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Head of Industry: Mary Davies Film UK & Industry Co-ordinator: Aida LiPera Film UK Assistant & Videotheque Manager: Kristin Loeer Film UK & Industry Assistants: Morven Reid, Joanna Potts

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Foreword by Mary Davies Head of Industry, Edinburgh International Film Festival

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Film UK Features

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Film UK Shorts Index - Feature Films

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Index - Short Films

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Edinburgh International Film Festival Tel: +44 (0)131 228 4051 Fax: +44 (0)131 229 5501 Email: [email protected] Editors: Aida LiPera, Kristin Loeer Assistant Editors: Morven Reid, Joanna Potts

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In the Film UK Guide to British Film we have aimed to include details of all British fiction feature and short films completed between August 2007 and June 2008. (Not included are animation, experimental and documentary films.) Each listing includes contact information for the film's producer, international sales agent and UK distributor, where available. The listings cover more than 150 feature films and around 278 shorts. We apologise if any eligible films have not made it into the Guide. The films and credits in the Guide are those submitted by producers, sales agents and distributors, and credits are not contractual. The Film UK Guide to British Film is made available to all Industry delegates at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2008. A pdf version of the Guide can be downloaded from the Film UK website at www.filmuk.org.uk. The Film Festival Videotheque stocks video copies of as many of the films in the Film UK Guide as we are able to obtain. The Videotheque is open daily during the Festival. We are happy to pass on enquiries about films to the appropriate contact.

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Welcome to the 2008 Film UK Guide to British Film This is the fourteenth edition of the Guide to British Film, the Edinburgh International Film Festival's annual directory of fiction features and shorts completed in the UK during the previous year. We research British film production extensively, so that the Guide is an essential handbook for film professionals and anyone interested in the current state of filmmaking in the UK. Thousands of copies of the Guide are downloaded each year from the website www.filmuk.org.uk, where editions for each year from 2001 are available. The Film UK banner signposts British filmmaking throughout the Festival, from new British films to events related to British cinema, and includes the Videotheque, where British films from the Guide can be watched on DVD. With the Festival's move from August to June in 2008, the Guide covers ten months instead of the usual twelve. However, the numbers and relative proportions of features and shorts do not appear to have changed significantly, with 152 features and 278 shorts completed during this period. Budgets range from high to micro, with creativity and resourcefulness evident in films made for tiny amounts as well as in those co-produced internationally and costing millions. Some of tomorrow's most talented filmmakers are to be found among the low budget features and shorts in this year's Guide. Artistic Director Hannah McGill is well into her stride in her second year, and the 62nd Edinburgh International Film Festival - combining history (as the longest continuously running film festival in the world) with innovation - has established a reputation as a place to discover new talent, both British and international. As the only show in town in Edinburgh in June 2008 and with a new position in the world's crowded film festival calendar, we hope the Film Festival will grow as a networking centre for the national and international film community as well as reaching out to a wider audience. We are grateful to the British Council for their continuing co-operation with us in compiling the Guide.

Mary Davies Head of Industry

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Feature Films

25Gs

Abraham's Point

Adulthood

Johnny has lost £25,000. It all happened so fast, he just put it down for a second and then it was gone. It wasn't his to lose. It was such a simple job delivering a package for his criminal boss, Staunton. A small job but a very important one.

Comet Snape is a tormented man. An insomniac French polisher, who hasn't been home or seen his parents for 15 years, he lives in a West London tower block and spends his days restoring antiques and his nights in a caffeine-fuelled hell. Reality is beginning to blur and maybe the boy who lurks in the shadows is not a figment of his imagination after all. Perhaps the clock that he sees at a client's really is the one that dominates his dreams each day and night? Who knows, but when the volcano of his guilt erupts urging him to steal the clock in a midnight raid, he sets off on a journey into the heart of his soul; a redemptive journey where he travels back to the source of the tragedy that tore his family apart all those years ago. Abraham's Point sees a man forced to make an enormous decision. He must travel home with an unwieldy grandfather clock on an often funny, sometimes sad, journey of self discovery, where he encounters people and situations that either make or break him. Showing courage and determination he overcomes perhaps the biggest obstacle of all - himself.

Powerful, disturbing and moving in equal measure, 2006's acclaimed Kidulthood took us deep into London's unseen underbelly, delivering a raw, hard-hitting reflection of what life is like for 21st century teenagers, where sex is currency, drugs are easy to come by and violence is a way of life.

Johnny turns for salvation to his brother, Del, who knows one thing for certain: they needs to find 25Gs, and before Staunton finds him. Whilst Del tries to find the money from somewhere, Johnny goes into hiding and meets the enigmatic Hayley, who seems to have the answers to everything. But all is not so straightforward in this existentialist crime caper where chance meetings and peculiar turns of events escalate things to nightmarish proportions. Director: Baldwin Li 2008. HD. 76 min Production Company: Honlodge Productions, 18 St Andrews Drive, Heywood, Lancashire, OL10 2DT, England, UK email: [email protected] Producer, Editor, Sound: Baldwin Li Screenwriter: Andy Hall Director of Photography: Dave Beaumont Production Designer: Joe Withers Music: Baldwin Li, James Adolpho, Shona Brown Cast: Joe Moan, Steve Garry, Laura Sharp, Tommy Davies, Graham Gavin Budget: £3,500 Funding: Private Territories: All available

Director: Wyndham Price 2008. HD. 107 min Production Company: The Film Partnership, 25 Denmark Street, London, WC2H 8NH, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7780 662 444, fax: +44 (0)20 7240 9311 International Sales: Moviehouse Entertainment, 11 Denmark Street, London, WC2H 8LS, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7836 5536 email: [email protected] Producer: Tony Purves Executive Producer: Julie Baines, Pauline Burt, Linda James Screenwriter: Wyndham Price Editor: John Gillanders Director of Photography: Zoran Velkjovic Production Designer: Keith Maxwell Sound: Bang Post-Production Music: John Hardy Cast: Mackenzie Crook, Joseph Millson, Harriet Walter, Mariah Gale, Christian McKay Budget: £990,000 Funding: Private, The Film Agency Wales, Welsh Creative IP Fund, Limelight Fund Territories: All available

Six years on, Sam Peel is released from jail for killing Trife and he is soon forced to confront the people he hurt the most. Some have moved on, others are stuck with the repercussions of his actions that night, but one thing's for certain everyone has been forced to grow up. As Sam battles to end the cycle of violence he started, his new journey is one of discovery, both about the world he came from and the new one he's trying to create. Can Sam make something positive from the destruction he caused or will his journey into adulthood end here? Director: Noel Clarke 2008. s16mm. 100 min Production Company: Cipher Fims, 19 Doughty Street, London, WC1N 2PL, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7958 374 377 email: [email protected] UK Distributor: Pathe  UK, Kent House, 14-17 Market Place, Great Titchfield Street, London, W1W 8AR, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7323 5151, fax: +44 (0)20 7631 5368 web: www.pathe.co.uk International Sales: Independent Film Company, 32 Tavistock Street, London, WC2E 7PB, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7257 8734, fax: +44 (0)20 7240 9029 email: andrew@ independentfilmcompany.com Producer: Damian Jones, George Isaac Screenwriter: Noel Clarke Editor: Tim Hemmings Director of Photography: Brian Tufano Production Designer: Murray McKeown Music: Chad Hobson Cast: Noel Clarke, Adam Deacon, Scarlett Johnson, Cornell S John, Jacob Anderson Budget: $2.5 million Funding: UK Film Council, Pathe Â, Limelight Fund

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Feature Films

The Agent

All Secrets

The Auction

It's all in a day's work for high-flying literary agent Alexander. Manuscripts to read, deals to be done, celebrity clients to be taken out to lunch, and just one quick meeting to get through with an author whose latest book the agent thinks is frankly not up to scratch. This drama about a writer's struggle for proper representation reveals the subtle shifts in power in the relationship between artist and agent. The only thing we can be sure of is that there can only be one winner.

Maria is taking care of her dying mother. The constant suffering around her pushes the girl into a very depressed state. While looking for a suicide help-line she accidentally dials the wrong number and reaches Black: a lonely painter with strange telepathic abilities, which allow him to feel and experience other people's thoughts, whether he wants to or not. Soon they become very close. She facing her mother's death and a crisis in her relationship, he - in isolation caused by his mental condition. Maria decides to go on a journey to find Black, but she's also aware that in order to do so, she'll have to reveal all the secrets from her life. Can she make this sacrifice for the one she loves?

Runa is excited about her holiday with her father to his country of origin, Bangladesh. She is dreaming of a great adventurous holiday - different part of the world, different culture, an oceanwide tea garden, the biggest tiger, mountains, fountains. Her dream turns into a blood-chilling nightmare when, in a dramatic auction, her father sells her to her animal-like uncle who forces her into marriage to his son who is several years younger than Runa. Runa's life turns into great suffering in a backward society where women have virtually no rights and absolutely no control over their lives. Despite this, she never stops thinking of being free, knowing that it is almost impossible to escape from the village which is absolutely under her uncle's control. But one day, the impossible becomes possible and with a tremendous effort from the Forced Marriage Unit of the British Home Office Runa escapes. She is flown back to the UK, to her boyfriend, who unbelievably denies her as his mother doesn't want to take a runaway girl as her daughter-in-law. Runa then walks away alone . . . all alone.

Director: Lesley Manning 2008. HD. 84 min Production Company: Pinter & Martin Ltd, Geffra Parade, London, SW2 1PS, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7737 6868 Producer, Screenwriter: Martin Wagner Editor: Lesley Manning Director of Photography: Jonathan Harvey Production Designer: Humphrey Jaeger Cast: William Beck, Stephen Kennedy, Maureen Lipman Territories: All available

Director: Thomas Wotan Suski 2008. HDV. 65 min Production Company: Well-Known Artist, 128/4 Viewforth, Edinburgh, EH10 4LN, Scotland, UK tel: +44 (0)7746 507 57 web: www.well-known-artist.com Producer, Editor, Director of Photography: Thomas Wotan Suski Screenwriter: Andrew Kerr, Hugh Farrell Production Designer: Maria Suoronou Sound: Julien Pearly Music: Ralph Zurmu Èhle Cast: Shakti Edwards, Ali de Souza, Liz McFarlane-Davie Budget: £15,000 Funding: Private, Reels, Pilton Video Territories: All available

Director: Zakir Hossain 2007. DV Cam. 86 min Production Company: Absurd, 235 Crawley Green Road, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU2 0QJ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7984 754 153 email: [email protected] Producer: Sky Visual Screenwriter, Production Designer: Zakir Hossain Editor: H H M Munzir Director of Photography: Moniruz Islam Masum Sound: M D Alal Uddin Music: Noor Hossain Cast: Runa Begum, Mostafa Kamal, Sharoswati Dey Budget: £2,000 Funding: Community Fund

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Feature Films

Bad Day

Banana Boys

Bane

Rebecca Ryan has been working as an undercover agent for the Organised Crime Division, posing as a taxi driver while investigating London's south-side mob.

The story of two brothers, Aslam and Arif. It's a distressing tale that examines the choices today's generations make when faced with unemployment.

When she finds her young daughter Lynn brutally murdered she fears her cover has been blown, so she turns renegade and begins a brutal campaign of vengeance against the mob she believes killed her daughter.

One day the brothers accidentally meet their old college friend, Jamal, who lies to them about his profession and then offers them work. The brothers agree to work for him but then find themselves in a trap that will change their lives forever.

As she trawls the seedy depths of London's underworld hunting down her daughter's killers, the lines between good and evil, right and wrong, begin to blur, as do her notions of justice and revenge.

Banana Boys is a hard hitting crime drama that explores young people, drugs, gang culture, unemployment and crime within mixed communities.

Katherine awakes in an underground cell with three other woman, Jane, Natasha and Elaine. With complete amnesia, Katherine and the other women have little time to wonder where they are before the arrival of the sadistic Dr Murdoch and the mysterious Handsome Man. The women soon discover they are part of a gruesome experiment with no obvious purpose. That night, Jane stays awake long enough to witness the first visit to their cell by the terrifying figure of the blood splattered Surgeon. One by one the Surgeon cuts a number into each woman's skin, a four digit number, the exact time he will return to kill them.

It falls to the world-weary OCD agent Darius Cruise and his newly assigned hottempered partner Abby Barrett to track down Rebecca and bring her in before all hell breaks loose. As implied by the title, the events take place over a 24-hour period, with each of the main characters having their own problems to overcome as the day unfolds. Director: Ian David Diaz 2008. HD. 101 min Production Company: 7th 12th Collective Ltd, 13 Scholey House, Ingrave Street, Battersea, London, SW11 2SE, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7387 0580 email: [email protected] Producer: Gena Helen Ashwell Executive Producer: Frank Heilebrand Screenwriter, Editor: Ian David Diaz Director of Photography: Alan Dunlop Production Designer: Christophe Spurling Sound: 5A Studios Ltd Music: Dominic Glynn Cast: Claire Goose, Anthony Ofoegbu, Donna Air, Robbie Gee Budget: £500,000 Funding: Private Territories: All available

Director: Zafar Iqbal 2007. Mini DV. 70 min Production Company: Zafar Iqbal Films Ltd, 2 Ashia Close, Rochdale, OL16 5ND, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7851 779 781 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter: Zafar Iqbal Editor: Vasilus Mercalous Director of Photography: Varun Sharma Production Designer: R H A Rahman Sound: Duncan Parker Music: Nursery of Naughtiness Cast: Zafar Iqbal, Jayce Jonti, Nina Gilhooly, Saba Andleeb Budget: £2,000 Funding: Private Territories: All available

Director: James Eaves 2008. HDV. 104 min Production Company: Amber Pictures, 103 Shirley High Street, Shirley, Southampton, SO16 4EY, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7782 373 899 email: [email protected] web: www.amberpictures.co.uk Producer, Screenwriter, Editor: James Eaves Director of Photography: John Raggett Production Designer: Harold Gasnier Sound: Glen Yard Music: Ronnie Doyle Cast: Sophia Dawnay, Lisa Devlin, Tina Barnes, Sylvia Robson Funding: Private

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Feature Films

The Bank Job

Better Things

Big Things

Based on the true story of the 1971 Baker Street bank robbery which was prevented from being told for over 30 years because of a government gagging order. The real story of how one of the biggest robberies in British history took place with no arrests ever made nor money ever recovered.

Better Things is a multi-narrative drama depicting everyday life in small-town England. We follow several characters each dealing in their own particular way with their relationships.

Richard, bored with his mundane existence as a cycle courier, attempts to make his film, A Distance Too Far, in a bid to escape to a better life.

Director: Roger Donaldson 2008. 35mm. 110 min UK Distributor: Lionsgate Films, Ariel House, 74a Charlotte Street, London, W1T 4QJ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7299 8800, fax: +44 (0)20 7299 8801 email: [email protected] web: www.lionsgatefilms.co.uk Producer: Steve Chasman, Charles Roven Screenwriter: Dick Clement, Ian La frenais Editor: John Gilbert Director of Photography: Michael Coulter Production Designer: Gavin Bocquet Sound: Steve Burgess Music: J Peter Robinson Cast: Jason Stratham, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Campbell Moore, Daniel Mays, James Faulkner

As a day dawns in the Cotswolds a funeral is taking place that will have bitter repercussions for some of the community. Close by, Rachel and Larry are reeling against a first love gone wrong. Meanwhile Mr Gladwin refuses to speak to Mrs Gladwin over events of a long time ago. Following on from his multi-award-winning and critically acclaimed short films, Duane Hopkins presents a painterly view of existence against a rarely seen rural backdrop and its separate generations' approach to life, love, loss and intoxication. Director: Duane Hopkins 2008. 35mm. 90 min Production Company: Third Films, 3 Heaton Grove, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 5NN, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7866 559 541 email: [email protected] UK Distributor: Soda Pictures, 17 Blossom Street, London, E1 6PL, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7377 1407, fax: +44 (0)20 7377 1406 email: [email protected] web: www.sodapictures.com Producer: Samm Haillay, Rachel Robey Executive Producer: Peter Carlton, Chris Collins, Lizzie Francke Screenwriter: Duane Hopkins Editor: Christopher Barwell Director of Photography: Lol Crawley Production Designer: Jamie Leonard Sound: Douglas MacDougall Music: Dan Berridge Cast: Liam McIlfatrick, Che Corr, Tara Ballard, Megan Palmer, Kurt Taylor, Rachel McIntyre, Patricia Loveland Budget: £1.1 million Funding: UK Film Council (NCF), Film4, EM Media, GFO, NFM, ARTE, Abacus Film Fund Territories: All available except France, Germany, UK

Driven by the belief that it will propel him, his friends and his girlfriend to fame and fortune, and the fear of ending up like his family, the completion of his `masterpiece' becomes the sole focus of Richard's life. So with a budget creeping into positive numbers, Richard employs a rabble of egomaniacs and incompetents. These include his loyal friend Ray, chicken slaughterer (and now producer). Richard's likeable, mellow and quirky personality transforms into that of an angry, unappreciative tyrant who becomes hell-bent on success. His relationship with girlfriend Jemma deteriorates, as he is unable to think past his ruthless ambitions. Eventually, his constant barking takes its toll on the cast and crew, culminating in Richard throwing a tantrum and banishing them all from the set. Even Ray, who has been funding the production with extra hours at the meat factory, is ejected. Met with indifference after crawling back to his former crew, Richard realises his dream is over for now and that his life, without the millions and the showbiz golfbuddies, isn't so bad the way it is. Director: Mark Devenport 2007. HD. 75 min Production Company: Anonymous Room Productions, 68 Castlegate, Newark, Nottinghamshire, NG24 1BG, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7976 724 242 email: [email protected] web: www.big-things.co.uk Producer: Luke Dennis Executive Producer: Paul Welsh Screenwriter: Tony Claassen, Mark Devenport Editor: Nick Fenton Director of Photography: John Ross Sound: Grant Bridgeman Music: Steve Blackman Cast: Tony Claassen, Dean Palo, Jonny Phillips, Micaiah Dring, Rupert Procter

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Feature Films

The Blade

The Blue Tower

The Boatmaker

Polash, a 14 year-old British-Bangladeshi boy, suffers mental anguish after accidentally causing the death of his schoolfriend Freddy - the result of getting caught in a violent clash with classmates John and Nafiz. Polash's lonely widowed mother cannot take the pain of seeing her only son so tortured and seeks help from her friend, psychiatrist Dr Ahmed. Dr Ahmed works with Polash to get his life back on track but soon another dramatic incident shocks him when he and Dr Ahmed are robbed by a group of drug addicts. As a result, Polash starts writing, which begins to help heal his pain. Now, some years later, a grownup John and Nafiz are together again, terrorising and trying to gain underworld control over various towns along the east of England. They call upon their old classmate Polash for a meeting, coercing him into joining their forces. Polash tries to deny them, but John and Nafiz won't let him just walk away . . .

A quirky, offbeat love story with dark comic touches. Thematically it shares some territory with Gurinder Chadha's Bend It Like Beckham, both films being about family pressures on the leading character, but this is much darker, with shades of cult classics The Postman Always Rings Twice or The Honeymoon Killers.

A man wanders alone moving from town to town in Northwest India. Once a brave warrior, now a boatmaker for Yama, Lord of Death. He is Dharayan and ferrying souls is the price he pays for being granted immortality as a warrior. But Dharayan desires nothing more than to die and be with his son, murdered by his enemies.

Mohan is a young dreamer, unhappy in his marriage, pressured by his father-in-law into joining the family firm. With his parents dead, for money he relies on the support of his tyrannical bedridden Auntie, Kamla, who delights in tormenting her innocent nephew.

When Dharayan arrives at a new town, he is met with suspicion and hostility except from a young girl called Sonu who greets him with kindness and friendship. Sonu's charm begins to win over the emotionally closed off boatmaker who forges a close bond with the child and her widow mother.

Director: Zakir Hossain 2008. DV Cam. 60 min Production Company: Absurd, 235 Crawley Green Road, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU2 0QJ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7984 754 153 email: [email protected] Producer: Sky Visual Screenwriter, Production Designer: Zakir Hossain Editor: Joynul Islam Director of Photography, Sound: H H M Munzir Music: Noor Hossain Cast: Rafiul Anwar, James Readfern, Ashfaq Ahmed, Zia Ali, Kevin Barton Budget: £1,000 Funding: Community Fund Territories: All available

Then Mohan finds himself falling into a love affair with Judy, the pretty nurse sent to care for Kamla. It is a step that will lead to surprise revelations, snatched ecstasy, a botched robbery and eventually . . . murder. Director: Smita Bhide 2008. HDV. 85 min Production Company: Monkey in Heaven Films, 96d Lancaster Road, London, W11 1QS, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7792 1769, fax: +44 (0)20 7792 1769 email: [email protected] Producer, Editor: Jamie Nuttgens Screenwriter: Smita Bhide Director of Photography: Annemarie Lean-Vercoe Sound: 5A Studios Music: Sandy Nuttgens, Mike Scott Cast: Abhin Galeya, Alice O'Connell, Indira Joshi, Manjinder Virk, Jayvan Novak Budget: £350,000 Funding: Private Territories: All available

After making more boats than he can recall, Dharayan learns he can finally be with his son if he collects one last soul. He begins his last task only to discover it is for Sonu's mother. The young child begs him not to take her mother away, forcing Dharayan to choose between saving Sonu's mother or joining his son. Director: Ajay Patel 2007. HD. 67 min Production Company: Sharda Entertainment, Southdown Cottage, Yapton Lane, Arundel, West Sussex, BN18 0AS, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7840 696 717 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter: Ajay Patel Executive Producer: Suren Patel, Shilpesh Patel Editor: Ajay Patel, Jimmy Bustos Director of Photography: Dave Luxton Production Designer: Rupesh Kosta Sound: Kevin Pinto Music: Brad Bowie Cast: Raj Thakor, Asha Chavda, Brisha Cheda Budget: £30,000 Funding: Private Territories: All available

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Feature Films

Bodyguard: A New Beginning

Boy A

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

A New Beginning focuses around the story of Leung, the bodyguard of a Chinese Triad boss, Wong, to whom his loyalty is unrivalled. Living in Hong Kong, Wong requests that his bodyguard travel to the UK to protect a young British woman, whose true identity is known only by Wong himself. Even his own errant son, Yuen, is kept in the dark, which leads to a betrayal that threatens to destroy the family and all that his father has worked hard to protect.

Boy A is a powerful coming-of-age story that looks at difficult questions concerning rehabilitation and redemption through the story of one young man. Jack, at the age of 24, has spent most of his young life in juvenile prisons for the murder of another child. Released from prison into a sometimes bewildering adult world, Jack is given a new name, new job, new home, a new life. But anonymity is both a blessing and a curse as Jack has to contend with not being able to tell the people he gets to know, and love, of his true past and the monstrous crime he committed as a minor.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is an unusual Holocaust drama in which everything is seen from the Nazi side of the fence. The tragic follies of prejudice are viewed through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the nine year-old son of the Kommandant at a death camp, whose spontaneous friendship with a Jewish boy has startling and unexpected consequences.

Director: John Crawley 2007. HDV. 100 min

Production Company: Heyday Films, 5 Denmark Street, London, WC2H 8LP, England, UK email: [email protected]

Director: Chee Keong Cheung 2008. HD. 90 min Production Company: Intense Productions, 5 Chelmsford Close, Lancaster, LA1 4BJ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7970 651 252 email: [email protected] web: www.intenseproductions.co.uk International Sales: Park Entertainment, Suite 12, 3rd Floor, 54 Broadwick Street, London, W1F 7AH, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7434 4176, fax: +44 (0)20 7434 4179 email: [email protected] web: www.parkentertainment.com Producer: Chee Keong Cheung, Oliver Morran, Mark Strange, Mike Leeder Executive Producer: Jim Howell, Simon Barnes, Chris Atkins, Luke Montague Screenwriter: Chee Keong Cheung, Oliver Morran Editor: Mark Towns Director of Photography: Henry Chung, Steven Priovolos Production Designer: Lola Mezquita Sanchez Sound: Vincent Watts Music: Stuart Hancock Cast: Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Vincent Sze, Richard Ng, Carl Ng Budget: £1 million Funding: Private Territories: All available except Latin America

Production Company: Cuba Pictures, 28-29 Haymarket, London, SW1Y 4SP, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7393 4450 email: [email protected] UK Distributor: Channel 4, 124 Horseferry Road, London, SW1 2TX, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 8396 4444 Producer: Lynn Horsford Executive Producer: Tally Garner, Liza Marshall, Nick Marston Screenwriter: Mark O'Rowe Editor: Lucia Zucchetti Director of Photography: Rob Hardy Production Designer: Jon Henson Music: Paddy Cunneen Cast: Andrew Garfield, Peter Mullan, Siobhan Finneran, Alfie Owen

It is adapted from John Boyne's awardwinning novel of the same title. Director: Mark Herman 2008. 35mm. 88 min

UK Distributor: Buena Vista International, 3 Queen Caroline Street, London, W6 9PE, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 8222 674, fax: +44 (0)20 8222 795 web: www.bvimovies.com Producer: David Heyman Executive Producer: Christine Langan, Mark Herman Screenwriter: Mark Herman, John Boyne (novel) Editor: Michael Ellis Director of Photography: BenoiÃt Delhomme Production Designer: Martin Childs Music: James Horner Cast: David Thewliss, Vera Farmiga, Asa Butterfield, Rupert Friend Funding: Miramax, BBC Films Co-production: USA

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Feature Films

Brideshead Revisited

Broken Lines

The Butterfly Tattoo

Adapted from one of the truly great works of fiction of the 20th century, Brideshead Revisited is a gorgeously evocative romantic epic portraying a story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence. Brideshead Revisited is set in a golden age pre-Second World War when privileged aristocracy was falling into decline. The film was shot wholly on location in Oxford, England and Venice. This is the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with Julia Flyte, daughter of the aristocratic Marchmain family.

From humble beginnings in urban London, a young Jewish man has done well for himself financially and is now living with his fiance Âe in a wealthy suburb, in a house which her father bought for them. The sudden death of his father brings mixed emotions. He attends the funeral but feels unable to stay; he is still angry with his mother for her infidelity, which he believes destroyed his father's happiness. He is determined that he will be nothing like his mother. But all is not well in his own relationship, and when he meets a waitress in a local cafe Â, he finds himself drawn to her. She is in a relationship too, with an ex-boxer who is semi-paralysed from a stroke he suffered after a bout, and who now needs permanent care and attention. Although both characters are aware that the other has a partner, each of them is in a relationship which no longer feels right. The man feels more determined in rejecting his partner; the girl struggles with a sense of guilt in rejecting hers, but being together makes them aware of their potential for happiness, and also that they have both given up on their own dreams.

Violent revenge makes a nightmare of love's young dream in this adaptation of the acclaimed novel by Philip Pullman. Chris and Jenny are teenage lovers from the gritty side of modern Oxford. Chris, a naive lad, suspended between school and college, and Jenny, a free spirit seeking to escape a traumatised childhood. Their innocent passion is still fresh when they are caught in the crossfire, as Carson, a gangster with a grudge, comes looking for Chris' boss to avenge events from long ago. There are echoes of Romeo and Juliet as heady romance gives way to growing suspense when Carson closes in, until, in a final eruption of violence, the star-crossed lovers are sundered forever.

Director: Julian Jarrold 2008. 35mm. 132 min Production Company: Ecosse Films, 8 Parsons Green, London, SW6 4TN, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7371 0290, fax: +44 (0)20 7736 3436 email: [email protected] UK Distributor: Buena Vista International, 3 Queen Caroline Street, London, W6 9PE, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 8222 674, fax: +44 (0)20 8222 795 web: www.bvimovies.com International Sales: HanWay Films, 24 Hanway Street, London, W1T 1UH, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7290 0750, fax: +44 (0)20 7290 0751 email: [email protected] web: www.hanwayfilms.com Producer: Robert Bernstein, Douglas Rae, Kevin Rodder Executive Producer: David N Thompson, Nicola Finnan, Tim Haslam, Hugo Heppell Screenwriter: Andrew Davies, Jeremy Brock Editor: Chris Gill Director of Photography: Jess Hall Production Designer: Alice Normington Music: Adrian Johnston Cast: Emma Thompson, Matthew Goode, Ben Wishaw, Hayley Atwell, Michael Gambon

Director: Sallie Aprahamian 2007. 35mm. 108 min Production Company: Axiom Films International Ltd, 2nd Floor, 87 Notting Hill Gate, London, W11 3JZ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7243 3111 email: [email protected] Producer: Douglas Cummins Executive Producer: Charlotte Walls, Nigel Thomas, Luke Montague, Jen Gatien, Diandra Douglas Screenwriter: Dan Fredenburgh, Doraly Rosa Editor: Brand Thumik Director of Photography: Jean Louis Bompoint Production Designer: Mike Kane Sound: Tim Barker Music: Laura Rossi Cast: Paul Bettany, Olivia Williams, Dan Fredenburgh Budget: £1.5 million Funding: Private Territories: All available

Director: Phil Hawkins 2008. HD. 100 min Production Company: Dynamic Entertainment DEH Ltd, Turkooislaan 41, Utrecht, 3523GK, The Netherlands tel: +31 645 316 930 email: [email protected] Producer: Rik Visser, Jolies Van Emburg Screenwriter: Stephen Potts Editor: Phil Hawkins Director of Photography: Michael Costelloe Production Designer: Gareth Thomas Sound: Candy Studios Music: Ludovico Einaudi Cast: Duncan Stuart, Jessica Blake, Aidan Magrath, Christopher Dane, Dan Morgan Budget: £350,000 Funding: Private Territories: All available Co-production: The Netherlands

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Feature Films

The Calling

Captain Eager and the Mark of Voth

Cash and Curry

The story of a young university graduate engaged in a modern lifestyle who shocks her friends and family by announcing she has a calling to join a closed order of Benedictine nuns and give up the life they had all assumed she was planning.

The surreal adventures of a damaged raygun hero questing through a B-movie universe.

A fast-paced comedy drama set in multicultural London. Raj and his friends are tired of being `errand boys' at the bottom of the food chain. Ambition leads them into the middle of a gang war between two of the biggest drugs lords in London: Gabbar and Isaac. Realising the consequences of his actions, Raj seeks refuge in the countryside with an old friend, Tony, who runs the largest pirate DVD manufacturing operation in London, out of an abandoned farm. To elude capture, Raj and his friends are forced to submerge themselves in farm life. Meanwhile, Gabbar and Isaac are hunting them down - but who will find who first?

Director: Jan Dunn 2008. HD. 100 min Production Company: Medb Films, 10-11 Nelson Crescent, Royal Harbour, Ramsgate, Kent, CT11 9JF, England, UK email: [email protected] web: www.medbfilms.com International Sales: Target Entertainment, 86-88 Edgware Road, 2nd Floor, Garfield House, London, W2 2EA, England, UK tel: +44 (0)870 164 7474 email: [email protected] web: www.target-entertainment.com Producer: Elaine Wickham Executive Producer: Alison Rayson, Paul Dixon Screenwriter: Jan Dunn Editor: Emma Collins Director of Photography: Ole Bratt Birkeland Production Designer: Stevie Stewart Sound: Maurice Hillier, Neil Collymore Music: Clint Mansell Cast: Brenda Blethyn, Emily Beecham, Susannah York, Rita Tushingham, Tom Stuart

Square-chinned Captain Eager arrives in his wobbly Bakelite rocket, brought out of mothballs by the sprawling, hi-tech corporation Macro Space. The brief is to investigate a maverick `client' - the villianous Colonel Regamun is an enemy from the past with an old fashioned craving for revenge - and he is luring the brave yet clunky Captain to a final Bmovie showdown. But along the journey Eager learns to confront his (rubbery) monsters from the past and he triumphs . . . by understanding that his enemy is human too. Director: Simon DaVison 2007. HD. 95 min Production Company: Imperious Films Ltd, St Annes Cottage, Wardour, Wiltshire, SP3 6RG, England, UK tel: +44 (0)171 787 1430 email: [email protected] web: www.captaineager.com UK Distributor: Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7766 1448 email: [email protected] web: www.ica.org.uk Producer: Rebecca Bazzard Executive Producer, Screenwriter, Editor, Sound, Music: Simon DaVison Director of Photography: Martin Hill Production Designer: Damien Creagh Cast: James Vaughan, Tamsin Greig, Richard Leaf, Mark Heap, Lindsay Carr Budget: £110,000 Funding: Private, sale and leaseback Territories: All available except UK

Director: Sarjit Bains 2008. 35mm. 100 min Production Company: Jaffa Entertainment Ltd, 158 High Road, Wealdstone, Harrow, Middlesex, HA3 7AX, England, UK tel: +44 (0)870 486 9104 email: [email protected] Producer: Christine Edwards Executive Producer: Ameet Chaana Screenwriter: Christine Edwards, Manish Patel Editor: Sarjit Bains Director of Photography: Ciro Candia Sound: John Hughes Cast: Ameet Chana, Ronny Jhutti, Pooja Shah, Manish Patel

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Feature Films

Cass

Caught in the Act

Chemical Wedding

The incredible true story of how an orphaned Jamaican baby, adopted by an elderly white couple and brought up in an all-white area of London, became one of the most feared and respected men in Britain. Cass grew up in a time before political correctness and was forced to endure racist bullying on a daily basis, until one day when the years of pent up anger came out in a violent burst. Cass found through violence the respect he never had and became addicted to the buzz of fighting. His way of life finally caught up with him when an attempted assassination on his life saw him shot three times at point blank range. His inner strength somehow managed to keep him alive but he was left with a dilemma: whether to seek vengeance as the street had taught him, or renounce his violent past. This is the extraordinary story of his life.

Imagine you are a group of oddballs consisting of a less than bright fish seller, an ageing alcoholic, a mummy's boy who has an allergy to cats and a taste for sadomasochism, a long-suffering commonlaw wife attempting to get pregnant `before it's too late' and the dissatisfied secret girlfriend of the mayor of a small Welsh town.

Jack Parsons was a brilliant chemist and inventor of the rocket fuel used for the US space flight to the moon. He was also a fanatical believer in the magic of Aleister Crowley, the aging occultist. In 1947 Parsons and L Ron Hubbard were performing Crowley's mystic rituals in a house in Pasadena, California. Parsons wrote excitedly to his occult leader, Crowley.

Director: Jon S Baird 2008. s16mm. 100 min Production Company: Cass Films, 10 Orange Street, Haymarket, London, WC2H 7DQ, England, UK UK Distributor: Optimum Releasing, 50 Marshall Street, London, W1F 9BQ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7534 2700 email: [email protected] web: www.optimumreleasing.com Producer: Stefan Haller Executive Producer: Will Clarke, Berry Van Zweiten, Jon S Baird, Pierre Weisbein Screenwriter: Jon S Baird Editor: Dave Moyes Director of Photography: Christopher Ross Production Designer: Daniel Taylor Sound: Gareth John Music: Matteo Scumaci Cast: Nonso Anozie, Natalie Press, Tamer Hassan, Linda Bassett, Peter Wight

You have never acted before, can only meet if it's at the local pub and have frittered away every penny ever given to you on frivolous luxuries. Now imagine that you have six weeks to produce and perform a Shakespearean play and convince the entire population of a town in Germany that you are an established, professional and artistic theatre company. Meet the so-called `Pontycel Players' who suddenly find themselves entangled in a nightmare of their own construction and are led unto the breach by their Mayor, Eric Jenkins. Under the strain of their own personal traumas and conflicts, this endearingly funny group of people must work together if they are to save their town and their homes and put on a performance of Macbeth in front of a critical audience on the stage of the German town twinned with Pontycelwyddau. Director: Matt Lipsey 2008. HD. 90 min Production Company: Carnaby International, New London House, 172 Drury Lane, London, WC2B 5QR, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7074 1275, fax: +44 (0)20 7074 1203 email: [email protected] Screenwriter: Neil Savage, Steve Speirs Editor: John Richards Director of Photography: Francis De Groote Production Designer: Matthew Button Cast: Steve Speirs, Freddie Jones, Ralph Brown Funding: EIS Territories: All available

Nine months later while being visited by two students, Crowley died. Missing from his possessions was his pocket-watch. His funeral took place in Brighton. The final rites were performed by Louis Marlowe reading extracts from Crowley's Book of the Law. The Brighton Echo denounced the ceremony as a Black Mass. In 1952 Parsons was blown up in his laboratory. L Ron Hubbard, leader of the controversial Church of Scientology, died on his yacht. Did the issue end with these three deaths? Would Crowley, as he claimed, ever return from death to rule the world? Why did US astronauts name a crater on the moon after Parsons? Is L Ron Hubbard really dead? What was generated by the ceremony in California that seemed to signal Crowley's demise? And what happened to the missing pocket-watch? Director: Julian Doyle 2008. 35 mm. 107 min Production Company: Bill and Ben Productions, 20 Great Chapel Street, London, W1F 8FW, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7734 4933, fax: +44 (0)20 7788 3422 email: [email protected] UK Distributor: Warner Brothers UK, 98 Theobald's Road, London, WC1X 8WB, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7984 5400, fax: +44 (0)20 7982 5001 Producer: Malcolm Kohll, Justin Peyton, Benjamin Timlett Screenwriter: Julian Doyle, Bruce Dickinson Editor: Bill Jones Director of Photography: Brian Herlihy Production Designer: Mark Tanner Music: Andre  Jacquemin Cast: Simon Callow, Kal Weber, Lucy Cudden, Jud Charlton

13

Feature Films

City Rats

The Clan

Clubbed

Jim's throwing watermelons off his office roof, testing the effect for a possible suicide. Then there is Sammy on an adjacent roof about to jump. Together they set off searching for other ways out than down. Sammy's ex-boyfriend, Dean, an artist struggling with his creativity, needs a muse - and who better than Gina, the experimental prostitute with dodgy legs, who lives upstairs. However, Dean soon finds out that Gina never does anything for free. Sexually confused Olly is forced to look after his deaf-mute brother Chris for the day. Not only does Chris have gay feelings too, but is more comfortable with them than Olly. They embark on a searing quest through Soho's gay community to help Chris lose his virginity. No-one has more to hide than oldest brother Pete. He's being stalked by Carol, a timid old lady looking for her son - a guy Pete knew from his violent drug days. Fearfully Pete opens his frozen heart to Carol and they begin a treacherous journey to find her lost son. By the end, each lost soul finds a solution in darkness or in light.

A unique insight into a dark brutal world of crime, corruption and violence that lies deep within the hills of the Scottish Highlands, based upon a decade of undercover police surveillance that until now has never been exposed. The story unveils the existence of two feuding crime families that have evolved from ancient Scottish clans, the McKinleys and the McNabs. The film focuses on the growing relationship that has blossomed between the two youngest members of each clan, Cal McKinley and Nicole McNab, as they struggle to cope with the brutal savagery that they are being forced to endure on a daily basis. When the two decide to run off together they soon discover that escaping from the claws of their own clans was never going to be that easy.

Clubbed is a journey through family and fear set in the violent world of early 1980s clubland. Danny, a lonely factory worker, is intimidated by life, depressed and battered in front of his kids. On the verge of a breakdown he decides to fight back. His already bleak existence sinks further into the abyss. He becomes involved with a group of doormen who take him in and give him the confidence to stand his ground. As he is pulled further into their world, he gets embroiled with the local gangland boss, building to a frightening and brutal climax.

Director: Steve M Kelly 2007. s16mm. 96 min Production Company: Face Films Ltd, 19 Mansfield Road, London, E11 2JN, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7988 285 343 email: [email protected] web: www.facefilms.com Production Company: Scanner-Rhodes Productions, 19 Ewellhurst Road, Ilford, Essex, IG5 0PE, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 8924 7219 email: [email protected] web: www.scanner-rhodes.co.uk Producer: William Borthwick Executive Producer: Ray Panthaki Screenwriter: Simon Fantauzzo Editor: Ben King Director of Photography: Adam Levins Production Designer: Amy Spicer Sound, Music: Mark Maclaine Cast: Tamer Hassan, Danny Dyer, Susan Lynch, Ray Panthaki, Kenny Doughty

Director: Lee Hutcheson 2007. HD. 106 min Production Company: Clan Films, 35 Albyn Place, Aberdeen, AB10 1YN, Scotland, UK International Sales, UK Distributor: Aspect Film Ltd, 188a Belsize Road, London, NW6 4AB, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7625 7796 email: [email protected] web: www.aspectfilm.com/theclan Producer, Screenwriter, Editor, Director of Photography: Lee Hutcheson Production Designer: Graeme Joss Sound: Harley Hutcheon Music: Clannandrumma, Clandonia Cast: James Cosmo, Emun Elliot, Siobhan Reilly, Jimmy Lynch, Lee Hutcheson Funding: Private Territories: All available

Director: Neil Thompson 2008. 16mm. 95 min Production Company: Formosa Films, 3 Mills Studios, Three Mill Lane, London, E3 3DU, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 8709 8700, fax: +44 (0)20 8709 8701 email: [email protected] International Sales: AV Pictures Ltd, Caparo House, 103 Baker Street, London, W1U 6LN, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7317 0140, fax: +44 (0)20 7317 0144 email: [email protected] Producer: Martin Carr Executive Producer: Paul Abbott, Lee Thomas Screenwriter: Geoff Thompson Editor: David Kew Director of Photography: Kate Stark Production Designer: Simon Godfrey Sound: Nigel Squibbs Music: Paul Heard Cast: Colin Salmon, Mel Raido, Maxine Peake, Shaun Parkes, Scot Williams Budget: £1.8 million Funding: Private, EIS, Screen West Midlands

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Feature Films

Clubbing to Death

Coffee Sex You

Cold Earth

Clubbing to Death is set in the murky world of club culture, where Dench, a lowlife gangster, runs the five biggest clubs in London, and supplies drugs to all of them. Everything seems to be going well until he gets greedy and decides to rip off his supplier by hijacking the next consignment before it reaches the UK. Trouble is the guy he's been dealing with forgot to mention that they belong to a psychotic American holed up in Morocco. Will Dench and his loyal right-hand man Chris be able to stop the mad Yank's plans to destroy his clubs and family before it's too late?

Maria Del Conte, a 26 year-old attractive and intelligent woman, has made a decision to take her life on her 27th birthday. Having had an unhappy and troubled childhood, she moved to London and carved out a successful career as an investment banker in European media investment. It is through one of her rich clients, geeky 22 year-old Bruce Day, that she is introduced to Michael - a smalltime film producer.

When Dallas, the daughter of top celebrity couple Darryl and Lori Van Dyke, disappears, Detectives Farrell and Radcliffe are assigned to the high profile case. It looks like the work of the same serial kidnapper and murderer who has struck twice before but all is not as it seems. There are no clues, no ransom note, no motive. Time is running out. Kidnap victims are expected to survive less than a week. How and why has the little girl been taken?

Director: Lee Philips 2007. DV Cam. 90 min Production Company: 4Ground Media email: [email protected] Producer, Editor: Lee Philips, Mat Ware Screenwriter: Lee Philips Director of Photography: Mat Ware Sound: Matt Wilton Music: Apocalipz, Beau Courtney, MC Creed, Henry Gorman Cast: Shalimar Wimble, Craig Charles, Ewen MacIntosh, Jakki Degg Co-production: Tunisia

Maria finds a renewed interest in life by her association with Michael, a charismatic and worldly man, slightly jaded by a life full of disappointment. He asks her out for coffee. After many refusals she finally agrees to meet. Maria doesn't drink coffee . . . she orders herbal tea. They start to meet on a regular basis in front of a backdrop of guerrilla filmmaking, young Russian trophy girlfriends, beefcake actors and temperamental directors in a modern-day, multi-cultural London. We discover the truth behind Maria's birthday decision, the reason for Michael's cynicism, Maria's new passion for strong cappuccino, and observe an unusual sexual and intimate chemistry develop between the two of them. More is never enough. Director: Marcel Grant 2007. HD. 98 min Production Company: Shipwreck Film, Room 19, 34-35 Hatton Garden, London, EC1V 8TD, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7813 638 299 email: [email protected] web: www.shipwreckfilm.com Producer, Screenwriter: Marcel Grant Executive Producer: Emma Meaden Editor: Kant Pan Director of Photography: John Record Sound: Tony Jackson Cast: Caspar Zafar, Rosie Fellner

To find out, the detectives have to go deep into their underworld connections and negotiate the tricky waters of celebrity life. Dogging them every step of the way is Alex Blight, a paparazzo photographer who knows more than he should and is also personally connected with DS Farrell. Old and new demons haunt the case and the dark, dark secret at the heart of the mystery will bring terror and finally death to those that dare to search for the truth amidst the cold, cold earth. Director: Frank Falco 2008. HD. 101 min Production Company: Bridgeway Productions Ltd, Unit E19, Telford Road, Bicester, OX26 4LD, England, UK email: [email protected] Producer: Ernest Riera, Matt Taylor Executive Producer: Doug Hawkes Screenwriter: Frank Falco Editor: Simon Cox Director of Photography: Kit Fraser Production Designer: Amy Louise Cook Sound: Richard Neeb Music: Ioannis Kourtis Cast: Gary Daniels, Steven Elliot, Ben Shockley

15

Feature Films

The Cottage

Counterfeit Butterfly

Crack Willow

In the dead of night, a car arrives at a secluded country cottage. Bickering constantly, brothers David and Peter climb out to inspect the hideaway. It seems just perfect for their plans. Although barely on speaking terms, the pair have set aside their differences for a quick moneymaking scheme, the kidnapping of mob boss Arnie's daughter, whom they plan to hold to ransom. Tracey, bound, gagged and unconscious, is locked in the trunk of the car.

Mercy King is headed nowhere. Trapped in a loveless marriage to a former church pastor she leads a lonely and unfulfilled life. Steven Valentine lives downstairs from the unhappy couple. He secretly desires Mercy but her husband is in the way. Steven will do whatever it takes to possess the woman of his dreams, even if that makes him an accomplice to murder.

Crack Willow is an affectionate portrait of one man's struggle with death and loneliness. Mark Walker's journey is an exploration of emotions captured through the use of vivid, powerful and imaginative imagery. A compelling and evocative film that treads new ground.

Aiding them in their ploy is Tracey's black sheep step-brother Andrew. Screaming threats and violent insults, Tracey fights like a wildcat and the hapless trio begin to panic and argue amongst themselves totally unaware that Andrew was followed. Outside, two of Arnie's most feared henchmen are already circling the cottage. With Arnie on his way and the game almost up, Tracey turns the tables on her captors and, with Peter as her hostage, escapes through the nearby woods seeking refuge in a remote farmhouse in the hope of finding a telephone to alert her father. As David and Andrew close in on her trail, they soon discover something far more terrifying is lurking in the darkness, the Farmer, a monstrous, blood-thirsty serial killer, and the stage is set for a grotesquely comic battle for survival. Director: Paul Andrew Williams 2008. 35mm. 92 min Production Company: Steel Mill Pictures, 60 Berwick Street, 2nd Floor, London, W1F 8SU, England, UK email: [email protected] web: www.steelmillpictures.co.uk Producer: Ken Marshall Executive Producer: Martin Pope Screenwriter: Paul Andrew Williams Editor: Tom Hemings Director of Photography: Christopher Ross Production Designer: Crispian Sallis Music: Laura Rossi Cast: Andy Serkis, Reece Shearsmith, Steven O'Donnell, David Legeno, Jennifer Ellison

Director: Marimba Easmon 2008. HDV. 94 min Production Company: Ije Films, 14 Ingatestone Road, South Norwood, London, SE25 4LG, England, UK email: [email protected] web: www.counterfeitbutterfly.com Producer, Screenwriter: Marimba Easmon Executive Producer: Innocent Okey Onye Editor: Lalit Goyal Director of Photography: Rob Jones Production Designer: Lindsay Swift Sound: Santiago Posada Music: Nicole Elizabeth Heel Cast: Maria Thomas, Keith Eyles, Kevin Golding

Director: Martin Radich 2008. HD. 89 min Production Company: Perfume Films, Unit 18, 6-10 Convent Street, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG1 3LL, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7815 834 551 email: [email protected] Producer: Jane Hooks, Tristan Goligher Executive Producer: Mark Herbert, Kate Ogborn Screenwriter, Director of Photography: Martin Radich Editor: Andrew Haigh Sound: Tim Barker Music: James Edward Barker Cast: Mark Bennett, Reg Bennett, Ryan Mitchell, Beki Dakin, Oliver Dempster

16

Feature Films

The Dark Knight

Dark Rage

Dead Wood

Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organisations that plague the city streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as the Joker.

Ned Harris is a 50-something everyman. Doting father. Loyal colleague. Compassionate landlord. Serial killer. Beneath the seemingly normal surface resides a web of warped sensibilities, spontaneous brutality and cold-blooded murder. A psychiatrist would probably blame Ned's peculiar childhood, but what's Paul's excuse? Paul James is Ned's long-standing tenant - callous and calculating, with voyeuristic tendencies and a bizarre sense of humour. So when Kate and Jason, a young couple with problems of their own, move into Ned's building, they prove to be the catalyst for a shocking turn of events. It's not long before Ned's rapidly unravelling life spirals completely out of control, as we race towards a deadly conclusion. The story culminates in a final showdown between Ned and Paul, where they are forced to confront their demons and reveal their darkest secret. Dark Rage is a twisted journey into a deeply disturbed mind. Not for the faint-hearted!

Four friends escape the grime of the city and head out into the woods for a peaceful, relaxing weekend. Events take a sinister turn when a mysterious girl appears in their camp looking for her boyfriend. Soon the nightmare begins as they find themselves lost in an endless wilderness stalked by a deadly force, watching . . . waiting . . . taking them one by one. As those left fight to survive they will discover the true nature of fear.

Director: Christopher Nolan 2008. 35mm. Production Company: Warner Brothers UK, Warner House, 98 Theobald Road, London, WC1X 8WB, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7984 5400, fax: +44 (0)20 7982 5001 Producer: Jordan Goldberg, Karl McMillan, Christopher Nolan, Charles Roven, Emma Thomas Executive Producer: Kevin De La Noy, Benjamin Melniker, Thomas Tull, Michael E Uslan Screenwriter: Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan Editor: Lee Smith Director of Photography: Wally Pfister Production Designer: Nathan Crowley Sound: Michael Babcock, Richard King Music: Hans Zimmer Cast: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, Cillian Murphy, William Fichtner, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Anthony Michael Hall, Eric Roberts Co-production: USA

Director: Lee Akehurst 2008. HD. 95 min Production Company: Media Killer Ltd, 2 Hidcote House, 6 Devonshire Avenue, Sutton, Surrey, SM2 5JL, England, UK email: [email protected] web: www.mediakiller.com Producer: Lee Akehurst, Lance Patrick, Sarah Akehurst Screenwriter: Lee Akehurst Editor: Michael Bracewell Director of Photography: Richard J Wood Production Designer: Kelly Hogan Sound, Music: Simon Richardson Cast: Chris Dunne, Christopher Dane, Sarah Akehurst, Helen Millar, Brett Findlay, Neil Linpow, Kay Taylor Territories: All available

Director: David Bryant, Sebastian Smith, Richard Stiles 2007. DV Cam. 82 min Production Company: Menan Films, 116 Farley Road, London, SE6 2AR, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7967 325 736 email: [email protected] International Sales: Horizon Motion Pictures Ltd, Suite 237, 1271 Howe Street, Vancouver, BC, V6Z 1RB, Canada tel: +1 604 632 1707 email: [email protected] Producer, Editor: David Bryant, Sebastian Smith, Richard Stiles Screenwriter: David Bryant Sound: Sebastian Smith Music: Adam Langston Cast: Fergus March, Emily Juniper, John Samuel Worsey, Rebecca Craven, Nine Kwok Budget: £15,000 Funding: Private Territories: All available except North America

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Feature Films

Deadly Pursuit

Definitely Maybe

The Demon Within

Things get tough for Detective Michael Denison when his department is targeted by terrorists. He enters a fight for survival and the truth while facing off the wrongs of his past that have recently been dug up. Denison learns that no one can be trusted when a good friend betrays him, and that survival is key.

Will Hayes, a 30-something Manhattan dad, is in the midst of a divorce when his ten year-old daughter Maya starts to question him about his life before marriage. Maya wants to know absolutely everything about how her parents met and fell in love. Will's story begins in 1992, as a young starry-eyed aspiring politician who moves to New York from Wisconsin in order to work on the Clinton campaign. For Maya, Will relives his past as an idealistic young man learning the ins and outs of big city politics, and recounts the history of his romantic relationships with three very different women. On the campaign, Will's best buddy is Russell McCormack. They not only have similar political aspirations, they share the same type of girl problems, too. Will hopelessly attempts a `PG' version of his story for his daughter and changes the names so Maya has to guess who he finally married. Is her mother Will's college sweetheart, the dependable girl next-door Emily? Is she his longtime best friend and confidante, the apolitical April? Or is she the free-spirited but ambitious journalist Summer? As Maya puts together the pieces of her dad's romantic puzzle, she begins to understand that love is not so simple or easy. And as Will tells her his tale, Maya helps him to understand that it's definitely never too late to go back . . . and maybe even possible to find a happy ending.

After their wedding, Debbie and Tom's car breaks down on the way to the honeymoon. Stranded in the middle of nowhere and with darkness approaching, they decide to find somewhere to stay and set off, coming across a manor house. It is their only chance of refuge that will lead them into a situation neither of them could have predicted. Debbie is intrigued by the owner of the manor, Lincoln. He is a very strange character and soon she falls under his hypnotic gaze. She wants to become like him, a demon. In order to become a demon one must die, but it must be a violent death or else one will be stuck in purgatory and live as one of the undead. To prove herself Debbie embarks on a rampage of murders until she is eventually killed, but not by the violent means necessary. Is she a demon or was it all a dream?

The law has two sides and rules will be broken. Director: Russ Diaper 2008. HD. 115 min Production Company: Sledge Films, 105 Canterbury Avenue, Sholing, Southampton, SO19 1EG, England, UK Producer, Screenwriter, Editor: Russ Diaper Executive Producer: Scott Livingstone Director of Photography: Russ Diaper, Simon Black Cast: Russ Diaper, Kim Sonderholm, Paul Kelleher, Kelly-Marie Kerr, Damien Mortimer Budget: £5,000 Funding: Private Territories: All available

Director: Adam Brooks 2008. 35mm. 111 min UK Distributor: Universal Pictures International UK, 76 Oxford Street, London, W1D 1BS, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7307 5530, fax: +44 (0)20 3071 346 email: [email protected] Producer: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner Executive Producer: Bobby Cohen Screenwriter: Adam Brooks Editor: Peter Teschner Director of Photography: Florian Ballhaus Music: Clint Mansell Production Designer: Stephanie Carroll Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Isla Fisher, Elizabeth Banks, Rachel Weisz, Abigail Breslin

Director: Harold Gasnier 2008. HD. 98 min Production Company: 24 Carrot Films, 103 Shirley High Street, Southampton, SO16 4EY, England, UK tel: +44 (0)238 077 1958, fax: +44 (0)238 077 1915 email: [email protected] Producer: Carolyn Cole, Paul Davies Screenwriter, Editor: Harold Gasnier Director of Photography: Alex Ryle Sound: Matthew Hatchard Music: Daniel Selmon Cast: Sophie Austin, Robert Wainwright, Mitchell Powell, Jim Sturgeon Funding: Private Territories: All available

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Feature Films

The Devil's Music

Diagnosis: Superstar

The Disappeared

The strange story of notorious shockrocker Erika Spawn, whose meteoric rise to fame culminated in a series of violent incidents and bizarre accusations. With unprecedented access to those involved, this film cuts through the rumours and media spin to uncover the disturbing truth behind her tale. As the film progresses, the subject matter becomes stranger and more unsettling.

The story of a London mental hospital set to close after being sold to greedy property developers. In a last-ditch effort to save their home the patients and staff decide to stage a sci-fi version of Romeo and Juliet. Diagnosis Superstar is a film about anyone who wants to stand for what is right.

A psychological thriller set in London. Following the disappearance of younger brother Tom, Matthew tries to put his life and sanity back together. However, the past keeps coming back to haunt him.

Director: Pat Higgins 2008. HD. 89 min Production Company: Jinx Media Ltd, PO Box 2083, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, SS9 4WE, England, UK tel: +44 (0)170 271 2415 email: [email protected] web: www.jinxmedia.co.uk Producer: Pippa Higgins Screenwriter, Editor: Pat Higgins Director of Photography: Alan Ronald Production Designer: Lisa Poet Music: Paul Sheldon Cast: Victoria Hopkins, Cy Henty, Scott Thomas, Jess-Luisa Flynn Territories: All available

Director: Michael Tchoubouroff 2008. 35mm. 87 min Production Company: Weeble Films, 31 Hartherly Grove, London, W2 5RB, England, UK mobile: +44 (0)7939 045 163 email: [email protected]

Director: Johnny Kevorkian 2008. 16mm. 95 min Production Company: Lost Tribe Productions, Riverbank House, 1 Putney Bridge Approach, London, SW6 3JD, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7731 7200, fax: +44 (0)20 7731 7200 email: [email protected]

Producer, Screenwriter: Michael Tchoubouroff Editor: Ben Nugent Director of Photography: Dominik Rippl Production Designer: Yasmin Al-Naib Sound: Mark Verner Music: Christopher Dominique Cast: Giles Alderson, Martin Owen, Peter Barrett, Alice Bird

Producer, Screenwriter: Neil Murphy, Johnny Kevorkian Executive Producer: Gabriel Simonian Editor: Celia Haining Director of Photography: Diego Rodriguez Production Designer: Malin Lindholm Sound: Matthew Gough Music: Ilan Eshkeri Cast: Harry Treadaway, Greg Wise, Alex Jennings, Tom Felton

Budget: £200,000

Funding: Private

Funding: Private

19

Feature Films

The Disciple

Do Elephants Pray?

Dogging: A Love Story

Exploring the ramifications of the current Iraq war through the lives of four transcultural friends living in Los Angeles as they struggle to maintain the facËade of contentment in the face of rising dissatisfaction with personal life choices.

Frustrated by the soulless routine world he is shackled to, the life of fastidious advertising executive Callum descends into poetic chaos when he meets the free-spirited French seductress Malika who promises to change his life forever, providing he keeps her identity a secret.

The darkened corners of Newcastle's car parks provide an unlikely setting for this skewed romance about a young man's introduction to the al fresco swinging scene. A love story about sex, monogamy (or not), the search for love and the joy of dogging.

As his company mutinies over a make-orbreak campaign, led by the boisterous Marrlen, Callum abandons everything to rough it in a forest in Malika's native France. Here he is subjected to increasingly demoralising trials that challenge his perception of the world, revealing not only the hidden meaning to his unfulfilled life but also the perfect way to sell the unsellable product.

Director: Simon Ellis 2008. HD. 90 min

Things being to crumble beyond their control following a visit from Michael, a British Gulf War veteran in LA hoping to reconnect with his estranged childhood cousin, Jud, an artist who left Europe to escape his military family. When Michael displays none of the typically negative post-war symptoms, but appears instead to be humorous and outgoing, he succeeds in coaxing the group, together with their career-driven South African friend, Mary, into temporarily escaping the complex lies they live. They abandon their protective facËade of happiness and join him in passionately embracing the richness and beauty of Los Angeles. As their tenuous boundaries begin to fray, however, secrets are revealed and the friends are forced to evaluate volatile personal truths and confront their suspicions about the deadly nature of Michael's visit. Director: Rodney Charles 2008. HD. 102 min Production Company: The Disciple Productions LLC, 222 South Rampart Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90057, USA tel: +1 323 356 1346 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter: Rodney Charles Editor: Asaf Eisenberg Director of Photography: Bruce Francis Cole Production Designer: Beauchamp Fontaine Sound: Marcus Blanchard Music: Rashid Lanie Cast: Race Owen, Christopher James, Charlie Charles, Agatha Nowicki, Rodney Charles Funding: Private

Director: Paul Hill 2008. s16mm. 110 min Production Company: Elephant Features Ltd, PO Box 44636, London, NI6 5TU, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 8211 1888, fax: +44 (0)20 8211 1888 email: [email protected] Producer: Paul Hills, Jonnie Hurn Executive Producer: Kylie MaronVallorani, Neil Harris, Yorman Halbertstam Screenwriter: Jonnie Hurn Editor: Caroline Richards Director of Photography: Roger Bonnici Production Designer: Seanne Grasso Sound: Axle Cheeng Music: Marcel Barsotti Cast: Jonnie Hurn, Julie Dray, Mark Warren, Rosie Fellner, Grace Vallorani Budget: £550,000 Funding: Private Territories: All available

Production Company, UK Distributor: Vertigo Films, The Big Room Studios, 77 Fortess Road, London, NW5 1AG, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7428 7555, fax: +44 (0)20 7485 9713 email: [email protected] web: www.vertigofilms.com Producer: Brock Norman Brock, Jane Hooks, Allan Niblo, James Richardson Screenwriter: Brock Norman Brock, Michael Groom Director of Photography: Robert Hardy Production Designer: Sami Khan Cast: Luke Treadaway, Sammy T Dobson, Richard Riddell, Dirk Smith, Michael Socha

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Feature Films

Don't Look At Me (I'm Ugly In The Morning)

Doomsday

The Duchess

Following the lives of three estranged adult siblings, grudgingly reunited after their father's sudden death. When the issue of their inheritance comes to the fore and outside influences compete for the sizable assets, their turbulent past must be examined with renewed relevance.

A lethal virus spreads throughout the British Isles, infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. To contain the threat, acting authorities brutally quarantine the country as it succumbs to fear and chaos. The quarantine is successful. Three decades later, the Reaper virus violently resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists, including Eden Sinclair, is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.

In late 18th century England, no woman was as celebrated and scrutinised as Lady Georgiana Cavendish, the Duchess of Devonshire. Beautiful, glamorous, and adored by the public, Georgiana was the most fascinating woman of the age. But while her beauty and charisma made her name, her extravagant tastes and appetite for gambling and love made her infamous. Married to the cool and distant Duke of Devonshire, intimate of ministers and princes, Georgiana was a fashion icon, a doting mother, and a shrewd political operator. But at the core of her story is a desperate search for warmth and love; from her passionate and doomed affair with Earl Charles Grey to her complex me Ânage a Á trois with her husband and best friend, Lady Bess Foster. Based on Amanda Foreman's best-selling biography, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, The Duchess is a very contemporary tale of fame, notoriety, and the search for love.

In a world where family are simply a formality, the three play a dangerous game of deception that will destroy lives and test the bonds of blood. Director: Chris Purnell 2008. HD. 82 min Production Company: Orphanage Films, 70 Salvesen Gardens, Edinburgh, EH4 5JR, Scotland, UK tel: +44 (0)7812 826 640 email: dontletmediewiththatlook@ yahoo.co.uk Producer, Screenwriter, Editor, Production Designer: Chris Purnell Executive Producer: Andrew John Gray Director of Photography: Andrew Begg Sound: John Lemke Music: Dez Kirkup Budget: £30,000 Funding: Private Territories: All available

Director: Neil Marshall 2008. 35mm. 108 min UK Distributor: Universal Pictures International UK, 76 Oxford Street, London, W1D 1BS, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7307 5530, fax: +44 (0)20 3071 346 email: [email protected] Producer: Steven Paul, Benedict Carver Executive Producer: Peter McAleese Screenwriter: Neil Marshall Editor: Andrew MacRitichie Director of Photography: Sam McCurdy Production Designer: Simon Bowles Music: Tyler Bates Cast: Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins, Alexander Siddig Co-production: South Africa, USA

Director: Saul Dibb 2008. 35mm. 100 min Production Company: BBC Films, BBC Grafton House, 379 Euston Road, London, NW1 3AV, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7765 0251 UK Distributor: Pathe  UK, Kent House, 14±17 Market Place, Great Titchfield Street, London, W1W 8AR, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7323 5151, fax: +44 (0)20 7631 5368 web: www.pathe.co.uk Producer: Michael Kuhn, Gabrielle Tana Executive Producer: Carolyn Marks Blackwood Screenwriter: Jeffrey Hatcher, Anders Thomas Jensen Editor: Masahiro Hirakubo Director of Photography: Gyula Pados Production Designer: Michael Carlin Cast: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Charlotte Rampling, Dominic Cooper, Hayley Atwell

21

Feature Films

Dummy

The Dungeon Moor Killings

Eastern Promises

Dummy is a coming-of-age drama about two brothers whose lives are thrown into turmoil when their mother dies suddenly, leaving them to fend for themselves.

Adam is determined to find evidence of the existence of big cats that have been reported over the years in remote areas of Southwest Scotland. He convinces his best friend Mark to go with him and after an overnight stay at a country commune, they are joined by two girls, Marina and Summer, with the commune leader Phil agreeing to act as their guide.

The mysterious and charismatic Russianborn Nikolai Luzhin is a driver for one of London's most notorious organised crime families of Eastern European origin. Several lives - including Nikolai's own hang in the balance as a harrowing chain of murder, deceit, and retribution reverberates through the darkest corners of both the family and London itself.

As they set off across Dungeon Moor, there is talk of a Polish girl who recently disappeared and a scientist working on a secret project in an isolated farmhouse.

Director: David Cronenberg 2008. 35mm. 100 min

While Danny loses himself in music, sex and drugs, his younger brother Jack takes action - transforming a life-size mannequin, with the help of some makeup and his mother's old clothes, into a brand new `mummy' for him to talk to. Jack's obsession with this new member of the family leads to both comic misunderstanding and bitter antagonism as the pair battle through grief, anger and denial. Finally, the boys' intense struggle to survive in an upside-down world leads to a new understanding that gives them both hope for the future.

It becomes clear that Phil is leading them on a journey where their lives are threatened by more than roaming big cats. Their rural adventure soon turns into a nightmare.

Director: Matthew Thompson 2008. HD. 88 min

Director: Jim Hickey 2008. HD. 80 min

Production Company: Format Films Ltd, 11 Orange Row, Brighton, BN1 1UQ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)1273 735716, fax: +44 (0)1273 738452 email: [email protected]

Production Company: Fredonia Films, 11 Fountain Close, 22 High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1TF, Scotland, UK tel: +44 (0)131 556 1365 email: [email protected]

Producer: Miranda Robinson Executive Producer: Fiona Gillies, Nicola Fenn, Sean Gascoine Screenwriter: Michael Muller Editor: Kant Pan Director of Photography: David Langan Production Designer: Phillip Barber Sound: Nick Smith Music: Clint Mansell Cast: Aaron Johnson, Thomas Grant, Therese Bradley, Emma Catherwood Funding: Private

Production Company: Kudos Productions, 12-14 Amwell Street, London, EC1R 1UQ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7812 3270, fax: +44 (0)20 7812 3271 email: [email protected] web: www.kudosproductions.co.uk International Sales: Focus Features International, Oxford House, 4th Floor, 76 Oxford Street, London, W1D 1BS, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7307 5591 fax: +44 (0)20 7307 1348

Funding: Private

Producer: Paul Webster, Robert Lantos Executive Producer: Jeff Abberley, Julia Blackman, Steve Garrett, David M Thompson Screenwriter: Steve Knight Editor: Ronald Sanders Director of Photography: Peter Suschitzky Production Designer: Carol Spier Music: Howard Shore Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, Armin Mueller-Stahl

Territories: All available

Co-production: Canada, USA

Producer, Screenwriter: Jonathan Hickey, Ross Crombie Editor, Director of Photography: Jim Hickey Sound: Chris Conway Music: Hector MacInnes Cast: Gavin Paul, Ross Hornby, Gilchrist Muir, Robin Mitchell, Maria Thordar

22

Feature Films

Ecology

The Edge of Love

The Englishman

Ecology is a feature film in three parts, three characters and three stories to be screened in any order, delivered as three internal monologues narrated as voiceover. The story of a mother, a daughter and a son, on holiday in Majorca. This is not the Majorca of package holidays but a writer's retreat, a location solar powered and environmentally responsible. We are caught in the rhythms of an urgent repetition of events past and scraps of imagined dialogue directed at but never spoken to one another. Appearing to reference a debate on the ethics of the environment, Ecology turns the idea towards the ethics of psychic recycling, the debris passed on and re-circulated among people. Yet its power resides in the ability to pull us into each character's internal world, to invite our complicity with each point of view - and then in moving on, to show us the error of our ways.

Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by a brilliant charismatic poet who loves them both.

Henry is not from England. An outsider. He watches, noticing things, things like the tap of the cafe  woman's shoes as he follows her, never getting close. Then the world moves in on him. He is given an apprentice at the garage, Andrew, a boy sprung like a nervous whippet. Then Svetla, arriving with her long fingernails on his doorstep and needing a roof over her head. First turning her away he then has to let her in. When Andrew collapses at work it's the same kind of obligation that makes Henry bring him home; almost forgetting he has a `wife'. Henry and Svetla have to sleep in the same bed. They don't touch. The closer you get the more difficult things become. Getting close never did Andrew any good either and the growing warmth between the three of them propels him into attacking the very thing that could save him. He engineers Svetla's removal so he can have Henry for himself. When Henry finds out Andrew, in turn, is rejected. Henry is alone again. The world does not notice as he follows the cafe  woman into the park. Some people have trouble getting close.

Director: Sarah Turner 2007. HD. 97 min Main Contact: Sarah Turner, 21 West Cliff, Kent, CT5 1DN, England, UK tel: +44 (0)122 727 4634 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter, Editor, Sound: Sarah Turner Director of Photography: Matthew Walter, Alia Syed, Sarah Turner Production Designer: Fiona Woods Cast: Caroline Jay, Georgia Brown, Miriam Gogill Budget: £20,000 Funding: Arts Council England Territories: All available

The passion and pathos of legendary poet Dylan Thomas is told through the lives of two extraordinary women. Vera Philips and Dylan were each other's first loves who feel the thunderbolt once more when they unexpectedly meet in London ten years later. Caitlin is his adventurous wife, wily at using her beauty and always up for a bit of fun. Despite their love-rival status, the women form a surprising friendship - and though bombs rain down on London, the trio indulge in the glory of being young, and alive. When Vera meets handsome officer William Killick, Dylan resents his trio becoming a foursome. Desire and guilt are complicated by love and friendship in this real-life tale set in beautiful London and majestic Welsh countryside. Director: John Maybury 2008. 35mm. 104 min Production Company: Jitterbug Productions, 10/11 St Georges Mews, London, NW1 8XE, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7483 3556, fax: +44 (0)20 7586 8063 email: [email protected] UK Distributor: Lionsgate Films, Ariel House, 74a Charlotte Street, London, W1T 4QJ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7299 8800, fax: +44 (0)20 7299 8801 email: [email protected] web: www.lionsgatefilms.co.uk International Sales: Capitol Films, Bridgehouse, 63-65 North Wharf Road, London, W2 1LA, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7298 6200, fax: +44 (0)20 7298 6201 email: [email protected] Producer: Rebekah Gilbertson, Sarah Radclyffe Executive Producer: David Bergstein, Linda James, Hannah Leader, Joe Oppenheimer, Tim Smith, David M Thompson Screenwriter: Sharman Macdonald Editor: Emma E Hickox Director of Photography: Jonathan Freeman Production Designer: Alan MacDonald Music: Angelo Badalamenti Cast: Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy, Matthew Rhys

Director: Ian Sellar 2007. HD. 86 min Production Company: Mechanical Films Ltd, 607 Wandsworth Road, London, SW8 3JD, England, UK email: [email protected] web: www.theenglishmanfilm.com Producer: Teresa Mulqueen Executive Producer: David Collins Screenwriter: Brendan Grant, Ian Sellar Editor: Helle le Fevre Director of Photography: Charlotte Bruus Christensen Production Designer: Richard Hudson Sound: Stefan Mork Music: Chris White Cast: Velibor Topic, Branka Katic, Aidan J David

23

Feature Films

Faintheart

Filth and Wisdom

Flashbacks of a Fool

A romantic comedy set in the world of battle re-enactments, about an irresponsible guy who has to shape up in order to win back his wife.

AK has come to England from the Ukraine. AK is a philosopher (at least that's what he claims to be), a poet, and an authority on all aspects of life. At the same time, he is following his grand plan to become an international star. Global stardom is how AK describes the goal that he and his band are pursuing with their particular brand of boisterous gypsy punk. For the time being, however, he makes ends meet by performing role play in women's clothing for straight married men.

Joe Scott is a fading Hollywood star whose hedonistic lifestyle has taken its toll. Flashback to 1970s England where Joe's rites of passage as a young man in a tiny British seaside community lay the foundations for the Hollywood dream he goes on to experience.

Director: Vito Rocco 2008. HD. 90 min Production Company, UK Distributor: Vertigo Films, The Big Room Studios, 77 Fortess Road, London, NW5 1AG, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7428 7555, fax: +44 (0)20 7485 9713 email: [email protected] web: www.vertigofilms.com Producer: Rachel Connors, Judy Counihan, Arvind Ethan David, James Fabricant, Allan Niblo, Rupert Preston, James Richardson Executive Producer: Peter Carlton, Lee Thomas, Rob Fraser, Nick Love, Travis Katz Screenwriter: David Lemon Editor: Neil Smith Director of Photography: David Katznelson Production Designer: Morgan Kennedy Music: Mike Batt Cast: Eddie Marsan, Ewan Bremner, Jessica Hynes, Bronagh Gallagher, Tim Healy

AK shares a flat with two young women named Juliette and Holly. Juliette dreams of being a kind of Florence Nightingale of the developing world. She is currently working behind the counter at the local drug store. Holly dreams of dancing with the Royal Ballet. So far she hasn't been able to earn a single penny with her ballet though, and continues to `polish' her skills as a pole dancer at Beechman's Exotic Gentleman's Club. These three distinctive personalities are at the centre of a cinematic tale of everyday life about people who are obliged to take on jobs just to earn a living, but who live in hope of one day fulfilling their dreams. Director: Madonna 2008. 35mm. 81 min Production Company: Semtex Film, 72-74 Dean Street, London, W1D 3SG, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7437 3344, fax: +44 (0)20 7437 3355 email: [email protected] Executive Producer: Nicola Doring, Madonna Screenwriter: Dan Cadan Director of Photography: Tim MauriceJones Production Designer: Gideon Ponte Cast: Eugene Hutz, Holly Weston, Vicky McClure, Richard E Grant, Stephen Graham

Director: Baillie Walsh 2007. 35mm. 114 min Production Company: Left Turn Films, The Chocolate Studios, Apt 18, 7 Shepherdess Place, London, N1 7LJ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7663 6060 UK Distributor: Disney/Miramax UK, 3 Queen Caroline Street, London, W6 9PE, England, UK web: www.bvimovies.com International Sales: Arclight Films, Bldg 22, Ower Avenue, Moore Park, Sydney 2021, Australia web: www.arclightfilms.com Producer: Lene Bausager, Damon Bryant Executive Producer: Daniel Craig Screenwriter: Baillie Walsh Editor: Struan Clay Director of Photography: John Mathieson Production Designer: Laurence Dorman Sound: Mark Auguste Music: Richard Hartley Cast: Daniel Craig, Harry Eden, Jodhi May, Olivia Williams, Helen McCrory Funding: Private Territories: All available except UK

24

Feature Films

Flummox

Fragments

Franklyn

Sex, drugs, music. That's life.

Fragments is a double-murder-mystery with fast paced twist after twist after twist. It is filmed digitally and is presented in black-and-white.

Preest is a masked vigilante detective, searching for his nemesis on the streets of Meanwhile City - a monolithic fantasy metropolis ruthlessly governed by faith and religious fervour. Emilia is a beautiful art student, whose suicidal art projects are becoming increasingly complex and deadly.

This film is a mixture of genres: thriller, horror, comedy, romance, drama, musical, surreal, fantasy, sci-fi, noir and everything else. The film is essentially about reality, the perception of reality and repression. It's about a young man, John, trying to stave off the feelings of belonging and notions of madness. This narrative runs through the heart of the film whilst others intertwine with it. A serial killer, a futuristic agent, a psychologist, a lover, a friend and a transvestite all add to the confusion and mayhem that create this onslaught on the senses. Is his girlfriend real? Is his best friend real? What is real? And as John finds out: `You can't keep running!' The habitual dreamer can't seem to decipher his dreams. Is the mysterious transvestite the key? The final revelation might be too much for some. Or does it all fit? It's up to you. Or is it? Director: Sam Mason Bell, Riyadh Haque, Pete Scott 2007. HD. 85 min Production Company: Trashart Cinema tel: +44 (0)7919 517 088 email: [email protected] Production Company: Delta Factor Productions email: [email protected] web: www.myspace.com/flummoxfilm Producer: Sam Mason Bell, Riyadh Haque, Pete Scott Screenwriter: Sam Mason Bell Editor: Pete Scott, Riyadh Haque Director of Photography, Sound: Pete Scott Music: Chris Spurgeon Cast: Ryan Barrington-Jones, Riyadh Haque, Isabelle Dark, Chris Spurgeon, Becca Coombes, Kate Elizabeth McDermott

Director: Ross Nickson 2007. HD. 90 min Production Company: Dubious Films email: [email protected] web: www.dubiousfilms.com, www.myspace.com/fragmentsthemovie Producer, Screenwriter, Editor, Sound: Ross Nickson Music: Michelle Lawson Cast: Stacey Harding, Lindsay Morton, Lynsey Wright, Zoe Richards, Abigail Bentley

Milo is a heartbroken 20-something desperately trying to find a way back to the purity of first love. Esser is a broken man, searching for his wayward son amongst the streets of London's homeless. Preest, Emilia, Milo and Esser couldn't be further apart and their individual worlds are set for a cataclysmic collision. In an explosive finale, the path of a single bullet will decide the fate of our four lost souls. Director: Gerald McMorrow 2008. 35mm. Production Company: Recorded Picture Company Ltd, 24 Hanway Street, London, W1T 1UH, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7636 2251, fax: +44 (0)20 7636 2261 email: [email protected] web: www.recordedpicture.com UK Distributor: The Contender Entertainment Group, 120 New Cavendish Street, London, W1W 6XX, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7907 3773, fax: +44 (0)20 7907 3777 email: twoods-scawen@ contendergroup.com web: www.thecontendergroup.com International Sales: HanWay Films, 24 Hanway Street, London, W1T 1UH, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7290 0750, fax: +44 (0)20 7290 0751 email: [email protected] web: www.hanwayfilms.com Producer: Jeremy Thomas Executive Producer: Peter Watson Screenwriter: Gerald McMorrow Editor: Peter Cristelis Director of Photography: Ben Davis Production Designer: Laurence Dorman Sound: Simon Hayes Music: Joby Talbot Cast: Eva Green, Ryan Phillipe, Sam Riley, Bernard Hill Co-production: France

25

Feature Films

Freedom Dance

Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel

Furor Rage of the Innocent

A woman in debt to the local underworld boss devises a plan to earn her freedom. Cheryl by day, Minsky by night. Matters become complicated with the arrival of a mysterious Russian - but the question is, who's using who?

Three ordinary blokes may hold the fate of the entire world in their hands when they discover a rift in the space-time continuum in the gents' of their local pub. Shaun of the Dead meets Back to the Future.

Director: Alan Brown 2008. Mini DV. 104 min

Director: Gareth Carrivick 2008. HD. 85 min

The story of an innocent woman in the wrong place at the wrong time, her dignity callously violated, with her very being left to fester in an institution, until the provocation of flashbacks provides the catalytic rage for retribution against those who did her wrong.

Production Company: Krown Films, 10 Barnard Lodge, Shaftsbury Avenue, Barnet, London, EN5 5JP, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 8364 9062 email: abrown@ freedomdancethemovie.co.uk

Production Company: Doglamp Films, 48 Charlotte Street, London, W1T 2NF, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 8008 8080 email: [email protected]

Screenwriter: Alan Brown Cast: Julia Vanellis, James Harrison, Mel Mills Budget: £15,000 Funding: Private Territories: All available

UK Distributor: Lionsgate Films, Ariel House, 74a Charlotte Street, London, W1T 4QJ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7299 8800, fax: +44 (0)20 7299 8801 email: awoodyatt@ lionsgatefilms.co.uk web: www.lionsgatefilms.co.uk Producer: Justin Anderson Smith Executive Producer: Joe Oppenheimer, David M Thompson Screenwriter: Jamie Mathieson Editor: Stuart Gazzard, Chris Blunden Director of Photography: John Pardue Production Designer: Kate Quinn Sound: Clarity Post Music: James L Venable Cast: Chris O'Dowd, Dean Lennox Kelly, Marc Wooton, Anna Faris, Meredith MacNeil Funding: BBC Films, HBO Films Territories: All available except UK, USA

Director: Vic Marke 2007. Mini DV. 80 min Production Company: NB Pictures, 41 Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol, B59 4HL, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7815 888 870 email: [email protected] Producer: Vic Marke, Robert Ho, Zara Phythian Screenwriter: Vic Marke Cast: Zara Phython, Robert Ho Budget: £20,000 Funding: Private

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Feature Films

Genova

Good

Guantanamero

A contemporary family ghost story in the vein of Don't Look Now mixed with the sexiness of Stealing Beauty. The exotic Italian town of Genova provides a fresh start for Joe and his two young daughters - a family seeking new lives after the sudden death of their mother. Kelly, the 16 year-old, explores the sexy and dangerous underbelly of this mysterious new world, while the youngest, Mary, has just seen the ghost of her mother wandering the streets. Acclaimed filmmaker Michael Winterbottom directs a poignant tale of love and forgiveness.

Small consequences portend great consequences in Good, based on the acclaimed play by CP Taylor. Good examines the life of `everyman' John Halder, a `good' and decent individual with family problems: a neurotic wife, two demanding children and a mother suffering from senile dementia. A professor of literature, Halder explores his personal circumstances in a novel advocating compassionate euthanasia. When the book is unexpectedly enlisted by powerful political figures in support of government propaganda, Halder finds his career rising in an optimistic current of nationalism and prosperity. Seemingly inconsequential decisions lead to choices, which lead to more choices, with eventually devastating effect. The film was shot entirely on location in Budapest, Hungary.

After a violent storm, Ali awakens on a deserted beach, sick and disoriented. How he got there he does not know, but he does know he needs to move on. They'll be looking for him and he must keep moving. Picked up by Ivan, a Cuban on his way to Havana, Ali starts to become feverish. Ivan notices the raw red marks left by the shackles on Ali's wrists. Fearing they will be caught, Ivan takes Ali to the apartment of his sister Manuela, a dancer in Havana. At first, she is apprehensive to take in this tormented stranger, but she relents as she feels drawn to this mysterious man.

Director: Michael Winterbottom 2008. 35mm. Production Company: Revolution Films, 9a Dallington Street, London, EC1V 0BQ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7566 0700, fax: +44 (0)20 7566 0701 email: [email protected] web: www.revolution-films.com International Sales: HanWay Films, 24 Hanway Street, London, W1T 1UH, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7290 0750, fax: +44 (0)20 7290 0751 email: [email protected] web: www.hanwayfilms.com Producer: Andrew Eaton Executive Producer: Tessa Ross, Simon Fawcett Screenwriter: Laurence Coriat Editor: Paul Monaghan, Michael Winterbottom Director of Photography: Marcel Zyskind Production Designer: Marco Digby Sound: Joakin Sundstro Èm Music: Melissa Parmenter Cast: Colin Firth, Catherine Keener, Willa Holland, Perla Haney-Jardine, Hope Davis

Director: Vincente Amorim 2008. 35mm. 99 min Production Company: Good Films, 8 Dean Street, London, W1D 3RL, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7292 3006, fax: +44 (0)20 7292 3009 International Sales: Odd Lot International, 9601 Jefferson Boulevard, Suite A, Culver City, CA 90232, USA tel: +1 310 652 0999, fax: +1 310 652 0718 email: [email protected] web: www.oddlotent.com Producer: Miriam Segal, Kevin Loader, Billy Dietrich, Sarah Boote, Dan Lupovitz Executive Producer: Laurin Films Screenwriter: John Wrathall Editor: John Wilson Director of Photography: Andrew Dunn Production Designer: Andrew Laws Sound: John Taylor Music: Simon Lacey Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Jason Isaacs, Jodie Whittaker, Mark Strong, Anastasia Hille

Plunged into the music, colour, and romance of Havana, Ali struggles to separate fantasy from reality. He is haunted by nightmares of the interrogation room and the pain and humiliation he suffered there, and by startling visions linking his past and his present life. But are these nightmares flashbacks to his experiences in prison or just dreams of a tortured soul? Director: Vicente Pen Äarrocha 2007. s16mm. 90 min Production Company: NDF International, 67a Belsize Park, London, NW3 4EH, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7586 5785, fax: +44 (0)20 7586 5217 email: [email protected] International Sales: Peace Arch Entertainment, Marina Towers North, 4640 Admiralty Way, Suite 710, Marina del Rey, CA 90292, USA tel: +1 310 776 7200, fax: +1 310 823 7147 email: [email protected] Producer: Michiyo Yoshizaki, Iker Monfort Executive Producer: Penny Wolf, Tsugehiko Kadokawa Screenwriter: Vicente Pen Äarrocha, Philip Palmer Editor: Sam Sneade, Michael Bradsell Director of Photography: Kiko De Larcia Production Designer: Jose Luis Arrizabalaga Sound: John Downer Music: Rich File Cast: Rupert Evans, Natalia Verbeke, Derek Jacobi Budget: $6 million Co-production: Spain, Japan Territories: All available except Benelux, Brazil, Greece, Japan, Latin America, Middle East, Portugal, Scandinavia, UK

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Feature Films

Gutbai, Charly

Happy-Go-Lucky

Hardly Bear to Look at You

The devastating consequences of oil pollution on the coast of Rias Baixas force Xaquin, a widowed fisherman, to work for a local drug dealer. What at first became a choice to support both his son and father soon becomes a constant duel with himself, his everyday life and the people surrounding him. After a series of unexpected events take place, Xaquin ends up in a critical situation he wasn't ready for.

Poppy is a young primary school teacher. A free spirit, she is open and generous as funny and anarchic as she is focused and responsible. She has time for everybody, and whoever she meets falls in love with her. She loves the children she teaches, and works hard. She shares a flat with a girlfriend, enjoys her social life, is caring towards her younger sisters, and takes flamenco and trampoline lessons. When she starts driving lessons, her maturity and her sense of humour help her to deal with a manic instructor. Comfortable with being single, she meets through work a guy with whom she really clicks.

An unflinching look at the addictive nature of romantic obsession. Tracing a two year cycle of unrequited love, this character-driven drama follows a `Feinschmecker' as he tries to seduce an enigmatic street performer, leading to a conclusion that will force us to reevaluate all that has gone on.

Director: Mike Leigh 2007. 35mm. 118 min

Producer: Huck Melnick, Jeremy Herman Screenwriter: Jeremy Herman Editor: Huck Melnick Director of Photography: Steve Fabian Sound: Guy Steer Music: Jamie Frankel Cast: Jeremy Herman, Anna Neil, Huck Melnick, Beth Steel, Alex Claus

Director: Jorge Cassinello 2007. HDV. 57 min Production Company, UK Distributor: The London Film School, 24 Shelton Street, London, WC2H 9UB, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7836 9642, fax: +44 (0)20 7497 3718 email: [email protected] web: www.lfs.org.uk Producer: Carlos Pisseiro Screenwriter, Editor: Jorge Cassinello Director of Photography: Jerome Kim Production Designer: Isaura Docampo Sound: Nick Baldock Music: Dimitri Scarlato Cast: Luis Zahera, Xulio Abonjo, Santi Prego Budget: E6,000 Funding: The London Film School, Egaci, Caurelecer SL Co-production: Spain

Production Company: Thin Man Films, 9 Green Street, London, W1D 4DQ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7734 7372, fax: +44 (0)20 7287 5228 UK Distributor: Momentum Pictures, 2nd Floor, 184-192 Drummond Street, London, NW1 3HP, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7391 6900 fax: +44 (0)20 7383 0404 web: www.momentumpictures.co.uk International Sales: Summit, 77 Dean Street, London, W1D 3HP, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7494 1724, fax: +44 (0)20 7494 1725 Producer: Simon Channing-Williams Executive Producer: Gail Leigh Screenwriter: Mike Leigh Editor: Jim Clark Director of Photography: Dick Pope BSC Production Designer: Mark Tildesley Music: Gary Yersmon Cast: Sally Hawkins, Eddie Marsan, Alexis Zegerman Funding: UK Film Council, Film4 Summit, Thin Man Films, Ingenious Film

Director: Huck Melnick 2008. Mini DV. 118 min Production Company: Feinschmecker Films Ltd, 3 Oakwood Court, 2 Nassington Road, London, NW3 2UE, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7435 5843 email: [email protected]

Territories: All available

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Feature Films

The Heavy

Helen

Hooked on a Ceiling

Sibling rivalry turns into betrayal between two brothers, one a primary candidate for Prime Minister, the other a henchman for a successful yet shady businessman. Presented with an opportunity to take revenge against his brother, our anti-hero must come to terms with the truth in a world where you can trust no-one and loyalty is rare.

An 18 year-old girl called Joy has disappeared. When the police find some of her clothes abandoned in local woods they decide to step up the investigation. Another girl called Helen is asked to play Joy in a televised reconstruction that will retrace her last known movements, before she disappeared into the woods. Joy was the girl who has everything - a loving family, a handsome boyfriend and a bright future. Helen, by contrast, has lived a life in institutions, she doesn't know who her parents were, and has never been close to anyone. She is both fearful of the future and pressured to confront her past. As the day of the reconstruction looms, she immerses herself into the role of Joy. She visits people and places that Joy knew, and then quietly and carefully begins to insinuate herself into the missing girl's life, including Joy's devastated parents and her nonchalant boyfriend. Is Helen trying to find out what happened in the woods that day? Or is she deliberately losing herself in the role so she can uncover clues to her own identity?

After finding the body of their housemate hanging in the garage, four friends set out to discover the reason behind his suicide. They soon build up a picture of an Oxford City Council solicitor overwhelmed by his dealings with local councillors, national politicians and even, perhaps, the CIA. Compelled by the memory of their dead friend, the team decide to engage the enemy. After all, when a friend has hooked himself to the ceiling, you want to know why. Or do you?

Director: Marcus Warren 2008. 35mm. Production Company: Parkland Pictures, Riverbank House, One Putney Bridge Approach, London, SW6 3JD, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7099 9212, fax: +44 (0)871 251 4089 email: [email protected] web: www.parklandpictures.com Producer: John Cairns Executive Producer: Mark Cellier, John Daly Screenwriter: Marcus Warren Editor: David Head Production Designer: Marcus Wookey Music: Paul Oakenfold Cast: Shannyn Sossamon, Vinnie Jones, Christopher Lee, Sadie Frost, Adrian Frost

Director: Christine Molloy, Joe Lawlor 2008. 35mm. 79 min Production Company: Desperate Optimists, Flat 20, All Nations House, 2 Martello Street, London, E8 3PF, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7275 0144 email: [email protected] web: www.desperateoptimists.com Producer: Joe Lawlor Screenwriter: Christine Molloy, Joe Lawlor Editor: Christine Molloy Director of Photography: Ole Birkeland Sound: Fonic Music: Dennis McNulty Cast: Annie Townsend, Sandie Malia, Dennis Jobling, Sonia Saville, Danny Groenland Budget: £293,000 Funding: Dublin Docklands Development Authority, Culture 10, Liverpool Culture Company, Birmingham City Council, Arts Council England Territories: All available

Director: David B Graham 2007. Mini DV. 107 min Production Company: Rainy Days Pictures Ltd tel: +44 (0)7816 550 946 email: [email protected] Producer: David B Graham Cast: Rebecca Branton, Edward Marsden, Martin Parsons, Sarah Stanley Funding: Private Territories: All available

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Feature Films

How About You

Hunger

Hush

Based on the short story by best-selling novelist Maeve Binchy, this film tells the story of Ellie, a young girl left in charge of a residential home over the Christmas period. Whilst most of the residents have left to spend the festive period with their families, four residents, known as `the hardcore', remain. They have all led interesting lives but now in their twilight years they have become impossible to live with - rude and objectionable but often hilariously funny. In fact, their behaviour is so terrible that the home faces closure as potential new residents are put off by their appalling antics. Ellie would appear to be no match for the hardcore but when she is pushed to the very limits, she decides to take them on. She succeeds in beating them at their own game and manages to show them the error of their ways. As well as changing them, she also realises that the hardcore have changed her too in quite an unexpected way.

Life in the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland, with an interpretation of events surrounding the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike, led by Bobby Sands. The film provides a timely exploration of what happens when body and mind are pushed to the uttermost limit.

Tired and irritable, Zakes and Beth drive home along the M1, a familiar journey full of harshly lit service stations and bad coffee. When a white truck narrowly avoids hitting them, its back doors open to reveal a woman terrified and screaming caged up inside. Unsure if what he has seen is real, Zakes calls the police but drives on. Beth is furious that he hasn't done more to help and at the next petrol station storms off. When she doesn't return, Zakes slowly realises that she too has been snatched by the white truck driver and is forced into a vicious game of cat and mouse with a ruthless killer who has terrifying plans for his human cargo.

Director: Anthony Byrne 2007. 35mm. 90 min Production Company: Ferndale Films, Ardmore Studio, Bray, Co Wicklow, Ireland tel: +353 127 693 50 International Sales: Bankside Films, Douglas House, 3 Richmond Buildings, W1D 3UE, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7734 3566 email: [email protected] web: www.bankside-films.com Producer: Noel Pearson Executive Producer: Paul Brett, Jon Diamond, Peter Hampden, Phil Hunt, Compton Ross, Tim Smith Screenwriter: Jean Pasley Editor: Emma E Hickox Director of Photography: Des Whelan Production Designer: Tom McCullagh Music: Niall Byrne Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Hayley Atwell, Imelda Staunton, Brenda Fricker, Joss Ackland Co-production: Ireland Funding: Ferndale Films, Bill Godfrey, Sarah Radclyffe Productions

Raymond Lohan is a prison officer in the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland, 1981. A new prisoner, Davey Gillen, resolutely refuses to wear the prison uniform - he is no common criminal. Joining the blanket protest, he shares a filthy cell with another `non-conforming' republican prisoner. A riot erupts and the violence spreads beyond the Maze; no prison officer is safe and Raymond is shot dead. Bobby Sands meets Father Dominic Moran. Their battle of words illuminates the prisoners' determination to begin another hunger strike, through the priest's questioning of motives and morality. Bobby's mind is unchanged and the strike will begin.

Director: Mark Tonderai 2007. HD. 90 min

Director: Steve McQueen 2008. 35mm. 96 min

Production Company: Warp X, The Workstation, Paternoster Row, Sheffield, S1 2BX, England, UK email: [email protected] web: www.warpx.co.uk

Production Company: Blast! Films, 2 Imperial Works, Perren Street, London, NW5 3ED, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7267 4260, fax: +44 (0)20 7485 2340 email: [email protected]

UK Distributor: Optimum Releasing, 50 Marshall Street, London, W1F 9BQ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7534 2700 email: [email protected] web: www.optimumreleasing.com

International Sales: Icon Entertainment International, 34 Lennox Street, Newton, NSW 2042, Australia tel: +61 28 594 9030, fax: +61 28 594 9031 email: [email protected] Producer: Laura Hastings-Smith, Robin Gutch Executive Producer: Jan Younghusband, Peter Carlton, Linda James, Edmund Coulthard, Iain Cannial Screenwriter: Enda Walsh, Steve McQueen Editor: Joe Walker Director of Photography: Sean Bobbitt Production Designer: Tom McCullagh Sound: Paul Davies Music: David Holmes, Leo Abrahams Cast: Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham, Stuart Graham, Brian Milligan, Liam McMahon Budget: £1.75 million Funding: Channel 4, Film4, Northern Ireland Screen, Broadcasting Commisson of Ireland, Wales Creative IP Fund Territories: All available except Belgium, France, Greece, Luxembourg, UK TV

International Sales: Pathe  UK, Kent House, 14-17 Market Place, Great Titchfield Street, London, W1W 8AR, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7323 5151, fax: +44 (0)20 7631 5368 web: www.pathe.co.uk Producer: Zoe Stewart, Colin Mark Herbert, Robin Gutch Executive Producer: Peter Carlton, Lizzie Francke, Hugo Heppell, Will Clarke Screenwriter: Mark Tonderai Editor: Victoria Boydell Director of Photography: Phillip Blaubach Production Designer: Sabine Hviid, Matt Gant Sound: Tim Barker, Greg Marshall Music: Theo Park Cast: Will Ash, Christine Bottomley Budget: £1.5 million Funding: UK Film Council, Film4, EM Media, Screen Yorkshire, Fear Factory Territories: All available except North America

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Feature Films

I Can't Think Straight

I Know You Know

Imaginary Summer

In the upper echelons of traditional Middle Eastern society, Reema and Omar prepare for the marriage of their daughter, Tala. But back at work in London, Tala encounters Leyla, a young British Indian woman, who is dating Tala's best friend, Ali. Tala sees something unique in the artless, clumsy, sensitive Leyla who secretly works to become a writer. And Tala's forthright challenges to Leyla's beliefs begin a journey of selfawareness for Leyla. As the women fall in love, Tala's own sense of duty and cultural restraint cause her to pull away from Leyla and fly back to Jordan where the preparations for an ostentatious wedding are well under way. As family members descend and the wedding day approaches, the pressure mounts until Tala finally cracks and extricates herself. Back in London, Leyla is heartbroken but learns to break free of her own self-doubt and her mother's expectations, ditching Ali and being honest with her parents about her sexuality. When Ali and Leyla's feisty sister Zara help throw Tala and Leyla together again, Tala finds that her own preconception of what love can be is the final hurdle she must jump to win Leyla back.

A coming-of-age drama about Jamie, an 11 year-old boy who is fascinated by his father Charlie's espionage work until the world of spies becomes all too real. Charlie lives in his own reality - an undercover agent, always on an important mission, always on the move. Life for Charlie is highly charged and on the edge. He is unpredictable, explosive, yet kindhearted and fiercely protective of Jamie, who hero-worships his father until he slowly begins to understand that Charlie is occupying a quite different reality.

11 year-old Jimmy is sent to live with his grandparents on the island of Jersey, after his mother's attempted suicide. His grandparents didn't know he existed, and his grandfather doesn't want anything to do with him, but is forced to look after him when his grandmother goes away. Life looks better in summer until this new found happiness is threatened by secrets from the past, dating back to the German occupation of the island.

Director: Shamim Sarif 2008. 35mm. 80 min Production Company: Enlightenment Productions, 87a Pimlico Road, Chelsea, London, SW1 W8PH, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7802 615 050 email: [email protected] web: www.enlightenmentproductions.com Producer: Hanan Kattan Executive Producer: Kelly Moss, Mervya Wilson, Lisa Tchenguiz Imerman Screenwriter: Shamim Sarif, Kelly Moss Editor: David Martin Director of Photography: Aseem Bajaj Production Designer: Katie Carter Music: Raiomond Mirza Cast: Lisa Ray, Sheetal Sheth, Nina Wadia Funding: Private Territories: All available

The realisation for Jamie that his father is not who he thought he was is overwhelming. However, ultimately he knows that he is going to have to accept him on those terms, help him and love him just the same for it. Director: Justin Kerrigan 2008. 16mm. 84 min Production Company: Parallax East, Victoria Chambers, St Runwald Street, Colchester, Essex, CO1 1HF, England, UK tel: +44 (0)120 657 4909, fax: +44 (0)120 657 7669 email: [email protected] International Sales: The Little Film Company, 12930 Ventura Boulevard, #822, Studio City, CA 91604, USA tel: +1 818 762 6999, fax: +1 818 301 2186 web: www.thelittlefilmcompany.com Producer: Sally Hibbin Executive Producer: Linda James, Pauline Burt, Michael Henry, Sheryl Crown, Robbie Little Screenwriter: Justin Kerrigan Editor: Stuart Gazzard Director of Photography: Ed Wild Production Designer: Cristina Casali Sound: Ashok Kumar Music: Guy Farley Cast: Robert Carlyle, David Bradley, Arron Fuller, Karl Johnson, Valerie Lilley Territories: All available

Director: Rebecca Coley, Richard Hall 2008. HD. 91 min Production Company: Spinky Films, Waterloo Farms, Waterworxs Valley, St Lawrence, JE3 1HQ, Jersey, Channel Islands tel: +44 (0)7797 887 502, fax: +44 (0)153 473 1568 email: [email protected] web: www.jackblond.com Producer: Rebecca Coley, Richard Hall Screenwriter: Rebecca Coley Editor: Peter Stewart Director of Photography: Richard Hall Production Designer: Chris Harrison Sound: Michale Tostevin Music: Marc Mitchell Cast: Gareth Thomas, Cameron Cole, Shirley Hafey, Brodie Train, Sally Banks Budget: £250,000 Funding: Private, Jersey Tourism, Arts Trust Territories: All available

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Feature Films

In Bruges

Incendiary

Incendiary

Two hit men, the younger, Ray, the older, Ken, are sent to hide out in the Gothic mediaeval town of Bruges, Belgium, after a hit they were involved with in London went wrong. Hired to execute a Catholic priest, Ray also accidentally killed a seven yearold boy outside a confessional.

Two female kidnappers find themselves dragged further and further into a complex mystery fuelled by paranoia. Everything starts to spiral out of control as one of them suspects there is something wrong in paradise.

Life is perfect for a young mother in her London tower block home overlooking a beautiful Georgian square. It's her little boy's birthday and he couldn't be happier as she waves him off to a big soccer match with his dad. While they are away she runs into Jasper Black, a journalist who lives in one of the grand houses below her window.

While awaiting instructions from their boss, the volatile Harry Waters, who ordered the priest's killing for reasons only he knows, Ray attempts to deal with his darkness and despair over the death of the boy in this town that he can't bear, while Ken, who adores the place, tries to help his friend the best he can. Ray meets a beautiful girl. Things start looking up. Ken gets the order from Harry to execute Ray. Things start looking down. Romance and violence ensue. Honour and dramatic reversals abound. There will be dwarves and there will be drugs, and the dark, cobbled streets will be riven with blood and the retort of gunfire and the sickening screams of the guilty and the innocent. And few will get out of Bruges alive. Director: Martin McDonagh 2007. 35mm. 107 min Production Company: Blueprint Pictures, 43-45 Charlotte Street, London, W1T 1RS, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7580 6915, fax: +44 (0)20 7580 6934 email: [email protected] International Sales: Focus Features, 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, CA 91608, USA tel: +1 818 777 1000 web: www.focusfeatures.com Producer: Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin Executive Producer: Tessa Ross, Jeff Abberley, Julia Blackman Screenwriter: Raymond Mearns Editor: Jon Gregory Director of Photography: Elgil Bryde Production Designer: Michael Carlin Sound: Alister Crocker Music: Carter Burwell Cast: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, Cle Âmence Poe Âsy Funding: Focus Features, Film4, Scion Co-production: Belgium

Director: Ross Nickson 2008. HD. 90 min Production Company: Dubious Films email: [email protected] web: www.dubiousfilms.com, www.myspace.com/fragmentsthemovie Producer, Screenwriter, Editor: Ross Nickson Cast: Lindsay Morton, Stacey Harding, Melsie Holder

The last time they met she was beside herself with fear, whilst her husband was away on bomb disposal duties. When charming, sympathetic Jasper came on to her as she took solace in a few drinks in the local pub, she couldn't resist him. On this sunny spring day she's tempted again. Minutes later she can only watch in horror as their illicit love-making is interrupted by live television coverage of explosions ripping through the soccer stadium. Her perfect life is over. Director: Sharon Maguire 2008. 35mm. 97 min Production Company: Incendiary Ltd, 53 Ronalds Road, London, NS 1XF, England, UK email: [email protected] UK Distributor: Optimum Releasing, 50 Marshall Street, London, W1F 9BQ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7534 2700 email: [email protected] International Sales: Capitol Films, Bridgehouse, 63-65 North Wharf Road, London, W2 1LA, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7298 6200, fax: +44 (0)20 7298 6201 email: [email protected] Producer: Andy Paterson, Anand Tucker, Adrienne Maguire Executive Producer: Simon Fawcett, Tessa Ross, Philip Erdoes, Daria Jovicic Screenwriter: Sharon Maguire Editor: Valerio Bonelli Director of Photography: Ben Davis Production Designer: Kave Quinn Music: Shigero Umesamashi Cast: Michelle Williams, Ewan McGregor, Matthew Macfadyen

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Feature Films

Inconceivable

Interview With a Politician

Is There Anybody There?

Infertile couples, singles, lesbians and gay men (and the odd widow who needs the inheritance) are all desperate for that one thing that will change their lives forever a child. But are those in control of the IVF process gods or monsters? And what are those who hold the puppet strings really capable of? Get ready for the Immaculate Deception.

A fictional and racy, yet seemingly topical, exploration of the ups and downs of a mainstream politician's life, told as if through a stage-managed docu-drama format.

Set in 1980s seaside England, this is the story of Edward, an unusual ten year-old boy growing up in an old people's home run by his parents. Whilst his mother struggles to keep the family business afloat and his father copes with the onset of a mid-life crisis, Edward is busy taperecording the elderly residents to try and discover what happens when they die. Increasingly obsessed with ghosts and the afterlife, Edward's is a rather lonely existence until he meets Clarence, the latest recruit to the home, a retired magician with a liberating streak of anarchy. Is There Anybody There? tells the surprising and touching story of this odd couple - a boy and an old man - facing life together, with Edward learning to live in the moment and Clarence coming to terms with the past.

Director: Mary McGuckian 2008. 35mm. 105 min Production Company: Pembridge Pictures, 134 Percival Road, Enfield, Middlesex, EN1 1QU, England, UK tel: +33 4 93 76 62 61, fax: +33 4 93 01 73 19 email: [email protected] International Sales: Highpoint Media Group, Suite 16, Dean House Studios, Greenwood Place, London, NW5 1LB, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7424 6870, fax: +44 (0)20 7485 3281 email: [email protected] web: www.highpointfilms.co.uk Producer: Mary McGuckian, Jeff Abberley, Martin Katz Screenwriter: Mary McGuckian Editor: David Freemantle Director of Photography: Mark Wolf Production Designer: Max Gottlieb Sound: Tom Bjelic Music: Kevin Banks Cast: Jennifer Tilly, Elizabeth McGovern, Andie Macdowell, John Sessions, Lothaire Bluteau Co-production: Canada Territories: All available

Director: Niranjan Kamatkar 2008. HDV. 91 min Production Company: Wise Thoughts, Wood Green Central Library, High Road, London, N22 6XD, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 8889 9555 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter: Niranjan Kamatkar Director of Photography: Jeremy Read Production Designer: Lea Yehud Music: Robert Jarvis Cast: Antony Wheeler, Maurice Ord Funding: Private Territories: All available

Director: John Crowley 2008. 35mm. 93 min Production Company: Heyday Films, 5 Denmark Street, London, WC2H 8LP, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7836 6333, fax: +44 (0)20 7836 6444 email: [email protected] Producer: David Heyman, Peter Saraf, Marc Turtletaub Executive Producer: Jeb Brody, David M Thompson Screenwriter: Peter Harness Editor: Trevor Waite Director of Photography: Rob Hardy Production Designer: Kave Quinn Cast: Michael Caine, Anne-Marie Duff, David Morrissey, Rosemary Harris

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Feature Films

Itch

Jack Says

Journal of a Contract Killer

Following Nathan McCarthy through three days of his life as he wanders alone along the streets of his depressing industrial town. He has chance meetings with strangers and he bumps into an old friend in a pub, Paul Chapple, who turns out to be a local small-time drug dealer and the catalyst in changing his life.

Nathan has an itch he can't scratch. This is the story of how he comes to terms with his problems and how he deals with it all in his own special way. His therapy is about to begin.

Jack Says is a gripping contemporary film noir thriller. Jack awakes with amnesia in London next to the blood-soaked corpse of the Guv'nor, a much-feared underworld figure. Jack has just enough time and sense to flee, and finding the address of an old girlfriend, heads to Paris to lie low. Always just one step ahead of the pursuing British police, Jack rekindles old feelings for his ex, Erin, imagining the life he could have. But trouble follows a guy like Jack, and he is soon drawn into a web of deceit by the mysterious cabaret singer Girl X, who wants his help in dealing with the attentions of Garvey, a woman not to be crossed. Soon Jack is forced to deal with the consequences of a series of tragic events, all the while struggling to remember who he is, and what he is capable of.

A taut action thriller about one woman's quest for freedom and vengeance. Stephanie Komack was once a high-class hooker and assassin for the Italian mob, now a single mother living a fairly mundane existence. Her former employers track her down to do one last job. The hit goes wrong and Stephanie soon realises the stark reality of her failure when her daughter is taken from her as punishment. Between her abducted child and the explosive journal of her former life she has been recording, Stephanie is now a very dangerous woman with nothing to lose.

Director: Jay Radosavljevic 2007. HD. 103 min

Director: Simon Phillips, Bob Komar 2008. HD. 89 min

Production Company: Handcrafted Films, 42a Salisbury Road, London, N4 1JZ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7887 557 464 email: [email protected] web: www.handcraftedfilms.net

Production Company: Press On Features, The South Lodge, Lammas Park Gardens, Ealing, London, W5 5HZ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7955 215 922 email: simon.phillips@ pressonfeatures.com

Producer, Screenwriter: Jay Radosavljevic Editor: Matt Patrick, Jay Radosavljevic Director of Photography: Matt Patrick Sound: Richard Miller Music: Jozef Fletcher, The Satellite Inspectors Cast: Paul Andrew, Kal Aise, Max Whatley

International Sales: Aspect Film Ltd, 188a Belsize Road, London, NW6 4AB, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7625 7796, fax: +44 (0)20 7993 5877 email: [email protected]

Nathan has been suffering from years of manic depression. He has been in and out of institutions but nothing has helped him so far - he is a man on the edge and is to become totally unbalanced through a series of seemingly random events.

Producer: Simon Phillips Screenwriter: Alan Ronald Editor: Paula Baker Director of Photography: Bob Komar Production Designer: Toby Meredith Sound: Pinewood Studios Music: David Beard Cast: Simon Philips, Rita Ramnan, Rula Lenska, Mike Reid, Eric Cantona Budget: $100,000 Funding: Private Territories: All available

Director: Tony Maylam 2007. HD. 90 min Production Company: MJ Films Ltd, 39 Simpson Street, London, SW11 3HW, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7223 7102, fax: +44 (0)20 7585 1573 email: [email protected] International Sales: Aspect Film Ltd, 188a Belsize Road, London, NW6 4AB, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7625 7796, fax: +44 (0)20 7993 5877 email: [email protected] web: www.aspectfilm.com Producer: Michele Damiano Screenwriter: Tony Maylam Editor: Francis Moloney Director of Photography: David Griffiths Production Designer: Collete McWilliams Sound: Alan Cridford Music: Stephen W Parsons, Andrew Fisher Cast: Justine Powell, Jake Canuso, Marco Gambino, Adam Leese Budget: £400,000 Funding: Private Territories: All available

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Feature Films

Just Ines

Land's End

The Lark

Tom Jackson is perceived as having everything: he's handsome, has a successful career, a great apartment in London and a beautiful wife. However, behind this illusion is a man living the life that his dead father wanted him to live, full of compromise, deceit, women, cutthroat business and money.

The story of Clare, a new mother with post-natal depression who spends much of her time sobbing under the kitchen table. On Christmas Eve, in a desperate bid to escape her cheating husband, Sebastian, and get to the safety of her wealthy father's house for Christmas, she enlists the help of two homeless men, Reza and Rory, to drive her from London to Land's End in Cornwall.

A hypnotic nightmare world within which Niamh is trapped with her children, by the poisoned atmosphere outside. Amidst the dereliction Niamh has made a home for her family. But outside it seems that anything might happen. Niamh is visited by strange characters, including Doc and Friday, and disturbing visions. She spends her time trying to find respirators so she and her children can leave this place and go home, but has found only one. Meanwhile she lives in fear of intrusions from the ruined world outside and has booby-trapped the entrances. A stranger, Sean, falls victim to one of these traps. Doc warns Niamh that others will come in search of Sean. When the searchers arrive Niamh's traps fail to stop them. They have a secret that allows them to move around outside without respirators and seem to have plans for Niamh, who is helpless to make them leave because she needs their secret to escape her prison. But it seems there is another force at work within this dark world, bringing death and the horrific realisation of the meaning of it all.

Discovering that his trophy wife is leaving him, he behaves in such a way that Tom is forced to reassess who he is. After spending six months in prison, Tom reestablishes himself in London, leading a simple life. One night, after one of his drinking sessions, he meets PJ, a 20 yearold lonely student, whom he befriends. He enjoys being with PJ, as he doesn't have to justify who he is. As all this is going on, he notices the beautiful, sad and aloof-looking French woman, Ines, his next-door neighbour, who is always immaculately dressed and keeps a strict day-to-day routine. Tom admires Ines from afar, watching her coming and going from the apartment block, desperate to meet her. Eventually he does, even though it is when she is unconscious in the hallway of the apartment block. Director: Marcel Grant 2008. HD. 96 min Production Company: Shipwreck Film, Room 19, 34-35 Hatton Garden, London, EC1V 8TD, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7813 638 299 email: [email protected] web: www.shipwreckfilm.com Producer: Marcel Grant, Emma Meaden Screenwriter: Marcel Grant Director of Photography: Michael Elphick Production Designer: Kat Cappellazi Cast: Daniel Weyman, Caroline Ducey, Alice O'Connell, Barbara Cabrita

Despite Reza's lack of recent driving experience and Rory's constant thirst for alcohol the two men eventually prove worthy escorts. The adventures on the journey include a pit-stop at Granny's house where she comforts Clare and treats the men as heroes. All contribute to her increasing recovery and, at last, a precious bond with her baby, Becky, is formed. Director: Ruth Torjussen 2007. HD. 73 min Production Company: Betty Mae Productions, 34 Stanmer Park Road, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 7JJ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)1273 530556 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter: Ruth Torjussen Executive Producer: Tim Edwards Editor: Ian Grey Director of Photography: Tania Freimuth Sound: Tim Harrison Music: John Torjussen Cast: Lisa Bettany, Pano Masti, John Gilligan Budget: £6,000 Funding: Private Territories: All available

Director: Steve Tanner, Paul Farmer, Mark Jenkin 2007. HDV. 70 min Production Company: War-Rag LLP, 3 Penlee Villas, Playing Place, Truro, Cornwall, TR3 6EY, England, UK email: [email protected] Producer: Laura Hardman Screenwriter: Paul Farmer Editor: Mark Jenkin Director of Photography: Morgan Lowndes Production Designer: Hana Backland Music: Nick Harpley Sound: Luke Power Cast: Mary Woodvine, Mark Pearce, Philip Jacobs, Helen Rule, Iain Marshall Funding: Cornwall Film, A4A, Cornwall Media Resource Territories: All available

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Feature Films

The Last Blood Line

Last Chance Harvey

Leaves

When the authenticity of ghost hunting TV show Miracle Spirits is called into question, the producers decide to ramp up the stakes by visiting Austria's most haunted location, Braach Castle. The castle's current owners are initially found to be warm and welcoming but as the evening investigation continues the presenter, psychic and crew sense imminent danger. Is there a connection between the history of vampire activity at the castle and the current owners?

New Yorker Harvey Shine is on the verge of losing his dead-end job as a jingle writer. Warned by his boss that he has just one more chance to deliver, Harvey goes to London for a weekend to attend his daughter's wedding but promises to be back on Monday morning to make an important meeting . . . or else.

The feature film debut of Ian Waugh is a disorientating psychological drama exploring the uncertainty of identity and perception. Arriving at an isolated farmhouse for a weekend holiday, David and Leah hope to fix their breaking relationship. Their sense of isolation is shattered when they meet Michael, an indeterminable local man, who invites them to dinner that night. Tensions rise as Michael manipulates the couple over dinner, and the following night Leah has gone missing. Michael arrives unexpectedly and David cautiously follows him into the woods to look for her. Emerging at a dark loch, David is overcome with emotion and runs into the black waters, eliciting the arrival of another stranger and a disorientating descent into self.

Director: John C Evans 2008. HD. 90 min Production Company: Short Feature Production Company Ltd, 3 Caroline Court, Caroline Street, Birmingham, B3 1TR, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7980 954 506 email: [email protected] web: www.shortfeatures.com International Sales: Centre Films Media Sales email: [email protected] Producer: John C Evans, Ernest Riera Executive Producer: Andy Louka, Susan Arnold Screenwriter: John C Evans Editor: Philip Arkinstall Director of Photography: John Raggett Production Designer: Amy Louise Cook Music: Gary Judd Cast: Mark Moraghan, Steve Hart, Palmer Davis, Jonathan Sidgwick, Alison King

Harvey arrives in London only to learn his daughter has chosen to have her stepfather walk her down the aisle instead of him. Doing his best to hide his devastation, he leaves the wedding before the reception in hopes of getting to the airport on time, but misses his plane anyway. When he calls his boss to explain, he is fired on the spot. Drowning his sorrows at the airport bar, Harvey strikes up a conversation with Kate, a slightly prickly, 40-something employee of the Office of National Statistics. Kate, whose life is limited to work, the occasional humiliating blind date and endless phone calls from her smothering mother, is touched by Harvey, who finds himself energised by her intelligence and compassion. The growing connection between the pair inspires both as they unexpectedly transform one another's lives. Director: Joel Hopkins 2008. 35mm. Production Company: Overture Films, 9242 Beverly Boulevard, Suite 200, Beverley Hills, CA 90210, USA tel: +1 424 204 4000, fax: +1 424 204 4010 web: www.overturefilms.net International Sales: Paramount Vantage International, 5555 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90038, USA tel: +1 323 956 2000, fax: +1 323 862 2249 email: [email protected] Producer: Tim Perell, Nicola Usborne Executive Producer: Jawal Nga Screenwriter: Joel Hopkins Editor: Robin Sales Director of Photography: John de Borman Production Designer: Jon Henson Sound: Mark Holding Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Kathy Baker, James Brolin, Eileen Atkins, Richard Schiff, Liane Balaban Co-production: USA

Director: Ian Waugh 2008. HD. 75 min Production Company: Marquisde, 199/3 Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, EH3 9RU, Scotland, UK tel: +44 (0)131 228 8878, fax: +44 (0)131 228 8878 email: [email protected] web: www.marquisde.co.uk Production Company: Screen Academy Scotland, Napier University, 2a Merchiston Avenue, Edinburgh, EH10 4NU, Scotland, UK tel: +44 (0)131 455 2572, fax: +44 (0)131 455 2538 email: [email protected] web: www.screenacademyscotland.ac.uk Producer, Editor: Ian Waugh Screenwriter: Ian Waugh, Chris Dennis Director of Photography: Andrew Begg Sound: Nick Gibbon Cast: Ewan Donald, Catriona McInnes, Sean Campion, Michele Gallagher Budget: £9,500 Funding: Screen Academy Scotland, South West Scotland Screen Commission, Marquisde Territories: All available

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Feature Films

Little Ashes

Losers Anonymous

Love Me Still

Little Ashes tells the extraordinary story of the relationship between Salvador Dali, Federico Garcia Lorca and Luis Bunuel - a moving story of friendship, love and betrayal, and a tale of the complexities of young love and sexual identity.

Edward Butt is a very shy young man who works as a gardener in a North London park. His main adversary is a loudmouth called Gary who relentlessly humiliates him and makes every hour of work a misery. Edward has no friends; his only hobbies are fishing and listening to classical music (which is constantly ruined by the loud rock music coming from the bedsit next to his). The dogshit-strewn pavement he walks on to work every day could be a metaphor for his life until one night, with the help of Emma, a new arrival at work, Edward discovers a website called Losers Anonymous, a five step plan to getting your own back on your adversary. How many steps will Edward have to take to be rid of Gary once and for all? And if steps one to four fail, will he be able to go to step five and have Gary murdered?

It was just another day until destiny stepped in and changed the fate of Mickey and his family. As a result of an armed robbery Mickey is facing eight years in prison. His wife Gemma and little girl Lucy are left to cope and we know their bond of love will hold them together, but then Mickey's brother Bobby arrives and all of their lives are changed forever.

Director: Paul Morrison 2007. HD. 106 min Production Company: Met Film & TV, 126 Bolingbroke Grove, London, SW11 1DA, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7738 2727 email: [email protected] web: www.metfilm-tv.co.uk International Sales: Katapult Film Sales, 228 Main Street, Suite C, Venice, CA 90291, USA tel: +1 310 308 9010, fax: +1 310 358 0333 email: [email protected] web: www.katapultfilms.com Producer: Jonny Persey, Carlo Dusi, Jaume Vilalta Executive Producer: Stephen Jarchow, Paul Coulihan, Debra Stasson, Luke Montagu Screenwriter: Phillipa Goslett Editor: Rachel Tunnard Director of Photography: Adam Suschitzky Production Designer: Pere Francesc Sound: Srdjan Kurpjel, Sacha Walker Cast: Javier Beltran, Robert Pattison, Tom Hardy, Marina Gatell

Director: Kevin W Smith 2008. HD. 84 min Production Company: Canned Comedy Productions, 32 Clovelly Road, London, N8 7RN, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 8348 4079 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter: Kevin W Smith Executive Producer: John Hall Editor: Mark Talbot-Butler Director of Photography: Dan Rack Sound: Justin Smith Music: Anders Sodergren Cast: Sebastian Armesto, Lucy Barker, Nick Nevern Budget: £140,000 Funding: Private Territories: All available

Director: Danny Hiller 2007. 35mm. 96 min Production Company: Defiant Films, 26 St Annes Court, London, W1F OBL, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7287 1018 email: [email protected] International Sales: Jinga Films, 22 Carnaby Street, London, W1F 7DB, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7287 0050, fax: +44 (0)20 7494 9492 email: [email protected] web: www.jingafilms.com Producer: Danny Hiller Executive Producer: John Davey Screenwriter: Paul Munns Editor: Geraint Huw Reynolds Director of Photography: Shane Daly Production Designer: Nick Sommerville Music: Paul Leonard-Morgan Cast: Andrew Howard, Geoff Bell, Alex Reid, Tom Bell Budget: £1.5 million with deferrals Funding: Private, UK tax break Territories: All available

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Feature Films

Made in Romania

Made of Honour

Man in a Box

The comedic, behind-the-scenes story of a young English film producer who risks everything to try and break into bigger, more impressive productions. Disillusioned after years of producing low budget genre movies, the producer seizes the chance to partner with an American actress and produce The Tides of Reason, a period drama set in Victorian Yorkshire. Travelling to Los Angeles, the producer meets a disreputable financier who agrees to finance the project but only if the production is filmed entirely in Romania to take advantage of a complicated tax deal. Way off the radar in deepest, darkest rural Romania everything begins to go horribly wrong for the producer as he deals with wild dogs, missing actors, the local mafia and worst of all, the film director: an unstable, bi-polar ex-con who turns out to have faked his directing credentials. After a violent on-set confrontation, the director is placed under house arrest by local police while the producer struggles to wrap up the production. Later, to everyone's surprise, the film is released and becomes a cult hit. The producer however, is jailed and only the director becomes a major Hollywood player.

Tom leads a good life: he's sexy, he's successful, and he knows he can always rely on Hannah, his delightful best friend and the one constant in his life. It's the perfect set-up until Hannah goes overseas to Scotland on a six-week business trip, and Tom is stunned to realise how empty his life is without her. He resolves that upon her return, he'll ask Hannah to marry him but is floored when he learns that she has become engaged to a handsome and wealthy Scotsman and plans to move overseas. When Hannah asks Tom to be her `maid' of honour, he reluctantly agrees to fill the role, but only so he can attempt to woo Hannah and stop the wedding before it's too late.

How would you cope with being forced into an empty room, with no hope of escape, unknown eyes watching 24 hours a day?

Director: Guy Jon Louthan 2007. 35mm. 91 min Production Company: Celadon Motion Pictures Ltd, 7887 Hillside Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90046, USA tel: +1 323 876 0345 email: [email protected] Producer: Guy Jon Louthan Executive Producer: Drew Katz Screenwriter: Guy Jon Louthan, Neal Monaghan Editor: Mirela Muresan Director of Photography: Gabriel Kosuth Production Designer: Dan Toader Sound: Gary J Coppola Music: Trevor Gilchrist Cast: Jennifer Tilly, Jason Fleming, Elizabeth Hurley, Joe Shaw, Danny Huston Budget: £500,000 Co-production: Romania, USA Funding: Private Territories: All available

Director: Paul Weiland 2007. 35mm. 102 min UK Distributor: Sony Pictures Releasing, 25 Golden Square, London, W1F 9L, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7533 1100, fax: +44 (0)20 7533 1165 web: www.sonypictures.co.uk Producer: Neal H Moritz Executive Producer: Callum Greene, Tania Landau, Amanda Lewis Screenwriter: Adam Sztykiel Editor: Richard Marks ACE Director of Photography: Tony PierceRoberts BSC Production Designer: Kalina Ivanov Sound: Dennis Drummond Music: Rupert Gregson-Williams Cast: Patrick Dempsey, Michelle Monaghan, Kevin McKidd, Kathleen Quinlan, Sydney Pollack Co-production: USA

Sean feels alone in his work. He feels alone in his love life. Soon he will be completely alone. Forever. He has no idea why he is in the cell. As we see him trying to hold together his sanity, only two things offer hope, and both of those are now threatened. It's a race against time and despair to find out who is behind `the man in a box'. Director: Steven Rhys 2008. DV Cam. 76 min Production Company: Films For Nothing, 19 Woodside Lodge, Tivoli Crescent, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 5ND, England, UK tel: +44 (0)1273 503422 email: [email protected] Producer: Robin Thomson Screenwriter: Helen Reade, Mark Bowen, Steven Rhys Editor: Mel Harris Director of Photography: Geoff Woods Production Designer: Mark Bowen Sound: Rob Speight Music: Mel Harris Cast: Alistair O'Loughlin, Claudine Sinnett, Julian Jones, Maruisa Abela Budget: £15,000 Funding: Private Territories: All available

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Feature Films

The Mandrake Root

Manifesto

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Callimaco, a young Sardinian, returns from studying in Paris and is overcome by the beauty of Lucrezia, the virtuoso and beautiful wife of the rich and foolish lawyer Nicia. In his desire to bed her, he engages the services of a dubious fixer, Liguro, who knows that Nicia and Lucrezia are desperate for a child. With Ligurio's help, Callimaco, masquerading as a doctor, convinces Nicia that the surest way for his wife to conceive is by taking a potion made from the mandrake root, with the dire warning that the first man to sleep with her will die within eight days. Nicia agrees to a plan to kidnap an unsuspecting man to sleep with his wife and thereby draw out the poison, but of course it is the disguised Callimaco who is to be kidnapped. In order to persuade his wife to agree, because she is so virtuous, Nicia enlists the help of her mother, a woman of questionable virtue, and her confessor, a priest of equally dubious morals. Ultimately Callimaco succeeds in sleeping with Lucrezia, who herself decides that due to the stupidity of her husband and deception of her mother and confessor, she will continue to be his lover and `what her husband wanted for her to have for one night, she now wants him to have forever'.

A last will and testament in the age of meaninglessness . . .

In 1939 London, Miss Guinevere Pettigrew is a middle-aged governess who finds herself unfairly dismissed from her job. Without so much as severance pay, Miss Pettigrew realizes that she must - for the first time in two decades - seize the day. This she does, by intercepting an employment assignment outside of her comfort level as `social secretary'. Arriving at a penthouse apartment for the interview, she is catapulted into the glamorous world of an American actress and singer, Delysia Lafosse.

Director: Malachi Bogdanon 2008. HD. 75 min Production Company: European Drama Network, 1 Poplar Cottage, Ickwield Street, Beoley, Worcester, B98 9AP, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7754 888 180 email: [email protected] Producer: Simon M Woods Screenwriter: Malachi Bogdanon Editor: Nat Higginbottom, Simon Woods Director of Photography: Tony Yates Production Designer: John Plush Sound: Neil Hillman Music: Christopher Ash Cast: Geoffery Bateman, Den Woods, Jonathan Owen Budget: $180,000 Funding: Private, Screen West Midlands Territories: All available

Theuth, a half-written character, must confront the hand that wields the pen that writes the line that stains the silence. A film that struggles to deal with the nature of free will, the search for identity, and the silence that comes at the end of speech. Director: Tom Metcalfe 2008. HD. 102 min Production Company: Thus Spoke, Malindi, Somerwood, Rodington, Shropshire, SY4 4RF, England, UK tel: +44 (0)195 277 0457 email: [email protected] Producer: John Rowley, Tom Metcalfe Screenwriter: Tom Metcalfe Editor, Director of Photography: John Rowley Cast: James Palmer Budget: £14,000 Funding: Private Territories: All available

Within minutes, Miss Pettigrew finds herself swept into a heady high-society milieu - and, within hours, living it up. Taking the `social secretary' designation to heart, she tries to help her new friend Delysia navigate a love life and career, both of which are complicated by the three men in Delysia's orbit: devoted pianist Michael, intimidating nightclub owner Nick, and impressionable junior impresario Phil. Miss Pettigrew herself is blushingly drawn to the gallant Joe, a successful designer who is tenuously engaged to haughty fashion maven Edythe - the one person who senses that the new `social secretary' may be out of her element, and schemes to undermine her. Over the next 24 hours, Guinevere and Delysia will empower each other to discover their romantic destinies. Director: Bharat Nalluri 2008. 35mm. 105 min UK Distributor: Momentum Pictures, 2nd Floor, 184-192 Drummond Street, London, NW1 3HP, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7388 1100, fax: +44 (0)20 7383 0404 web: www.momentumpictures.co.uk Producer: Nellie Bellflower, Stephen Garrett Executive Producer: Paul Webster Screenwriter: David Mageem, Simon Beaufoy Editor: Barney Pilling Director of Photography: John de Borman BSC Production Designer: Sarah Greenwood Music: Paul Englishby Cast: Frances McDormand, Amy Adams, Lee Pace, Ciara Ân Hinds, Shirley Henderson, Mark Strong, Tom Payne

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Feature Films

Morris: A Life with Bells on

Mum and Dad

Next Time Ned

A heartwarming feature length comedy shot in documentary format that follows the fortunes of one of the leading Morris teams in the country, Millsham Morris, and in particular those of its leader, Derecq Twist.

Mum and Dad, and their `adopted' children, Birdie and Elbie, work at the airport. The family live off whatever they scavenge from cargo holds, offices and hotels - including a steady stream of transient workers who populate the airport's soulless hub. When Lena, a young Polish office cleaner, is befriended by Birdie, she gets drawn into a nightmarish world of torture, murder and perversity. Imprisoned in a suburban `House of Horrors' and designated a mummy's girl, Lena's only options appear to be to become part of the family - and join them in their insanity - or die.

For almost 30 years Ned Randall has been trying to make it as an actor. Now in his 40s his biggest claim to fame is playing a corpse in Taggart. Always believing that his big break is just around the corner he is affectionately referred to as `Next Time Ned' by his friends, family and the local community. However Lady Luck may be on Ned's side as a documentary crew have decided to spend a week in his life in order to discover what drives his pursuit of a career in an industry whose doors seem forever closed to him. Over the course of the week we follow Ned to several amusing but disastrous auditions, witness his first go at stand-up comedy, follow his attempt to find a theatre willing to produce his one man show of Reservoir Dogs: The Musical. We also join him as he tries to reconcile his relationship with his son and deal with his ill mother.

Morris is a gentle and affectionate look at an aspect of English culture which is in the finest traditions of this country, unapologetically eccentric, and towards which there exists a huge amount of goodwill. The film's events take place in the summer months in and around Dorset and specifically centre around an idyllic thatched country pub, the Traveller's Staff. The film is an unashamed celebration of not only the English countryside but also what it means to be English. Director: Lucy Akhurst 2007. HD. 105 min Production Company: Twist Films Ltd, 4th Floor, 88 Onslow Gardens, London, SW7 3BS, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7244 0103 web: www.morrismovie.com Producer: Charles Thomas Oldham Editor: Nick Carew Director of Photography: Roger Chapman Production Designer: Caroline Story Music: Richard Lumsden Cast: Ian Hart, Derek Jacobi, Greg Wise, Naomie Harris, Dominique Pinon

Director: Steven Sheil 2008. HD. 85 min Production Company: 2am Films, 1 Lawford's Wharf, Lyme Street, London, NW1 0SF, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7428 8800, fax: +44 (0)20 7428 8801 email: [email protected] web: www.2am.co.uk Producer: Lisa Trnovski Screenwriter: Steven Sheil Editor: Leo Scott Director of Photography: Jonathan Bloom Production Designer: Jess Alexander Sound: Ben Cross, Tom Hutchings Cast: Perry Benson, Dido Miles, Olga Fedori, Ainsley Howard, Toby Alexander Budget: £100,000 Funding: Film London, EM Media Territories: All available

Often hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking but always entertaining. Director: Thomas McCue 2008. HD. 80 min Production Company: Shared Moment Productions, 111 Union Street, Glasgow, G1 3TA, Scotland, UK tel: +44 (0)7999 222 270 email: shared_moment_productions@ yahoo.co.uk Producer: Thomas McCue, Raymond Mearns Screenwriter: Thomas McCue Director of Photography: Sean Walker Production Designer: Rachael Ivancic Sound: David McKeith Music: Woodenbox, Raymond Mearns Cast: Raymond Mearns, Scott Campbell, Adrianne Boyd, Ian Barrie, Lynn Mulvenna Budget: £3,000 Funding: Private Territories: All available

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Feature Films

The Other Boleyn Girl

Parkside Hell House

Peacefire

Based on the best-selling novel by Philippa Gregory, this film is an engrossing and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in history. Two sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, are driven by their ambitious father and uncle to advance the family's power and status by courting the affections of the King of England. Leaving behind the simplicity of country life, the girls are thrust into the dangerous and thrilling world of court life - and what began as a bid to help their family develops into a rivalry between Anne and Mary for the love of the King. Initially Mary wins King Henry's favour and becomes his mistress, bearing him an illegitimate child. But Anne, clever, cunning and fearless, edges aside both her sister and Henry's wife, Queen Katherine of Aragon, in her relentless pursuit of the King. Despite Mary's genuine feelings for Henry, her sister Anne has her sights set on the ultimate prize, being the Queen of England. As the Boleyn girls battle for the love of a king - one driven by ambition, the other by true affection - England is torn apart. Despite the dramatic consequences, the Boleyn girls ultimately find strength and loyalty in each other, and they remain forever connected by their bond as sisters.

Kelly, a beautiful blonde 19 year-old American rock chick, arrives in London, ostensibly to join a band. But when things don't go as planned, she is left alone and stranded in a strange city. Kelly rents a flat from Harry, a strange but jovial landlord. Soon after, Kelly learns that her selfish, uncaring mother is going to marry her live-in partner whom Kelly loathes.

Peacefire is a moving account of one young man's experience of crime and punishment on his local housing estate.

Director: Justin Chadwick 2008. 35mm. 114 min UK Distributor: Universal Pictures International UK, 76 Oxford Street, London, W1D 1BS, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7307 5530, fax: +44 (0)20 3071 346 email: [email protected] Producer: Alison Owen Executive Producer: Scott Rudin, David M Thompson Screenwriter: Peter Morgan Editor: Paul Knight, Carol Littleton ACE Director of Photography: Kieran McGuigan Production Designer: John-Paul Kelly Music: Paul Cantelon Cast: Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Eric Bana Co-production: USA

Kelly soon meets David, a dashing young fashion photographer, who offers to make her a cover girl for a new magazine. David takes Kelly on a boat ride up the Thames river and to markets, taking photos along the way. Not having any money, Kelly starts to feel pressure from Harry, who is in league with a 300 year-old bisexual witch, both of whom Kelly learns were hanged on Parliament Hill in the 1600s and are leaders of an undead cult. Fed up with David's never-ending promises of fame and fortune, as well as Harry and the witch's manipulation, and discovering that a friend has been murdered, Kelly has had enough and packs her bags, making plans to return home to her mother, but finds to her horror that she can't get out of the house. Director: James White 2007. HDV. 83 min Production Company: Hard House Pictures, 2 Percy Street, London, W1P 9FA, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7813 257 996 email: [email protected] web: www.parksidehellhouse.com Producer: Caroline L Murray Screenwriter: James White Editor: M Jessee, J Halldorsson Director of Photography: Ricardo Nogueira Sound: Alex Joseph Music: Neel Dhorajiwala Cast: Tiffany Mulheron, Jeremy Stephens, Melissa Leigh, Jason Ebelthite, Rebecca Pitkin Territories: All available

Colin McNally couldn't give a toss about the political situation in Northern Ireland. He's too busy stealing cars with his mates. But a chance encounter turns him into an informer for the law and a target for retribution for his father's old mates in the IRA. In the violent upheaval that follows, Colin must struggle with the intense loyalty he feels for his mates, the need to protect his mother from her tragic past and the political ideals of a dead father. Director: Macdara Vallely 2008. HD. 87 min Production Company: Mayfly Entertainment, 1 Grantham Gardens, Co Armagh, BT61 3DU, Northern Ireland, UK tel: +44 (0)283 752 3872 email: [email protected] Producer: Chris Martin, Sarah Perry Screenwriter, Editor: Macdara Vallely Director of Photography: Nu Âria Roldos ACE Production Designer: Konrad Haller Sound: Michael Furjanic Music: Brendan Dolan Cast: John Travers, Pauline Goldsmith, Gerry Doherty Budget: £210,000 Funding: Private, Northern Ireland Screen Territories: All available Co-production: Ireland

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Feature Films

Perfect Woman

Red Mist

Rez Bomb

Hundreds of beautiful women arrive at an English castle believing they're taking part in a reality game show to win the chance to marry a gorgeous millionaire, Danny. The reality is that the producer, James, has a surgeon lined up to clone their body parts in order to build the perfect woman. However the surgeon and his nurse have their own secret plan. The presenter, Bob Long, springs a surprise on the contestants the moment they arrive and soon they realise how brutal the show will be. They have to fight for the right to be the perfect woman in a series of challenges, everything from pole dancing to wrestling. But someone is watching them, every single moment. One pair of eyes is the mysterious and strange gardner Stanley, who is obsessed with the lovelies. He falls for heroine Kara, the contestant with more brains than the other beauties. She is determined to find out what the truth of the show is and why the girls who win the challenges keep disappearing. She soon discovers in the world of reality television nothing is what it appears and payback's a bitch.

A young doctor in a US hospital administers a powerful and untested cocktail of drugs to a coma victim. But instead of curing him, it triggers a powerful `out-of-body' experience and enables the patient - a depraved and dangerous loner - to inhabit other people's bodies and, through them, take revenge on the bullying medical students who were accidentally responsible for his condition. The doctor, who was herself a part of this group, is also targeted. As her colleagues are singled out and relentlessly picked off, she realises that she can trust no-one - friend or stranger - as this comatose killer moves in and out of bodies at will, getting ever closer as his murderous supernatural powers increase.

Set on, and around, the poorest place in the USA, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, this film is a love story/thriller about a Lakota girl and a white guy who are very much in love, but get into trouble with a brutal money lender and must bail themselves out.

Director: Deborah Groves, K AkesehTsakpo 2007. HD. 90 min Production Company: Olympus Productions, Ashgrove Road, Bristol, BS3 3JP, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7859 032 608 email: [email protected] web: www.olyumpusfilms.co.uk Producer: James E Bell Screenwriter: Sam Snape Editor: Scott Deeming Director of Photography: Stuart Brereton Production Designer: Joanna Shears Sound: Grant Bridgeman Cast: Caprice Bourret, Holly Davidson, Angelica Bridges, Dave Prowse

Director: Paddy Breathnach 2008. HD. 90 min Production Company: Generator Entertainment, Twickenham Film Studios, Middlesex, TW1 2AW, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 8607 8848, fax: +44 (0)20 8607 0835 Producer: Simon Bosanquet, Mark Huffam, Michael Kelly Screenwriter: Spence Wright Editor: Dermot Diskin Director of Photography: Ruairi O'Brien Production Designer: David Craig Cast: Arielle Kebbel, Sarah Carter, Stephen Dillane, Andrew Lee Potts

Director: Steven Lewis Simpson 2008. HD. 98 min Production Company: Roaring Fire Film Production Ltd, 24 Abbotshall Road, Cults, Aberdeen, AB15 9JX, Scotland, UK email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter, Editor, Director of Photography, Sound: Steven Lewis Simpson Cast: Tamara Feldman, Trent Ford, Russell Means, Chris Robinson Territories: All available

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Feature Films

Rocknrolla

Rupert Brockstein's `Blood Red Letters'

Save Angel Hope

London's criminal underworld takes notice of a Russian mobster's shady land deal, a scam that puts millions of dollars up for grabs.

Edward Jones, an English public school boy in his early 20s wants to be a film director. He meets Montague, a wayward American with a large trust fund, who has come to live in England to study. Edward convinces Montague to fund his movie, Blood Red Letters. Unfortunately, a fool and his money are soon parted and a plethora of con men arrive on scene. Soon Rupert Brockstein, a 35 year-old American psychopath, has taken over Blood Red Letters and things go rapidly downhill for everyone, including Rupert.

It is a simple swindle, well within the talents of three capable con artists like Vince, Henry and Renee. First, they invent a nun, a healer, like Mother Theresa, only much younger and sexier. They call her Angel Hope and they give her a hospital in the South Pacific. They then destroy the hospital and launch a charity campaign to rebuild it. With the noted generosity of the Swiss people and self-serving officials working for them, it seems like a slamdunk scam. Needless to say, there are no more plans to build a new hospital. Equally needless to say, things begin to go wrong from the start.

Director: Guy Ritchie 2008. 35 mm. Production Company: Dark Castle Entertainment, 4000 Warner Boulevard, Bldg 90, Burbank, CA 91522, USA tel: +1 818 954 4490, fax: +1 818 954 3237 UK Distributor: Warner Brothers UK, 98 Theobald's Road, London, WC1X 8WB, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7984 5400, fax: +44 (0)20 7982 5001 Producer: Guy Ritchie, Steve Clark-Hall, Susan Downey, Joel Silver Executive Producer: Navid McIlhargey, Steve Richards Screenwriter: Guy Ritchie Editor: James Herbert Director of Photography: David Higgs Production Designer: Richard Bridgland Music: Steve Isles Cast: Gerard Butler, Gemma Arterton, Jeremy Piven, Thandie Newton

Director: Nick Tyrone 2008. HD. 84 min Production Company: Solarmonite Productions, 8 Edgehill Lodge, 153 Turnham Road, London, SE4 2LY, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7941 196 715 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter, Director of Photography, Production Designer: Nick Tyrone Editor: Veronique Pinot Sound: Problem Child Studios Music: Jarz Cast: Giles Faulkner, Theo Herdman, Dexter Fletcher, Sylvester McCoy, Hugh Armstrong Budget: £10,000 Funding: Private Territories: All available

Director: Lukas Erni 2007. 35mm. 82 min Production Company: T Films, 39 Val Sainte Croix, L-1371, Luxembourg tel: +352 452 122 , fax: +352 264 416 12 email: [email protected] web: www.tfilms.lu International Sales: Handmade Films International, 38 Albemarle Street, London, W15 4JG, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7518 8230, fax: +44 (0)20 7518 8231 email: [email protected] Producer: Terje Gaustad Executive Producer: Guy Collins Screenwriter: John Vorhaus Editor: Markus Welter, Niven Howie Director of Photography: Derek Suter Production Designer: Frank Walsh Music: Shawn Lee Cast: Billy Boyd, Luke Mably, Alice Evans, Eva Birthistle, Bernard Hill Budget: E8 million Territories: All available Co-production: Luxembourg, Switzerland

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Feature Films

The Secret of Moonacre

Seven Seconds to Heaven

Shifty

When 13 year-old Maria's father dies, she is forced to leave her luxurious London life to live with an eccentric uncle. Arriving at his country estate, Maria finds a crumbling world torn apart by an ancient feud with the sinister De Noir family.

A dark thriller set in the seedy underworld of prostitution and drugs. Steve, a taxi driver, gets more than he bargained for from his friendship with a prostitute he drives for.

Chris arrives back in his hometown to visit his best friend, Shifty, for the first time in four long years. To Chris's dismay, Shifty, a charismatic and intelligent guy, has slipped into a career of dealing hard drugs. Chris follows Shifty as he goes about his daily routine but the sinister reality of Shifty's career choice becomes increasingly evident.

Maria soon discovers that she is the last Moon Princess of Moonacre valley and only has until the next full moon to end a deadly curse. But when Maria meets Loveday, the beautiful woman who lives in a hidden cave, she begins to understand why her uncle is so reticent. Guided by a hare, a giant dog and a mystical white horse, Maria must overcome her family's pride to unearth the secrets of the past, save the valley and break the spell that has divided her family for 5,000 moons. Director: Gabor Csupo 2008. 35mm. 98 min Production Company: Forgan Smith, 46 Graveney Road, London, SW17 0EH, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7432 3877 email: [email protected] UK Distributor: Warner Brothers UK, Warner House, 98 Theobald Road, London, WC1X 8WB, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7984 5400, fax: +44 (0)20 7982 5001 International Sales: Velvet Octopus, 3a Lower James Street, London, W1F 9EH, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7287 1900 email: [email protected] Producer: Meredith Garlick, Monica Penders, Jason Piette, Michael Cowan Executive Producer: David Brown, Simon Crowe, Victor Hadida, Matthew Joynes, Alex Marshall, Jennifer Smith, Kaspar Strandskov Screenwriter: Lucy Shuttleworth, Graham Alborough Editor: Jillian Rudd Director of Photography: David Eggby ACS Production Designer: Sophie Becher Sound: Nigel Mills Music: Christian Henson Cast: Ioan Gruffudd, Tim Curry, Natascha McElhone, Juliet Stevenson, Dakota Blue Richards Budget: $27 million Funding: UK Film Council, Aramid Entertainment Territories: All available except France, Greece, Portugal, Scandinavia, Spain, UK

Director: Caleb Lindsay 2008. HD. 78 min Production Company: Acid Film Productions, Flat 5, 157a Wokingham Road, Reading, RG6 1LP, England, UK tel: +44 (0)118 966 9323 email: [email protected] Producer: Alex Shonteff Executive Producer: Danny Gratten, Ian Prince Screenwriter, Editor: Caleb Lindsay Director of Photography: Boyd Skinner Production Designer: Victoria Torie Ruskin Sound, Music: Dai Maskell Cast: James Fisher, Sam Zena, Rachel Allinson, David O'Kelley Budget: £90,000 Funding: Private Territories: All available

Chris' presence causes a ripple in Shifty's world as a rival drug dealer, Glen, plans to set him up. Shifty suddenly finds that his livelihood, family and both his and Chris' lives are in imminent danger. Their friendship is soon tested as they confront the past and present and try to find a way out alive. Director: Eran Creevy 2008. 16mm. Production Company: Between the Eyes, 50 Frith Street, London, W1D 4SQ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7292 0554, fax: +44 (0)20 7437 0308 email: [email protected] web: www.betweentheeyes.co.uk Producer: Rory Aitken, Ben Pugh Screenwriter: Eran Creevy Editor: Kim Gaster Director of Photography: Ed Wild Production Designer: Erik Rehl Cast: Riz Ahmed, Daniel Mays, Jason Flemyng, Francesca Annis, Kate Groombridge Funding: Film London's Microwave Territories: All available except UK TV

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Feature Films

The Shrine

Simon and Emily

Sisterhood

A photograph of a silhouetted girl by a lake is stuck on a wall and kissed. Over time the image degrades, becomes inky, until eventually all of its recognisable features are gone and a hole has worn through it. Alex clings on obsessing to the memory of his lost love, Beatrice, and the world passes him by as he descends into alcohol, isolation and a deep depression. Gone are the jokers of his past. Beatrice's life doesn't go on any smoother continually affected by delusion and paranoia, suggesting Alex's violent return. This seems to reach its peak when her new boyfriend is kidnapped, interrogated and murdered. When did young love go so badly wrong?

Simon and Emily are in love, but due to their misspent youth they find themselves having to collect souls to pay off their debt to the devil. They make the most of it and have fun in their cursed life - but just as they're drawing close to hitting their quota, a new man enters Emily's life, and she's not so sure if she wants to spend eternity with Simon after all.

Catherine is an independent, uptight, status-obsessed, sophisticated British woman living alone in London's Chelsea and doing herself no favours by having an affair with a married man.

Director: Duncan Catterall 2007. HD. 73 min Production Company: Duncan Catterall Productions, Brookfield House, Theydon Avenue, Woburn Sands, Milton Keynes, MK17 8PW, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7745 231 685 email: [email protected] web: www.duncancatterall.com Producer, Screenwriter, Editor: Duncan Catterall Executive Producer: Jason McGuinness Director of Photography: Duncan Catterall, Stephen Plaster Production Designer, Sound: Stephen Plaster Music: Daniel J Grieff Cast: Christopher Pizzey, Natasha Coulter

Director: Lee Isserow 2008. HD. 95 min Production Company: Opiate of the People Films, 80 Squires Lane, London, N3 2AH, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7890 290 399 email: [email protected] web: www.opiatefilms.com Producer: Kasja Palsson, Kelly Griffiths Executive Producer: Tina Malone Screenwriter, Editor, Director of Photography: Lee Isserow Production Designer: Emma Jane Revitt Sound: Anna Bertmark Music: Kevin Macleod Cast: Ellis Kerkhoven, Jessica Florence, Frank Jakeman, Edward Elks, Tina Malone Budget: £10,000 Funding: Private Territories: All available

Her world is turned upside down when she comes home one day to find an uncouth Kiwi woman drinking beer on her sofa. Shirley announces that she is Catherine's long lost half-sister. She claims that their father, whom Catherine thought had died before she was born, is still alive and trying to make claims on both of their properties following the simultaneous death of their mothers. Both girls eventually agree to work together to track down their con-man father in order to get rightful ownership of their inheritance. Director: Richard Wellings-Thomas 2008. 16mm. 91 min Production Company: Sisterhood Film Ltd, 22 Notting Hill Gate, Unit 403, London, W11 3JE, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 8962 0100, fax: +44 (0)20 8962 0100 email: [email protected] Producer: Emily Corcoran, Tim Hart Executive Producer: Merryn Corcoran Screenwriter: Emily Corcoran Editor: James Nescott, Sean Barton Director of Photography: Nathan Shepherd, John Chrisstoffels Production Designer: Nicola Dietmann Sound: Vanesa Tate Music: Paul Lawler Cast: Nicholas Ball, Maria Charles, Graham McTavish, Isabelle Defaut, Emily Corcoran Budget: £497,000 Funding: Private Territories: All available

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Feature Films

Skin

Somers Town

St Trinian's

Skin is one of the most bizarre and moving true stories to emerge from apartheid South Africa. Sandra Laing was a coloured child born in the 1950s to two Afrikaners, unaware of their black ancestry. Her parents are rural shopkeepers serving the local black community, who lovingly bring her up as their `white' little girl. But at the age of ten, Sandra is driven out of white society. The film follows Sandra's 30-year journey from rejection to acceptance, betrayal to reconciliation, as she struggles to define her place in a changing world Ð and triumphs against all odds.

Tommo, just turned 16 and released from social care, runs away to London from a lonely, difficult life in the Midlands. Marek, a Polish immigrant, lives with his father, who drinks with his friends most evenings after working on a construction site. Marek, a keen photographer, quiet and sensitive, is not comfortable in his father's world.

St Trinian's, the infamous school for young ladies, is facing dire financial crisis. The bank is threatening headmistress Camilla Fritton with closure. Meanwhile her unorthodox doctrine of free expression and self empowerment is under threat from new Education Minister Geoffrey Thwaites, an old flame of Camilla's. But the St Trinian's girls are smart, fearless and determined to defend the school they love. They need to unite and come up with the cash fast. Head girl Kelly and newcomer Annabelle gather together a motley crew to pull off the heist of the century. They're planning to steal a famous painting from the National Gallery, but can their combined cunning, girlish wiles and total lack of shame win the day before the authorities close them down for good?

Director: Anthony Fabian 2008. HD. 106 min Producer: Bard Entertainments, 2nd Floor, 7 Denmark Street, London, WC2H 8LZ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7240 6978, fax: +44 (0)20 7240 7088 email: [email protected] International Sales: The Little Film Company, 12930 Ventura Boulevard, #822, Studio City, CA 91604, USA tel: +1 818 762 6999, fax: +1 818 301 2186 email: [email protected] web: www.thelittlefilmcompany.com Producer: Anthony Fabian, Genevieve Hofmeyr, Margaret Matheson Executive Producer: Simon Fawcett, Robbie Little, Laurence Paltiel, Alasdair MacCuish, Moses Silinda, Hellen Kalenga Screenwriter: Helen Crawley, Jessie Keyt, Helena Kriel Editor: St John O'Rorke Director of Photography: Dewald Aukema, Jonathan Partridge Production Designer: Billy Keam Music: He Âle Áne Muddiman Cast: Sophie Okonedo, Sam Neill, Alice Krige Funding: Aramid Entertainment, IDC, NFVF, Lipsync Productions, UGC PH Territories: All available except Benelux, Brazil, France, Greece, Middle East, Mexico, Scandinavia Co-production: South Africa

Both struggle to make sense of their new world and a chance meeting in Somers Town, London, leads the two to form an unexpected partnership. Unknown to his father, Marek begins hiding Tommo in his flat and the two boys begin to earn money from an entrepreneurial and eccentric neighbour, Graham. Maria, the French waitress at their local cafe Â, already a photographic muse for Marek, now becomes more of an obsession for the two boys and the centre of all their attention.

Director: Oliver Parker, Barnaby Thompson 2007. 35mm. 100 min

When Maria suddenly leaves their lives, the two boys are bereft. Tommo and Marek seek escape through an evening of drunken abandon, but are discovered by Marek's father, who throws Tommo out and all seems lost.

Production Company, International Sales: Ealing Studios, Ealing Green, London, W5 5EP, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 8567 6655, fax: +44 (0)20 8758 8576 email: [email protected]

Director: Shane Meadows 2008. HD. 75 min

UK Distributor: Entertainment Film, 108/110 Jermyn Street, London, SW1Y 6HB, England, UK fax: +44 (0)20 7930 7744 email: [email protected]

UK Distributor: Optimum Releasing, 50 Marshall Street, London, W1F 9BQ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7534 2700 web: www.optimumreleasing.com International Sales: The Works International, 4th Floor, Portland House, Great Portland Street, London, W1W 8QJ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7612 1080, fax: +44 (0)20 7612 0091 web: www.theworkslimited.com Producer: Barnaby Spurrier Executive Producer: Greg Nugent, Nick Mercer, Robert Saville Screenwriter: Paul Fraser Editor: Richard Graham Director of Photography: Natasha Braier Production Designer: Lisa Marie Hall Music: Gavin Clarke Cast: Piotr Jagiello, Thomas Turgoose, Ireneusz Czop, Elisa Lasowski, Perry Benson, Kate Dickie

Producer: Oliver Parker, Barnaby Thompson Executive Producer: Nigel Green, Rupert Everett, James Spring Screenwriter: Piers Ashworth, Nick Moorcroft Editor: Alex Mackie ACE Director of Photography: Gavin Finney BSC Production Designer: Amanda McArthur Sound: Max Hoskins Music: Charlie Mole Cast: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Lena Headey, Russell Brand, Gemma Arterton Budget: $13 million Funding: Entertainment Film Distributors, UK Film Council, Investec Territories: All available except Australia, Benelux, Brazil, Eastern Europe, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Italy, Middle East, New Zealand, Portugal, Russia, Scandinavia, Turkey, UK

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Feature Films

Stag Night of the Dead

Stone of Destiny

Summer

If the mysterious plague sweeping the nation wasn't bad enough, Dean is still going ahead with his doomed wedding tomorrow morning. That leaves him with a choice: pick up the buttonholes and chocolate fountain as instructed by bridezilla Elaine, or go with five mates (and a stripper) to play `Zomball' at a top secret military compound where you get to shoot zombies with huge stun guns. Disobeying the golden rule of Zomball (`never never humiliate a zombie') the stags face overwhelming odds from the massed undead and each stag is hunted down. The truth about Zomball is finally revealed and suddenly the mother-in-law is the least of Dean's problems.

Glasgow University, November 1950. Ian Hamilton is an egotistical young law student and member of the Scottish Covenant Association, led by the charismatic John MacCormick. MacCormick drafts a petition asking London for Scottish self-rule. When the government rejects the petition Ian hits upon a bold plan to break into Westminster Abbey and take back Scotland's greatest symbol, the Stone of Destiny. Fuelled by his ego and intense patriotism, Ian gathers two other true believers: petite and pretty Kay Mathieson, and burly hell-raiser Gavin Vernon. After weeks planning the heist, they're joined by the shy and studious Alan Stuart. Their plan - to take the Stone on Christmas Eve, while the English are `lying in drink with their minds unbuttoned.' But everything goes terribly wrong. Their first attempt is foiled by a night watchman, who finds Ian in the Abbey, and, thinking him homeless, turns him out with a cheery `Merry Christmas'. For three more days the students, cold, broke and sleepless, search for another way. When Kay falls ill, they almost abandon the plot, but Kay, the fierce patriot, refuses to allow it. Ian is moved by her resolve and vows never to give up.

Shaun and Daz are vibrant kids, wasted by their experience of education. All they have is their friendship and, for Shaun, his first love Katy. From the moment Shaun steps into our world he is bound to lose. Labelled as a violent bully, he destroys himself and takes Daz with him.

Director: Neil Jones 2008. HD. 90 min Production Company: Zomball Films Ltd, 4 Oak Crescent, Upper Caldecote, Bedfordshire, SG18 9DH, England, UK email: [email protected] web: www.stagnightofthedead.com Producer, Screenwriter: Neil Jones Editor: Ben Mitchell Director of Photography: Richard Wood Production Designer: Lianne Willis Sound: Curzio Aloisi Music: Chris Barnett Cast: Sebastian Street, Bruce Lawrence, Mike Busson, Sophie Lovell Anderson, Joe Rainbow

Director: Charles Martin Smith 2008. 35mm. 96 min Production Company: Infinity Features Entertainment/The Mob Film Company, 319 Main Street, Vancouver, BC, V6A 2S9, Canada tel: +1 604 899 1077, fax: +1 604 688 2803 email: [email protected] web: www.infinityfeatures.net Producer: Robert Merilees, Andrew Boswell Executive Producer: Terrence Yason, Michael S Murphey, William Vince, Charles Martin Smith, Carole Sheridan, Victor Loewy Screenwriter: Charles Martin Smith Editor: Fredrik Thorsen Director of Photography: Glen Winter Production Designer: Tom Sayer Music: Mychael Danna Cast: Charlie Cox, Kate Mara, Robert Carlyle, Billy Boyd, Stephen McCole, Ciaron Kelly Budget: $11 million Funding: Scottish Screen, Telefilm Canada, Paradigm London, Glasgow Film Office, tax credits Territories: All available except Canada Co-production: Canada

Shaun has 12 years to reflect on an intense summer of love, sex and loyalty. But Daz's imminent death forces Shaun to go on a journey to confront his past. This is the story of a man full of intelligence and promise struggling to reclaim his life. Director: Kenny Glenaan 2008. 35 mm. 95 min Production Company: Sixteen Films, 2nd Floor, 187 Wardour Street, London, W1F 82B, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7734 0168, fax: +44 (0)20 7439 4196 web: www.sixteenfilms.co.uk UK Distributor: Vertigo Films, The Big Room Studios, 77 Fortess Road, London, NW5 1AG, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7428 7555, fax: +44 (0)20 7485 9713 email: [email protected] web: www.vertigofilms.com International Sales: The Works, 4th Floor, Portland House, 4 Great Portland Street, London, W1W 8QJ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7612 1080, fax: +44 (0)20 7612 0091 web: www.theworkslimited.com Producer: Camilla Bray Executive Producer: Rebecca O'Brien, Nigel Thomas Screenwriter: Hugh Ellis Editor: Kristina Heatherington Director of Photography: Tony Slater-Ling Production Designer: Jane Levick Music: Stephen McKeon Cast: Robert Carlyle, Steve Evets, Rachael Blake, Michael Socha, Sean Kelly, Jo Doherty, Joanna Tulej Funding: EM Media, European Regional Development Fund Co-production: Germany

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Feature Films

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Take Me to Your Leader

That Difficult Second Album

A man unjustly sent to prison vows revenge, not only for that cruel punishment, but for the devastating consequences of what happened to his wife and daughter. When he returns to reopen his barber shop, Sweeney Todd becomes the Demon Barber of Fleet Street who `shaved the heads of gentlemen who never thereafter were heard from again'.

Everybody is looking for success and the story is no different for 55 year-old Corbin West, who dreams of putting his name in lights at the box office.

When British band The Fury announced their first US tour, it seemed as if nothing could stop them. A nation had fallen in love with their high-octane, break-neck, harmony-infused brand of skyscraping rock'n'roll. Led by the enigmatic Scott Fury, the world was at their feet. But as quickly as they'd risen, they fell. Scott broke up the band, and then disappeared. Many claimed he was dead. Jessica Jones is hoping he's not. A struggling wannabe music journalist, she's had several years of frustration and rejection trying to break into the industry. Just when she's on the verge of giving up, she's offered a writer's position with one proviso - get an interview with Scott Fury. Jessica must track down Scott, find out where he's been for the last ten years, get the interview that will kickstart her career, and come to terms with a new set of songs that will change both their lives forever.

Director: Tim Burton 2008. 35mm. 116 min Production Company: Dreamworks SKG, 100 Universal City Plaza, Bldg 10, Universal City, CA 91608, USA tel: +1 818 733 7000, fax: +1 818 733 7574 email: [email protected] web: www.dreamworks.com International Sales: Warner Brothers UK, 98 Theobald's Road, London, WC1X 8WB, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7984 5400, fax: +44 (0)20 7982 5001 Producer: Katterli Frauenfelder, Derek Frey, John Logan, Laurie MacDonald, Walter F Parkes, Richard D Zanuck Executive Producer: Patrick McCormick Screenwriter: John Logan Editor: Chris Lebenzon Director of Photography: Dariusz Wolski Production Designer: Dante Ferretti Music: Stephen Sondheim Cast: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, Sacha Baron Cohen Co-production: USA

Armed with some money from a local double-glazing firm, Corbin assembles an eclectic mix of local amateurs and family members to help bring his ambitious sci-fi movie project to the big screen, with himself in the starring role. But are Corbin's dreams of stardom way beyond his capabilities? Will he finally receive the recognition he thinks he deserves? And most importantly, can he ever forgive his estranged mother for naming him Shirley at birth? A raw mockumentary-style film that brings together a cast of colourful characters in this comedic tale of stardom. Director: Keith Wright 2008. DV Cam. 71 min Production Company: Frisson Film, 45 Kingfisher Walk, Ash, Surrey, GU12 6RF, England, UK tel: +44 (0)125 232 7136 email: [email protected] web: www.frissonfilm.co.uk Editor: Keith Wright Music: Jim Howard Cast: Roger Bingham, Tristan Cooper, Grant Bridges, Penelope Ellis, Keith S Wright Funding: Private Territories: All available

Director: Adam Simcox 2008. HD. 120 min Production Company: Freestyle Films, International Media Centre, Adelphi House, The Crescent, Salford, M5 4WT, England, UK email: jessicajoneslovesthefury@ hotmail.com Producer, Screenwriter: Adam Simcox Editor: Nick Birtwistle Sound, Music: Matthew Gidlow

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Feature Films

That Samba Thing

Three and Out

Tiny Town

Five interlocking fictional stories depicting the lives of Brazilians and Londoners who co-exist under difficult emotional and psychological circumstances. The turmoil takes place against a backdrop of haunting memories, broken dreams, future hopes, exciting samba music and the festival spirit of London's spectacular Notting Hill carnival.

Combining comedic capers and painfully funny truths about how far we would go to change our lives.

Enzo and Niko met in Bosnia whilst serving in the UN peacekeeping force. Both are studying documentary film at the University of Arts in London. Nina, who is Niko's sister, arrives in London. She is an aspiring fashion designer and has hopes of making it in the London fashion scene. Her deep Christian faith sustains her life. Unfortunately, after just three days in London, she is kidnapped by Stephan's gang of pimps. It seems so true to Nina that those favoured by God find their paths set by thorns. Enzo and Niko, in their search for Nina, find out that London is a capital city for sex slaves and she has become one of the many victims of this cruel trade. The police have no answers. Detective Murphy is a cynical and heartless cop in Stephan's pay. Enzo and Niko take the law into their own hands. In the final shoot-out, Nina makes a break for freedom, but at what cost?

Director: Teddy Hayes 2007. HD. 120 min Production Company: SKD Theatrical Productions Ltd, 41 Upper Heyshott, Petersfield, GU31 4QA, England, UK tel: +44 (0)173 023 1141, fax: +44 (0)173 023 1141 email: [email protected] Producer: Teddy Hayes, Jennie Rosenthal, Doug Abbott, JC Crissey, Martinho da Vila Screenwriter: Teddy Hayes Editor: Anthony Clarke Director of Photography: Nathan A Sheppard Sound: Sebastian Hunstunton Music: Martinho da Vila, Chris Jerome Cast: Joseph Marcell, Martinho da Vila, Saul Reichlin, Andrew Smith, John Elnaugh

You're a London tube driver and you've had two `one-unders' in as many weeks. You're traumatised but completely blameless. Then you're told about the `three and out' rule: three fatal accidents within a month and you're out of a job . . . but with a huge pay off! What do you do? Take trauma counselling and drive very, very carefully? Or do you seek out a third `one-under', take the cash, pay off your debts and retire to a Scottish idyll to write your novel? Director: Jonathan Gershfield 2008. 35mm. 108 min Production Company: Rovinge Motion Picture Company email: [email protected] web: [email protected] UK Distributor: Worldwide Bonus Entertainment plc, 3rd Floor, 16 Upper Woburn Place, London, WC1H 0AF, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 8492 2784, fax: +44 (0)20 8343 7831 email: [email protected] web: www.wbeplc.com

Director: Mathi Alagan 2008. HD. 88 min Production Company: Aruna Films Ltd, 6 Adcock Walk, Orpington, Kent, BR6 7SY, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7207 2405, fax: +44 (0)20 7207 2405 email: [email protected]

Producer: Ian Harries, Wayne Godfrey Executive Producer: Aaron Gershfield Screenwriter: Steve Lewis, Tony Owen Editor: Jon Gregory Director of Photography: Richard Greatrex Production Designer: Amanda McArthur Sound: Alistair Crocker Music: Trevor Jones Cast: Mackenzie Crook, Colm Meaney, Imelda Staunton, Gemma Arterton, Sir Anthony Sher

Producer: Mathi Alagan, Marco Chiavarelli Executive Producer: Ching Wai Wong Screenwriter: Mathi Alagan, Alex Hunter Editor: Roy Aruna, Director of Photography: Denis Frolov Production Designer: Alexei Akinfiev Sound, Music: Kiron J Cast: Annabelle Munro, Julien Guyonnet, Alexei Akinfiev, Rebecca Jameson

Budget: £3 million

Territories: All available

Funding: Private

Budget: £96,000 Funding: Private

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Feature Films

Tony

The Totenwackers

The Tournament

Tony doesn't have a nickname, he doesn't leave cryptic clues, he doesn't have an unorthodox cop on his tail, he hasn't any smart catchphrases, he doesn't wear a hockey mask or quote Shakespeare. But Tony is a serial killer and he will never be caught, not because he's clever, but because nobody can imagine what a monster they have in their midst. Forget Hannibal or Freddy, this is Tony and he is real.

The Lopez family have just finished moving to their new home and are immediately astonished to witness unexplainable events: objects moving by themselves and electric intermittences. Eventually, Sara, the younger of the two children, will be the first one to notice that all the disturbances are caused every time a neighbour walks by Sara's new home. Now it will be up to Sara and her best friend and classmate, Madhi, to overcome their fears as they try to discover why ghosts keep looming inside her house. With the help of Sara's neighbor John, a complete expert in paranormal life and the beyond, they are soon to find all answers.

Every seven years in an unsuspecting town, the Tournament takes place, a battle royale between 30 of the world's deadliest assassins. The last man standing receives a $10 million cash prize and the title of World's #1, which itself carries the legendary million dollar bullet price tag. All fights are monitored 24 hours a day on redirected CCTV cameras and broadcast secretly to a ring of high-stake billionaire gamblers. A gritty, multi-stranded actionthriller, The Tournament brings together international killers from every imaginable discipline in a blood-bathed contest to the death. We follow the competition favourites through stories of love, betrayal, revenge and redemption as they finally discover the true value of life.

Director: Gerard Johnson 2008. 16mm. Production Company: Tightrope Pictures, 20 Greek Street, London, W1D 4DU, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7851 1300 email: [email protected] Producer: Dan McCulloch Executive Producer: Leonard Crooks Screenwriter: Gerard Johnson Editor: Ian Davies Director of Photography: David Higgs Music: Matt Johnson Cast: Neil Maskell, Ricky Grover, Francis Pope

(Spanish with English subtitles) Director: Ibo Ân Cormenzana 2007. 35mm. Production Company: Future Film Group, 76 Dean Street, London, W1D 3SQ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7009 6600, fax: +44 (0)20 7009 6602 email: [email protected] Production Company: Arcadia Motion Pictures, Ciutat Granada 45, Barcelona 08005, Spain tel: +34 93 309 50 31, fax: +34 93 300 52 11 email: [email protected] Executive Producer: Jose  Luis Marco Screenwriter: David Mun Äoz, Antonio Trashorras Editor: Jose Luis Romeu Director of Photography: Juan Benet Production Designer: Javier Alvarin Äo Music: Eugenio Mira Cast: Elisa Drabben, Jasper Harris, Azzdine Benaji

Director: Scott Mann 2008. 35mm. 100 min Production Company: Mann Made Films, 16 Chepstow House, Chepstow Street, Manchester, M1 5JF, England, UK tel: +44 (0)161 661 0578 International Sales: AV Pictures Ltd, Caparo House, 3rd Floor, 103 Baker Street, London, W1U 6LN, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7317 0140, fax: +44 (0)20 7224 5149 email: [email protected] Producer: Keith Bell Executive Producer: Claus Clausen Screenwriter: Nick Rowntree, Jonathan Frank Editor: Rob Hall Director of Photography: Emil Topuzov Sound: Aleksandar Simeonov Music: George Acogny Cast: Ving Rhames, Robert Carlyle, Kelly Hu, Ian Somerhalder, Nick Rowntree Budget: £3.5 million

Budget: E3 million

Funding: Private

Co-production: Spain

Territories: All available

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Feature Films

Trouble Sleeping

Tuesday

Under the Bombs

A powerful drama based on real experience. A group of refugees in Edinburgh do what they must in order to survive. Despite the watchful eye of the security services they have found a way to get on, but Ahmed's arrival changes everything forever. Ahmed believes in truth, a belief forged under torture. He now seeks asylum but the courts don't believe him. His quest for proof brings him to Halla. She shares his past and a secret that will destroy the people they both love. When the truth has sustained you, can you ever afford to let it go?

What happens when three groups of people rob the same bank on the same day? Told in a Rashomon style, the jigsaw pieces come together to show who `dunnit'.

Under the bombs, a woman searches for her son. A man accompanies her. They have nothing in common. Toni is Christian and dreams of leaving the country. Zeina is Shiite, and has emigrated to Dubai. Back in Lebanon, to try and save her son, the woman realises that she doesn't want to leave anymore. Toni and Zeina fall in love with each other - a response to the death all around them.

Director: Robert Rae 2008. HD. 102 min

Producer: Jonathan Parsons, Sacha Bennett Executive Producer: Barry Van Zwieten, Nigel Bliss, Paul Fournel Screenwriter: Sacha Bennett Editor: Jake Robertson Director of Photography: Nic Lawson Production Designer: Richard Hudson, Ana Viana Sound: Gernot Fuhrmann Music: Edwin Sykes Cast: John Simm, Philip Glenister, Ashley Walters, Kevin McNally, Kate MacGowan

Production Company: Theatre Workshop, 34 Hamilton Place, Edinburgh, EH3 5AX, Scotland, UK tel: +44 (0)131 225 7942, fax: +44 (0)131 220 0112 email: [email protected] web: www.theatre-workshop.com Producer: Eddie Dick Executive Producer: Leslie Finlay, Ewan Angus Screenwriter: Robert Rae, Ghazi Hussein Editor: Tina Hetherington Director of Photography: Ian Dodds Production Designer: Laurel Wear Sound: Chris Campion Music: Jim Sutherland Cast: Hassan Naama, Alia Alzougbi, Waseem Uboaklain, Okan Yahsi, Robert Softely, Seham Ali, Fouad Cherif, Nihat Kaya Budget: £386,750 Funding: BBC, Scottish Screen, Cool, City of Edinburgh Council

Director: Sacha Bennett 2008. HD. 80 min Production Company: Japan Films Ltd, Gielgud Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W1D 6AR, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7292 4749 email: [email protected] web: www.japanfilms.co.uk

Funding: Private Territories: All available

Director: Philippe Aractingi 2007. 35mm. 98 min Production Company: Starfield Productions, 50 Chiswick High Street, London, W4 1SZ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 8995 8060, fax: +44 (0)20 8994 1113 email: [email protected] web: www.memento-films.com International Sales: Memento Films, 6 Cite  Paradis, 75010 Paris, France tel: +33 1 53 34 90 20, fax: +33 1 42 47 11 24 email: [email protected] web: www.memento-films.com Producer: Philippe Aractingi, Herve  Chabalier, FrancËois Cohen-Se Âat, Paul Raphae Èl Screenwriter: Michel Le Âviant, Philippe Aractingi Music: Lazare Boghossian, Rene  Aubry Cast: Bshara Atallah, Rawia Elchab, Nada Abou Farhat, Georges Khabbaz Co-production: France, Lebanon

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Feature Films

Underground

Vinyan

Whatever Happened to Pete Blaggit?

In the UK suburbs, an underground tournament is set to challenge 12 fighters from different backgrounds to compete for the prize of £500,000. They have been handpicked for a no-holds-barred competition that will push each fighter to their limit.

Unable to accept the loss of their son in the 2005 tsunami, Jeanne and Paul Bellmer have remained in Phuket. Desperately clinging to the fact that his body was never recovered, Jeanne has convinced herself that the boy was kidnapped by traffickers in the chaos that followed the catastrophe and that her son is still alive. Paul is sceptical, but cannot bring himself to shatter his wife's last hope. Bribing the sinister Mr Gao to take them by boat to the pirate-infested jungles of the Thai/Burmese border, the traumatised couple embark on a quest that will plunge them through paranoia and betrayal, ever deeper into an alien universe, a supernatural realm where the dead are never truly dead, and where nightmares, obsession and horrifying reality converge.

Pete is having a bad day, a bad year, a bad life.

Each fighter has their own reason for competing, and each will give everything they've got to take the prize, but there can be only one winner. Director: Chee Keong Cheung 2007. DV Cam. 87 min Production Company: Intense Productions Ltd, 5 Chelmsford Close, Lancaster, Lancashire, LA1 4BJ, England, UK email: [email protected] web: www.intenseproductions.co.uk International Sales: Park Entertainment, Suite 12, 3rd Floor, 54 Broadwick Street, London, W1F 7AH, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7434 4176, fax: +44 (0)20 7434 4179 email: [email protected] web: www.parkentertainment.com Producer: Chee Keong Cheung, Oliver Morran, Mark Strange Executive Producer: Jim Howell, Simon Barnes, Chris Atkins, Mike Leeder Screenwriter: Chee Keong Cheung, Oliver Morran Editor: Mark Towns Director of Photography: Jake Corbett, Simon Dennis Production Designer: Tony Noble Sound: Vincent Watts Music: Stuart Hancock Cast: Mark Strange, Nathan Lewis, Fidel Nanton, Liang Yang, Leon Sua Budget: £500,000 Funding: Private Territories: All available

Director: Fabrice du Welz 2007. 35mm. 95 min Production Company: Pilchard Productions Ltd, 12 Blackburn Court, 1 Bascombe Street, London, SW2 2YD, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 8674 4196 email: alan.mitchell@ pilchardproductions.com International Sales: Wild Bunch, 99 Rue de la Verrerie, 75004 Paris, France tel: +33 1 53 01 50 32, fax: +33 1 53 01 50 49 email: [email protected] web: www.wildbunch.biz Producer: Lizzie Francke Executive Producer: Peter Carlton Screenwriter: Fabrice du Welz, Olly Blackburn, David Greig Editor: Colin Monie Director of Photography: Benoit Debie Production Designer: Arin Pinijvararak Sound: Frederic Meert Cast: Emmanuelle Be Âart, Rufus Sewell Co-production: France, Belgium

Pete Blaggit is a man desperate for a second chance at life. For the past 20 years he's been responsible for the downfall of his family business and now Blagmore Wedding Videos is no longer the leading company it once was. It seems that life can't get any worse for Pete. But it does. Strange unknown forces are occurring in Pete's life that he can't explain. A story about one man's inner journey to outer peace. Director: Mark Jeavons 2007. s16mm. 100 min Production Company: Sepia Films email: [email protected] web: www.sepiafilms.co.uk Producer, Screenwriter, Editor: Mark Jeavons Executive Producer: Gabrielle Amies Director of Photography: Charlie Stanfield Production Designer: Lola Mezquita Sound: Dan Squier Music: Phil Mountford Cast: Rob Leetham, Adam Rickitt, Gabrielle Amies, Andy Pandini

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Feature Films

White Lightnin'

Wild Child

Wishbaby

White Lightnin' tells the captivating tale of cult figure Jesco White, the last of the great Appalachian mountain dancers.

The comic story of a rebellious American teenager who, after numerous warnings by her father, is sent to a strict all-girls boarding school in the UK in an attempt to straighten out her behaviour.

A savage fairytale set in a contemporary urban landscape.

Submerged deep within the roots of a backwoods culture, we find Jesco, a tormented soul, struggling to deal with an overwhelming desire to avenge his father's brutal murder whilst combating abject poverty, drug abuse, petty crime and erratic mental instability. Jesco, however, is a complex and charming character whose violent and abusive behaviour is contradicted by the loving and deeply sensitive individual that lies within. He is burdened by an innocent and childlike inability to cope with a world which consistently oppresses him whilst also being plagued by a multiple personality disorder in which Elvis Presley and Jesus Christ inhabit his mind. In a surreal world where life is cheap, the insanity of Jesco's behaviour has its own bizarre reality and, despite the brutality of his experiences, his humour and his charisma survive. Director: Dominic Murphy 2008. 16mm. 90 min Production Company: Film and Music Entertainment, 142 Charing Cross Road, London, WC2H 0LB, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7379 3973, fax: +44 (0)20 7691 9712 email: [email protected] UK Distributor: Momentum Pictures, 2nd Floor, 184-192 Drummond Street, London, NW1 3HP, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7388 1100, fax: +44 (0)20 7383 0404 web: www.momentumpictures.co.uk International Sales: Salt, 3rd Floor, 1a Adpar Street, London, W2 1DE, England, UK email: [email protected] web: www.salt-co.com Producer: Mike Downey, Sam Taylor Screenwriter: Eddy Moretti, Shane Smith Editor: Sam Sneade Director of Photography: Tim MauriceJones Cast: Edward Hogg, Carrie Fisher, Muse Watson, Clay Steakley Funding: UK Film Council

Director: Nick Moore 2008. 35mm. 100 min Production Company: Working Title Films, Oxford House, 76 Oxford Street, London, W1D 1BS, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7307 3000 web: www.workingtitlefilms.com UK Distributor: Universal Pictures International UK, 76 Oxford Street, London, W1D 1BS, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7307 5530, fax: +44 (0)20 3071 346 email: [email protected] Producer: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Diana Phillips Executive Producer: Debra Hayward, Liza Chasin Screenwriter: Lucy Dahl Editor: Simon Cozens Director of Photography: Chris Seager Production Designer: Eve Stewart Music: Michael Price Cast: Emma Roberts, Natasha Richardson, Shirley Henderson, Aidan Quinn, Nick Frost Co-production: USA, France

A troubled young black teenager, Maxine, rescues an eccentric old white lady, Eve, from being mugged by a mixed-race gang of teens and is rewarded for her act of kindness with the gift of a terrible secret: how to make and operate a wishbaby doll. Maxine thinks that the old lady is crazy, but when Eve's wishbaby doll is used to deliver a terrible punishment to the gang, she realises that Eve was telling the truth. A doll that can make your wishes come true is an attractive item and so, together, the odd couple perform an ancient ritual and Maxine gives life to a magic doll. This action releases Eve's dead governess from the grave and unleashes a violent storm of supernatural activity. Director: Stephen W Parsons 2008. HD. 80 min Production Company: Bubblehead Productions, 10 Primezone Mews, Haringey Park, London, N8 9JP, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7424 7280 email: jacqueline.parsons@ googlemail.com International Sales: Altadena Films, Linton House, 39/51 Highgate Road, London, NW5 1RS, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7424 7280, fax: +44 (0)20 7428 8936 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter, Sound: Stephen W Parsons Executive Producer: Jonathan Sothcott Editor: Anke Trojan Director of Photography: David G Griffiths Production Designer: David Endley Music: Stephen W Parsons, Francis Haines Cast: Tiana Benjamin, Fenella Fielding, Doc Brown, Claire Fox Budget: £180,000 Funding: Private Territories: All available

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Feature Films

Witch House: The Legend of Petronel Haxley

WMD

The World Unseen

`Thou shall not suffer a witch to live', screams hanging Judge John Stearne as he leads Petronel Haxley to the gallows.

In 2002, the USA and the UK are pushing to invade Iraq. Intelligence sources report Saddam has biochemical weapons ready for immediate launch - the perfect justification for war.

In 1950s South Africa, apartheid is just beginning. Free-spirited Amina has broken all the rules of her own conventional Indian community, and the new apartheidled government, by running a cafe  with Jacob her `coloured' business partner. When she meets Miriam, a young traditional wife and mother, their unexpected attraction pushes Miriam to question the rules that bind her. When Amina helps Miriam's sister-in-law to hide from the police, a chain of events is set in motion that changes both women forever.

This is England in the year 1640. Terror is unleashed on the unsuspecting students 370 years later. A common link with the past evokes retribution from hell. Director: Mike McCarthy 2008. HD. 85 min Production Company: Ironopolis Film Company Ltd, Teesside Tech Centre, Eston Road, Grangetown, Middlesbrough, TS6 6US, England, UK email: [email protected] web: www.ironopolisfilms.com Producer, Screenwriter: Mike McCarthy Executive Producer: Geoff Stalker Editor: Frank Saul Director of Photography: Steve O'Brien Sound: Tommy Hair Cast: Bill Fellows, Damien Hannaway, Alistair Chisholm, Tamzin Aitken, Natalie Chapman

When Alex Morgan, an ordinary MI6 desk officer, uncovers deliberate flaws in the evidence being used to support the invasion, he has to decide whether to risk his career and even his safety in this deceitful web of lies. A fictional account inspired by real events, WMD reveals what intelligence circles really knew in the build-up to the war. Did Saddam Hussein really possess weapons of mass destruction? Does it even matter? `In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act' George Orwell Director: David Holroyd 2008. DV Cam. 88 min Production Company: WMD Film Ltd, 24a Hazelbourne Road, London, SW12 9NS, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 8378 1455 email: [email protected], [email protected] Producer: Christine Hartland Executive Producer: Mark WatsonMitchell Screenwriter: David Holroyd Editor: Celia Haining Director of Photography: Steve Buckland Production Designer: James Lees Music: Samuel Sim, Chris White Cast: Simon Lenagan, Jo-Anne Knowles, Burnell Tucker, Glenn Conroy, Henry Everett Budget: £50,000 Funding: Private

In a system that divides white from black and women from men, what chance is there for an unexpected love to survive? From overcoming oppression to finding personal freedom, from the hardships of a loveless marriage to the hesitant joy of an unexpected love affair, The World Unseen transports the viewer to a vibrant, colourful world that is universal. Director: Shamim Sarif 2008. 35mm. 103 min Production Company: Enlightenment Production, 77 Cheyne Court, Royal Hospital Road, SW3 5TT, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7802 615 050 email: [email protected] web: www.enlightenmentproductions.com Producer: Hanan Kattan Executive Producer: Katherine Priestley, Eliza Tchenguiz-Imermas Screenwriter: Shamim Sarif Editor: Ranelle Loots Director of Photography: Mike Downie Production Designer: Tanya Van Tonder Sound: Rajendra Hedge Music: Richard Blackford Cast: Lisa Ray, Sheetal Sheth, Darvin Dabas, Nandana Sen, Colin Muss Funding: Private Territories: All available except South Africa Co-production: South Africa

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The Young Victoria The Young Victoria chronicles Queen Victoria's rise to power, focusing on the early turbulent years of her reign and her legendary romance and marriage to Prince Albert. Director: Jean-Marc Valle Âe 2007. 35 mm Production Company: GK Films, 3000 West Olympic Boulevard, Suite 1550, Santa Monica, CA 90404, USA tel: +1 310 315 1722, fax: +1 310 315 1723 email: [email protected] UK Distributor: Momentum Pictures, 2nd Floor, 184-192 Drummond Street, London, NW1 3HP, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7388 1100, fax: +44 (0)20 7383 0404 web: www.momentumpictures.co.uk International Sales: Initial Entertainment Group, 3000 West Olympic Boulevard, Suite 1550, Santa Monica, CA 90404, USA tel: +1 310 315 1722, fax: +1 310 315 1723 email: [email protected] Producer: Graham King, Martin Scorsese, Tim Headington, Sarah Ferguson, Denis O'Sullivan Screenwriter: Julian Fellowes Editor: Paul Jutras Director of Photography: Hagen Bogdanski Production Designer: Patrice Vermette Sound: Jim Greenhorn Cast: Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany, Jim Broadbent, Miranda Richardson Co-production: USA

Feature Films

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Short Films

[03.23.27]

4 Kilometers

9-5 Cowboy

Following an unexplained road accident on a country lane, we enter the unconscious of the driver. Tormented by a terrible incident in his past, he seeks redemption for his actions.

Just four kilometres off the highway in Southern Israel dwells a small Bedouin community. Here, 15 year-old Hulud cracks the barrier set on that highway and with her young brother and sister she goes on a journey that will enable her to let go of the life she once wished for.

Go ahead . . . make my working day.

Director: Sam Smith 2007. Mini DV. 10 min Production Company: Warped Noise Productions, 49 Stafford Business Village, Beaconside, Stafford, Staffordshire, ST18 0TW, England, UK tel: +44 (0)1785 887887 email: [email protected] Producer, Director of Photography: Dan Hunt Executive Producer: Gemma Kerr Screenwriter: Sam Smith, Gwyn Hemmings, Dan Hunt Editor: Jim Skinner Production Designer: Mark Kolodziejski Sound: Gwyn Hemmings, Dan Hunt Music: Sam Smith Cast: C H Li, Chris Bott, Yuki Luo

14 A normal day at home for a young girl, except it's her birthday. Director: Asitha Ameresekere 2008. HD. 8 min 30 sec Production Company: Punchi Films Ltd, Flat 4, 17 Armadale Road, London, SW6 1JL, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7725 957 087 email: [email protected] UK Distributor, International Sales: Hamburg Short Film Agency, Friedensallee 7, Hamburg, D-22765, Germany tel: +49 40 391 0630, fax: +49 40 3910 6320 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter: Asitha Ameresekere Editor: Abraham Teweldebrhan Director of Photography: Line Nikita Blom Production Designer: Michaela Wardop Sound: Rob Thomas Cast: Sarah Ridgeway, Tony Wadham, Susan Cummins

Director: Miri Shapiro 2008. 35mm. 23 min 20 sec Production Company: The London Film School, 24 Shelton Street, London, WC2H 9UB, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7836 9642, fax: +44 (0)20 7497 3718 email: [email protected] web: www.lfs.org.uk Producer: Rajita Shah Screenwriter: Miri Shapiro Editor: Vanat Sermpol Director of Photography: Paul Robinson Production Designer: Romi Aboulafia Sound: Lional Hicks, Yaniv Bitran Music: Yehonatan Azar, Yaniv Fridel Cast: Dima Taya, Abdalla Aqel, Estabrak Aqel, Sirat Fakhory, Asmaa Shrawla

5 Items Only A brief encounter between two strangers in a unisex changing room. Director: Mac & Fox 2007. Mini DV. 1 min Production Company: Magic If Ltd, 35 Ashleigh Grove, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 3DJ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)191 209 4282 email: [email protected] Producer: Bev Fox, Dawn Furness Executive Producer: Northern Film & Media Screenwriter: Bev Fox Editor, Director of Photography: Ian McClaughlin Production Designer: Simon Henderson Music: Mushi Mushi Cast: Sam Neale, Joey Haydon, Zoe Kang

Director: Orson Ossman 2007. 16mm. 11 min 38 sec Production Company: London Film Academy, 52a Walham Grove, London, SW6 1QR, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7386 7711, fax: +44 (0)20 7381 6116 email: [email protected] Producer: Adam Hitchen Screenwriter: Bruno Massi Editor: Sandun Seneviratne Director of Photography: Alexis Lanitis Sound, Music: David Hunt Cast: Seamus John Allen, Alex Tanner

Accidental Encounter Sasha, a beautiful woman in her 30s, has been unhappily married for years to her unfaithful and corrupt husband, Charlie. When she meets Jack, an attractive man in his 20s, an adulterous relationship develops between them. As their night of passion moves into morning, the day reveals some unpleasant truths. Director: Tamzin Haughton 2008. Mini DV. 15 min Production Company: Tamzin Haughton Films, 76a Avonmore Road, London, W14 8RS, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7966 233 219 email: [email protected] Producer: Julian Rhind-Tutt, Luke FoordKelcey Executive Producer: Focus Films West Screenwriter: Tamzin Haughton Editor: Xavier Valentine Director of Photography: Stephen Blackman Cast: Johnny Hynes, Catherine Siggins

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Short Films

Afternoon

The Air Catchers

The Allotment

The film begins in the wake of an argument between Zahidah and her daughter. Layla is unexpectedly cruel to her mother before their paths diverge. Layla skips school and loses her virginity to an older man. Zahidah returns home and transforms herself into a dominatrix sex worker. In the afternoon, their paths once again converge and things come to a head.

A wry look at environmental issues and the commercialisation of oxygen.

A largely improvised piece of dark comedy which explores Laura and Joy's struggle with Joy's disability on a supposedly fun day out.

Director: Fyzal Boulifa 2008. HD. 10 min Production Company, UK Distributor, International Sales: B3 Media, PO Box 41000, London, SW2 1HN, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7274 2121 email: [email protected] Producer: Sue NG Screenwriter: Fyzal Boulifa Editor: Liz Roe Director of Photography: Lol Crawley Sound: David Heinemann, Shane Vahey Music: Emily Williams Cast: Victoria Michaels, Malika Siao, Joe Bor, Peter Westbury

Ahoy! A pirate captain and her scallywags drag a large chest across the beach and into a cave where they meet a mysterious wench with a hoard of grog. But as they start to relax a sudden unwanted encounter forces a sharp return to the reality of their situation. Director: The Renowned Baker-Miles, Tara Baker-Miles 2007. HD. 4 min Production Company: Novantus Cinematic Productions, PO Box 163, Jersey, JE4 8RJ, Channel Islands tel: +44 (0)7092 172 044, fax: +44 (0)7092 172 044 email: [email protected] Producer: Tara Baker-Miles Editor: Bruce Wayne Director of Photography: The Renowned Baker-Miles Sound: Zachary Peel-McGregor Music: Duncan Miller Cast: Sally Somerville, Scoff McScofferson, Alexis Marett, Agnieszka Baginska, Byran Pill

Director: Barbara Parise-Browton 2007. DV Cam. 9 min 51 sec Production Company: Plush Productions Ltd, 8 Emmanuel Road, Hastings, East Sussex, TN34 3LB, England, UK tel: +44 (0)1424 428927 email: [email protected] web: www.plushproductions.co.uk Producer, Production Designer: Ben Browton Screenwriter: Barbara Parise-Browton Director of Photography: Alex Brattell Editor: Nick Pilton Music: Blue Eyed Sounds Sound: Paul Gardner Cast: Kirk Ronchetti, Alex Brattell, Ben Browton, Barbara Parise-Browton, Tamsin Harwood

Alex and Her Arse Truck Alex and Her Arse Truck is a story about a scooter riding zelophile called Baby Shoes, his dogfart nymphomaniac girlfriend Alex, her black lover Nylon, a mentalist called Poubelles and a pair of drug dealing lesbians called Manina and Javotte. Director: Sean Conway 2007. 16mm. 15 min Production Company: Third Films, 393 Two Ball Lonnen, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 9SA, England, UK tel: +44 (0)191 274 6024 email: [email protected] Producer: Samm Haillay Executive Producer: Rebecca MarkLawson, Jo McClellan Screenwriter: Sean Conway Editor: Dan Cheetham Director of Photography: Lol Crawley Production Designer: Joy Sanders Music: Giuseppe Andrews Cast: Danny Young, Gina Blondell

Director: Edward Sayers 2008. Mini DV. 14 min 10 sec Production Company: Seven Productions Ltd, 19 Ivor Street, London, NW1 9PJ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7482 6862 email: [email protected] Producer, Editor: Edward Sayers Screenwriter: Amanda Lawrence, Sarah Toogood. Music: Extreme Music Cast: Amanda Lawrence, Sarah Toogood, Chris Curran

The Amazing Hedge Puzzle A policeman chases a purse snatcher into a maze. He catches him but then can't find his way out. The two men must work together in order to survive. Director: Alexander Winckler 2007. DV Cam. 10 min 4 sec Production Company: Winckler Van Tulleken, 61 Marshall Court, Warsham Street, London, SW1P 4SZ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7977 927 962 email: [email protected] Producer: Jonathan Van Tulleken Executive Producer, Screenwriter: Tim Key, Tom Basden Editor, Director of Photography: Alexander Winckler Sound: Jesse Ehredt Cast: Tim Key, Tom Basden

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And Kill Them And Kill Them follows a platoon of new recruits through their first weeks in an army training camp. When Lawrence's failure to fall into line gets his platoon into trouble, the peer pressure mounts. Strangely, he begins to see Scarlet, the pin-up poster on the wall of the barracks, apparently come to life. Director: Miranda Bowen 2007. DV Cam. 24 min Production Company: IWC Media, Gloucester Building, Kensington Village, Avonmore Road, London, W14 8RF, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7013 4052, fax: +44 (0)20 7013 4001 email: [email protected] International Sales: RDF Rights, Beaumont House, Kensington Village, Avonmore Road, London, W14 8RF, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7013 4435, fax: +44 (0)20 7013 4001 email: [email protected] Producer: Jim Spencer, Hannah Weaver Executive Producer: Judy Counihan Screenwriter: Seamus Hilley Editor: David Gibson Director of Photography: Christopher Titus King Production Designer: Eddy Andres Sound: Anna Sulley Cast: Alfie Allen, Sean Rea, Coral Beed

Andrew A psychological romantic drama about one man's struggle with his conscience as he realises that he has become his own worst hate: the `other' man. He must now decide which is stronger, the hate that he feels for himself, or the love that he feels for his partner. Director: Alex Barrett 2007. HD. 15 min Production Company, UK Distributor, International Sales: Roll With It Productions Ltd, 42 Chiddingstone Street, London, SW6 3TG, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7747 620 206 email: rollwithitproductions@ googlemail.com Producer: Angus Watts Screenwriter: Alex Barrett Editor: Murat Kebir Director of Photography: Polly Morgan Sound: Jason Creasey Music: James McWilliam Cast: Matt Warman, Sarah-Louise Young, Christopher Tate, Angela Peters, Charlie Palmer

An Jowl yn Agas Kegin (The Devil in Your Kitchen) Downtrodden Cornish chef Scotty Roades is faced with bankruptcy, divorce and a lifetime of mediocrity. Could an encounter with the Lord of Darkness himself (who just so happens to communicate in the Cornish language) hold the answer? But what's the cost of a deal with the Devil? And just who is sat at table 18? Director: Brett Harvey 2007. Mini DV. 14 min 10 sec Production Company: O-Region, Fairview House, Wagg Lane, Probus, Truro, Cornwall, TR2 4JX, England, UK tel: +44 (0)1872 321509 email: [email protected] Producer: Oliver Berry Screenwriter, Editor: Brett Harvey Director of Photography: Morgan Lowndes Production Designer: Hana Backland Music: Wayne Chudley Cast: Craig Johnson, Amanda Lawrence, Phil Broadie, Arran Hawkins, Phillip Schofield

Another Plaice A man comes into conflict with modern art when his favourite beach is invaded by an army of rusty statues. Director: Eddie Singleton 2007. Mini DV. 2 min 58 sec Production Company: Azzurri Films, 8589 Duke Street, Liverpool, L1 5AP, England, UK tel: +44 (0)151 707 733, fax: +44 (0)151 707 7733 email: [email protected] web: www.azzurrifilms.co.uk Producer, Screenwriter, Editor: Eddie Singleton Cast: Gary Bird, Richard Sails

Anticlockwise 08.20: . . . This traffic is killing me! 08.40: Still stuck here. I'm sure that the manager will not be happy with me if I'm late again . . . 08.56: OK. I even have time to empty the ashtray! 09.00: . . . NO! At last, Matt, for once in your life, take a stand and STOP THE CLOCKS! Director: Dimitris Bavellas 2007. 16mm. 9 min 32 sec Production Company: The Northern Film School, Electric Press Building, 1 Millenium Square, Leeds, LS2 3AD, England, UK tel: +44 (0)113 283 8000 email: [email protected] UK Distributor, International Sales: Dimitris Bavellas, 9 Alma Road, Headingley, Leeds, LS6 2AH, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7772 587 170 email: [email protected] Producer: Caleb Shaffer Screenwriter: Dimitris Bavellas, Caleb Shaffer Editor: Oskar Idin Director of Photography: Joe Macdonald Production Designer: Sophia Katsoura Sound: Dimitris Bavellas Music: Pannonia Allstars Ska Orchestra Cast: Dan Atkinson, Mick Murphy, Brendan McCoy

The Applicant Jack is optimistic, looking for a new job. But when the rejections come flooding in, he finds their impersonal responses difficult to deal with and plays them at their game. Director: John Schwab 2007. HD. 10 min 15 sec Production Company: Solution Productions Ltd, 41 Casterbridge Road, London, SE3 9AD, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7932 040 708 email: [email protected] Producer: Tim Beckmann Screenwriter: Martin Scorer Editor: Colin Sumsion Director of Photography: Robin Fox Production Designer: Jeni Munns Sound: Jeff Richardson Music: Krista Detor Cast: Martin Scorer, Simon Jermond, Michael Maloney, Tim Whitnail

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Short Films

The Appointment

The Auction

Ball

Fischer, a paranoid writer, is woken in the middle of the night by three inspectors who issue him with a summons to see the state physician. On arrival, he is injected with hallucinogenic drugs and subjected to a bizarre psychological experiment. When he is rescued by Madeleine, he mistakenly thinks his ordeal is over.

This enigmatic psycho-thriller takes place in a North Wales town where a sexual killer is on the prowl. Len Malcolm, an oddball loner and computer geek, becomes interested in Fran Cook. She lives on her own in a dark and claustrophobic flat with a front door that won't close properly.

A man is woken by a ball thumping to a stop at the bottom of the staircase in his empty house. So who, or what, started it? Groundhog Day for the damned.

Director: Aaron Greenwood 2007. HDV. 18 min

Director: Sion Griffiths 2007. HD. 11 min 13 sec

Production Company, International Sales: Cat And Dog Films, 7 Stanley Road, Cambridge, CB5 8LF, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7816 611 106 email: [email protected] web: www.aarongreenwood.co.uk

Production Company: Antena, Unit 2, Cibyn, Caernarfon, Gwynedd, LL55 2BD, Wales, UK tel: +44 (0)1286 662200, fax: +44 (0)1286 678594 email: [email protected] web: www.antena.co.uk

Producer: Emily Blickem, Kate Robinson Screenwriter, Editor: Aaron Greenwood Director of Photography: A J Murray Production Designer: Colin Dewar Sound: Carl Homer Music: Chris Conway Cast: Andy Gathergood, Patrick Gordon, Caroline Colomei

Arafat & I Marwan is a Palestinian in love. He's finally met Lisa, the girl he's going to marry. Everything about her is perfect - she was even born on the same day as Chairman Arafat! But does Lisa know the significance of this coincidence? And how far will Marwan go to make her understand? Director: Mahdi Fleifel 2008. 16mm. 15 min 10 sec Production Company: National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield Studios, Station Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG, England, UK tel: +44 (0)1494 731457, fax: +44 (0)1494 674042 email: [email protected] web: www.nfts.co.uk UK Distributor, International Sales: Hemant Sharda, National Film and Television School tel: +44 (0)1494 731452, fax: +44 (0)1494 678583 email: [email protected] Producer: Alexander Ronnberg Screenwriter: M Fleifel Editor: Mikael Svartdahl Director of Photography: Daniel StaffordClark Production Designer: James Morrall Music: Roger Goula Cast: M Fleifel, Zein Ja'afar, Ximena Garcia Vera

Producer, Screenwriter: Sion Griffiths Editor: Phil Bayley Hughes Sound: Delyth Edwards Cast: Llyr Evans, Bethan Marlow

Bad Juju A journalist convinces her friends to take part in a se Âance as research for her next big story. When the ritual unexpectedly succeeds they learn that it isn't just children who shouldn't play with dead things. Director: Matt Compton 2007. HD. 8 min Production Company: Nefarious Films tel: +44 (0)7739 189 721 email: [email protected] web: www.nefariousfilms.co.uk Producer, Screenwriter, Editor: Matt Compton Executive Producer: Gill Pryce Director of Photography: Hugh MacDonald Sound: Josh O'Brien Music: Aaryk Noctivagus Cast: Gill Pryce, Karl Best, Rob Talbot, Jacqui Adams

Director: Ewan Bailey 2008. HD. 14 min 35 sec Production Company: Ewan Bailey Films, 57 Springfield Avenue, London, N10 3SX, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7775 522 217 email: [email protected] web: www.ewanbaileyfilms.com Producer, Screenwriter, Editor, Director of Photography, Production Designer: Ewan Bailey

Bare Necessities During the filming of a low budget thriller-slash-horror about bears, the producer discovers to his horror that his film has already been made. His knee-jerk reaction is to pull the shoot and cut his losses but can the director persuade him to take a different - and highly ethical environmental tack? Director: Kate Grey 2007. HD. 11 min 17 sec Production Company: GH Films, 52 Criffel Avenue, London, SW2 4BN, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 8674 1543, fax: +44 (0)20 8674 1543 email: [email protected] Producer: Chris Hynes Screenwriter: Kate Grey Editor: Bes Nugest Director of Photography: Sam Morris Production Designer: Gabriella Aestelli Cast: Rob Reina, Clare MacKenzie, Amanda Liberman, Ben Blubeck

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Short Films

The Beachcombers

A Bedtime Tale

The Bent Penny

Divided by the glittering expanse of the River Thames, a pair of shy beachcombers are drawn together through their search for rare antiquities when a chance discovery gives an ideal opportunity to cross the river. The Beachcombers is a heartwarming tale of friendship and love set against the backdrop of modern London.

Living with your half-deaf Granny is not easy, especially for ten year-old Willie. However when Willie pushes Granny to tell something more scary, it becomes a lot worse. Fantasy becomes reality when the horrifying, child-abducting Hacker arises. Willie must now face the monster that he fears most of all.

Three stories are linked by a penny that travels from person to person. The lives of these seemingly unrelated people are woven together through a twist of fate, resulting in a unique form of justice.

Director: Chris Croucher, Mark Beynon 2008. 16mm. 10 min 12 sec Production Company: Silvertip Films, 18 Northill Road, Ickwell, Bedfordshire, SG18 9ED, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7749 478 090 email: [email protected]

Director: George Gannon 2008. 16mm. 15 min 20 sec Production Company: London Film Academy, 52a Walham Grove, London, SW6 1QR, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7386 7711, fax: +44 (0)20 7381 6116 email: [email protected]

Producer: Michael Berliner Executive Producer: Geoff Cockwill, Sunny Varkey Screenwriter: Chris Croucher, Mark Beynon Editor: Trewin Cockwill Director of Photography: Anna ValdezHanks Production Designer: Catrin Meredydd Sound: Mike Palmer Music: Michael Ferguson, Blair Mowatt Cast: Charity Wakefield, Rasmus Hardiker

Producer: Metehan Yilmaz Screenwriter, Director of Photography: Diana Vasquez Editor: Niccollo Vitelli Cast: Anna Calder Marshall, Brandon Robinson

The Bedfordshire Clanger

Director: Carolina Giammetta, Schuman Hoque 2007. HD. 24 min 40 sec

A disillusioned cyclist on a charity bike ride gets lost riding through the unusual region of Bedfordshire. He finds inspiration from unexpected sources, through which he experiences the Bedfordshire clanger. Director: Marc Mason 2007. 35mm. 27 min Production Company: Five Feet Films Ltd, 122b Union Street, Dunstable, Bedfordshire, LU6 1HB, England, UK tel: +44 (0)1582 723852, fax: +44 (0)1582 435190 email: [email protected] web: www.fivefeetfilms.com Producer: Linda Chirrey, Marc Mason Screenwriter: Marc Mason Editor: Jeanne Delasnerie Director of Photography: Stuart Biddlecombe Production Designer: Emily Johnson Sound: Rod Berling Music: Ken Sykora Cast: Luis Nicolas, Ray Dalgarno, Susan Scott, Marsharee Birk

Before, After and . . . After That A short sweet romantic comedy that brings fantasy, dreams and desire to life.

Production Company: Studio Schoque/ Growp, Studio 44, The Old Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane, London, E1 6QL, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7770 6098 email: [email protected] Producer: Carolina Giammetta, Schuman Hoque Screenwriter: Carolina Giammetta Editor: Schuman Hoque Director of Photography: Dusan Krnac Music: Stephen Hudson Cast: Catriona Yuill, Sam Massey, Gareth Corke, Carolina Giammeta

Director: Darrel J Butlin 2007. HD. 16 min 47 sec Production Company, UK Distributor, International Sales: Eyebrid Blaze Film Ltd, 12 Osborne Road, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 2HB, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7929 288 815 email: [email protected] web: www.eyebridblaze.com Producer: Jeremy Vivian Screenwriter: Darrel J Butlin Editor: Ed Ison, Darrel J Butlin Director of Photography: Louie BystadCollins Production Designer: Paul Galloway Sound: David Brookfield Music: Robert Jan Meyer Cast: Olegar Fedoro, Simon Poland, Kay Curram, Angus Barr, Toby Davies

Bereavement We all at times have to deal with losing a loved one. Bereavement portrays one woman's loss as she candidly talks to camera in this heartfelt document. Director: Carl Medland 2008. HD. 5 min 23 sec Production Company: Discovery Films UK, 44 Corbidge Court, Glaisher Street, London, SE8 3ES, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7718 765 130 email: [email protected] web: www.discoveryfilmsuk.com Producer, Screenwriter: Carl Medland Editor: Arran Corbett Director of Photography: Amerjeet Singh Sadal Cast: Jane Merrow, Carl Medland

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Short Films

Bereft of Colour

Blood Road

Breather

When a blind artist regains her sight all of her inspiration seems to have gone with the darkness. Sight and vision will never be the same.

Lithuania 1886. A cold and frustrated police sergeant lashes out at a young Jewish boy on the way to school. Years later the boy's grandson returns to discover acceptance and love.

A man finds a stone outside his house. He picks it up, with unexpected consequences.

Director: Alison Hassan 2007. 16mm. 10 min 16 sec Production Company: London Film Academy, 52a Walham Grove, London, SW6 1QR, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7386 7711, fax: +44 (0)20 7381 6116 Producer: Simon Gill Screenwriter: Julio Garcia Editor: Diana Buzzo Director of Photography: William Tennant Production Designer: Hiromi Sato Sound: Yun Tae Smith Music: Toph Smith Cast: Harriet Muller, Gavin Brockwell

Big Bad Wolf A story of a young girl who, in exploring her boundaries and the darker aspects of her own psyche, finds that such journeys and experiences come at a price. In this allegorical story, the characters of Goldilocks, the Big Bad Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood display their fairytale archetypes. Director: Shobina Jayaseelan 2007. s16mm. 6 min 15 sec Main Contact: Shobina Jayaseelan, 108 Vale Royal House, 36 Newport Court, London, WC2H 7QA, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7757 771 850 email: [email protected] Screenwriter: Shobina Jayaseelan Editor: Jonathan Hardy Director of Photography: Digby Elliot Sound: Christopher Keith Cast: Kathryn Usher, Rhia Coles, Philip Hayden, Leigh Haywood

Director: Temple Clark 2007. 16mm. 22 min Main Contact: Temple Clark, 48 Underhill Road, London, SE22 0QT, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 8229 2015, fax: +44 (0)20 8299 2015 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter, Production Designer: Temple Clark Editor: Robyn Whitehead Director of Photography: David Katznelson Sound: Tom Heddy Music: Richard Strange, David Coulter Cast: Pip Torrens, Billy Clarke, Sadie Vincent-Bennett, Adam Fletcher

Bondi 3000: The Making Of The schizoid, snail-paced production of a futuristic English epic about how the British will reclaim Bondi from Australia in the year 3000. Filmed entirely on location in London, Bournemouth and Sydney's Bondi Beach, this is a tale of the ultimate tragedy. Director: Michael Ebner 2007. HD. 19 min Production Company: Pen And Picture, MacQuarie House, 3a Southwood Avenue, Bournemouth, BH6 3QA, England, UK tel: +44 (0)1202 804746 email: [email protected] web: www.penandpicture.com Producer, Director of Photography: Michael Ebner Screenwriter: Mike Mills Editor, Sound: Chris Gavellas Music: Michael McGlynn Cast: Ben Lawson, Simon Lee, Nolan Mills

Director: Peter Snowdon 2007. 16mm. 1 min 23 sec Production Company: Gourna Films, 16 Longmeadows, Ponteland, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE20 9DY, England, UK tel: +44 (0)1661 823683 email: [email protected] web: www.gournafilms.wordpress.com Producer, Screenwriter: Peter Snowdon Editor: Bruno Tracy Production Designer: Chris Coles Sound: Ludovic Van Pachterbeke Music: Paul Miskin Cast: Scali Delpeyrat

Call Me by his Name Seated in a living-room, a girl watches her mother walk out the door without saying goodbye once again. She goes upstairs to her recently deceased brother's room. She is sad but determined to change her life forever. Director: Sofia Hericson 2007. DVC Pro HD. 12 min 10 sec Main Contact: Sofia Hericson, 9a Cadogan Place, Preston, Lancashire, PR1 3TB, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7910 526 285 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter, Editor, Production Designer: Sofia Hericson Director of Photography: Christopher Higgins Sound: Anthony Camm Cast: Amy Barnes, Maija Ozolina

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Camille e Mariuccia

Cartwheels

The Chef's Letter

Elio reluctantly agrees to take Piero, his intrusive old neighbour, to a distant police station, and brings along his ex-girlfriend's ferret, Layla. During the trip, these two men help each other to accept the loss of their women but not without some misunderstandings.

From housewife to wonderwoman - the power of pole dancing.

A successful chef who runs his kitchen with precision unexpectedly falls in love with a worker and decides to declare his passion in a letter. But will suspicions of intimacy between the easygoing kitchen staff undermine the future he has imagined?

Director: Samuele Romano 2008. Digibeta. 24 min Production Company: The London Film School, 24 Shelton Street, London, WC2H 9UB, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7836 9642, fax: +44 (0)20 7497 3718 email: [email protected] web: www.lfs.org.uk

Director: Esther Hegarty 2008. HD. 5 min 17 sec Main Contact: Esther Hegarty, Flat 4, Daytone House, 1a Crescent Road, London, SW20 8EY, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7790 845 967 email: [email protected] UK Distributor: Icewhole Beta, Underground X Ltd, 10 Orange Street, Haymarket, London, WC2 7DH, England, UK Producer: Esther Hegarty, Eddie Harrison Screenwriter: Eddie Harrison Editor: James Curry Director of Photography: David Marsh Production Designer: Maggie Carroll Sound: David Lascelles Music: Jeff Danna Cast: Beth Coringly, Nicky Smith, Matt Hebden

Producer: Gabrielle Manfre Screenwriter: Samuele Romano Editor: Marco Battiloro Director of Photography: Robert Wilson Production Designer: Francesco Salvatore Sound: Marco Oriunto Music: Roby Meola Cast: Maurizio Tabani, Umberto Terruso, Munir Romdhani, Pino Ricci, Alessandro Mucci

Chain

Canbury

An elderly man is tormented by local youths and rejected by his own family, causing him to explode in violence.

Canbury is a trilogy of stories concerning the lives of six 20-somethings, dealing with their journey and progression (or lack thereof) beyond the confines of adolescence. Director: Alex Barrett 2008. HD. 12 min Production Company, UK Distributor, International Sales: Tiga Kali Studio, 61 Staunton Road, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, KT2 5TN, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 8549 1235 email: [email protected] web: www.tigakalistudio.co.uk Producer: Alex Barrett, Andrew Visser Screenwriter: Alex Barrett, Charlotte Coy, Sari Easton Editor: Alex Barrett Director of Photography: Ben Jones, Daniel Rothschild, Andrew Visser Sound, Music: Jason Creasey Cast: Charlotte Coy, Sari Easton, Rachel Bright, Lachlan McCall, James Groom

Director: Gregory Crosbie 2007. 16mm. 13 min 33 sec Production Company, UK Distributor, International Sales: Screen Academy Scotland, Napier University, 2a Merchiston Avenue, Edinburgh, EH10 4NU, Scotland, UK tel: +44 (0)131 455 2572, fax: +44 (0)131 455 2538 email: [email protected] web: www.screenacademyscotland.ac.uk Producer: Mark McGhee, Rory O'Hara Executive Producer: Robin MacPherson Screenwriter: James Crosbie Editor: Donny Bodcock Director of Photography: Philip Robertson Production Designer: Kara Ramsey Sound: Alan Bruce Music: Norman Mackay, Neil Hamilton Cast: Peter Kelly, Stephen Clyde, Jamie Quinn, Jay Houston

Director: Sybil H Mair 2008. 35mm. 14 min 10 sec Production Company: Gaius Productions Ltd, 9 Dale Street, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, CV32 5HH, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7739 041 920 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter, Production Designer: Sybil H Mair Editor: Helle Le Fevre Director of Photography: Charlotte Bruus Christensen Sound: Vincent Watts Music: Stephen Daltry Cast: Jonathan Firth, Ray Fearon, Layke Anderson, Lauren Steventon

Chicane After a violent and dreadful street attack Kris will never be the same. Fear and horror will rule his life until everything he once loved has gone forever. Director: Nathan T Heys 2007. 16mm. 10 min 42 sec Production Company: London Film Academy, 52a Walham Grove, London, SW6 1QR, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7386 7711, fax: +44 (0)20 7381 6116 email: [email protected] Producer: Joseph A Adesunlaye Screenwriter: Charlie Bray Editor: Yaya Halawani Director of Photography: Antonis Bakopoulos Sound: Barney Quinton Cast: Nigel Mattison, Elyse Marks, Richard Ings

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Short Films

Christmas Bonus

The Circle

The Clay Wall

The love of Mack's life dumped him last Christmas. What's worse is she kept the ring he bought her. Now it's Christmas again and Mack, without a bonus, hatches a foolproof plan to steal his ex-girlfriend's ring and pawn it for this year's presents. What could go wrong? What could go right?

A modern-day Western about redemption and revenge. Sirjad draws a circle around a derelict petrol station and decrees that within this boundary he cannot be touched. When a half-dead woman collapses on the edge of his circle, he takes her in to discover they are both running from the same thing.

The Clay Wall is a story about a young man's desire to escape himself. Bored by provincial life he concocts a hallucinogenic ointment that causes visions of lycanthropy and tender sexual violence. The film draws on adolescent rites of passage and the history of witchcraft in rural Scotland.

Director: Aaron Singer-Lee 2007. HD. 11 min

Director: Tinge Krishnan 2007. HD. 24 min

Director: Duncan Marquiss 2007. HD. 12 min

Production Company: Cinematic Gorillas, Floor 4, 4 Croftdown Road, London, NW5 1EH, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7419 4580 email: [email protected] web: www.cinematicgorillas.com

Production Company: IWC Media, Gloucester Building, Kensington Village, Avonmore Road, London, W14 8RF, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7013 4052, fax: +44 (0)20 7013 4001 email: [email protected]

Production Company: Brocken Spectre, The Producers Centre, 61 Holland Street, Glasgow, G2 4NJ, Scotland, UK tel: +44 (0)141 287 9224, fax: +44 (0)141 287 9513 email: [email protected]

Producer: Mikael N'Dour Screenwriter: Aaron Singer-Lee Editor: Johan Rock Director of Photography: Pedro De La Fuente Sound: Henry Mackintosh Music: Jalef Cast: Samuel Anderson, Laura Murray, Stephen John Holgate, Constance Dalrymple

The Christmas Fairy John and Hannah scramble off to bed to wait for Santa Claus. Sarah, their exhausted mother, waiting for her husband to return from the pub, receives a strange visitor who shows her just how different life can be if only she believed in the Christmas Fairy. Director: Andi Reiss 2007. DV Cam. 10 min Production Company: Spa Road Ltd, 17 Christchurch Road, Worthing, BN11 1JH, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7837 095 431 email: [email protected] International Sales: Yellow Productions Ltd tel: +44 (0)7775 713 363 email: [email protected] web: www.yellowuk.biz Producer: Rebekah Wilkinson, Andi Reiss Screenwriter: Rebekah Wilkinson Editor: Andi Reiss Director of Photography: Dave Rankin, Boyd Skinner Production Designer: Anita Desmarais Sound: Russell Keefe Music: Ishlo Cast: Lorna Bennett, Jon Sidgwick, Ethan Hammer, Sabrina Hammer, Sarah Bennett

International Sales: RDF Rights, Beaumont House, Kensington Village, Avonmore Road, London, W14 8RF, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7013 4435, fax: +44 (0)20 7013 4001 email: [email protected] Producer: Jim Spencer, Hannah Weaver Executive Producer: Judy Counihan Screenwriter: Waris Islam Editor: Alastair Reid Director of Photography: Lol Crawley Production Designer: Jo Manser Sound: Anna Sulley Music: Chris Bangs, Chris Warren Cast: Anthony Flanagan, Shobna Gulati, Nicholas Aaron, Craig Gazey

Clair Clair is a fiercely independent 16 yearold. She lives in a twilight world of threat and violence. Kidnapped from her house by one of her stepfather's associates, she has to escape and do whatever she can to survive. Director: Kevin West 2008. Mini DV. 14 min Production Company: West Film Productions, 26 Farrier Road, Northwood, Kirkby, Liverpool, L33 5XX, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7806 256 417 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter, Editor, Director of Photography, Sound, Music: Kevin West Cast: Sarah Gibbons, Ritchie Grice, Will Cain, Kevin West, Les Rowlands

Producer: Rosie Crerar Executive Producer: David Smith Screenwriter, Music: Duncan Marquiss Editor: Aldo Palumbo Director of Photography: Kathleen Friend Production Designer: Jade Strachan Sound: John Cobban Cast: William Ruane, Danielle Stewart

Close Two women, a teenager and a schoolgirl, share the same house in former East Berlin. They cross each other every day but hardly know one another. This particular day, they all experience a turning point in their lives. Forced by their loneliness and the consequences of events, they finally share their secrets. Director: Theresa von Eltz 2007. HD. 30 min Production Company: National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield Studios, Station Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG, England, UK tel: +44 (0)1494 731457, fax: +44 (0)1494 674042 email: [email protected] web: www.nfts.co.uk UK Distributor, International Sales: Hemant Sharda, National Film and Television School tel: +44 (0)1494 731452, fax: +44 (0)1494 678583 email: [email protected] Producer: Yan Schoenefeld Screenwriter: Theresa von Eltz Editor: Brian Welsh Director of Photography: Ula Pontikos Music: Gary Sanctuary

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Clowns

Crass Transit

Curse of the Bands

In a world devoid of freedom, Barry struggles to embrace his emotions and views of society. But he is determined to show the world the absolute truth.

A man wakes up to a car that won't start and it all goes (literally) downhill from there. All he wants to do is get to work!

Two ancient cursed Chi bracelets. Wearing one grants you special powers. Wearing both grants you immortality . . . at a price. Two bands of friends, one good and the other bad, possess one bracelet each. Who will win the fight to get both? Who will triumph in Curse of the Bands?

Director: Jaemes Gregory 2007. HD. 13 min Production Company: HRF: Higher Reality Films, Magic Town Media, Tower Bridge Business Complex, London, SE16 4DG, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7909 991 581 email: [email protected] Producer: Jaemes Gregory Executive Producer: Hermann Djoumesst Screenwriter: Gordon Robertson Editor: Chris Chow, Maxim Nilov Director of Photography: Ben Nazroo Production Designer: Melanie Light Sound: Edhvardo Portugal Music: Ricky Baxter Cast: Arin Alldridge, Benjamin Godley

Crafta Webb 11 year-old Anna is sure she never wanted to be dragged to this new life in the English countryside, until she discovers Crafta Webb. Director: Adrian Lambert 2007. Mini DV. 40 min Production Company: The Rural Media Company, Sullivan House, 72-80 Widemarsh Street, Hereford, HR4 9HG, England, UK tel: +44 (0)1432 344039, fax: +44 (0)1432 270539 email: [email protected] web: www.ruralmedia.co.uk Producer: Adrian Lambert Screenwriter: Louise Osborn Editor: John Humphreys Director of Photography: Des Seal Sound: Martin Finney Music: Kim Humphrey Cast: Robyn Collins, Jean Dubberly, Raimonda Cioga-de-Almeida, Phil Morgan

Director: Jacqui Adams 2007. HD. 1 min Main Contact: Jacqui Adams, 17 Cookhill Road, London, SE2 9PD, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7947 865 222 email: [email protected] Producer: Katheryn Needham Screenwriter: Jacqui Adams Editor: Harry Clegg Director of Photography: Hugh Macdonald Sound: KC Thiruchelvam Music: Andy Stuteley Cast: Colin Black, Karl Best

The Curry Club John comes home to visit 30 years after his death. As life goes on all around his mother, Flossy, she sinks into seclusion. Will John's visit from afar re-ignite her and will daughter Susi persuade her to go to the curry club where husband Bob and neighbour Audrey are getting cosy? Director: Rita Osei 2007. Digibeta. 15 min 55 sec Production Company: Sugar & Water Films, 21 Grove House, 16 Tudor Grove, London, E9 7QP, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 8985 0946 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter: Rita Osei Editor: Paddy Payne Director of Photography: Stein Stie Production Designer: Nick Somerville Sound: Johnny Lance Cast: Lorren Joseph, Cleo Sylvestre, Kenneth Cranham, Ruth Sheen, Polly Nayler

Director: Shahid Karim 2008. DV Cam. 33 min 44 sec Production Company: Deliverance Films, 100 Whitby Crescent, Woodthorpe, Nottingham, NG5 4PR, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7969 621 868 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter, Editor, Director of Photography: Shahid Karim Sound, Music: Saleena Karim Cast: Sharjeel Ahmed, Faraz Ayub, Jack Butler, Adam Brown, John Savage

Das Dores Das Dores tells the story of two teenagers trapped in an abandoned petrol station while running away from home. As they are given the chance to reconsider if eloping was such a good idea, strange things begin to occur and it becomes clear that beyond their actions lies another repeating pattern. Director: Gabriel Tupinamba  2008. HD. 28 min Production Company: Nonada Films, 1130 Avenida Atlantida, 12th Floor, Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, 22021-000, Brazil tel: +55 212 105 9500, fax: +55 212 105 9501 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter, Music: Gabriel Tupinamba  Executive Producer: Luis Vidal Editor: Gabriel Tupinamba Â, Armen Antranikian Director of Photography: Armen Antranikian Production Designer: Daniel Flaksman Sound: Videosonics Cast: Julia Gorman, Vicente Coelho

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The Date

Dead Cell

Deaden

The Date features one character, one location (except a flashback at the beginning and the end) and is told entirely in sound and vision. Voyeuristically shot, it centres on a 50something woman seemingly preparing for her first date after her husband has left her, but what dark secret is she hiding?

A young woman awakes in a cell. She has done nothing to be there. She is going to discover that she is guilty of having done nothing.

You're bound and beaten on a forest floor. Two masked men demand you speak or be killed. How will you escape? Through fight or flight? An exhilarating first person narrative that throws the viewer headlong into a nightmarish scenario. An adrenalinfuelled denouement of violent consequence.

Director: Lisa Howells 2007. Mini DV. 10 min Production Company: Independent, 61 Dunbar Street, West Norwood, SE27 9JY, England, UK email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter: Lisa Howells Editor: Ian Grey Director of Photography: Alex Hill Sound: Donald Bousted Cast: Caroline Jay, Arthur Wilson, Polly Whybrow

Director: Lou Ma Ho 2007. HDV. 31 min Production Company: Oliwood Productions, Top Floor Flat, 95 Chesterton Road, London, W6 7RF, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7961 117 402 email: [email protected] web: www.oliwood.co.uk Producer: Oli Harbottle, Marc-Olivier Louveau Screenwriter: Lou Ma Ho Editor: Frederic Thoravel Director of Photography: Michel Azous Sound: Laurent Mauduit Music: Steve Shehan Cast: Mai Anh Le, Thierry Pietra Co-production: France

Dave & David A tragi-comedy of two briefly successful actors and their attempt to resurrect the tatters of their careers. They hole up in a remote cottage to write their triumphant comeback, determined to put their differences behind them. If only human nature worked that way. Director: N G Bristow 2007. HDV. 18 min 8 sec Production Company: First Gate Films, 119b Crofton Road, London, SE5 8LZ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7773 777 234 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter: N G Bristow Editor: Sebastian Morrison Director of Photography: Joachim Bergamin Sound: Rada Danilovic Music: Stephen Murphy Cast: Steve North, James Docherty, Pauline McLynn, Ken Campbell, Tracy-Ann Oberman

Dead Dog A man sets out with his girlfriend to confront the local gamekeeper when his beloved dog goes missing. He holds his fears at bay with a grisly revenge fantasy but his feelings quickly overwhelm him when his worst imaginings play out in real life. Director: Edward Jeffreys 2008. 16mm. 8 min Production Company: Signal Films, 2 Lightburn Road, Ulverstone, Cumbria, LA12 0AU, England, UK tel: +44 (0)1229 838592 email: [email protected] web: www.shorelinefilms.com Producer: Loren Slater, Kerry Kolbe Screenwriter: Edward Jeffreys Editor: Edd Maggs, Jon Levy Director of Photography: Loren Slater, Emma Dalesman Production Designer: Jade Strachan Sound: Matt Palmer Music: John Tuff Cast: Chloe Bale, Iain London, Adam Grayson

Director: Jonathan Lieb 2008. 16mm. 10 min Production Company: Subject to Change, 83c Downs Road, London, E5 8DS, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7793 839 259 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter: Jonathan Lieb Editor: Alex Lea Director of Photography: Benjamin Pritchard Sound: Vince Watts Music: Point B Cast: Neil Webster, Bradley Benjamin

Decision What once seemed like eternal love has been forgotten and put away. All that's left is loneliness, sorrow and pain. What will it take for her to turn her life around? Director: Maddelena Patrese 2007. 16mm. 5 min 40 sec Production Company: London Film Academy, 52a Walham Grove, London, SW6 1QR, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7386 7711, fax: +44 (0)20 7381 6116 email: [email protected] Producer: Patricia Chamah Screenwriter: Yun Tae Kang Editor: Linnea Gambari Director of Photography: Jonathan Andrews Production Designer: Maria Sole Cortese Music: Paul Tucker Cast: Reiko Yoshioa, Stuart Bowman

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Detour

Dorothy

Eight Minutes

A simple road trip becomes a journey of revenge after a motorist, still coping with the untimely death of his daughter, happens across the man who apparently predicted her death.

Dorothy is lonely. She'd like a new friend. So would her flatmate Vivian.

A down-and-out office worker is forced to come to terms with his impending doom when the sun suddenly explodes leaving him, and the rest of the world, with only minutes left to live.

Director: K Akeseh Tsakpo 2008. DV Cam. 11 min 37 sec Production Company: Calling The Shots, 1 Gas Ferry Road, Bristol, BS1 6UN, England, UK tel: +44 (0)117 930 0141 email: [email protected] International Sales: K Akeseh Tsakpo, 115 Stroud Road, Gloucester, GL1 5AH, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7766 075 091 email: [email protected] Executive Producer: Sarah-Jane Meredith Screenwriter: K Akeseh Tsakpo, George Hopkin Editor: David Thompson Director of Photography: Stuart Brereton Production Designer: Valentina Cavellini Sound: Pete Howell Music: Stuart Fox Cast: Simon Slater, Malcolm Hamilton, Selina MacDonald

Domestics A couple argue over ice cream. It seems to be heading for a very sticky end. Director: Rob Curry 2008. HD. 5 min Production Company: Fifth Column Films, 32 Tremlett Grove, London, N19 5JY, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7753 604 923 email: [email protected] web: www.fifthcolumn.org.uk UK Distributor: Maya Vision International, 3rd Floor, Kinghorn Street, London, EC1A 7HW, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7796 4842, fax: +44 (0)20 7796 4580 email: [email protected] Producer: Colin McKeown Screenwriter: Anthony Fletcher Cast: Maimie McCoy, John Lightbody

Director: Dorna Aslanzadeh 2007. HD. 21 min 9 sec Production Company: National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield Studios, Station Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG, England, UK tel: +44 (0)1494 731457, fax: +44 (0)1494 674042 email: [email protected] web: www.nfts.co.uk UK Distributor, International Sales: Hemant Sharda, National Film and Television School tel: +44 (0)1494 731457, fax: +44 (0)1494 678583 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter: Dorna Aslanzadeh Editor: Mahdis Neghabian Director of Photography: Lukas Demgenski Music: Foad Arbadi Cast: Elmira Arikan, Bahador Foladi, Dan Li

The East Front An old lady and her family are moving out of their East London flat. Meanwhile, architects and city planners are talking about the expansion of the City's financial district eastward. Two worlds collide in a tragi-comic war, leaving no disillusionment about losers and winners. Director: Giannis Georgiou 2007. HD. 9 min 20 sec Production Company: National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield Studios, Station Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG, England, UK tel: +44 (0)1494 731457, fax: +44 (0)1494 674042 email: [email protected] web: www.nfts.co.uk International Sales, UK Distributor: Hemant Sharda, National Film and Television School tel: +44 (0)1494 731452, fax: +44 (0)1494 678583 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter, Editor, Sound: Giannis Georgiou Director of Photography: Tania Freimuth Music: Stefanos Kozanis Cast: Debra Baker, Kamrul Hassan, Huggy Leaver, Pamela Lyne, Christopher Doyle

Director: Joe Barton Atkinson 2007. HD. 15 min Production Company: Westminster Film School, Watford Road, Northwick Park, Harrow, Middlesex, HA1 3TP, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7911 5000, fax: +44 (0)20 7911 5943 email: [email protected] Producer: Rob Kelley, Lilit Adamyan Screenwriter: Jason Ward Editor: Rory Green Director of Photography: James Leckey Production Designer: Amy Cook Sound: Alex Nunes Cast: Harry Sarjeant, Vera Chok, Duncan Barrett

El Espiritu de Animitas (The Spirit of Animitas) Two men, alone in the Atacama Desert: one kills for pleasure, the other for revenge - which one will achieve his objective first? Director: Tony Jopia 2008. Mini DV. 15 min Production Company, UK Distributor, International Sales: Jopia Productions, Flat 6, Wroxton House, Church Street, Wroxton, Banbury, OX15 6QF, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7710 329 396 email: [email protected] Producer: Tony Jopia, Alan Cerda Screenwriter: Tony Clarke Editor: Rick Homer, Shane Hope, Matt McArthur Director of Photography: Fernando van Camps Production Designer: Mario Jopia Sound: Eddie Menez Music: Matt Hickinbottom, The Voodoo Killing Machine Cast: Aldo Prieto Henriquez, Anita Fritis, Geraldine Pouget, Waldo Ahumada Rocco Co-production: Chile

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Emo

Encore

Eye Level

Following a breakdown, 27 year-old Vincent gets a job at an out-of-town furniture store, far from his previous life in the ivory towers of Oxbridge. The staff is almost entirely composed of teenagers working summer jobs and Vincent finds himself pretending to be 17 in order to fit in.

When life has to come to an end sooner than expected everything can be completely miserable. But one last song will make Jack Hector's journey a pleasant one.

Eye Level follows private investigator Frank Stanton's search for the mysterious Marla, through the twisted mind of Frank's unstable landlord Ray in a noiristic vision of London.

Director: Yaya Halawani 2007. 16mm. 8 min 25 sec

Director: Justin Addleton 2008. HDV. 17 min 53 sec

Production Company: London Film Academy, 52a Walham Grove, London, SW6 1QR, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7386 7711, fax: +44 (0)20 7381 6116 email: [email protected]

Main Contact: Justin Addleton, Flat 2, 2 Dalyell Road, London, SW9 9QR, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7775 677 110 email: [email protected]

Director: China Moo Young 2007. DV Cam. 24 min Production Company: IWC Media, Gloucester Building, Kensington Village, Avonmore Road, London, W14 8RF, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7013 4052, fax: +44 (0)20 7013 4001 email: [email protected] International Sales: RDF Rights, Beaumont House, Kensington Village, Avonmore Road, London, W14 8RF, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7013 4435, fax: +44 (0)20 7013 4001 email: [email protected] Producer: Jim Spencer, Hannah Weaver Executive Producer: Judy Counihan Screenwriter: Nicole Taylor Editor: David Gibson Director of Photography: Christopher Titus King Production Designer: Eddy Andres Sound: Anna Sulley Music: Oskar Johnny Dave, Nick Powell Cast: Jefferson Hall, Sandra Clark, Mhairi Steenbock, Rachel Jackson

Empire of Modern Passivity In a beautiful landscape, a conflict is taking place between two ideologies. Director: Joaquim Barreto, Martin Blazing 2007. HD. 8 min Main Contact: Joaquim Barreto, 8 Rochester Court, Rochester Square, London, NW1 9EL, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7910 539 957 email: [email protected] Producer: Joaquim Barreto Screenwriter: Jimmy Razor Editor: Martin Blazey, Matthew Torn Director of Photography: Robert McGowan Sound: Javor Dimitrov Music: Taigen Kawabe Cast: Lilianne Cookson, Theodore Best

Producer: Andrew Adu-Amankwah Screenwriter: Orson Ossman Editor: Ivaylo Minov Director of Photography: Sandun Seneviratne Production Designer: Steve Granger Music: Will Jakeway Cast: Hilary Sesta, Haruka Abe, Ross Hampton, Lee Kavitz

Exit Strategy It's a morning like any other and a husband and wife lie asleep in apparent bliss. But this morning the husband makes a phone call and organises a little surprise for his wife, her funeral. A black comedy about a dysfunctional marriage in a consumerist dystopia. Director: Frederic Casella 2007. DV Cam. 8 min 30 sec Production Company: Exit Strategy Productions Ltd, 6/47 Linden Gardens, London, W2 4HQ, England, UK email: [email protected] Producer: Frederic Casella, Graham Hodge Screenwriter: Graham Hodge Editor: Michael Duxbury Director of Photography: Will Hutchinson Sound: Paul Davies Music: James Coleman Cast: Miranda Raison, Ben Willbond, Jonathan Ryland

Producer, Screenwriter: Justin Addleton Editor: Chris Cox, Justin Addleton Director of Photography: Sam Lidbetter Sound: Steve McIngurney, Matthew Moore Music: Tom Gilchrest, James Frostick Cast: George Nelson, Pamela Flanagan, Gregory Doherty, Aidan O'Neill, Jamie Addleton

Faker Faker is a bittersweet drama focusing on a fleeting encounter between two mismatched strangers during a bus journey. Director: Mark Chapman 2008. HD. 5 min Production Company: Arpeggio Films, 50 Sackville Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 5TA, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7932 795 231 email: [email protected] Producer: Mark Chapman, Will Sadler Executive Producer: Victoria Johnson, Ednie Wilson Screenwriter, Editor, Sound: Mark Chapman Director of Photography: Kyle Heslop Production Designer: Mike Myers Music: Michael Storrie Cast: John Winter, Beth Waterstone, Andrea Watson

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A Fall

Fate and the Fedora Hat

First

A group of individuals living in an isolated British seaside town are all witness to a spectacle of biblical proportions.

Frank sits in a laundrette; an unlit cigarette dangles in his mouth. He reflects over the previous events that brought him there and the mystery woman he met in an alleyway.

Sophie, a teenager with learning difficulties, is a talented pianist. When her best friend Danko enters her into a prestigious composer competition she discovers that the world is not quite ready for her unorthodox musical style.

Director: Jamie Quantrill 2007. HD. 35 min 30 sec Main Contact: Jamie Quantrill, 8 St Olaves Gardens, Walnut Tree Walk, London, SE11 6DR, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7803 049 153 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter, Editor: Jamie Quantrill Director of Photography: John Ford Production Designer: Andrew Edwards Sound: Wayne Urquhurt Music: Jonny Pilcher, Bradford Bailey Cast: Pedro Rosa, Jack Snowling, George Lupton, Joshua Parry, Lara Costa

Famous Last Words A young woman boards a train on the London Underground. Is she nervous? And if so, why? Director: Avril Evans 2007. 16mm. 7 min Production Company, UK Distributor, International Sales: Steps International, PO Box 21545, Kloof Street, Capetown, 8008, South Africa tel: +27 21 465 5805, fax: +27 21 465 5806 email: [email protected] Producer: Brian Tilley Executive Producer: Don Edkins, Mette Heide Screenwriter: Avril Evans Editor: Simon Thorne Director of Photography: David Rom Production Designer: Lewor Evans Sound: Editstore Cast: Manjinder Virk, Jan Dean, Frances Redmond

Director: Michael McHugh 2008. HD. 13 min 53 sec Production Company: 10 Story Films Ltd, 277 Eversholt Street, London, NW1 1BA, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7988 448 099 email: [email protected] Producer, Editor: Michael McHugh Executive Producer, Production Designer: Karen McHugh Screenwriter: Michael McHugh, Angelo Siderilis Director of Photography: Mattias Nyberg Sound: Bastian Kemmerich Music: Steve Bond Cast: Mark Hampton, Elin Edvinsson, Horam Bleetman

Finders Keep A modern fairytale, a house in the woods, three wise women that have amazing skills and our heroine Dorla, who can't get her head round it at all. Director: Shona Donaldson 2008. HD. 15 min 4 sec Main Contact: Shona Donaldson, Laeiszstrasse 17, Hamburg, D-20357, Germany tel: +49 40 4329 0455 email: [email protected] Screenwriter, Editor: Shona Donaldson Director of Photography: Kamilla Nowicki Sound: Nadir Al Badri Music: Tillman Borck Cast: Linda Gathu, Francesca Manzi, Andrea Chialton, Maxine Brown Co-production: Germany

Director: Tinge Krishnan 2007. 35mm. 6 min Production Company: Disruptive Element Films, Flat 2, 6 Colville Terrace, London, W11 2BE, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7727 8296 web: www.disruptive.co.uk Producer: Sacha Guttenstein Screenwriter: Tinge Krishnan Editor: Lewis Albrow Director of Photography: Catherine Derry Music: Chris Bangs Cast: Kali Perkins, Chris Lodge, Celyn Jones

Five Minutes to Five Steps A dark horror about a man and his obsession with hunting and cleansing homeless people. Director: David Lumsden 2007. DV Cam. 6 min 56 sec Production Company: Blimey Productions, 37 Guthrie Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1PW, Scotland, UK tel: +44 (0)7742 978 996 email: [email protected] Producer: Matt Brown Screenwriter, Editor: David Lumsden Director of Photography: Patrick Murray Sound: Scott Young Music: Steven Housgo Cast: Timo Langer, Ben Somerville

Five Pound Note A story of love, destiny, fate and incredible coincidences. The film revolves around a five pound note which begins its journey after a guy and a girl meet in a club. She writes her number on a five pound note and leaves the club with her friends. Director: Henry Hamilton 2007. DV Cam. 10 min 35 sec Main Contact: Henry Hamilton, 136a Muswell Hill Road, London, N10 3JD, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7977 273 638 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter, Editor: Henry Hamilton Cast: Angela Ayton, Simon Lewis Marriott, James Bryant, Keith Whitehouse, Karl Rose

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Flights

Foto

Gabriel

Within a winding Edinburgh stairwell, a frail old man struggles to make his way up the many flights to the summit.

Adam finds a mysterious roll of film. Its pictures show him committing terrible acts. Are they fakes or evidence? As he searches for answers, he becomes unsure of the truth.

The nature of true love? It turns out heaven doesn't know . . . yet.

Director: Jamie Stone 2008. Digibeta. 3 min 10 sec Production Company: 1A Productions, Langshot Farm, Acre Valley Road, Torrance, G64 4DL, Scotland, UK tel: +44 (0)1360 620855 email: [email protected] Producer: Laura Clarke Screenwriter, Editor: Jamie Stone Director of Photography: Freddy Bonafanti Sound: Marcelo D'Oliviera Music: Moondog Cast: Charles B Carlton

The Flyer Anna tries to establish a new life in Scotland while struggling to save her longdistance relationship with childhood sweetheart Pawel, who remains waiting in Poland. Director: Andrea Harkin 2008. HDV. 15 min 35 sec Production Company: Pilton Video, 30 Ferry Road Avenue, Edinburgh, EH4 4BA, Scotland, UK tel: +44 (0)131 343 1151, fax: +44 (0)131 343 2820 email: [email protected] web: www.piltonvideo.org Producer: Julie McIntosh Screenwriter, Editor: Andrea Harkin Director of Photography: David Liddell Production Designer: Sophie Webb Sound, Music: John Lemke Cast: Aleksandra Kocela, Chris Somerville

Forna A short film about a penis, of average size, protruding from the ground at the bottom of a garden. Longlisted for Best British Short at the BIFAs. Director: Oscar Sharp 2007. HD. 11 min Production Company: Therefore Films, 26 Brockwell Park Gardens, London, SE24 9BL, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 8674 7450 email: [email protected] Producer: Jennifer Handorf Screenwriter: Oscar Sharp Editor: Benjamin Outland Director of Photography: Guy Routledge Sound: Alex Joseph Music: Neel Dhorajiwala Cast: David Hale, Genevieve Swallow

Director: Tom Canning 2008. s16mm. 10 min 24 sec Production Company: John Dog Films Ltd, 37a Newington Green, London, N16 9PR, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7779 263 523 email: [email protected] Producer: Tom Canning, Jason Joseph Screenwriter: Tom Canning Editor: Tom Canning, Alex Weeks Director of Photography: Ben Filby Sound: Simon Hornett Music: Mike Palmer Cast: Graham Bowe, Jamie Treacher, Stuart James Robinson

Fried String Hoppers Threatened with deportation, Maaran's only aim is to keep earning money to support his imperilled sisters and brothers in Sri Lanka, until the troubled love life of his new English landlady encroaches. Director: Kothai Kanthan 2007. HD. 30 min Production Company: National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield Studios, Station Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG, England, UK tel: +44 (0)1494 731457, fax: +44 (0)1494 674042 email: [email protected] web: www.nfts.co.uk UK Distributor, International Sales: Hemant Sharda, National Film and Television School tel: +44 (0)1494 731452, fax: +44 (0)1494 678583 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter: Kothai Kanthan Director of Photography: Kate Reid, Richard Reed Sound: Remi Huang Music: Matthew Davidson Cast: A Vaenthen, Merryl Thurairatnam, Mayu Kanna, Caroline Taylor

Director: Julio Garcia 2007. 16mm. 8 min 28 sec Production Company: London Film Academy, 52a Walham Grove, London, SW6 1QR, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7386 7711, fax: +44 (0)20 7381 6116 email: [email protected] Producer: Linnea Cambari Screenwriter: Kenneth Fanning Editor: Patricia Chamah, Diana Buzzo Director of Photography: Jonathan Andrews Production Designer: Alena Ondrakona Sound: Nicholaus Matthes

A German Grandchild's Funeral A German woman in England realises that there is more to being German than being German. The narrative sends the viewer on an intimate, humorous and moving journey, witnessing the woman dying to her and her country's past. Director: Silke Mansholt 2007. HD. 11 min Main Contact: Silke Mansholt, 92 Centurion Road, Brighton, Sussex, BN1 3LN, England, UK tel: +44 (0)1273 327469 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter, Director of Photography: Silke Mansholt Editor: Silke Mansholt, Lili Morante Music: Welvie Stonder, Billy Cowie Cast: Silke Mansholt, Ruth Peters, Martin Smith, Bhupendra Patel

Girl The story of how David and Susan meet at a train platform and of how they say goodbye at the station exit. David is Susan's lover - her actual boyfriend is waiting outside the station. Director: Armen Antranikian 2008. HD. 6 min 23 sec Main Contact: Armen Antranikian, Flat 301, Amber Court, 2 Ellington Street, London, N7 8PY, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7515 396 234 email: [email protected] Producer, Editor: Armen Antranikian Screenwriter: Gabriel Tupinamba  Sound: Alastair Nicholls Music: Andrea Caro Cast: Darren Bransford, Jennifer Evans, Dean Loxton

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Gods on Mountains

Goldfish

The Gravity of Belief

Nikhil returns home from America a new man in an old place, and makes a spiritual journey with his father to the top of a magnificent Himalayan mountain, revealing secrets and emotions long hidden.

A couple battle about whether to stay together. In the same room two Cantonese-speaking fish, in their tank, discuss their own relationship. The parallel is drawn between the humans trapped in their own existence and the fish who have less choice and work things out.

Whilst walking in the country one beautiful sunny day, city girl Sarah is introduced to the concept of `Sky-falling' by her country living friend Mr Bumpkin, with unexpected results.

Director: Pravesh Kumar 2007. 16mm. 18 min Production Company: Rifco Arts, The West Wing, Stoke Road, Slough, SL2 5AY, England, UK tel: +44 (0)1753 570700 email: [email protected] Producer: Neerja Sharma Executive Producer, Screenwriter: Pravesh Kumar Editor: Apurva Asrani Director of Photography: Pushan Kriplani Production Designer: Andy Kumar Sound: Parikshit Lalvani Music: Sumeet Chopra Cast: Arjun Mathur, Dilip Shankar, Smita Rharti

Director: Edward Sayers 2007. HD. 11 min 40 sec Production Company: Seven Productions Ltd tel: +44 (0)20 7482 6862 email: [email protected] Producer: Rebecca West Screenwriter: Edward Sayers Editor: Struan Clay Director of Photography: Ben Butler, Ed Rutherford Production Designer: Richard Selway Sound: Tristan Music: Simon Bass Cast: Michael Fassbender, Caroline Carver

Going Home

Grandma's Funeral

If you were trapped, every day the same, what would you do? Going Home is a film about a man on a mission to find his way back to what he knows.

A mother and her two grownup daughters prepare for Grandma's funeral. Getting dressed in Grandma's bedroom brings back fond memories of the times the girls used to play there as children. But poignancy turns to laughter when the mother has trouble with her wardrobe. Will they ever get that skirt on?

Director: Stuart Ramsey, Ben Thompson 2008. Digibeta. 15 min Production Company: Vantage Point Films, 54 Gledhow Park Avenue, Chapel Allerton, Leeds, LS7 4JN, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7779 307 356 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter: Stuart Ramsey, Ben Thompson Editor: James MacMillan Director of Photography: Stephen Sands Sound: Mickey Close Music: Lunar Coup, Big Eyes Cast: Pete Ivatts, Garth Maunders, David Robertson, Faye Jenelle

Director: Paul Olding 2007. HD. 8 min 12 sec Production Company, UK Distributor, International Sales: Bongo Reef Pictures, 42 Pitfold Road, Lee, London, SE12 9HX, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7970 155 303 email: [email protected] web: www.bongoreefpictures.co.uk Producer: Paul Olding Screenwriter: Andrea Olding Editor: Doug Bryson, Steve Crook Director of Photography: Paul Cox Production Designer: Nicole Northridge

Director: Martin Gooch 2008. 16mm. 4 min Production Company: MGTV, 77 Beak Street, Soho, London, W1F 9DB, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7887 945 821 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter: Martin Gooch Editor: Dave Berezai Director of Photography: Pete Rowe Sound: Mike Wyld Music: Daniel Herbert Cast: Alexandria Beck, Paul Ready

Guns A British-Pakistani film set runner transporting a load of replica guns gets stuck in a London suburb in the middle of the night. Director: Mel Mercer 2008. HDV. 10 min Production Company: Dryad Productions tel: +44 (0)7943 545 717 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter: Mel Mercer Editor: Dominic Husband, Mel Mercer Director of Photography: Mikolaj Jaroszewicz Sound: Nikos Nikolalaios, Marco Iavarone Music: Gary Hughes Cast: Imran Khan, Mace Âo Bhardwaj

Hatemail Postmen all over the country are being harassed and robbed by a modern-day highwayman. These robberies are inextricably linked to a bizarre encounter in a park many years before. Director: Frazer Churchill 2008. HD. 12 min 15 sec Production Company: 2FC Ltd, Unit 8, The Old Schoolhouse, 2 Landsdowne Drive, London, E8 3EZ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7989 401 910 email: [email protected] Producer: Mark Murrell Screenwriter: Frazer Churchill Editor: Kate Owen Director of Photography: George Richmond Production Designer: Julian Nagel Sound: 750mph Music: Dov Waterman, Dan Churchill Cast: Simon Kunz, Kieran Holloway, Jeff Barnet, Angus Brown

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Have I Ever Happened?

HeavenScent

The Hero's Journey

An Iranian lesbian poet and cello player whose application for asylum in the UK has been refused shares her feelings through poetry. This is her manifesto about life and living in a tyrannical world which is not isolated to any one place.

Tom is astoundingly bored at the office. Until he finds love in the most unexpected place, the gent's loo. But has Tom let his grip on reality wander too far? A modern reworking of the silent short. A comic, even absurd, story bedded in by an impressionistic soundscape.

Sam is playing with his light-sabre in a fantasy world. Enemies are everywhere. Suddenly, he is pitched into a real-life ordeal when his mum comes back with her lover. His imaginary world collides with reality, his denial of a terrible truth is threatened, and we discover whether he is able to save his mother.

Director: Ramin Goudarzi-Nejad 2007. HD. 20 min Production Company: Longer than Short Film & Video Productions, 673 Finchley Road, London, NW2 2JP, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7317 7079, fax: +44 (0)20 7806 8578 email: [email protected] Executive Producer: Farhang Afsarpour Screenwriter, Editor, Director of Photography: Ramin Goudarzi-Nejad Production Designer: Sahba Lajevardi Sound: Ramin Goudarzi-Nejad, Oliver Wrigth Music: Nordic Chelo Cast: Soussan Farokhnia, Elizabeth Mansfield

Heatsource In rain-swept Birmingham a young French woman shares a claustrophobic life with her artist boyfriend. Their relationship has intimacy but also silence and tension. Isolated, she begins a new friendship. The idea of returning home grows. Violence breaks out. A decision is made but with an unexpected emotional outcome. Director: Daniel Whistler 2007. DV Cam. 37 min Main Contact: Daniel Whistler, 12 St Augustine's Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B16 9JU, England, UK tel: +44 (0)121 454 2104 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter, Director of Photography: Daniel Whistler Editor: Alex McAllister Music: Jan Podliany Cast: Veronique Leininger, Martin Davies, Charlotte McKinney

Director: Frederic Casella 2007. DV Cam. 4 min 30 sec Production Company: Exit Strategy Productions Ltd, 6/47 Linden Gardens, London, W2 4HQ, England, UK email: [email protected] Producer: Frederic Casella, Graham Hodge Screenwriter: Graham Hodge Editor: Michael Duxbury Director of Photography: Will Hutchinson Production Designer: Mike Luscombe Sound: Paul Davies Music: The Magnetic Fields Cast: Jonathan Ryland

Her and Now Five year-old Sam wants the stabilisers taken off his bike but his single dad refuses. Only a miracle will change his mind. Director: Sebastian Duthy 2007. HD. 10 min Production Company: Bonobo Productions, 23 Sekforde Street, London, EC1R 0HL, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7968 481 395 email: [email protected] Producer: Louise Bush Screenwriter, Editor: Sebastian Duthy Director of Photography: Vince McConnachie Production Designer: Fred Duthy Sound: Mike Wood Music: Scott Doran, Casper Kedros Cast: Mo Zainal, Sami Ali Dodd

Director: Jack Herbert 2008. HD. 6 min Production Company: Redbag Pictures Ltd, 370 Carshalton Road, Carshalton, Surrey, SM5 3PT, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7977 406 789 email: barrington@ redbagpicturesltd.co.uk web: www.redbagpictures.co.uk Producer: Barrington Robinson Screenwriter: Jack Herbert Editor: Mike Green Director of Photography: James Aspinall Production Designer: Mia Summerville Music: Ben Foster Cast: Sam Spink, Phyllis Logan, Christopher Fulford

Hit the Big Time Two British hitmen try to turn their backs on crime by going to Hollywood to sell their life stories, but soon find themselves with a brand new target. Director: Helen Grace 2008. HD. 25 min Production Company, International Sales: Unity Films, 68 Trinity Court, London, WC1X 8JY, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7802 299 182 email: [email protected] web: www.unity-films.com Producer: J C Mac, Helen Grace, Josh Todd, Jason Hyde Screenwriter: Chris Ryan, Helen Grace, J C Mac, Jason Hyde Editor: Kate Coggins Director of Photography: Collis Huntington Production Designer: Josh Todd, Jason Hyde Sound: Adair Campbell Music: Jonny Pearson, Andy Watts Cast: Jason Hyde, J C Mac, William Knight, Sean Park, Glen Beck

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The Hole of Space and Time A hard-drinking, burnt-out theatre actor sits alone watching his penultimate performance over and over on video. His frustration builds as he struggles over the question which has plagued him over the last year. That is, until a random encounter with a hole in the fabric of space and time. Director: Raza Mallal 2007. HD. 4 min Production Company: Eyeline Productions, Newsam Lodge, 53-55 Selby Road, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS9 0EW, England, UK tel: +44 (0)113 248 4444, fax: +44 (0)113 295 8013 email: [email protected] Producer, Editor: Raza Mallal, Phil Rochester Executive Producer: Shabeena Ayub Screenwriter, Music: Phil Rochester Director of Photography: Martyn Culpan Production Designer: Maria Jaramilo Cast: Robert Kennedy

Homicide: Division B A thrilling and humorous comedy about the British police. A serial killer threatens to blow up a police station. With only a limited amount of time, the Chief Inspector must solve the problem using a most unexpected tactic. Director: Abner Pastoll 2008. 16mm. 9 min Production Company: February Films, 147 Kings Road, London, SW3 5TX, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7807 478 245 email: [email protected] Producer: Junyoung Jang Executive Producer: Abner Pastoll, Junyoung Jang Editor: Abner Pastoll, Kamma Pastoll Sound: Libero Colimberti Music: Laura Rossi Cast: Edward Peel, Daniel Gosling, Tim Downie, Anna Stokes, Lawrence Sheldon

Honor

How Not to Say I Love You

Honor is an actor; she is 28 years old and lives alone in West London. We follow her as she is getting ready for an important audition. We discover how she perceives reality and how her film character gets mangled in her everyday life.

When Ben is dumped by his actress girlfriend, Claire, he tracks her down at a rehearsal and summons up the courage to confront her. Under the glare of the stage spotlights Ben gives us a lesson in how not to say those three magic words.

Director: Fabiola Quiroz-Brown 2008. HD. 11 min

Director: Alex Sufit 2008. HD. 5 min 40 sec

Main Contact: Dolores Remedios, 8 Carlton Mansions, Holland Park Gardens, London, W14 8DW, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7787 501 720, fax: +44 (0)20 7371 3704 email: [email protected]

Production Company: Lexitricity Ltd, 25 Vereker Road, West Kensington, London, W14 9JU, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7808 404 466 email: [email protected]

Producer, Screenwriter, Production Designer: Fabiola Quiroz-Brown Editor: Raimondo Aiello Director of Photography: Christian Manzutto, Laureana Toledo Sound: Matt Faulkner Music: Ian Brown Cast: Phillipa Cooper, Aurelle Hoare

Horatio Horatio is a mystical, ghost-like character who briefly touches the lives of two people. Signs appear and tokens are left. Director: Louis Neethling 2008. HD. 10 min 30 sec Production Company: Mutt & Jeff Pictures Ltd, 32 Pield Heath Avenue, Hillingdon, Middlesex, UB8 3PD, England, UK tel: +44 (0)1895 237332, fax: +44 (0)1895 237332 email: [email protected] Producer: Louis Neethling, Alison Lynch Executive Producer: Louis Neethling, Joel Kellhofer Screenwriter: Alison Lynch Editor: Louis Neethling Director of Photography: Alex Ryle Production Designer, Music: IDO Sound: Dave Low Cast: Bora Tukenmez, Heike Brunner, Steven Webb, Carola Wisny

Producer, Screenwriter: Alex Sufit Editor, Sound: Mark Curl Director of Photography: Jay J Odedra Music: Jamie Mortimer, Blue Bambinds Cast: Lennard Sillevis, Olivia Mace, Dan Skili

How to Pick Up Girls A dull man. A vibrant girl. A lesson in how to pick up girls! Director: Dan Gitsham 2007. Mini DV. 4 min Production Company: Sketchbook Pictures, 15c Arlington Villas, Bristol, BS8 2EG, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7865 081 557 email: [email protected] Producer: Sophie Mair, Richard Garnett Screenwriter: Dan Gitsham Editor: Craig Chaplin Director of Photography: Simon Wake Production Designer: Sophie Mair Sound, Music: Audioshelter Cast: Kama Roberts, Tony Claassen

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Hysteria

I'm in Away From Here

Intercom

A group of teenagers embark on a night out to see if a wicked new DJ set can breathe new life into the town's old nightclub. Guided by professionals, Hysteria was produced by a group of young people taking on the various roles of cast and crew.

Weary of the world agitating his head, Archie decides to take his head into another place.

A woman and her uncommunicative neighbours closely monitor a new tenant's movements until they meet up via their intercom to face the consequences.

Director: The Nerve Centre 2007. Mini DV. 10 min 20 sec Production Company: First Light Movies, The Bond, 180-182 Fazeley Street, Birmingham, B5 5SE, England, UK tel: +44 (0)121 753 4866 email: [email protected] Collaborators: Arron Burke, Anthony McKeever, Nicola McCallion, Patricia Dunlop, Stephen Doherty, Paul Fitzgerald, Shaunghan Kivelhan, Jonathan Shiels, Charles Conaghan, Connor Hegarty, Kayleigh Breslin, Padraig Villa, Paul Harkin

I Am Leg End A no-budget short with a fresh take on the old 'Last Man on Earth' yarn. Director: Stuart Elliott 2008. HD. 2 min 46 sec Main Contact: Stuart Elliott, Flat 2/2, 469 Tantallon Road, Glasgow, G41 3HT, Scotland, UK tel: +44 (0)7855 251 033 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter, Editor, Sound: Stuart Elliott Director of Photography: Stuart Elliott, Billy Elliott Music: Daniel Padden, Aberfeldy Cast: Billy Elliott

I, Sisyphus Condemned to carry a rock for eternity, Sisyphus continues his task of man picks up rock, man carries rock to the top, rock falls, man descends, man picks up rock. Director: Adam Alive 2007. HD. 11 min 30 sec Production Company: Unbearable Films Ltd email: [email protected] Producer: Derek Shiel Screenwriter: Adam Alive Editor, Sound: Jeremy Nicholls Director of Photography: Kaori Alive Cast: Adam Alive

Director: Catriona MacInnes 2008. HD. 23 min 10 sec Production Company: Screen Academy Scotland, Napier University, 2a Merchiston Avenue, Edinburgh, EH10 4NU, Scotland, UK tel: +44 (0)131 455 2572, fax: +44 (0)131 455 2538 email: [email protected] web: www.screenacademyscotland.ac.uk Producer, Screenwriter: Catriona MacInnes Editor: Gordon Lockhart Director of Photography: Alex Ryle Sound: John Lemke Music: 7VWWVW Cast: Yvonne Briglmen, Carrie Mancini, Duncan Rennie

Ignorance A one shot, single take film revealing its own creation, blurring sexuality and exposing the power of performance. Director: Liam Pearce 2008. HD. 8 min 39 sec Production Company: Seventh Seal Productions, Twin Pines, 65 Smyth Road, Ashton, Bristol, BS3 2DS, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7984 055 757 email: [email protected], [email protected] Producer: Sam Clements, Simon Renshaw Screenwriter, Editor, Production Designer: Liam Pearce Director of Photography: Mike Le Marechal Sound: Liam Pearce, Simon Renshaw Music: Simon Renshaw Cast: Fred Le Doux

Director: Mark Gutteridge 2008. 35mm. 10 min Production Company: Daylight Films, Suite S209, Ealing Film Studios, Ealing Green, London, W5 5EP, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 8255 0742 email: [email protected] Producer: Mark Gutteridge Screenwriter: Mark Gutteridge, Aidan Lean Editor: Ian Seymour, Tamsin Jeffrey Director of Photography: Dick Pope Sound: Jack Gillies Music: Arr Rhodri Davies, Mark Gutteridge Cast: Jenny Agutter, Marc Warren, David Calder, David Garry

In the National Interest A Polish underground fighter comes to London with firsthand evidence of the Holocaust. The Joint Intelligence Committee decides to bury his evidence `in the national interest'. Even today, the cover up continues. Director: Phil Martin 2007. Mini DV. 14 min 33 sec Production Company: Freewheel Productions, Glebelands, Brockenhurst Road, Ascot, Berkshire, SL5 9HB, England, UK tel: +44 (0)1344 622032 email: [email protected] Producer: Kate Dooley Screenwriter: Alex Martin Editor: Phil Martin Director of Photography: Geoff Addis Cast: Chris Courteney, Kuba Pierzchalski

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In Transit to a Diversion

Jack Blond

Jewel and Eme

A thin thread connects the lives of three people, a thread they have often sought and sometimes wished to banish. By a strange coincidence they find themselves confronted with each other one late afternoon. Will their paths finally cross on a final diversion? Or will they simply remain in a permanent state of transit?

Jack Blond, the guy who would be Bond! Jack Blond is the story of a young man with Down's syndrome who idolises James Bond. He turns out to be special in more ways than meets the eye.

15 years old and your life sucks. What can you do? Jewel and Eme is a dark yet redemptive tale set against a backdrop of sexual and physical abuse.

Director: Blinkk 2007. 16mm. 9 min 28 sec Production Company: OneSix7 Productions, 25 Lexington Street, London, W1F 9AH, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7287 4167, fax: +44 (0)20 7439 0543 email: [email protected] Producer: Abi Hodson Screenwriter: Blinkk Editor: Blinkk, Andy Phillips Director of Photography: Ian Murray Production Designer: Erik Rehl Sound: Patrick Rowland Music: Ian Williams Cast: Rebecca Palmer, David Birkin, Colin Bennett

Island A maritime warden investigates an unauthorised presence on a private island. Director: Matt Palmer 2007. 35mm. 15 min Production Company: Wellington Films, Broadway Media Centre, 14-18 Broad Street, Nottingham, NG1 3AL, England, UK tel: +44 (0)115 840 0043 email: [email protected] Producer: Alastair Clark, Rachel Robey Executive Producer: Matthieu de Braconier, Rebecca Mark-Lawson, Jo McClellan Screenwriter: Matt Palmer, Simon Grohe Editor: Edd Maggs Director of Photography: Bo Bilstrup Production Designer: Jess Alexander Cast: Bjarne Henriksen

Director: Rebecca Coley 2008. HD. 12 min 23 sec Production Company: Spinky Films, Waterloo Farms, Waterworxs Valley, St Lawrence, Jersey, JE3 1HQ, Channel Islands tel: +44 (0)7797 887 502, fax: +44 (0)1534 731568 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter: Rebecca Coley Editor: Philip Clyde-Smith Director of Photography: Ashley Palin Production Designer: Karen Allenet Sound, Music: Marc Mitchell Cast: Darren Renouf, Kim Fortune, Jolyon Baker, Rebecca Eve, Lorraine Fiander

Jellyfish The story follows three young men living in the English countryside. Inspired and driven by American rap culture the three men begin a protection racket in their local village. Director: Gille Klabin 2007. 16mm. 22 min 25 sec Main Contact: Gille Klabin, 54 Academy Gardens, London, W9 1EJ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7771 956 737 email: [email protected] Producer: Mondi Howard Screenwriter, Editor: Gille Klabin Director of Photography: Glen Milner Production Designer: Elliott Day Sound: Stephen Green Music: Eldad Guetta Cast: Dan Moore, Allix Holland, Bobby Windebank, Mark Klabin

Director: Matthew Lynch 2008. Digibeta. 19 min 55 sec Production Company: Lodestone Films, c/o 15b Churchill Road, Willesden, London, NW2 5ED, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7796 817 135 email: [email protected] Producer: Jennifer Alexander Robinson, Matthew Lynch Screenwriter, Music: Jennifer Alexander Robinson Editor: John Ramsden Director of Photography: Dan West Production Designer: Matthew Lynch, Jennifer Alexander Robinson Sound: Stuart Piggott Cast: Roseanne Stewart, Sarita Smith, Riz Meedin, Claire Porter, Karolina Grace

Joel, the Superman Ten year-old Joel is playing football when he accidentally kills his pet goldfish. Failing to receive support from his selfish best friend and from his parents, who are stuck in the mire of a violent marriage, he retreats into an iconic persona to help him through his pain. Director: Ben Weiner 2008. HD. 9 min 56 sec Production Company: Southwark Bridge Films, Flat 2, 2 Temple Road, London, N8 7BY, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7868 652 163 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter: Ben Weiner Editor: Rob Redford Director of Photography: Darran Bragg Sound: Cal Knightley Music: Mike Jennings Cast: Peter Kirkham, Louisa Clein, Tony Clegg, Jack O'Connor

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Jump

Killing Time

Kings of London

Two worlds collide when Oscar has a momentary lapse at the wheel of his car. As he is left with the guilt of causing a death, 18 year-old Laurie is left without a mother but with a determination to bring up his young sister alone.

Killing Time is a dark comedy based on a short story by Alexei Sayle that tells the tale of a 72 year-old pensioner, who discovers a very productive way to spend his time. Instead of killing his time he spends his time killing.

Director: James Nunn 2007. HD. 17 min

Director: Konstantinos Fragkopoulos 2008. HD. 10 min

Kings Of London follows the fortunes of two teenage brothers both named Aristotle. The elder is struggling to get his life on track whereas the younger one, Little Aristotle, has found success as the undisputed champion of the Ghetto Riders, a group of young black horsemen who race for money.

Production Company: Westminster Film School, Watford Road, Northwick Park, Harrow, Middlesex, HA1 3TP, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7911 5000 x4773, fax: +44 (0)20 7911 5943 email: [email protected]

Production Company: National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield Studios, Station Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG, England, UK tel: +44 (0)1494 731457, fax: +44 (0)1494 674042 email: [email protected] web: www.nfts.co.uk

Producer, Screenwriter: James Hanford Editor: Richard Deeb Director of Photography: James Nicholas Fuller Production Designer: Rachel Holland, Ben Matthews, Steve Shaw Sound: Rob Harper Music: Maria Vatenina

K 15 year-old Kaylee encounters an enigmatic stranger who compels her to reevaluate her future. Director: Piers Thompson 2008. 16mm. 19 min 50 sec Production Company: Hector Films Ltd, Unit 6-6 Stirling Court, Marshall Street, London, W1F 9BD, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7734 8330, fax: +44 (0)20 7734 8330 email: [email protected] web: www.hectorfilms.co.uk UK Distributor, International Sales: Cold Little Eels Ltd, Unit 6-6 Stirling Court, Marshall Street, London, W1F 9BD, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7775 688 878, fax: +44 (0)20 8969 7843 email: [email protected] Producer: Sophie Venner Screenwriter: Piers Thompson Editor: Elise Traversi Director of Photography: Tom Harari Production Designer: Jonnie Elf Sound: Doug Haywood

UK Distributor, International Sales: Hemant Sharda, National Film and Television School tel: +44 (0)1494 731452, fax: +44 (0)1494 678583 email: [email protected] Producer: Sunny Midha Screenwriter: Ryan Baxrer Editor: Josh Levinski Director of Photography: Brian Fawcett Sound: Susannah Lawrence Music: Roger Goula Cast: Dudley Sutton, Joy McBrin, Philip Pritchard

Director: Sean Conway 2007. HD. 24 min Production Company: IWC Media, Gloucester Building, Kensington Village, Avonmore Road, London, W14 8RF, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7013 4052, fax: +44 (0)20 7013 4001 email: [email protected] International Sales: RDF Rights, Beaumont House, Kensington Village, Avonmore Road, London, W14 8RF, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7013 4435, fax: +44 (0)20 7013 4001 email: [email protected] Producer: Jim Spencer, Hannah Weaver Executive Producer: Judy Counihan Screenwriter: Sean Conway Editor: Alastair Reid Director of Photography: Lol Crawley Production Designer: Jo Manser Sound: Anna Sulley Music: Anthony Lachucik, James Scholes, Tim Reilly Cast: Jumayn Hunter, Duane Henry, Sandra Yaw, Dominique Moore

Knots Knots is a philosophical short film that tells the story of humanity in its double chance to keep and accumulate things or to free itself and seed, instead of possessing. The man dies and is reborn in a perpetual motion of chances to be. Director: Matteo Pizzarello 2007. Super 8. 4 min 28 sec Production Company: Miracles Pictures Ltd, Flat 3, 40 Sinclair Road, London, W14 0NH, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7602 8618 email: matteo.pizzarello@ miraclespictures.com Producer, Screenwriter, Editor, Director of Photography, Sound, Music: Matteo Pizzarello Executive Producer: Leonardo Maria Poggiali Production Designer: Ernesto Nicolini Cast: Franceso Maiorca

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Short Films

A las Tres de la Tarde (At Three in the Afternoon)

Last Hand

Lemonade

Barcelona, 1940. The Civil War has just ended, and fascist Franco and his army control the country. Merce has just given birth to a beautiful baby and wants to show it to its father.

With everything to win and everything to lose, four anonymous players at a highrolling card game stake it all on the last hand. Last chance to make a killing. Last chance to beat the odds. The pressure's on. Somebody's going to snap.

Here's to the kids that are different, the kids with a mischievous streak, for when they have grown, as history has shown, it's their difference that makes them unique.

Director: Cristina Escoda 2008. HDV. 9 min 47 sec

Director: Louise Lockwood 2008. HD. 1 min 17 sec

Production Company: Cut the Papaya, 49b Upper Tollington Park, London, N4 4DD, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7958 604 670 email: [email protected]

Production Company: BBC Scotland, 40 Pacific Quay, Glasgow, G51 1DA, Scotland, UK tel: +44 (0)141 422 6081 email: [email protected]

Producer: Laia Grau Executive Producer: Arcadi Escoda, Berta Labajos Screenwriter: Cristina Escoda Editor: Estephan Wagner Director of Photography: Neus Olle  Production Designer: Maria Jose Juan Sound: Christopher Wilson Music: Roger Goula Cast: Pau Roca, Ainhoa Roca, Jonatan Minaya, Mariona Perrier

Producer: Audrey McFadden Screenwriter: Gillian Christie Editor: John Matthews Director of Photography: Paul Dawson Sound: Jim Renwick Cast: David Hayman, Carmen Pieraccini, James Watson, Gordon Brandie, Richard Callan

Co-production: Spain

A lonely and miserable man, Richard, finds a letter in the park. He tracks the letter to a pretty young woman, Laura. Richard falls in love with her and starts stalking her. He manages to take her for a drink. It turns out Laura is a serial killer and she murders Richard in the end.

Last Chance Romance A thought-provoking story about an old woman at the end of her days, and the surprise visitors that come to escort her on her surreal journey to the great beyond. Director: Stacy Harrison 2008. HDV. 7 min 58 sec Production Company: Shhhh! Entertainment, 1 Church Close, Church Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT17 4PT, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7971 868 473 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter, Production Designer: Stacy Harrison Editor: Eldon Snelgrove, Simon Ruben Director of Photography: Steve Downer Sound, Music: Mike Hall Cast: Hannah Dea Warner, Ian Attfield, Mark Mangan

Left Alone

Director: Jon Berntsen Husery 2008. Mini DV. 14 min Production Company, UK Distributor: Waste Management, 58 Lynmouth Road, N16 6XL, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7726 442 456 email: [email protected] Producer: Caio Comingues Screenwriter, Editor: Jon Berntsen Husery Director of Photography: Nathaniel Kassathun Sound: Juan Delfin Music: Moritz Schmittat

Director: Stefan Georgiou 2007. HD. 16 min Production Company: Eyeline Productions, Newsam Lodge, 53-55 Selby Road, Leeds, LS9 0EW, England, UK tel: +44 (0)113 248 4444, fax: +44 (0)113 295 8013 email: [email protected] UK Distirbutor, International Sales: Hemant Sharda, National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield Studios, Station Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG, England, UK tel: +44 (0)1494 731452, fax: +44 (0)1494 678583 email: [email protected] web: www.nfts.co.uk Producer, Screenwriter, Editor: Stefan Georgiou Director of Photography: Tania Freimuth Sound: Ben Woolnough Music: Phil Zacharias Cast: Sebastian Armesto, Samuel Bern, Natalie Haverstock, Edward Dogliani

Let Me Show You Some Things This film deals with a fragile sibling relationship that shifts constantly between commitment and collapse. The siblings take comfort from coveted keepsakes and explore memories of their shared childhood while sharing a cramped bedsit. During three journeys out into the world their experiences of each location bring them closer together and push them further apart. Director: Sarah Tripp 2008. HDV. 30 min Main Contact: Sarah Tripp tel: +44 (0)7779 639 344 email: [email protected] Production Company: Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, Scotland, UK tel: +44 (0)141 352 4921 email: [email protected] Producer: Sarah Tripp, Paul Welsh Screenwriter: Sarah Tripp Director of Photography: David Liddell Music: Various Cast: Fiona Alexander, Jonny Shaw

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Short Films

Let Me Speak

Life in Ruins

Lily

Nine year-old Harriet, a silent witness to the hidden trauma of a disintegrating family, struggles to reconcile the love of a father with his own evident demons.

A documentary team travel to Scotland in search of 'tradition', but end up with something altogether more troubling.

As the only girl in her family, eight yearold Lily spends her days playing her own particular games and trying to win the attention of her eldest brother Darren. One night, Lily sees far more than she should have. Darren begs her to remain silent but will she be able to keep such a heavy secret?

Director: Ella Vakkasova 2007. HD. 19 min Production Company: National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield Studios, Station Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG, England, UK tel: +44 (0)1494 731457, fax: +44 (0)1494 674042 email: [email protected] web: www.nfts.co.uk UK Distributor, International Sales: Hemant Sharda, National Film and Television School tel: +44 (0)1494 731452, fax: +44 (0)1494 678583 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter: Ella Vakkasova Executive Producer: Cornelia Colonius Editor: Christopher R Bell Director of Photography: Xavi Amoros Sound: David Hunt Cast: Harriet Crawford, Joe Tucker, Lynsey Beauchamp, Luke Beach

Lickle Bill Um A bittersweet comedy about a mother and daughter relationship. The daughter has not managed to make much of her life and resents her mother because she HAS. So the daughter decides, as it is her 30th birthday, that she is going to deal with this inequality once and for all. Director: Kate Hardie 2007. DV Cam. 24 min Production Company: IWC Media, Gloucester Building, Kensington Village, Avonmore Road, London, W14 8RF, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7013 4052, fax: +44 (0)20 7013 4001 email: [email protected] International Sales: RDF Rights, Beaumont House, Kensington Village, Avonmore Road, London, W14 8RF, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7013 4435, fax: +44 (0)20 7013 4001 email: [email protected] Producer: Jim Spencer, Hannah Weaver Executive Producer: Judy Counihan Screenwriter: Kate Hardie Editor: Kant Pan Director of Photography: Christopher Titus King Production Designer: Eddy Andres Sound: Anna Sulley Music: Matthew Davidson, Rosie Oddie Cast: Imelda Staunton, Jim Carter, Amanda Abbington, Reece Shearsmith, Dhafer L'Abidine

Director: Michael Cox, Sam Addison 2008. DV Cam. 12 min 44 sec Production Company: Donside Pictures, 5 Granton Place, Aberdeen, AB10 6QX, Scotland, UK tel: +44 (0)7748 662 060 email: [email protected] web: www.donsidepictures.co.uk Screenwriter: Sam Addison, Michael Cox Editor, Sound: Michael Cox Music: Gene Arnold Cast: Sam Addison, Ben Walker, Craig Stewart

Like Other People Do A community of people respond to unconditional giving in different ways. Director: Alex Kelly 2008. 16mm. 5 min 3 sec Main Contact: Alex Kelly, 25 Sinclair House, Hastings Street, London, WC1H 9PZ, England, UK mobile: +44 (0)7968 484 072 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter: Alex Kelly Editor: Natasha Wilkinson Director of Photography: Ed Wright Sound: Munzie Singh Music: Georgeweiss Benny Benjamin Cast: Sagar Arya, Alison Gooke, Robert Burt, David Holt

Director: Noe Âmie Saglio 2007. HD. 15 min Production Company: National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield Studios, Station Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG, England, UK tel: +44 (0)1494 731457, fax: +44 (0)1494 674042 email: [email protected] web: www.nfts.co.uk UK Distributor, International Sales: Hemant Sharda, National Film and Television School tel: +44 (0)1494 731452, fax: +44 (0)1494 678583 email: [email protected] Producer: Noe Âmie Saglio, Luana Duchemin Screenwriter: Noe Âmie Saglio Editor: Emily Morgan Director of Photography: Brian Fawcett Sound: Nick Loe Music: John Greswell, Ben Nicholls, Chris Taylor Cast: Poppy Wigglesworth, Noah Young, Levi Wigglesworth, Luana Duchemin, Robert Goodman, Gillies Mackinnon

Lilya A group of bored youngsters set off on a quest to score some cocaine, encountering the sinister underbelly of the city in the process. Concurrently, a Russian girl, Lilya, is forced to take a dangerous journey to England as a drug mule. As their paths speed towards each other, both sides learn painful lessons. Director: Chris Taylor 2007. HD. 10 min Production Company: Superkrush Films, 20a Nun Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 5AQ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)191 233 2001 email: [email protected] web: www.superkrush.com Producer: Chris Taylor, Kaja Amundsen Screenwriter: Stephane Cochrane Editor: Ben Mullins Director of Photography: James McAleer Production Designer: Joy Sanders Sound: Dave Gibson Music: Rory Craig, Simon Watkin Cast: Micky Cochrane, Joy Sanders, Robyn Wilkin

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Short Films

Little Miss Badass

Long Distance

Love Does Grow on Trees

A sweet little girl wants to fit in with her triplet sisters but keeps getting her ass kicked all over town.

Ying is a young actress from Taipei. She steals a cashbox and comes to Edinburgh to visit her ex-boyfriend. How can they sort out their problems together and escape from the killers who chase Ying?

A coming of age comedy about a teenage boy whose life is thrown into chaos when he discovers porn magazines, girls and the embarrassment that goes with both.

Director: Miv Evans 2008. HD. 13 min Production Company: Access 2 Productions, 1149 North Clark Street, # 303, Los Angeles, CA 90069, USA tel: +1 310 854 0169 email: [email protected] web: www.access-2.co.uk Producer, Screenwriter, Production Designer: Miv Evans Editor: Trudy Yee Director of Photography: Daniel Colmenares Sound: Tony Jacobson Music: Kevin MacLeod Cast: Courtney Robinson, Christina Robinson, Alize Lozier, Brigitte Lozier, Celine Lozier

London Love Story Against the volatile landscape of innercity London, the tale of Jack and Hannah unfolds. Intoxicated by love for her, Jack reluctantly bids Hannah farewell. But life in London is unpredictable, especially after dark, and a chance encounter changes everything. A moment of senseless behaviour renders three lives tragically changed forever. Director: Alexander Thomas 2007. 16mm. 15 min 25 secs Production Company: Cadence Films, 1/34 Lambert Road, Brixton, London, SW2 5BE, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7946 895 657 email: [email protected] Producer: Alexander Thomas, Stuart Robinson Screenwriter: Alexander Thomas Editor: Bill Smedley Director of Photography: Jake Thomas Production Designer: Alexander Thomas, Tess Loe Sound: Ashley Pope Music: Andy Carroll Cast: Frankie Fitzgerald, Alex Ellis, Lois Winstone, Sam Oatley, Jay Brown

Director: Marina Pu 2008. 16mm. 30 min Main Contact: Marina Pu, 34 Brune House, Bell Lane, London, E1 7NW, England, UK email: [email protected] Producer: Inigo Smith Screenwriter, Editor: Marina Pu Director of Photography: Grant McPhees Sound: Urezza Music: Rojordo Cast: Kevin Thornton, Kevin Hung, Ching Yi Wang Co-production: Taiwan

Lost Night A Bangladeshi cab driver picks up a transvestite only to find a lifesaving connection between them. Director: Chris Loizou 2007. HD. 14 min 50 sec Production Company: Luka Films, 54 Balf Street, London, N1 9EG, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7713 1504, fax: +44 (0)20 7713 5281 email: [email protected] Producer: Chris Loizou, Kate Newbold Screenwriter, Production Designer: Chris Loizou Editor: Ben Unwin Director of Photography: Jorge Luengas Sound: Jim Betteridge Music: Dominic Beken, Anthony Adams Cast: Christopher Elson, Mitesh Soni, Joe Roberts

Director: Bevan Walsh 2008. 35mm. 10 min Production Company: Keel Films, 1f Parsifal Road, London, NW6 1UG, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7431 9533 email: [email protected] Producer: Geraldine Patten Screenwriter: Bevan Walsh Editor: Dan Roberts Director of Photography: Alan Stewart Production Designer: Alexandra Walker Music: Nathan Larson Cast: Luke Ward-Wilkinson, El Krajewski, Tom Brooke

Love Is . . . ? Set against the gritty backdrop of South London, Love Is . . . is the tale of teenagers Carl and Tia. The pair struggle to make sense of their young relationship, amidst unfaithfulness, a miscarriage and a breakdown in communication. With the drama told through flashbacks, depth and honesty are at the heart of this comingof-age story. Director: Yemi Bamiro 2007. HDV. 7 min 37 sec Production Company: Writers Block Productions, 8 Argosy House, Windlass Place, Deptford, London, SE8 3Q2, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7984 187 773 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter: Yemi Bamiro Editor: Jamie Mac Director of Photography: Paul King Music: Redroots, Adaggio Cast: Myles Whittingham, Rosie Wilson, Susan Younis

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Short Films

Love Letters

Lucky Pants

Mary is a grieving widow whose past unexpectedly comes flying back into her life. The only way for Mary to find a new path in life is by learning to let go, but it's difficult to let go when the things holding you back are the people you love.

Jack religiously wears his Lucky Pants on match day, but does he know just how lucky they are?

Director: Samantha Harrie 2008. 16mm. 25 min Production Company: National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield Studios, Station Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG, England, UK tel: +44 (0)1494 731457, fax: +44 (0)1494 674042 email: [email protected] web: www.nfts.co.uk International Sales, UK Distributor: Hemant Sharda, National Film and Television School tel: +44 (0)1494 731452, fax: +44 (0)1494 674042 email: [email protected] Producer: Jonathan Lewsley Screenwriter: Samantha Harrie Editor: Robbie Morrison Director of Photography: Laura Bellingham Sergeant Sound: Gunnar Oskarsson Music: Kylie Earl Cast: Sandra Maitland, David Hargreaves, Amy Marston, James Daffern, Casey Hawkes

Love Me to Bits A couple locked into shaming and blaming each other are brought to their senses by an encounter with a strangely perceptive, lost little girl. Director: Tom Tyrwhitt 2008. HD. 26 min Production Company, International Sales: Liza Brown tel: +44 (0)1323 423664 email: [email protected] Producer: Liza Brown Executive Producer: Diana Eskell Screenwriter: Tom Tyrwhitt Editor: Bart Lewin Director of Photography: Geraint Warrington Sound: Marcus Moll Music: Ysarine Spevack Cast: Alex Hardy, Diana Eskell, Katerina Zoob, Rachel Heaton

Director: David Wallington 2008. HD. 4 min 30 sec International Sales: OTT Films, 75 Cannon Grove, Fetcham, Surrey, KT22 9LP, England, UK tel: +44 (0)1372 376612 email: [email protected] Producer: Katheryn Needham Executive Producer, Editor: David Wallington Screenwriter: David Wallington, Peter Wallington Director of Photography: Peter Wallington Sound, Music: Chris Nelthorpe Cast: David Craik, Jacqui Adams

Macbeth's Disciple Macbeth's disciple is an historical action adventure film about the conflict between ambition and honour, inspired by William Shakespeare's Macbeth. Set in Scotland in the year 1057. Director: Jasmin Tempest 2008. HD. 21 min Production Company: Spearean Interactive Ltd, Tanglewood, St Leonards Hill, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 4AL, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7767 446 309 email: [email protected] Producer: Jasmin Tempest, Chris Nuttall Screenwriter: Jasmin Tempest Editor: Nadia Naimi Director of Photography: Paul Wheeler Sound: Chris Nuttall Music: David Plunshon Cast: Keith Dunphy, Roger Barclay, Brendan Gregory

Madrugada (The Curious Shape of my Peculiar Family) Max buys a rundown hotel by the sea, a final attempt to make a new life. Frank, his son and proud soldier, comes to visit, secretly hoping to share Max's dream, but finds his father in a more decrepit state than the hotel. Director: Michael Pearce 2008. 16mm. 21 min Production Company: National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield Studios, Station Road, Beaconfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG, England, UK tel: +44 (0)1494 731457, fax: +44 (0)1494 674042 email: [email protected] web: www.nfts.co.uk UK Distributor, International Sales: Hemant Sharda, National Film and Television School tel: +44 (0)1494 731452, fax: +44 (0)1494 678583 email: [email protected] Producer: Shay Elliot Screenwriter: Michael Pearce Editor: Sergio Vega Borrego Director of Photography: Jean-Louis Schuller Production Designer: Louise Mathews Sound: Steen Bondrop Music: Gary Sanctuary Cast: Eddie Webber, Aidan J David

The Magic Harvey, a shy and modest young office clerk, is struck down with `Illusionitis', a rare compulsion to perform involuntary magic tricks and grand illusions. His outlandish affliction sees the normally reserved Harvey lose his job, friends and girlfriend, but soon attracts the attentions of a most peculiar doctor. Can he find a cure? Director: Rory Rooney 2007. HD. 25 min Production Company, International Sales: Eight Trick Pony, Suite 328, 162-168 Regent Street, London, W13 5TD, England, UK email: [email protected] web: www.eighttrickpony.com Producer: Miles Wilkes Screenwriter: Rory Rooney Editor: Scot Crane Director of Photography: Luke Scott Production Designer: Johan Svenson

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Maxim

Merry Go Round

Mirror Image

Maxim tells the story of a man trying to cope after the death of his wife.

`What is the difference between accident and coincidence? An accident is when a thing happens. A coincidence is when a thing is going to happen and does.' Gertrude Stein

Peter, a 30 year-old shy office worker, is looking for a girl of his dreams. Unfortunately for him, he isn't exactly a hit with the ladies.

Director: Benetty Bangoura 2007. DV Cam. 6 min 56 sec Main Contact: Benetty Bangoura, Flat 7/1, 15 Scaraway Drive, Milton, Glasgow, G22 7EY, Scotland, UK tel: +44 (0)7886 904 783 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter: Benetty Bangoura Editor: Paul Wright Director of Photography: Adam Campbell Sound: Bob Whitney Music: Alasdair Sim Cast: Daniel Schutzmann, Jenny Hulse, David Mullen, Sharon Young, Emma Lambie

Maya A lonely station master in an isolated railway station endures `maya' (the illusory appearance of the sensible world) while within his soul there is a tortured moment of loss. Director: Makbul Chowdhury 2007. HD. 10 min Production Company, UK Distributor, International Sales: Bayla Connecting, 85 Studland Road, Hall Green, Birmingham, B28 8ND, England, UK tel: +44 (0)121 777 1952 email: [email protected] Producer: Makbul Chowdhury, Salma Hussain Screenwriter, Director of Photography, Sound: Makbul Chowdhury Cast: Dilip Chakraborti, Angaly Thorury Shita, Ruhi Takoor

Director: Cecilie Owren 2007. HD. 10 min 30 sec Production Company: National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield Studios, Station Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG, England, UK tel: +44 (0)1494 731457, fax: +44 (0)1494 674042 email: [email protected] web: www.nfts.co.uk UK Distributor, International Sales: Hemant Sharda, National Film and Television School tel: +44 (0)1494 731452, fax: +44 (0)1494 678583 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter, Director of Photography: Cecilie Owren Editor: Cecilie Owren, Fiona DeSouza Production Designer: Richard Bradbury Sound: Giannis Georgiou Cast: Jodyanne Richardson, Freya Waterhouse Lyngnes, Aimee Keble, Barbara Wishere, Paul Ridley

Milk Steph is trapped in a life that she never aspired to with a partner who is depressed and vicious while her family is oblivious. She is forced to make a decision that will change her life forever. Director: Damien Hyde 2007. XD Cam. 14 min 45 sec Production Company: The Frames Film LLP, 165 Highfield Road, Glebefields Estate, Tipton, DY4 0QT, England, UK tel: +44 (0)121 530 1861 email: [email protected] web: www.theframesfilm.co.uk Producer: Mark Grainger, Matt Stroyde Screenwriter: Mark Grainger, Matt Stroyde, Matt Grainger Editor: Matt Stroyde Director of Photography: David ReynoldsLacey Music: Speco, Alan Neilson Cast: Anna Tyrie, Jamie Duncombe

Director: Dean Monarch 2007. HD. 10 min Production Company: National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield Studios, Station Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG, England, UK tel: +44 (0)1494 731457, fax: +44 (0)1494 674042 email: [email protected] web: www.nfts.co.uk UK Distributor, International Sales: Hemant Sharda National Film and Television School tel: +44 (0)1494 731452, fax: +44 (0)1494 678583 email: [email protected] Producer: James Heath Screenwriter: Dean Monarch Editor: Mark Mitchell Director of Photography: Steve BrookeSmith Music: Andrew Stuteley Cast: Drew Kidger, Jennifer Tollady, Tom Caley

Mo Yin Life has turned out to be a real disaster. In a world full of misery and sadness nightmares can sometimes take you to the dreamland you once belonged to. Director: Simon Gill 2007. 16mm. 11 min 42 sec Production Company: London Film Academy, 52a Walham Grove, London, SW6 1QR, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7386 7711, fax: +44 (0)20 7381 6116 email: [email protected] Producer: Kenneth Fanning Screenwriter: Gary Clayton Editor: Maddalena Parese Director of Photography: Amaniel Gebrehjwet Production Designer: Ji Eun Oh Sound: Julio Garcia Cast: Frank Doddy, Haruka Abe

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Short Films

Money

Moon People

Les Mouches (The Flies)

Two fellow bank robbers must decide whether to quit the business after one of them falls in love with a girl.

The golden rule says `write what you know' but reality is the last thing Charlie wants to write about. Through his eccentric Nan and a mysterious painting, Charlie discovers that whatever they tell him at school, the best thing he knows is completely invisible.

After a disappearance and a self-imposed exile for ten years, Alex Queranne abandons his life in London and returns home to his estranged family in Brittany, France. He attempts to make amends with his mother and to bring his sheltered and shy younger brother out of his shell.

Director: Martin Rhys Davies 2007. Digibeta. 11 min

Director: Leon Yan 2008. Digibeta. 26 min 30 sec

Production Company: Razrez Films, Unit 20, Fowlswick Lane, Allington, Chippenham, SN14 6QE, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7527 901 948 email: [email protected]

Production Company: The London Film School, 24 Shelton Street, London, WC2H 9UB, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7836 9642, fax: +44 (0)20 7497 3718 email: [email protected] web: www.lfs.org.uk

Director: Christian Tanner 2007. 16mm. 7 min 40 sec Production Company: The London Film School, 24 Shelton Street, London, WC2H 9UB, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7836 9642, fax: +44 (0)20 7497 3718 email: [email protected] web: www.lfs.org.uk Producer: Christian Tanner, Andre Sommerfield Screenwriter, Editor: Christian Tanner Director of photography: Nikolaos Andritsakis Sound: Allison Jackson Cast: Torquill Deacon, Graham Bowe, Sabrina Humbel, Michael Rothlisberger, Doris Tobler

Monkey Nut Tales A young girl's carefully crafted magical world shatters when her mother is hospitalised and her estranged grandma comes to stay. The only way grandma can communicate with her is via the fantastical stories she tells. As they battle over their new roles in the house, they come to terms with their grief.

Producer: Rachel Drummond Hay Executive, Producer: Sarah Jane Meredith Screenwriter, Editor: Martin Rhys Davies Director of Photography: Mark Chamberlain Production Designer: Martin Rhys Davies, Bridget Phelan Sound: Paul Cowgill Music: Stuart Gordon, Tracey Neil EllissBrooles Cast: Jean Boht, Henry Finn, Deborah Sheridan-Taylor

The Morse Collectors

Production Company: Lark Films tel: +44 (0)7837 562 344 email: [email protected]

Two children are forced to walk a fine line between responsibility and childhood fantasy. In the dripping taps of their home, they discover hidden messages but while the young boy is keen to accept them as real, his elder sister struggles with her own rationale. For if they are real, who sent them?

International Sales: Jo Ho email: [email protected]

Director: David Cooke 2008. HD. 16 min 26 sec

Producer: Debbie Crosscup, Tamsin Lyons Screenwriter: Jo Ho Editor: Herbert Hunger Director of Photography: Chris Maris Production Designer: Kim Frederiksen Sound: Christopher Wilson Music: Matthew Davidson Cast: Charlotte Nguyen, Pik-Sen Lim, Claire Perkins

Production Company: Hub Media, 28 Rosslyn Hill, Hampstead, London, NW3 1NH, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7435 3315, fax: +44 (0)20 7435 5385 email: [email protected]

Director: Jo Ho 2007. HD. 10 min

Producer: Crawford Anderson-Dillon, G Sugarman Screenwriter: Pol Mag Udhir Editor: Andy Keil, Brian Philip Davis Director of Photography: Angus Mitchell Sound: Joe Goludie Music: Joanna Marsh Griffiths Cast: Oisin O'Connell, Katie Boyle

Producer: Leon Yan, Neigetie GlasgowMaeda Screenwriter, Editor: Leon Yan Director of Photography: Brian Udoff, Paul Robinson Production Designer: Vali Mahlouji Sound: Hayden Anyasi Cast: Alex Queranne, Nicolas Queranna, Marie Quranna, Anna Lazaveric

Muna Äfiq Ali comes home drunk one day and his father throws him out. He spends a night rough on the streets. The next morning he sees something that gives him the strength to come home and face his father. Director: Shakil Mohammed 2008. Digibeta. 7 min 30 sec Production Company, UK Distributor, International Sales: Openhand Films, 81 Cranbury Road, Reading, Berkshire, RG30 2XE, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7946 215 406 email: [email protected] Producer: Bex Hopkins Screenwriter: Shakil Mohammed Editor: Liz Roe Director of Photography: Jonathan Harvey Production Designer: Holly Franklyn Sound: Ricardo Fonseca, Linda Brennon Music: Gary Sanctuary Cast: Nicholas Prasad, Harmage Singh Kalirai, Nina Wadia

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My Desert

The Nightclub

The Object

A woman finds strength in being alone, at home and in her thoughts, while slowly being pulled deeper into her private world. Elsewhere, a man struggles with absence and tries to escape into his fantasies.

An uneasy young man fails to impress a young woman in a nightclub, but he has a remarkable ability he intends to use to his advantage. Only the lady is spoken for . . .

This is a story about a bunch of stupid greedy people in a parallel universe, not too dissimilar to ours. It opens on two men who discover something they've never seen before in a field. It ends in tears.

Director: Catherine Bennett, Pedro Machado 2007. DV Cam. 11 min 51 sec UK Distributor, International Sales: Pedro Machado, 34 Galleria Court, Sumner Road, London, SE15 6PW, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7252 4994 email: [email protected]

Director: Charlie Bray 2007. 16mm. 8 min 10 sec Production Company: London Film Academy, 52a Walham Grove, London, SW6 1QR, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7386 7711, fax: +44 (0)20 7381 6116 email: [email protected]

Producer: Catherine Bennett, Pedro Machado Screenwriter: Paul Davies Editor: Lucy Cash, Pedro Machado Music: Jules Maxwell Cast: Catherne Bennett, Pedro Machado

Producer: Alex Stein Screenwriter: Sandun Seneviratne Editor: Yaya Halawani Director of Photography: Alexis Lanitis Production Designer: Steven Granger Music: Tim Ineson Cast: Ray Alley, Chris Anderson, Helen Abbott, John Sharpe

My Singing Girl

No Regrets

A short film about a young man's trip to London. Bruce, a young Scotsman, travels to the big city in search of an exciting and promising future.

70 years ago, a young man joined the army to fight for his country. Now, in the autumn of his life, he thinks back about the good times and the bad times.

Director: Andreas Steen Sorensen 2007. HD. 17 min

Director: Martin Nigel Davey 2008. Mini DV. 3 min

Production Company: National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield Studios, Station Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG, England, UK tel: +44 (0)1494 731457, fax: +44 (0)1494 674042 email: [email protected] web: www.nfts.co.uk

Production Company: Davey Films, 140 Kendal Rise, West Midlands, B45 9PS, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7713 341 349 email: [email protected]

UK Distributor, International Sales: Hemant Sharda, National Film and Television School tel: +44 (0)1494 731452, fax: +44 (0)1494 678583 email: [email protected] Producer: Malika Mezeli, James Heath Screenwriter, Editor: Andreas Steen Sorensen Director of Photography: Bertil Mulvad Sound: Curzio Aloisi Music: Leif Nielsen Cast: Alex Price, Angela Bleasdale, Bethany Simpson, Francie J Exell, Drew Kidger, Anthony James Berowne

Producer: Martin Nigel Davey, Philip Pugh Screenwriter: Martin Nigel Davey Editor: Kevin Powis Director of Photography: Philip Pugh Cast: Cpt C F Barton

Director: Leslie Ali 2007. HD. 6 min Production Company: Partizan, 40/42 Lexington Street, London, W1F 0LN, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7851 0200, fax: +44 (0)20 7851 0249 email: [email protected] web: www.partizan.com UK Distributor, International Sales: Riders to Sea Ltd, Flat 2, 34 Howitt Road, London, NW3 4LJ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7939 136 104 email: [email protected] Producer: Isibeal Ballance Screenwriter: Leslie Ali, Paul Caiozzo, Nathan Frank, Brandon Mugar Editor: Alaster Jordan Director of Photography: Ben Moulden Production Designer: Joe Rapapport Sound: Mark Verner Music: Eric Neuveux Cast: Morgan Thomas, Ken Collard, Victoria Wicks, Geraldine O'Reilley

Odd Shoe Joe has a problem. While the other kids in the neighbourhood are strolling around in the newest, latest footwear, Joe's battered old trainers are falling apart. Not cool for a loner trying to summon the courage to talk to Alice, the girl-nextdoor, until the day he gets his hands on a new pair of shoes. Director: Paul Cotter 2007. HD. 10 min Production Company: Whistling Thorn Films Ltd, 25 Marine Square, Brighton, BN2 1DN, England, UK tel: +44 (0)1273 606727 email: lou.spain@ whistlingthornfilms.co.uk Producer: Lou Spain Executive Producer: Miranda Robinson Screenwriter: Clare Bloomfield Editor: Jeff Nolan Director of Photography: Jean Philippe Gossart Production Designer: Andrea Hefford Sound: Paul Rodgers Cast: Joe Mead, Paige Lees

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Short Films

One in Four

Out of Nowhere

Outcasts

Haunted by his involvement in a suicide, train driver Sion struggles to communicate and comprehend the consequences somebody else's decision could have on his life.

A large publisher rants and raves over a novelist's latest manuscript but as he nears the end of his praise something unexpected happens.

A girl in love, a pop star in peril and a gang on the run - somebody's going to get burned.

Director: Matti Harju 2008. 16mm. 19 min Production Company: National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield Studios, Station Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG, England, UK tel: +44 (0)1494 731457, fax: +44 (0)1494 674042 email: [email protected] web: www.nfts.co.uk UK Distributor, International Sales: Hemant Sharda, National Film and Television School tel: +44 (0)1494 731452, fax: +44 (0)1494 678583 email: [email protected]

Director: Gary Fannin 2007. HD. 1 min 38 sec Production Company: Solution Productions Ltd, 41 Casterbridge Road, London, SE3 9AD, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7932 040 708 email: [email protected] Producer: John Schwab Screenwriter: Martin Scorer Editor: Colin Sumsion Director of Photography: Robin Fox Production Designer: Jeni Munns Sound: Daniel Klimke, Geoff Richardson Music: Krista Detor Cast: Howard Ward

Producer: Innis Moore Screenwriter: Matti Harju Editor: Maya Maffioli Director of Photography: Benjamin Kracun Sound: Gunnar Oskarsson Music: Gareth Lockrane Cast: Sian Tudor Owen, Barry Latchford, Deborah MacLaren

Out There

The Ostrich Tapes

Production Company: White Light Films, 306 Cortis Road, London, SW15 6XQ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7906 696 645 email: [email protected]

Two friends in the middle of nowhere try to come to terms with their lives. Mid-life crises have nothing on these two. With a disintegrating marriage and his best pal for company, Roddy decides to take matters into his own hands. How far will their friendship be tested? Director: Gavin Gilmour 2008. DV Cam. 41 min Production Company: Rock Cottage Films, Mill O'Brae, Midmar, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, AB51 7NB, Scotland, UK tel: +44 (0)7751 532 527 email: [email protected] Producer: Gavin Gilmour, Neil Barton Screenwriter, Editor: Gavin Gilmour Director of Photography: Dougal Thomson Cast: Shaun Paul McGrath, Alex Donald

The fractured relationship between an English couple renovating a remote guest house in the south of France begins to disintegrate when they learn that the woods around their house may be infested with dangerous wild animals. Director: Edward McGown 2008. HD. 22 min

Producer: Roopesh Parekh Executive Producer: Luke Montagu, Tara Dean Screenwriter: Michael Waldon Editor: Brett Irwin Director of Photography: Mike Muschamp Production Designer: Fabrice Spelta Sound: Liam Abel Music: Ruth Chain Cast: Jamie Foreman, Lucy Russell, Tom Mison

Director: Ian Clark 2008. HD. 24 min 35 sec Production Company: National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield Studios, Station Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG, England, UK tel: +44 (0)1494 731457, fax: +44 (0)1494 674042 email: [email protected] web: www.nfts.co.uk UK Distributor, International Sales: Hemant Sharda, National Film and Television School tel: +44 (0)1494 731452, fax: +44 (0)1494 678583 email: [email protected] Producer: Megan Stuart Wallace Screenwriter: Simon Brooke, Ian Clark, Megan Stuart Wallace Editor: Nse Asuquo Director of Photography: Stuart Bentley Production Designer: Cara Brower Sound: Dominic Fitzgerald Music: Gary Sanctuary Cast: Jamie Beddard, Cerrie Burnell, Jennifer-Jay Ellison, Ben Goffe, Kier Mills

Perfect A sometimes fantastical love story set in Notting Hill, Perfect tells what happens when Adam and Liberty's paths cross and how their worlds impact on each other. Director: Chris Obi 2008. HD. 21 min Production Company: M17 Digital, Unit 10a, Impress HSE, Mansell Road, London, W3 7QH, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 8740 6060 email: [email protected] Producer: Mitch Ogugua Screenwriter: Chris Obi Editor: Phil McDonald Director of Photography: Ben Cole Production Designer: Verity Woolf Music: Mitch Ogugua Cast: George Fisher, Poppy Delevigne, Charlie Cox, Gemma Atherton, Julian Glover

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Short Films

Pink

Playing Dead

The Problem with Pets

John spends the night of his birthday hiding the pink t-shirt his daughter gave him, but soon the lads have spotted it. As the beer flows things get out of hand. John unleashes his anger on his mate Billy, who tumbles to the floor, apparently lifeless. Terrified, John flees the scene unsure, what exactly he did.

When Rani discovers that her parents haven't been honest about her adoption, she is plunged into emotional mayhem. All her friends are far too caught up with their own dramas of identity and family to notice Rani's predicament.

A dark comedy about Monica, a seven year-old girl who blames her mum's new boyfriend for the sudden and dramatic deaths of her pets. She decides to exact her revenge.

Director: Michael Baig-Clifford 2008. DV Cam. 18 min Regional Screen Agency: Screen WM, 9 Regent Place, Birmingham, B1 3NJ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)121 265 7120, fax: +44 (0)121 265 7180 email: [email protected] Producer: Natasha Carlish Screenwriter: Geoff Thompson Editor: Stephen Killick Director of Photography: Phil Chavannes Production Designer: Russ Ellams Sound: Keith Friday Music: Jeremy Villecourt Cast: Ronnie Fox, Charlotte Flannagan, Maxine Peake, Julian Walsh, Martin Hancock

Player The story of a claustrophobic relationship between a single mother and her piano prodigy son. Arriving in a tight-knit rural community, the pair become embroiled in local romances which push their own relationship to boiling point. Director: Mary Nighy 2008. 16mm. 19 min 51 sec Main Contact: Mary Nighy, 34 Imperial Hall, 104-122 City Road, London, EC1V 2NR, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7872 170 772 email: [email protected] Producer: Mary Nighy, Sam Hodges Executive Producer: Greene Light Films, Mike Bryan, Anthony Wix Screenwriter: Sam Hodges Editor: Christopher Robin Bell Director of Photography: Charlie Stanfield Production Designer: Zoe Franklin Sound: Matthew Gough Music: Don MacDonald Cast: Pete Postlethwaite, Haydn Gwynne, Sam Hodges, Celia Imrie

Director: Pratibha Parmar 2008. HD. 12 min 30 sec Production Company: Kali Films, 78 Fonthill Road, London, N4 3HT, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7561 9541 email: [email protected] Producer: Matthew Lloyd Screenwriter: Liz Heery, Pratibha Parmar Editor: Nicholas Fernandez Director of Photography: Nick Knowland Music: Steve Isles Cast: Nite Mistry, Keatan Makki, Helen Clapp, Cerrie Burnell

Pour Quoi Parkour? Non! Pour Quoi, the free-jumping art form sweeping the globe. Learn from the masters, Baptiste and Vitron. Director: Bev Fox 2007. Mini DV. 4 min Production Company: Magic If Ltd, 35 Ashleigh Grove, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 3DJ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)191 209 4282 email: [email protected] Producer: Bev Fox Editor, Music: Ian McClaughlin Director of Photography: Carl Kennedy Cast: Ian McClaughlin, Chris Price

The Problem with Liking the Person You Have Sex With Love is most desired. Nothing is scarier. A male prostitute and a virgin turning 30 have to face their worst fears to learn to trust. Can they save each other? Director: Draken Sly 2007. 16mm. 13 min 40 sec Main Contact: Gabi Arnold, 8 McWilliam Close, Talbot Village, BH12 5HP, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7707 423 901 email: [email protected] Producer: Amy Mobley Executive Producer, Director of Photography: Phil Peel Screenwriter: Draken Sly Editor: Jonathan Hardy, David Simpson Production Designer: G Sound: Jonathan Hardy Music: The Drunken Sailors Cast: Alasdair Shanks, Clare Cameron, Geraldine Cottalorda, Craig Norman

Director: Catriona Craig 2008. HD. 10 min Production Company, UK Distributor, International Sales: Screen Academy Scotland, Napier University, 2a Merchiston Avenue, Edinburgh, EH10 4NU, Scotland, UK tel: +44 (0)131 455 2572, fax: +44 (0)131 455 2538 email: [email protected] web: www.screenacademyscotland.ac.uk Producer: Susan Wright Screenwriter: Frances O'Neill Editor: Tom Martin Director of Photography: Garry Torrance Production Designer: Willem Van Heemstra Sound: Nairn Beattie Music: John Walden Cast: Eva Brunjes, Suzanne McKenzie, Nick Tizzard

The Promise In an age where the viewer can watch public executions online, ordinary slaughter and routine atrocity make us numb to the pain of human beings. The Promise looks at this final moment from the victim's perspective Director: Luke Losey 2007. HSD Cam. 3 min 47 sec Production Company, UK Distributor, International Sales: Neath Films Ltd, 15 St Giles Tower, Gables Close, London, SE5 7QE, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7708 0266, fax: +44 (0)20 7708 0266 email: [email protected] Producer: Maverick Litchfield-Kelly Executive Producer: Anton Califano Screenwriter: Cathianne Hall Editor: Richard Wolf Director of Photography: Tobia Sempi Production Designer: Fiona Sail Sound: Tim Harrison Cast: Stefana Brancastle, Abigail Hercules

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Short Films

Pull

Quiet

Ralph

A claustrophobic story dealing with the absurdity of life. In any given afternoon, or morning, Alex and his father perform a kind of Russian roulette ritual, possibly for the last time.

Nicola was trafficked into the UK after the promise of a legitimate job but ended up forced into work at Rocky's brothel. One evening she escapes to make a desperate phone call but Rocky finds her and drags her to the house where she's coerced to get ready for work.

Fifteen year-old Ralph travels alone to the south of France to tell his best friend Claire that he loves her. However, Claire thinks of Ralph as a little brother and has no idea he is coming.

Director: Sergio Alvarez-Uribe 2007. HDV. 6 min 57 sec Main Contact: Sergio Alvarez-Uribe, 11 London Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6LZ, Scotland, UK tel: +44 (0)131 557 3243 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter: Sergio AlvarezUribe Executive Producer: Alejandro AlvarezUribe Editor, Sound: Danjel Bugeja Director of Photography: Filip Syczynski Cast: Joe Bugeja, Elek Kish

Quantum An ex quantum physicist is struggling to continue his existence in society. The strains of his monotonous job and his crumbling relationship with his wife drive him back towards his secret past. With the help of the mysterious Professor, he is able to reconstruct the machine that once before led to his downfall. Director: Jonathon Crewe 2008. Mini DV. 27 min 3 sec Production Company: The Human Factory email: [email protected] Producer: Lucy West Screenwriter: Jonathan Crewe Editor: Dominic Stevens Director of Photography: Michael Franklin Sound, Music: Nate Connelly Cast: Adrian Annis, Jenny Wheeler, Ben Woodwiss

A Quick Beep A photocopy machine is used as a metaphoric device in showing how a human brain may process various globalised events. Director: Yuan Tian 2008. DV Cam. 2 min 30 sec UK Distributor: University of Bristol, Department of Drama, Theatre, Film & Television, Cantocks Close, Bristol, BS8 1UP, England, UK email: [email protected], [email protected] Producer: Tricia Chen Executive Producer: Colin O'Neill Screenwriter: Nikolaus Schulz-Dornburg Editor: Tadhg Peavoy Sound: Eirini Loukatou Music: Blair Mowat Cast: Tadhg Peavoy

Director: Izaskun Arandia 2007. Mini DV. 4 min 50 sec Main Contact: Izaskun Arandia email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter, Editor: Izaskun Arandia Cast: Michaela Tempeanu, Earl Ling, Justyna Polijanska, Aspasia Falouka, Mek Rahamani

The Rabbit & the Woodcutter In a fantasy world the love of his girl is the only thing that keeps Rabbit alive. When she starts wooing the lumberjack, Rabbit is left aside and decides to take revenge. Sadly his actions don't get him anywhere closer to his object of affection. Director: Ivaylo Minov 2007. 16mm. 7 min 42 sec Production Company: London Film Academy, 52a Walham Grove, London, SW6 1QR, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7386 7711, fax: +44 (0)20 7381 6116 email: [email protected] Producer: Joanne Hurley Screenwriter: Ji-Sung Lee Editor: Marc Schmidheiny Director of Photography: Nathan Tiney Production Designer: Ji-Eun Oh Sound, Music: Kaloyan Dimitron Cast: Darius Helvadjian, Helena AardeyYaralli

Director: Alex Winckler 2008. 16mm. 13 min 10 sec Production Company: Parkville Pictures, 4a Parkville Road, London, SW6 7BX, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7836 551 683, fax: +44 (0)5601 521 582 email: [email protected] web: www.parkvillepictures.com Producer: Olivier Kaempfer Screenwriter: Alex Winckler Editor: Joe Randall-Cutler Director of Photography: Liam Iandoli Sound: Thomas Joyce Music: Daniel Elms Cast: Ralph Laurilla, Emily Seale Jones, Julie Dray, Jean-FrancËois Malet

Reality Won't Bite Jack Fogg works as a musical theatre director. In his world, artificiality is normal and emotion is all performance. Shortly after burying his pet dog, Jack is visited by a man claiming to be Sparky reincarnated. This shifts his perspective on things. Reality Won't Bite is a comic film about the journey to find happiness. Director: Marius Olteanu 2008. s16mm. 25 min 25 sec Production Company: National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield Studios, Station Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG, England, UK tel: +44 (0)1494 731457, fax: +44 (0)1494 674042 email: [email protected] web: www.nfts.co.uk UK Distributor, International Sales: Hemant Sharda, National Film and Television School tel: +44 (0)1494 731452, fax: +44 (0)1494 678583 email: [email protected] Producer: Jessica Levick Screenwriter: Stewart Thomson Editor: Andrea Cuadrado Director of Photography: Kristjan-Jaak Nuudi Sound: Kinda Brenon Music: Gareth Lockrane Cast: Henry Miller, Tim Plester, Andree Bernard, Richard Sails, Ross Finnie

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Short Films

Reasonable Excuse

The Recruit

Relentless Thirst

High heels, corsets and sheer decadence. A film about a 20-something PR executive called Laila. A dark heroine, who's trying to move on from an incident in LA but somehow gets caught up in the mind games of individuals around her with spine-chilling consequences, linking her to the haunting incidents of her past.

Shane is a young man recruited by the army after a prolonged period of unemployment. He arrives unannounced in Glasgow to spend his last free days with Owen, a childhood friend. Expecting a drinking spree, Shane is disturbed to discover Owen's new life has no place for an unruly, violent friend.

Alcoholic assault weapon experts Liam and Mike once again have to brave the monster-infested forest in search of beer.

Director: Samona Naomi Williams 2008. HD. 30 min 8 sec

Director: Cosmo Wallace 2008. HD. 26 min

Production Company: IFactory Films, Suite B, 29 Harley Street, London, W1G 9QR, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 8821 0076, fax: +44 (0)20 7504 8578 email: [email protected]

Production Company: New Film Army, 2/2, 110 Brunswick Street, Glasgow, G1 1TF, Scotland, UK tel: +44 (0)7813 602 041 email: [email protected]

Producer: Michael Djaba Screenwriter: Samona Naomi Williams Editor: Sonia Godding Director of Photography: Winstan Whitter Sound: Paul Guiver Music: Samson Dedewo Cast: Natalie Steward, Shola Ama, Nolan Weekes, Tony Streeter, Kwaku Ankomah

Producer: Mike Fisher Screenwriter: Cosmo Wallace Editor: Cosmo Wallace, Mike Fisher Director of Photography: Paul O'Callaghan Sound: Esme Wallace Music: James William Hindle Cast: Ioan Waight, Stephanie Morris, Cosmo Wallace

Recipe for Love

The Red Shoes

Lonely heart Valerie makes wedding cakes for brides, wondering when her time will come. Then a timid man with a bizarre baking request knocks on her door.

Based on the horrifying Hans Andersen fairy story, The Red Shoes is a tale of greed and morality. After being given the chance of a new life, a young orphan is drawn to steal a pair of red dancing shoes, with tragic consequences.

Director: Debbie Sutton 2008. Mini DV. 10 min Production Company: Strife Productions, 22 Austin Road, Birmingham, B21 8NV, England, UK tel: +44 (0)121 551 6066 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter: Debbie Sutton, Charmaine Russell Editor: Philip Arkinstall Director of Photography: Mark Jeavons Production Designer: Debbie Sutton Sound: Mark Jeavons Music: Richard Toomer Cast: David Perks, Bella Hamblin

Director: Lyndsey Walker 2007. HDV. 19 min Production Company: Wright Walker Productions, 28 Hawthorn Place, Carlisle, Cumbria, CA2 7GZ, London, UK tel: +44 (0)1228 540296 email: [email protected] Producer, Editor, Sound: Jonathan Wright Screenwriter, Production Designer: Lyndsey Walker Director of Photography: Edward Cooper, Jonathan Wright Music: Chris Mooney Cast: Melissa Clarke, Alex Morrison, Robyn Dickinson, Irene Joyce, Brenda Graham

Director: Liam Comerford, Mike Connor 2007. Mini DV. 19 min Production Company: Secret 7000 Film Group, 20 Ferndale Close, Werrington, ST9 0PQ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7988 135 195 email: [email protected] Producer, Editor: Liam Comerford, Mike Connor Screenwriter, Sound, Music: Liam Comerford Director of Photography: Mike Connor Cast: Simon Plant, Mike Connor, Liam Comerford

Revenge Being CEO of Jouvence Cosmetics is not an easy job for Mr Finchley. Spa treatment in his office is not enough to satisfy his vanity. Nature will find its own way to give him a lesson he will never forget. Director: Marina Ferreira 2007. 16mm. 7 min 21 sec Production Company: London Film Academy, 52a Walham Grove, London, SW6 1QR, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7386 7711, fax: +44 (0)20 7381 6116 email: [email protected] Producer: Yair Halawani Screenwriter: Marc Schmidhriny Editor: Orson Ossman Director of Photography: Antonis Bakopoulos Production Designer: Chryssanty Kofido Cast: Luke De Lacey, Helena Pardy-Yaralli, Stewart Brown

Ripple One small random act of malice forces an ordinary man off the safe road and on to a dark journey that he'll never forget. Director: Paul Gowers 2007. 16mm. 18 min 55 sec Production Company: Wilder Ltd, 21 Little Portland Street, London, W1W 8BT, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7631 3417 email: [email protected] Producer: Rob Merces Screenwriter: Richard Batty Editor: Russ Clapham Director of Photography: Brett Turnbull Production Designer: Huw Arther Sound: Andy Coles Music: Michael Conn Cast: Ben Crompton, Lucy Holt, Glenn Doherty, Bill Thomas

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Short Films

Ruby XX Jack

Safe Zone

Saudade

How do we find our `other half'? Do we find them, or do they find us? And what if the face doesn't fit? The clock is ticking. Ruby is trapped. Will Jack, Ruby's lost love, wait for her?

A soldier returns from the war in Afghanistan and discovers the peace he wants is hard to find. Seeking refuge, solace and safety in the English countryside he is harassed by an increasingly threatening individual.

A psychological romantic short film, about a conflict that occurs between two people and their contrasting existences.

Director: Peter Speyer 2008. Mini DV. 7 min Production Company: Staff Productions, 27 Tansley Close, Camden Road, London, N7 0HP, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7962 322 976 email: [email protected] web: www.myspace.com/rubyxxjack

Director: Carlo Ortu 2007. HDV. 16 min Production Company: Sugarspun Pictures, 20b Links Road, Tooting, London, SW17 9ET, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7899 984 562 email: [email protected]

Producer: Julio Bonet Screenwriter, Production Designer: Simone Glover Editor: Fredrik Bellizia Director of Photography: Karl Watkins Sound: Peter Hodges Music: Paddy Cunneen Cast: Madeleine Dunbar, Brian Ashworth, Paul Thompson

Producer: Andrea Farrena Screenwriter: Carlo Ortu Editor: Dan Roberts Director of Photography: David Procter Production Designer: Tom Jarrett Sound: Ben Hood Music: Stuart Briner Cast: Ian Attfield, Colin Holt, Caroline George

Rule 2

Samantha

A young British soldier comes to terms with the impact of the war in the Middle East on himself and his family.

When her beloved grandmother finally dies, a part of Sam's life is also over. Her new life is a party, but at some point she will have to go home.

Director: Joost Zoetebier 2007. 16mm. 8 min 50 sec Production Company: London Film Academy, 52a Walham Grove, London, SW6 1QR, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7386 7711, fax: +44 (0)20 7381 6116 email: [email protected] Producer: Riman Abu Osba Screenwriter: George Gannon Editor: Avdhesh Mohla Director of Photography: Claudio Napoli Sound: Nick Ryan

Director: Siri Rodnes 2008. 16mm. 15 min Production Company: Siri Rodnes Films, 7 Mentone Terrace, Edinburgh, EH9 2DG, Scotland, UK tel: +44 (0)7861 227 886 email: [email protected] Producer: Alexa Shaw-Champion Screenwriter, Production Designer: Siri Rodnes Editor: Siri Rodnes, Maja Borg Director of Photography: Patrick Murray Sound: Martin Johnson Cast: Amanda Ryan, Suzanne Donaldson, Alistair Gillies, Sarah Harworth, Sophie McCabe

Director: Chen Jo-Pu 2008. HD. 22 min Production Company: Northern Media School, 58 Huntingtower Road, Sheffield, S11 7GT, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7809 678 903 email: [email protected] Producer: Dita Saraswati Legowo Screenwriter: Chen Jo-Pu Director of Photography: Jonathon Bartley Sound: Oliver Phillips Cast: James Leece, Zoe Pepper, Megan Thom, Jay Storey

Sessions of the Mind A tale of two women, Jemima, who attempted to kill her boyfriend, and her troubled psychologist, Victoria. Session by session the minds of the two women transfuse and they are transported to a world that will bring forth a terrifying and dormant connection. Director: Uisdean Murray 2008. HD. 48 min Production Company: Lily Island Films, (3/2) 42 Apsley Street, Partick, Glasgow, G11 7SW, Scotland, UK tel: +44 (0)141 586 9657 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter, Editor, Director of Photography: Uisdean Murray Music: Philip Kovac Cast: Joy McAvoy, Jo Menzer

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Short Films

Shadowed

Shahaadah

Sight Test

A young man suspects that a shadow is out to harm him. As he takes ever more drastic measures to rid himself of the shadow, he finds his life spiralling out of control. However, does he need to be saved from himself?

Ray and Saleem are best friends, living in what seems to be a harmonious multicultural society in East London. But when Saleem's sister becomes pregnant with Ray's child, racial, religious and political tensions explode.

A myopic young cellist navigates her way through a new life in London.

Director: Joseph A Adesunlaye 2007. 16mm. 6 min 1 sec

Director: Janny Sadler 2007. 16mm. 17 min

Production Company: London Film Academy, 52a Walham Grove, London, SW6 1QR, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7386 7711, fax: +44 (0)20 7381 6116 email: [email protected]

Production Company: Westminster Film School, Watford Road, Northwick Park, Harrow, Middlesex, HA1 3TP, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7911 5000, fax: +44 (0)20 7911 5943 email: [email protected]

Producer: Sandun Seneviratne Screenwriter: Antonis Bakopoulos Editor: Alexis Lanitis Director of Photography: Lauren Irwin Production Designer: Hannah Wiggins Music: Adam Lewis Cast: Mark Jackson, Jerzy Kwokowski

Producer: Mamoon Ahmed, Andrea Colomb Screenwriter: Joe Barton Atkinson Editor: Kat Gobel Director of Photography: Min Soo Kim Production Designer: Iain Dodds Cast: Piers Harrison, Shefali Verma, Imran Mirza, Neet Mohan, Herenimo Sehmi

Shadows When the fear of being alone and the stress of finalising her thesis add up, Monica's world turns inside out. Is it all a product of her imagination or is there someone or something stalking her in her own house? Director: William Tennant 2007. 16mm. 12 min 26 sec Production Company: London Film Academy, 52a Walham Grove, London, SW6 1QR, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7386 7711, fax: +44 (0)20 7381 6116 email: [email protected] Producer: Patricia Chamah Screenwriter: Amaniel Gebrehiwet Editor: Linnea Gambari Director of Photography: Diana Bruzzo Production Designer: Gabriea Restelli Sound: Simon Gill Music: Nic Capelle Cast: Diane Beck

Sheriff of Penitence

Director: Joseph Knowles 2008. Digibeta. 17 min Production Company: The London Film School, 24 Shelton Street, London, WC2H 9UB, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7836 9642, fax: +44 (0)20 7497 3718 email: [email protected] web: www.lfs.org.uk Producer: James Youngs Screenwriter: Joseph Knowles, Guy Lodge Editor: Allison Jackson Director of Photography: éystein Essen Lundstrùm Production Designer: Vali Mahlouji Sound: Allison Jackson Music: Dimitri Scarlato Cast: Candice Melton, Tim Butler, Joseph Pitcher, Monti Mill, Gem Carmella

Silent Noise

Guy Stockwell's acting career peaked when he was a star in his teens. Now approaching 30, he's reduced to starring in a low budget Western aimed at Indian TV. When he decides to stand up to the tyrannical director, things begin to get messy.

Jo is constantly having her sleep disturbed by the cries of the baby next door. There has always been a buggy outside the neighbour's but she has never actually seen the baby. However, when she hears the news of her older sister's pregnancy, she stops hearing the baby's cries and even the buggy disappears.

Director: Peter Butler 2007. Mini DV. 13 min

Director: Nozomi Matsuyama 2007. HD. 15 min

Production Company: Westminster Film School, Watford Road, Northwick Park, Harrow, Middlesex, HA1 3TP, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7911 5000, fax: +44 (0)20 7911 5943 email: [email protected]

UK Distributor: Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, EH3 9DF, Scotland, UK email: [email protected]

Producer: Jannika Oberg Screenwriter: Nate Broook Âsparcieux Editor: Oce Âanne E Director of Photography: Harry Courtenay-Bishop Sound: Libin Cheng Cast: James Butler, Zoe Richards, Alain English, Sharif Dorani

Producer, Screenwriter, Editor: Nozomi Matsuyama Director of Photography: Tali Yankelevich Sound: Lin Zhang Music: My Electric Love Affair Cast: Loren Owen, Kelly Crow, Scott Hawes

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Short Films

Silly Billy

Small Change

Steve and Chrissie are on holiday and soon learn why you shouldn't tell lies to strange men in strange local shops.

The tale of a boy alone at a party, who has a magical encounter with a strange old man.

Director: Paul Colwill 2008. HD. 11 min

Director: Christopher Jones 2007. HDV. 5 min 20 sec

Director: Steve Rainbow 2008. Mini DV. 4 min 30 sec

Production Company: TUKC/Threeseven Films, 4 Washington Square, Easington Village, Peterlee, Durham, SR8 3AH, England, UK tel: +44 (0)191 527 3642 email: [email protected]

Production Company: Pea Soup, 28 Highworth Road, Bristol, BS4 4AG, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7779 574 472 email: [email protected]

Production Company: Rainbow, 172 Douglas Road, Birmingham, B27 6HN, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7835 947 697 email: [email protected]

Producer: Rosie Kuhn Screenwriter: Christopher Jones Editor: Will Martin Director of Photography: Suzie Lavelle Production Designer: Lizzie Dwyer Music: Joe Cook Cast: Beau Pollard, Bill Stuart

Producer, Screenwriter: Steve Rainbow Executive Producer: Henry Angell-James Editor: Dan Jones Director of Photography: Ian Brow Production Designer: Andrew Loxley Sound: Michael Calahan Music: Martin Fisher Cast: Cathy Clarke, Andrew Loxley

Producer: Dom O'Neil Screenwriter: Paul Colwill Editor: Nick Light Director of Photography: James McAleer Sound, Music: Mudshark Audio Cast: Chris Price, Michelle Lyndsey, Joe Teague

Slapper A young boy watches a strange and brutal televised fight in a crowded bar: a masked man vs the people's champion. Two years ago, James' alcoholic father was forced to leave him and his mother, but promised he'd be back to make them proud. Is the man in the mask James' father, finally returning as a hero? Director: Chiwetel Ejiofor 2008. 35mm. 15 min Production Company: Dry Dock Films, 10-11 St Georges Mews, London, NW1 8XE, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7971 975 664 email: [email protected] Producer: Rebecca Farhall, Vana MacKinnon Screenwriter: Chiwetel Ejiofor Editor: Joe Walker Director of Photography: Baz Irvine Music: Simon Boswell Cast: Iain Glen, Bill Nighy, Cal Macaninch, Nathaniel Gleed, Melanie Kilburn

Small Dark Places All Tim wants is to overcome his fears and live a normal life. However as his memory starts to fail him his grip on reality also starts to slip. Director: Susie Watson 2008. HD. 24 min Production Company: BBC, 37 Southey Road, London, N15 5LJ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7980 213 089 email: [email protected] UK Distributor, International Sales: BBC Rights & Business Affairs, Room 220, Drama Building, TVC, Wood Lane, London, W12 7RJ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 8576 1879 email: [email protected] Producer: Susie Watson, Kathleen McLynn Executive Producer: Ruth Caleb Screenwriter: Susie Watson Editor: Emilliano Battista Director of Photography: Anne-Marie Lean-Vercoe Production Designer: Marketa Korinova Sound: Ian MacBeth Music: Roger Goula Sarda Cast: Tom Brooke, Caroline Blakison, Joanna Christie, Liam Garrigan, Zoe Tapper

A Small Silent Film About Death Just one letter out of place can make a big difference.

Something Changed Romantic coming-of-age drama set on a Saturday night in Glasgow about a young couple coming to terms with the changes in their relationship. Director: Robert McKillop 2007. Mini DV. 20 min Production Company: Stepping Stones, 27 East Norton Place, Edinburgh, EH7 5DR, Scotland, UK tel: +44 (0)131 661 9863 email: [email protected] Producer: Ama Purkis, Ally Kay Screenwriter, Director of Photography: Robert McKillop Editor: Emma Richards Sound: Rob Walker Cast: Lorna Anderson, Chris Stirling, Richard Rankin, Jonny Carlin, James Allenby

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Short Films

Son

Soul Mates

Speechless

Son tells the story of an underground theatre director and the possessive grip he holds over his female colleague and her young son James. James' unhappy world unfolds in the confines of the theatre's vaults where soon reality and fiction become indistinguishable.

Jack and Sadie are on their last legs. Nobody visits, life is spent in the living room and there's little to do but bicker over who has the most illnesses. One day, a young doctor visits and suddenly it is a battle for attention, as they rediscover their old verve.

D has plenty of time on his hands. He could be doing all sort of things but generally he isn't doing very much. Disillusioned with just about everything around him, he takes solace in gangsta rap and bags of family-sized crisps and texting.

Director: Daniel Mulloy 2007. s16mm. 17 min 30 sec

Director: Alan de Pellette 2008. DVC Pro HD. 13 min 30 sec

Director: James Cooper 2007. HDV. 7 min

Production Company: Sister Films, 39-43 Brewer Street, London, W1F 9UD, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7851 2000, fax: +44 (0)20 7851 2001 email: [email protected]

Production Company: Aficionado Films Ltd, The Attic, 84 Nithsdale Road, Glasgow, G41 5RA, Scotland, UK tel: +44 (0)845 329 6945 email: [email protected]

Production Company: Stickler Films, 33 Dalmeny Road, London, N7 0DX, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7961 137 117 email: [email protected]

Producer: Ohna Falby Screenwriter: Daniel Mulloy Editor: Dan Robinson Director of Photography: Robbie Ryan Sound: Robert Bourke Cast: Glenn Doherty, Nathalie Press

Producer, Screenwriter: Alan de Pellette Editor: Martin Dick Director of Photography: Jason Weidner Sound: John Cobban Music: Raymond Paterson Cast: Sheila Donald, Alex Howden, Jonathan Rush

Producer, Screenwriter, Editor: James Cooper Director of Photography: Steve Smith Cast: Anthony Cozens, Ben Qreshi

Souljah

The Space You Leave

Stanlake, an effeminate young African asylum-seeker, is bullied by thugs on the rough estate where he and his mother have been housed. One day things go too far.

14 year-old Tommy arrives with his older brother and father at their holiday home in Sicily. Escaping the strained atmosphere between them, he finds relief by befriending a Sicilian stranger. However, a visit to the local ruin stirs a painful family memory and an unspoken truth.

Director: Rikki Beadle-Blair 2008. HD. 10 min Production Company, UK Distrubutor, International Sales: B3 Media, PO Box 41000, London, SW2 1HN, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7274 2121 email: [email protected] Producer: John R. Gordon, Rikki BeadleBlair, Carleen Beadle Executive Producer: Marc Boothe, Erinma Ochu Screenwriter: John R. Gordon Editor: Joe Carey Director of Photography: Patrick Smith Sound, Music: Rikki Beadle-Blair Cast: Ludvig Bonin, Jason Maza, Jai Rajani, Joel Dommett, Olivette ColeWilson

Director: Theresa von Eltz 2008. HD. 25 min Production Company: National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield Studios, Station Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG, England, UK tel: +44 (0)1494 731457, fax: +44 (0)1494 674042 email: [email protected] web: www.nfts.co.uk UK Distributor, International Sales: Hemant Sharda, National Film and Television School tel: +44 (0)1494 731452, fax: +44 (0)1494 678583 email: [email protected] Producer: Gavin Humphries, Laura Rees Screenwriter: Theresa von Eltz Editor: Brian Welsh Director of Photography: Ula Pontikos Sound: Matt Kemp, Ricardo Fonseca Music: Kylie Earl Cast: Dan Unwin, Robert Jarvis, Kit Jackson, Carla Juri

Star A movie starlet becomes the obsession of a photographer who sees beyond her facade. The film looks at the modern fascination with celebrity image through the lens of Azreal, the angel of death. Director: Becky Preston 2008. HD. 4 min Production Company: Tread Softly Productions, 1 MacDuff Road, London, SW11 4DA, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7939 268 632 email: [email protected] Producer: Christine Cheung Executive Producer: Becky Preston, Pearse Sheeham Screenwriter: Becky Preston Editor: Michael Zeigermann Director of Photography: Adam Etherington Music: Various Cast: Joanna Christie, Rhys Lawson

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Short Films

Stone

Stuck

Survivor

In South London, a 15 year-old boy tries to cope with his girlfriend's abortion. Obtaining money from his uncle, he accompanies her to the clinic. But when he encounters a herd of deer in a nearby park, a private anguish rises up and threatens to overwhelm him.

Leeann works as a cleaner in her old high school. Her work is repetitive and lonely and her male supervisor is always spying on her. One day, an older man appears in the school playground - the chewing gum removal man. His work is also repetitive and lonely . . . or so it seems to Leeann.

What happens when a Rwandan genocide survivor meets a young man from Darfur? This is the tale of a friendship made on fragile emotional grounds. A subtle treatment of a complex subject, set in the world of London's night cleaners.

Director: Matt Wilkinson 2007. Mini DV. 12 min

Director: Graham Drysdale 2007. HD. 15 min

Production Company: 67 Films, 67 Parliament Hill Mansions, Lissenden Gardens, London, NW5 1NB, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7284 4407 email: [email protected]

Production Company, UK Distributor, International Sales: Pilton Video, 30 Ferry Road Avenue, Edinburgh, EH4 4BA, Scotland, UK tel: +44 (0)131 343 1151, fax: +44 (0)131 343 2820 email: [email protected]

Producer: Imogen West Screenwriter, Editor: Matt Wilkinson Director of Photography: Olivier Cariou Sound: David Hunt Music: David Benke Cast: Frank Harper, Linda Armstrong, Lewis Taylor, Courtney Day

Strawberry Street A surreal poignant drama depicting street crime through the eyes of a seven yearold girl. A little girl wakes up in the middle of the night and wanders the streets. She encounters various melancholy incidents throughout her journey. Director: Alex Soteriades 2008. HD. 7 min Production Company, UK Distributor: Tea Party Productions, 92 Broadlands Avenue, Enfield, London, EN3 5AQ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7790 568 480, +44 (0)7949 036 938, fax: +44 (0)20 7249 7979 email: [email protected], [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter, Editor: George Christou Director of Photography: Nabeel Arshad Sound, Music: Konstantinos Tsahourides Cast: Ellie Papas, Kevin Barnicoat, Niven Chimasamy, Sadie Tonks, Andy Constantinou

Director: Nicole Volavka 2007. Digibeta. 15 min Production Company: The London Film School, 24 Shelton Street, London, WC2H 9UB, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7240 0161, fax: +44 (0)20 7497 3718 email: [email protected] web: www.lfs.org.uk

Producer: Graham Drysdale Screenwriter: Graham Drysdale, Fergus Robb Editor: Alex Perry, Graham Drysdale Director of Photography: Minttu Mantynen Sound: Dougie Fairgrieve Music: Craig Drysdale Cast: Leeann Hogg, Elek Nathan Kish, Dave Pickering

Producer: Mark Pallis, Aaron Reid, Jeavon Smith Screenwriter: Gabriel Vallejo Editor: Samuel Wyndham Director of Photography: Christine Lalla Production Designer: Steve Wilson Sound: Rajeev Morabito Music: Natalie Holt Cast: Shaun Parkes, Nuer Benjamin-Makar, Cyri Nri, Jonathan McDermott, Abdul Popoola

Survey No 257

The Sweetest Sound

Four strangers, locked in a windowless room to complete a survey, soon realise they have something more sinister in common: they all share the same recurring dream.

When Ally bumps into her ex, Ben, she's surprised to find him a changed man. When she left him five years earlier, pregnant with another man's baby, Ben's life was in free-fall. Since then it's Ally's life that has collapsed, whilst Ben's life seems to have transformed beyond all recognition.

Director: Zeb Lamb 2008. HD. 10 min Production Company: Zen Media Ltd, 77 Campbell Gordon Way, London, NW2 6RW, England, UK Producer: Richard Jay Executive Producer: Mica Mullin Screenwriter: Zeb Lamb Editor, Sound: Adam Barton Director of Photography: Stein Stie Production Designer: Marie Blunck Music: Creepy Morrows, The Duke Spirit Cast: Karl Collins, Emil Marwa, Charlotte Riley, Paul M Meston

Director: Jamie Rafn 2008. DV Cam. 13 min Production Company: Jamie Rafn Ltd, 86a Sinclair Road, London, W14 0NJ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7957 326 763 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter: Jamie Rafn Editor: Kate Owen Director of Photography: Jamie Rafn, Marc Charach Sound: Matt Strong Music: Holly Butler Cast: Isabel Walker, Adam Tabraham, Lizzie Rainbow

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Short Films

Taxi For the Comedian

Tell Me What To Do

/t¦ek/ (Check)

Jimmy Cakes is an old-school dinosaur comedian, whose comic influences stretch not that much further than Bernard Manning. When he is sent to a comedy club with a nearly all-black clientele, he finds his sense of humour is pushed to the limit, as witnessed by the documentary crew who are filming this comic legend.

Fletcher is a middle-aged man who finds his life taking an unexpected turn when he is left alone to enjoy all that has been denied to him for many years. As his indulgence increases, excess mounts excess, and he soon hankers for discipline and routine. But who is there to tell him what to do?

The dark story of an unhappy dollmaker, whose dissatisfaction with his own existence results in destroying the lives of others. How will his struggle end?

Director: Simone Antoine 2008. HD. 10 min

Director: Ji Sung Lee 2007. 16mm. 11 min 4 sec

Production Company, UK Distributor, International Sales: B3 Media, PO Box 41000, London, SW2 1HN, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7274 2121 email: [email protected]

Production Company: London Film Academy, 52a Walham Grove, London, SW6 1QR, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7386 7711, fax: +44 (0)20 7381 6116 email: [email protected]

Producer: Wendy Bevan-Mogg Executive Producer: Marc Boothe, Erinma Ochu Screenwriter: Matt Blaize Editor: Richard Mitchell, Monkey Science Director of Photography: Daniel Keane Production Designer: Paul Zahibi Sound: Finn Curry Music: Mark Adair Cast: Joshua Amtwi, Kamel Aujla, Stephen-Lubega Balyejjusa, Anthony Chisholm, Colin Edwards

Taximan Young Bosnian immigrant Ivan works in London as a minicab driver. When he thinks he's the happiest man on earth, he loses everything. Director: Henrik Norrthon 2008. HDV. 22 min Production Company: The London Film School, 24 Shelton Street, London, WC2H 9UB, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7240 0161, fax: +44 (0)20 7497 3718 email: [email protected] web: www.lfs.org.uk Producer: Henrik Norrthon, Suzanne Kapitzky Screenwriter, Editor, Director of Photography: Henrik Norrthon Production Designer: Nina Aufderheide Sound: Paul Keating Music: Moby, Teknikcirkus, Karl Alm Cast: Branko Tomovic, Christina Noland, Marija Karan, Fenton Gee, Michelle Frances

Producer: Joanne Hurley Screenwriter: Ivaylo Minov Editor: Charlie Bray Director of Photography: Marc Schmidheiny Production Designer: Hilary Statts Music: Dakey Cast: Paddy Flecther, Barbara Langley

Terra Firma Quentin is an entertainer onboard a North Sea passenger ferry. He has just split from his wife and daughters and is living at sea literally and emotionally. One night Quentin meets the partner and daughter of the woman he is having an affair with. The time he spends with the daughter, Angelina, moves Quentin to confront his life on land. Director: Johnny Barrington 2007. HD. 28 min Production Company, International Sales: Sigma Films, Film City Glasgow, 4 Sommerton Road, Glasgow, G51 2LY, Scotland, UK tel: +44 (0)141 445 0400, fax: +44 (0)141 445 6900 email: [email protected] Producer: Anna Duffield Executive Producer: Kate Ogborn Screenwriter: Johnny Barrington Editor: Chris Wyatt Director of Photography: Simon Tindall Production Designer: Kara Ramsay Sound: Savalas Music: Charlie Jefferson Cast: Michael Smiley, Natasha Watson, Jamie Michie, Jo Hartley

Director: Karolina Malinowska 2008. Mini DV. 6 min 27 sec Main Contact: Karolina Malinowska, Ulica Dabrowki, 2/10, Koszalin, 75-055, Poland tel: +44 (0)7935 737 852 email: [email protected] Producer: Karolina Malinowska, Charmaine Gilbert Screenwriter, Editor, Production Designer: Karolina Malinowska Director of Photography: Karolina Malinowska, Lucy Sneddon Music: Paagolina Malinowska Cast: Alan Ireby, Desiree Quintero Marin, Lucy Sneddon, Alanna Kerr

The Thai Bride An Asian-style ghost story set in the suffocating suburbs of London. When Panan arrives from Thailand to start her marriage with Gordon, she finds settling into her new life harder than expected. She senses another woman in the house. Is Panan imagining this sinister presence or is she being haunted? Director: Corinna Faith 2007. DV Cam. 24 min Production Company: IWC Media, Gloucester Building, Kensington Village, Avonmore Road, London, W14 8RF, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7013 4052, fax: +44 (0)20 7013 4001 email: [email protected] International Sales: RDF Rights, Beaumont House, Kensington Village, Avonmore Road, London, W14 8RF, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7013 4435, fax: +44 (0)20 7013 4001 email: [email protected] Producer: Jim Spencer, Hannah Weaver Executive Producer: Judy Counihan Screenwriter: Corinna Faith Editor: Kant Pan Director of Photography: Christopher Titus King Production Designer: Eddy Andres Sound, Music: Max De Wardener Cast: Lourdes Faberes, Terence Hillyer, Flora Nicholson, Antoinette Sym

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Short Films

Thinspiration

Tide

Tùmt and I

A story about anorexia set in the seventeenth century. Eva and Anna are young novices at an austere convent. When Anna takes the Lenten fast to extremes, wild rumours about her holiness being to spread. Hoping to save her friend, Eva is forced to confront the culture that condones such hysteria.

He kisses her. Is this the beginning of a great love or the end? A short film which plays with the audience's perception . . . backwards.

Shlebhian writes home about his first few months in England with his brother Tùmt. Life in England is not quite what the brothers were expecting and Shlebhian voices his difficulty in acclimatising to British culture. Humorous and poignant, a touching document to isolation in a new culture.

Director: Harry Burton 2008. HD. 24 min Production Company: IWC Media, Gloucester Building, Kensington Village, Avonmore Road, London, W14 8RF, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7013 4052, fax: +44 (0)20 7013 4001 email: [email protected] International Sales: RDF Rights, Beaumont House, Kensington Village, Avonmore Road, London, W14 8RF, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7013 4435, fax: +44 (0)20 7013 4001 email: [email protected] Producer: Jim Spencer, Hannah Weaver Executive Producer: Judy Counihan Screenwriter: Ruth McCane Editor: David Gibson Director of Photography: Lol Crawley Production Designer: Jo Manser Sound: Anna Sulley Music: Bev Lee Harling Cast: Sian Thomas, Lucinda Dryzek, Karen Gillan, Sara James, Sue Vincent

Thou Shalt Not Alone in an alienating oil-dry future, Hunter pursues a preternatural urge to obtain petroleum regardless of the consequences and of its limited use in the regressive world around him. Director: Michael Byrne 2007. Mini DV. 8 min 19 sec Production Company: Cracked Films, 44a Cranwich Road, Stoke Newington, London, N16 5JN, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 8801 305 email: [email protected] web: www.crackedfilms.co.uk UK Distributor: Max Brill, Cracked Films, 44a Cranwich Road, Stoke Newington, London, N16 5JN, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 8880 1305 email: [email protected] Producer: Viki Walden Screenwriter: Michael Byrne Editor: Juha Puupera È Director of Photography: Ben White Sound, Music: Robin Eden Cast: Oliver Lord, Robin Eden

Director: Felix Wiedemann 2007. s16mm. 5 min 55 sec Production Company: National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield Studios, Station Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG, England, UK tel: +44 (0)1494 731457, fax: +44 (0)1494 674042 email: [email protected] web: www.nfts.co.uk UK Distributor, International Sales: Hemant Sharda, National Film and Television School tel: +44 (0)1494 731452, fax: +44 (0)1494 678583 email: [email protected] Screenwriter, Editor, Director of Photography: Felix Wiedemann Music: Roger Goula Cast: Claire Louise Amias, Ben-Bela Boehm, Vanessa Whyte

Tomorrow's Forecast A mysterious friend helps Darren remember the recent events of his past that will shape his future. Director: David Hewitt 2007. Digibeta. 15 min 40 sec Production Company, UK Distributor, International Sales: Satellite Pictures Ltd, 20 Honeyman Close, London, NW6 7AZ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 8451 5212 email: [email protected] Producer: Mani Sohanpal Screenwriter: David Hewitt Editor: Alex Sutcliffe Director of Photography: Dominik Rippl Production Designer: Liz Colbert Sound, Music: Ben Walker Cast: James Hillier, Remi Nichole

Director: Daz Spencer, Joe Barcham 2007. Mini DV. 3 min 5 sec Main Contact: Darren W Robinson, 16 Buttermere, Augustus Street, Camden, London, NW1 3TE, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7870 887 792 email: [email protected] Producer: Joe Barcham Screenwriter, Music: D W Robinson Editor, Sound: Daz Spencer, Joe Barcham Director of Photography: Daz Spencer Production Designer: D W Robinson, D L Lankester Cast: D W Robinson, David L Lankester

Traces A brief encounter between a woman and a man along the deserted east coast of England, in the winter. The woman, who has lost her desire to live, becomes the subject of the man's voyeurism and photographic lens. Director: Sandesh de Rijk 2007. Mini DV. 20 min Production Company: National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield Studios, Station Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG, England, UK tel: +44 (0)1494 731457, fax: +44 (0)1494 674042 email: [email protected] web: www.nfts.co.uk UK Distributor, International Sales: Hemant Sharda, National Film and Television School tel: +44 (0)1494 731452, fax: +44 (0)1494 678583 email: [email protected] Producer: Samantha Hermann Screenwriter: Sandesh de Rijk Editor: Sander Kuiper Director of Photography: Gerko Jonker Sound: Bouk Bouwmeester Music: Minko Kalsbeek Cast: Charlotte Allam, Mark Carter

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Short Films

Training Daljinder

Trapped

Triple Word

Daljinder, a young trainee minicab driver, is paired up with Mick, a veteran cabbie, in order to learn the minicab trade. However Daljinder soon finds out that Mick's teachings range from the immoral to the illegal, and begins to wonder whether this is the trade for him.

Jack becomes ill from the mould on the wall. Like a monster it eats into his health and imagination. Living in terrible conditions the family are forced to move from place to place as their world falls apart around them, with only red tape to bind them.

Director: Ben Slotover 2007. HDV. 15 min 15 sec

Director: Rowland Jobson 2008. 16mm. 21 min

In a future cold war, people have prepared to evacuate to Mars should missiles fire. Three students launch their escape pod only to discover entertainment has been somewhat overlooked. One room, three friends, a guitar and a Scrabble board. A two-year journey suddenly feels like a horribly long time.

Production Company: Blunt Productions, 55 Lady Somerset Road, London, NW5 1TY, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7209 3549, fax: +44 (0)20 7209 9569 email: [email protected] web: www.mickmovie.com

Production Company: Seefood Ltd, 7 Denmark Street, London, WC2H 8LZ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7870 1113 email: [email protected]

Producer, Editor, Music: Ben Slotover Screenwriter: Paul Elliott, Ben Slotover Director of Photography: Arsenio Assin Sound: Tim Robinson Cast: Paul Elliott, Amit Shah, Vimal Stephens

Train Trip When a man takes the train he expects to have a quiet trip. The coach is empty except for a stunningly beautiful woman who can't take her eyes off him. All he has to do is get up and talk. But will he?

Producer: Zoe Webster Screenwriter: Rowland Jobson Editor: Matteo Pizzarello Director of Photography: Tony Imi Production Designer: Caroline Collinge Sound: Tate Music Music: Rob Lord Cast: Patsy Palmer, Steven Elder, James Wilson, Molly Kerrigan

Trip An emotional tale of what happens when a father tries to do the right thing by his two daughters but chooses the worst way to go about it.

Director: Ery Nzaramba 2007. Mini DV. 4 min 6 sec

Director: Harry Wootliff 2007. 16mm. 15 min

Production Company: Maliza Productions, Flat 13, 113 Oxford Road, Oxford, OX4 2ES, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7778 042 017 email: [email protected]

Production Company: Yipp Films, Office Two, Maling Studios, Hoults Estates Ltd, Walker Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2HL, England, UK tel: +44 (0)191 224 1555, fax: +44 (0)191 224 2555 email: [email protected]

Producer, Screenwriter, Editor, Sound: Ery Nzaramba Director of Photography: Courtney Townsend Cast: Chara Jackson, Paul Clerkin, Ery Nzaramba

UK Distributor: Katie Metcalfe, Future Shorts, 34-35 Berwick Street, London, W1F 8RP, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7734 3883 email: [email protected] Producer: Patrick Collerton Executive Producer: Iris Maor Screenwriter: Harry Wootliff Editor: Tim Fulford Director of Photography: Lol Crawley Production Designer: Dalia Gellert Sound: Chris Wilson Music: Mat Davidson Cast: Sam Hazeldine, Karis Igoe, Chloe Garner. Sara Fellows

Director: Paul Allen, Jamie Bolton 2008. 16mm. 7 min 6 sec Production Company: 33 Story Productions, 33 Florentia Street, Cathays, Cardiff, CF24 4PE, Wales, UK tel: +44 (0)7971 428 318 email: [email protected] web: www.33story.com Producer: Marisa Castella Screenwriter: Paul Allen Editor: Chris Rees Director of Photography: Richard Surridge Production Designer: Ben Morson Sound: Benjamin Brundle Music: Gareth Bonello Cast: Paul Tonkin, Greg Upham, Thomas Rhys Nicholas

Un Riff para Lazaro Lazaro, a young trumpet player from La Havana, prepares a music exam with a new trumpet mouthpiece. One day this trumpet mouthpiece disappears. Lazaro decides to look for his father, who is also a trumpeter. (Spanish with English subtitles). Director: Re Âmi Borgeaud 2007. 16mm. 17 min 42 sec Production Company: The London Film School, 24 Shelton Street, London, WC2H 9UB, England tel: +44 (0)20 7836 9642, fax: +44 (0)20 7497 3718 email: [email protected] web: www.lfs.org.uk Producer: Irina Ruiz Screenwriter, Sound: Remi Borgeand Editor: Miri Shapiro Director of Photography: Luis Naymias Jr Music: Loic Boujol Cast: Julio Boujol, Keyla Ramos Co-production: Switzerland, Cuba

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Unborn

Undertow

Up

An infertile woman moves into a delapidated house with her husband, where she becomes convinced she can hear her unborn child crying for her.

Two men wander the streets of a deserted city. Neither has any memory of how they came to be there. In a busy city a woman grieves. As a series of strange events and suppressed memories manifest, the two worlds begin to collide.

Try all your life to succeed, get on, don't stop, do what you're told, listen to your mother and above all don't turn back. There is only ever one direction . . . up.

Director: Justin Trefgarne 2008. 16mm. 11 min Production Company: Trinamite Productions Ltd, The Elm Coach House, Church Lane, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, OX7 5NS, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7734 415 096 email: [email protected] web: www.trinamiteproductions.com Producer: Francine Heywood, Laura Giles, Ernest Riera, Sarah Parfitt Executive Producer: David Kraftman Screenwriter: Justin Trefgarne Editor: Andy Shelley Director of Photography: James Leckey È zkural Production Designer: Eren O Sound: Ian MacBeth Music: Molly Trefgarne Cast: Dan Fredeburgh, Molly Gaisford, Simon Kunz, Sasha Billingham

Underground Sylvana looks after Sam's Grandad. Sam arrives at Grandad's house, excited to show him a bug. But something has happened to Grandad. The event unites him with Sylvana in unexpected ways. Director: Oonagh Kearney 2007. HD. 18 min 30 sec Production Company: National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield Studios, Station Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG, England, UK tel: +44 (0)1494 731457, fax: +44 (0)1494 674042 email: [email protected] web: www.nfts.co.uk UK Distributor, International Sales: Hemant Sharda, National Film and Television School tel: +44 (0)1494 731452, fax: +44 (0)1494 678583 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter: Oonagh Kearney Editor: Charlotte Munch Bengtsen Director of Photography: Duncan Telford Sound: Dominic Fitzgerald Music: Catrin Jones Cast: Max Fewsten, Melody Lovich, Dan Meaden, Jody Elen Machin, Martin Glyn Murray

Director: Neil McEnery-West 2007. Mini DV. 27 min 50 sec Main Contact: Neil McEnery-West, 61 Winns Terrace, Walthamstow, London, E17 5EJ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7986 009 097 email: [email protected] web: www.mcenerywest.co.uk Producer, Editor, Director of Photography: Neil McEnery-West Screenwriter: Antony Woodruff, Neil McEnery-West Sound: Doug Haywood Music: Ruth Chan Cast: Matthew Jure, Paul Mills, Clea McEnery-West

Uninvited Harry, a tormented writer, finds himself lost in the middle of nowhere. Seeking help in a forgotten pub he finds a new and unusual story. With every sip of his drink he watches a story unfold. Director: Shaune Harrison 2007. HD. 12 min 45 sec Production Company: Futurist Films, 10 Pond Lane, Chalfont St Peter, SL9 9HZ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7887 771 534 email: [email protected] Producer: Kerri Trounce Screenwriter: Kerri Trounce, Shaune Harrison Editor: Ben Clayton Director of Photography: Lisa Thomson Production Designer: Tez Palmer Sound: Ben Clayton, Andy Caller Music: Paul Lord Cast: Frazer Douglas, Rachel Sheridan, Dominik Golding, Andy Hunt

Director: Dan Moss 2008. 16mm. 10 min 58 sec Production Company: Hekate Films, 16 Dunsmore Road, London, N16 5PW, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7840 113 883 email: [email protected] Producer: Dan Moss, Gabi Norland Screenwriter: Dan Moss, Megan George Editor: Anne Kliem Director of Photography: Gabi Norland Sound: Hue Jah Fink Music: Stitch Cast: Dave, Rebecca Steele, Nick Ewans, Ken Collard

Vani In remote areas of Pakistan, a custom in which young girls are forcibly married to rival clan members to resolve disputes still takes place. Although desperate actions are taken against it, every day innocent women sacrifice their lives to Vani. Director: Shafia Bhatti 2008. DV Cam. 21 min Production Company: Sheffield Hallam University, Psalter Lane Campus, Psalter Lane, Sheffield, S11 8YZ, England, UK email: s.sprung@shu,ac.uk, [email protected] Producer: Shafia Bhatti Screenwriter: Iftekhar Haider, Zaibun Pasha Editor: Varsha Bansal Director of Photography: Dilnawaz Ahmed Sound: Jon Willis Cast: Bakhtawar, Zahid Ali, Semee Khan, Amjad Sandhu, Saira Khan

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Veils

Vespers

The Voice

A modern London diaspora story about a Jewish bride and a Palestinian groom on their wedding day. But this is not a standard Romeo and Juliet story of forbidden love - as time begins to run out, the families race towards a surprising thought-provoking climax.

The last man walks alone, always. Vespers is a visual spectacle that can best be described as a Victorian-era 28 Days Later.

A period drama set in Sicily, 1910. A blind aristocrat falls in love with his mother's nurse. Their perfect relationship is interrupted when a doctor arrives with a cure for his blindness and the nurse becomes unsure about her looks. Based on a story by Luigi Picardello.

Director: Dan Susman 2007. HD. 13 min Production Company: Film Foundry tel: +44 (0)7812 110 073 email: [email protected] Producer: Kirsty Peart, Jane McGee, Taimoor Sobhan Screenwriter: Dan Susman Editor: Melanie Leblond Director of Photography: Frank Dow Production Designer: Rosy Thomas Sound: Videosonics Music: Chris Hobson Cast: Maureen Lipman, David Horovitch, Ray Panthaki

Vermin When Gary has to lift a squeaky floorboard in a house he is helping refurbish, he is surprised to find a nest of accountants living underneath. But while he is enchanted by their industrious activity, his boss is less happy, and calls in the exterminator. Director: Robin Morgan 2007. DV Cam. 8 min Production Company: Boogle Eyes, 106 Wellmeadow Road, London, SE6 1HW, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7946 536 962 email: [email protected] Producer: Simon Aldous, Robin Morgan Screenwriter: Simon Aldous Editor: Amy Kane Director of Photography: Phil Connolly Production Designer: Alex Bailey Music: Tom Miles Cast: Peter Herbert, Andrew Guyver, Gill Stoker

Director: David Lilley, Stephen Gray 2008. HD. 6 min Production Company: Loonatik and Drinks, 21 Melrose Street, Sherwood, Nottingham, NG5 2JP, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7717 531 253 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter: David Lilley Editor: David Lilley, Stephen Gray Director of Photography: Stephen Gray Sound: Barry Parsons Music: Kubilam Uner Cast: Kevin Norcross, Georgia Blake

View of the Spider View of the Spider looks into the world of a pro female boxer who is preparing for the big fight with a romanticised outlook of reality. How far would you go to live the dream? Director: George Millar, Sharon Race 2007. Mini DV. 16 min 55 sec Production Company: Cet, 3 Southview West, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 5PP, England, UK tel: +44 (0)191 209 5031 email: [email protected] Screenwriter: Sharon Race Director of Photography: Harry Henderson Production Designer: M C Race Cast: Sharon Race, George J McVeagh, Christina Kiernan

Director: Dennis Madden 2007. 16mm. 20 min Production Company, International Sales: Magor Films, 9 The Vale, London, N10 1AH, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7958 495 539 email: [email protected] Producer: Mike Unwin, Trevor Porter Screenwriter, Director of Photography: Dennis Madden Editor: Sam Jones Production Designer: Georgina Roberts Sound: James Corless Music: Peter Morris Cast: Ellie Collier, Will Garthwaite, Michael Kirk

The Voices Inside Listen, and you'll hear. Director: Paul Dolmen 2008. Mini DV. 7 min 25 sec Production Company, UK Distributor, International Sales: Dolmen Pictures, 197 Daw End Lane, Walsall, West Midlands, WS4 1LD, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7778 347 652 Producer, Screenwriter, Editor: Paul Dolmen Music: Aidan Goldstraw Cast: Malcolm Trahearn, Gillian Starling, Simon Norris, Rita Kemp

96

Short Films

Void

Watch Me!

The Weaker Sex

Rehan is a young Muslim who has become disillusioned with life in modern Britain and has reached a point where he feels lost in the void between the two very different worlds. Having been seduced by extremists he is left standing at a crossroads and must decide which road to take.

Tom and younger brother Stuart escape from a violent street gang - by using their mobile phones.

A woman's journey takes an unexpected turn as an apparent twist of fate turns out to be something more sinister.

Director: Leuan Morris 2008. HD. 13 min

Director: Louise Catherall 2007. Mini DV. 6 min 39 sec

Production Company: Fiction Factory Ltd, 1-2 Mount Stuart Square, Cardiff Bay, Cardiff, CF10 5EE, Wales, UK tel: +44 (0)2920 300320, fax: +44 (0)2920 300321 email: [email protected]

Main Contact: Louise Catherall, 51 Glebe Way, West Wickham, Kent, BR4 9HP, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7806 946 681 email: [email protected]

Director: Paul Carmichael 2007. 16mm. 7 min 54 sec Production Company: London Film Academy, 52a Walham Grove, London, SW6 1QR, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7386 7711, fax: +44 (0)20 7381 6116 email: [email protected] Producer: Yun Tae Kang Screenwriter: Akram Hassan Editor: Gary Clayton Director of Photography: Hagendra Prasad Production Designer: Chryssanthy Kofidoy Sound: Gary Clayton Cast: Irfan Hussain, Daphne Alexander, Hajaz Akram, Hamza Jeetooa

The Waiting Room Two men at the twilight of their lives share a hospital room and are forced to hear each other's differing world views. Director: Max Davies 2008. HD. 14 min 55 sec Production Company: Sandbox, 163 Sulivan Court, London, SW6 3DN, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7956 505 688 Producer: Nick Saunders Screenwriter: James Higginson Editor: Jay Costello Director of Photography: Michael Hannan Production Designer: Claire Hannan Sound: Martin Reekie Cast: David Barnaby, David Forest

Producer: Catrin Rees Screenwriter: Leuan Morris Editor: Aloma Blackmore Director of Photography: Jonathon Bloom Production Designer: Sue Jackson-Potter Music: Aaron Trinder, Chris Butterworth Cast: Tom Cullen, Tomos Ryan, Jordan Barnard, Julie Barclay

We are all Rwandans A day in the life of six Rwandan students whose school was attacked by rebels in the aftermath of the genocide. Their refusal to betray each other cost them dearly. Director: Debs Gardner-Paterson 2007. HD. 25 min Production Company: Catsiye, 30a Ladbroke Square, London, W11 3NB, England, UK tel: +44 (0)775 261 3701 email: [email protected] Producer: Sven Pannell, Ayuub Kasasa Mago Screenwriter: Ayuub Kasasa Mago, Debs Gardner-Paterson Editor: Miikka Leskinen Director of Photography: Tim Neeves Sound: Robin Pender, Chris Booth Music: Bernie Gardner Cast: Solange Liza Umhire, Viateur Munderere, Kennedy J Mazimpaka, Sonia Uwimbabazi, Aloys Twungubumwe

Producer, Screenwriter, Editor, Director of Photography: Louise Catherall Sound: Jo Byrne Cast: Debra Baker, Georgie Calverley, Russell Gibbs

What Goes Around When a young man avenges his cousin's dignity by stabbing her drug-dealing sex buddy in a moment of rage, he sets off a chain of bloody events that leads to his own death. Director: Nic Penrake 2007. 16mm. 10 min 43 sec Production Company: Penrake Productions Ltd, 113 Swinderby Road, Wembley, London, HAO 4SE, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7779 102 348, fax: +44 (0)20 8632 0373 email: [email protected] Producer: Nic Penrake, Nick Franco, Roopesh Parekh Screenwriter, Production Designer: Nic Penrake Editor: Dan Gethic Director of Photography: Zillah Bowes Music: Jim Meacock

97

Short Films

Wheelspin

When the Oil Ran Out

The Wilds

Angie has her part-time job and her yoga while John has his car lot. He sees himself as better than most, he's a player (or so he thinks). Marriage hasn't kept him faithful. John is never satisfied, he wants more and unfortunately for him, he gets it.

This film takes a brief look into the future to predict how life will change for ordinary people when oil is scarce.

Following a chain of brutal child deaths in a secluded North Yorkshire village, a local farmer journeys out into the wilds to discover the fate of his missing son.

Director: Michael Burns 2007. DV Cam. 14 min 45 sec Production Company: Bright Light Films Ltd, 40 Oakdene Avenue, Chislehurst, Kent, BR7 6EA, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7710 513 484 email: [email protected] Producer: Matt Dadley Screenwriter: Michael Burns Editor: Chris Brown Director of Photography: Cliff Harden Sound: Sharmi Naidoo Music: Soul Step Cast: Michael O'Flaherty, Piers Norman, Ellenor Draper

When Mars Meets Venus A compilation of different sketches, intended as a pilot for a sketch show. These are presented as `runners', i.e. recurring segments giving the film a unified effect. The themes covered include relationships, new age mystics and image makeovers, which are all relevant to the title. Director: Kyra Williams, Theresa Cole, Charlotte Thornton 2007. DV Cam. 8 min Production Company: Dilemmas, Flat 12, 26 Dartmouth Road, Forest Hill, London, SE23 3XU, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 8699 3799 email: [email protected] Producer: Theresa Cole Screenwriter: Tom Fisher Editor, Director of Photography, Sound, Music: James Esposito Cast: Theresa Cole, Charles Armstrong, Charlotte Thornton, David Stoller, Andrew Conway

Director: Chinyere Deacon-Smith 2008. Mini DV. 5 min Production Company: Classic Art Productions, 12c Flodden Road, Camberwell, London, SE5 9LN, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7274 6627 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter, Editor: Chinyere Deacon-Smith Music: Jason Ogwo, Daniel Deacon-Smith, Aaron Sinclair Cast: Daniel Deacon-Smith, Alice O'Malley, Luke Sinclair, Aaron Sinclair, Nathan Sinclair

White Collar Crime After discovering his wife has been having an affair, a vicar's crisis of faith is lived out on the paintball field. His masterful combat skills soon become apparent while he hunts down his enemy with a passion reserved only for sinners. But will he regain his faith before he meets his true enemy? Director: Keir MacKenzie 2007. DV Cam. 14 min Production Company: Wet Fish Films, Leftside Productions, Flat 1, 58 Dudley Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN1 1LF, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7796 617 144 Producer: Keir MacKenzie, Andrew Swann Screenwriter: Keir MacKenzie Editor: Andrew Swann Director of Photography: Graeme Maxwell Music: The Atkins Project Cast: Colin Holt, Georgina Sutton. Ian Attfield, Daniel Jarus, Oliver Ward-Lewis

Director: Matthew D Ridley 2007. 16mm. 15 min Production Company, UK Distributor, International Sales: The Northern Film School, c/o Electric Press, F Block Stores, Calverley Street, Leeds, England, LS1 3HE, UK tel: +44 (0)113 812 8035, fax: +44 (0)113 812 8080 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter: Matthew D Ridley Editor: Tamsin Spivey Director of Photography: Adam Cor Sound: Tim Gait Cast: Steve Granger, Katey PurkissMcEndoo, Benjamin Purkiss-McEndoo

Winding Down An ageing clock repairman struggles against the fading of the light. Director: Richard Parkin 2008. HD. 12 min 42 sec Production Company: Red Ray Films, 15 The Parade, Donaghadee, BT21 0AE, Northern Ireland, UK tel: +44 (0)794 984 6005 email: [email protected] Producer: Villi Ragnarsson Screenwriter, Editor: Richard Parkin Director of Photography: Angus Mitchell Production Designer: Christine Savage Music: Graeme G Stewart Cast: Derek Halligan, Barry Etherson, Helena Bereen

The Window A man who lives in a TV, in a shop window, falls in love with a mannequin from the shop across the street. Director: Ana Vilenica 2007. HD. 8 min 28 sec Production Company: Pebble Film & Theatre Productions Ltd, 24 Parliament Hill, London, NW3 2TN, England, UK tel: +44 (0)776 951 5380 email: [email protected] Producer: Slobodan Karajlovic Executive Producer, Screenwriter: Ana Vilencia, Slobodan Karajlovic Editor: Anne Kliem Director of Photography: Harald Beeker Production Designer: Katharine Fry Sound: Samir Foco Music: Dado Dehan Cast: Gordon Cowell

98

Short Films

Wings of Blue Angels

Wishful Filming

Without a Face

Lives intertwine and experiences are shared amongst strangers in Bangkok, a city of millions where the chance of finding a connection with someone happens in ways you least expect. This is exactly what happens to Farr and Nuam, two women leading very different lives who find love in very different places.

Life and movies have so much in common. First impressions, attracting the people you like, and most of all attaining the love of the desired one is never easy . . . but it can happen sometimes.

A young woman heads home after a party. She stumbles across a man lying injured in the road. As she tries to help him an ambulance silently appears out of the darkness and it soon becomes clear, this is no ordinary ambulance and help is not what it is here for.

Director: Ong Chantarangkul 2008. 35mm. 29 min 19 sec Production Company: The London Film School, 24 Shelton Street, London, WC2H 9UB, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7240 0161, fax: +44 (0)20 7497 3718 email: [email protected] web: www.lfs.org.uk Producer: Natalie Higashi Screenwriter: Ong Chantarangkul Editor: Vanat Sermpol Director of Photography: Pramett Chankrasae Production Designer: Wittoya Chaimongkol Sound: Preethep Boondej Cast: Sinitta Booyasak, Dolloros Dechapratumwon, Ananda Everingham, Thiti Vechabul

Wish Two girls, two boys, a game where nobody wins. Director: Matt Day 2007. 7 min 48 sec Production Company: Quark Films Ltd, 10 Denmark Street, London, WC2H 8LS, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7714 237 776 email: [email protected] Producer: Anna Higgs Screenwriter: Matt Day Editor: Jay Moss Director of Photography: Christopher Ross Production Designer: Eva Kuntz Sound: Stuart Miller Music: Norwell & Green Cast: Imogen Poots, Scarlett Patterson, Christian Cooke, Jack Bence

Director: Amaniel Ghebrehiwet 2007. 16mm. 7 min 29 sec Production Company: London Film Academy, 52a Walham Grove, London, SW6 1QR, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7386 7711, fax: +44 (0)20 7381 6116 email: [email protected] Producer: Julio Garcia Screenwriter: Simon Gill Editor: William Tennant Director of Photography: Kenneth Fanning Production Designer: Hiromi Sato

Withindoors Withindoors is an edgy atmospheric piece steeped around the theme of paranoia and its effect on Lewis, a young man with agoraphobia crippled by anxiety. After his girlfriend leaves him he attempts to chase after her by breaking free from the confines of his house. Director: Russell Webber 2008. HD. 7 min Production Company: Met Film School, Ealing Studios, London, W5 5EP, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 8280 9118 email: [email protected] International Sales: Russell Webber, 4 South Island Place, Oval, London, SW9 0DX, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7894 220 886 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter, Editor: Russell Webber Director of Photography: Leo Leigh Sound, Music: Simon Richardson Cast: Michael Dixon, Megan Maczko

Director: Richard P Wheildon 2008. HD. 10 min Production Company: The Gel Pool, 169 Clive Road, Dulwich, London, SE21 8DF, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7913 396 803 email: [email protected] Producer: Richard P Wheildon, Emma Finn Screenwriter, Editor, Production Designer: Richard P Wheildon Director of Photography: David Beaumont Sound: Jo Tyler Music: Richard P Wheildon Cast: Helen Heaslip, Ben Evans, Nick Danan, Emma Finn

Working Late A man works late into the night. Will he ever be able to leave the office? Director: Jacqui Adams 2007. HD. 1 min Main Contact: Jacqui Adams, 17 Cookhill Road, London, SE2 9PD, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7947 865 222 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter: Jacqui Adams Editor: Marc Knapton Director of Photography: Kevin Magee Music: Ant Neely Cast: Colin Black, Leilani Holmes

99

Short Films

A World Without

Wrestling the Duvet

Yesterday's News

You are invited into a world of dance, music and photography, passions that drive and define Mike's uniqueness. When taking a closer look ask yourself, what truly defines you?

Seven am and Malcolm needs to wake up, but his duvet has other plans.

Joy struggles to keep her family together on Christmas Eve. Her explosive husband is haunted by his service in Iraq, their son craves a normal festive period and a surprise visitor arrives unexpectedly. This Christmas will be an experience never to be forgotten.

Director: Gurmit Samra 2007. HD. 13 min Production Company: Brand G Films, Studio 2/b, Chocolate Factory, 4 Coburg Street, Wood Green, London, N22 6UJ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7812 027 701 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter, Editor: Gurmit Samra Director of Photography, Production Designer: Ajay Chag Sound, Music: Niraj Chag Cast: James Fogerty, Mia Partridge, Nathan Croct

Wounded Knee When cowboy Mike smashes his knee in the annual roundup, things look bad for his future until one night he finds the answer lying dead in the road. Director: Emma Burge 2008. 35mm. 20 min 59 sec Production Company: Hayhead Films, 60 Paxton Road, London, W4 2QX, England, UK tel: +44 (0)20 8994 1902 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter: Emma Burge Editor: Chris Gill Director of Photography: Tony Slater-Ling Production Designer: Daniel Stevens Sound: Clarity Music: Tim Atack Cast: Phil Davis, Joe Dempsie, John Fortune, David Gillespie

Director: Mac & Fox 2007. Mini DV. 1 min Production Company: Magic If Ltd, 35 Ashleigh Grove, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 3DJ, England, UK tel: +44 (0)191 209 4282 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter: Bev Fox Executive Producer: Northern Film & Media Editor: Ian McLaughlin Director of Photography: Ian McLaughlin Cast: Chris Price, Gary Kitching, Carl Kennedy

Yalda A colourful musical journey of a woman's tangled past and her complex relationships with lovers and family. The protagonist's journey to a swimming pool is interwoven with remembered past situations. An encounter with a company of synchronised swimmers is juxtaposed with her decision to have an operation she hopes will change her future for good. Director: Esther Johnson 2007. DVC Pro HD. 15 min Production Company, UK Distributor, International Sales: Blanche Pictures, 3 Fulcrum, 22 Furnival Street, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S1 4LG, England, UK tel: +44 (0)7866 586 248 email: [email protected] web: www.blanchepictures.com Producer, Production Designer: Esther Johnson Screenwriter: Mehrdad Seyf Editor: Esther Johnson, Sue Giovanni Director of Photography: Lynda Hall Sound: Peter Ringrose Music: David Pickvance Cast: Erin Brodie, Aquabatix, Clem Elton

Director: Graham Fitzpatrick 2008. HD. 17 min Production Company, UK Distributor, International Sales: Pilton Video, 30 Ferry Road Avenue, Edinburgh, EH4 4BA, Scotland, UK tel: +44 (0)131 343 1151, fax: +44 (0)131 343 2820 email: [email protected], [email protected] Producer: Steven Cook Executive Producer: Joel Venet Screenwriter: Helen Chambers Editor: Graham Fitzpatrick Director of Photography: Grant McPhee Production Designer: Philip Chan Sound: Paul Chan Music: Paul Mottriam Cast: Alison Lilley, Ben Lilley, Elek Kish

You Me and Captain Longbridge Isolated by the abrupt death of his father, 11 year-old Luke struggles to come to terms with his inner feelings of hurt and loss. It is only when his imagination begins to take over that Luke begins to find an outlet for his raw emotion set against a majestic world of fantasy. Director: Kenny Doughty 2007. 35mm. 15 min 56 sec Production Company, International Sales: Swing It Films Ltd, The Park Lodge, Park Avenue, Wortley, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S35 7DR, England, UK tel: +44 (0)114 288 7941 email: [email protected] Producer, Screenwriter: Caroline Carver Executive Producer: Michael Gleissner, Kacy Andrews Editor: Kristoffer Villarino Director of Photography: David Odd BSC Production Designer: Stuart Hudson Sound: Peter Baldock Music: Norwell & Green Cast: Joseph Fiennes, Chris Larkin, Callum Williams, Guy Williams

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Index - Feature Films 25Gs

4

A

Deadly Pursuit

17

I

Definitely Maybe

17

I Can't Think Straight

30

The Demon Within

17

I Know You Know

30

Abraham's Point

4

The Devil's Music

18

Imaginary Summer

30

Adulthood

4

Diagnosis: Superstar

18

In Bruges

31

The Agent

5

The Disappeared

18

Incendiary

31

All Secrets

5

The Disciple

19

Incendiary

31

The Auction

5

Do Elephants Pray?

19

Inconceivable

32

Dogging: A Love Story

19

Interview With a Politician

32

Is There Anybody There?

32

Itch

33

B

Don't Look at Me (I'm Ugly In The Morning)

20

Bad Day

6

Banana Boys

6

Doomsday

Bane

6

The Duchess

20

The Bank Job

7

Dummy

21

Better Things

7

The Dungeon Moor Killings

21

Big Things

7

The Blade

8

E

The Blue Tower

8

Eastern Promises

21

The Boatmaker

8

Ecology

22

Bodyguard: A New Beginning

9

The Edge of Love

22

Boy A

9

The Englishman

22

20

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

9

F

Brideshead Revisited

10

Faintheart

23

Broken Lines

10

Filth and Wisdom

23

The Butterfly Tattoo

10

Flashbacks of a Fool

23

Flummox

24

C The Calling

11

Captain Eager and the Mark of Voth

11

J Jack Says

33

Journal of a Contract Killer

33

Just Ines

34

L Land's End

34

The Lark

34

The Last Blood Line

35

Last Chance Harvey

35

Leaves

35

Little Ashes

36

Losers Anonymous

36

Love Me Still

36

Fragments

24

Franklyn

24

M

Freedom Dance

25

Made in Romania

37

Made of Honour

37

25

Man in a Box

37

25

The Mandrake Root

38

Manifesto

38

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

38

Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel

Cash and Curry

11

Cass

12

Caught in the Act

12

Chemical Wedding

12

G

City Rats

13

Genova

26

Morris: A Life with Bells on

39

The Clan

13

Good

26

Mum and Dad

39

Clubbed

13

Guantanamero

26

Clubbing to Death

14

Gutbai, Charly

27

Coffee Sex You

14

Cold Earth

14

H

The Cottage

15

Happy-Go-Lucky

27

Counterfeit Butterfly

15

Hardly Bear to Look at You

27

Crack Willow

15

The Heavy

28

Helen

28

Furor - Rage of the Innocent

N Next Time Ned

39

O The Other Boleyn Girl

40

Hooked on a Ceiling

28

P

16

How About You

29

Parkside Hell House

40

Dark Rage

16

Hunger

29

Peacefire

40

Dead Wood

16

Hush

29

Perfect Woman

41

D The Dark Knight

101

Index - Feature Films R

Stone of Destiny

46

U

41

Summer

46

Under the Bombs

50

Rez Bomb

41

Sweeney Todd: The Demon

Underground

51

Rocknrolla

42

Barber of Fleet Street

Red Mist

47

V

Rupert Brockstein's `Blood Red Letters'

42

S

T

Vinyan

Take Me to Your Leader

47

That Difficult Second Album

47

W

51

Save Angel Hope

42

That Samba Thing

48

Whatever Happened to Pete Blaggit?

51

The Secret of Moonacre

43

Three and Out

48

White Lightnin'

52

Seven Seconds to Heaven

43

Tiny Town

48

Wild Child

52

Shifty

43

Tony

49

Wishbaby

52

The Shrine

44

The Totenwackers

49

Witch House: The Legend

Simon and Emily

44

The Tournament

49

Sisterhood

44

Trouble Sleeping

50

WMD

53

Skin

45

Tuesday

50

The World Unseen

53

of Petronel Haxley

Somers Town

45

St Trinian's

45

Y

Stag Night of the Dead

46

The Young Victoria

53

54

102

Index - Short Films [03.23.27]

55

The Chef's Letter

61

Forna

68

14

55

Chicane

61

Foto

68

4 Kilometers

55

Christmas Bonus

62

Fried String Hoppers

68

5 Items Only

55

The Christmas Fairy

62

9-5 Cowboy

55

The Circle

62

G

Clair

62

Gabriel A German Grandchild's

A

68

The Clay Wall

62

Accidental Encounter

55

Close

62

Afternoon

56

Clowns

63

Girl

68

Ahoy!

56

Crafta Webb

63

Gods on Mountains

69

The Air Catchers

56

Crass Transit

63

Going Home

69

Alex and her Arse Truck

56

The Curry Club

63

Goldfish

69

The Allotment

56

Curse of the Bands

63

Grandma's Funeral

69

The Amazing Hedge Puzzle

56

The Gravity of Belief

69

And Kill Them

57

D

Guns

69

Andrew

57

Das Dores

Funeral

68

63

The Date

64

H

57

Dave & David

64

Hatemail

69

Another Plaice

57

Dead Cell

64

Have I Ever Happened?

70

Anticlockwise

57

Dead Dog

64

Heatsource

70

The Applicant

57

Deaden

64

HeavenScent

70

The Appointment

58

Decision

64

Her and Now

70

Arafat & I

58

Detour

65

The Hero's Journey

70

The Auction

58

Domestics

65

Hit the Big Time

70

Dorothy

65

The Hole of Space and Time

71

Homicide: Division B

71

Honor

71

An Jowl yn Agas Kegin (The Devil in Your Kitchen)

B Bad Juju

58

E

Ball

58

The East Front

65

Horatio

71

Bare Necessities

58

Eight Minutes

65

How Not to Say I Love You

71

The Beachcombers

59

El Espiritu de Animitas

How to Pick Up Girls

71

The Bedfordshire Clanger

59

Hysteria

72

A Bedtime Tale

59

Before, After and . . .

(The Spirit of Animitas)

65

Emo

66

Empire of Modern Passivity

66

I

After That

59

Encore

66

I Am Leg End

72

The Bent Penny

59

Exit Strategy

66

I, Sisyphus

72

Bereavement

59

Eye Level

66

I'm in Away From Here

72

Bereft of Colour

60

Ignorance

72

Big Bad Wolf

60

F

Intercom

72

Blood Road

60

Faker

66

In the National Interest

72

Bondi 3000: The Making Of

60

A Fall

67

In Transit to a Diversion

73

Breather

60

Famous Last Words

67

Island

73

Fate and the Fedora Hat

67

Finders Keep

67

J

C Call Me by his Name

60

First

67

Jack Blond

73

Camille e Mariuccia

61

Five Minutes to Five Steps

67

Jellyfish

73

Canbury

61

Five Pound Note

67

Jewel and Eme

73

Cartwheels

61

Flights

68

Joel, the Superman

73

Chain

61

The Flyer

68

Jump

74

103

Index - Short Films K

N

Sessions of the Mind

86

K

74

The Nightclub

81

Shadowed

87

Killing Time

74

No Regrets

81

Shadows

87

Kings of London

74

Shahaadah

87

Knots

74

O The Object

Sheriff of Penitence

87

81

Sight Test

87

L

Odd Shoe

81

Silent Noise

87

A las Tres de la Tarde

One in Four

82

Silly Billy

88

75

The Ostrich Tapes

82

Slapper

88

Last Chance Romance

75

Out of Nowhere

82

Small Change

88

Last Hand

75

Out There

82

Small Dark Places

88

Left Alone

75

Outcasts

82

A Small Silent Film

Lemonade

75

Let Me Show You Some Things

75

P

Let Me Speak

76

Perfect

Lickle Bill Um

76

Pink

Life in Ruins

76

Like Other People Do

76

Lily

(At Three in the afternoon)

About Death

88

Something Changed

88

82

Son

89

83

Souljah

89

Player

83

Soul Mates

89

Playing Dead

83

The Space You Leave

89

76

Pour Quoi

83

Speechless

89

Lilya

76

The Problem with Liking

Star

89

Little Miss Badass

77

the Person You Have

Stone

90

London Love Story

77

83

Strawberry Street

90

Long Distance

77

The Problem with Pets

83

Stuck

90

Lost Night

77

The Promise

83

Survey No 257

90

Love Does Grow on Trees

77

Pull

84

Survivor

90

Love Is . . . ?

77

The Sweetest Sound

90

Love Letters

78

Q

Love Me to Bits

78

Quantum

84

T

Lucky Pants

78

A Quick Beep

84

Taxi for the Comedian

91

Quiet

84

Taximan

91

Tell Me What To Do

91

Sex With

M Macbeth's Disciple

78

Madrugada (The Curious Shape

R

Terra Firma

91

The Rabbit & the Woodcutter

84

/t¦ek/ (Check)

91

78

Ralph

84

The Thai Bride

91

The Magic

78

Reality Won't Bite

84

Thinspiration

92

Maxim

79

Reasonable Excuse

85

Thou Shalt Not

92

Maya

79

Recipe for Love

85

Tide

92

Merry Go Round

79

The Recruit

85

Tomorrow's Forecast

92

Milk

79

The Red Shoes

85

Tùmt and I

92

Mirror Image

79

Relentless Thirst

85

Traces

92

Mo Yin

79

Revenge

85

Training Daljinder

93

Money

80

Ripple

85

Train Trip

93

Monkey Nut Tales

80

Ruby XX Jack

86

Trapped

93

Moon People

80

Rule 2

86

Trip

93

The Morse Collectors

80

Triple Word

93

Les Mouches (The Flies)

80

S

Muna Äfiq

80

Safe Zone

My Desert

81

My Singing Girl

81

of my Peculiar Family)

86

U

Samantha

86

Un Riff para Lazaro

93

Saudade

86

Unborn

94

104

Index - Short Films Underground

94

W

Wish

98

Undertow

94

The Waiting Room

96

Wishful Filming

98

Uninvited

94

Watch Me!

96

Withindoors

98

Up

94

We are all Rwandans

96

Without a Face

98

The Weaker Sex

96

Working Late

98

What Goes Around

96

A World Without

99

V Vani

94

Wheelspin

97

Wounded Knee

99

Veils

95

When Mars Meets Venus

97

Wrestling the Duvet

99

Vermin

95

When the Oil Ran Out

97

Vespers

95

White Collar Crime

97

Y

View of the Spider

95

The Wilds

97

Yalda

99

The Voice

95

Winding Down

97

Yesterday's News

99

The Voices Inside

95

The Window

97

You Me and

Void

96

Wings of Blue Angels

98

Captain Longbridge

99

105

Thanks Robbie Allen, Scottish Screen Jillian Balfour, Screen Academy Scotland Jacqui Barr, BBC Films Chrissy Bright, London Film School Louise Donoghue, EIFF Sally Hodgson, EM Media David Hooper, Artlogic Doug Kelly, EIFF Stewart Kemsley, Department of Culture, Media and Sport Kate Lambert, Pathe  Claire Lewis, First Light Movies Anna MacDonald, London Film Academy Laura MacKenzie, Universal Pictures International UK Michele Marcoux, Screen Academy Scotland Macey Martini, British Council Will Massa, Screen Yorkshire Christine Morrow, Northern Ireland Screen Katy Moylan, Film and Music Entertainment Sonia Pachmayer, Focus Features Adam Partridge, The Film Agency Wales Samantha Perahia, UK Film Council Lucy Powell, Momentum Pictures Anne Quinn, Northern Ireland Screen Helen Ross, Northern Film and Media Hemant Sharda, National Film and Television School Penny Skuse, Wales Screen Commission Lynne Stanford, Screen West Midlands Gabriel Topalian, Screen South Angela Topping, UK Film Council Arilda Tymko, South West Screen Leslie Vuchot, HanWay Films Caroline Ward, B3 Media Alison Williams, Film London