Producer: Catherine Anne Luebbert.
Screenwriter: Tom Van der Velpen.
DoP: Haydn Boniface. Cast: Aly Coleman,
Jane Kemlo, Houda Echouafni, Denise York.
2BX, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)114 221 0569
fax: +44 (0)114 249 2293
Could you do with some advice on the most
important question of your life? Think again.
After a visit to a frustrated fortune teller,
Andreas and Caroline become trapped in
their own doubts.
Producer: Solon Papadopoulos. Screenwriter:
Nick Saltrese. Cast: Kate Crossley, Jane
Hogarth, John Henshaw.
A young girl hits the bright lights of the big
city with the words “put your coat on”
ringing in her ears. Finding herself immersed
in an adult world and intoxicated by the
night, she discards her coat.
Producer: Jim Edge. Screenwriter: Jerry Edge.
DoP: Stewart MacKay. Cast: Jeremy Worsnip,
Clara Andersson, Simon Purse, Charlotte
Mack.
Dave’s dog brings him next doors’ rabbit,
very dirty and very dead! He decides to clean
it up and put it back, in a secret night time
mission, using baby monitors as walkietalkies. Trouble is, next door are listening in
to the conversation. They get the wrong idea
about what is happening and the next day
brings a surprising twist.
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Recycled
DIRECTOR: Jaqui McAlpine
35mm. 9 min
Production Company: The Comedy Unit,
Glasgow TV and Film Studios, Glasgow Media
Park, Craigmont Street, Glasgow, G20 9BT,
Scotland, UK. tel: +44 (0)141 305 6666
fax: +44 (0)141 305 6600
email: comedyunit@comedyunit.co.uk
web: www.comedyunit.co.uk
tel: +44 (0)141 302 1700 fax: +44 (0)141 302
1711
Producer: Liz Scott. Screenwriter: David
Ferguson Reid. DoP: Andrew Ford. Cast: Jade
Clark, James McArdle, Garry Sweeney,
Annette Staines.
Michael MacGregor has the solution to all
his problems: a man-eating wheelie bin! But
is he in control or is he the next item on the
bin’s menu?
Remote Control
DIRECTOR: Dusan Tolmac
Production Company: Stink Productions,
87 Lancaster Road, London, W11 1QQ,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7908 9400
fax: +44 (0)20 7908 9500
web: www.stink.tv
Producer: Lucie Wenigerova. Screenwriter:
Dusan Tolmac. DoP: Balazs Bolygo. Cast: Paul
Barber, Katy Barker.
A misplaced remote control. A man trying to
find it. A woman hoping he won’t. An
extraordinary afternoon in the life of an
ordinary middle aged couple.
Rendezvous
DIRECTOR: Sam Noor
Production Company: Noor Dattani, 43 Stone
Crescent, Bedfont, Middlesex, TW14 9PH,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7957 482 722
Noor. DoP: Stuart Robertson. Cast: Robert
Finan, Melissa Advani.
Jav, young, attractive, asian. Sean, carefree,
confident, white. A summer’s afternoon and
an eagerly awaited rendezvous. Cultural
differences have no meaning when you’re in
love. But things aren’t always so black and
white...
The Return of Peg Leg
Pete
DIRECTOR: David Cairns
Digibeta. 10 min
Production Company: Forged Films Ltd,
8 West Newington Place, Edinburgh, EH9 1QT,
Scotland, UK. tel: +44 (0)131 667 0230 fax:
+44 (0)131 667 0230
email: forgedfilm@aol.com
Producer: Nigel R Smith. Screenwriter: David
Cairns. DoP: Scott Ward. Cast: Steven
McNicoll, Julie Duncanson.
An unemployed scourge of the seven seas,
ill-suited to the rigours of the modern
employment market, despairs of ever taking
to the waves again and will turn his hook to
anything in this peculiar bittersweet silent
comedy – the first film aimed at the
redundant buccaneer market.
Rites of Passage
DIRECTOR: Simon Brown
Beta SP. 25 min
Production Company: Film U – Film and
Moving Image at Leeds Metropolitan
University, 3 Queen Square, Leeds, LS2 8AF,
+44 (0)113 283 1901
web: www.lmu.ac.uk
Producer: Maria Pavlou. Screenwriters:
Simon Brown, Dominique Hall. DoP: Alix
Czok. Cast: Dana Jalal, Arsalen Nawroly,
Hardy Rashid.
To England. At any price. Escape from
Sangatte, Europe’s most notorious refugee
camp.
Road To Ladakh
Rhubarb and Roses
DIRECTOR: Ashvin Kumar
35mm. 48 min
DIRECTOR: Ged Maguire
35mm. 10 min
Production Company: Rasa Pictures,
3, 186 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H
8JB, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7855 742 154
email: ashvin@roadtoladakh.com
web: www.roadtoladakh.com
Sales Agent: Brit shorts, 25 Beak Street,
7734 2277 fax: +44 (0)20 7734 2242
Production Company: Rhubarb Films,
Russets, Blackheath Way, West Malvern,
Worcestershire, WR14 4DR, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)1684 574 583
email: alexatrussets@aol.com
Producer: Alex Jones. Screenwriter: Alex
Jones. DoP: David Evans. Cast: Alex Jones,
Jilly Mears.
Molly’s battle with cancer is over. She wants
to die. She asks her son, Ricky to help her on
her final journey. He prepares a last supper
of Molly’s favourite food. But the roast
dinner is burnt to a crisp and the rhubarb is
unripe. A poignant tragi-comedy about love
and life’s last taboo.
Ring Peace
Producer: Ashvin Kumar. Screenwriter:
Ashvin Kumar. DoP: Markus Huersch.
Cast: Irfan Khan, Koel Purie, Milan Moudgill.
Irfan Khan and Koel Purie lead this surreal
rites of passage encounter between a
dysfunctional, coke-snorting fashion model
and an ultra-focussed, strong-silent stranger
who are thrown together by chance. Set in
the magnificent and wild moonscape of
Ladakh, India, the road journey, and the
strange encounters that follow, provide a
dramatic backdrop for the relationship that
develops.
DIRECTOR: Lynne Angel
Digibeta. 5 min
Production Company: 38 Beechwood Avenue,
Brighton, BN1 8EE, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)1273 558 796
email: lynangel.films@btopenworld.com
Rooftops
DIRECTOR: Francoise Higson
Digibeta. 15 min
Producer: Lynne Angel. Screenwriter: Lynne
Angel. DoP: Kenny McCraken. Cast: Ben
Baumount, Paul Batchelor, Val Mellors, Zara
Plessard, Brian Mitchel.
Production Company: Blue Lemon Films,
48 Balcombe Street, London, NW1 6ND,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7723 4415
email: bluelemonfilms@yahoo.com
A tongue-in-cheek exploration of mobile
phone etiquette. On a delayed train Guy
reads his book and is frequently disturbed by
mobile phone conversations. He can take no
more and finally settles the matter once and
for all.
Producer: Francoise Higson. Screenwriter:
Francoise Higson. DoP: Brian Tufano BSC.
Cast: Cristian Solimeno, Gary Grant.
Two guys spend an afternoon on a derelict
rooftop, grown men playing like boys, but it’s
not all fun and games.
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Room for the Night
Run
Salaryman 6
DIRECTOR: Vincent Hunter
DIRECTOR: Richard Valentine
DVD. 15 min
DIRECTOR: Jake Knight
Beta SP. 7 min
Production Company: Oxygen Films, Flat 2/1,
39 Byres Road, Glasgow, G11 5RG, Scotland,
UK. tel: +44 (0)141 334 0241 fax: +44 (0)141
579 4042
email: angela.kh.murray@virgin.net
Production Company: Kat Pictures Ltd,
85-87 Bayham Street, Camden Town, London,
NW1 OAG, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7692
5677 fax: +44 (0)20 7900 1919
web: www.katpictures.com
Production Company: Onedotzero, Unit 212,
Curtain House, 134-146 Curtain Road, London,
EC2A 3AR, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7729
0072 fax: +44 (0)20 7729 0057
email: claire@onedotzero.com
web: www.onedotzero.com
Producers: Angela Murray, Zam Salim.
Screenwriter: Vincent Hunter. DoP: John
Rhodes. Cast: John Comerford, Kate Dickie.
Producers: Kim Tyler, Miles Chen, Dana
Pemberton. Screenwriter: Richard Valentine.
DoP: Trent Opaloch. Cast: Jerod Edington,
Darren Gerrard, Dana Pemberton, Sandra
Steier, Kim Tyler.
A travelling salesman arrives in town for an
overnight stop. A tense phone conversation
with his wife leads him out on a night-time
drive through the city, where a chance
encounter and the inability to communicate
have bizarre and unintended consequences.
Round
Tim has spent all day running through the
city, racing to phone booths and receiving
instructions from a mysterious caller who
refers to himself only as Bob. Bob has Tim’s
girlfriend, Dani, and promises a horrible end
for her if Tim misses any of his calls. As the
time between calls shortens and the stakes
get higher, Tim discovers that Bob’s master
plan is about more than just terrorizing him.
DIRECTOR: Justin Edgar
35mm. 13 min
Production Company: 104 Films,
120b Northcurch Road, Islington, London, N1
3PA, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7226 6369
fax: +44 (0)20 7688 0864
email: justinedgar@beeb.net
Producer: Justin Edgar. Screenwriter: Justin
Edgar. DoP: Zac Nicholson. Cast: Dominic
Coleman, Jo Enright, Simon Lowe.
Laurence’s pointless existence involves
guarding the offices of an empty office
block. His life is going round in one endless
circle until he meets Ann and falls in love at
first sight. She offers an opportunity for his
spirit to escape, but things are never that
easy.
Rules of Love
DIRECTOR: Bruno Coppola
35mm. 17 min
Production Company: 222 Kensal Road,
London, W10 5BN, England, London.
tel: +44 (0)7956 137 351 fax: +44 (0)7092 137
351 email: bruno@cw.com.net
Producers: Libby Spears, Megan Edwards.
Screenwriter: David Arrow from a play by Joe
Pintauro. DoP: Nancy Schreiber. Cast: Judy
Greer, David Arrow.
Brooklyn, October 1963. A young woman,
dressed for travel, stops at a church and
enters the confessional. “I’ve fallen in love...
with a priest. We’ve been together... several
times.” The embarrassed priest warns that
this confession will end their relationship,
but she presses him to choose: “Stay with
the Church, or stay with me”.
Producers: Ryoko Tanaka, Shane Walter.
Screenwriters: Ryoko Tanaka, Jake Knight.
DoP: Jacques Nuit. Cast: Taishi Shiode.
After losing his memory, a Tokyo salaryman
attempts to piece together his life with the
aid of a pocket camera, detailing the
repetitiveness and mundanity of his lonely
daily routine.
Salt Scrubbers
DIRECTOR: Deola Folarin
The Saint Has Lost Her
Patience
DIRECTOR: Arantzazu Gomez Bayon
Production Company: Eyeline Films,
114a Coppermill Lane, Walthamstow,
London, E17 7HE, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)20 8520 8777
email: arantzazugbayon@hotmail.com
web: www.eyelinefilms.co.uk
Producer: Paula Cosenza. Screenwriter:
Arantzazu Gomez Bayon. DoP: Suriva Pieris.
Cast: Silvia Antolin, Cristina Lanza, Escuela De
Teatro De Satander, La Marabunta Theatre
Group.
This film is a surreal document of women’s
experiences when facing motherhood and
family life in a tailor-made male-orientated
society. Using the Spanish Holy Week
Processions as a scenario, the film recreates
a very special parade where a woman,
carried on an Easter throne, goes through
seven of the most significant moments of
her life.
Production Company: Bill & Ben Productions,
2nd Floor, 20 Great Chapel Street, London,
W1F 8FW, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7734
4933 fax: +44 (0)20 7434 1707
email: ben@billandben.net
Producer: Ben Timlett. Screenwriter: Deola
Folarin. DoP: Bryan Loftus. Cast: Ayodele
Adjana, Sophie Trott, Emanuel Briely.
Salt Scrubbers is a harrowing narrative
about three prostitutes on a visit to their
sanctuary, a luxurious Fulham health suite
far from the sordid East End brothel where
they work. However, the safe haven is
profaned when one of the three is
propositioned by a john.
Satsuma
DIRECTOR: Rob Brown
Production Company: Film Ficciones,
1a Caroline Road, Moseley, Birmingham, B13
8AL, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7968 690 461
email: katyconnor@hotmail.com
Producer: Katy Connor. Screenwriter: Penny
Brazier. DoP: Derek Gruszeckjy. Cast: Ben
Allsopp, Lauren Parker.
“Don’t go by the wasps nest… we know how
dangerous wasps are don’t we?” A macabre
suburban parable, Satsuma follows two
young children during an uncomfortably hot
and ultimately tragic summer afternoon’s
play, when bullying and cruel games go too
far.
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Sauce
Sea Monsters
Seven Days
DIRECTOR: Xiaosong Atiyah
Digibeta. 10 min
DIRECTOR: Mark Walker
35mm. 16 min
DIRECTOR: Ewan Emery
Digibeta. 42 min
Production Company: 16 Sydner Road,
London, N16 7UG, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20
7254 4395 email: xatiyah@aol.com
Distribtor: National Film and Television
+44 (0)1494 674 042
Production Company: E Max Productions,
24b Braid Cresent, Edinburgh, EH10 6AU,
Scotland, UK. tel: +44 (0)131 447 6603
email: ewenemery@hotmail.com
Producer: Xiaosong Atiyah.
Screenwriter: Xiaosong Atiyah. DoP: Faye.
Cast: Ysé Tran, Tom Wu.
Faye, a contemplative hairdresser, swings
moodily between her western aspirations
and her Chinese origins. Huang, a Chinese
photographer with an expired visa, washes
up in a salsa bar when not exploring the city
with his camera. A faint romance temporarily
flickers between them. Interweaving scenes,
meanwhile, show us Cai and JJ, two artists
who appear to be in the act of preparing for
some mysterious performance.
Producer: Matt Delargy. Screenwriter: Mark
Walker. DoP: Stephan Pehrsson. Cast: James
Midgley, Gabrielle Reidy, Martin John-Jackson,
Eilidh Fraser, Danny Webb.
Alan is troubled by childhood memories. On
his mother’s birthday, he reluctantly returns
to his family home, hoping to avoid the
source of his inner turmoil.
Producer: Ewan Emery. Screenwriter: Ewan
Emery. DoP: Iain McIntosh. Cast: Billy
McElhaney, Kathryn Howden, Vicki Rudland,
Alex Grierson, Susie Crocker.
A new girl arrives at an Edinburgh high
school. When a bullying prank goes horribly
wrong, five girls are faced with a stark
choice. Part psychological drama, part taut
thriller, this film will keep you guessing to
the end.
Seventy Two Faced Liar
Scorned
DIRECTOR: Sam Noor
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7957 482 722
Noor. DoP: Dan Curtis. Cast: Suzy Harvey,
Mills Pierre.
People do the craziest things when they’re in
love. Who said passion was dead?
Scotland versus
Scotland versus Fiji
Second Hand
Experience
DIRECTOR: Jon Rennie
35mm. 3 min
tel: +44 (0)29 2033 3313 fax: +44 (0)29 2033
3320
Producers: Humphrey James, Paul Hart-Wilde.
Screenwriter: Jon Rennie. DoP: Peter
Thornton. Cast: Tamsin Pike, Robert Gwyndaf,
Al Russell.
A story of love and relationships, both real
and imaginary. Sandy must overcome her
guilt and decide between the two men in her
life, however perfect they seem to be.
DIRECTOR: Jock Ferguson
Beta SP. 23 min
Production Company: Herald Films,
2 Murdoch Cairnie, Cupar, Fife, KY15 4QE,
Scotland, UK. tel: +44 (0)1337 870 233
email: heraldevents@hotmail.com
Producer: Jock Ferguson. Screenwriter: Jock
Ferguson. DoP: Wayne Scott. Cast: Jock
Ferguson, Donna Krachan, Brian Jameson,
Graham Crockatt.
Scotland is divided East / West by a civil war
in the 21st century. Now Fiji has entered the
fray over coconut oil rights. Whatever next?
DIRECTOR: Mark Waites
35mm. 15 min
Production Company: Mother/@radical.media,
7a Abbey Road, Clerkenwell, London, NW8
9AA, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)20 7689 0689 fax: +44 (0)20 7689
1689
email: mark@motherlondon.com
Producer: Matt Buels. Screenwriter: Mark
Waites. DoP: Ray Coates. Cast: David Birrell,
Jacqueline Leonard, Steve Evetts.
Terry has got a rubber mask stuck on his
head. After about half an hour he can get it
off but then there’s another one underneath,
then another, then another. What does he
have to do to make this nightmare end?
Shade
DIRECTOR: Dustin Demri-Burns
Serial Suicides
DIRECTOR: Serkan Strongblood
Digibeta. 13 min
Production Company: Heart of Fire
Productions, 40 Lister Gardens, Edmonton,
London, N18 1HZ, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)7961 015 427
email: strongblood22@hotmail.com
Producer: Erim Metto. Screenwriter: Serkan
Strongblood. DoP: Steven Brooke Smith.
Cast: Tamzin Malleson, Stephen Lockwood,
Nikita Kheller.
Psychological drama about how a young
woman deals with her loss of innocence and
the extent she will go to for retribution,
leading to a dramatic dark and tragic ending.
Production Company: Flat 1/6, 205 Crow
Road, Glasgow, G11 7PY, Scotland, UK. tel:
+44 (0)141 337 3663
email: stuartdobbs@hotmail.com
Sales Agent: Out & Out Films, 25 Marchmont
Road, Edinburgh, EH9 1HY, Scotland, UK. tel:
+44 (0)7775 991 273
email: mark@outandoutfilms.co.uk
web: www.outandoutfilms.co.uk
tel: +44 (0)141 302 1700 fax: +44 (0)141 302
1711
Producer: Stuart Dobbs. Screenwriter: Matt
Pinder. DoP: Matt Pinder. Cast: Ben Lord, Tina
Baird, Scott McDougal.
Shade is a sensitive and touching account of
a young boy struggling to adapt after the
birth of his baby sister. At the heart of the
film is an almost palpable sense of
childhood confusion and resolve.
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Shades of Gray
Shadows of the Mind
Sikh, Rattle and Roll
DIRECTOR: Fiona Ashe
16mm. 9 min 10 sec
DIRECTOR: Mark Jones
DIRECTOR: Ekta Walia
Digibeta. 10 min
Production Company: Ashe Productions,
28 Highfield, Drogheda, County Louth,
N. Ireland, UK. tel: +35 (0)387 237 2289
fax: +35 (0)341 983 7847
email: ashe.productions@oceanfree.net
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7939 509 216
Production Company: Grand Union /
Endboard Productions, 114a Poplar Road,
Bearwood, Birmingham, B66 41P, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)121 429 9779 fax: +44 (0)121
429 9008
email: yugesh@endboard.com
web: www.endboard.com
Producer: Fiona Ashe. Screenwriters: Niamh
Faul, Fiona Ashe. DoP: Daniel Marracino.
Cast: Lulu Roche, Gregory Langdon, James
Campion.
A tribute to the Film Noir genre of the 1940’s
and 50’s, this black-and-white movie portrays
the despair and isolation of a lone hero in a
corrupt society. A tough-talking private
investigator confronts the police chief over
allegations of brutality in the force. Suddenly
she finds herself up against the entire NYPD,
with her life in danger on the gritty streets of
New York, pursued by the force that is
supposed to protect her.
Shadow Buddy
DIRECTOR: Josephine Halbert
Beta SP. 9 min
Production Company: 19 The Quadrangle,
Chelsea Harbour, London, SW10 0NG,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7376 5013
fax: +44 (0)20 7351 1970
email: josephine@jchalbert.fsnet.co.uk
Producer: Josephine Halbert. Screenwriter:
Josephine Halbert. DoP: Peter Brock.
Cast: Sukie Smith, Mark Allan.
A mystical fantasy about a woman who
meets the grown-up version of her imaginary
childhood friend and with him embarks on a
journey back to her own inner-child. The film
is a tribute to the director’s real-life
imaginary childhood companion.
Shadows
Beta. 5 min 18 sec
(0)1206 535 870
Producer: No Name Pictures. Screenwriter:
Mark Jones. DoP: Mark Jones. Cast: Sam
Basu.
Shadows of the Mind is a dark and
nightmarish tale about being held captive
within the confines of one’s own mind and
the inner turmoil which then results.
Shatter
DIRECTOR: Riccardo Sai
Producer: Yugesh Walia. Screenwriter: Yugesh
Walia. DoP: Peter Rance. Cast: Karamvir
Chadha, Parinder Rayat.
Jasbir, a fourteen year-old boy from a
traditional Sikh family, faces one of the most
important days in his life as he passes from
childhood into adult life. His friends tease
him, his mother reassures him, but more
importantly how can he relate this
auspicious day to his rock ‘n’ roll idols?
Production Company: Bridipo Film, 36 Solway
Road, Wood Green, London, N22 5BX,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7817 101 026
email: riccardosai@yahoo.it
web: www.viewreviews.com/shatter
Skinny
Producer: Riccardo Sai. Screenwriter: David
Ward. DoP: Steve Priovolos. Cast: Paul
Conway, Catherine Fitzlanders, Bruno Coxton.
tel: +44 (0)113 283 2600 fax: +44 (0)113 283
1901
web: www.lmu.ac.uk
Shatter depicts a couple’s fluctuations from
anger to fear to sorrow and back again as
their relationship is drawing to a close. The
emotional strain caused by the
disintegration of their relationship leads to
startling outbreaks of violence as a woman
leaves her husband.
Shrink
DIRECTOR: Ben Gooder
35mm. 3 min 30 sec
Production Company: Tricky Film Productions,
19 Perrymead Street, London, SW6 3SN,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7384 1222
fax: +44 (0)20 7384 1222
email: bengooder@homechoice.co.uk
web: www.trickyfilmproductions.com
6NG, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7739 7716
fax: +44 (0)20 7613 4485
Producer: Hui Hai Lu. Screenwriter: Sandra
Mareska Baid. DoP: Sandra Mareska Baid.
Cast: University of Essex students.
Producers: Charlotte Wontner, Alice Lean.
Screenwriters: Ben Gooder, Philip Greenacre.
DoP: Robert Shacklady. Cast: Sam West, Tim
West, Cherie Lunghi, John Shrapnel, Jessica
de Rothschild.
Shadows is a short film about the fact that
no matter where we come from, or who we
are, or what language we speak, we are the
same colour – black. The languages spoken
in the film are Chinese, Russian, Indian,
African and English. The film was created by
filming the shadows of people talking
against a wall.
George is mad about sex. His therapist,
Anna, is addicted to clients. And her analyst,
Bloom, has a thing about sea creatures.
Seems therapy is driving them all crazy.
Shrink is proudly committed to messing with
your mind.
DIRECTOR: Richard York
Beta SP. 22 min
Producer: Ghassan Abdallah. Screenwriter:
Claire Symonds. DoP: Beng Li. Cast: Morven
McBeth, Ruth Rayya McCaul, Rowan Sandle.
Three girls live an isolated and cloistered life
with their over-protective mother. When she
is taken away from them, their world is
turned inside out.
Sleep
DIRECTOR: Guy Paterson
Beta SP. 12 min
Production Company: 48 Kelvin Court,
Anniesland, Glasgow, G12 0AE, Scotland, UK.
tel: +44 (0)7989 744 704
email: guy.p@rocketmail.com
Producer: Maja Thywissen. Screenwriters:
Guy Paterson, Beth Willis. DoP: James Martin.
Cast: Ben Tinniswood, Katie Harris.
A not so ordinary day in the life of a
narcoleptic and an insomniac. We follow our
protagonists and their sleeping disorders
from their first chance meeting to a first date
in a small seaside town and an unexpected
and tragic conclusion.
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Sliproad
Solar Flares
Southside
DIRECTOR: Lars Otto
35mm. 9 min
DIRECTOR: Jonathan Birch
35mm. 6 min 30 sec
DIRECTOR: M J McMahon
Digibeta. 15 min
+44 (0)1494 674 042
Production Company: Lockyer Films, 79 Perry
Street, Wendover, Buckinghamshire, HP22
6DJ, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)129 662 4511
fax: +44 (0)129 662 4511
Production Company: 11:22 Entertainment,
18 Bonneville Gardens, Clapham South,
London, SW4 9LF, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)7776 217 449
email: rhylboy@hotmail.com
web: www.southsidemovie.co.uk
Producer: Lachlan MacKinnon. Screenwriter:
Nick Reed. DoP: Andrew Johnson. Cast: Ken
Anderson, James Weber Brown, Amanda
Abbington.
Producer: Jonathan Birch. Screenwriter:
Jonathan Birch. DoP: Sam Moon. Cast: Jack
Marsden, Abbie Taylor.
A summer picnic ends in tragedy. Love, loss
and resentment ignite to destroy a divided
family.
Dave drives through the night so that he can
be with his beloved wife. Then his car hits a
man and what Dave discovers is more than
he can bear.
Something Blue
Snap
Production Company: Dolphin Boy Films,
3 North Parade, West Park, Leeds, LS16 5AY,
England, UK.
email: jfrancas@cwcom.net
UK Distributor: Silver Cloud Television, Ivy
Cottage, Main Street Elvington, Elvington, York,
YO41 4AA, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)1904 607
625 fax: +44 (0)1904 607 625
email: info@silvercloudltd.com
DIRECTOR: Toby White
Production Company: Gangster Pictures, Top
Floor, 67 Southbridge Road, Croydon, London,
CR0 1AG, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7790 005
416
email: toby@gangsterpictures.com
Producers: Toby White, Emily Corcoran.
Screenwriter: Richard Wellings-Thomas.
DoP: John-Martin White. Cast: Rufus Wright,
Emily Corcoran.
The story of a guy, a girl, a one night stand
and a double dupe. Snap is the first film of
its kind to show a comparison between
35mm film and High Definition
simultaneously on screen within a narrative
piece.
DIRECTOR: John Francas
Producer: Katie Bevell. Screenwriter: John
Francas. DoP: Philip Robertson. Cast: Yvonne
Meller, Sean Gallagher, Mary Cunningham,
Stuart Wolfenden.
Jane and Steve spend the morning getting
ready for their wedding. Jane looks back
over the years with Steve, and seems a bit
pensive about their future together. Steve is
blasé about the whole affair. Will she turn
up? Will he care?
Soul Train
Snot
DIRECTOR: Noel Stephens
Beta SP. 8 min
Production Company: Minidrama
Productions, 18 Stow Crescent, London,
E17 5EG, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 8531
5224
email: noel@ste7.freeserve.co.uk
Producer: Noel Stephens. Screenwriter: Noel
Stephens. DoP: Jim Cox. Cast: Derek
Johnston, Frank Obeng, Simon Westmore.
Gangsters Kofi and Dave discover that
Connor, a crafty little crook, has doublecrossed them. With a knife against his
throat, and no way out, the fine line between
life and certain death turns out to be a
dangling string of snot.
DIRECTOR: Roberta Thompson
Production Company: Tangent Loop,
16 Montpelier Road, London, SE15 2HF,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7939 275 649
email: tangent.loop@virgin.net
Producer: Roberta Thompson. Screenwriter:
Roberta Thompson. DoP: Dan Curtis.
Cast: Lucy Trodd, Philip Marshall.
Lost in a daydream, an innocent young man
gets an unexpected come-on from a sexy
siren. Engaged in the pursuit of this
bewitching vision, a lost shoe invites a
display of athletic daring from our lovestruck hero. Soul Train is a fast paced action
story of desire and determination. Cinderella
with a twist.
Producer: M J McMahon. Screenwriter: M J
McMahon. DoP: Brendan McNamee, Dowan
Ramadan. Cast: M J McMahon, Steven
Lockwood, Luke Pantelidou, Joanna Maw,
Emma Hounsell.
Billy Sheers, who’s not too bright, has
escaped Manchester to hide out in London
because his girlfriend’s dad wants to kill him
for getting his daughter pregnant. He is
hoping to make a new start for himself in the
big city.
Spin
DIRECTOR: Cath Le Couteur
35mm. 9 min 50 sec
Production Company: Shooting People,
27 Hedingham Close, London, N1 8UA,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7688 0762
fax: +44 (0)20 7688 0762
email: cath@shootingpeople.org
web: www.shootingpeople.org
Shoreditch, London, N1 6NG, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)20 7739 7716 fax: +44 (0)20 7613
4485
Producer: Jess Search. Screenwriter: Cath Le
Couteur. DoP: Tom Townend. Cast: Julian
Morris, Ryan Dabner.
It is a time of sexual awakening and
everything is in a state of flux. A game of
spin-the-bottle sets off a chain reaction and
nothing is quite the same again. A powerful
adrenaline charged tale of what it’s like to be
a teenager.
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Spirit Levels
Spuds Too
Sredni Vashtar
DIRECTORS: Dominic Norris, Richard Wadey
Digibeta. 17 min
DIRECTOR: Sav Akyuz
DIRECTOR: Angela M Murray
35mm. 10 min 30 sec
Production Company: Iron Films, 2 Heath
Street, Hampstead, London, NW3 6TE,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7815 004 616
email: dominic@ironfilms.co.uk
web: www.ironfilms.co.uk
Production Company: Splitwigs,
50 Broadwalk, Winchmore Hill, London, N21
3BX, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 8882 5383
fax: +44 (0)20 8341 5203
email: sav@splitwigs.com
Producers: Dominic Norris, Richard Wadey.
Screenwriters: Dominic Norris, Richard
Wadey. DoP: Steven Priovolos. Cast: Garry
Tubbs, Michael Turner, Gibb Sutherland, Roy
Hopewell, Spud Murphy.
Producers: Sav Akyuz, Amy Gilliam, Ludwig
Shammasian. Screenwriter: Sav Akyuz.
DoP: Ciro Candia. Cast: Simon Sutton.
The anxiety, guilt, and paranoia going
through the mind of a mad man, as he
confesses to his other half, moments before
committing a crime.
Production Company: c/o 28 Victoria Crecent
Road, Glasgow, G12 9DD, Scotland, UK. tel:
+44 (0)141 339 8619
NE Amsterdam, The Netherlands tel: +31 20
404 0707 fax: +31 20 404 0708
tel: +44 (0)141 302 1700 fax: +44 (0)141 302
1711
Spyhole
Producer: Robbie Sandison. Screenwriter:
Angela M Murray. DoP: Balazs Bolygo. Cast:
Sian Thomas, Fergus Nimmo, Steven Cassidy.
Four London builders, returning home from a
contract job at Dartmoor Prison, accidentally
knock down and kill a vicar. The worst is yet
to come when they discover that their
chosen burial site is hosting the World Metal
Detecting Championships.
The Spirit Moved
DIRECTORS: Neil McGann, Owen Martell
35mm. 3 min 42 sec
Sales Agent, UK Distributor: Sgrîn - Media
Agency for Wales, The Bank, 10 Mount Stuart
Square, Cardiff Bay, Cardiff, CF10 5EE, Wales,
UK. tel: +44 (0)29 2033 3313 fax: +44 (0)29
2033 3320
Producers: Humphrey James, Paul HartWilden. Screenwriters: Owen Martell, Neil
McGann. DoP: Peter Thornton. Cast: Rhys
Miles Thomas, Daisy Bates, Spencer John.
Life and death: is it simply a question of
what goes around comes around? If you’ve
ever asked yourself, ‘Are we getting our just
desserts?’ then look no further. Life, the
afterlife and kebabs: all of humanity is here.
DIRECTOR: Jodhi May
35mm. 7 min
Production Company: JSP Ltd, 14/15 D’Arblay
Street, London, W1F 89Z, England, UK. tel:
+44 (0)20 7434 0942 fax: +44 (0)20 7287 6304
email: joylon@jspl.freeserve.co.uk
Producers: Jolyon Symonds, Josie Law.
Screenwriter: Jodhi May based on the short
story Neighbours by Raymond Carver.
DoP: Natasha Braier. Cast: David Morrissey,
Lesley Sharp.
Bill and Angela Miller have lost the spark in
their relationship. When their neighbours go
on holiday, Angela offers to look after their
cat. Once inside the neighbour’s flat, both
Bill and Angela discover in turn a sensual,
forbidden world that reminds them both of
what they have left behind. Now they must
remind each other.
Squeak!
Spiritual Rampage
DIRECTOR: Alnoor Dewshi
Beta SP. 10 min
Production Company: 150 Corbyn Street,
London, N4 3DB, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20
7272 6066
email: dewshi@talk21.com
Producer: Alnoor Dewshi. Screenwriter:
Alnoor Dewshi. DoP: Alnoor Dewshi. Cast:
Ben Whishaw, Adam Rhys Dee, Laura Rees,
Nathalie Press.
Two boys go the park to look for girls. One
does it for himself, the other does it for Lord
Krishna.
DIRECTOR: Krishna Francis
35mm. 7 min
Production Company: Fussy Films, 6 Bushey
Hall, Bushey Hill Road, London, SE5 8QG,
England, UK. tel: + 44 (0)20 7703 6448
email: krishna_francis@hotmail.com
6NG, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7739 7716
fax: +44 (0)20 7613 4485
Producer: Isobel Conroy. Screenwriters:
Krishna Francis, Elroy Simmons. DoP: Dave
Miller. Cast: Johnny Candon.
A tired writer finds that his troubles with
writer’s block are considerably increased
when his computer mouse runs away and
hides behind the skirting board.
Based on the short story by Edwardian writer
H H Munro, Sredni Vashtar is a chilling,
gothic fairy tale. After the death of his
parents, twelve year old Conradin is sent to
live with his strict aunt in the Scottish
highlands. Her world is a stark contrast to
the warm colourful life Conradin has left
behind. Fuelled by growing hatred, Conradin
creates Sredni Vashtar – a vicious, glorious
God of everything his aunt opposes.
Ssssh!
DIRECTOR: Zara Waldeback
Digibeta. 8 min
Production Company: Osmotic, 8 Regent
Street, Whitstable, Kent, CT5 1JD, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)1227 266 582
email: zara@mailbox.co.uk
Producer: Zara Waldeback. Screenwriter: Zara
Waldeback. DoP: Nemone Mercer. Cast: John
Donnelly.
Lawrence is desperate for sleep but the
world keeps him awake with its unbearable
noise. One night he decides to fight back but
is, after a manic struggle, outplayed.
Collapsing, he journeys to the centre of the
earth to discover a new way of hearing that
finally gives him peace.
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Stag Nut
DIRECTOR: Russell Razzaque
Beta SP. 8 min
Production Company: Prodigi Productions,
10 Elland House, Copenhagen Place, London,
E14 7EL, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7515
1008 email: drrazzaque@mailcity.com
Producer: Russell Razzaque. Screenwriter:
Russell Razzaque. DoP: Boyd Skinner.
Cast: Adam Smith, Darren Chancey, Melanie
Harris, Carla Scuffins.
The best man (and former boyfriend of the
bride) delivers a toast to the groom at his
stag night before introducing a stripper. The
stripper gives the groom more of a service
than he had expected throwing him into an
uncomfortable dillema.
A Stoner’s Guide to
Making Egg Fried Rice
DIRECTOR: Ray Wong
Production Company: Intermedia,
19 Heathcote Street, Nottingham, NG1 3AF,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)115 955 6909
fax: +44 (0)115 955 5996
email: helensolomon@intermedia.fs.business.co.uk
web: www.intermedianotts.co.uk
Producer: Rachel Robey. Screenwriter: Ray
Wong. DoP: Ray Wong. Cast: Johann Myers,
Gregory Chisholm.
Two potheads, a goldfish, and one
Cantonese Chinese voiceover all help to
deliver an egg fried rice recipe.
Steel Man
Strangers
DIRECTOR: Peter Spence
DIRECTOR: Luke Redgrave
35mm. 12 min
Production Company: 74 Alpha Road,
Cambridge, CB4 3OG, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)7951 364 559
email: petespence74@hotmail.com
Production Company: Outrageous Fortune
Films Ltd, 17 Cecil Court, Fancett Street,
London, SW10 9HP, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)7919 596 750
email: lredgrave@aol.com
6NG, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7739 7716
fax: +44 (0)20 7613 4485
Producers: Peter Spence, Zoe Read.
Screenwriter: Peter Spence. DoP: Morgan
Peline. Cast: Tom Tunstall.
An ex-steel worker returns home after many
years away. He embarks on a journey of rediscovery in a changing city.
Stoned
DIRECTOR: James Farrant
Digibeta. 5 min
Production Company: JF Productions,
13 Fountain Street, Whitstable, Kent, CT5 1HA,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)1227 261 548
email: jfproductions@telco4u.net
Producer: Gwillim Gwilym. Screenwriter:
Amanda Farrant. DoP: James Farrant.
Cast: Lewis Thorn, Troy Webb.
An artist searches for inspiration. He turns to
drugs to help unlock his creativity. He tries to
produce the image that he has within his
mind but finds himself struggling and gives
up in despair. As he walks away he is
unaware that he has created something
magical.
Producer: Katie Bullock-Webster.
Screenwriter: Luke Redgrave. DoP: Stephen
Blackman. Cast: Steven Makintosh, Roger
Allam, Jemma Redgrave.
The bitter meeting between Eric and Morgan,
and the consequences of their actions
teaches them both: you better be careful
what you wish for – you might just get it.
Stuff That Bear
DIRECTOR: Bruno Coppola
35mm. 18 min 33 sec
Production Company: Stuff That Bear Films,
222 Kensal Road, London, W10 5BN, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)7956 137 351 fax: +44 (0)7092
137 351
email: stuffthatbear@yahoo.com
Producers: Bruno Coppola, Laureen Vonnegut.
Screenwriter: Laureen Vonnegut. DoP: Oleg
Mutu. Cast: Carmen Ungureanu, Silviu Biris,
Dragos Huluba.
A bizarre contemporary comedy. A quiet
Romanian taxidermist and his brother, a
relentless scammer, dream of escaping to
London. A drunken American offers them a
bear to stuff. Instead, they steal his money
and head to a seedy club and pick up the
gorgeous but troubled lap-dancer Carmela.
London is calling – should they leave or
stay?
Success
DIRECTOR: Martin Fickling
Production Company: Bud Associated
Productions, Times House, Throwley Way,
Sutton, Surrey, SM1 4AF, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)20 8288 0150 fax: +44 (0)20 8288
0155
email: info@budproductions.co.uk
web: www.budproductions.co.uk
Producer: David Reeve. Screenwriter: Michael
Corkett. DoP: Tetelle Randrianta. Cast: Robert
Cambrinus.
Gabriel Polowski’s first book sold millions
around the world and he’s under pressure to
repeat the success; but the deadline is
looming and he hasn’t written a word. He
shuts himself in the study and begins the
search for inspiration.
Stricken
DIRECTOR: Andrew Kemble
Digibeta. 6 min
Production Company: Half-Cut Films,
30 Sutherland Squares, Walworth, London,
SE17 3EQ, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7905 269
169
email: johnpape@ukonline.co.uk
Producer: Half Cut Films. Screenwriters: John
Pape, Andrew Kemble. DoP: David Mackie.
Cast: Ben Miller, Elizabeth Doyle, Emma
Pierson.
Stricken is a dark absurdist comedy, tracing
the last moments in the lives of a 1920’s
couple who have become literally stuck
together through their reliance on each other
for support.
Suffering
DIRECTOR: Gary Mitchell
35mm. 8 min 45 sec
Production Company: Straight Face
Production, Building 2, Lesley Office Park,
393 Holyrood Road, Belfast, BT4 2LS, N.
(0)28 9089 4502
email: tony@aboutface.co.uk
Producer: Anthony Rowe. Screenwriter: Gary
Mitchell. DoP: Mark Garrett. Cast: Sarah BoyoWilson, Eleanor Metven, Stuart Graham,
Andrew Moore, Angel Cullinane.
A young family finds itself torn apart by
tragic circumstances. Isolated, the
characters deal with their loss in a personal
way. This is an exploration of the strength of
human character and a family’s attempt to
cope with great sorrow and tragedy.
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A Summer’s Day
Swan Song
Taking a Bath
VHS. 1 min 27 sec
DIRECTOR: Nicholas Bone
DIRECTOR: Sam Noor
Digibeta. 1 min
Production Company: The Cut Ltd, 23
Medfield Street, Roehampton, London, SW15
4JY, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7771 628 712
email: pip@pmarks.demon.co.uk
Production Company: Magnetic North,
18 Brandon Terrace, Edinburgh, EH3 5D2,
Scotland, UK. tel: +44 (0)131 556 3299
fax: +44 (0)131 556 3299
email: mail@magneticnorth.org.uk
web: www.magneticnorth.org.uk
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7957 482 722
Pippa Marks. DoP: Nemone Mercer. Cast: Gus
Fernald, Trudi Litherland.
After an emotionless shag in a beautiful
setting, two teenagers experience postcoitial time, whilst both unconsciously
acting out agressive oral fixations.
Sunk
DIRECTORS: Caroline Wilkinson, Emma
Brown
Production Company: Garage Door
Productions, 11 Pen y Cei, Felin y Mor Road,
Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 1BS, Wales,
UK. tel: +44 (0)7779 112 870
email: caroline@garagedoorproductions.co.uk
web: www.garagedoorproductions.co.uk
Producers: Caroline Wilkinson, Emma Brown.
Screenwriters: Caroline Wilkinson, Emma
Brown. DoP: Caroline Wilkinson, Emma
Brown. Cast: Heather Mason, Lesley-Anne
Thorp, Saffron Governor.
A young girl struggles with the recovered
memory of her childhood abuse. She fights
against these memories, trying not to let
them ruin her chances of winning the
upcoming swimming nationals. Her friends
rally round, but the memories overtake,
leading to a dramatic climax.
Sunshine
DIRECTOR: Jules Bishop
Beta SP. 10 min
UK Distributor: London Film School,
24 Shelton Street, London, WC2H 9UB,
England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)20 7836 9642 fax: +44 (0)20 7497
3718
web: www.lfs.org.uk
Producer: Russell Hasenberg. Screenwriter:
Jules Bishop. Cast: Mathew Bishop, Rhys
Williams, Monique Summerelle, Alastair T
Millis, Danielle Otnis.
Set on the day of the solar eclipse. A young
boy returns home to a less than
compassionate reception from his father,
while a woman struggles to see her daughter.
Producer: Abigail Howkings. Screenwriter:
Joern Utkilen. DoP: Balazs Bolygo. Cast: Kevin
Kelly, Louise Ironside, Mary McCusker, Jack
Martin.
A man, woken by his doorbell, rushes out to
be confronted by a market researcher, the
first of many delays. Further incidents with a
militant lollipop man, a boy on the scooter
and a zimmerframe-toting pensioner lead to
a waterside showdown. Will he make it to his
date with destiny, tutus and Tchaikovsky?
Producer: Sam Noor. Screenwriter: Simon
Cameron. DoP: Jun Keung Cheung.
Cast: Kathy Hipperson.
There’s nothing like a long hot soak in the
bath to take all your cares away...
A Tale From the Village:
Shiner
DIRECTOR: Cavan Clerkin
Beta SP. 13 min
The Table We Drag
DIRECTOR: Lydia Konsta
Beta SP. 13 min
Production Company: Mrs B Filims, 429
Kingsland Road, Dalston, London, E8 4AU,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7684 9768
fax: +44 (0)20 7684 9768
email: cav.72@virgin.net
Production Company: Northern Media
School, The Workstation, 15 Paternoster Row,
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S1 2BX, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)114 225 4617 fax: +44 (0)114
225 4606
Producer: Cavan Clerkin. Screenwriter: Cavan
Clerkin. DoP: Jon Wood. Cast: Cavan Clerkin,
Martin Askew, John O’Driscol, James Pierce.
Producer: Lydia Konsta. Screenwriter: Lydia
Konsta, Nick Katikeridis. DoP: Xenafon
Vardaros. Cast: Nick Katikeridis, Dimitra
Chrysicati.
Shiner, a window cleaning samurai,
witnesses the cynical meanderings,
hypocracy and pilfering of his colleagues.
When Barry sacks the wrong man no one is
prepared for the vengeance that awaits
them.
A comic Greek film about the past's hold
over the present. A couple plan to escape,
away from their Greek families, but find
themselves constantly thwarted by forces
which drag them back to their roots.
Target
DIRECTOR: Dee Allen
Take Me Somewhere
Nice
DIRECTOR: Matt Huntley
Digibeta. 10 min
Production Company: Ample Films, 388 St
Davids Square, Lockes Wharf, London, E14
3WQ, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7779 109 858
email: pete_and_matt@hotmail.com
(0)114 221 0569 fax: +44 (0)114 249 2293
Producer: Adam Doherty. Screenwriters: Matt
Huntley, Pete Mellor. DoP: Ben Moulden.
Cast: Julia Dalkin, Jaycob Ball, Vari Falconer.
The film centres on the relationship between
a young, single mother and her son. The
story sees the pair embark on a car journey
to visit the woman’s estranged mother-inlaw. We witness the boy’s realisation that
when it comes to family, nothing is ever
quite what it seems.
Production Company: Heavy Soul Ltd,
22 Russell Chambers, Bury Places, London,
WC1 2JU, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7971 834
551
email: chrisrayner@heavy-soul.co.uk
Producers: Chris Rayner, Troy Titus-Adams.
Screenwriter: Dee Allen. DoP: Kelvin Richard.
Cast: Wil Johnson, Redd Pepper, Ellen
Thomas.
Joshua and Blake go back a long way. They
share a close friendship in the kill-or-bekilled world of the professional assasin.
When one of them is presented with his final
assignment he is also handed a personal
dilemma. Does he choose loyalty and
friendship? Or does he choose freedom?
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Tarot Mechanic
Thespian X
DIRECTOR: Jason King
35mm. 3 min 44 sec
DIRECTOR: Gerald McMorrow
35mm. 13 min
tel: +44 (0)29 2033 3313 fax: +44 (0)29 2033
3320
Production Company: TX Film Productions
Ltd, 39 Stanhope Gardens, London, SW7 5QY,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7373 6832
email: khalwagi@btinternet.com
6NG, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7739 7716
fax: +44 (0)20 7613 4485
Producers: Humphrey James, Paul HartWilden. Screenwriter: Louise Adlam.
DoP: Peter Thornton. Cast: Jason Hughes.
This is a story of a car mechanic whose
methods are far from orthodox, combining
his practical knowledge of car maintenance
with the spiritual guidance from his tarot
cards.
Ten Minutes
DIRECTOR: Ben Mole
35mm. 15 min
Production Company: Scanner-Rhodes
Productions Ltd, 19 Ewellhurst Road, Clayhall,
Ilford, Essex, IG5 0PE, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)20 8924 7219 fax: +44 (0)20 8550 7631
email: dean@deanfisher.com
web: www.tenminutesthemovie.co.uk
Producer: Dean Fisher. Screenwriter: Dean
Fisher. DoP: Melissa Byers. Cast: Nick Moran,
Craig Charles, Terri Dwyer, Paul Donan.
Set in real time this black comedy follows
Andy, a high flying magazine editor, with ten
minutes until a deadline. He experiences
every kind of emotion when the thought of
failure becomes reality.
Terrible Kisses
DIRECTOR: Jill Robertson
35mm. 4 min
Production Company: Stray Dog Films,
c/o Steeple Post Production, 2 Wedgwood
Mews, 12-13 Greek Street, London, W1D 4BA,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7977 124 544
fax: +44 (0)20 7938 3193
email: helen.dewinter@virgin.net
Producer: Helen De Winter. Screenwriter:
Helen De Winter. DoP: Haris Zambarloukos.
Cast: Jack Davenport, Saffron Burrows.
A woman’s gift to her lover of a suit of
lipstick kisses turns into an indelible
nightmare when the kisses refuse to wash
off.
This is What it Feels
Like
DIRECTOR: Patrick Jackson
Beta SP. 18 min
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7836 9642
fax: +44 (0)20 7497 3718
web: www.lfs.org.uk
Producer: Karim Halwagi. Screenwriter:
Gerald McMorrow. DoP: Rob Hardy. Cast: Milo
Twomey, Liza Walker, Joan Walker.
Producer: Daneeta-Loretta Saft. Screenwriter:
Patrick Jackson. Cast: Pamela Hall, Antony
Edridge, Sophie Trott.
Set in an alternative dystopian future,
Thespian X follows a morning in the life of
an out-of-work actor, Lukas Vince, signing on
at the local Ministry of Employment.
Degraded by his lack of work as a thespian,
Lukas finds the waiting around amongst the
city’s bedraggled and bizarre mixture of
unemployed robots, citizens and mutants a
truly humiliating experience.
A character-based drama, which spans two
days in the life of Anna Thompson. After
having defined herself as a wife and mother
for fifteen years, two days of small defeats
chip away at her faith.
Thicker than Water
DIRECTOR: Daneeta-Loretta Saft
35mm. 13 min 45 sec
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7836 9642
fax: +44 (0)20 7497 3718
web: www.lfs.org.uk
Producer: Daneeta-Loretta Saft.
Screenwriters: Daneeta-Loretta Saft, Cassie
Destino, Daniel Mitelpunkt. Cast: Dianne
Weller, Ariana Fraval, Holly Matthews.
Set in the backwater of southern Louisiana,
Michelle thinks that blood should be thicker
than water. Her mother and sisters have
different ideas. She struggles to understand
why the family breaks apart and how she
can find meaning in her seemingly
meaningless existence. What she discovers
is a bond with her mother and sister based
on acceptance and humour.
Through Glass
DIRECTOR: Mark Wordsworth
tel: +44 (0)113 283 2600 fax: +44 (0)113 283
1901
web: www.lmu.ac.uk
Producer: Simon Cheung. Screenwriter: Mark
Wordsworth. DoP: Mate Toth. Cast: Neil Collie,
Leah Port, Stephen Noble.
Through Glass is the tale of one man’s world.
Seen through his eyes, we are aware that
something is wrong with his perception. The
film changes tilt to our own eyes, to reveal
why. Peter, has been through a trauma,
losing his only child, and has retreated to an
imaginery world. The world he has created,
his own looking glass, is a place where he
can escape from his guilt.
Time 2 Save the World
DIRECTOR: Adam Trotman
DVD. 11 min 30 sec
Production Company: Zeno Films, 94 Lime
Avenue, Lillington, Leamington SPA,
Warwickshire, CV32 7DQ, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)7968 949 464
web: www.zenofilms.net
Producer: Adam Trotman. Screenwriters:
Adam Trotman, Dawn Mears. DoP: Mark
Smithers. Cast: Colin Buchanan, Jessica
Harper.
A fairytale for the 21st century. Do you
believe in miracles? Joel Emerson doesn’t.
He doesn’t believe in anything except work
and money. His busy routine is changed by
an event that will change his life forever.
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The Toilet Seat Maker
Turkish Coffee
Undercurrent
DIRECTOR: Christopher Heary
DIRECTOR: Erim Metto
Beta SP. 26 min
DIRECTOR: Michael Bell
Beta SP. 15 min
Production Company: 15 Brixton Hill Court,
Brixton Hill, London, SW2 1QX, England, UK.
fax: +44 (0)20 7805 8227
email: francis.oriordan@bskyb.com
Production Company: Metto Productions,
12 Lodge Close, Edmonton, NI8 1JD, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)20 8482 5629/+44 (0)775 357
0704 fax: +44 (0)20 8482 5629
Producer: Frances O’Riordan. Screenwriter:
Christopher Heary. DoP: Anthony May.
Cast: Lobo Chan, Anita Anderson, Harriet
Cobbold, Jonathan Kydd.
Producer: Erim Metto. Screenwriter: Erim
Metto. DoP: Ali Kheahli. Cast: Cosh Umar,
Nevci Hassan, Huseyin Ojelal.
tel: +44 (0)113 283 2600 fax: +44 (0)113 283
1901
web: www.lmu.ac.uk
Lam Bin Tung is a toilet seat maker from
Beijing, China who follows his dream to
London. However, he soon finds out that the
path to his dreams has a few potholes.
Track Addict
A short comedy about the struggle of
arranging marriages within the Turkish
community. Leyla has had three previous
suitors chosen by her father. Kemal has been
arranged as the fourth and hopefully the last.
Unbeknownst to them, Leyla has a secret
that she is forced to reveal when Kemal and
his family leave the home.
Producers: Michael Bell, Michael Burton,
Simon Aguirre. Screenwriter: Kim Moore.
DoP: Louise Ready. Cast: Zack Foster, Peter
Foster, Sue Casson.
Set on a farm in the beautiful North
Yorkshire countryside, Undercurrent is the
tragic story of a deeply unhappy young boy
whose desperate search for a father figure
throws him into the clutches of a stranger
with a dark past.
DIRECTOR: Jamie Worsfold
Beta SP. 9 min
Two To Tangle
Production Company: Jambon Films,
25 Ridgeway, Wargrave, Berkshire, RG10 8AS,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7799 012 646
email: jambonfilms@yahoo.co.uk
DIRECTOR: Paul Henry
Digibeta. 9 min
Unemployed
Production Company: Carpathia Pictures,
1 Warriner Gardens, London, SW11 4EA,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7720 3774
email: paul.henry@direction.demon.co.uk
DIRECTOR: Vlastimir Sudar
35mm. 5 min
Producer: Jamie Worsfold. Screenwriter:
Jamie Worsfold. DoP: Arantxa Hurtado.
Cast: Robert Gill, Alison Goldie, Olegar Fedoro.
Every day Jim catches the train to work and
back home again. But recently something
strange has happened as Jim descends into
a dark pit of train travel addiction.
Tube
Producer: Paul Henry. Screenwriter: Mat
Sansom. DoP: Steve Tickner. Cast: Mairead
Carty, Elliot Head, Milo McCabe.
Production Company: Oval Production,
58b Rowley Way, Abbey Road, London, NW8
0SJ, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7968 208 984
fax: +44 (0)20 7328 7568
email: vlastosudar@hotmail.com
Two To Tangle is a light-hearted tale of sadomasochistic bondage. In a traditional, oldstyle boxing gym, thick with sweat and
testosterone, a strange menage a trois
unfolds between a dominatrix, an unwitting
boxer and a punching bag.
Producer: Vlastimir Sudar. Screenwriter:
Vlastimir Sudar. DoP: Dusan Todorovic.
Cast: Suzie Perez, Michelle Carter.
The Uncertain
Existence
Untitled
An unemployed girl kills time in her flat,
reflecting on her situation.
DIRECTOR: Richard Edenborough
Digibeta. 10 min
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7939 509 216
Producer: No Name Pictures. Screenwriter:
Richard Edenborough. Cast: Ed Dudzik,
Justine Leggat, Colin Mutimer, Steve Foster,
Mark Jones.
A vagrant awakes on a platform in an
underground station and finds a strange box
nearby. He opens the box and a malevolent
force is transferred to him. We then follow
the journeys of three passengers. This time
their journeys will be anything but normal as
they encounter the vagrant.
DIRECTOR: Veronica Ibarra
Production Company: C/San Bernardo 51,
Piso 2C, Madrid, 28015, Spain. tel: +34 (0)9 15
21 80 11 email: veronicaibarra@yahoo.com
web: www.fexia.com
Producer: Veronica Ibarra. Screenwriter:
Veronica Ibarra. DoP: Veronica Ibarra.
Cast: Lindsay Carr, Edward Olive, Florian
Roithmayr.
In a decadent London, Nadia, a solitary
young photographer sees her reality altered
by the impossible.
DIRECTOR: Robert Samuels
Production Company: 72 Coverack Close,
Hood Avenue, London, N14 4QP, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)7941 426 180
email: superocketman@yahoo.co.uk
web: www.untitledflick.com
Producers: Robert Samuels, Mikael Issakson.
Screenwriter: Robert Samuels. DoP: Brett
Turnbull. Cast: Ruaraidh Murray, Femi
Houghton, Emilia Hellquist, Clive Fryde, Olegar
Fedoro.
Through the course of a very strange and
disorienting day Jim Avocet begins to see
objects and people as being made of letters.
Is Jim hallucinating or is something more
mysterious going on?
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‘Untitled’ Etude in G
Minor
The Visitor
Vocation
DIRECTOR: Stephen Hughes
Digibeta. 11 min
DIRECTOR: Alice Nelson
Beta SP. 11 min
Production Company: Edinburgh College of
Art, 26/4 Grassmarket, Edinburgh, EH1 2JU,
Scotland, UK. tel: +44 (0)131 225 1845
email: saperion@hotmail.com
Production Company: Adrenalin Pictures, Flat
1, 43 Lancaster Grove, Belsize Park, London,
NW3 4HB, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 8883
6357 fax: +44 (0)20 8883 6357
email: jason@adrenalinpictures.co.uk
web: www.adrenalinpictures.co.uk
Production Company: GF1, 11 Dunedin Street,
Edinburgh, EH7 4JD, Scotland, UK. tel: +44
(0)131 557 5301
email: fullnelson_99@yahoo.com
Producer: Sandro Jandieri.
Screenwriter: Sandro Jandieri. DoP: Ed
Edwards.
Cast: Hannah Cowlin, Jaques Vega.
Producer: Jason Korsner. Screenwriters:
Stephen Hughes, Jason Korsner. DoP: Jason
Clare. Cast: Lena Rae, Barry Cooper, Joe Rice,
Alex Conran, Madeleine Collins.
Hannah takes a leisurely walk on Sunday
morning. Crossing the street she develops
an uneasy feeling of being followed. She
gradually increases the pace to a run as she
tries to get away from the threat behind her
back.
Two years ago, Gail saw a ghost in her
kitchen. It whispered that something would
happen in two years’ time. A year later it
appeared again. In one more year, Gail
trembles with fear at the thought of what
might happen. Is she brave enough to stick
around and find out?
DIRECTOR: Sandro Jandieri
Mini DV. 2 min 40 sec
The Victim
DIRECTOR: Robert Ager
Mini DV. 27 min
Production Company: Artifact Ltd, Room 9,
27 Sefton Park Road, Liverpool, L8 3SL,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)151 281 6271
Producers: Andrew Neiduzac, Robert Ager.
Screenwriter: Robert Ager. DoP: Paul Dolan.
Cast: Matthew Benson, Jack Galagher, Marc
Bolton, Jackie Knowles.
Two sadists on a routine hunt for victims
inadvertantly abduct a stranger who claims
to be a serial killer. This mysterious captive
even offers to commit murder to prove
himself. Is he a kindred spirit to their wicked
ways or does he have his own agenda?
Victoria Station
DIRECTOR: Douglas Hodge
35mm. 15 min
Production Company: Swanny Productions,
49 Murray Road, Wimbledon, London, SW19
4PF, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7799 694 016
fax: +44 (0)20 8879 0417
email: robincharlesfox@hotmail.com
Producer: Robin Fox. Screenwriter: Harold
Pinter. DoP: Tat Radcliffe. Cast: Rufus Sewell,
Robert Glenister, David Hamilton Smith.
A controller in a London cab office is looking
for a driver to pick up a man from Victoria
Station. The driver who answers the call
already has a job, but is she well?
Vivienne Gibson-Forbes
– Portrait of a Film
Extra
DIRECTOR: Abi Fisher
Beta SP. 17 min
Production Company: Pepo Films Ltd,
5 Greyhound Road, Tottenham, London, N17
6XP, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 8880 3056
fax: +44 (0)20 8880 3056
email: pumpkin87@hotmail.com
Producer: Abi Fisher. Screenwriter: B L Willie.
DoP: Nathan A Sheppard. Cast: Jay Byrd, Wil
Johnson, Michael Winner.
The film is a spoof documentary about
Vivienne Gibson-Forbes, doyenne of black
film extras. Charting events in both her
professional and private lives, it is clear that
Vivienne would later emerge as a major
talent. At a time when black actors found it
hard to be considered for lead and classical
roles, Vivienne quickly carved out a niche for
herself as a black film extra. The film
reaches its climax at the prestigious Awards
Ceremony where Vivienne is left to
contemplate that life will never be the same
again.
Producers: Tom Kelly, Lucy Brown.
Screenwriter: Alice Nelson. DoP: Scott Ward.
Cast: Jim McSharry, Brian Pitcher.
Pat Lewis contracted polio a year after
joining the Catholic priesthood. Pat found
himself paralysed from the neck down and
lying in an iron lung. He spent the next 45
years fighting to stay alive. Vocation explores
aspects of faith in the face of fear and the
difference between death and dying.
Waiting
DIRECTOR: Esther Gimenez Sanchez
Production Company: Polenta Productions,
7 Arden Street, Edinburgh, EH9 1BR, Scotland,
UK. tel: +44 (0)7968 201 327
email: esther_gs@yahoo.co.uk
Producer: Esther Gimenez Sanchez.
Screenwriter: Esther Gimenez Sanchez.
DoP: Esther Gimenez Sanchez. Cast: Tessa
Fayers, Kate Walker, Owen Griffiths.
Based on a poem, the film serves as a visual
interpretation, enhancing the visual motif of
the text with contrasting black and white
images. The images and original soundtrack
flow together creating a very personal work.
Waiting For Giro
DIRECTOR: Ian Curtis
Production Company: Coldharbour Films,
247 Bellenden Road, London, SE15 4DQ,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7732 2400
fax: +44 (0)20 7732 2400
email: ian@coldharbourfilms.com
Sales Agent: Britshorts, 25 Beak Street,
7734 2277 fax: +44 (0)20 7734 2242
Producer: Tim Riddington. Screenwriter: Ian
Curtis. DoP: Ali Asad. Cast: Pauline Quirke,
Christian Rodska, Joe Harvey.
The madness of cabin fever has set in for Bo
and Dee, companions trapped in their rundown apartment, with no money. They spend
their days waiting, desperately hoping for the
Giro to arrive in the post and help them
escape. A humorous and eccentric story of a
battle to keep themselves sane for another
day.
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Waiting for the Sound
of Heaven
DIRECTOR: Brian Devlin
DV. 6 min
Production Company: Prairie Song Films,
4 Manse Lane, Galashiels, TD1 1NB, Scotland,
UK. tel: +44 (0)1896 756 402
Producer: Brian Devlin. Screenwriter: Brian
Devlin. DoP: John Steele. Cast: John McColl,
Iain Watt Mae.
An old vaudeville performer paints his face
at the same hour every evening in keen
anticipation of being called on stage. He is
always left sitting in darkness. This has been
his routine for so long that his failing
memory cannot adjust to change. He is
released from his sad confusion in an
unexpected manner.
Short Films
Way Past
A Weekend With Eva
DIRECTOR: Mairead McClean
35mm. 10 min
DIRECTOR: Camille Griffin
Beta SP. 12 min
Production Company: Openfire Films, c/o 49
King Street, Bangor, County Down, BT20 3AH,
N. Ireland, UK. tel: +44 (0)7739 186 860
email: kwimpress@hotmail.com
Production Company: 4 Mall Studios, Tasker
Road, London, NW3 2YS, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)7958 495 553
email: camillebontemps@yahoo.com
Producer: Kate Wimpress. Screenwriter:
Mairead McClean. DoP: Eugene McVeigh.
Cast: Una Brogan, John Kelly, Brona O’Reilly.
Producer: Camille Griffin. Screenwriter:
Camille Griffin. DoP: Camille Griffin.
Cast: Heike Matatsch.
Sometimes life feels like a fairy tale. Is the
tale mapped out or is the territory still to be
charted? Way Past follows Una, a young girl
sent out on an errand. What should be a
simple trip turns into an unexpected journey.
Will she find her own way home?
Judy Mouchette, a documentary filmmaker,
is able to secure a weekend with the
enigmatic Eva to make a 20th century
portrait of the Girl Next Door.
What?
The Wayfarer
DIRECTOR: Elen Bowman
35mm. 3 min 11 sec
Wasp
DIRECTOR: Lawrence Jackson
35mm. 9 min
DIRECTOR: Andrea Arnold
35mm. 15 min
Production Company: Fillum Ltd, Fountain
House, Fountain Street, Belfast, BT1 5AB, N.
(0)2890 509 558
email: fillumltd@hotmail.com
tel: +44 (0)29 2033 3313 fax: +44 (0)29 2033
3320
Producer: Colin McKeown. Screenwriter: Don
McCamphill. DoP: Damian Elliot. Cast: Ruari
Tohill, Kevin Breen, Patrick O’Kane, Gerard
McSorley, Julia Dearden.
Elen Bowman. DoP: Rory Taylor. Cast: Ray
Gravell, Cler Stevens, Barry Phillips, Laurie
Ann Kemlo, Alice Ford.
Two worlds collide in rural Northern Ireland
when a casual young urban drifter fails to fit
in with local customs, incurring the rural
community’s own brand of punishment.
From rural Welsh farm to urban flat, Sian
and her family have been yelling for
generations. Desperate for some peace to
study, her husband pleads with her to use a
quieter method of communication. She
agrees to try but then forgets.
Production Company: Cowboy Films, 11/29
Smiths Court, London, W1D 7DP. tel: +44
(0)20 7287 3808 fax: +44 (0)20 7287 3785
email: info@cowboyfilms.co.uk
web: www.cowboyfilms.co.uk
Producer: Natasha Marsh. Screenwriter:
Andrea Arnold. DoP: Robbit Ryan.
Cast: Natalie Press, Danny Dyer.
Zoe, a single mum, is broke and her kids are
hungry. She bumps into Dave, a bloke she
used to fancy, who doesn’t know she’s a
mum. When he asks her out, she lies about
having kids and leaves them outside the
pub. A bin nearby attracts wasps looking for
food.
We Called in the
Co-ordinates
What About the Bodies
The Way Ahead
DIRECTOR: Simon Greenberg
Beta SP. 12 min
DIRECTOR: Simon Ellis
Digebeta. 7 min
DIRECTOR: Robert Sternberg
Digibeta. 30 min
Production Company: London Metropolitan
University, Central House, 59-63 Whitechapel
High Street, London, E1 7PF, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)20 7320 1956 / +44 (0)7979 285 176
fax: +44 (0)20 7320 1956
email: yossibal@aol.com/nakedbrunch@yahoo.com
web: www.lgu.ac.uk
2BX, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)114 221 0569
fax: +44 (0)114 249 2293
Production Company: Headspace
Productions, 192a Frame Park Road, London,
N8 9BN, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 8347
8002 fax: +44 (0)20 7594 8763
Producers: Robert Sternberg, Ashley Taggart,
Peter West. Screenwriter: Ashley Taggart.
DoP: Alan James. Cast: John Hewitt, Vincent
Higgins, Frankie Hughes.
The barren Antrim hills, Northern Ireland. An
old man leads a younger man to a weapons
cache containing two handguns and no
ammunition. He seems undisturbed and,
despite continued questioning, refuses to
name their target. Walking on, they reach a
ruin overlooking a deserted farmhouse. The
older man sits and begins a story.
Producer: Yossi Bal. DoP: Gedalia Becker.
Inspired by cult poet Bill Shields, this is a
melancholic study of the American war
machine at the onslaught of the Vietnam
campaign. The film uses recently discovered
archive footage to explore the complex
relationship between the young soldiers and
the Vietnamese.
Producer: Jane Hooks. Screenwriter: Simon
Ellis. Cast: Allen Mechen, Ishbel Nicol, Philip
Webster.
Mystery, misfortune and miscommunication
as three characters with ambiguous
motivations collide in the middle of whoknows-where. An absurd coincidence in
absurd circumstances, but who will be left
alive when night falls?
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What If...
When We Were Dings
White Bits
DIRECTOR: Nicolas Piere
Beta SP. 8 min
DIRECTOR: Daniel Mendelle
Digibeta. 20 min
DIRECTOR: Alex Jovy
35mm. 4 min
Production Company: YFM Productions, c/o
24 Grange Close, Hunslet Green, Leeds, LS10
1SU, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7050 256 446
email: ktbevell@hotmail.com
Production Company: Blind Productions,
The Fishergate Centre, 4 Fishergate, York,
North Yorkshire, YO10 4FB, England, UK.
tel: +44 (0)190 467 7866 fax: +44 (0)190 467
9611
email: reza@blindproductions.com
web: www.blindproductions.com
Production Company: Chahaya Group,
3rd Floor, 179 Sutherland Avenue, London, W9
1ET, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7802 251 001
fax: +44 (0)7802 861 416
email: alex@chahayagroup.com
web: www.chahayagroup.com
Sales Agent: BFI - British Film Institute,
21 Stephen Street, London, W1T 1LN, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7255 1444 fax: +44 (0)20
7580 5830
email: john.flahive@bfi.org.uk
web: www.bfi.org.uk
Producer: Katie Bevell. Screenwriters: Stuart
Sandford, Oliver Luft. DoP: Chris Moorcroft.
Cast: Graham Edgington, Sarah Edge.
Set in the present, in a dreary cafe
somewhere in Manchester, a waitress,
Joanne, goes about her mundane job. She’s
startled by the arrival of a mysterious
stranger. He proposes to take her away from
the life that she’s fallen into and make her
dreams come true. Joanne doesn’t believe
him but is given a moment to decide. The
phone distracts her, and the stranger
disappears. She goes back to work only
vaguely aware of the life she could have had.
Producer: Reza Ghadiri. Screenwriter: Daniel
Mendelle. DoP: Daniel Mendelle. Cast: Sam
Booth, Nancy Walker, Liam Morgan.
When We Were Dings is what happens when
four charmless, middle-class filmmakers
take to the mean streets of inner city Leeds
to make a gritty, realistic but noble film
about tough love in the urban jungle.
Where Were We
When in Rome
DIRECTOR: Matt Smith
DIRECTOR: Greg McManus
Beta SP. 34 min
2BX, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)114 221 0569
fax: +44 (0)114 249 2293
Production Company: The Old Parsonage,
Lawbrook Lane, Peaslake, Surrey, SU5 9QW,
England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7729 842 181
email: gregmcmanus@hotmail.com
Producer: Mouche Phillips. Screenwriter:
Greg McManus. DoP: Damien Beebe.
Cast: Michael Denkha, Scott Johnson, Rachel
Gordon, Lindy Sardelil.
Thomas, a travelling salesman wagers
$50 000 against Ron’s BMW that he can
seduce a business woman in the coming
fifteen minutes. Ron accepts. However, as
things progress, it becomes unclear as to
whom the real winner might be.
Producer: Andy Parkhouse. Screenwriter:
Matt Smith. DoP: Chris Maris. Cast: James
Hillier, Shareena Harnett, Chris Llewellyn.
In this gently absurd film a couple are
dragged into helping a man they have never
met with extraordinary results.
While You Sleep
DIRECTOR: Eva Tang
Digibeta. 11 min
When The Morning
Comes
DIRECTOR: Erica Dunton
35mm. 9 min
Production Company: Rapid Eye Productions,
Elstree Film Studios, c/o TDC Power House,
Shenly Road, Borehamwood, WD6 1LS,
+44 (0)20 8324 2336
Producer: Caroline Van Luthje. Screenwriter:
Erica Dunton. DoP: George Richmond.
Cast: Adam Rayner, Gotti Sigurardason.
A young skateboarder stands alone on the
edge of Beachy Head, about to jump off the
cliff. To his utter surprise he discovers he is
not alone in his suicide mission. There is
another young man who is intent on doing
exactly the same thing.
Production Company: 15h Woodleigh Close,
357910, Singapore. tel: +65 9069 5070
fax: +65 6281 9519
email: whileyousleep2002@yahoo.co.uk
Producer: Eva Tang. Screenwriter: Fumie
Nishikawa. DoP: Fumie Nishikawa.
Cast: Haruna Kawanishi, Setsuko Nishi, Ichiro
Nakayama, Atsushi Hiratsuka, Eriko Sugao.
A family stops to communicate while their
mother is in a coma.
Producer: Brook Adams. Screenwriters: Ross
Jameson, Stephen Pipe. DoP: Nic Sadler.
Cast: Nick Moran, Georgia Zaris, James
Daffern.
A young woman straight out of the shower
answers the front door wearing only a towel.
It’s a friend of her boyfriend, who impulsively
offers her money for a look under the towel.
Why I Hate Karaoke
DIRECTOR: Ed Kellie
Beta SP. 12 min
Production Company: Ned Films, 141
St Pancras Way, London, NW1 0SY, England,
UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7267 4807
email: ed.kelli@btinternet.com
Producer: Ed Kellie. Screenwriter: Ed Kellie.
DoP: Bob Jones. Cast: Chris Obi, Selina
Ream, Peter Heppelthwaite.
Musical comedy inspired by Othello. Max
watches as his wife succumbs to the
schmoozing charms of a caucasian Barry
White impresario. Max attempts to show his
wife real romance, but blinded by jealousy,
he only makes things worse.
The Winning Ticket
DIRECTOR: Fernando Gomez-Monroy
Production Company: Move A Mountain
Productions, 5 Ashchurch Park Villas, London,
W12 9SP, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 8743
3017 fax: +44 (0)20 8743 3095
email: mail@moveamountain.com
web: www.moveamountain.com
Producer: Elizabeth McKay. Screenwriter:
Fernando Gomez-Monroy. DoP: Marco
Windham. Cast: Jack Herbert, Natalia Von
Lodkowick, Charlotte Dunn.
Dreams, realisations and celebration of a
lottery winner, with only his dog acting as his
conscience. And then a fire consumes it all.
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Short Films
Wise Guys
You are a Monkey
DIRECTOR: Adrian McDowall
35mm. 10 min
DIRECTOR: John Burns
Production Company: Hopscotch Films Ltd,
74 Victoria Crescent, Glasgow, G12 9JN,
Scotland, UK. tel: +44 (0)141 334 5576
email: info@hopscotchfilms.co.uk
NE Amsterdam, The Netherlands tel: +31 20
404 0707 fax: +31 20 404 0708
tel: +44 (0)141 302 1700 fax: +44 (0)141 302
1711
Production Company: Pie Films, Po Box
42301, London, N12 9YR, England, UK. tel:
+44 (0)7977 554 079
email: johm@pie.uk.net
Producer: John Archer. Screenwriter: Simon
Stephenson. DoP: Martin Radich.
Cast: Anthony Martin, Jamie Quinn, Jonathan
Carlin.
As far back as he can remember, William has
wanted to be a gangster. When his paper
round turns into a racket, he gets his wish.
Along with his older brother Michael and
their friend Bobby, he is soon living like a
made guy. Just like in the gangster films
William loves, things quickly get out of
control.
Yo! Jimbo!
DIRECTOR: David Devjak
Digibeta. 10 min
Production Company: Global United
Entertainment Ltd, 147d Brooke Road, London,
N16 7RP, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)7958 208
481
email: samnaughton@blueyonder.co.uk
web: www.glugroup.com
Producer: Sam Naughton. Screenwriter:
Martin Rowe. DoP: Thomas Hayward.
Cast: Matthew Boatright-Simon, Justin
Deaville, Liam McMahan.
Yo! Jimbo! is a boardroom showdown filmed
in the style of a 1960s martial arts flick.
Mano and Jimbo, long-time business
adversaries, use every resource at their
disposal competing for everything and
anything they can get. But only one person
can take home the big contract.
Producer: Michael Onder. Screenwriter: John
Burns. DoP: Jack Cole. Cast: Richard Field,
Philip Harvey, Elio Ruggieri.
You are a monkey. That’s why you pick your
nose, that’s why you eat fruit. And, that’s
why you have those funny dreams about
falling out of things.
You’re Gonna Wake Up
One Morning...
DIRECTOR: Mark Jay
Production Company: Full On Film Production
Ltd, The Warehouse, 128 Gloucester Road,
Brighton, BN1 4AF, England, UK. tel: +44
(0)7961 592 284
email: mark@camescopetv.com
Producer: Mark Jay. Screenwriter: Mark Jay.
DoP: Ben Joiner. Cast: Don Letts, Cary
Crankson, Julie Mayhew.
A romantic comedy and adventure set in
Brighton following two teenagers on a blind
date who score some drugs, get given the
wrong stuff and overhear a murder and
robbery being planned by two hitmen. The
film features legendary DJ and filmmaker
Don Letts. It’s about punk values, old and
new, and taking a position.
Zero Tolerance
DIRECTOR: Michele Arazi
Beta SP. 4 min
Production Company: APT Film & Television,
225a Brecknock Road, Tufnell Park, London,
N19 5AA, England, UK. tel: +44 (0)20 7284
1695 fax: +44 (0)20 7482 1587
email: admin@aptfilms.com
web: www.aptfilms.com
Producer: Camilla Bray. Screenwriter: Michele
Arazi. DoP: Ed Wright. Cast: Peter Helmer,
Daisy Bates, Hugh Ross.
An impressionistic portrait of one man’s
experience of being an outsider. Chased by a
gang of local bikers, the true nature of the
man’s identity is revealed when he falls prey
to his hunters.
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Index – Feature Films
16 Years of Alcohol
33 x Around the Sun
04
04
A
Afterlife
American Cousins
Ashes and Sand
Asylum
04
05
05
05
B
Banshee
Berserker
Beyond Recognition
Blackball
Blind Flight
Blind Spot, The
Bodysong
Bone Hunter, The
Bootleg
Brannigan’s March
Bright Young Things
Butterfly Man
06
06
06
07
07
07
08
08
08
09
09
09
C
Calendar Girls
Capital Punishment
Cargo
Chaos and Cadavers
Cheeky
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Code 46
10
10
10
11
11
11
12
D
Day of the Sirens
Deadwood
Death of Klinghoffer, The
Debt, The
Die Another Day
Do I Love You?
Dot the i
Dreamers, The
E
Eating Cake
Emperor’s Wife, The
Eroica
12
12
13
13
13
14
14
14
15
15
15
F
Face at the Window
16
Fakers
16
Fear X
16
Finding Fortune
17
Five Moons Square (Piazza Delle Cinque
Lune)
17
Four Eyes
17
G
George and the Dragon
Girl With a Pearl Earring
18
18
Give and Take and Take
Gladiatress
Gobsmacked!
Goldfish Memoirs
Gordon Bennett
18
19
19
19
20
H
Hacked Off
20
Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets
20
Headrush
21
Hellbreeder
21
Honeymooners, The
21
Honour Thy Father (Aime Ton Père)
22
I
I Am David
I Inside, The
I’ll Be There
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead
Iced Lolly
In America
In the Name of Buddha
In This World
Intermission
22
22
23
23
23
24
24
24
25
J
Jericho Mansions
Johnny English
25
25
K
Kiss of Life
26
L
Last Horror Movie, The
Late Twentieth, The
Lava
LD 50
Little Scars
Love’s Brother
Luminal
26
26
27
27
27
28
28
M
Man Dancin’
Map of the Universe
Monsieur N
Moonlight
Mother, The
My House in Umbria
28
29
29
29
30
30
N
Ned Kelly
Never Play with the Dead
Nicholas Nickleby
Nine Lives
30
31
31
31
O
Octane
One For The Road
32
32
One Last Chance
One Love
Owning Mahowny
32
33
33
P
Penetration Angst
Photo Finish
Place to Stay, A
Principles of Lust, The
Prodigal, The
Promoted to Glory
33
34
34
34
35
35
R
Refuge
Rosetta: Prima Donna Assoluta
35
36
S
Senses
Shimkent Hotel
Shiner
Shootout
Sitting Ducks
Skagerrak
Small Cuts (Petites Coupures)
Solid Air
Song for a Raggy Boy
Strayed (Les Egares)
Suzie Gold
36
36
37
37
37
38
38
38
39
39
39
T
Telephone Detectives
40
This Little Life
40
Three Blind Mice
40
To Kill a King
41
Tulse Luper Suitcases: Part 1 – The Moab
Story, The
41
Twisted
41
U
Ultimate Truth, The
42
V
Virgin Of Liverpool, The
42
W
What a Girl Wants
Who Can I Turn To?
Wilbur (Wants to Kill Himself)
Wondrous Oblivion
Wooden Camera, The
42
43
43
43
44
Y
Young Adam
44
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Index – Short Films
10 Again
1:10 Scale Score, The
420 Seconds of Love
4:37
7%
9 1/2 Minutes
45
45
45
45
45
45
A
A-Z
Aftermath
Alan
All About the Wiggle
All Fall Down
All Over Brazil
And the Red Man Went Green
Andout
Angel
Angel meets the Devil, An
Ant Muzak
Antique, The
Aperitif
Arranged Marriage
Arrive
Ashes in the Sand
Ate Mile
Atomic Theory
Avatar
45
45
45
46
46
46
46
46
46
46
46
46
47
47
47
47
47
47
47
B
Babel
Baby’s Blood
Baggage
Bells, The
Bench
Bev
Big Girl Little Girl
Binman
Binsy’s Birthday Motorbike
Birt Dynely
Blank Slate, A
Blood Money
Bloody Magic
Blueprint
Boogaloo
Book Cover
Break
Breaking Point
Breathe
Bred in the Bone
Brown Paper Bag
Burn Baby Burn
Bus Root
Bushido: the Way of the Warrior
Bust
Button Man
Bypass, The
47
47
48
48
48
48
48
48
48
48
48
49
49
49
49
49
49
49
49
49
50
50
50
50
50
50
50
C
Cacophony
Call, The
Candy Bar Kid
Cappuccino King, The
Carn’t Sleep (Pas Sommeil)
Championship
Changed Man, A
Charity
Charley Harry’s Wondrous Nothing
Chasing Angels
Cheese Makes You Dream
Chipping Away
Chocolate Kiss
Choir, The
Circle Line
City Life – Outside In
Clara
Claverdeek
Clinic
Clutch
Cold Light of Day
Comfort Blanket
Commuter
Commuter, The
Computer Virus, The
Conchie
Confidence Trick, The
Confused
Creation
Cross My Heart
Crossroads
Cry
Cupboard Love
Cups Pipes and Switches
Curry and Irn-Bru
Cut & Run
Cut, The
Czechoslovakians
D
Daisy Chain
Dancer
Dangle
Danny’s Found Jesus
Dead Air
Dead End Story, A
Dead Wood
DEF
Deja Vu
Delayed
DIY Hard
Doctor’s Mark
Does God Play Football
Don’t Worry Dad
Door, The
Dose
Double Therapy
Drifting Under Water
50
50
51
51
51
51
51
51
51
51
51
52
52
52
52
52
52
52
52
52
53
53
53
53
53
53
53
53
53
54
54
54
54
54
54
54
54
54
55
55
55
55
55
55
55
55
55
56
56
56
56
56
56
56
56
56
Dudley’s Ducks
Duel, The
Dunc & Greg
57
57
57
E
Early Days, The
Eddie Loves Mary
Eddie’s Sticky End
Egg
Electra
Elegy
Embalmer’s Daughter, The
Emotions
End, The
Euston Road
Evening Caller
Exit
Expectation
Eyeliner
57
57
57
57
57
57
58
58
58
58
58
58
58
58
F
f2point8
Fake Cop Club
Family Man, A
Feetsteps
Fellow Travellers
Filling
Fingers X’d
First to See the Sun
Fishy
Flood
Forest
Fourteen
Fred’s Mate
Friday Night In
Frozen
Frozen Assets
58
59
59
59
59
59
59
59
59
59
60
60
60
60
60
60
G
Gasp
Gearhead
Girl on a Cycle
Good Night
Goodbye Cruel World
Goodbye Plane, The
Greek Man from Pakistan, The
Green
Guest, The
Guilty
60
60
60
61
61
61
61
61
61
61
H
Haircut Hardman
Hairy Eyeball, The
Hard Labour
Hare, The
Harold the Amazing Contortionist Pig
Hear No Evil
Heaven
Heavenly
61
61
62
62
62
62
62
62
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Heckled
Hello, Friend
Hello Son
Heroes
Hide and Seek
Highly Strung
Hit & Run
Hitchhiking Game, The
Home
Hook, Line and Stinker
Horroresque-Retro-Battle-Fest:
The Pitch
Host, The
Hot Dog
House to Rob
How Do You Kill A Dog
How to Tell When a
Relationship is Over
How We Met
62
62
62
63
63
63
63
63
63
63
63
63
64
64
64
64
64
I
I Can Feel the Distance
I’m Not Going
IBrotha
In Sight
Incident 55
Inside an Uncle
Inside Out
Interloper
Ironic
64
64
64
64
65
65
65
65
65
J
Jeff Farnsworth
Jetpac Willy
Job, The
Jogger
Jubilee Pool
65
65
65
65
66
K
K
Killing Time
Knock Knock
Knowledge, The
Kurb
66
66
66
66
66
L
Lament
Landlord, The
Last Days Of Dobson, The
Last Night
Last Waltz, The
Lazarus
Learning to Drown
Left Turn
Life’s a Beach
Lift
Listening
Little Big Head
Live Bait
66
66
66
67
67
67
67
67
67
67
67
67
68
London Birds Can’t Fly
Look at Me
Loophole
Lost and Found
Love Lies Bleeding
Love Me or Leave Me Alone
Love Me Tender...ish
Love Your Neighbour
Loved, Alone
Low Street
Low Tide
Lullabelle
68
68
68
68
68
68
68
68
69
69
69
69
M
Macbeth
Machine
Madness of Two (Folie a Deux)
Making Dogs
Man At The Window
Marionettes
Marriage Counselor, The
Marry Me
Marvellous Handshake, The
Matter of Taste, A
Means To An End, A
Medium* *Inside my Head
Melvin: Portrait of a Player
Men in the Street
Message Storm, The
Missing
Mobile
Monkey Bastard! (Sala Bandar!)
Most Beautiful Man in the World, The
Most Boring Woman in the World, The
Mourners, The
Mr Theobald
Mrs Meitlemeihr
Mulit
My Father Eduardo
My Wrongs 8245-8249 and 117
69
69
69
69
69
70
70
70
70
70
70
70
70
70
71
71
71
71
71
71
71
71
71
72
72
72
N
N7, The
Naked Eye, A
Natural Wonder
Ned Warking: Living with Death
New World
Nicolas on Tour
No Verbal Response
Noodle Soup
Notoriety
Nugget Run, The
72
72
72
72
72
72
73
73
73
73
O
Of Camera
On All Floors
On The Job
One Day
One Previous Owner
73
73
73
73
74
Out of the Cold
P
Paw
Peeper
Peeping Tim
Perfect
Perfect
Perfect Eyes
Pest
Pick Up Put Down
Picture-Negative
Plastic Wolves
Poles Apart
Pork Chop
Post
Potatoes – A Layman’s Guide
Prayer From the Living, A
Primrose Place, The
Pristina Sacrifice, The
Projectionist, The
Prophecy, The
Pucker Up!
Puss Puss
Put your Coat on
Putting Down The King
Putting on the Blitz
74
74
74
74
74
74
74
74
75
75
75
75
75
75
75
75
75
76
76
76
76
76
76
76
76
R
Rabbit, The
Recycled
Remote Control
Rendezvous
Return of Peg Leg Pete, The
Rhubarb and Roses
Ring Peace
Rites of Passage
Road To Ladakh
Rooftops
Room for the Night
Round
Rules of Love
Run
76
77
77
77
77
77
77
77
77
77
78
78
78
78
S
Saint Has Lost Her Patience, The
Salaryman 6
Salt Scrubbers
Satsuma
Sauce
Scorned
Scotland versus Scotland versus Fiji
Sea Monsters
Second Hand Experience
Serial Suicides
Seven Days
Seventy Two Faced Liar
Shade
Shades of Gray
Shadow Buddy
78
78
78
78
79
79
79
79
79
79
79
79
79
80
80
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Shadows
Shadows of the Mind
Shatter
Shrink
Sikh, Rattle and Roll
Skinny
Sleep
Sliproad
Snap
Snot
Solar Flares
Something Blue
Soul Train
Southside
Spin
Spirit Levels
Spirit Moved, The
Spiritual Rampage
Spuds Too
Spyhole
Squeak!
Sredni Vashtar
Ssssh!
Stag Nut
Steel Man
Stoned
Stoners Guide to Making
Egg Fried Rice, A
Strangers
Stricken
Stuff That Bear
Success
Suffering
Summer’s Day, A
Sunk
Sunshine
Swan Song
T
Table We Drag, The
Take Me Somewhere Nice
Taking a Bath
Tale From the Village: Shiner, A
Target
Tarot Mechanic
Ten Minutes
Terrible Kisses
Thespian X
Thicker than Water
This is What it Feels Like
Through Glass
Time 2 Save the World
Toilet Seat Maker, The
80
80
80
80
80
80
80
81
81
81
81
81
81
81
81
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82
82
82
82
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83
83
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83
83
83
83
83
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84
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84
84
84
84
85
85
85
85
85
85
85
85
86
Track Addict
Tube
Turkish Coffee
Two To Tangle
86
86
86
86
U
Uncertain Existence, The
Undercurrent
Unemployed
Untitled
‘Untitled’ Etude in G minor
86
86
86
86
87
V
Victim, The
Victoria Station
Visitor, The
Vivienne Gibson-Forbes –
Portrait of a Film Extra
Vocation
87
87
W
Waiting
Waiting For Giro
Waiting for the Sound of Heaven
Wasp
Way Ahead, The
Way Past
Wayfarer, The
We Called in the Co-ordinates
Weekend With Eva, A
What?
What About the Bodies
What If...
When in Rome
When The Morning Comes
When We Were Dings
Where Were We
While You Sleep
White Bits
Why I Hate Karaoke
Winning Ticket, The
Wise Guys
87
87
88
88
88
88
88
88
88
88
88
89
89
89
89
89
89
89
89
89
90
87
87
87
Y
Yo! Jimbo!
90
You are a Monkey
90
You’re Gonna Wake Up One Morning... 90
Z
Zero Tolerance
90
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Thanks
Claire Battersby at Moviehouse
Entertainment
Theo Papadoulakis at Film U – at Leeds
Metropolitan University
Alexei Boltho at BBC Films
Danny Perkins at Optimum
Ros Borland at Gabriel Films
Mathieu Ravier at Commonwealth Film
Festival
Chrissy Bright at The London Film
School
Duncan Rennie at Mediabase
Claire Cook at Onedotzero
Gwion Ap Rhisiart at Sgrin
Elaine Donaghy at Foyle Film Festival
Gail Robinson at the Department of
Culture, Media and Sport
Zoe Dawson at 999 Design
Tamsin Edenbrow at Twentieth Century
Fox
Liz Rosenthal at Earthly Delights Films
Kristin Feeley at EIFF
Alex Sayer at Warner Brothers Pictures
International
Kim Fletcher at the Isle of Man Film
Commission
Hemant Sharda at the National Film and
Television School
Anne Gartside at Momentum
Dawn Sharpless at Dazzle Films
David Gaynes at MDP Worldwide
Andrew Skene and all at Melville
Crawford Associates
Patricia Gill at Pathé Pictures
Vanessa Grey at EIFF
Paul Hewlett at UK Film Council
Geraldine Higgins at British Council
Tracey Josephs at FilmFour
Rachel Kennedy at Universal Pictures
International
Jane Slater at Screen West Midlands
David Smith at GMAC
Celia Stevenson at Scottish Screen
Peter La Terriere at First Foot Films
Stuart Thomas at EIFF
Shona Thomson
Julia Kenny at UK Film Council
Sandrine Voillet at Artificial Eye
Rachel Kitten at The Works
Paul Welsh at Digicult
Emily Kyriahides at Spice Factory
Simon Young at Britshorts
Sam Langton at Pathé Pictures
Emily Lappin at East Midlands Media
Ruth Leslie at EIFF
Becky Lloyd at Scottish Screen
Ken Marshall at Random Harvest
Pictures
Jo Maurice at UK Film Council
Sarah-Jane Meredith at South West
Screen
Katherine McCormack at Eon
Productions
Tricia McCormack at Scottish Screen
Tishna Molla at Tall Stories
Suzanne Morris at EIFF
Suzanne Noble at Icon Film
Meabh O’Donovan at Short Circuit Films
Amber Parsons at EIFF
EIFF 2003 to print
1/8/03
12:42 pm
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