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With thanks to:

Contents
www.britfilms.com

Foreword by Mary Davies 3

Head of Industry: Mary Davies Head of Industry, Edinburgh International
Film UK & Industry Co~ordinator: Lynne Stanford
Film UK Assistant & Videotheque Manager:
Film Festival
Morven Reid
Film UK & Industry Assistants: Sharon Grogans,
Alison Arnott Film UK Features 4

Film UK Shorts 49

Index — Feature Films 95

Index — Short Films 96

Edinburgh International Film Festival
tel: +44 (0)131 228 4051
fax: +44 (0)131 229 5501
email: filmuk@edfilmfest.org.uk
Editors:
Lynne Stanford, Morven Reid
Assistant Editors:
Sharon Grogans, Alison Arnott
In the Film UK Guide to British Film we have aimed to include details of all British fiction feature and short
films completed between June 2008 and May 2009. (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 130 feature films and around
307 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 2009.
A pdf version of the Guide can be downloaded from the Film UK website at www.filmuk.org.uk.

Typesetting and Printing: The Film Festival Videotheque stocks video copies of as many of the films in the Film UK Guide as we are
MLG Edinburgh able to obtain. The Videotheque is open daily during the Festival. We are happy to pass on enquiries about
Gateside Commerce Park films to the appropriate contact.
Haddington
EH41 3ST
web: www.mlg.co.uk denotes that a film is showing in the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2009 programme.
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Welcome to the 2009 Film UK

Guide to British Film
This is the fifteenth 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. Based on extensive research
of British film production, the Guide is an essential handbook for film
professionals and anyone interested in filmmaking in the UK. Editions of the
Guide for each year from 2001 can be downloaded from the EIFF website at
www.edfilmfest.org.uk/industry/british-film-guide. EIFF supports and promotes
British filmmaking throughout the Festival, showcasing new British films in the
Festival programme and presenting panels and discussions related to British
cinema for both the public and the industry, as well as offering industry
professionals the opportunity to catch up with British films from this year’s Guide
in the Videotheque, which will be fully digital for the first time in 2009.

Last year the Guide covered ten months instead of the usual twelve because of the
Festival’s move from August to June. The shorter period meant that overall numbers
were lower, but the relative proportions of features and shorts were stable. This
year, however, features are down (135) and shorts (307) have held steady. This
annual snapshot of the current state of the film industry in the UK suggests that
production at feature level has been affected by the credit crunch along with other
industries, while resourceful filmmakers have continued to find ways to fund short
films, with a real increase in the quality of short films being produced. Their budgets
are higher, whether financed privately or through schemes, and many talented
actors and production companies have been involved. There is evidence that some
feature production has been delayed, so 2010 could be a bumper year for features.

The 63rd Edinburgh International Film Festival enters its second year in its new
position in the global film festival calendar, with the move widely regarded as a
success. With a commitment to technology in the digital age and to making
connections between filmmakers and the business of film, and between culture and
commerce, innovation and industry, the Film Festival is a networking centre for the
film community. The longest continuously running film festival in the world and now
the only show in town in Edinburgh in June, the Festival is firmly established as a
place to discover new talent, both international and British.

We are grateful to the British Council for their continuing co-operation with us in
compiling the Guide.

Mary Davies Ginnie Atkinson

Head of Industry Managing Director, EIFF
4 Feature Films
1234
Bespectacled cardigan-wearer Stevie (guitar,
vocals) endures a job he despises and can’t
get a girlfriend, but at least he has music.
With his mate Neil (drums), he’s been kicking
about in bands for a while, but it is not until
the pair team up with Billy Dixon (guitar), a
more experienced hand with drive and
ambition, and Billy’s cute pal Emily (bass)
that the possibility they might be on to
something good suggests itself.
With a demo to tout, Stevie beats a well-
trodden path to record company doors, but
finds he has to manage the tensions
developing within the band while keeping his
own aspirations in check.
Director: Giles Borg
2008. 16mm. 85 min
Production Company: Carson Films,
56B Minister Road, Kilburn, London,
NW2 3RE, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7431 6536
email: info@carsonfilms.co.uk
web: www.carsonfilms.co.uk
International Sales: Moviehouse
Entertainment, 11 Denmark Street, London,
WC2H 8LS, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7836 5536
email: info@moviehouseent.com
Producer: Simon Kearney
Screenwriter: Giles Borg
Editor: Kevin Austin
Director of Photography: Mike Eley
Production Designer: Richard Campling
Sound: Jamie Gambell
Music: Remy Felix-Vas
Cast: Ian Bonar, Lyndsey Marshal, Kieran
Bew, Mathew Baynton
Budget: £300,000
Funding: Private
Territories: All available except Middle East
31 North 62 East
A psychological thriller about how an elite
SAS unit’s position is revealed by the British
Prime Minister, to ensure an arms deal goes
ahead and to secure his re-election.
Director: Tristan Loraine
2009. HD Cam SR. 99 min
Production Company: Fact Not Fiction Films
Ltd, Milestone House, 86 Hurst Road,
Horsham, West Sussex, RH12 2DT, England,
UK
email: tristan@factnotfictionfilms.com
UK Distributor: DFT Enterprises Ltd,
Southwater Business Resource Centre, Beeson
House, 26 Lintot Square, Southwater,
Horsham, RH13 9LA, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)140 373 4550, fax: +44 (0)140 373
3150
email: susan@dftenterprises.com
web: www.dftenterprises.com
Producer: Tristan Loraine
Screenwriter: Leofwine Loraine, Tristan
Loraine
Editor: Tristan Loraine
Director of Photography: Sue Gibson
Production Designer: Eileen Kelly
Sound: Laura Fairbanks
Music: Paul Garbutt, David Leo Kemp
Cast: John Rhys-Davies, Marina Sirtis,
Heather Peace, Craig Fairbrass, Mimi Ferrer
Budget: $3.1 million
Co-production: Jordan
Funding: Private
Territories: All available
Act of God
Ex-detective Frank O’Connor has been found
guilty of planting evidence and police
corruption. With his life and career now at
rock bottom, the only source of light in his
world comes from his teenage daughter,
more precious than ever after receiving a
heart transplant.
In the meantime, rich and successful heart
surgeon Benjamin Cisco is viewing a large
exclusive house up for sale. Showing him
around the property is Richard Short —
young, cocky — at first sight a fairly typical
estate agent. That is, until he strays into
questioning the ethics of Benjamin’s line of
work — the act of making life and death
choices between patients. He soon apologises
for the imposition — but Richard is not who
he says he is.
It doesn’t take long for the mask to slip and,
before he knows what’s happening, Benjamin
finds himself tied to a chair in the cellar,
confronted by a gun and the most difficult
choice he will ever have to make in his life.
Frank, meanwhile, hides a secret shared with
Benjamin — a life and death decision he
made for his daughter — and one for which
Richard, at any price, is determined to exact
his own special style of revenge.
Director: Sean Faughnan
2009. HD. 70 min
International Sales: High Point Films, Suite
16, Deane House Studios, Greenwood Place,
London, NW5 1LB, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7424 6870, fax: +44 (0)20 7485
3281
email: info@highpointfilms.co.uk
web: www.highpointfilms.co.uk
Producer: Nick O’Hagan, James Youngs, Paris
Leonti
Executive Producer: Sean Faughnan
Screenwriter: Sean Faughnan
Editor: Ben Putland
Director of Photography: Milton Kam,
Øystein Lundstrøm
Production Designer: Will Field
Sound: Keith Tunney
Music: Richard Chester
Cast: David Suchet, Max Brown, Jenny
Agutter, Adrian Dunbar
Territories: All available except Finland,
French-speaking Africa, Israel, Middle East,
Netherlands, Pan Africa

Act of Grace
In a secret world a family’s code of honour is
under threat, and an ancient way of life is
knocked off its axis by one small boy’s act of
grace.
When a young Dezzie befriends Yasin, a
Chinese boy who has recently arrived from
Hong Kong, little does he know his life will
take an unexpected turn that ultimately
shapes his future. They become firm and
loyal friends until Yasin is taken away
suddenly by his godfather, Kai. Ten years
pass until Yasin returns and offers Dezzie an
enviable position at his side within the family
firm. But this is a firm with a difference:
Dezzie, the only white man to do so this side
of the Atlantic, is to be a triad member and
run the family business in Manchester.
Director: Noreen Kershaw
2008. HD. 90 min
Production Company: Embrace Productions
Ltd, 20 Verwood Drive, Croxteth, Liverpool,
England, UK
email: alanfield01@hotmail.com
Producer: Alan Field
Executive Producer: Bob Cullen
Screenwriter: Marc Pye, Alan Field, Max
Kinnings
Editor: Jaynie Walkin
Director of Photography: Louis Melvey
Production Designer: Russell Elams
Sound: Mark Atkinson
Music: George Dixon
Cast: Leo Gregory, Jody Latham, Jennifer
Lim, David Yip, Andrew Schofield
Funding: Private
Territories: All available
Feature Films
An Act of Terror
One summer’s evening, the police burst into
a Glaswegian Asian household. The son, Ali,
has been arrested on suspicion of terrorism.
Between cops, hacks, mullahs and militants,
the Malik family discover that all was not
well with their son and their world descends
into siege and nightmare. Meanwhile, Ali’s
sister Rukhsana refuses to comply with an
arranged marriage and neighbours send bricks
through the windows. Yet not everybody is an
enemy.
A whirlpool of domestic and international
politics down which the viewers follow the
Malik family into their night of darkness.
Director: Shahid Nadeem
2008. Mini DV. 103 min
Production Company: Stepping Stone Films,
33 Daisy Street, Glasgow, Strathclyde, G42
8JN, Scotland, UK
fax: +44 (0)870 286 3476
email: info@steppingstonefilmsltd.com
web: www.steppingstonefilmsltd.com
International Sales: Centre Films Media Sales
Ltd, 2 Langley Lane, London, SW8 1TJ,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7820 9090, fax: +44 (0)20 7587
1752
email: kwalwin@centrefilmsales.com
Producer: Sarmed Mirza
Screenwriter: Shahid Nadeem
Editor: Sarmed Mirza
Director of Photography: Mr Dee
Production Designer: Rinku
Sound: Animal Audio
Music: Chandra Shekhar
Cast: Asim Bukhari, Jamil Jarral, Gia Avan,
Bryan Larkin
Funding: Self-funded
Territories: All available
5
Kerry Brown
An Education
The story of a teenage girl’s coming-of-age
set in early sixties London, a city caught
between the drab, post-war fifties and the
glamorous, more liberated decade to come.
Jenny stands on the brink of becoming a
woman: a brilliantly witty and attractive
17 year-old whose suburban life is about to
be blown apart by the rather unsuitable
30-something Alan. He introduces her to an
exciting new world of chic dinners with his
charismatic, sophisticated friend and business
partner Danny and his beautiful but vacuous
girlfriend Helen, whisks her off to art
auctions, smoky clubs and foreign trips. He
charms her conservative parents, Jack and
Marjorie. But just as their long-held dream of
Jenny getting into Oxford University seems
within reach, another life tempts her. Will
Alan be the making or the undoing of Jenny?
Director: Lone Scherfig
2008. 35mm. 100 min
Production Company: Finola Dwyer
Productions/Wildgaze Films, 53 Greek Street,
London, W1D 3DR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7734 7055, fax: +44 (0)20 7734
4250
email: bennet@finoladwyerproductions.co.uk
UK Distributor: E1 Entertainment UK,
120 New Cavendish Street, London,
W1W 6XX, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7907 3773, fax: +44 (0)20 7907
3777
web: www.e1entertainmentuk.com
International Sales: Odyssey Entertainment
Ltd, 10A James Street, London, WC2E 8BT,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7520 5610, fax: +44 (0)20 7520
5611
email: sales@odysseyentertainment.co.uk
Producer: Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey
Executive Producer: James D Stern, Douglas
E Hansen, Wendy Japhet, David M Thompson,
Jamie Laurenson, Nick Hornby
Screenwriter: Nick Hornby
Editor: Barney Pilling
Director of Photography: John de Borman
Production Designer: Andrew McAlpine
Sound: Glenn Freemantle
Music: Paul Englishby
Cast: Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred
Molina, Dominic Cooper, Rosamund Pike
Funding: BBC Films, Endgame Entertainment
Territories: All sold
6 Feature Films
An Englishman in New York
Shocked at the idea of returning to
anonymity after the celebrated broadcast of
the The Naked Civil Servant, Quentin Crisp
accepts an invitation to America. In seventies
New York everyone’s on show. Quentin is in
his element. To top it all he’s officially
welcomed for being ‘unique’. He gets an
agent, becomes the toast of society with his
off-Broadway show and strikes up a
friendship with magazine editor Phillip
Steele. But when Quentin publicly announces
that AIDS is ‘a fad’ his show is cancelled and
Phillip loses appetite for their friendship.
Young gay artist Patrick Angus can see no
wrong in Quentin and absorbs all his barbed
witticisms about the impossibility of
homosexual love. But Quentin is disturbed by
Patrick’s self-destruction. When Patrick
reveals that he has contracted HIV,
irrepressible Quentin ensures the artist’s
work is recognised before he dies.
In the nineties a much older Quentin begins
performing with the radical Penny Arcade.
The show takes its toll. Quentin is tiring but
accepts a tour in the UK, knowing that the
strain of the flight could kill him. Before
leaving the US, Quentin makes a final
appearance at a gay bar in Florida where his
words find a new audience.
Director: Richard Laxton
2008. 16mm. 74 min
Production Company: Leopardrama Ltd,
1-3 St Peter’s Street, London, N1 8JD,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7704 3300, fax: +44 (0)20 7704
3301
web: www.leopardrama.com
UK Distributor, International Sales: Leopard
International, 1-3 St Peter’s Street, London,
N1 8JD, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7704 3300, fax: +44 (0)20 7704
3301
web: www.leopardinternational.com
Producer: Amanda Jenks
Executive Producer: Susie Field, James
Burstall, Joey Attawia
Screenwriter: Brian Fillis
Editor: Peter H Oliver
Director of Photography: Yaron Orbach
Production Designer: Elizabeth Mickle
Sound: Tim Elder
Music: Paul Englishby
Cast: John Hurt, Denis O’Hare, Cynthia Nixon
Territories: All available except Australia,
Brazil, Finland, UK, USA
Arn the Knight Templar Away We Go
The film about Arn and Cecilia is set in Longtime (and now 30-something) couple
Sweden as well as the Middle East, and offers Burt and Verona are going to have a baby.
a rich gallery of brave knights, powerful The pregnancy progresses smoothly, but six
queens and treacherous kings. It is a tale of months in, the pair is put off and put out by
war and intrigue, friendship and betrayal, the cavalierly delivered news from Burt’s
but also an unforgettable love story, based parents Jerry and Gloria that the eccentric
on the novels by Jan Guillou. elder Farlanders are moving out of Colorado
— thereby eliminating the expectant couple’s
Arn Magnusson is born in 1150 on Arnas farm main reason for living there.
in West Gothia in the western part of
Sweden. He grows up to become an educated So where, and among whom of those closest
young man and a skilled swordsman. He to them, might Burt and Verona best put
meets Cecilia, the love of his life, but a cruel down roots to raise their impending bundle of
and jealous world forces them apart. Cecilia joy?
is imprisoned in a convent and Arn is sent
away as a Knight Templar to the Holy Land, The couple embarks on an ambitious itinerary
where war is raging between Christians and to visit friends and family, and to evaluate
Muslims. They both have to fight to survive, cities.
they have to learn how to confront evil and Director: Sam Mendes
overcome physical hardship. Their painful 2009. 35mm. 97 min
separation causes their faith in God and his
goodness to waver — though not their faith in UK Distributor: E1 Entertainment UK,
each other and their confidence that they 120 New Cavendish Street, London,
will one day be reunited. W1W 6XX, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7907 3773, fax: +44 (0)20 7907
When Arn returns home he has to fight for his 3777
love and what has become his life’s mission: web: www.e1entertainmentuk.com
to unite Sweden into one Kingdom.
Producer: Edward Saxon, Marc Turtletaub,
! 2008 AB SvenskFilmindustri, Sheba Productions Ltd, Peter Saraf
Telepool GMBH, Film iVäst, TV4 AB, SF Norge AS,
Juonifilmı́y, Tjubang AS, Denmark’s Radio AS, Dagsljus Film
Executive Producer: Pippa Harris, Mari-Jo
Equipment AB, Europa Sound Production, Molinare Ltd. Winkler
All Rights Reserved. Screenwriter: Dave Eggers, Vendela Vida
Editor: Sarah Flack
Director: Peter Flinth Director of Photography: Ellen Kuras
2008. 35mm. 128 min
Production Designer: Jess Gonchor
Production Company: AMC Productions, Music: Alex Murdoch
Little Hemingford, Beaconsfield Road, Cast: John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Jeff
Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire, SL2 3LZ, Daniels, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Allison Janney
England, UK Co-production: USA
tel: +44 (0)175 364 6280
email: films@amcpictures.co.uk
web: www.amcpictures.co.uk
International Sales: AB SvenskFilmindustri,
SE-169 86 Stockholm, Sweden
tel: +46 868 035 00, fax: +46 868 023 783
email: international@sf.se
web: www.sfinternational.se
Producer: Waldemar Bergendahl, Jan
Marnell, Leif Molin, Alistair McLean Clark
Screenwriter: Hans Gunnarson
Editor: Søren B Ebbe, Morten Højbjerg
Director of Photography: Eric Kress
Production Designer: Anna Asp
Sound: Carl Edström
Music: Tuomas Kantelinen
Cast: Joakim Nätterqvist, Sofia Helin, Stellan
Skarsgard, Simon Callow, Vincent Perez
Co-production: Denmark, Finland, Germany,
Norway, Sweden, UK
Territories: All available except China, CIS,
Denmark, Eastern Europe, Finland, France,
German-speaking Europe, Greece, Iceland,
Korea, Middle East, Norway, Poland,
Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey,
Vietnam

Awaydays
When Carty meets Elvis at a Bunnymen gig,
they fall headlong into a volatile friendship
that each of them aches for but neither can
control. Violent, sexy and funny.
Awaydays is a blade-sharp rites-of-passage
that buzzes with the post-punk energy of its
late-seventies Liverpool setting, examining
identity, fate, the nature of male longings
and their need to belong.
Director: Pat Holden
2008. HD. 105 min
Production Company: Red Union Films,
Multimedia House, 51 New Chester Road,
New Ferry, Wirral, CH62 1AA, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)151 203 5815
email: info@redunionfilms.com
web: www.redunionfilms.com
International Sales: Simon Crowe Films
International, 3 Lower James Street, London,
W1F 9EH, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7287 1900
Producer: David A Hughes
Executive Producer: Kevin Sampson, Howard
Klein
Screenwriter: Kevin Sampson
Editor: Mark Elliott
Director of Photography: Curtis Lee Mitchell
Production Designer: Mark Tanner
Sound: Richard Davey
Music: David A Hughes
Cast: Nicky Bell, Liam Boyle, Stephen
Graham
Budget: £1 million
Funding: Private equity
Territories: All available except Ireland, UK
Feature Films 7
Bad Company Badinage
Jane, troubled by the death of her parents as A dark, sinister fairytale; a poetically
a teenager, has fallen victim to a controlling, beautiful fantasy. In this ‘other England’ a
abusive and tyrannical relationship with fanatical sect, the Holy Exaltation, has taken
David. David’s love for Jane has become control of power; new rules forbid any form
twisted. He controls Jane’s every move and of free thinking, art, music or writing —
is deeply possessive and jealous over her, beauty has become an ugly word!
leading to Jane losing her true identity.
The poets are the last line of resistance —
A saviour comes in the form of Lisa, a best beauty’s last hope.
friend from the past, who helps Jane find the
courage and strength to stand up for herself Director: Oliver Harrison
and be the person she really is. As Lisa plans 2009. HD. 94 min
a trip to New Zealand the empty house Production Company: OliverHarrison.com,
provides an opportunity for Jane to escape, Studio 1, 7 Montague Gardens, London,
to find herself and some new friends. W3 9PT, England, UK
Unfortunately things are never quite that email: studio@oliverharrison.com
easy, because you never quite know who to
Producer: Oliver Harrison
trust or what their real motives are. Are the Screenwriter: Oliver Harrison
advances of the ex, a new love interest and Editor: Oliver Harrison
mysterious goings on in the house during the Director of Photography: David Rafique
night what they seem? Is she really alone or Production Designer: Oliver Harrison
is she still mixing in bad company? Sound: Paul Cameron
Director: Jason King Music: Oliver Harrison
2009. HD. 90 min Cast: Julian Bleach, Steve Smith, Jim
Conway, Will Strange, Emma Hill
Production Company: Sparkler Productions,
6 Cornwall Court, Cardiff, CF11 6PP, Wales, Budget: £200,000
UK
Funding: Private
email: info@sparklerproductions.co.uk
Territories: All available
Producer: Samantha Price, Hywel George
Executive Producer: Linda McCarthy, Ray
Yorke, Mem Ferda, Steve Fox, Richard Adlam
Screenwriter: Jason King
Editor: Martin Wrench
Director of Photography: Jaime Feliu
Production Designer: Dave Paul
Music: Chris Young
Cast: Sonya Sier, Ceri Murphy, George
Vaughan Williams, Catherine Olding, Marco
Rossi
Budget: £100,000
Funding: Private
Territories: All available
8 Feature Films
Barbarian Princess
Set on the islands of Hawaii and based on a
true story, Barbarian Princess is a romance
about an unlikely heroine and her unwavering
fight to defend the independence of her
people.
Director: Marc Forby
2008. 35mm. 103 min
Production Company: Matador Pictures,
159 Wardour Street, London, W1F 8WH,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7734 4544, fax: +44 (0)20 7734
7794
email: admin@matadorpictures.com
web: www.matadorpictures.com
International Sales: ContentFilm
International, 19 Heddon Street, London,
W1B 4BG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7851 6500, fax: +44 (0)20 7851
6506
email: london@contentfilm.com
web: www.contentfilm.com
Producer: Nigel Thomas, Lauri Apelian,
Ricardo S Galindez, Roy J Tijoe, Marc Forby
Executive Producer: Jeffrey KD Au, Leilani
Forby, Charlotte Walls, Wanda Watumull,
Laurie Hayward
Screenwriter: Marc Forby
Editor: Beverley Mills
Director of Photography: Gabriel Beristain
Production Designer: Steven Lawrence
Sound: Tony Dawe
Music: Stephen Warbeck
Cast: Q’orianka Kilcher, Barry Pepper, Shaun
Evans, Jimmy Yuill, Will Patton
Budget: $7 million
Co-production: USA
Funding: Oahu Productions, Screen East
The Be All and End All
At 15 years old you would do anything for
your best mate. So when Ziggy’s life-long
friend Robbie is diagnosed with a fatal heart
condition, he has just one favour to ask:
don’t let me die a virgin.
Director: Bruce Webb
2009. s16mm. 99 min
Production Company: Whatever Pictures Ltd,
13A Iliffe Yard, London, SE17 3QA, England,
UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7708 3434, fax: +44 (0)20 7708
3434
email: bruce@whateverpictures.com
web: www.whateverpictures.com
Producer: Bruce Webb, John Maxwell
Screenwriter: Steve Lewis, Tony Owen
Editor: Joe Wilby
Director of Photography: Zillah Bowes
Production Designer: Tine Jespersen
Music: Richard Lannoy
Cast: Eugene Byrne, Josh Bolt, Connor
Mcintyre, Liza Tarbuck, Neve Mcintosh
Budget: £210,000
Funding: Private equity
Territories: All available
Beyond the Fire
The story of Sheamy, a gentle Irish ex-priest
who arrives in London to find his old family
friend and mentor Father Brendan. After an
unsuccessful search Sheamy reaches out to
the only other person he knows in London,
Rory.
Rory, a talented musician and band member,
takes Sheamy under his wing and introduces
him to his flatmate Katie. Immediately the
attraction is undeniable between Sheamy and
Katie. However, Katie is a warm hearted
woman with her own emotional scars.
Their intense romance is short-lived and
begins to collapse when the past comes back
to haunt them.
Director: Maeve Murphy
2009. HD. 78 min
Production Company: Playing With Fire,
21C Mornington Crescent, London, NW1 7RJ,
England, UK
email: maeve.murphy@virgin.net
International Sales: Swipe Films, 79 Wardour
Street, London, W1D 6QB, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7851 8602
email: frank@swipefilms.com
web: www.swipefilms.com
Producer: Helen L Alexander
Executive Producer: David Game
Screenwriter: Maeve Murphy
Editor: Agnieszka Liggett
Director of Photography: Mattias Nyberg
Production Designer: Duncan Howell
Sound: Richard Kondal
Music: Neel Dhorajiwala, Chris O’Neill
Cast: Cara Seymour, Scot Williams, Hugh
Sachs
Budget: £320,000
Funding: Private, Northern Ireland Screen
Territories: All available except UK

Beyond the Pole
A documentary film crew follows the first
carbon neutral organic vegetarian expedition
ever to attempt the North Pole.
Unfortunately, they have never done
anything like this before. No one said saving
the planet would be easy, but does it have to
be this hard?
Director: David L Williams
2009. 88 min 20 sec
Production Company: Shooting Pictures,
17 Onslow Rd, London, TW10 6QH, England,
UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7378 7988
International Sales: HanWay Films,
24 Hanway Street, London, W1T 1UH,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7290 0750, fax: +44 (0)20 7290
0751
email: info@hanwayfilms.com
web: www.hanwayfilms.com
Producer: David L Williams, Andrew Curtis
Screenwriter: Neil Warhurst
Editor: Rob Miller
Director of Photography: Stuart
Biddlecombe
Cast: Rhys Thomas, Stephen Mangan, Mark
Benton, Rosie Cavaliero, Alexander Skarsgard
Funding: Shooting Pictures, Polite Storm
Territories: All available
Feature Films
The Big I Am
A cruel twist of fate catapults small time
crook Mickey Skinner into the big league, as
head of a brutal London gang poised on the
brink of a lucrative human-trafficking deal.
Director: Nic Auerbach
2009. 35mm. 110 min
Production Company: Cinematic
Productions, 788-790 Finchley Road, London,
NW11 7TJ, England, UK
email: rfucilla@fandfglobal.co.uk
web: www.cineprodpic.com
Producer: Robert Fucilla, Luc Chaudhary,
Jack Iandoli
Executive Producer: Robert Fucilla
Screenwriter: Tim Cunningham
Editor: Jeremy Nicholls
Director of Photography: Shane Daly
Production Designer: Tim Dickel
Music: James Radford
Cast: Leo Gregory, Michael Madsen, Robert
Fucilla, Vincent Regan, Steven Berkoff
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The Boat That Rocked
Recently expelled from school, Carl has been
sent by his jet-set mother to find some
direction in life by visiting his godfather
Quentin. However, Quentin is the boss of
Radio Rock, a pirate radio station in the
middle of the North Sea, populated by an
eclectic crew of rock ‘n’ roll DJs. They are
led by The Count: big, brash, American, a
god of the airwaves, and totally in love with
the music. He’s faithfully backed up by his
co-broadcasters Dave, Simon, Midnight Mark,
Wee Small Hours Bob, Thick Kevin, On The
Hour John, and Angus ‘The Nut’ Nutsford.
However, pirate stations have come to the
attention of an establishment that’s out for
blood against the drug takers, lawbreakers
and bottom-bashing fornicators of a once
great nation. In an era when the stuffy
corridors of power stifle anything
approaching youthful exuberance, pirate
radio becomes public enemy number one.
Director: Richard Curtis
2009. 35mm. 129 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
International Sales: Universal Pictures
International UK, 76 Oxford Street, London,
W1D 1BS, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7307 1300, fax: +44 (0)20 3071
346
web: www.nbcuni.com
Producer: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Hilary
Bevan Jones
Screenwriter: Richard Curtis
Editor: Emma Hickox
Director of Photography: Danny Cohen
Production Designer: Mark Tildesley
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy,
Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost, Kenneth Branagh
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Bomber
A bittersweet comedy about love, family and
dropping bombs on Germany.
An 83 year-old man returns to Germany for a
long planned journey of atonement. When
Ross, his useless, son agrees to drive him
there, a nightmare family road trip ensues.
Director: Paul Cotter
2009. HD. 84 min
Production Company: Boris Films, Sudeley
House, 5 Sudeley Place, Brighton, East
Sussex, BN2 1HF, England, UK
email: info@borisfilms.com
web: www.borisfilms.com
Producer: Paul Cotter, Maureen Ryan
Executive Producer: Frances Arnold, Paul
Cotter
Screenwriter: Paul Cotter
Editor: Matt Maddox
Director of Photography: Rick Siegel
Production Designer: Alex Ward
Sound: Zach Seivers
Music: Stephen Coates
Cast: Shane Taylor, Benjamin Whitrow,
Eileen Nicholas
Co-production: USA
Funding: Boris Films, Screen South
Territories: All available
Feature Films
Boogie Woogie
Set against the backdrop of contemporary
London, Boogie Woogie is a tongue-in-cheek
look at the international art scene, in which
lust, ambition and power prevail and where
success and failure rest on a knife-edge.
When a well known art dealer becomes
aware of a priceless painting, he unleashes
all his powers of persuasion to encourage its
owners, an ageing couple, to part with their
prized possession. However, when his
assistant leaks this information to her
wealthy lover, the situation becomes
complicated. Friendships and marriage all
hang in the balance.
Meanwhile, we observe the artists and
curators all desperately vying for the
attention of the dealers and collectors, some
of whom are willing to use any means
necessary to achieve their ambitions. These
include a talented and ambitious video artist
who creates a ‘Self Portrait’ that includes
her explicit exploits with her lovers, a well-
meaning but out-of-his-depth curator, and a
slightly sinister secretary. When all their
stories collide, the results are deliciously
depraved and extreme.
Director: Duncan Ward
2009. 35mm. 90 min
Production Company: Autonomous Ltd,
National House, 60-66 Wardour Street,
London, W1F 0TA, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7494 3645, fax: +44 (0)20 7444
3650
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
1081
email: sales.international@
theworksmediagroup.com
web: www.theworkslimited.com
Producer: Cat Villiers
Screenwriter: Danny Moynihan
Editor: Kant Pan
Director of Photography: John Mathieson
Production Designer: Caroline Greville-Morris
Cast: Gillian Anderson, Danny Huston,
Charlotte Rampling, Alan Cumming, Heather
Graham
Territories: All available except UK
A Boy Called Dad
‘All I ever wanted was a dad. Instead I got a
son ...’
A Boy Called Dad tells the story of Robbie —
a 14 year-old boy who has just become a
father. Abandoned by his own dad Joe,
Robbie snatches his son and goes on the run.
As Joe joins the search for Robbie, they are
each forced to face up to the past and what
it really means to be a father.
Director: Brian Percival
2009. s16mm. 80 min
Production Company: Made Up North
Productions, International Media Centre,
Adelphi House, The Crescent, Salford,
M3 6EN, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)161 834 3537, fax: +44 (0)161 834
3537
email: info@madeupnorthproductions.co.uk
web: www.madeupnorthproductions.co.uk
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
email: joy.wong@theworksmediagroup.com
web: www.theworkslimited.com
Producer: Michael Knowles, Stacey Murray
Executive Producer: Chris Wright, Suzanne
Alizart, Christopher Moll, Pauline Burt, Paul
Whiting, Kate Ogborn
Screenwriter: Julie Rutterford
Editor: Kristina Hetherington
Director of Photography: David Katznelson
Production Designer: John Ellis
Sound: Boom Post Production
Music: Srdjan Kurpjel, Marios Takoushis
Cast: Ian Hart, Kyle Ward, Charlene
McKenna, Steve Evets
Funding: EM Media, Northwest Vision and
Media, Film Agency for Wales, private
investors
Territories: All available except UK

Breathe
Carroll Bailey is buckling under the weight of
financial pressure, family responsibilities, and
his own ambitions and desires. After endless
parties, too many deadend jobs and family
arguments, Bailey becomes self-destructive —
resorting to violence and severing all ties of
friendship and love.
After a self-imposed exile Bailey returns to
London to apologise. Things have changed.
Not everyone is sympathetic to his sudden
reappearance and there are others who will
stop at nothing to make Bailey’s life a living
hell. Faced with a relationship lost amongst
affluence and drug fuelled parties Bailey
must accept his own limitations and confront
the demons of his past.
Director: Nicholas Winter
2009. HD. 85 min
Production Company: Porcelain Films Ltd,
22 Aigburth Mansions, Mowill Street, London,
SW9 0EP, England, UK
email: indywinter@hotmail.com
web: www.porcelainfilm.com
Producer: Gina Lyons
Screenwriter: Nicholas Winter
Editor: Nicholas Winter
Director of Photography: Nicholas Winter
Sound: Jeet Thakrar
Music: Greg Harwood
Cast: Ricci Harnett, Lee Otway, Zara Dawson,
Kayleigh Garnett
Budget: £120,000
Funding: Private
Territories: All available
Feature Films
Bright Star
London 1818. A secret love affair begins
between 23 year-old English poet John Keats
and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne, an
outspoken student of fashion. This unlikely
pair start at odds; he thinking her a stylish
minx, she unimpressed by literature in
general.
It is the illness of Keats’ younger brother that
draws them together. Keats is touched by
Fanny’s efforts to help and agrees to teach
her poetry. By the time Fanny’s alarmed
mother and Keats’ best friend Brown realise
their attachment, the relationship has an
unstoppable momentum.
Intensely and helplessly absorbed in each
other, the young lovers are swept into
powerful new sensations. ‘I have the feeling
as if I were dissolving’, Keats writes to her.
Together they ride a wave of romantic
obsession that deepens as their troubles
mount. Only Keats’ illness proves
insurmountable.
Director: Jane Campion
2009. 35mm. 119 min
International Sales: Pathé Productions, Kent
House, 14-17 Market Place, Great Titchfield
Street, London, W1W 8AR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7323 5151, fax: +44 (0)20 7436
7891
web: www.pathe.co.uk
Producer: Jan Chapman, Caroline Hewitt
Executive Producer: David M Thompson
Screenwriter: Jane Campion
Editor: Alexandre de Franceschi
Director of Photography: Greig Fraser
Cast: Abbie Cornish, Ben Whishaw, Paul
Schneider, Kerry Fox
Co-production: Australia, France, USA
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Bronson
In 1974 a misguided 19 year-old named
Michael Peterson decided he wanted to make
a name for himself and so, with a homemade
sawn-off shotgun and a head full of dreams
he attempted to rob a Post Office. Swiftly
apprehended and originally sentenced to
seven years in jail, Peterson has subsequently
been behind bars for 34 years, 30 of which
have been spent in solitary confinement.
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
2008. 35mm. 92 min
Production Company: Vertigo Films,
77 Fortess Road, London, NW5 1AG, England,
UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7428 7555, fax: +44 (0)20 7485
9713
email: mail@vertigofilms.com
web: www.vertigofilms.com
International Sales: Protagonist Pictures,
11 Francis Street, London, SW1P 1DE,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7306 5155, fax: +44 (0)20 7306
8044
email: info@protagonistpictures.com
web: www.protagonistpictures.com
Producer: Rupert Preston, Danny Hansford
Executive Producer: Allan Niblo, James
Richardson, Nick Love, Rob Morgan, Simon
Fawcett, Suzanne Alizart, Kate Ogborn, Paul
Martin, Thor Sigurjonsson
Screenwriter: Brock Norman Brock, Nicolas
Winding Refn
Editor: Matt Newman
Director of Photography: Larry Smith
Production Designer: Adrian Smith
Sound: Tim Barker
Music: Lol Hammond
Cast: Tom Hardy, Matt King, James Lance,
Amanda Burton
Funding: Vertigo Films, Aramid
Entertainment, Str8jacket Creations, EM
Media
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A Bunch of Amateurs
Ageing Hollywood action hero Jefferson
Steele is desperate to reinvigorate his waning
career.
He is convinced by his incompetent agent to
accept a prestigious invitation to star in the
British theatre playing King Lear at Stratford
but he finds the Stratford in question is
Stratford St John, a sleepy Suffolk village,
and the theatre is an old barn, which the
villagers want to save from closure by putting
on a star-led charity performance.
Director: Andy Cadiff
2008. 35mm. 96 min
Production Company: Trademark Films Ltd,
36 Marshall Street, London, W1F 7EY,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7478 5167
email: mail@trademarkfilms.co.uk
UK Distributor: Entertainment Film
Distributors Ltd, Eagle House, First Floor,
108-110 Jermyn Street, London, SW1Y 6HB,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7321 5057, fax: +44 (0)20 7930
9399
email: emmah@entertainment-film.com
web: www.entertainmentfilms.co.uk
International Sales: Odyssey Entertainment
Ltd, 10A James Street, London, WC2E 8BT,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7520 5610, fax: +44 (0)20 7520
5611
email: sales@odysseyentertainment.co.uk
Producer: David Parfitt
Screenwriter: Jonathan Gershfield, John
Ross, Ian Hislop, Nick Newman
Editor: Mark Thornton
Director of Photography: Ashley Rowe
Production Designer: Melanie Allen
Sound: Tony Currie
Music: Christian Henson
Cast: Burt Reynolds, Imelda Staunton,
Samantha Bond, Derek Jacobi
Budget: $4.385 million
Funding: CinemaNX, BMS Film Finance,
LipSync Productions, presales
Territories: All available except Australia,
Middle East, New Zealand, Portugal, UK
Feature Films
Bunny and the Bull The Burial
Bunny and the Bull is a comedy road movie Three brothers and a coffin on a crazy road
set entirely in a flat. Stephen Turnbull hasn’t trip back to the river that defines their lives.
been outside in months, and when he finds
his mind hurtling back to the disastrous trek Director: David Mills, Danielle Boucher
around Europe he undertook with his friend 2008. HD. 91 min
Bunny a catalogue of adventures unfold.
Production Company: Jack and Jill Films,
Stephen’s flat becomes the springboard for Global House, 5A Sandys Row, London,
an extraordinary odyssey through lands made
E1 7HW, England, UK
up of snapshots and souvenir replica tel: +44 (0)164 263 4476
landmarks within his imagination.
email: info@jackandjillfilms.co.uk
Bunny and the Bull is a touching and web: www.jackandjillfilms.co.uk
beautiful journey to the end of the room. Producer: David Mills
Director: Paul King Screenwriter: Danielle Boucher, David Mills
2009. HD. 101 min Editor: Marie Soderpalm
Director of Photography: Carlos Catalan
Production Company: Warp X, The Production Designer: Eden Honeydew
Workstation, Paternoster Row, Sheffield, Cast: Pascal Larderet, Jost Corrieri, Alain
S1 2BX, England, UK Bourderon, Babouche, Danielle Boucher
tel: +44 (0)114 221 0337, fax: +44 (0)114 221
0484 Budget: £172,000
email: info@warpx.co.uk
Funding: Private investment, Molinare post
UK Distributor: Optimum Releasing, production equity investment
50 Marshall Street, London, W1F 9BQ,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7534 2700
email: jessica@optimumreleasing.com
web: www.optimumreleasing.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
web: www.wildbunch.biz
Producer: Mary Burke, Mark Herbert, Robin
Gutch
Executive Producer: Peter Carlton, Hugo
Heppell, Suzanne Alizart, Will Clarke, Vincent
Maraval
Screenwriter: Paul King
Editor: Mark Everson
Director of Photography: John Sorapure
Production Designer: Gary Williamson
Sound: Tim Barker
Music: Ralfe Band
Cast: Edward Hogg, Simon Farnaby, Verónica
Echegui, Noel Fielding, Julian Barratt
Budget: £1.2 million
Funding: Film4, UK Film Council, EM Media,
Screen Yorkshire, Optimum Releasing, Wild
Bunch
Territories: All available except Greece,
Switzerland, UK

Catalina:
A New Kind of Superhero
Ben Gerick is a rising star for a major
corporate law firm. By day he wears smart
business suits, but at home he takes on a
new persona ... that of Catalina — a
superhero transvestite.
Director: KD Barker
2008. HD. 98 min
Production Company: Water On The Rock
Ltd, PO Box 20, Leeds, LS8 2ZZ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)113 265 0881
email: contact@wotr.co.uk
Producer: KD Barker
Executive Producer: James Ritchie
Screenwriter: KD Barker
Editor: KD Barker
Director of Photography: JC Cheung
Production Designer: Dan Holloway
Sound: Effectsland
Music: Khieng Ly
Cast: Nathan Lubbock-Smith, George
McCluskey, Laura Martin
Funding: Private
Territories: All available
Feature Films
Charlie Noades R.I.P.
Steve Parr works in the family business
‘Scrap and Salvage’ in a yard owned by his
father Les, surrounded by a loyal, if a little
strange, band of workmates. Mick, his best
friend and a self appointed gigolo; Sonny, a
divorcee with an addiction to the Discovery
Channel; Kitty, Steve’s auntie, a middle-aged
spinster with a razor sharp sarcastic wit; and
Elvis who is ... well, he’s just Elvis. Oh and
there’s Frank the junkyard dog — he’s got a
sexual appetite matched only by Hugh
Hefner!
Together they spend their days trying to
make a living in a business that belongs to a
different time.
On returning from a routine job, Steve is
informed that he has been left a wooden
chest full of old diaries in the will of a
complete stranger. The diaries reveal a long
forgotten secret involving Steve’s grandfather
and a large quantity of hidden gold. Can he
unlock the secrets and find the missing gold?
He’d better do something quickly because
what he doesn’t know is that the clock is
ticking for everyone at Parr’s ‘Scrap and
Salvage’.
Director: Jim Doyle
2008. HD. 104 min
Production Company: North Star
Productions, 70 Robson Street, Anfield,
Liverpool, L5 1TG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)151 286 2050
email: write@northstarproductions.co.uk
web: www.northstarproductions.co.uk
Producer: Tony Fitzmaurice, Neil
Fitzmaurice
Screenwriter: Neil Fitzmaurice
Editor: Charlene Lilburn
Director of Photography: Rupert Whiteman
Production Designer: Collin Taylor
Sound: John Hughes
Music: Gary O’Donnell
Cast: Neil Fitzmaurice, John Thomson, John
Henshaw, John McArdle, Dominic Carter
Budget: £700,000
Funding: Private investment
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Chéri
Set in the luxurious demi-monde of pre-First
World War Paris, Chéri is the story of the
love affair between the beautiful retired
courtesan Léa and Chéri, the son of her old
colleague and rival Mme Peloux.
Léa has educated the spoilt and callow boy in
the ways of love, but after six years Mme
Peloux has secretly arranged a marriage
between Chéri and Edmée, daughter of
another rich courtesan, Marie Laure.
As the inevitable moment of parting
approaches, Léa and Chéri try to come to
terms with their imminent separation, but
the roots of their life of ease and pleasure
reach deeper than even they imagine and
they begin to understand, too late, how
much they mean to one another.
Director: Stephen Frears
2009. 35mm. 92 min
International Sales: Pathé Productions, Kent
House, 14-17 Market Place, Great Titchfield
Street, London, W1W 8AR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7323 5151, fax: +44 (0)20 7436
7891
web: www.pathe.co.uk
Producer: Bill Kenwright, Andras Hamori,
Tracey Seaward
Screenwriter: Christopher Hampton
Editor: Lucia Zucchetti
Director of Photography: Darius Khondji
Production Designer: Alan MacDonald
Music: Alexandre Desplat
Cast: Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathy Bates, Rupert
Friend, Felicity Jones, Iben Hjejle
Co-production: Germany
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Cherrybomb
Best friends Luke and Malachy are finally
ready to enjoy their summer. Yet when the
stunning Michelle moves to town
unexpectedly, these two best friends soon
become worst enemies. With a resistance to
boredom, Michelle seductively encourages a
dirty competition for her heart.
What was supposed to have been a relaxing
vacation transforms into a wild ride of
drinking, drugs, sex and a deadly end to the
competition.
Director: Lisa Barros D’Sa, Glenn Leyburn
2009. HD. 82 min
Production Company: Generator
Entertainment, Twickenham Film Studios,
Twickenham, TW1 2AW, England, UK
International Sales: The Little Film
Company, 12930 Ventura Boulevard, #822,
Studio City, CA 91604, USA
tel: +1 818 762 6999, fax: +1 818 301 2186
email: info@thelittlefilmcompany.com
web: www.thelittlefilmcompany.com
Producer: Mark Huffam, Michael Casey, Brian
Kirk
Executive Producer: Simon Bosanquet,
James Flynn
Screenwriter: Daragh Carville
Editor: Nick Emerson
Director of Photography: Damian Elliott
Production Designer: David Craig
Sound: Ken Galvin
Music: David Holmes, Stephen Hilton
Cast: Rupert Grint, Robert Sheehan,
Kimberley Nixon, James Nesbitt
Territories: All available
Feature Films
The Children
New Years Eve, and what should be a
relaxing vacation for two families coming
together to celebrate the holidays ends up as
a desperate fight for survival, as one by one
the children mysteriously fall ill and turn
against their parents, with horrifying
consequences.
Director: Tom Shankland
2008. 16mm. 84 min
Production Company: Vertigo Films, The Big
Room Studios, 77 Fortess Road, London, NW5
1AG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7428 7555, fax: +44 (0)20 7485
9713
email: mail@vertigofilms.com
web: www.vertigofilms.com
International Sales: Protagonist Pictures,
11 Francis Street, London, SW1P 1DE,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7306 5155, fax: +44 (0)20 7306
8044
email: info@protagonistpictures.com
web: www.protagonistpictures.com
Producer: James Richardson, Allan Niblo
Screenwriter: Tom Shankland
Editor: Tim Murrell
Director of Photography: Nanu Segal
Production Designer: Suzie Davies
Cast: Eva Birthistle, Stephen Campbell
Moore, Jeremy Sheffield, Rachel Shelley
Clive Barker’s Book of Blood
Paranormal researcher Mary Florescu’s
investigations lead her to Simon McNeal, a
college student who appears to be
channelling messages from the dead. As their
erotic relationship develops, the line
between the worlds of the living and the
dead become blurred and finally collapse.
Director: John Harrison
2008. 97 min
Production Company: Matador Pictures,
159 Wardour Street, London, W1F 8WH,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7734 4544, fax: +44 (0)20 7734
7794
email: admin@matadorpictures.com
web: www.matadorpictures.com
International Sales: Essential Entertainment,
9000 Sunset Boulevard, Suite 600, Los
Angeles, CA 90069, USA
tel: +1 310 550 9100, fax: +1 310 550 9101
email: info@essential-ent.com
web: www.essential-ent.com
Producer: Clive Barker, Jorge Saralegui, Joe
Daley, Nigel Thomas, Micky MacPherson,
Lauri Apelian
Executive Producer: Anthony Diblasi, Carole
Sheridan, Karl Richards, Peter Bevan, Jeremy
Burdek, Nadia Khamlichi, Adrian Politowski,
Richard Reiner
Screenwriter: John Harrison, Darin Silverman
Editor: Harry B Miller III
Director of Photography: Philip Robertson
Production Designer: Andy Harris
Sound: Paul Weir
Music: Guy Farley
Cast: Jonas Armstrong, Sophie Ward, Clive
Russell, Paul Blair
Budget: £3.8 million
Funding: Cinema One, Newbridge Film
Capital, Motion Investment Group, Scottish
Screen

A Closed Book
Jane appears to be ideal: attractive,
intelligent, unruffled by her employer’s
abrupt eccentricities. But gradually we come
aware that Jane has another agenda.
Incrementally Sir Paul’s familiar surroundings
are altered. His housekeeper is diverted
away, strange things happen around the
house and he becomes increasingly
dependent on his new assistant.
Jane plays increasingly sadistic games until
their relationship breaks down and it
becomes clear that Jane intends to kill Sir
Paul. Paul grasps this too late to save
himself, but the plot carries further savage
twists before it reaches its conclusion.
Director: Raoul Ruiz
2009. HD.
Production Company: Eyeline
Entertainment, 47 Poland Street, London,
W1F 7NB, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8144 2994, fax: +44 (0)20 7494
8291
email: info@eyelineentertainment.com
UK Distributor: Atlantic Film Distributors,
71 Portland Place, London, W1B 1QT,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7580 5166, fax: +44 (0)20 7580
0997
email: info@atlanticfilmdistributors.com
web: www.atlanticfilmdistributors.com
Producer: Tom Kinninmont, Duncan Napier-
Bell, Nicholas Napier-Bell, Tom Reeve,
Romain Schroeder
Screenwriter: Gilbert Adair
Editor: Adrian Murray
Director of Photography: Ricardo Aronovich
Production Designer: Keith Slote
Music: Stephen Mark Barchan
Cast: Darryl Hannah, Tom Conti, Miriam
Margolyes, Simon MacCorkindale
Territories: All available
Feature Films
Creation
Darwin’s great, still controversial, book The
Origin of Species depicts nature as a
battleground. In Creation the battleground is
a man’s heart. Torn between his love for his
deeply religious wife and his own growing
belief in a world where God has no place,
Darwin finds himself caught in a struggle
between faith and reason, love and truth.
This is not the grey-bearded old man that
most people imagine when they think of
Darwin. The Darwin we meet in Creation is a
young, vibrant father, husband and friend
whose mental and physical health gradually
buckles under the weight of guilt and grief
for a lost child.
Ultimately it is the ghost of Annie, his adored
ten year-old daughter who leads him out of
darkness and helps him reconnect with his
wife and family. Only then is he able to
create the book that changed the world.
Director: Jon Amiel
2009. 35mm.
UK Distributor: Icon Film Distribution,
12 Great James Street, North Finchley,
London, WC1N 3DR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8492 6300, fax: +44 (0)20 8492
6301
web: www.iconmovies.co.uk
International Sales: HanWay Films,
24 Hanway Street, London, W1T 1UH,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7290 0750, fax: +44 (0)20 7290
0751
web: www.hanwayfilms.com
Producer: Jeremy Thomas
Screenwriter: John Collee
Editor: Melanie Oliver
Director of Photography: Jess Hall
Production Designer: Laurence Dorman
Sound: John Midgley
Cast: Paul Bettany, Jennifer Connelly,
Jeremy Northam, Toby Jones, Benedict
Cumberbatch
Territories: All available except Australia,
UK
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The Crew
After a decade of meticulously planned
heists, respected crime boss Ged Brennan has
learned never to take unnecessary risks. But
when a recent heist goes wrong and a
notorious drugs baron is brutally butchered,
prompting rival firms to the brink of a gang
war, Ged’s world is thrown into chaos. Facing
betrayal on several fronts, including from
those closest to him, and with his biggest
heist ever approaching, Ged has to rely on
his street instincts as he fights for survival.
Director: Adrian Vitoria
2008. HD. 117 min
Production Company: Syndicate Films,
179 Wardour Street, London, W1F 8WY,
England, UK
UK Distributor: Momentum Pictures, 20 Soho
Square, London, W1D 3QW, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7534 0400, fax: +44 (0)20 7383
0404
web: www.momentumpictures.co.uk
International Sales: Foundation Films
tel: +44 (0)20 3039 3459
email: mail@foundationfilms.co.uk
Producer: Ian Brady, Stephen Salter
Screenwriter: Ian Brady, Adrian Vitoria
Editor: Justinian Buckley
Director of Photography: Mark Hamilton
Production Designer: Vanessa Hawkins
Sound: Zane Hayward
Music: James Edward Barker
Cast: Scot Williams, Kenny Doughty, Rory
McCann, Stephen Graham
Territories: All available except Benelux,
Canada, Germany, Greece, Portugal,
Scandinavia, Spain
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Cry of the Owl
Robert, a troubled young man, leaves the big
city and his ex-wife for the tranquility of a
small town. He finds respite from his
problems by secretly watching the normal
domestic life of a woman he doesn’t know
through her kitchen window.
But when Jenny catches Robert in the act,
she doesn’t call the police. Instead she feels
a strange empathy for Robert and invites him
into her home. Robert is drawn into a
relationship with Jenny, which has dire
consequences when her boyfriend Greg finds
out. Immediately suspicious of Robert, Greg
makes it his mission to destroy him. But
when the fight leaves Greg unconscious and
missing, Robert discovers he is the number
one suspect in a murder case that is slowly
beginning to look like the ultimate set-up.
Director: Jamie Thraves
2008. 35mm. 101 min
Production Company: Mact Productions,
27 Rue de Fleurus, 75006 Paris, France
tel: +33 1 45 49 10 10, fax: +33 1 45 49 30 60
email: mact@mactprod.com
International Sales: Myriad Pictures,
3015 Main Street, Suite 400, Santa Monica,
CA 90405, USA
tel: +1 310 279 4000, fax: +1 310 279 4001
email: info@myriadpictures.com
web: www.myriadpictures.com
Producer: Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre,
Malte Grunert, Jennifer Kawaja, Julia Sereny,
Sytze Van Der Laan
Executive Producer: David M Thompson,
Jamie Laurenson, Kirk D’Amico, Michael
Wood, Stephen Ujlaki
Screenwriter: Jamie Thraves
Editor: David Charap
Director of Photography: Luc Montpellier
Production Designer: Matthew Davies
Sound: Nigel Holland
Music: Jeff Danna
Cast: Paddy Considine, Julia Stiles, Caroline
Dhavernas, James Gilbert, Arnold Pinnock
Co-production: Canada, Germany
Funding: BBC Films, Ontario Media
Development Corporation, Astral Media, The
Harold Greenburg Fund, Movie Central Corus
Feature Films
Crying With Laughter The Daisy Chain
Joey Frisk is a hedonistic stand-up comedian A supernatural thriller of obsession,
on the verge of a big break or a big superstition and fear that explores the dark
breakdown. In his regular venue, The Bullpit, side of the heart.
he is king and his fans hang on his every
word. He is abusive on stage to his public, Director: Aisling Walsh
who love it and keep coming back for more. 2008. 35mm. 91 min
He parties his gig money away and his ex- International Sales: ContentFilm
partner Karen is at her wits’ end — he owes
International, 19 Heddon Street, London,
her a ton of maintenance for their young W1B 4BG, England, UK
daughter Amy.
tel: +44 (0)20 7851 6500, fax: +44 (0)20 7851
When Joey becomes homeless after being 6506
arrested for an apparent assault on his email: london@contentfilm.com
landlord, Karen threatens to cut his access to web: www.contentfilm.com
Amy. Producer: Tristan Orpen Lynch, Dominic
Wright
With fortuitous timing an old school friend
Frank comes into Joey’s life and wants to Executive Producer: Graham Begg, Jamie
Carmichael, Linda James
help. Frank only wants one thing in return —
for Joey to accompany him on a school re- Screenwriter: Lauren MacKenzie
union, the night before the biggest gig of Editor: Chris Gill, Bryan Oates
Joey’s life. But things take a turn for the Director of Photography: Simon Kossoff
worse when the venue for the reunion is Production Designer: Padraig O’Neill
revealed to be a care home, and the guest of Music: David Julyan
honour their former maths teacher Cast: Samantha Morton, Steven Mackintosh,
Mr Meldrick, now riddled with dementia. As Eva Birthistle
events ensue, Joey finds himself embarking Budget: £2 million
on a bad trip down memory lane ...
Director: Justin Molotnikov
2009. 93 min
Production Company: Synchronicity Films
Ltd, 18 Westminster Terrace, Glasgow,
G2 2ND, Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)141 244 0056
email: info@synchronicityfilms.co.uk
web: www.synchronicityfilms.co.uk
Production Company: Wellington Films,
Broadway Media Centre, 14-18 Broad Street,
Nottingham, NG1 3AL, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)115 840 0043
email: rachel@wellingtonfilms.co.uk
Producer: Claire Mundell, Rachel Robey,
Alastair Clark
Executive Producer: Robbie Allen, Suzanne
Alizart, Ewan Angus
Screenwriter: Justin Molotnikov
Editor: Gary Scott
Director of Photography: Martin Radich
Production Designer: Mike McLoughlin
Music: Lorne Balfe
Cast: Stephen McCole, Malcolm Shields,
Andrew Neil, Jo Hartley, Laura Keenan
Budget: £500,000
Funding: Scottish Screen, EM Media, BBC
Scotland
Territories: All available except UK TV

The Damned United
Set in sixties and seventies England, The
Damned United tells the confrontational and
darkly humorous story of Brian Clough’s
doomed 44-day tenure as manager of the
reigning champions of English football, Leeds
United.
Previously managed by his bitter rival Don
Revie, and on the back of their most
successful period ever as a football club,
Leeds was perceived by many to represent a
new aggressive and cynical style of football —
an anathema to the principled yet
flamboyant Brian Clough, who had achieved
astonishing success as manager of Hartlepool
and Derby County building teams in his own
vision with trusty lieutenant Peter Taylor.
Taking the Leeds job without Taylor by his
side, with a changing room full of what in his
mind were still Don’s boys, would lead to an
unheralded examination of Clough’s
belligerence and brilliance over 44 days.
This is that story. The story of The Damned
United.
Director: Tom Hooper
2009. 35mm. 97 min
Production Company: Sony Pictures
Releasing, Europe House, 25 Golden Square,
London, W1F 9LU, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7533 1093, fax: +44 (0)20 7533
1165
web: www.sonypictures.co.uk
Production Company: Left Bank Pictures,
33 Foley Street, London, W1W 7TL, England,
UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7533 1111, fax: +44 (0)20 7533
1105
email: info@leftbankpictures.co.uk
web: www.leftbankpictures.co.uk
Producer: Andy Harries
Executive Producer: Christine Langan, Hugo
Heppell, Peter Morgan
Screenwriter: Peter Morgan
Editor: Melanie Oliver
Director of Photography: Ben Smithard
Production Designer: Eve Stewart
Music: Robert Lane
Cast: Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall, Jim
Broadbent, Colm Meaney
Funding: BBC Films, Columbia Pictures,
Screen Yorkshire
Feature Films
Dark Nature
Dark Nature revolves around a family holiday
gone wrong, as a mother and daughter’s trip
to an isolated community turns into a
nightmare.
Director: Marc de Launay
2009. HD. 79 min
Production Company: Mandragora
Productions, 24 Sandyford Place, Glasgow,
G3 7NG, Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)141 222 2261, fax: +44 (0)141 225
3682
email: marc@mandragora.net
Producer: Marc de Launay, Ted Mitchell
Executive Producer: Tom Kelly, Mark
Geddes, Brian McCormick, Mondo Ghulam
Screenwriter: Eddie Harrison
Editor: Joe Speirs
Director of Photography: Andrew Begg
Production Designer: Rebecca Dover
Sound: Travis Reeves
Music: Mondo Ghulam, John Brown
Cast: Niall G Fulton, Imogen Toner, Tom
Carter, Vanya Eadie, Callum Warren Brooker
Budget: less than £100,000
Funding: South West Scotland Screen
Commission, Mandragora Productions, DVD
distribution deal
Territories: All available except UK DVD
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The Dead Outside
In the stark aftermath of a neurological
pandemic, two strangers come together on
an isolated Scottish farm. April, a 16 year-old
survivor with a dark past, has survived alone
for months. Daniel, a man bereaved, clings
desperately on to the hope of a life in the
outside world. Questioning his own sanity in
the face of the maddened and distant cries
of the suffering, he finds that the true enemy
isn’t the virus, but something much closer to
home.
Director: Kerry Anne Mullaney
2009. HD. 86 min
Production Company: Mothcatcher Films,
Waterfront House, 4 Granton Square,
Edinburgh, EH5 1HE, Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)131 516 4725
email: info@mothcatcher.co.uk
web: www.mothcatcher.co.uk
International Sales: Boll AG, Boll AG Branch
Office, Schweinfurter Strasse 82, 97493
Bergrheinfeld, Germany
tel: +49 972 154 1150, fax: +49 972 1541
1511
email: info@boll.ag
Producer: Kris R Bird
Screenwriter: Kerry Anne Mullaney, Kris R
Bird
Editor: Kerry Anne Mullaney
Director of Photography: Kris R Bird
Production Designer: Tom Morrison
Sound: Anne Knox
Music: David Wilson, Felix Erskine
Cast: Sandra Louise Douglas, Alton Milne,
Sharon Osdin, Vivienne Harvey, Robin Morris
Funding: Private, regional grant
Territories: All available
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Dean Spanley
In Edwardian England, where upper lips are
always stiff and men from the Colonies are
not entirely to be trusted, Fisk Senior has
little time or affection for his son. But when
the pair visit an eccentric Indian they start a
strange journey that eventually allows the
old man to find his heart.
Director: Toa Fraser
2008. HD. 100 min
Production Company: Atlantic Film
Productions, Screen House, 123 Wardour
Street, London, W1F 0UW, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7534 9130
email: info@atlanticfilmgroup.com
UK Distributor: Icon Film Distribution,
12 Great James Street, North Finchley,
London, WC1N 3DR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8492 6300, fax: +44 (0)20 8492
6301
web: www.iconmovies.co.uk
Producer: Alan Harris, Mathew Metcalfe
Screenwriter: Alan Sharp
Editor: Chris Plummer
Director of Photography: Leon Narbey
Production Designer: Andrew McAlpine
Music: Don McGlashan
Cast: Jeremy Northam, Peter O’Toole, Art
Malik, Sam Neill, Bryan Brown
Co-production: New Zealand
Territories: All available except Australia,
Canada, New Zealand, Scandinavia, UK, USA
Feature Films
The Descent: Part 2
Sarah emerges alone from a cave system
following an expedition with her five friends
in the Appalachian mountains. Distraught,
injured and covered in the blood of her
missing companions, Sarah is incoherent and
half-wild with fear.
Sceptical about her account of events and
convinced Sarah’s psychosis hides far darker
secrets, Sheriff Vaines forces her back into
the caves to help locate the rest of the
group.
Director: Jon Harris
2009. 35mm. 90 min
Production Company: Celador Films, 39 Long
Acre, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 9LG,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7845 6800, fax: +44 (0)20 7845
6980
web: www.celadorfilms.com
International Sales: Pathé Productions, Kent
House, 14-17 Market Place, Great Titchfield
Street, London, W1W 8AR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7323 5151, fax: +44 (0)20 7436
7891
web: www.pathe.co.uk
Producer: Neil Marshall, Christian Colson,
Ivana MacKinnon
Screenwriter: James Watkins, James
McCarthy, J Blakeson
Editor: Jon Harris
Director of Photography: Sam McCurdy
Production Designer: Simon Bowles
Music: David Julyan
Cast: Shauna MacDonald, Natalie Mendoza
Desire
Writer Ralph sits alone at the top of his
London house, crippled by agoraphobia,
emasculated by the success of his soap-star
wife Phoebe, unable to complete the
screenplay that will rescue his reputation and
his family.
With a deadline looming, he invites student
au pair Néné from Paris to look after the
children. But is she carer, muse, lover or
thief?
As Ralph succumbs to his desire, Néné
embarks on a passionate relationship with
both husband and wife that leads all three
into areas of emotional and creative
transgression. Who is using whom? Who is
writing the film called Desire? And where will
it end?
Director: Gareth Jones
2009. RED. 91 min
Production Company: Scenario Films Ltd,
52 Avenue Gardens, London, W3 8HB,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8992 6332, fax: +44 (0)20 8752
1926
email: fmhowe@ukonline.co.uk
Producer: Fiona Howe
Screenwriter: Gareth Jones
Editor: Tony Sebastian Ukpo, Richard
Mitchell
Director of Photography: Alex Ryle
Production Designer: Fiona Howe
Sound: Robin Fellows, Charlie Weisfeld
Music: Fiona Howe, Oumou Sangare
Cast: Oscar Pearce, Tella Kpomahou, Daisy
Smith, Adam Slynn
Funding: Private
Territories: All available

Doghouse
Vince is handling his divorce badly. He’s
depressed. Gone to pieces. But his mates
aren’t giving up on him. Struggling with their
own women troubles, they drag him off for
an ultimate lads’ drinking weekend in the
country. Arriving in the village of Moodley
where the women outnumber the men three
to one, the boys find themselves holidaying
in a village overrun by psychotic, homicidal
zombirds with a thirst for male flesh!
Director: Jake West
2009. RED. 90 min
Production Company: Carnaby International,
New London House, 172 Drury Lane, London,
WC2B 5QR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)800 022 3345
email: info@carnabyinternational.com
Producer: Mike Loveday
Executive Producer: Mike Diamond, Andrew
Loveday, Terry Loveday, Bill Murray, Toby
Richards, Terry Stone
Screenwriter: Dan Schaffer
Editor: Jake West
Director of Photography: Ali Asad
Production Designer: Matthew Button
Music: Richard Wells
Cast: Danny Dyer, Stephen Graham, Noel
Clarke, Lee Ingleby, Christina Cole
Feature Films
Le Donk
15 years ago Donk seemed to have it all, but
now his life is shit. A failed drummer, Donk
earns his living as a roadie and he is about to
set off for his next gig. He is taking UK
rapper Scorz-Ayz-Ee with him on a road trip
that he hopes will change their lives forever.
Director: Shane Meadows
2009. HD. 74 min
Production Company: Warp Films, The
Workstation, Paternoster Row, Sheffield,
S1 2BX, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)114 221 0337, fax: +44 (0)114 221
0484
email: info@warpx.co.uk
web: www.warpx.co.uk
Producer: Mark Herbert
Executive Producer: Steve Beckett, Kev
Briggs
Devised by: Paddy Considine, Shane Meadows
Editor: Richard Graham
Director of Photography: Dean Rogers,
Shane Meadows
Production Designer: Alex Collins
Music: Greg Hall, Scorz-Ayz-Ee, Gavin Clark,
Gravenhurst, James Yorkston, Clayhill,
Bellowhead
Cast: Paddy Considine, Scorz-Ayz-Ee, Olivia
Coleman, Richard Graham, Seamus O’Neil
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Dorian Gray
When a strikingly beautiful but naı̈ve young
Dorian arrives in Victorian London he is swept
into a social whirlwind by the charismatic
Henry Wotton, who introduces Dorian to the
hedonistic pleasures of the city. Henry’s
friend, society artist Basil Hallward, paints a
portrait of Dorian to capture the full power
of his youthful beauty and when it’s unveiled
Dorian makes a flippant pledge: he would
give anything to stay as he is in the picture —
even his soul.
Dorian’s wild adventures continue, but soon
he notices that his portrait, which is now
locked away in the attic, has taken on an evil
and disturbing air, while his own beautiful
face goes unmarked by his deeds. Forced by
his own evil actions to flee the country,
Dorian returns 25 years later. To the surprise
of his old friends, he looks exactly the same
but he’s jaded, having found pleasure but
never happiness and he’s haunted by the
monstrous painting in the attic. His fear and
paranoia grow as rumours of his past
misdeeds circulate. Will Dorian get one last
chance for love and redemption and more
importantly, will he escape with his life?
Based on the novel by Oscar Wilde.
Director: Oliver Parker
2009. 35mm. 112 min
Production Company, International Sales:
Ealing Studios, Ealing Green, London,
W5 5EP, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8567 6655, fax: +44 (0)20 8758
8576
email: info@ealingstudios.com
web: www.ealingstudios.com
UK Distributor: Momentum Pictures, 20 Soho
Square, London, W1D 3QW, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7534 0400, fax: +44 (0)20 7383
0404
web: www.momentumpictures.co.uk
Producer: Barnaby Thompson
Executive Producer: James Spring, Paul
Brett, Charles Miller Smith, Tim Smith, Simon
Fawcett, James Holland, Xavier Marchand
Screenwriter: Toby Finlay
Editor: Guy Bensley
Director of Photography: Roger Pratt
Production Designer: John Beard
Sound: Max Hoskins
Music: Charlie Mole
Cast: Ben Barnes, Colin Firth, Ben Chaplin,
Rebecca Hall, Rachel Hurd Wood, Fiona
Shaw, Pip Torrens
Budget: £10 million
Territories: All available except Australia,
Canada, Germany, Greece, Italy, Middle East,
New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania,
Scandinavia, South Korea, Spain, UK
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Drawn
Mike Green is lost. He has no money, a dead
end job and a girlfriend who is pregnant.
Since he was a boy, Mike has been in love
with comic books and the escape they offer.
When a leading publisher hears of Mike’s own
comic book and offers him the chance of a
meeting, without a thought Mike grabs what
he can and heads for London. When things
don’t go as planned a chance meeting with
Lucy, a waitress haunted by her past, opens
his eyes to the beauty of possibility and
shows him that not everything is already
drawn.
Director: Joseph Warley, Nana Asomani-Poku
2008. HDV. 83 min
International Sales: Aspect Film Ltd, 26 York
Street, London, W1U 6PZ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7625 7796
email: hugh@aspectfilm.com
web: www.aspectfilm.com
Producer: Joseph Warley, Staten Eliot, Nana
Asomani-Poku
Screenwriter: Nana Asomani-Poku, Joseph
Warley
Editor: Andi Meek
Director of Photography: David Miller
Sound: Paul Sheeky
Music: Paul Sheeky
Cast: Staten Eliot, Katie Costick, Jacqueline
Worth, Keith Ducklin
Budget: £20,000
Funding: Private
Territories: All available except Middle East
Feature Films
Dread
Stephen and Cheryl are college students
making a documentary about what people
dread in life. But they have no idea that
their partner Quaid witnessed his parents
being murdered by an axe-wielding lunatic
and wants to make others experience his own
personal horror.
The three set out to document people
revealing their life’s most terrifying
moments. But Quaid quickly grows bored
with mere interviews and decides to take the
study to a much more visceral level, causing
all three to become vulnerable as they reveal
their fears in front of the camera.
Just as Stephen and Cheryl realize they have
partnered with a madman, they also find
themselves subjects of the hideous
experiment they brought to life, learning
more about fear and dread than any human
mind can stand.
Director: Anthony Diblasi
2009. 93 min
Production Company: Matador Pictures,
159 Wardour Street, London, W1F 8WH,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7734 4544, fax: +44 (0)20 7734
7794
email: admin@matadorpictures.com
web: www.matadorpictures.com
International Sales: Essential Entertainment,
9000 Sunset Boulevard, Suite 600, Los
Angeles, CA 90069, USA
tel: +1 310 550 9100, fax: +1 310 550 9101
email: info@essential-ent.com
web: www.essential-ent.com
Producer: Clive Barker, Jorge Saralegui, Joe
Daley, Nigel Thomas, Charlotte Walls
Executive Producer: Karl Richards, Peter
Bevan, Jeremy Burdek, Nadia Khamlichi,
Adrian Politowski, Richard Reiner, Micky
Macpherson
Screenwriter: Anthony Diblasi
Editor: Celia Haining
Director of Photography: Sam McCurdy
Production Designer: Chris Lowe
Sound: Glenn Freemantle
Music: Theo Green
Cast: Jackson Rathbone, Shaun Evans, Hanne
Steen, Laura Donnelly
Budget: £2.9 million
Funding: Cinema Three, Newbridge Film
Capital, Motion Investment Group, Pepper
Post
Ealing Comedy
Alfie Singh, British Asian accountant turned
film producer, has a great idea for a film.
Called Ealing Comedy, it’s about an
accountant turned film producer called Alfie
Singh and his real son Paul will play his son in
the film. Turned down by all the financiers,
Alfie vows to make the film himself, and
make his son a movie star.
Paul has just started secondary school. He
watches rugby training and falls in love. This
is the sport he wants to play. He tries telling
Dad but Alfie is distracted. He needs
celebrity cameos in Ealing Comedy because if
stars appear, a film gets distributed. But
when Alfie asks they say no, so he has to
come up with a plan.
Every week the family dutifully takes Alfie’s
mother, the dreaded Grandimort, to church.
And every week they endure her constant
criticism. But for once going to church pays
off. Alfie realizes how he can get his cameos:
by staging a fake charity gala he can lure
unwitting celebrities and so raise his funding
for the film. After all, celebrities love
charity.
Director: Neville Raschid
2008. HD. 88 min
Production Company: Ealing Comedy Ltd,
8 Hillcroft Crescent, Ealing, London, W5 25Q,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8998 3591
email: neville_pippafilms@yahoo.co.uk
Producer: Neville Raschid, Sagarika Raschid
Executive Producer: Keith Hayley, Atul
Kapur, Jaideep Puri, Danesh Varma
Screenwriter: Jon Croker
Editor: Alex Morgan
Director of Photography: Glenn Warrillow
Production Designer: Katie Stevens, Katie
Mabbett
Sound: Roland Heap
Music: Raiomond Mirza
Cast: Kulvinder Ghir, Paul Raschid, Leena
Dhingra, Sasha Waddell, Alistair McGowan
Budget: £180,000
Funding: Private
Territories: All available except UK

Easy Virtue
The twenties have roared, the thirties have
yet to swing. John Whittaker, a young
Englishman, falls madly in love with Larita, a
sexy and glamorous American woman, and
they marry impetuously. However when they
return to his family home, his mother, Mrs
Whittaker, has an instant allergic reaction to
her new daughter-in-law. Larita tries to fit in
but fails to tiptoe through the minefield laid
by her mother-in-law. A battle of wits ensues
and sparks soon fly. Before long, Mrs
Whittaker’s manipulation starts to work on
John and Larita feels their love is in danger
of slipping away but she won’t give up
without a fight. Based on the play by Noel
Coward.
Director: Stephan Elliot
2008. 35mm. 97 min
Production Company: Ealing Studios, Ealing
Green, London, W5 5EP, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8567 6655, fax: +44 (0)20 8758
8576
email: info@ealingstudios.com
web: www.ealingstudios.com
UK Distributor: Pathé Productions, Kent
House, 14-17 Market Place, Great Titchfield
Street, London, W1W 8AR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7323 5151, fax: +44 (0)20 7436
7891
web: www.pathe.co.uk
International Sales: Odyssey Entertainment
Ltd, 10A James Street, London, WC2E 8BT,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7520 5610, fax: +44 (0)20 7520
5611
email: sales@odysseyentertainment.co.uk
Producer: Barnaby Thompson, Joseph
Abrams, James D Stern
Screenwriter: Stephan Elliot, Sheridan
Jobbins
Editor: Sue Blainey
Director of Photography: Martin Kenzie
Production Designer: John Beard
Sound: Simon Gershon
Music: Marius De Vries
Cast: Jessica Biel, Colin Firth, Kristin Scott
Thomas, Ben Barnes
Territories: All available except Australia,
Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Finland, France,
Greece, Italy, Ireland, Israel, Netherlands,
Norway, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain,
Turkey, United Arab Emirates, UK, USA
Feature Films
Endgame
In 1985 South Africa burns as the vile
Apartheid regime crumbles. In the months
leading up to this historic moment, a group
of men hold secret talks to bring about peace
and democracy to the nation. Under constant
threat and fearful of their lives, a gathering
of ANC ‘terrorists’ led by the future
president of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, and
key Afrikaner representatives meet in a
manor house in South East England.
Against all the odds, through volatile
discussions, setbacks and breakthroughs, the
secret talks in Britain achieve a precious
arena of frail trust between the two
archenemies. While Nelson Mandela’s tense
negotiations at Pollsmoor Prison and later in
the heavily bugged warden’s villa at Victor
Verster Prison prove fruitful, the courage of
the unsung heroes at the crucial British talks
begins to show results.
But will they live to see the peace they are
striving so hard for?
Director: Pete Travis
2008. 35mm. 101 min
Production Company: Daybreak Pictures,
Elsinore House, 77 Fulham Palace Road,
London, W6 8JA, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7258 6700, fax: +44 (0)20 7258
6888
email: info@daybreakpictures.com
web: www.daybreakpictures.com
International Sales: Target Entertainment
Group, 2nd Floor, Garfield House,
86-88 Edgware Road, London, W2 2EA,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)870 164 7474
email: info@targetentertainmentgroup.com
web: www.target-entertainment.com
Producer: Hal Vogel, David Aukin
Screenwriter: Paula Milne
Editor: Clive Barrett, Dominic Stevens
Director of Photography: David Odd
Production Designer: Chris Roope
Music: Martin Phipps
Cast: William Hurt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jonny
Lee Miller, Mark Strong, Derek Jacobi
Funding: Channel 4, Target Entertainment
Group, Masterpiece
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Exam
Eight candidates have reached the final stage
of selection to join the ranks of a mysterious
and powerful corporation. Entering a
windowless room, an invigilator gives them
80 minutes to answer one simple question.
He outlines three rules they must obey or be
disqualified: don’t talk to him or the armed
guard by the door, don’t spoil their papers,
don’t leave the room. He starts the clock and
leaves. The candidates turn over their
papers, only to find they’re completely
blank.
After the confusion subsides, the candidates
figure out they’re permitted to talk to each
other, and they agree to co-operate in order
to figure out the question: then they can
compete to answer it.
First they suspect the question may be
hidden in their papers like a security marker
in a credit card, and they figure out ways to
change their environment to expose the
hidden words. But light, liquids and other
plans all come to naught. Soon enough, the
candidates begin to uncover each other’s
backgrounds, prejudices and hidden agendas.
Tensions rise, the clock steadily descends
towards zero, and each candidate must
decide how far they are willing to go to
secure the ultimate job.
Director: Stuart Hazeldine
2009. 35mm. 97 min
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
web: www.independentfilmcompany.com
Producer: Stuart Hazeldine, Gareth Unwin
Screenwriter: Stuart Hazeldine, Simon
Garrity
Editor: Mark Talbot-Butler
Director of Photography: Tim Wooster
Production Designer: Patrick Bill
Music: Stephen Barton
Cast: Colin Salmon, Jimi Mistri, Nathalie Cox,
Luke Mably, Adar Beck
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Fifty Dead Men Walking
Fifty Dead Men Walking is an action thriller
about a secret agent working undercover for
British security services in Northern Ireland in
the late nineteen eighties. Over the course of
four years, until his betrayal and subsequent
discovery, it was estimated that McGartland
was responsible for saving the lives of up to
50 men.
Director: Kari Skogland
2008. 35mm. 117 min
Production Company: Future Films,
Brightlight Films, 76 Dean Street, London,
W1D 3SQ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7518 8230
email: info@futurefilmgroup.com
web: www.futurefilmgroup.com
International Sales: Handmade Films
International, 38 Albemarle Street, London,
W1S 4JG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7518 8230, fax: +44 (0)20 7518
8231
Producer: Peter La Terriere, Stephen
Heyges, Shawn Williamson, Kari Skogland
Screenwriter: Kari Skogland
Editor: Jim Munro
Director of Photography: Jonathan Freeman
Production Designer: Eve Stewart
Sound: Anke Bakker, Kris Fenske
Music: Ben Mink
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Jim Sturgess, Kevin
Zegers
Budget: £6.3 million
Co-production: Canada
Funding: Future Films, Brightlight Films,
Northern Ireland Screen, Grove Media, Acme,
Milano, Telefilm
Territories: All available except Canada, UK
Feature Films
Fish Tank
15 year-old Mia’s life is turned on its head
when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.
Director: Andrea Arnold
2009. 35mm. 120 min
Production Company: Kasander (Andrea
Untitled) Ltd, Twickenham Film Studios,
Midnight Suite, The Barons, St Margarets,
Twickenham, TW1 2AX, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8607 8760, fax: +44 (0)20 8607
8889
email: info@kasanderfilm.nl
UK Distributor: Artificial Eye, 20-22 Stukeley
Street, London, WC2B 5LR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7438 9541, fax: +44 (0)20 7240
5242
email: info@artificial-eye.com
web: www.artificial-eye.com
International Sales: ContentFilm
International, 19 Heddon Street, London,
W1B 4BG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7851 6500, fax: +44 (0)20 7851
6506
email: london@contentfilm.com
web: www.contentfilm.com
Producer: Kees Kasander
Executive Producer: David M Thompson,
Paul Trijbits
Screenwriter: Andrea Arnold
Editor: Nicolas Chaudeurge
Director of Photography: Robbie Ryan
Music: Liz Gallacher
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Katie Jarvis,
Kierston Wareing, Rebecca Griffiths, Harry
Treadaway
Flashmob
Max is dead. Who’s to blame? A dark tale of
suicide, revenge and ... Bluetooth.
Akeem is a troubled teenager grappling with
the loss of his best friend Max through
suicide. It is an unlikely assortment of bullies
led by the narcissistic, abhorrent and cruel
Kino that Akeem blames for the death,
having drawn Max into a game and subjected
him to a sustained torment of bullying
recorded on mobile phone. Even after the
death Kino continues in his attempts to
manipulate Akeem, trying to pin the blame
on him. Haunted by Max’s death and
constantly reminded of his involvement,
Akeem, descends into madness and his grip
on reality begins to slip.
He sets out to expunge the memory of his
friend’s painful past and embarks on a
crusade to bring down the gang and destroy
their reign of terror. Now out of control
vigilante-style, and equipped with a mobile
phone he uses for surveillance of the gang,
he becomes less engaged with personal
interactions and more fixated on
documenting them, with violent
consequences.
Director: Ash Mahmood, Naeem Mahmood
2008. HD. 55 min
Production Company: Transient Film
Exchange, 39B Sinclair Road, London,
W14 0NS, England, UK
email: info@tfe.org.uk
web: www.tfe.org.uk
Producer: Helena Thompson, Naeem
Mahmood, Ash Mahmood, Jonathan Jules
Screenwriter: Helena Thompson, Ash
Mahmood, Naeem Mahmood
Editor: Ash Mahmood
Director of Photography: Adriatik Ragipi
Cast: Zephryn Taitte, Joanne Gale, Liam
McDonnell, Roy Weise, Michael Grandison
Funding: Mediabox, Prince’s Trust
Territories: All available

Flick
In 1960, shy and stuttering Teddy Boy Johnny
Taylor wanted one thing — to dance with
Sally, the girl of his dreams. But Johnny’s
dream turns into a nightmare. Beaten by
Sally’s boyfriend Creeper he finds himself at
the centre of a murder on the dance floor.
Panicking, Johnny flees the scene only for his
car to veer into the river, sending him to a
watery grave.
40 years later, a pirate radio station playing
the sounds of the fifties awakens Johnny
from the dead. Driving through the night in
his spectral motorcar, he is a monster in
search of lost emotions. The modern world
looks like it did in the fifties through his eyes
and memory sees him return home to his Ma.
Despite Ma’s best efforts, all Johnny does is
sleep — except between midnight and 2am
when Radio Rockabilly is on air. Reanimated
by the music, he drives the streets searching
for Sally and looking to avenge his death.
Following a series of strange murders, one-
armed Memphis cop Annie McKenzie is
drafted in to investigate. She soon realises
that even though they said rock ’n’ roll was
dead, Johnny’s back — alive and killing.
Director: David Howard
2008. HDSR. 95 min
Production Company: Monster Films Ltd,
Claridge House, 29 Barnes High Street,
London, SW13 9LW, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8282 1684, fax: +44 (0)20 8282
1600
email: info@monsterfilms.net
Producer: Rik Hall
Executive Producer: Pippa Cross
Screenwriter: David Howard
Editor: Madoc Roberts
Director of Photography: Chris Seager
Production Designer: Phil Roberson
Sound: Phil Edward
Music: Richard Hawley
Cast: Hugh O’Conor, Faye Dunaway, Liz
Smith, Mark Benton, Michelle Ryan
Funding: Film Agency for Wales, Wales
Creative IP Fund, Barcud Derwen
Feature Films
Forget Me Not
Will is a talented singer-songwriter who is
struggling to cope with a tragic secret.
Bartender Eve enters into his life when he is
at his lowest ebb. After rescuing her from a
drunken customer at closing time, Will is
caught off guard by the instant spark
between them and the release of dormant
emotions. Eve, an independent and free-
spirited individual, reminds Will of how he
used to be.
Captivated, his heart pulls him in an
unexpected direction as Eve offers Will an
opportunity to rediscover love and life. Will,
however, is torn between his heart and his
head, afraid of opening up his life to
someone new as he knows what the full
consequences will entail.
Forget Me Not follows Will and Eve as they
journey through London, not knowing what
the night holds or what the next day will
bring. As dawn turns to light and the sun
rises over the city, can Will find the courage
to reveal the truth?
Director: Alexander Holt, Lance Roehrig
2009. HD. 100 min
Production Company: Quicksilver Films,
5 Southampton Place, London, WC14 2DA,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7297 9474
email: qsfilms@yahoo.co.uk
web: www.qsfilms.com
Producer: Rebecca Long
Screenwriter: Mark Underwood
Director of Photography: Shane Daly
Production Designer: Katy Tuxford
Music: Michael J McEvoy
Cast: Tobias Menzies, Genevieve O’Reilly,
Gemma Jones
Budget: £1 million
Funding: Quicksilver Films
Territories: All available
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From Time to Time
With World War II finally coming to an
end and his father still missing in action,
Tolly is sent to stay with his estranged
grandmother in their ancestral home.
There he must solve an age-old mystery that
will safeguard their future and reunite the
family.
Based on Lucy M Boston’s novel The
Chimneys of Green Knowe.
Director: Julian Fellowes
2009. 35mm. 92 min
Production Company: Ealing Studios, Ealing
Green, London, W5 5EP, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8567 6655, fax: +44 (0)20 8758
8576
email: jules.smith@ealingstudios.com
web: www.ealingstudios.com
International Sales: Ealing Studios
International, Ealing Green, London, England,
W5 5EP, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8567 6655, fax: +44 (0)20 8758
8576
email: naomi.weiner@ealingstudios.com
Producer: Liz Trubridge, Paul Kingsley,
Julian Fellowes
Screenwriter: Julian Fellowes
Editor: John Wilson
Director of Photography: Alan Almond
Production Designer: Luciana Arrighi
Sound: Zane Hayward
Music: lan Eshkeri
Cast: Maggie Smith, Timothy Spall, Carice
Van Houten, Alex Etel, Pauline Collins
Budget: £5 million
Territories: All available except Australia,
Poland, Portugal, United Arab Emirates,
Ukraine
24
Giallo
Yellow chooses his victims based on their
beauty, because he himself is not beautiful.
Scorned and rejected in the orphanage where
he was raised as a child, he now hunts
beautiful women to torture and to kill.
He keeps them alive, mentally and physically
abusing them, until he grows bored. Then he
kills them and discards their bodies. He’s
efficient, and always has his next victim
ready to torture. And he’s clever, only going
after tourists, women who won’t find an
advocate in the police department.
His latest victim is an Asian exchange
student. After her, he has Celine, a gorgeous
fashion model. Linda is a smart, attractive
flight attendant in Torino to spend time with
Celine, her sister. When Celine doesn’t arrive
for their planned meeting, she takes her
concern to the local police. But they don’t
want to be bothered with her, sending her
instead to the basement of Inspector Enzo
Avolfi, an eccentric detective who doesn’t fit
in with the department. The details of the
case remind him of a strange killer he’s been
hunting. Yellow.
Director: Dario Argento
2009. 92 min
International Sales: Hannibal Pictures,
8265 Sunset Boulevard, Suite 107, West
Hollywood, CA 90046, USA
tel: +1 323 848 2945, fax: +1 323 848 2946
email: contactus@hannibalpictures.com
web: www.hannibalpictures.com
Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro, Rafael
Primorac, Adrien Brody
Executive Producer: Oscar Generale, Claudio
Argento, Patricia Eberle, David Milner, Luis
De Val
Screenwriter: Jim Agnew, Sean Keller, Dario
Argento
Editor: Roberto Silvi
Director of Photography: Frederico Fasano
Production Designer: Davide Bassan
Music: Marco Werba
Cast: Adrien Brody, Emmanuelle Seigner, Elsa
Pataky
Budget: $14 million
Co-production: Italy, USA
Feature Films
Glorious 39 Gnaw
Glorious 39 is set between present-day In this dark tongue-in-cheek British horror,
London and the idyllic Norfolk countryside in six friends take a holiday in the heart of the
the lead up to the Second World War. At a English countryside which turns into a
time of uncertainty and high tension, the culinary nightmare when they discover that
story is centred on the formidable Keyes their hosts are a sadistic family of cannibals,
family, who are keen to uphold and preserve set on turning their guests into their next
their very traditional English way of life. The meal!
eldest sibling Anne is a budding young actress
who is head-over-heels in love with Foreign It’s nice to have your friends for dinner.
Office official Lawrence. Anne’s seemingly
Director: Gregory Mandry
perfect life begins to dramatically unravel 2008. HD. 90 min
when she stumbles across secret recordings
of the anti-appeasement movement. Whilst Production Company: Jinga Films,
she tries to uncover the origin of these 22 Carnaby Street, London, W1F 7DB,
recordings, a tangled web of dark secrets England, UK
begins to unfurl, culminating in the tel: +44 (0)20 7287 0050, fax: +44 (0)20 7494
mysterious death of a dear friend. 9492
web: www.jingafilms.com
As war breaks out Anne discovers the truth
and escapes to London to try to confirm her Producer: Rob Weston, Simon Sharp
suspicions, but she is caught and imprisoned Screenwriter: Michael Bell, Max Waller
and only then does she finally begin to Editor: Mark Towns
discover the true extent to which she has Director of Photography: Tom Jenkins
been betrayed. Production Designer: Tony Noble
Sound: Andy Walker
Director: Stephen Poliakoff Music: Mark Hill
2009. 35mm. 129 min Cast: Hiram Bleetman, Rachel Mitchem, Sara
Production Company: Talkback Thames, Dylan, Julia Vandoorne, Nigel Croft Adams
20-21 Newman Street, London, W1T 1PG, UK Budget: $1 million
tel: +44 (0)20 7861 8000, fax: +44 (0)20 7861
8001 Funding: Private
email: emma.lewis@talkbackthames.tv
Territories: All available except Germany,
web: www.talkbackthames.tv Hong Kong, North America, Thailand
UK Distributor: Momentum Pictures, 20 Soho
Square, London, W1D 3QW, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7388 1100, fax: +44 (0)20 7383
0404
email: sam.nichols@momentumpictures.co.uk
web: www.momentumpictures.co.uk
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
email: carl.clifton@theworksmediagroup.com
web: www.theworkslimited.com
Producer: Barney Reisz, Martin Pope
Executive Producer: Lorraine Heggessey,
Jane Wright
Screenwriter: Stephen Poliakoff
Editor: Jason Krasucki
Director of Photography: Danny Cohen
Production Designer: Mark Leese
Sound: Chris Ashworth, Stuart Hillaker
Music: Adrian Johnston
Cast: Romola Garai, Bill Nighy, Julie Christie,
David Tennant, Eddie Redmayne
Funding: BBC Films, UK Film Council, Screen
East, Quickfire Films
Territories: All available except UK

Gracie
2am. Gracie climbs the railings on Waterloo
Bridge. She attempts to jump. Ellie runs onto
the bridge in desperate fear for her life. A
man chases her. Shocked from her dark
intent, Gracie grabs Ellie and they escape
into the lonely back streets. Gracie thinks
they are safe. But the men after Ellie don’t
give up. The girls are captured, taken to an
old boat and locked up.
3am. Although the men congratulate
themselves on Ellie’s capture, Gracie was not
part of the plan. Too frightened to sleep,
Ellie asks Gracie to tell her story. With Ellie’s
support, Gracie reveals the tragic events that
led her to want to end her life, which is told
in flashback. Then, as Ellie tells her own ill
fated tale, Gracie’s fighting spirit and will to
live return with a passion. She falls into a
nightmarish sleep and thinks of escape.
6am. Gracie has a plan. But the men have
decided her fate.
Gracie is a fable, a surreal, dramatic thriller
set against a darkly gothic view of London,
about how even in our brutal modern world,
faith and love can still triumph over fear and
violence in the strangest of ways.
Director: Jane Alexander Foster
2009. 16mm. 76 min
Production Company: 23 Films Ltd, 3 Hobury
Street, West Brompton, SW10 0JD, England,
UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7351 5105
email: janecreates@23-films.com
Producer: Jane Alexander Foster
Screenwriter: Jane Alexander Foster
Editor: Clive de Souza
Director of Photography: Serge Teulon
Sound: Tim Harrison
Music: Tandis Jenhudson
Cast: Lexi Strauss, Aurelie Ambuard, Darren
Darnborough, Gabriel Pac
Budget: £60,000
Funding: Independent
Territories: All available
Feature Films
Greek Pete
Pete arrives in London with the hope of
increasing his business as an escort, always
up for it and always horny, a fantasy for
those willing to pay. Not only is the money
better in the big city, there are more
opportunities to be had and Pete has goals
and ambitions. He wants a flat in central
London, a decent laptop and some good
promotional photos to help with trade. If he
works hard and becomes the best escort that
he can be, perhaps a nomination at the
‘World Escort Awards’ in Los Angeles could
be more than just a vague dream.
His plans get complicated when he meets
London boy Kai, a fellow escort on the scene,
and starts a relationship. While Pete can
easily separate his job from his love life, Kai
has a harder time sharing his boyfriend with
clients. Both are searching for very different
things in life.
Director: Andrew Haigh
2009. HD. 72 min
Production Company: Elmbourne Films,
167 Latchmere Road, London, SW11 2JZ,
England, UK
email: elmbournefilms@me.com
UK Distributor: Peccadillo Pictures, Unit 11,
Panther House, 38 Mount Pleasant, London,
WC1X 0AN, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7837 1118, fax: +44 (0)20 7837
3049
International Sales: Rendezvous Pictures
email: p.tasca@rendezvouspictures.com
Producer: Andrew Haigh
Screenwriter: Andrew Haigh
Editor: Andrew Haigh
Director of Photography: Andrew Haigh
Music: James Edward Barker
Cast: Peter Pittaros
Budget: £20,000
Funding: Private
Territories: All available except UK
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Hell’s Pavement
Hell’s Pavement follows five years in the life
of a young girl as she struggles against an
onslaught of good intentions. From her first
encounter with the social care system,
through a range of foster placements, to a
haunting climax.
Director: Andy Kemp
2009. HD. 97 min
Production Company: Oopic Films Ltd, White
Winds, Long Gardens, Shrewsbury,
Shropshire, SY5 7ER, England, UK
email: firststepmanagement@btconnect.com
web: www.oopicfilms.com
International Sales: Park Entertainment Ltd,
Suite 12, 3rd Floor, 54 Broadwick Street,
London, W1F 7AH, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7434 4176, fax: +44 (0)20 7434
4179
email: mail@parkentertainment.com
web: www.parkentertainment.com
Producer: Keith Gorman, Christopher Coy
Screenwriter: Keith Gorman, Tim Kemp
Editor: Andy Kemp
Director of Photography: Steve Organ
Production Designer: Tracey Adkins
Music: Neil Martin
Cast: Pauline McLynn, Diveen Henry, Connor
Byrne, Keeki Bennetts, Paul Lockwood
Budget: £300,000
Funding: Private
26
The Hide
Roy Tunt sequesters himself away in a
timbered bird hide on a remote stretch of
marsh awaiting a visit from the elusive
Sociable Plover — a very rare sighting indeed.
Armed with a packed lunch, flask of Bovril
and a framed photograph of his ex-wife for
company, Roy watches and waits.
Suddenly, in the midst of a conversation with
Sandra’s portrait, the hide door blows open
and a bedraggled stranger — unshaven, edgy
and bloodied — introduces himself as Dave
John, a fugitive after the storm. After a
tense introduction, the two men discover
that they have a good deal in common,
sharing sandwiches, tea and personal
exchanges which are frank, poignant and
often funny.
But as the two men begin to form a close
bond news of a police manhunt sets them
both on edge, driving their fragile
relationship to a tragic conclusion. As the
threatening power-play between the two
men escalates, they compete to outwit each
other in a deadly game of cat and mouse. A
game in which there can only be one winner.
Director: Marek Losey
2008. HD. 84 min
Production Company: Poisson Rouge
Pictures, Hurlingham Studios, 1 Ranelagh
Gardens, London, SW6 3PA, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7736 2200, fax: +44 (0)20 7736
2210
email: info@poissonrougepictures.com
International Sales: Screen Opus, 18 Soho
Square, London, W1D 3QL, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7268 3716
email: info@screenopus.com
Producer: Christopher Granier-Deferre, John
Schwab
Screenwriter: Tim Whitnall
Editor: Colin Sumsion
Director of Photography: George Richmond
Production Designer: Nick Palmer
Sound: Dean Humphries
Music: Debbie Wiseman
Cast: Alex Macqueen, Phil Campbell
Budget: £100,000
Funding: Poisson Rouge Pictures
Territories: All available except Turkey, UK
Cable
Feature Films
Kerry Brown
Hippie Hippie Shake
In 1966, Britain is emerging from the
drabness of the post-war fifties and a
political and sexual revolution is underway.
On the other side of the world in Sydney,
Australia, counterculture journalist Richard
Neville and artist Martin Sharp decide that
they want to be part of swinging London.
Ambitious and determined to be at the heart
of the changing times, Richard re-launches
Oz, a satirical and subversive magazine from
their university days. With girlfriend Louise
Ferrier, he assembles a team of journalists.
When Martin adds his artistic genius to the
mix, the magazine is launched.
Oz soon becomes the handbook for the
counterculture. When a youthful Felix Dennis
joins the team to sell advertising space in the
magazine, it is a success and for the next
couple of years, the Oz team finds itself at
the epicentre of the sixties movement,
surrounded by rock musicians, liberal
intellectuals, artists, designers, hustlers and
fabulous freaks. The age of free love and
flower power comes into full bloom.
It doesn’t last. Richard and Louise’s
relationship becomes complicated in a world
of free love, and when teenage schoolkids
are invited to edit Oz as a stunt, the British
Establishment takes particular offence.
Director: Beeban Kidron
2008. 35mm.
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
International Sales: Universal Pictures
International UK, 76 Oxford Street, London,
W1D 1BS, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7307 1300, fax: +44 (0)20 3071
346
web: www.nbcuni.com
Producer: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Nicky
Kentish Barnes
Executive Producer: Debra Hayward, Liza
Chasin
Screenwriter: William Nicholson
Editor: Sim Evans
Director of Photography: Michael Seresin
Production Designer: JP Kelly
Music: Dario Marianelli
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Sienna Miller, Max
Minghella, Emma Booth
How to Lose Friends and
Alienate People
Sidney Young is a disillusioned intellectual
who both adores and despises the world of
celebrity, fame and glamour. His alternative
magazine Post Modern Review pokes fun at
the media obsessed stars and bucks trends,
and so when Young is offered a job at the
ultra conservative New York based Sharps
magazine it’s something of a shock!
It seems Sharps’ editor Clayton Harding is
amused by Young’s disruption of a post-
BAFTA party with a pig posing as Babe. Thus
begins Sidney’s descent into success — his
gradual move from loser to confidante of
starlet Sophie Maes — and a love affair with
colleague Alison Olsen that will either make
him or break him.
Director: Robert Weide
2008. 35mm. 110 min
Production Company: Number 9 Films,
Linton House, 24 Wells Street, London,
W1T 3PH, England, UK
email: info@number9films.co.uk
web: www.number9films.co.uk
International Sales: Intandem Films, 22 Soho
Square, London, W1D 4NS, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7851 3800, fax: +44 (0)20 7851
3830
email: info@intandemfilms.com
web: www.intandemfilms.com
Producer: Stephen Woolley, Elizabeth
Karlsen
Editor: David Freeman
Director of Photography: Oliver Stapleton
Production Designer: John Beard
Cast: Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, Danny
Huston, Gillian Anderson, Megan Fox, Jeff
Bridges
Funding: Film4, UK Film Council

In The Loop
The US President and UK Prime Minister
suddenly fancy a war. But it’ll be quick this
time. Promise! The US General Miller doesn’t
think so and the British Secretary of State for
International Development, Simon Foster,
agrees with him. But after Simon accidentally
backs military action on prime-time TV, he
suddenly has a lot of friends in Washington
DC.
If Simon can get in with the right DC people,
if his entourage of one can sleep with the
right intern, and if they can both stop the
PM’s chief strategist Malcolm Tucker rigging
the vote at the UN, they can halt the war; if
they don’t ... well, they can always sack
their advisor Judy, who they never liked
anyway and who’s back home dealing with
voters with blocked drains and a man who’s
angry about a collapsing wall.
Director: Armando Iannucci
2009. 35mm. 106 min
Production Company: Loop Film Productions,
2-3 Duck Lane, London, W1F 0HX, England,
UK
UK Distributor: Optimum Releasing,
50 Marshall Street, London, W1F 9BQ,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7534 2700, fax: +44 (0)20 7534
2701
email: info@optimumreleasing.com
web: www.optimumreleasing.com
International Sales: Protagonist Pictures,
Francis House, 11 Francis Street, London,
SW1P 1DE, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7306 5155, fax: +44 (0)20 7306
8044
email: info@protagonistpictures.com
web: www.protagonistpictures.com
Producer: Kevin Loader, Adam Tandy
Executive Producer: Christine Langan, David
M Thompson, Paula Jalfon, Simon Fawcett
Screenwriter: Jesse Armstrong, Simon
Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche
Editor: Anthony Boys, Billy Sneddon
Director of Photography: Jamie Cairney
Production Designer: Cristina Casali
Sound: Tim Alban
Music: Becky Bentham, Abbie Lister
Cast: Tom Hollander, Peter Capaldi, James
Gandolfini, Gina McKee, Mimi Kennedy
Funding: BBC Films, UK Film Council, Aramid
Feature Films 27
Inner Calm Invisible Eyes
After a tragic accident John begins an Gaby, whose brilliant career as a supermodel
obsessive crusade to bring his comatose sister has come to an end, is scared of now
back to the waking world. In his sleep he becoming invisible to the world. In the
walks the afterlife where she is trapped and secluded house where she is staying, she
soon finds himself playing a game for her feels that she is being watched by ‘invisible
soul, a game that can’t be won, against the eyes’.
only opponent who can never be beaten,
Director: Olivier Cohen
Death. His flatmate Kate struggles to deal 2009. HD. 107 min
with his increasingly irrational behaviour, as
he spirals deeper into this dark world, Production Company: HiDe Films Ltd,
convinced that he can rescue Lorna. 35B Sneyd Road, London, NW2 6AL, England,
UK
In the afterlife, star-crossed lovers Lorna and email: lizrosilio@hidefilms.co.uk
Dave search for one another to find the
happiness they once knew in life. But with all Producer: Liz Rosilio
odds against them the lovers realise that Screenwriter: Olivier Cohen
nothing is what it seems and that they are Editor: David Laurence
running out of time. Director of Photography: Darran Bragg
Production Designer: Gaelle Lindingre
At the heart of this dark parallel world Death Sound: Jamie Gambell, Philippe Lauliac,
taunts and seduces them with their deepest Jean-Guy Veran
desires. With everything to play for, John will
Music: Damien Salancon
stop at nothing, even when he finds himself Cast: Pia Mechler, Simon Merrells, Michael
back at the site of the accident once more. Mears, Mark Tintner, Ross Armstrong
Director: Becky Preston
Co-production: France
2009. HD. 90 min
Territories: All available
Production Company: Tread Softly
Productions, PO Box 63708, London,
SW3 9AF, England, UK
email: christinecheung@treadsoftlyfilms.com
web: www.treadsoftlyfilms.com
Producer: Christine Cheung
Executive Producer: Nic Evans, Dennis Evans
Screenwriter: Becky Preston
Editor: Libi Bowles
Director of Photography: Adam Etherington
Production Designer: Rhiannon Preece-
Towey, Victoria Smith
Sound: Juliet Plumptre
Cast: Phillip James, Sophie Lovell Anderson,
Orlando Seale, Olivia Chappell
Territories: All available
28
Kandahar Break
Kandahar, 1999. A team of British mine
clearance engineers is working for the
Taliban government in the scorching deserts
of Southern Afghanistan, clearing the vast
minefields after decades of conflict. Amidst
the draconian laws of this extremist regime
one of the team, Richard Lee, an ex-British
army bomb disposal expert, falls foul of
corrupt local police chief Ashiq Khan, who
instigates a manhunt to find and kill the
infidel. Now embroiled in a deadly game of
intrigue and betrayal, Richard must escape
on foot across the border into nearby
Pakistan, through hostile terrain, but during
his journey he is ambushed by a force of
rebel guerrillas, enemies of the government,
who agree to help him flee the vengeful
Taliban.
Director: David Whitney
2009. HD. 94 min
Production Company: Millhouse Films Ltd,
10 Panton Street, Horwich, Bolton,
Lancashire, BL6 6EE, England, UK
Producer: David Whitney, Hameed Sheikh
Editor: Alastair Reid
Director of Photography: Russell Nabb
Sound: Neil Haggerty
Music: Mark Adair
Cast: Shaun Dooley, Dean Andrews, Rasheed
Naz
Budget: £300,000
Funding: Private
Territories: All available
Feature Films
Katalin Varga
Banished by her husband and her village,
Katalin Varga is left with no other choice
than to set out on a quest to find the real
father of her son, Orbán. Taking Orbán with
her under another pretence, Katalin travels
through the Carpathians where she decides to
reopen a sinister chapter from her past and
take revenge.
The hunt leads her to a place, she prayed
11 years before, she would never set foot in
again.
Director: Peter Strickland
2008. s16mm. 84 min
UK Distributor: Artificial Eye, 20-22 Stukeley
Street, London, WC2B 5LR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7438 9541, fax: +44 (0)20 7240
5242
email: info@artificial-eye.com
web: www.artificial-eye.com
Producer: Tudor Giurgiu, Oana Giurgiu, Peter
Strickland
Screenwriter: Peter Strickland
Editor: Mátyáf Fekete
Director of Photography: Márk Gyõri
Sound: György Kovácf, Zoltán Karaszek
Music: Steven Stapleton, Geof Cox
Cast: Hilda Péter, Tibor Pálffy, Norbert
Tankó, Melinda Kantor, Sebastian Marina
KICKS
Nicole and Jasmine are two teenagers who
bond over a mutual obsession for Premiership
footballer Lee Cassidy.
Fuelled by their fantasy of meeting him, they
track him down and before they know it their
dream has become a nightmare.
Director: Lindy Heymann
2008. DVC Pro HD. 81 min
Production Company: Starstruck Films Ltd
email: andy@spongefilms.com
Sales & Marketing: Missing In Action Films,
c/o Flat 1, 2 Whitfield Street, London,
W1T 2RB, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7323 2895
email: info@miafilms.co.uk
web: www.miafilms.co.uk
Producer: Andy Stebbing
Executive Producer: Christopher Moll, Lisa
Marie Russo
Screenwriter: Leigh Campbell
Editor: Kant Pan
Director of Photography: Eduard Grau
Production Designer: Grant Armstrong
Cast: Kerrie Hayes, Nichola Burley, Jamie
Doyle
Funding: Northwest Vision and Media: Digital
Departures, Liverpool Culture Company, BBC
Films

Kin
Frank’s life in London is uncomplicated.
A game of pool, a pint and spending time
with his care worker Sally are the extent of
his wants.
Frank’s life takes a dramatic turn though
when a phone-call from his estranged sister
forces him back home to face a life he had
long forgotten.
Kin is a film about family, care, and the
distance that can grow between those who
should be closest.
Director: Brian Welsh
2008. HD. 80 min
Production Company: A10 Films, 126 High
Station Road, Falkirk, FK1 5NE, Scotland, UK
email: brianwelsh@live.com
Producer: Laura Rees, Estelle Rogers
Executive Producer: Nik Powell
Screenwriter: Brian Welsh
Editor: Andrea Cuadrado, Mikael Svartdahl,
Brian Welsh
Director of Photography: Jean-Louis Schuller
Production Designer: Louise Mathews
Sound: Linda Brenon
Music: Gary Sanctuary
Cast: Dominic Kinniard, Nicola Marsland,
Jean Boht, Kellie Batchelor
Budget: £12,500
Funding: National Film and Television School
Territories: All available
Feature Films
Knife Edge
Blissfully happy in her new marriage, Emma
gives up a successful career on Wall Street to
return to England and give her six year-old
son a new life.
After moving into an impressive mansion
outside London, Emma finds out that she is
pregnant again. Everything seems to be
perfect. But soon, Emma begins feeling
uneasy. When she is left alone, the house
seems to be speaking to her in strange
voices. Emma’s dream of a perfect life starts
turning into a nightmare. Despite her pleas
for help, her husband grows more and more
distant. Alarmed by a series of strange and
terrifying happenings, Emma is convinced
that the key to unlocking Parkside’s secret
lies deep in the woods. She starts to act less
and less rationally, and the once ‘in control’
Emma turns into a paranoid shadow of her
former self. She has to discover that the
truth of Parkside Lodge rests not in its past
or future, but in the terrifying present.
Director: Anthony Hickox
2008. 35mm. 95 min
International Sales: Seven Arts Pictures,
38 Hertford Street, London, W1J 7SG,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 3006 8222, fax: +44 (0)20 3006
8220
web: www.7artspictures.com
Producer: Pippa Cross, Janette Day, Fee
Combe
Executive Producer: Peter Graham, Steven
Hays, Shelagh Millar, Anthony Hickox
Screenwriter: Robin Squire, Fee Combe,
Anthony Hickox
Editor: Andy Jadavji
Director of Photography: Daniel Bronks
Production Designer: Phil Robertson
Sound: Paddy Owen
Music: Guy Farley
Cast: Natalie Press, Hugh Bonneville,
Matthieu Boujenah, Joan Plowright
Budget: $10 million
Funding: Private
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Land Gold Women
Nazir Ali Khan is a 45 year-old professor at
the University of Birmingham whose greatest
love in life is his 17 year-old daughter Saira.
A patriarch devoted to his family, Nazir has
always made decisions pertaining to the lives
of each of his family members. Now that his
daughter is about to finish school, Nazir
considers it his responsibility to figure out
her future.
A vibrant teenager, Saira has great ambitions
for herself and she’s sure her father will
support everything she does. Nazir and Saira
seem, however, to be on different paths.
They discover how different they are from
each other and this heartbreaking discovery
leads to a sense of betrayal and ultimate
tragedy.
Director: Avantika Hari
2009. s35mm. 98 min
Production Company: A Richer Lens Ltd,
99 Kenton Road, Harrow, Middlesex,
HA3 0AN, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8907 1132
email: avantika@aricherlens.com
Producer: Vivek Agrawal
Screenwriter: Avantika Hari
Editor: Shyam Salgaonkar
Director of Photography: David Rom
Production Designer: Emilia Carrere
Music: Amar Mohile
Cast: Narinder Samra, Hassani Shapi, Neelam
Parmar, Ali Zahoor, Renu Brindle
Budget: $1.1 million
Co-production: India
Funding: Private
30 Feature Films

The Last Station The Last Thakur Lesbian Vampire Killers

The Last Station is a love story set during the
last year of the life and turbulent marriage
of the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy and
his wife, the Countess Sofya.
Tolstoy, having rejected his title and
embraced an ascetic life style, finds himself
increasingly at odds with Sofya. As his
devoted disciple Vladimir Chertkov urges him
to sign a new will leaving the rights to his
work to the Russian people rather than his
family, the conflict between husband and
wife grows to breaking point. The whole
affair is witnessed by Tolstoy’s new
secretary, Valentin, whose love for the
beautiful and feisty Masha is set against the
old love of Tolstoy and Sofya.
Director: Michael Hoffman
2009. 35mm. 107 min
Production Company: Zephyr Films, 33 Percy
Street, London, W1T 2DF, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7255 3555, fax: +44 (0)20 7255
3777
email: info@zephyrfilms.co.uk
web: www.zephyrfilms.co.uk
Production Company: Egoli Tossell Film
Halle GmbH, Marktplatz 7, Halle/Saale,
D06108, Germany
tel: +49 345 209 9648, fax: +49 345 209 9712
email: contact@egolitossell.com
web: www.egolitossell.com
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: info@thelittlefilmcompany.com
web: www.thelittlefilmcompany.com
Producer: Chris Curling, Jens Meurer, Bonnie
Arnold
Executive Producer: Phil Robertson, Andrei
Konchalovsky, Judy Tossell, Robbie Little
Screenwriter: Michael Hoffman
Editor: Patricia Rommel
Director of Photography: Sebastian Edschmid
Production Designer: Patrizia von
Brandenstein
Sound: Martin Trevis
Music: Sergey Yevtushenko
Cast: Helen Mirren, Christopher Plummer,
James McAvoy, Paul Giamatti, Kerry Condon
Budget: e13.5 million
A mysterious young man dressed as a private
guard and armed with a rifle arrives in the
town of Doulathpur. This stranger, Kala, soon
finds himself caught up in the midst of a
bitter and feuding community.
The Chairman, seductive and ruthless,
purports to represent and defend his people,
but one man stands in his way — Thakur, the
local Hindu landlord, who has been
reclaiming all land on which loans are
unpaid.
Kala and his gun become a vital asset that
each side must have.
Broke and hungry, Kala begins to bargain
with them. He’ll take their money, but what
he wants is information. He has his own
mission that brought him here, to find his
father, the man who raped his mother, and
take revenge.
Director: Sadik Ahmed
2008. HD. 81 min
Production Company: Ivanorite Ltd, c/o
Breakthru Films Ltd, 3rd Floor, Newman
Street, London, W1T 1PN, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7580 3688, fax: +44 (0)20 7580
4445
email: mail@breakthrufilms.co.uk
UK Distributor: Artificial Eye, 20-22 Stukeley
Street, London, WC2B 5LR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7438 9586, fax: +44 (0)20 7240
5242
email: info@artificial-eye.com
web: www.artificial-eye.com
International Sales: Meridiana Films,
20 Arthur Road, London, N7 6DR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7700 3088, fax: +44 (0)20 7700
3088
Producer: Atif Ghani, Tamsin Lyons
Executive Producer: Daniel Chamier, Philip
Knatchbull, Nik Powell
Screenwriter: Heather Taylor, Sadik Ahmed
Editor: Hugh Williams
Director of Photography: Sadik Ahmed
Production Designer: Byron Broadbent
Sound: Kieron Teather
Music: Kishon Khan, Birger Clausen
Cast: Tariq Anam, Tanveer Hassan, Rubel
Ahmed, Jayanto Chattopadyahay, Rahman
Milon
Two friends decide to escape their problems
and head to the country for a weekend of
debauchery.
Things don’t quite go according to plan and
they find themselves stuck in a village where
all of the women have been enslaved by a
legendary vampire curse. As the night unfolds
the boys have to put all of their fears (and
dreams!) behind them in order to rise to the
challenge of becoming Lesbian Vampire
Killers.
Director: Phil Claydon
2008. 35mm. 86 min
UK Distributor: Momentum Pictures, 20 Soho
Square, London, W1D 3QW, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7534 0400, fax: +44 (0)20 7383
0404
web: www.momentumpictures.co.uk
International Sales: AV Pictures Ltd, Caparo
House, 3rd Floor, 130 Baker Street, London,
W1U 6LN, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7317 0140, fax: +44 (0)20 7224
5149
email: info@avpictures.co.uk
Producer: Steve Clarke Hall
Screenwriter: Paul Hupfield, Stewart
Williams
Editor: James Herbert
Director of Photography: David Higgs
Production Designer: Keith Maxwell
Sound: Bernard O’Reilly
Music: Debbie Wiseman
Cast: James Corden, Mathew Horne, Paul
McGann, MyAnna Buring
Funding: Momentum Pictures, AV Pictures

Co-production: Germany Budget: £250,000

Funding: Commerzbank, DREFA, MDM, MBB, Co-production: Bangladesh

FFA, DFFF, Ministry of Culture in Russia Funding: Artificial Eye, More4, Breakthru
Films
Territories: All available except Italy,
Switzerland, UK

London River
London 2005: the story of Ousmane and Mrs
Sommers, both humble people living ordinary
lives, he in France, she in the Channel
Islands. He has a son — she has a daughter —
they both are students in London.
On 7 July 2005, without any news of their
dear children, they decide to start a journey
together in search of the two teenagers. And
although they come from different religious
backgrounds — Ousmane is Muslim and Mrs
Sommers is Christian — they will share the
same hope in finding their children alive.
Putting aside their cultural differences, they
will give each other the strength to continue
the search and maintain the faith.
Director: Rachib Bourchareb
2009. 35mm. 90 min
UK Production Company: The Bureau,
18 Phipp Street, Shoreditch, London,
EC2A 4NU, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7033 0555, fax: +44 (0)20 7033
9383
email: mail@thebureau.co.uk
web: www.thebureau.co.uk
International Sales: Elle Driver, 66 Rue de
Miromesnil, 75008 Paris, France
tel: +33 1 56 43 67 35, fax: +33 1 45 61 45 04
email: adeline@elledriver.eu
Producer: Jean Bréhat
Screenwriter: Rachid Bouchareb, Zoe
Galeron, Olivier Lorelle
Editor: Yannck Kergoat
Director of Photography: Jérôme Alméras
Production Designer: Jean-Marc Tran Tan Ba
Sound: Franck Rubio, Olivier Walczak
Music: Amand Amar
Cast: Brenda Blethyn, Sotigui Kouyaté,
Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila
Co-production: Algeria, France
Funding: ARTE, France3, CNC, ACSE, The
PCA Region, The Bureau
Territories: All available except Argentina,
Belize, Benelux, Brazil, Chile, Colombia,
Costa Rica, Ecuador, France, Greece,
Honduras, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Panama,
Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Romania, Salvador,
Scandinavia, Spain, UK, Uruguay
Feature Films
Lookin’ for Lucky
Any estate. Carve a slice right through it and
this is what you’ll see. Pain, laughter, tears.
Life.
On the Paradise Heights Estate, the actions
of one have consequences for many. King of
the Heights, Moses, will stop at nothing to
get the money he needs, even if it means
stealing from the weak. In the next two
hours the desperate residents will find their
lives defined by the boundaries of luck and
fate, as other tales from the estate of sex,
greed and revenge collide on one summer’s
evening.
Director: Chris Leonard
2008. DV Cam. 95 min
Production Company: Concept Pictures, The
International Media Centre, Adelphi House,
The Crescent, Manchester, M3 6EN, England,
UK
tel: +44 (0)162 526 1279
email: christopherl@conceptpictures.com
web: www.lookinforlucky.co.uk
Producer: Joe O’Byrne
Executive Producer: Jonathan Harris, Chris
Leonard
Screenwriter: Joe O’Byrne
Editor: David Dubois
Director of Photography: Jonathan Harris
Production Designer: Clyve Bonelle
Sound: Tracy Scott, Ben Gordon
Music: Ryan Alex Farmery
Cast: Clyve Bonelle, Greg Kelly, Joe O’Byrne,
Donna Henry, James Foster
Territories: All available
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Looking for Eric
Postman Eric’s life is slipping through his own
fingers ...
His chaotic family, his wild stepsons, and the
cement mixer in the front garden don’t help,
but it is Eric’s own secret that drives him to
the brink. Can he face Lily, the woman he
once loved 30 years ago? Despite outrageous
efforts and misplaced goodwill from his
football fan mates, Eric continues to sink.
In desperate times it takes a spliff and a
special friend from strange parts to challenge
a lost postman to make that journey into the
most perilous territory of all — the past.
As the Chinese, and one Frenchman, say, ‘He
who is afraid to throw the dice, will never
throw a six.’
Director: Ken Loach
2009. 116 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
email: eimhear@sixteenfilms.co.uk
web: www.sixteenfilms.co.uk
UK Distributor: Icon Film Distribution, Solar
House, 915 High Road, North Finchley,
London, WC1N 3DR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8492 6300, fax: +44 (0)20 8492
6301
email: zak@iconfilmdistribution.co.uk
web: www.iconmovies.co.uk
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: ssimonutti@wildbunch.eu
web: www.wildbunch.biz
Producer: Rebecca O’Brien
Executive Producer: Eric Cantona, Paseal
Caucheteux, Vincent Maraval
Screenwriter: Paul Laverty
Editor: Jonathan Morris
Director of Photography: Barry Ackroyd
Production Designer: Fergus Clegg
Sound: Ray Beckett
Music: George Fenton
Cast: Steve Evets, Eric Cantona, John
Henshaw, Stephanie Bishop
Co-production: Belgium, France, Italy, Spain
32
Luger of the Black Sun
In 1940 General Lupescu of the Romanian Iron
Guard has a spell from the ancient legend of
the ‘Zmeu’ placed upon a golden Luger
handgun — a gift to him from Himmler of the
SS. Years later in modern day Bucharest,
Loredana Anescu finds the gun among her
dying grandfather’s possessions. Long awaiting
its re-emergence is Damian Lupescu,
descendant of the General and owner of
Archangel International Media, who has
dreamed of unleashing the evil bestowed on
the gun through media technology to restore
fascism and begin the rising of the Fourth
Reich.
Knowing nothing of its dark and mystical
past, Loredana unwittingly shows the Luger
to Irishman Axel O’Rourke, a nightclub owner
who runs a cigarette smuggling operation
from Bucharest to London. Lupescu learns
that Loredana has found the Luger and goes
after her to reclaim it. Escaping with Axel
into the country, Lupescu’s henchmen catch
up with them, taking Loredana and the
Luger, leaving Axel for dead. On learning the
legend of the Luger, Axel is urged to follow
Lupescu to destroy it, putting an end to his
bigoted plan. Evil never ends.
Director: Jeff Burr
2009. 35mm. 90 min
Production Company: Max Productions,
49 Mablethorpe Road, Fulham, London, SW6
6AQ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7386 5625
email: gary@lugerthemovie.com
Producer: Gary Douglas
Executive Producer: Andrew Stear
Screenwriter: Elaine Thompson, Gary
Douglas
Editor: Rogdan Albu
Director of Photography: Viorei Sergovic
Production Designer: Radu Corciova
Sound: Ian Richardson
Music: Marias Baras
Cast: Gary Douglas, Ian Wright, Richard
Lynch, Kitty Cepraga, Mihealia Sinca
Budget: £1 million
Territories: All available
Feature Films
Mad, Sad & Bad
Mad, Sad & Bad is a 30-something comedy
about an endearingly dysfunctional family
and group of friends whose personal lives are
continuously messed up by their own selfish
needs and neuroses.
Atul is a sitcom writer who despises the work
that everybody else loves. Rashmi lives at
home with her mother, craving a life of her
own but dreading all that goes with it. And
Hardeep is a psychiatrist who can diagnose
everyone’s problems but his own.
Director: Avie Luthra
2009. HD. 90 min
Production Company: Moxie Makers,
11 Denmark Street, London, WC2H 8LS,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7240 6166
email: info@moxiemakers.com
UK Distributor: Soda Pictures, 17 Blossom
Street, London, E1 6PL, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7377 1407, fax: +44 (0)20 7377
1406
email: info@sodapictures.com
web: www.sodapictures.com
International Sales: Moviehouse
Entertainment, 11 Denmark Street, London,
WC2H 8LS, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7836 5536
email: info@moviehouseent.com
Producer: Bex Hopkins, Christine Alderson
Executive Producer: Sheryl Crown, Laurie
Hayward, Mark Vennis, Gary Philips, Ed
Fletcher, Eve Gabereau, Steve Milne, Mark
Foligno, Deepak Sikka
Screenwriter: Avie Luthra
Editor: Liz Roe
Director of Photography: Stuart
Biddlecombe
Production Designer: Katie MacGregor
Music: Mat Davidson
Cast: Meera Syal, Nitin Ganatra, Zubin Varla,
Andrea Riseborough, Leena Dhingra
The Making of Plus One
with Kate, Cate and George,
the Story of a Hollywood
Nobody
Set during the Cannes Film Festival, The
Making of Plus One pokes more than a little
fun at the celebrity obsession fuelling the
modern day film industry in the far from
glamorous reality that is independent feature
filmmaking.
Director: Mary McGuckian
2009. HD. 90 min
Production Company: Pembridge Pictures
tel: +33 4 93 76 62 61
email: info@pembridgepictures.com
web: www.pembridgepictures.com
International Sales: New Films International,
14320 Ventura Boulevard, #619, Sherman
Oaks, California, CA 91423, USA
tel: +1 818 501 2720
email: info@newfilmsint.com
web: www.newfilmsint.com
Producer: Mary McGuckian, Martin Katz, Jeff
Abberley
Executive Producer: Douglas E Hansen,
Nesim Hason
Screenwriter: Mary McGuckian, cast
Editor: Mathew Booth
Director of Photography: Mark Wolf
Production Designer: Anna Lynch Robinson
Sound: Malcolm Hirst, John Thomson
Music: Mary McGuckian
Cast: Lothaire Bluteau, Geraldine Chaplin,
Donna D’Errico, Michael Eklund, Jordi Molia
Budget: $3 million
Co-production: Canada
Funding: US Bank (Canada Branch), Endgame
Entertainment, Scion Films, E1 Entertainment

Malice in Wonderland
A contemporary interpretation of Alice in
Wonderland, set amongst the crime
ganglands of England.
Director: Simon Fellows
2009. 35mm. 89 min
Production Company: Mark Williams Films,
2B Pictures, Future Film Group, 76 Dean
Street, London, W1D 3SQ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7009 6600, fax: +44 (0)20 7009
6602
email: info@futurefilmgroup.com
Producer: Albert Martinez Martin, Mark
Williams
Screenwriter: Jayson Rothwell
Editor: Justin Krish
Director of Photography: Christopher Ross
Production Designer: Lisa Marie Hall
Sound: Rod Berling
Music: Christian Ejde Henson
Cast: Danny Dyer, Maggie Grace, Nathaniel
Parker, Matt King, Paul Kaye
Funding: Future Films, Sherezade, Sony,
Screen East
Territories: All available except CIS, Latin
America, Turkey, UK
Feature Films
Mamma Mia
A mother. A daughter. Three possible
fathers.
Director: Phyllida Lloyd
2008. 35mm. 108 min
International Sales: Universal Pictures
International UK, 76 Oxford Street, London,
W1D 1BS, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7307 1300
web: www.nbcuni.com
Producer: Judy Craymer, Gary Goetzman
Executive Producer: Benny Andersson, Tom
Hanks, Mark Huffam, Björn Ulvaeus, Rita
Wilson
Screenwriter: Catherine Johnson
Editor: Lesley Walker
Director of Photography: Haris Zambarloukos
Production Designer: Maria Djurkovic
Music: Benny Andersson
Cast: Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin
Firth, Stellan Skarsgard, Amanda Seyfried
Co-production: Germany, USA
33
Manolete
Outside of the bullring Manuel ‘Manolete’
Rodriguez is a lonely man with a tragic air.
Lupe Sino is a beautiful woman with a dark
past. This is their passionate love story. A
man in love with death, who meets a woman
in love with life.
Director: Menno Meyjes
2009. 35mm. 90 min
International Sales: Handmade Films
International, 38 Albemarle Street, London,
W1S 4JG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7518 8230, fax: +44 (0)20 7518
8231
email: info@handmadefilms.com
web: www.handmadefilms.com
Producer: Andrés Vicente Gómez
Screenwriter: Menno Meyjes
Editor: Sylvie Landra
Director of Photography: Robert D Yeoman
Production Designer: Salvador Parra
Music: Gabriel Yared
Cast: Adrien Brody, Penélope Cruz, Nacho
Aldeguer, Enrique Arce, Dritan Biba
Budget: $28 million
Co-production: Spain
Funding: Private
Territories: All sold except China, Japan,
Taiwan, Thailand
34
Me and Orson Welles
The story of a whirlwind week in 1937 New
York City when a young aspiring actor is
thrown into the middle of Orson Welles’
Mercury Theatre Company on the eve of the
opening of Welles’ historic staging of
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.
During this week Richard will find romance
with a worldly older woman, becoming
immersed in a creative experience few are
afforded, and learn the downside of crossing
the imperious, brilliant Welles. Richard is
about to grow up FAST.
Director: Richard Linklater
2009. 35mm. 107 min
Production Company: CinemaNX Ltd,
3rd Floor, 12 Great Portland Street, London,
W1W 8QN, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7637 2612, fax: +44 (0)20 7636
5481
International Sales: Odyssey Entertainment
Ltd, 10A James Street, London, WC2E 8BT,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7520 5610, fax: +44 (0)20 7520
5611
email: sales@odysseyentertainment.co.uk
Producer: Richard Linklater, Marc
Samuelson, Ann Carli
Screenwriter: Holly Gent Palmo, Vince
Palmo
Editor: Sandra Adair
Director of Photography: Richard Pope
Production Designer: Laurence Dorman
Sound: Colin Nicolson
Music: Michael J McEvoy
Cast: Zac Efron, Claire Danes, Ben Chaplin,
Eddie Marsan, Christan McKay
Budget: $25 million
Funding: CinemaNX
Territories: All available except Greece, UK
Feature Films
Miles Away
It’s 1987. Two bag men lay low with their
loot as mad cow disease spreads throughout
the countryside.
Director: Brendan McNamee
2009. s16mm/DVC ProHD. 82 min
Production Company: Blunt Films, 6A Palfrey
Place, London, SW8 1PA, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7582 6137
email: brendan@bluntfilms.co.uk
web: www.bluntfilms.co.uk
Producer: Brendan McNamee
Screenwriter: Brendan McNamee
Editor: Brendan McNamee
Director of Photography: Michael O Halleron
Cast: Bryan Larkin, Tim Watson Mitchell, Zoe
Thorne, Therese Bradley
Budget: £19,000
Funding: Self-funded
Territories: All available
Moon
It is the near future. Astronaut Sam Bell is
living on the far side of the moon,
completing a three-year contract with Lunar
Industries to mine Earth’s primary source of
energy, Helium-3. It is a lonely job, made
harder by a broken satellite that allows no
live communications home. Thankfully, his
time on the moon is nearly over, and Sam
will be reunited with his wife, Tess, and their
three-year-old daughter, Eve, in only a few
weeks.
Suddenly, Sam’s health starts to deteriorate.
Painful headaches, hallucinations and a lack
of focus lead to an almost fatal accident on a
routine drive on the moon in a lunar rover.
While recuperating back at the base (with no
memory of how he got there), Sam meets a
younger, angrier version of himself, who
claims to be there to fulfill the same three
year contract Sam started all those years
ago.
Confined with what appears to be a clone of
his earlier self, and with a ‘support crew’ on
its way to help put the base back into
productive order, Sam is fighting the clock to
discover what’s going on and where he fits
into company plans.
Director: Duncan Jones
2008. 35mm. 96 min
UK Distributor: Sony Pictures Releasing,
25 Golden Square, London, W1F 9L, England,
UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7533 1113, fax: +44 (0)20 7533
1165
web: www.sonypictures.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
web: www.independentfilmcompany.com
Producer: Stuart Fenegan, Trudie Styler
Executive Producer: Michael Henry, Bill
Zysblat, Trevor Beattie, Bil Bungay
Screenwriter: Nathan Parker
Editor: Nicolas Gaster
Director of Photography: Gary Shaw
Production Designer: Tony Noble
Music: Clint Mansell
Cast: Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey,
Dominique McElligott, Kaya
Scodelario, Benedict Wong

My Angel
In the run up to Christmas a 15 year-old boy,
whose mother is involved in a serious car
accident, has a dream that she needs an
angel’s halo to be saved.
Director: Stephen Cookson
2009. 35mm. 90 min
Production Company: CKM Entertainments,
17/19 St John Road, Watford, Hertfordshire,
WD17 1PU, England, UK
email: scmovies@hotmail.com
Producer: Stephen Cookson
Executive Producer: Peter Keegan, Geoff
Barnett, Jon Myers
Screenwriter: Stephen Cookson
Editor: Rupert Hall
Director of Photography: Oliver Downey
Production Designer: Kay Brown
Sound: Ron Bailey
Music: Andre Jacquemin, Dave Howman
Cast: Brenda Blethyn, Timothy Spall, Mel
Smith, Celia Imrie, Joseph Phillips
Budget: £2 million
Funding: Private equity
Feature Films
My Last Five Girlfriends
Duncan walks us through his last five
relationships. Advice from bizarre sources,
intense flights of fancy and surreal worlds all
collide until finally Duncan realises that love
is the ultimate battle ground where only the
fittest survive.
Director: Julian Kemp
2008. HD. 87 min
Production Company: Willing: Pilowsky
Productions, 91 Berwick Street, London, W1F
ONE, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7292 5081
email: marion.pilowsky@
prioritypictures.co.uk
Producer: Marion Pilowsky, David Willing,
Michael Kelk
Screenwriter: Julian Kemp
Editor: Julian Kemp
Director of Photography: Dave Miller
Production Designer: Kit Line
Sound: Penny Hull
Music: Marten Joustra, Andy Blythe
Cast: Naomi Harris, Brendan Patricks, Cécile
Cassel, Jane March, Kelly Adams
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New Town Killers
Two private bankers, Alistair and Jamie, the
world at their feet, get their kicks from
playing a 12-hour game of hunt, hide and
seek with kids from the margins of society.
Their next target is Sean Kelly, a parentless
teenager who lives with his sister on a
housing estate on the outskirts of Edinburgh.
She’s in debt and he’s going nowhere fast.
Sean is approached to play the game for
cash. With no other option, he agrees to play
but soon realises he’s walked into twelve
hours of hell where survival is the only aim of
the game.
Director: Richard Jobson
2008. HD. 100 min
Production Company: Independent,
32 Tavistock Street, London, WC2E 7PB,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7257 8734, fax: +44 (0)20 7240
9029
email: mail@independentfilmcompany.com
web: www.independentfilmcompany.com
UK Distributor: High Fliers Films
tel: +44 (0)190 479 6616
email: tom@high-fliers.co.uk
web: www.high-fliers.co.uk
Producer: Luc Roeg, Richard Jobson
Executive Producer: Michael Robinson,
Andrew Orr, Paul Martin, Carole Sheridan,
Sheryl Crown
Screenwriter: Richard Jobson
Editor: Steven Sander
Director of Photography: Simon Dennis
Production Designer: James Lapsley
Sound: Brian Milliken
Music: Stephen Hilton
Cast: Dougray Scott, James Anthony Pearson,
Alastair Mackenzie, Charles Mnene, Liz White
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Nine Miles Down
In the remotest reaches of the Sahara Desert,
a sandstorm batters a deserted drilling
station.
Three days earlier, radio contact was lost, so
security patrolman Jack is enlisted to
investigate. The station, originally built for
gas exploration then abandoned, has recently
been revived by an international scientific
research team on a discovery mission, which
involves drilling deeper into the Earth’s crust
than has ever been attempted before. Jack
finds abundant food and resources in the
complex but, oddly, not a living soul.
Stranded by the sandstorm, he is forced to
stay the night.
The next morning, Jack encounters a
breathtakingly beautiful American geologist,
JC, who claims to be the last remaining
member of the research team. She tells how
they had successfully breached the roof of a
vast cavern at the unprecedented depth of
nine miles. Following the discovery, a series
of mysterious sightings and hallucinations
were experienced by the increasingly fearful
drilling crew. Violence broke out, and the
team fled the site, abandoning her. Although
her explanation seems logical, Jack suspects
she’s hiding something more sinister.
Director: Anthony Waller
2009. 35mm. 86 min
Production Company: Seven Arts Pictures,
38 Hertford Street, London, W1J 7SG,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 3006 8222, fax: +44 (0)20 3006
8220
web: www.7artspictures.com
Producer: Steven Markoff, Bruce McNall,
Anthony Waller, Thomas Hedman, Raymond J
Markovich
Screenwriter: Everett De Roche, Anthony
Waller
Editor: Jamie Trevill
Director of Photography: Roger Simonsz
Production Designer: Csaba Stork
Cast: Adrian Paul, Kate Nauta
Budget: £17 million
Funding: Private, UK tax credit
Feature Films
One Day Removals
Andy and Ronnie are removal men. Andy
owns the van and Ronnie lifts the heavy
stuff. They have been doing this job for
several years and nothing interesting has ever
happened. That is, until the events of One
Day Removals start to unfold.
Follow the adventures of two unremarkable
Scottish men who are forced to deal with
events of a quite extraordinary nature.
Events that will take them into parts of
Scotland seldom seen. Events of a very dark
kind. It just takes one bad day to change
everything, and no-one is safe.
In a case that will rock the very foundations
of the Scottish legal system, Andy Watt is
telling the truth — but no living soul will ever
believe him.
Director: Mark Stirton
2008. HD. 88 min
Production Company: Stirton Productions,
57 Urquhart Road, Aberdeen, AB24 5NA,
Scotland, UK
email: info@stirtonproductions.com
web: www.stirtonproductions.com
Producer: Ken Fraser
Executive Producer: Iain Adams, Michael
Grant Clark, Jane Fraser, Kerwin Robertson
Screenwriter: Mark Stirton
Editor: Mark Stirton
Director of Photography: Mark Stirton
Production Designer: Michael Grant Clark
Sound: Colin Morrison, Graham Robertson
Music: Nicky Fraser, Adriana Spina, Mark
Stirton
Cast: Patrick Wight, Scott Ironside, Mike
Mitchell
Budget: £40,000
Funding: Canny Films Partnership Ltd
Territories: All available
The Other Man
When Peter discovers intimate emails to his
wife from an unknown admirer, he uncovers
a shocking secret that shatters his illusion of
their perfect marriage culminating in a
sinister relationship with suave Ralph, the
man with whom she has been having an illicit
love affair.
Based on the short story by Bernhard Schlink.
Director: Richard Eyre
2008. 35mm. 90 min
Production Company: Rainmark Films,
Gotham Productions, 16/19 Eastcastle Street,
London, W1W 8DA, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7580 5200
International Sales: Ealing Studios
International, Ealing Green, London, W5 5EP,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8567 6655, fax: +44 (0)20 8758
8576
email: naomi.weiner@ealingstudios.com
Producer: Richard Eyre, Frank Doelger,
Tracey Scoffield
Executive Producer: Mary Beth O’Connor,
David Richenthal, Richard Eyre, Jan Mojto
Screenwriter: Richard Eyre, Charles Woods
Editor: Tariq Anwar
Director of Photography: Haris Zambarloukos
Production Designer: Gemma Jackson
Sound: Craig Irving
Music: Stephen Warbeck
Cast: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Antonio
Banderas, Romola Garai
Co-production: USA

Pelican Blood
A trangressive and funny love story set in the
world of obsessive birdspotters, about the
things that make us tick, and the things we
tick off lists.
Director: Karl Golden
2009. s16mm. 101 min
Production Company: Ecosse Films,
8 Parsons Green, London, SW6 4TN, England,
UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7371 0290, fax: +44 (0)20 7736
3436
email: info@ecossefilms.com
UK Distributor: Icon Film Distribution,
12 Great James Street, North Finchley,
London, WC1N 3DR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8492 6300, fax: +44 (0)20 8492
6301
web: www.iconmovies.co.uk
Producer: Douglas Rae, Robert Bernstein,
John McDonnell
Screenwriter: Cris Cole
Editor: Martin Brinkler
Director of Photography: Darran Tiernan
Production Designer: Richard Bullock
Music: Niall Byrne
Cast: Harry Treadaway, Emma Booth
Funding: Ecosse Films
Feature Films
Pumpgirl
Tomboyish Pumpgirl loses herself in girlish
daydreams about stock-car driver Hammy.
She naively believes that Hammy loves her
and will leave his wife Sinead. Stuck in a
loveless marriage with Hammy, Sinead’s need
to be stimulated spiritually pulls her into an
adulterous passion with Shawshank. When
Shawshank realises that the lascivious Hammy
has a soft spot for Pumpgirl, he orchestrates
a gang rape of her.
Hammy is filled with conscience-stricken
despair after the rape and seeks solace in his
family. Pumpgirl starts to stalk Hammy and is
furious when she sees him play happy
families with Sinead and the kids.
Unfortunately, Sinead is now pregnant with
Shawshank’s child. As Hammy’s guilt turns to
self loathing, he decides to set fire to
Shawshank’s truck. He tries to call Sinead
and, when she fails to reply, he attaches a
tube to the exhaust pipe on his car, feeds it
through the window and sits down inside.
Ignoring Hammy’s calls, Sinead is trying to
tell Shawshank about the baby. Shawshank
misunderstands Sinead’s intentions and
becomes violent. Finally realising that she
had been deluding herself about Hammy,
Pumpgirl kidnaps his kids Kelly and Darren.
Eventually, she relents and delivers them
safely to Sinead.
Director: Carol Moore
2009. HD. 78 min
Production Company: PG Productions,
Holywood Productions, 393 Holywood Road,
Belfast, BT4 2LS, N Ireland, UK
tel: +44 (0)289 065 1010, fax: +44 (0)289 065
1012
International Sales: High Point Films, Suite
16, Deane House Studios, Greenwood Place,
London, NW5 1LB, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7424 6870, fax: +44 (0)20 7485
3281
email: info@highpointfilms.co.uk
web: www.highpointfilms.co.uk
Producer: Chris Parr, Anthony Rowe, Chris
Martin
Screenwriter: Abbie Spallen
Editor: Brian Philip Davis
Director of Photography: Angus Mitchell
Production Designer: Kieran McNulty
Sound: Marty Harrison
Cast: Gerard Murphy, Geraldine Hughes,
Richard Dormer, Natasha Heaney
Funding: Northern Ireland Screen
Territories: All available
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Quantum of Solace
Betrayed by Vesper, the woman he loved,
007 fights the urge to make his latest mission
personal. Pursuing his determination to
uncover the truth, Bond and M interrogate
Mr White, who reveals the organisation which
blackmailed Vesper is far more complex and
dangerous than anyone had imagined.
Forensic intelligence links an MI6 traitor to a
bank account in Haiti where a case of
mistaken identity introduces Bond to the
beautiful but feisty Camille, a woman who
has her own vendetta. Camille leads Bond
straight to Dominic Greene, a ruthless
businessman and major force within the
mysterious organisation.
On a mission that leads him to Austria, Italy
and South America, Bond discovers that
Greene, conspiring to take total control of
one of the world’s most important natural
resources, is forging a deal with the exiled
General Medrano. Using his associates in the
organisation, and manipulating his powerful
contacts within the CIA and the British
government, Greene promises to overthrow
the existing regime in Bolivia, giving the
General control of the country in exchange
for a seemingly barren piece of land.
In a minefield of treachery, murder and
deceit, Bond allies with old friends in a
battle to uncover the truth.
Quantum of Solace ! 2008 Danjaq, United Artists, CPII.007
and related James Bond Trademarks, TM Danjaq.
Director: Marc Forster
2008. 35mm. 106 min
Production Company: EON Productions,
138 Piccadilly, London, W1J 7NR,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7493 7953, fax: +44 (0)20 7408
1236
email: reception@eon.co.uk
UK Distributor: Sony Pictures Releasing,
Europe House, 25 Golden Square, London,
W1F 9LU, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7533 1000, fax: +44 (0)20 7533
1165
web: www.sonypictures.co.uk
Producer: Michael G Wilson, Barbara Broccoli
Executive Producer: Anthony Waye, Callum
McDougall
Screenwriter: Neal Purvis & Robert Wade,
Paul Haggis
Editor: Matt Chessé, Richard Pearson
Director of Photography: Roberto Schaefer
Production Designer: Dennis Gassner
Music: David Arnold
Cast: Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu
Amalric, Judi Dench, Gemma Arterton
Co-production: USA
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Rage
Rage is a tragicomedy seen through the eyes
of a boy who becomes a player in a high
fashion murder investigation when interviews
for his website start to spiral into
catastrophe.
Director: Sally Potter
2009. 35mm. 99 min
Production Company: Adventure Pictures,
6 Blackbird Yard, London, E2 7RP, England,
UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7613 2233, fax: +44 (0)20 7256
0842
email: mail@adventurepictures.co.uk
International Sales: 6 Sales, Alto de las
Cabanas 5, 28231 Las Rozas, Madrid, Spain
email: info@6sales.es
web: www.6sales.es
Producer: Christopher Sheppard, Andrew
Fierberg
Executive Producer: Bob Hiestand, Christina
Weiss Lurie
Screenwriter: Sally Potter
Editor: Daniel Goddard
Director of Photography: Steven Fierberg
Sound: Jean-Paul Mugel, Vincent Tulli
Cast: Jude Law, Judi Dench, Dianne Wiest,
Steve Buscemi, Eddie Izzard
Co-production: USA
Feature Films
Revolutionary Road Reykjavik Whale Watching
Massacre
Frank and April Wheeler have always seen Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre is a
themselves as special, different, ready and splatter movie of the goriest kind. The story
willing to live their lives based on higher is true to its genre, and the humour is as
ideals. So as soon as they move into their black as it gets. Men turn into beasts and
new house on Revolutionary Road, they kindness is a weakness that can only lead to
proudly declare their independence from the defeat.
suburban inertia that surrounds them and
Director: Julius Kemp
determine never to be trapped by the social
confines of their era. 2009. 35mm. 90 min
Production Company: Film and Music
Yet for all their charm, beauty and
Entertainment, 34 Fouberts Place, London,
irreverance, the Wheelers find themselves
W1F 7PX, England, UK
becoming exactly what they didn’t expect: a
tel: +44 (0)20 7478 7527, fax: +44 (0)20 7691
good man with a routine job whose nerve has
9712
gone missing; a less-than-happy homemaker
starving for fulfilment and passion; an email: office@fame.uk.com
American family with lost dreams, like any Producer: Ingvar Thurdarson
other. Executive Producer: Mike Downey, Sam
Taylor
Driven to change their fates, April hatches an
audacious plan to start all over again, to Screenwriter: Sjon Sigurdsson
leave the comforts of Connecticut behind for Editor: Sigurbjorg Jonsdottir
the great unknown of Paris. But when the Director of Photography: Jean Noel
plan is put in motion, each spouse is pushed Mustonen
to extremes — one to escape whatever cost, Production Designer: Eggert Ketilsson
the other to save all that they have, no Sound: Árni Gustafsson
matter what compromises. Music: Hilmar Örn
Cast: Miranda Hennessy, Pihla Viitala,
Director: Sam Mendes Terence Anderson, Nae Yuuki
2008. 35mm. 119 min
Budget: £1.1 million
Production Company: Neal Street
Co-production: Finland, Iceland
Productions, 26-28 Neal Street, London,
WC2H 9QQ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7240 8890, fax: +44 (0)20 7240
7099
email: post@nealstreetproductions.com
web: www.nealstreetproductions.com
International Sales: Dreamworks SKG,
100 Universal City Plaza, Building 10,
Universal City, CA 91608, USA
tel: +1 818 733 7000, fax: +1 818 733 7574
email: dreamworks@publicist.com
web: www.dreamworks.com
Producer: John N Hart, Scott Rudin, Sam
Mendes, Bobby Cohen
Executive Producer: Marion Rosenberg,
David M Thompson, Henry Fernaine
Screenwriter: Justin Haythe
Editor: Tariq Anwar
Director of Photography: Roger Deakins
Production Designer: Kristi Zea
Sound: Warren Shaw
Music: Thomas Newman
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet,
Michael Shannon, Ryan Simpkins, Ty Simpkins
Co-production: USA
Funding: Dreamworks

Rising Tide
Ten students celebrating A-level results head
to a music festival but become waylaid on a
beautiful but mysterious tidal island. Trapped
when the causeway is cut off and the rising
tide, unnaturally, fails to subside, the youths
begin to disappear one by one.
Director: Philip Shotton, Dawn Furness
2009. HD. 84 min
Production Company: Rising Tide
Productions Ltd, Suite 9, Gateshead
International Business Centre, Mulgrave
Terrace, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear, NE8 1AN,
England, UK
email: info@dawnfurness.co.uk,
philipshotton@hotmail.com
UK Distributor: Rising Tide Productions Ltd,
Suite 9, Gateshead International Business
Centre, Mulgrave Terrace, Gateshead, Tyne
& Wear, NE8 1AN, England, UK
Producer: Dawn Furness, Philip Shotton
Executive Producer: Zahra Zomorrodian
Screenwriter: Dawn Furness
Editor: Jeremy Hogg
Director of Photography: Philip Shotton,
Kyle Heslop
Sound: Rising Tide Productions
Music: Rising Tide Productions
Cast: Isolde Roxby, Harriet Perkins, Ileana
Cardy, Lewis Jobson, Sam Halveson
Budget: £100,000
Funding: Northern Film & Media, The Box
Ltd, FNA Films Ltd
Territories: All available
Feature Films
Running In Traffic
In the early hours of a winter morning, Joe
Cullen and Kayla Golebiowski are moments
away from an emotionally traumatic
experience that will soon change their lives
forever.
As Cullen and Kayla attempt to rebuild their
lives, an unsympathetic world watches over
their quest of hope for a new beginning.
They remain unaware of the extraordinary
impact they are having on each other that
will ultimately shape their destiny.
So begins the journey that leads these two
souls towards a heart rendering conclusion,
of hope and of love.
Director: Dale Corlett
2009. HD Cam. 96 min
Production Company: Dabhand Films,
3rd Floor, 34 Albion Street, Glasgow, G1 1LH,
Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)141 552 3749
email: marc@dabhandfilms.com
web: www.dabhandfilms.com
Producer: Marc Twynholm, Bryan Larkin,
Abigail Howkins
Screenwriter: Bryan Larkin, Dale Corlett
Editor: Brian MacInnis
Director of Photography: George Geddes
Production Designer: Lynsey Sinnamon
Music: Gabriel Currington
Cast: Bryan Larkin, Kenneth Cranham, Anna
Kerth, Atta Yaqub
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S.N.U.B!
Following a nuclear terrorist attack on
London, a mixed bag of survivors are trapped
in a Government bunker cut off from the
outside world.
However, as they come to terms with their
predicament, they find that their security
and safety are not as assured as they
originally hoped ...
Director: Jonathan Glendening
2008. HD. 77 min
Production Company: Angry Badger Pictures,
Shepperton Studios, Studios Road,
Shepperton, Middlesex, TW17 0QD, England,
UK
tel: +44 (0)193 259 2751
email: john@angrybadgerpictures.com
web: www.angrybadgerpictures.com
International Sales: Centre Film Media Sales
Ltd, 2 Langley Lane, London, SW8 1TJ,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8566 2388
email: eleahy@centrefilmsales.com
web: www.centrefilmsales.com
Producer: John Adams, Ron Purdie, Ian Dray
Executive Producer: Pete Adams, Miranda
Gooch, Marie-Therese Roberts, Paul Hughes
Screenwriter: John Adams, Pete Adams
Editor: Iain Mitchell
Director of Photography: Jordan Cushing
Production Designer: David Crewdson
Sound: Steve Felton, Rick Dunford
Music: Phil Lawrence
Cast: Gary Mavers, Jonathan Moore, Harriet
Thorpe, Claire Spence, Alice Henley
Budget: £500,000
Funding: Private equity
Territories: All available
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Salvage
The residents of a cul-de-sac community in
The Wirral are plunged into a horrifying
world of violence, terror and paranoia when
suddenly surrounded by a special ops military
unit and ordered to stay indoors.
The chillingly imposed quarantine means
single mother Beth is forced to spend more
time with Kieran, a one night stand she
drunkenly picked up the night before.
As the nightmare situation escalates, and no
explanation over what’s happening is
forthcoming from the authorities, Beth
becomes increasingly concerned over her
estranged daughter Jodie who has just
arrived to spend the Christmas holiday.
They’ve fought as usual and Jodie has
stormed out and gone missing.
Then Lance Corporal Akede is found injured in
Beth’s garden. He knows the government Top
Secret reason why her neighbourhood is under
such sinister surveillance. It has to do with a
container ship that shed its load on a nearby
beach. Something horrific lurked inside one
storage unit and is now on the savage loose.
More frightened for her daughter’s safety
than ever, Beth mounts increasingly
desperate attempts to rescue Jodie from the
unknown danger within.
Director: Lawrence Gough
2008. HD. 79 min
Production Company: Hoax Films,
92 Cheadle Road, Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire,
SK8 5DP, England, UK
email: lawrence.gough@sky.com
Sales & Marketing: Missing In Action Films,
c/o Flat 1, 2 Whitfield Street, London,
W1T 2RB, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7323 2895
email: info@miafilms.co.uk
web: www.miafilms.co.uk
Producer: Julie Lau, Alan Pattison
Executive Producer: Christopher Moll, Lisa
Marie Russo
Screenwriter: Colin O’Donnell
Editor: Anthony Ham
Director of Photography: Simon Tindall
Production Designer: Malcolm Smith, Colin
Taylor
Music: Stephen Hilton
Cast: Neve McIntosh, Shaun Dooley, Dean
Andrews, Linzey Cocker, Kevin Harvey
Budget: £250,000
Funding: Northwest Vision and Media: Digital
Departures, Liverpool Culture Company, BBC
Films
Territories: All available except UK
Feature Films
The Scar Crow
Four guys from a city insurance company are
not interested in countryside team building
exercises and assault courses. Yet here they
are on an all expenses paid company trip to
the middle of nowhere deep in the English
countryside, not their idea of a jolly
weekend away.
But maybe their luck has arrived in the form
of the three Tanner sisters living and working
alone on Graves Hill Farm close to a small
village with a pub! The sisters are friendly,
open and warm, but all is not as it seems and
the guys begin to wish they’d paid more
attention on the assault course.
The sisters are the daughters of convicted
witch Elizabeth Tanner from the year 1709.
Abused by their farmer father, the sisters
murder him and hide his body on a cross in
the field as a crow scarer. With his dying
words the father curses his daughters to
remain on the farm for eternity. The sisters
live in limbo on the farm neither living nor
dead, until the year 2009 when the chance to
free themselves from a living hell is realised
in the form of four guys lost in the depths of
the English countryside.
Director: Andy Thompson, Pete Benson
2009. HD. 84 min
Production Company: Gaia Media
Management Ltd, Matrix Complex,
91 Peterborough Road, London, SW6 3BU,
England, UK
email: andy@gaiamedia.co.uk
Producer: Andy Thompson
Executive Producer: Paul Atherton
Screenwriter: Andy Thompson, Pete Benson
Editor: Andy Thompson
Director of Photography: Trevor Speed
Production Designer: Melanie Light
Sound: Andy Thompson, Steve Taylor
Music: Jon Samsworth
Cast: Anna Tolputt, Marysia Kay, Tim Major,
Anya Lahiri, Iain Rogerson
Budget: £100,000
Funding: Private
Territories: All available
Schrodinger’s Girl
Rebecca Hunter is a disgraced scientist
conducting research into parallel universes.
She discovers a way to travel between
universes and finds that her parallel-world
counterparts have their own agendas.
Anastasia Hunter is the Science Director for a
gulag in the People’s Republic of Great
Britain. Sarah Hunter-Gibson is a professor in
a utopian, high-tech society.
Rebecca takes a terrifying trip into the
People’s Republic, a dystopian alternate
Britain. Her encounter with a totalitarian
regime is only the beginning of her problems
as the universe begins to unravel around her.
As time runs out she has to use her sharp
intellect and mastery of quantum physics to
save the entire multiverse.
Director: Huw Bowen
2009. HD. 83 min
Production Company: Entanglement
Productions
email: info@entanglementproductions.com
web: www.entanglementproductions.com
International Sales: Multivisionnaire, PO Box
1477, Alhambra, California 91802, USA
tel: +1 626 7378 357, fax: +1 626 407 4197
Producer: Huw Bowen, Chris Pinches, Paul
Hardy
Screenwriter: Huw Bowen, Paul Hardy
Editor: Phil Arkinstall
Director of Photography: Chris Pinches
Production Designer: Natalie Aston
Sound: Alex Russell
Music: Mr K
Cast: Abigail Tarttelin, Damian Hayes, Al
Convy
Funding: Private

Scouting Book for Boys
David and Emily are inseparable best friends
who have lived all their life on a caravan
park.
When David learns that Emily is being forced
to move away, he agrees to help her hide out
in a remote cave on the coast. But their
innocent secret soon becomes complicated,
as David watches the police start to close in
on his missing friend. When the real reason
Emily wants to escape comes to light, David’s
world is shattered. Swept up in a situation
out of his control, and with his feelings for
his best friend growing stranger by the day,
David is forced to take action.
Director: Tom Harper
2009. 35mm. 90 min
Production Company: Celador Films, 39 Long
Acre, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 9LG,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7845 6800, fax: +44 (0)20 7845
6980
web: www.celadorfilms.com
International Sales: Pathé International,
Kent House, 14-17 Market Place, London,
W1W 8AR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7323 5151, fax: +44 (0)20 7436
7891
email: sales@patheinternational.com
web: www.patheinternational.com
Producer: Ivana Mackinnon, Christian Colson
Executive Producer: Paul Smith, Peter
Carlton, Sheryl Crown, Laurie Haywood
Screenwriter: Jack Thorne
Editor: Mark Eckersley
Director of Photography: Robbie Ryan
Production Designer: Paul Cripps
Sound: Simon Farmer
Cast: Thomas Turgoose, Holliday Grainger,
Susan Lynch, Rafe Spall, Steven Mackintosh
Funding: Celador Films, Film4, Screen East,
Pathé
Feature Films
Shank
Worlds collide between three strangers
divided by economics, social status, gender,
race and sexuality.
Teenage gang member Cal hides his sexuality
from fellow gang members. Their often futile
and violent dislike of anyone who isn’t the
same as them results in Cal rescuing a
student from a beating and so begins a
journey that offers him the potential
opportunity to escape from his delinquent
meaningless existence and from having his
secret discovered.
Director: Simon Pearce
2009. HD. 89 min
International Sales: Parasol Pictures
Releasing Ltd, The Coach House, 56 St
Andrew’s Road, Montpelier, Bristol, BS6 5EH,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)117 944 2427
email: christian@pprfilm.com
web: www.parasolpictures.co.uk
Producer: Christian Martin
Screenwriter: Darren Flaxstone, Christian
Martin
Editor: Darren Flaxstone
Director of Photography: Simon Pearce
Production Designer: Jez Hunziker
Sound: Xander McGrouther
Music: Barnaby Taylor
Cast: Wayne Virgo, Marc Laurent, Tom Bott,
Alice Payne, Garry Summers
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She, A Chinese
Mei, a young Chinese woman, leaves
monotonous village life behind for the
excitement of the big city. However, life
there doesn’t quite turn out as expected;
fired from her factory job, she falls in love
with Spikey, a hitman whose own past soon
catches up with him.
A random decision finds Mei in London,
where she marries an elderly man, Mr Hunt.
Feeling alienated and bored with Mr Hunt Mei
begins an affair with Rachid, an Indian
immigrant who runs a local takeaway
restaurant. She moves in with him but Rachid
decides to return to his own country, leaving
Mei pregnant and alone, facing an uncertain
future.
Director: Xiaolu Guo
2009. HD.
Production Company: Tigerlily Films & Warp
X, Office 204C, The Richmix Cultural
Foundation, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road,
London, E1 6LA, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7729 9845, fax: +44 (0)20 7739
9143
email: atessa@tigerlilyfilms.com
web: www.tigerlilyfilms.com
UK Distributor: Optimum Releasing,
50 Marshall Street, London, W1F 9BQ,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7534 2700
email: info@optimumreleasing.com
web: www.optimumreleasing.com
Producer: Natasha Dack
Screenwriter: Xiaolu Guo
Editor: Andrew Bird
Director of Photography: Zillah Bowes
Production Designer: Yao Jun, Tine Mette
Jespersen
Music: John Parish
Cast: Huang Lu, Geoffrey Hutchings, Chris
Ryman, Wei Yi Bo
Co-production: France, Germany
Funding: UK Film Council, Film4, Screen
Yorkshire, EM Media, Hamburg Film Fund,
Fonds Sud
Territories: All available except UK
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Shell Shock
Shell Shock is about the effect of Post
Traumatic Stress Disorder on soldiers
returning from conflict and is told through
the eyes of Tom, a veteran of an anonymous
war.
Haunted by memories, lost and alone, he
finds himself in Tokyo. There he endures a
tormented existence, desperate for
redemption and the chance to live once
again. However the weight of his past means
there is no escape.
Director: James Price
2009. HD. 74 min
Production Company: Pixie Films Ltd,
4 Spencer House, Church Hill Road, Surbiton,
Surrey, KT6 4UF, England, UK
email: james@pixiefilms.co.uk
web: www.pixiefilms.co.uk
Producer: Mani Sohanpal
Screenwriter: James Price
Editor: James Hehir
Director of Photography: Dominik Rippl
Production Designer: Liz Colbert
Sound: Valerio Cerini
Music: David Lintern, The Chalets
Cast: Robert Whitelock, Nina Fog, Matthew
Bloxham, Matthew Neal, Sadao Ueda
Budget: £18,000
Funding: Self-funded
Territories: All available
Feature Films
Skellig
When a move to a new house coincides with
his baby sister’s illness, Michael’s world
suddenly seems lonely and uncertain. Then,
one afternoon, he stumbles into the old
ramshackle garage at the end of the garden,
and finds something that will change his
world forever.
Skellig is a strange and extraordinary
creature, as ancient as the Earth and now
mired in a life of nothing and nobody. With
the help of his new friend Mina, who teaches
him to look at the world through different
eyes, Michael nourishes the reluctant Skellig
back to health. As his baby sister grows ever
more frail in hospital, and his parents fade
away with her, Michael needs a miracle to
hold the family together. When he realises
that Skellig may have much more power than
he would ever admit to, Michael knows he
has to give Skellig back faith in his own
power to heal, before it is too late.
Director: AJ Jankel
2009. HD. 103 min
Production Company: Feel Films, 4 Market
Place, London, W1W 8AD, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7612 0666, fax: +44 (0)20 7462
0058
email: please@feelme.co.uk
International Sales: Simon Crowe Films
International, 3 Lower James Street, London,
W1F 9EH, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7287 1900
Producer: Nick Hirschkorn
Screenwriter: Irena Brignull
Editor: Peter Christelis
Director of Photography: Steve Lawes
Production Designer: Marice Cain
Music: Stephen Warbeck
Cast: Tim Roth, Bill Milner, Kelly Macdonald,
John Simm
Funding: BSkyB, Wales IP Fund, Limelight,
UK tax credit
Territories: All available except UK
Slumdog Millionaire
Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the
slums of Mumbai, is just one question away
from winning a staggering 20 million rupees
on India’s Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
Arrested on suspicion of cheating, he tells
the police the incredible story of his life on
the streets, and of the girl he loved and lost.
But what is a kid with no interest in money
doing on the show?
And how is it he knows all the answers?
Director: Danny Boyle
2008. 35mm. 120 min
Production Company: Celador Films, 39 Long
Acre, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 9LG,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7845 6800, fax: +44 (0)20 7845
6980
web: www.celadorfilms.com
International Sales: Pathé Productions, Kent
House, 14-17 Market Place, Great Titchfield
Street, London, W1W 8AR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7323 5151, fax: +44 (0)20 7436
7891
web: www.pathe.co.uk
Producer: Christian Colson
Screenwriter: Simon Beaufoy
Editor: Chris Dickens
Director of Photography: Anthony Dod
Mantle
Production Designer: Mark Digby
Sound: Glen Freemantle
Music: AR Rahman
Cast: Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Madhur Mittal,
Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan

The Spell
A young girl, Jenny, finds herself unwanted
by either of her separated parents during the
formative years of her life and leaves home
at the earliest opportunity.
However, live-in boyfriend Rick’s associations
with witchcraft and black magic soon take
her down a path which leads to the most
horrific experience of her young life. She
seeks help from friends, doctors, psychiatrists
and religious leaders but finds only
scepticism and disbelief. Finally, from within
the confines of a mental hospital, she finds
the help she needs.
Director: Owen Carey Jones
2009. RED. 84 min
Production Company: Carey Films Ltd,
5 Henshaw Lane, Yeadon, Leeds, West
Yorkshire, LS19 7RW, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)113 250 6411, fax: +44 (0)113 250
6411
email: owen@careyfilms.com
web: www.careyfilms.com
Producer: Owen Carey Jones, Melinda
Humphrey, Neil Harrison
Screenwriter: Owen Carey Jones
Editor: Owen Carey Jones
Director of Photography: Stephen J Nelson
Production Designer: Eileen Aldous
Sound: Brian Gray
Music: Alan J Moore
Cast: Rebecca Pitkin, Pietro Herrera, Amber
Hodgkiss, Julia Curle, Laura O’Donoughue
Funding: Private, UK tax credit
Territories: All available
Feature Films
Spy(ies) (Espion(s))
Vincent is a brilliant and reclusive young
man, a graduate from one of the top
universities who rejects an ambitious career
to work in airport security.
To pass the time Vincent and his co-worker
Gerard pickpocket from passengers’
suitcases. But when a diplomat’s bag
explodes in Gerard’s face violently killing
him, the game comes to an end. The Secret
Service gets involved in the case, and
Vincent is forced to execute a mission in
London under a secret identity, investigating
a British businessman suspected of illicit
trafficking, Peter Burton. The key to cracking
the case lies in seducing Burton’s beautiful
but vulnerable French wife, Claire. But who
will fall prey to whom? Everything spirals
downward as Vincent must choose between
his heart and his freedom.
Director: Nicolas Saada
2009. 35mm. 98 min
Production Company: The Film, Hotel de
Retz, 9 rue Charlot, 75003 Paris, France
tel: +33 1 44 78 85 45, fax: +33 1 44 78
95 00
email: office@thefilm.fr
International Sales: Kinology, 63 Rue de
Clichy, 75009 Paris, France
tel: +33 9 51 47 43 44
email: gmelin@kinology.eu
Producer: Michael Gentile, Bertrand Faivre
Screenwriter: Nicolas Saada
Editor: Juliette Welfling
Director of Photography: Stéphane Fontaine
Production Designer: Thierry Françoise
Sound: Philippe Heissler, Thomas Robert
Music: Cliff Martinez
Cast: Guillaume Canet, Géraldine Pailhas,
Stephen Rea, Hippolyte Girardot
Budget: k6 million
Co-production: France
Funding: Studio 37, Canal +, France 2, Mars
Films
Territories: All available except Belgium,
France, Switzerland
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Surviving Evil
A documentary crew arrive on a remote
island in the Philippines to film a survival
special. Their back-to-the-wild adventure
proves to be more dangerous and terrifying
than they ever could have imagined.
Director: Terence Daw
2008. HD/35mm. 90 min
Production Company: Focus Films Ltd, The
Rotunda Studios, 116-118 Finchley Road,
London, NW3 5HT, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7435 9004
email: focus@focusfilms.co.uk
web: www.focusfilms.co.uk
Director: Terence Daw, Audience Films Ltd,
31 Samuel Manor, Chelmer Village,
Chelmsford, Essex, CM2 6PU, England, UK
email: td@audiencefilms.co.uk
Producer: David Pupkewitz, Malcolm Kholl,
Raimund Berens, Anton Ernst
Screenwriter: Terence Daw
Editor: Adam Recht
Director of Photography: Mike Downie
Production Designer: Mitch Gordon
Sound: Jean Raphael Dedieu, Andre
Jaquemin
Music: Tom Kane, Colin Baldry
Cast: Billy Zane, Natalie Mendoza, Christina
Cole, Joel Torre, Louise Barnes
Budget: $3.8 million
Co-production: South Africa
Funding: Private equity, post-production
investment, co-production finance, UK tax
credit
Territories: All available
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Telstar
The stranger-than-fiction true story of the
rise and fall of a true British pop pioneer is a
satirical and often comic drama revealing the
many sides of Joe Meek.
Set in the London music scene of the early
sixties, Meek began his career with a bang,
producing UK and USA Number One Hit
Telstar, the biggest selling record of its time.
From an apartment on the Holloway Road,
Meek went on to create the strange and
wonderful recordings that have made him an
iconic figure in the world of British pop.
Director: Nick Moran
2008. 35mm. 114 min
Production Company: Aspiration Films,
Selhurst Park, London, SE25 6PU, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8768 6001
International Sales: Fortissimo Film Sales,
Van Diemenstraat 100, Amsterdam, 1013 CN,
Netherlands
tel: +31 20 627 3215, fax: +31 20 626 1155
email: info@fortissimo.nl
web: www.fortissimofilms.com
Producer: Simon Jordan, David Reid, Adam
Bohling
Screenwriter: Nick Moran, James Hicks
Editor: Alex Marsh
Director of Photography: Peter Wignall
Production Designer: Russel De Rozario
Music: Ilan Eshkeri
Cast: Con O’Neill, Pam Ferris, JJ Field,
James Corden, Tom Burke
Territories: All available except Baltic
States, Israel, Portugal, Russia, UK
Feature Films
Temptation
After a heavy night out with the girls, Isabel,
an attractive young professional woman,
catches an illegal mini-cab home. Things take
a turn for the worse when the cabbie pulls
her into an alley and violently forces himself
on her, taking her life.
From high above on a rooftop, an ancient
female vampire notices. Taken in by Isabel’s
beauty and innocence, she dispatches the
cabbie and feeds Isabel a drop of her
immortal blood.
Isabel awakes with 48 hours to decide
whether to embrace immortality, or kill
herself before she becomes undead.
Director: Catherine Taylor
2008. HD. 85 min
Production Company: Hicks/Jaggi Ltd,
HMS President, Victoria Embankment,
London, EC4Y 0HJ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7353 8199, fax: +44 (0)20 7353
4577
email: steve@hicksjaggi.com
web: www.hicksjaggi.com
Producer: Lionel Hicks, Steve Jaggi
Screenwriter: Julianne White
Director of Photography: Carolina Costa
Production Designer: Benedykt Zasadzki
Cast: Caroline Haines, Laura Evans, Rachel
Waters, Sammy Dodds
Budget: £600,000
Funding: Private equity
Territories: All available
That’s For Me!
Everyone is supposed to be famous for
15 minutes, but Zara can’t even get that.
She is convinced that fame is her destiny, but
if her dubious talents alone can’t focus the
spotlight on her, there is always daddy’s
money. With the aid of her father, the
funniest dry cleaner in North London, and an
entourage of life coaches, personal gurus,
sycophantic friends, a doormat of a
boyfriend, assorted dysfunctional relatives
and a film crew to capture every triumph and
disaster along the way, Zara sets out to be
discovered — and if that quest wrecks a few
lives along the way, well, ‘that’s show biz’.
If it weren’t so funny, it might be true!
Director: Claudia Solti
2009. Mini DV. 87 min
International Sales: H2O Motion Pictures,
Third Floor, 23 Denmark Street, London,
WC2H 8NH, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7240 5656, fax: +44 (0)20 7240
5657
email: julia@h2omotionpictures.com
web: www.h2omotionpictures.com
Producer: Claudia Solti, Barbara Stone
Executive Producer: Andras Hamori, Paul
Trijbits
Screenwriter: Claudia Solti, Debra Tammer
Editor: Ian Burke, Sasha Olswang, Claire
Pringle
Director of Photography: Benjamin Pritchard
Cast: Debra Tammer, Ken Kennedy, Akbar
Kurtha
Budget: $1.1 million
Funding: Private equity, UK Film Council,
private investment
Territories: All available

Tormented
Justine Fielding is the gorgeous head girl of
her plush grammar school, Fairview High. She
has just won a place at Oxford University
when in-crowd hunk Alexis asks her out on a
date. All seems perfect except that Alexis
and his circle of friends aren’t quite as hip as
they seem. Underneath the clique’s cool
veneer lurks a pack of vicious peer pressure
tormentors who find it amusing to
persistently tease anyone they consider
worthless losers.
Their main target, Darren Mullett, knows
what his classmates did last summer. They
bullied him to death. The overweight
asthmatic nerd was so relentlessly victimised
by their cruel taunts, website intimidation
and ‘happy slapping’ mobile recordings he
committed suicide.
But death is not going to stop Darren finally
finding the courage to stand up for himself.
With nothing left to lose, he takes murderous
revenge on his former classmates in
increasingly brutal ways. And the in-crowd
soon discover to their horror there is no point
reasoning with a very angry zombie ghost.
Director: Jon Wright
2009. HD. 91 min
Production Company: Forward Films,
Slingshot, Third Floor, 23 Denmark Street,
London, WC2H 8NH, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7632 9643
UK Distributor: Warner Brothers UK, Warner
House, 98 Theobald Road, London, WC1X
8WB, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7984 5000, fax: +44 (0)20 7984
5211
web: www.warnerbros.co.uk
International Sales: Pathé, Kent House,
14-17 Market Place, Great Titchfield Street,
London, W1W 8AR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7323 5151, fax: +44 (0)20 7436
7891
web: www.pathe.co.uk
Producer: Tracy Brimm, Kate Myers, Cavan
Ash, Arvind Ethan David
Screenwriter: Stephen Prentice
Editor: Matt Platts Mills
Director of Photography: Trevor Forrest
Production Designer: Julian Nagel
Music: Paul Hartnoll
Cast: Alex Pettyfer, Tuppence Middleton,
Calvin Dean, Dimitri Leonidas, April Pearson
Funding: Slingshot Studios, Screen WM, BBC
Films, Pathé
Feature Films
Travellers
Four friends set out on an adventure
weekend, riding their motorcycles to various
outdoor pursuits and clocking up miles in an
attempt to outrun their age and their
lifestyles.
Ex-TA member Andy, sensible family guy Jon,
University dropout Dan, and repressed former
slugger Chris stop at a small country pub to
enquire for rooms. They are offered a corner
of a field recently inhabited by gypsies. They
set up camp and reminisce over their wasted
youth.
The following morning they spot an ominous
looking caravan and decide to investigate,
leading to the discovery of what Andy
concludes is a dead girl inside, forcing him to
run terrified into the trees, where he spots
the approaching residents.
Within minutes of what appears to be a bit of
a game the group is split.
Director: Kris McManus
2008. HD. 100 min
Production Company: Animus Pictures
email: benrichards@london.com
web: www.animuspictures.co.uk
Producer: Ben Richards
Executive Producer: James Privett, Thor
Hayton
Screenwriter: Kris McManus
Editor: Kris McManus, Sean Woollgar
Director of Photography: Kris McManus
Cast: Shane Sweeney, Alex Edwards, Tom
Geoffrey, Dean Jagger, Chris Manns
Budget: £10,000
Funding: Private
Territories: All available
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Triangle
When Jess hits a seagull on a drive to the
local harbour, little does she know that it is
a harrowing omen of things to come. She sets
sail on a yacht with a group of friends and
already things are not as they seem, she just
can’t put her finger on why.
Her suspicions are heightened when the
yacht hits a storm and the group is forced to
board a passing ocean liner to get to safety,
a ship Jess is convinced she’s been on before.
The ship appears deserted, the clock on
board has stopped, but they are not
alone — someone is intent on hunting them
down, one by one. And Jess unknowingly
holds the key to end the terror.
Director: Christopher Smith
2009. 35mm. 97 min
Production Company: Dan Films, 249 Grays
Inn Road, London, WC1X 8QZ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7916 4771, fax: +44 (0)20 7713
6016
email: enquiries@danfilms.com
web: www.danfilms.com
International Sales: Icon Entertainment
International, Solar House, 915 High Road,
London, N12 8QJ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8492 6300, fax: +44 (0)20 8492
6301
web: www.iconmovies.net
Producer: Jason Newmark, Julie Baines,
Chris Brown
Executive Producer: Mark Gooder, Stephanie
Huie, Steve Norris
Screenwriter: Christopher Smith
Editor: Stuart Gazzard
Director of Photography: Robert Humphreys
Production Designer: Melinda Doring
Sound Design: Peter Baldock
Music: Christian Henson
Cast: Melissa George, Michael Dorman,
Rachael Carparni, Henry Nixon, Emma Lung
Budget: $15 million
Co-production: Australia
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The Unloved
Lucy is 11 years old. Having been neglected
by her estranged mother and father, she is
placed in a children’s home. Through her
eyes, we follow Lucy’s struggle to cope with
the system. Her saving is her self-belief and
her certainty that she is being watched over
and protected by the Holy Spirit. Hers is a
heroic quest for love, beauty and
transcendence.
Director: Samantha Morton
2009. 35mm. 120 min
Production Company: Revolution Films,
9A Dallington Street, London, EC1V 0BQ,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7428 7555
email: info@revolution-films.com
web: www.revolution-films.com
UK Distributor: Channel 4, 124 Horseferry
Road, London, SW1P 2TX, England, UK
International Sales: Protagonist Pictures,
11 Francis Street, London, SW1P 1DE,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7306 5155, fax: +44 (0)20 7306
8044
email: info@protagonistpictures.com
web: www.protagonistpictures.com
Producer: Kate Ogborn
Executive Producer: Liza Marshall, Andrew
Eaton, Michael Winterbottom, Suzanne
Alizart
Screenwriter: Tony Grisoni, Samantha
Morton
Editor: Colin Monie
Director of Photography: Thomas Townend
Production Designer: Jane Levick
Cast: Robert Carlyle, Susan Lynch, Molly
Windsor, Lauren Socha
Funding: Channel 4, Revolution Films,
EM Media
Feature Films
Unmade Beds
Axl wants to find his long-lost father and
rediscover his past. Vera just wants to forget
hers and move on from recent heartbreak.
Their stories interweave as they take up
residence in a vibrant, sprawling squat in the
melting-pot of London’s hip East End.
Learning his father is an estate agent, Axl
pretends to be a student looking for an
apartment. But the more he discovers about
his father’s new life, the more difficult it is
for Axl to admit who he really is. Meanwhile,
Vera embarks on a tentative romance with a
charismatic stranger. To protect herself from
further heartbreak, she insists on total
anonymity — but becomes the victim of her
own strategy when she finds herself falling in
love.
Director: Alexis Dos Santos
2009. 35mm. 92 min
Production Company: The Bureau, 18 Phipp
Street, Shoreditch, London, EC2A 4NU,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7033 0555, fax: +44 (0)20 7033
9383
email: mail@thebureau.co.uk
web: www.thebureau.co.uk
International Sales: Protagonist Pictures,
11 Francis Street, London, SW1P 1DE,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7428 9264, fax: +44 (0)20 7306
8044
email: info@protagonistpictures.com
web: www.protagonistpictures.com
Producer: Soledad Gatti-Pascual, Peter
Ettedgui
Screenwriter: Alexis Dos Santos
Editor: Olivier Bugge-Coutte
Director of Photography: Jakob Ihre
Production Designer: Kristian Milstead
Cast: Déborah François, Fernando Tielve,
Michiel Huisman, Iddo Goldberg, Richard
Lintern
Funding: Film4, UK Film Council, EM Media
Valhalla Rising
Harald is living a silent and miserable life
captured by the chieftain Barde at Katanes in
Scotland (around 1000 AD). Barde thinks that
Harald is set on Earth ‘only as a gladiator’
and forces him to participate in tournaments,
earning Barde a lot of money.
A heavy darkness has been upon him since he
was five years old. Now he can enlighten it if
he is just able to kill what, on this
unbelievable journey, has transformed him
from animal to human.
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
2009. HD. 100 min
Production Company: La Belle Allee
Productions, 61 Holland Street, Glasgow,
G2 4NJ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)141 287 9668, fax: +44 (0)141 287
9577
email: info@labelleallee.com
web: www.labelleallee.com
UK Distributor: Vertigo Films, The Big Room
Studios, 77 Fortess Road, London, NW5 1AG,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7428 7555, fax: +44 (0)20 7485
9713
email: mail@vertigofilms.com
web: www.vertigofilms.com
International Sales: Wild Bunch, 99 rue de la
Verrerie, 75004 Paris, France
tel: +33 1 53 01 50 32, fax: +33 1 53 01 50 49
web: www.wildbunch.biz
Producer: Bo Ehrhardt, Johnny Anderson,
Henrik Danstrup
Executive Producer: Christine Alderson,
Lene Børglum, Mads Peter Ole Olsen, Thor
Sigurjonsson
Screenwriter: Nicolas Winding Refn
Editor: Anne Østerud
Director of Photography: Morten Søborg
Music: Peter Kyed
Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Gary Lewis, Jamie
Sives, Ewan Stewart, Alexander Morton
Budget: £3.5 million
Co-production: Denmark
Funding: The Danish Film Institute, Scottish
Screen, Nordic Film and TV Fund, Glasgow
Film Office, South West Scotland Screen
Commission, The Media Programme of the
European Community, BBC Films
Territories: All available except Baltic
States, Bulgaria, CIS, Colombia, Czech and
Slovak Republics, Former Yugoslavia, German
speaking Europe, Greece, India and Indian
subcontinent, Middle East, Portugal,
Romania, Switzerland, Turkey

Wasted
Wasted is an uncompromising and gritty film
about two young lovers, Connor and Suzanne
— two street working prostitutes who meet
up again after many years apart.
It is a picture of love and its pitiable fate in
a loveless and harsh environment where the
atmosphere is too sharp for even the
tenderest of human life. An unforgettable
and moving love story of two young people
who cling to each other for hope and
survival.
Director: Caroline Paterson, Stuart Davids
2009. HD. 110 min
Production Company: Wasted Productions
Ltd, Post Production Office, 3F3 1 Tinto
Place, Edinburgh, EH6 5BG, Scotland, UK
email: griffin.wendy8@gmail.com
Producer: Wendy Griffin
Executive Producer: Carole Sheridan, Ewan
Angus, David Hayman
Screenwriter: Caroline Paterson, Stuart
Davids
Editor: James Hamilton, Phyllis Ironside
Director of Photography: Lol Crawley
Production Designer: Stephen Bryce
Music: Jim Sutherland
Cast: Neil Leiper, Emma Hartley Miller, Kate
Dickie, Paul Thomas Hickey, David Hayman
Budget: £270,000
Funding: Scottish Screen, BBC Scotland,
private investors
Territories: All available
Feature Films
Welcome
To impress and regain his wife, Simon, a life-
guard at the swimming pool of Calais, takes
the risk of secretly helping a young Kurd
refugee who wants to cross the Channel
swimming.
Director: Phillippe Lioret
2009. 110 min
Production Company: Nord-Ouest Films,
41 rue de la Tour d’Auvergne, 75009 Paris,
France
tel: +33 1 53 20 47 20, fax: +33 1 53 20 47 21
email: contact@nord-ouest.fr
International Sales: Films Distribution,
34 rue du Louvre, 75001 Paris, France
tel: +33 1 53 10 33 99, fax: +33 1 53 10 33 98
email: info@filmsdistribution.com
web: www.filmsdistribution.com
Producer: Christophe Rossignon
Executive Producer: Eve Machuel
Screenwriter: Phillip Lioret, Emmanuel
Courcol, Olivier Adam
Editor: Andrea Sedlackova
Director of Photography: Laurent Dailland
Sound: Pierre Mertens, Laurent Quaglio, Eric
Tisserand
Music: Nicolas Piovani, Wojciech Kilar,
Armand Amar
Cast: Vincent Lindon, Firat Ayverdi, Audrey
Dana
Co-production: France
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Wide Open Spaces
Have you ever had a best friend you couldn’t
stand? Myles has one — Austin — only he’s too
much of a slacker to do anything about it. In
fact, each one of these layabouts is as
useless as the other: a pair of thirty-
somethings who laze around watching their
lives flutter past. Fate, however, has plans to
remedy their lack of motivation. Up to their
necks in debt, they decide to help a dodgy
entrepreneur, Gerard, create a new
landmark in Irish tourism: a Famine Theme
Park.
Myles looks forward to turning his life around
when the job is completed, while Austin finds
contentment in the monotonous labour.
Meanwhile Gerard, a man with a shark’s
morality, is fighting off the attentions of
wealthy landowner Leonie, and chasing
dubious businessman Liam Dullaley for
money.
Gerard soon involves Myles and Austin in his
dodgy dealings, sending them off to collect
debts, and their friendship is stretched to
breaking point. But can a brown envelope,
stuffed with cash, offer an escape route from
their self-imposed imprisonment? And will it
allow the pair to break their bond with each
other?
Director: Tom Hall
2009. 85 min
Production Company: MeadKerr Ltd,
113 Leith Walk, Edinburgh, EH6 8NP,
Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)131 554 4539
email: clare@meadkerr.com
Production Company: Grand Pictures Ltd,
44 Fontenoy Street, Dublin 7, Ireland
email: info@grandpictures.ie
web: www.grandpictures.ie
International Sales: E1 Entertainment
International, 175 Bloor Street East, North
Tower, Suite 1400, Toronto, ON, M4W 3R8,
Canada
email: cmickie@e1ent.com
web: www.e1entertainment.com
Producer: Paul Donovan, Clare Kerr
Executive Producer: Michael Garland
Screenwriter: Arthur Mathews
Director of Photography: Tim Fleming
Production Designer: Laurel Wear
Sound: John Cobban
Music: Neil Hannon
Cast: Ardal O’Hanlon, Ewen Bremner, Owen
Roe, Morwenna Banks, Don Wycherley
Budget: £1.5 million
Co-production: Ireland
Funding: Irish Film Board, Scottish Screen,
BBC Scotland, RTE
Territories: All available except Canada
48 Feature Films

Wild Target Young Hearts Run Free

Wild Target is a comedy about Victor, a Friendship, first loves, rebellion!

thoroughly respectable hitman. He takes on
an assignment to kill Rose, a free-spirited 1974: Against the backdrop of a violent
con artist who’s swindled a gangster out of a miners strike in their quiet Northumbrian
million. But Victor finds he can’t bring village, a likeable teenage artist falls in love
himself to kill her. with the new girl from London. But their
tempestuous relationship and attempts to
When the gangsters send another hitman to escape cause him to betray his family,
complete the job, the unlikely trio of Rose, community and best friends; he becomes
Victor and Victor’s new apprentice Tony go dangerously embroiled in the rioting of the
on the run. What ensues is a hilarious game strike. With attempts to reconcile them
of cat and mouse between Victor and the failing, he must choose between old friends
new hitman, with Rose and Tony showing and his new love.
Victor there is more to life than he’d
imagined. Director: Andy Simpson
2009. DV Cam. 94 min
Director: Jonathan Lynn
2009. 35mm. 93 min Production Company: Bede Films Ltd,
22 Kestrel Drive, Riversdale, Ashington,
Production Company: Magic Light Pictures, NE63 8JS, England, UK
Pinewood Studios, Pinewood Road, Iver, tel: +44 (0)167 081 5901
Buckinghamshire, SL0 0NH, England, UK email: info@bedefilms.co.uk
tel: +44 (0)175 365 2778, fax: +44 (0)175 365 web: www.bedefilms.co.uk
5043
email: office@magiclightpictures.com Producer: Andy Simpson
web: www.magiclightpictures.com Executive Producer: Joyce Spencer,
M Pullan, S O’Neil
UK Distributor: Entertainment Film Screenwriter: Andy Simpson
Distributors Ltd, Eagle House, 108-110 Jemyn Editor: Mark Waters
Street, London, SW1Y 6HB, England, UK Director of Photography: David Beaumont
tel: +44 (0)20 7930 7744, fax: +44 (0)20 7930 Production Designer: Richard Reay
9399 Sound: Chris McQuillan
email: info@entertainment-film.co.uk Music: Robert Owen
web: www.entertainmentfilms.co.uk Cast: Andy Black, Jennifer Bryden, Lyndsey
Lennon, Daniel McCready, Dotty Lawrence
International Sales: Odyssey Entertainment
Ltd, 10A James Street, London, WC2E 8BT, Funding: Private
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7520 5610, fax: +44 (0)20 7520
5611
email: sales@odysseyentertainment.co.uk
Producer: Martin Pope, Michael Rose
Executive Producer: Steve Christian, Nigel
Green, Philippe Martin, Marc Samuelson,
Nigel Thomas, Charlotte Walls
Screenwriter: Lucinda Coxon
Editor: Michael Parker
Director of Photography: David Johnson
Production Designer: Caroline Greville-Morris
Cast: Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt, Rupert Grint,
Rupert Everett, Eileen Atkins
Funding: CinemaNX, Matador Pictures,
Entertainment Film Distributors

12:30
Alice is a wife who suspects her husband is
having an affair as he comes home at 12:30
every night. A lost bracelet triggers her visit
to the mistress, Hailey. Through their odd
interaction, they learn that they both need
to break the 12:30 routine.
Director: Flora Lau
2008. 35mm. 14 min 30 sec
Production Company: London Film School,
24 Shelton Street, London, WC2H 9UB,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7240 0161, fax: +44 (0)20 7240
0167
email: c.bright@lfs.org.uk
web: www.lfs.org.uk
Producer: Orsolya Nagypal
Screenwriter: Flora Lau, Lucia Lopez
Editor: Orsolya Nagypal
Director of Photography: Oliver Hermanus
Cast: Jacqueline Corado, Mia Austen, Jai
Armstrong
Funding: London Film School
4 Weeks
How long after a breakup can you bear to see
your ex with someone new? Especially if that
someone is a bald Italian ...
Director: Mahdi Fleifel
2009. Digibeta. 16 min
Production Company: National Film and
Television School, Beaconsfield Studios,
Station Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire,
HP9 1LG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)149 473 1452, fax: +44 (0)149 467
8583
email: hsharda@nfts.co.uk
web: www.nfts.co.uk
Producer: Alexander Ronnberg
Screenwriter: Mahdi Fleifel
Editor: Charlotte Munch Bengtsen
Director of Photography: Vanessa Whyte
Production Designer: Max Berman
Music: Jon Opstad
Cast: Brian Lonsdale, Antonina Lewis, Zein
Ja’Fur
Funding: National Film and Television School
Short Films
A’Mare
Andrea and Felice are two kids whose lives
centre around the sea. One day during a
fishing excursion their usual routine is
disturbed when something unexpected
appears from the water.
Director: Martina Amati
2008. HD. 14 min
Production Company: Cowboy Films in
association with Home Films Ltd, 21 Goodge
Street, London, W1T 2PJ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7612 1260, fax: +44 (0)20 7255
1132
email: charles@cowboyfilms.co.uk
web: www.cowboyfilms.co.uk
International Sales: Cowboy Films,
21 Goodge Street, London, W1T 2PJ,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7612 1260, fax: +44 (0)20 7255
1132
email: charles@cowboyfilms.co.uk
web: www.cowboyfilms.co.uk
Producer: Nina Angeleri
Executive Producer: Charles Steel
Screenwriter: Martina Amati, Dario Cane
Editor: Benedetto Lanfranco
Director of Photography: Dennis Madden
Sound: Jack Gilles
Music: Gunnlang Thorvaldsdottir
Cast: Andrea Puglisi, Felice Puglisi
Budget: £15,000
Co-production: Italy
Funding: Cowboy Films
Above Us Only Sky
Two travel companions follow a coastal gale.
One hoping to be struck by lightning, the
other looking for calm, they try to comfort
each other if only for that trip.
Director: Ralitza Petrova
2008. 16mm. 18 min
Production Company: National Film and
Television School, Beaconsfield Studios,
Station Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire,
HP9 1LG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)149 473 1452, fax: +44 (0)149 467
8583
email: hsharda@nfts.co.uk
web: www.nfts.co.uk
Director: Ralitza Petrova
email: petrova.ralitza@googlemail.com
Producer: Anna Stuart, Ralitza Petrova
Screenwriter: Ralitza Petrova, Shelley Castle
Editor: Charlotte Munch Bengtsen
Director of Photography: Felix Wiedemann
Sound: Susannah Lawrence
Cast: Tim Plester, Monserrat Lombard
Budget: £2,000
Funding: National Film and Television School
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Adha Cup
Ash and Shahid are two lazy and bored social
workers. They reluctantly agree to reunite
the cast of a legendary amateur Bollywood
musical Pappa Kehta Hain to be restaged at
the Pakistan Centre where they work.
Director: Sarmad Masud
2009. 22 min 58 sec
Production Company: IWC Media,
St George’s Studios, 93-97 St George’s Road,
Glasgow, G3 6JA, Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)141 353 3222, fax: +44 (0)141 353
3221
email: mailglasgow@iwcmedia.co.uk
web: www.iwcmedia.co.uk
Production Company: Touchpaper TV,
St George’s Studios, 93-97 St George’s Road,
Glasgow, G3 6JA, Scotland, UK
email: kate.croft@touchpapertv.com
Producer: Vicki Patterson, Jack Ravenscroft
Executive Producer: Kath Mattock
Screenwriter: Sarmad Masud
Editor: David Gibson
Director of Photography: Ole Bratt Birkeland
Production Designer: David Bryan
Cast: Rez Kempton, Ace Bhatti, Badi
Uzzaman, Balvinder Sopal, Jas Steven Singh
After Tomorrow
Returning to the village of his estranged
wife, James grows increasingly concerned
when the sinister owner of the guesthouse
refuses to let him leave.
Director: Emma Sullivan
2008. HD. 15 min 50 sec
Production Company: Wilder Films,
37C Lynette Avenue, London, SW4 9HE,
England, UK
fax: +44 (0)20 7494 3650
email: annalise@wilder-films.co.uk
Regional Screen Agency: Screen East,
2 Millennium Plain, Norwich, Norfolk,
NR2 1TF, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)160 377 6920, fax: +44 (0)160 376
7191
email: info@screeneast.co.uk
web: www.screeneast.co.uk
Producer: Annalise Davis
Executive Producer: Sam Burton
Screenwriter: Emma Sullivan
Editor: Agnieszka Liggett
Director of Photography: Eduard Grau
Production Designer: John Dempsey
Music: Christian Henson
Cast: Kika Markham, Joseph Mawie, Claire
Hackett, Michael Evelegh, Anthony Taylor
Budget: £10,000
Funding: UK Film Council, Screen East
50
Airport Security
If we aren’t safe in our own homes, just
where are we safe?
Director: James Uren
2008. HD. 6 min 40 sec
Production Company: 2 Plus 2 Films,
59 Portia Way, Bow, London, E3 4JG,
England, UK
email: ali@2plus2films.com
Producer: Alastair Nicholls
Screenwriter: Laura Kelly
Editor: James Uren
Director of Photography: Martin Uren
Cast: Adrian Annis, Dean Roberts, Angela
Peters
Budget: £700
Funding: Self-funded
Akbulak
Olja is spending her summer holiday with her
grandmother in Russia, the country she left
eight years ago. With her childhood friend,
she gets to rediscover her roots.
Director: Tatiana Korol
2008. HD. 12 min 21 sec
Director: Tatiana Korol
email: tankorol@yahoo.de
Producer: Tatiana Korol, Jelena Goldbach,
Karina Kurmangalinova
Screenwriter: Tatiana Korol
Editor: Anna Meller, D’Arcy MacLean
Director of Photography: Katarzyna
Sobocinska
Sound: Dominick Schofield, Marc McRae
Music: Maria Vatenina, Alina Udaeva
Cast: Janina Rudenska, Milla Kaminskaya,
Sergey Vidrashku
Budget: £10,000
Funding: Private
Alfonso
Lighthouse bound, Alfonso chronicles his
affinity with nature awaiting his end. A
daughter, entrusted to the sea, sails into
Alfonso’s care and he opens his heart to a
new legacy.
Director: Lisa Maria Baruffati
2009. HD. 14 min 33 sec
Production Company: Screen Academy
Scotland, Edinburgh Napier University,
2A Merchiston Avenue, Edinburgh, EH10 4NU,
Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)131 455 2572, fax: +44 (0)131 455
2538
email: info@screenacademyscotland.ac.uk
web: www.screenacademyscotland.ac.uk
Producer: Suzanne Reid
Screenwriter: Lisa Maria Baruffati, Chris
Dennis
Director of Photography: George Geddes
Production Designer: Aoife McKim
Sound: Claire Abercrombie, Robert Walker
Music: John Eccles
Cast: James Martin, Charlotte Fleming, Anna
Kerth, Julia Jack
Budget: £5,000
Funding: Screen Academy Scotland at
Edinburgh Napier University
Short Films
All Day Breakfast Angel
19 years old, washed up and pissed off, Daryl Maria awakens to Johnny’s sinister behaviour,
is going nowhere fast. His ‘not quite’ but when Maria seizes control their desperate
girlfriend wants to get on Coronation Street, struggle leads to surprising and disturbing
his mother does his head in, and there’s the consequences. A claustrophobic psychological
boat! That big daft, stupid stuck boat ... thriller about loss, isolation and
unconditional love.
Director: Julian Kerridge
2008. s16mm. 12 min 22 sec Director: Cheryl Belcourt
2009. Digibeta. 10 min 8 sec
Production Company: London Film School,
24 Shelton Street, London, WC2H 9UB, Production Company: Movintargit,
England, UK Flat 1/1, 41 Kelvinside Gardens, Glasgow,
tel: +44 (0)20 7240 0161, fax: +44 (0)20 7240 G20 6BQ, Scotland, UK
0167 email: cheryl.belcourt@homecall.co.uk
email: c.bright@lfs.org.uk
web: www.lfs.org.uk Producer: Chris Belcourt
Screenwriter: Cheryl Belcourt
Producer: Danielle Stickley Editor: Bill Gill
Screenwriter: Julian Kerridge Director of Photography: George Geddes
Editor: Jonathan Entwistle Production Designer: Cheryl Belcourt
Director of Photography: Christopher Stones Sound: Travis Reeves
Production Designer: Claudia Brewster Music: Paul Napier, Chas Teckham-Frazer
Sound: Kristian Edwards Cast: Kate Dickie, Gavin Mitchell
Music: Michael Kirk
Cast: Jack Guttman, Zoe Iqbal, Michelle
Holmes, Alison King
Funding: London Film School Another Thing
Two girls say goodbye in a deserted
schoolyard, it’s the last time they’ll see each
other as one of them is moving to Australia.
All My Dreams on VHS Two women do the same in a hotel room. But
who is who and who is going with whom?
James never misses his dreams — he records
them straight to VHS using Dreamspoon Director: Ilaria D’Elia
wireless technology. But when a work 2009. RED. 10 min 45 sec
colleague, Erica, stops by one evening, she
finds something surprising amongst the titles. Production Company: Sticky Moon, Unit 8,
30 Great Guildford Street, London, SE1 0HS,
If you hoard your dreams, someone is going
to want to watch them. England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7401 8407, fax: +44 (0)20 7928
Director: Timothy X Atack 9065
2008. HD. 13 min 14 sec email: producer@stickymoon.com
Main: Tanuja Amarasuriya Producer: Derry Wilkinson
email: tamarasuriya@hotmail.com Executive Producer: Matthieu de Braconier
Screenwriter: Ilaria D’Elia
Producer: George Chan Editor: Guy Morley
Screenwriter: Timothy X Atack Director of Photography: Simon Minett
Editor: Stuart Davies Music: Chris Ayles
Director of Photography: Rob McGregor Cast: Anna Wilson-Jones, Amanda Douge,
Production Designer: Jodie Harris Sam Spruell, Rachel Hart, Claudia Telling
Cast: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, OT Fagbenle
Budget: £3,500
Budget: £8,000
Funding: Private
Funding: BBC Bristol Film Lab
All of Me
All of Me intimately explores the female
heart, as Rhona surrenders herself to a Billie
Holiday song playing upstairs. But the
loudness of Rhona’s reality is difficult to
ignore.
Director: Trine Dam Ottosen
2008. HDV. 4 min 52 sec
Producer: Trine Dam Ottosen
email: trine@bo43.dk
Producer: Trine Dam Ottosen
Screenwriter: Trine Dam Ottesen
Editor: Daniel Bujega
Director of Photography: Filip Syczynski
Sound: Christos Michalakos
Cast: Kirsty Strain, Gareth White, Corin
Campbell-Hill, Caitlin Reid
Budget: £750

Apples & Oranges
Claudia is a carefree young black teacher
who loves her job, her life, her friends, and
her two men. Sensitive writer Sam and
charismatic music producer Ashley are polar
opposites and neither knows about the other!
But when Claudia discovers she is pregnant,
who or what will she choose?
Director: Magali Charrier
2009. 22 min 6 sec
Production Company: IWC Media,
St George’s Studios, 93-97 St George’s Road,
Glasgow, G3 6JA, Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)141 353 3222, fax: +44 (0)141 353
3221
email: mailglasgow@iwcmedia.co.uk
web: www.iwcmedia.co.uk
Main: Touchpaper TV, St George’s Studios,
93-97 St George’s Road, Glasgow, G3 6JA,
Scotland, UK
email: kate.croft@touchpapertv.com
Producer: Jack Ravenscroft, Vicki Patterson
Executive Producer: Kath Mattock
Screenwriter: Trevor Williams
Editor: Paul Endacott
Director of Photography: Dom Kersey
Production Designer: David Bryan
Cast: Simone James, Nathan Stewart Jarrett,
Alex Lanipekun
April
April is a surrealist and stylish short. April, a
young woman with a warm heart and natural
beauty, has a series of dreams which change
her life forever.
Director: Erica Herbert
2009. RED. 14 min
Director: Erica Herbert
email: herberterica@yahoo.com
Producer: Ranita Charitkul
Screenwriter: Joel Meire, Warren Pole
Editor: Erica Herbert, Philip Hedgecock,
Adrian Murray
Director of Photography: Neaw
Rangsiyawath
Production Designer: Erica Herbert
Sound: Simone Filiali
Music: Denis Ducasse
Cast: Howard Swinson, Valene Kane, Keith
Parry
Budget: £5,000
Funding: Private
Short Films
Aquaphobic
Somewhere off the coasts of Ireland and
Scotland two friends are discussing the finer
points of life: fear of open spaces, the fact
that they have no oars, how the tide is
dragging them out to sea, and what to do
about an engine that doesn’t work.
Director: Matt Curry
2008. Digibeta. 12 min 19 sec
Production Company: Bluebird Media,
51 Grand Parade, Belfast, Antrim, BT5 5HG,
N Ireland, UK
tel: +44 (0)289 022 9046
email: matt@bluebirdni.com
web: www.bluebirdni.com
Screen Agency: Northern Ireland Screen, 3rd
Floor, Alfred House, 21 Alfred Street, Belfast,
BT2 8ED, N Ireland, UK
tel: +44 (0)289 023 2444, fax: +44 (0)289 023
9918
email: info@northernirelandscreen.co.uk
web: www.northernirelandscreen.co.uk
Producer: Matt Curry
Screenwriter: Barry Etherson
Editor: Matt Curry, Paul McParland
Director of Photography: Paul McParland
Production Designer: Barry Etherson
Sound: Robert Thompson
Music: Conor Teahan
Cast: Brian McCardie, Barry Etherson
Funding: UK Film Council, Northern Ireland
Screen
The Archivist
A man explores his dual obsessions, his
girlfriend and the art of vacuum packing, in a
beautiful story about what it is to love and to
never let go. Can a perfect moment be
preserved forever?
Director: James Lees
2008. s16mm. 7 min 50 sec
Production Company: The Hobo Film
Company, 54 Leicester Road, Uppingham,
Rutland, LE15 9SD, England, UK
email: james@thehobofilmcompany.com
Producer: Libby Durdy
Screenwriter: David Whitehouse
Editor: William Bridges
Director of Photography: Lol Crawley
Sound: Steve Parker, Richard Lewis
Music: Wild Beasts
Cast: Finlay Robertson, Shonagh Marshall
Budget: £5,000
Funding: BBC Electric Proms New Music
Shorts
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Are You Ready to Meet?
A dreamy sequence of a man trying to save a
girl from committing suicide ...
Director: Santosh Kapse
2008. 16mm. 2 min 30 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: films@londonfilmacademy.com
Producer: Amelie Chicoye
Executive Producer: Anna Macdonald
Screenwriter: Omar R Hamilton
Director of Photography: Darta Kalnina
Music: Hans Ness
Cast: JC Mac
Budget: £1,500
Funding: London Film Academy
Arthur’s Lore
Arthur’s Lore is a fantasy action comedy that
updates the Legend of King Arthur to the
modern day, as he battles the evil creatures
of Dark Lore.
Director: Matthew Cooke, Vincent Lund
2008. HD. 14 min 27 sec
Production Company: Rapidpics, Unit 410F,
The Big Peg, Vyse Street, Birmingham,
B18 0NF, England, UK
email: matt@rapidpics.com
Regional Screen Agency: Screen WM,
9 Regent Place, Birmingham, West Midlands,
B1 3NJ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)121 265 7120, fax: +44 (0)121 265
7180
email: production@screenwm.co.uk
web: www.screenwm.co.uk
Executive Producer: Dan Lawson
Screenwriter: Matthew Cooke, Vincent Lund
Editor: Matthew Cooke, Vincent Lund
Director of Photography: Vincent Lund
Sound: Martin Clarke
Music: Audio Network plc
Cast: Jamie Sutherland, Amy Barnes, Tarl
Caple, Kate Edney, Ross Fook
Budget: £10,500
Funding: UK Film Council, Screen WM
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The Ascension Agency
Richard is a loner on the edge. Traumatic
events from his childhood haunt his dreams
and everyday life. As his violent flashbacks
intensify he approaches the mysterious
Ascension Agency, his last hope of salvation.
But is the agency for real or is it part of
Richard’s imagination?
Director: Ged Cleugh
2009. HD. 29 min 59 sec
Producer: Ged Cleugh
email: gedcleugh@hotmail.co.uk
Producer: Ged Cleugh, Daniel Birt
Screenwriter: Ged Cleugh, Daniel Birt
Editor: Caleb Williams
Director of Photography: Jordan Cushing
Cast: Jason Baughan, Damien Thomas, John
Mahoney, Vanessa Mallinson, Graham Bowe
Budget: £15,000
Funding: Independent
Attention
Mary and Charles are an elderly couple.
Charles is terminally ill. A caretaker, Lily,
visits daily to help take care of Charles. Lily
tries to persuade Mary every day to take
Charles to a home where he can be looked
after by professionals. Mary refuses to let
him go.
Director: Sylvia Howard
2008. 16mm. 9 min 22 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: films@londonfilmacademy.com
Producer: Dimitre Sarkis
Executive Producer: Anna Macdonald
Screenwriter: Amelie Chicoye
Editor: Arup Chowdhury
Director of Photography: John Paul
Lancaster
Production Designer: Lucy Bullen
Sound: Jamie Stanton
Music: Chris Cray
Cast: Jennie Lathan, Rory McCallum, Zee
Asha
Budget: £1,500
Funding: London Film Academy
Short Films
Baghdad Express
A young girl working in her father’s Arabic
restaurant is forced to decide which comes
first — her dreams, or her family.
Director: Nimer Rashed
2008. HD. 11 min
Director: Nimer Rashed
email: nrashed@mac.com
Regional Screen Agency: Film London, Suite
6.10, The Tea Building, 56 Shoreditch High
Street, London, E1 6JJ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7613 7676, fax: +44 (0)20 7613
7677
email: info@filmlondon.org.uk
web: www.filmlondon.org.uk
Producer: Georgie Weedon, Rose Wicksteed
Screenwriter: Nimer Rashed
Editor: Richard Smither
Director of Photography: Stuart
Biddlecombe
Cast: Georgina Leonidas, Riz Ahmed, Nayef
Rashed
Budget: £9,000
Funding: UK Film Council, Film London
Bale
Bale tells the story of two groups of
teenagers on one long summer’s day in rural
England. Friends are forced to make
decisions of conscience, decisions they’ll
have to live with forever.
Director: Alastair Mackay
2009. 16mm. 14 min
Production Company: Elephant Gun Films,
6 Enterdent, Godstone, Surrey, RH9 8EG,
England, UK
email: aryders@yahoo.com
Producer: Andrew Ryder
Screenwriter: Alastair Mackay
Editor: Mark Trend
Director of Photography: Liam Iangoli
Production Designer: James Newcombe
Sound: Molinare Spool
Music: Christoph Bausinger
Cast: Michael Socha, Finn Atkins, Perry
Fitzpatrck, Chanel Cresswell
Funding: UK Film Council Completion Fund
Basho
In seventeenth century Japan, poet Basho
and his loyal servant Chiri set out on a long
journey. When they discover an abandoned
baby on the banks of the Fuji river, they are
presented with a terrible dilemma. Adapted
from Sam Hamill’s translation of Matsuo
Basho’s Travelogue of the Weather-Beaten
Bones.
Director: Babak Gray
2008. 35mm. 8 min 8 sec
Production Company: Stampede Ltd, The
Hat Factory, Luton, LU1 2EY, England, UK
email: sf2@hotmail.co.uk
web: www.stampede.co.uk
Producer: David Allison, Stephen Fingleton
Screenwriter: Babak Gray
Editor: David Charap
Director of Photography: Damian Daniels
Production Designer: Kimie Nakano
Sound: Carlos Soto
Music: Clive Bell
Cast: Yoshi Oida, Dai Tabuchi
Be Good
One man’s mission to do the right thing.
Somehow or other.
Director: Barney Cokeliss
2009. 35mm. 10 min 20 sec
Production Company: RSA Films, 42 Beak
Street, London, W1F 9RH, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7437 7426
email: barney-joy@rsafilms.co.uk
Producer: Johann Insanally
Screenwriter: Barney Cokeliss, JV Kelly
Editor: Bill Smedley
Director of Photography: Olivier Cariou
Cast: Finlay Robertson, Cara Horgan, Archie
Panjabi, Laura Howard, Pooky Quesnel
Co-production: USA
Behind the Curtain
A short film about one man’s will to give up
on life and how that affects people around
him, and more importantly how they won’t
let him.
Director: Dimitris Bavellas
2009. s16mm. 17 min 3 sec
Production Company: Northern Film School,
Leeds Metropolitan University, Electric Press,
1 Millennium Square, Leeds, LS2 3AD,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)113 812 8035, fax: +44 (0)113 812
8080
email: n.kidd@leedsmet.ac.uk
web: www.northernfilmschool.co.uk
Producer: Caleb Shaffer
Screenwriter: Dimitris Bavellas
Editor: Oskar Idin
Director of Photography: Yannis Fotou
Cast: Dimosthenis Filippas, Stathis Kokkoris,
Constantinos Danikas, Katerina Savrani
Budget: £10,000
Funding: Northern Film School, Greek
National Television/Drama Department

Believe
Believe is the story of one man’s grief and
desperation following the death of his wife.
Director: Paul Wright
2009. s16mm. 19 min 55 sec
Production Company: Young Films,
61 Holland Street, Glasgow, G2 4NJ,
Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)141 221 6272, fax: +44 (0)141 229
0519
email: rhianna@youngfilms.co.uk
web: www.youngfilms.co.uk
Producer: Rhianna Andrews
Screenwriter: Paul Wright
Editor: Maya Maffioli
Director of Photography: Benjamin Krac̆un
Production Designer: Natalie Astridge
Sound: Gunnar Óskarsson
Cast: Michael Smiley, Kate Dickie, Paul
Thomas Hickey
Budget: £70,000
Funding: Scottish Screen, Ardross Community
Council, Highland Council
Belonging
May is a Vietnamese bride in Taiwan. After
years of a lonely marriage, a young
Vietnamese migrant worker comes into her
life. Their affair saves her from despair, but
puts her in a dilemma between her desire for
true love and her responsibility to her family.
Director: Ming-Ying Lin
2009. HD. 17 min 30 sec
Production Company: London Film School,
24 Shelton Street, London, WC2H 9UB,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7240 0161, fax: +44 (0)20 7240
0167
email: c.bright@lfs.org.uk
web: www.lfs.org.uk
Producer: Ming-Ying Lin
Screenwriter: Ming-Ying Lin
Editor: Ming-Ying Lin
Director of Photography: Ji Hwan Park
Cast: Jean Su, Jim Lu, Ben-Cheung Liao,
Ewan Tsai, Nai-Han Hsu
Funding: London Film School
Big Mistake
The terrible consequences of accidentally
leaving your cellphone on.
Director: Daniel Turner
2008. HD. 5 min
Production Company: Magician Pictures Ltd,
John Maxwell Building, Unit 40, Elstree Film
& Television Studios, Shenley Road,
Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, WD6 1JG,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8324 2291, fax: +44 (0)20 8324
2333
email: admin@magician-pictures.co.uk
Producer: Daniel Turner
Screenwriter: Daniel Turner
Editor: Ben Hooton
Director of Photography: Zac Halberd
Cast: Jordan Pitt, Matthew Judd, Keisha
Watson
Short Films
Big Mistake
After an accident on a deserted road a man
has to make a life or death decision.
Director: Adrian Mead
2008. HD. 6 min
Production Company: MeadKerr Ltd,
113 Leith Walk, Edinburgh, EH6 8NP,
Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)131 554 4539
email: info@meadkerr.com
Producer: Barry Paton
Screenwriter: Heather Day
Editor: Minttu Manhennen
Director of Photography: Scott Ward
Cast: John Comerford, Brian Macardie
Budget: £2,000
Funding: Metro Ecosse
Black Holes
Jenny and Oliver are a couple like any other.
Unbeknownst to them Duncan watches,
manipulates, and eventually destroys them.
Black Holes is a story about love and
obsession. So, how do you destroy another
person’s life? Firstly, you have to be in love.
Director: Stephen Trumble
2008. 16mm. 12 min 11 sec
Producer: Helen Taylor, c/o Arts Institute at
Bournemouth, Wallisdowne, Poole, Dorset,
BH12 5HH, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)120 253 3011, fax: +44 (0)120 253
7729
web: www.aib.ac.uk
Producer: Helen Taylor
Screenwriter: Stephen Trumble
Editor: Zackary Allnutt
Director of Photography: Fran Herbert
Cast: Graham Hornsby, Katie Clegg, Natalie
O’Donnell, Jamie Partridge
Budget: £3,800
Funding: Arts Institute at Bournemouth,
Skillset, Bournemouth Screen Academy
Black Taxi
A Belfast Troubles black taxi tour trip ends in
deception, mistaken identity and burning
fishnet tights.
Director: Colin McIvor
2009. DV Cam. 10 min
UK Distributor: Northern Ireland Screen,
21 Alfred Street, Belfast, BT2 8ED, N Ireland,
UK
tel: +44 (0)289 023 2454
email: christine@northernirelandscreen.co.uk
web: www.northernirelandscreen.co.uk
Producer: Katy Jackson
Screenwriter: Colin McIvor
Editor: Jonathan Featherston
Director of Photography: Mark Garrett
Cast: Paddy Jenkins, Jonathan Featherston,
Dan Gordon
Budget: £30,000
Funding: Northern Ireland Screen
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Black Widow
A woman takes revenge on the ruthless drug
traffickers who killed her man.
Director: Brendan O’Neill
2008. DV Cam. 5 min 30 sec
Production Company: Stickleback
Productions, 23 Oakfield Road, Selly Park,
Birmingham, B29 7HH, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)121 288 4884, fax: +44 (0)121 345
0949
email: brendan.j.oneill@googlemail.com
web: www.sticklebackproductions.co.uk
Producer: Brendan O’Neill
Executive Producer: Brendan O’Neill
Screenwriter: Brendan O’Neill
Editor: John Hill-Daniel
Director of Photography: Stuart Mills
Production Designer: Brendan O’Neill
Sound: John Hill-Daniel
Music: Phil Mountford
Cast: Tamsin Hunt, Gillian Twaite, Steve
Ryland, Danny Sura, Kieran Cassidy
Co-production: Spain
Blackwater
David has always lived in the shadow of his
older brother, who will stop at nothing to
protect himself and his family. But when
Dennis Tanter comes into David’s life, how
far will they go to get him out of it?
Director: Konstantinos Frangopoulos
2009. Digibeta. 30 min
Production Company: National Film and
Television School, Beaconsfield Studios,
Station Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire,
HP9 1LG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)149 473 1452, fax: +44 (0)149 467
8583
email: hsharda@nfts.co.uk
web: www.nfts.co.uk
Producer: Sunny Midha
Screenwriter: Ryan Baxter
Editor: Mikael Svartdahl
Director of Photography: Brian Fawcett
Production Designer: Kiera Tudway
Sound: Linda Brenon
Music: Roger Goula
Cast: Alec Newman, Jonathon Wrather, Kirsty
Mitchell, Steve Nicolson, Danny Webb
Funding: National Film and Television School
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Blame
Set around a small community in the East
End of London, Blame is a short haunting tale
of a life-changing day for Mr Keller, a man
who, upon discovering that his son has been
murdered, must decide what to do with the
killer.
Director: Kolé Onile-ere
2009. s16mm. 12 min
Producer: Séverine Hamilton
email: severinehamilton@hotmail.com
Producer: Séverine Hamilton
Screenwriter: Kolé Onile-ere
Editor: Jake Wynne
Director of Photography: Simon Archer
Production Designer: Pally Kainth
Sound: Jake Wynne
Music: Anthony Brown
Cast: Todd Carty, Ralph Laurila, Cassie
Cassidy, Joel Stephenson, Adrian Black
Blue
Anthony watches a boxing match with his
nephew, Jovan. Anthony heads to the shops,
and returns to eerie silence in the flat.
Director: Juliet Ellis
2009. HD. 15 min
Production Company: B3 Media, Electric
Avenue Studios, 3B Electric Avenue, London,
SW9 8JY, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7274 2121, fax: +44 (0)20 7274
2222
email: studio@b3media.net
web: www.b3media.net
Producer: Andrew Hinton
Executive Producer: Dominique Oliver,
Adeela Sharif, Marc Boothe
Screenwriter: Juliet Ellis
Editor: Dan Robinson
Director of Photography: Maeve O’Connell
Production Designer: Philip A Brown
Sound: Libero Colimberti, Dan Steele
Music: Dan Steele, Spangles, Looped For
Pleasure
Cast: Anthony Stewart, Lewis Devey, Fiayo
Akinade, Dennis Hobson
Budget: £13,000
Funding: UK Film Council, B3 Media
Short Films
Blue
Saskia Burton has it all. A loving husband, a
beautiful apartment and a successful career
as an artist. But when temptation calls will
she resist or will she risk everything?
Director: Marco van Belle
2008. DVC Pro HD. 13 min
Production Company: Mezzo Films, 17 North
Hill Road, Leeds, LS6 2EN, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)113 203 6161, fax: +44 (0)113 203
6162
email: natashaa@mezzofilms.com
Regional Screen Agency: Screen Yorkshire,
Studio 22, 46 The Calls, Leeds, West
Yorkshire, LS2 7EY, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)113 294 4410, fax: +44 (0)113 294
4989
email: info@screenyorkshire.co.uk
web: www.screenyorkshire.co.uk
Producer: Natasha Arciniega
Executive Producer: Tony Dixon
Screenwriter: Alison Pennells
Editor: Paul Davis
Director of Photography: Fabian Wagner
Production Designer: Dave George
Sound: Adam Steel
Music: Spike Scott
Cast: Sophia Di Martino, James Carlton, Jake
Norton
Budget: £9,000
Funding: UK Film Council, Screen Yorkshire
Boy
Daniel, a talented young boy from a working
class home, has been accepted by a
prestigious boarding school. But on the eve of
his leaving his father Tony has doubts about
letting his son go, a doubt that only the
school headmaster might have a gamble at
erasing.
Director: Gary Scullion
2008. 16mm. 7 min 43 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: films@londonfilmacademy.com
Producer: Caroline McKenzie
Executive Producer: Anna Macdonald
Screenwriter: Jamie Stanton
Editor: Omar R Hamilton
Director of Photography: Alice Caronna
Production Designer: Lucia Peralta
Sound: Darta Kalnina
Music: Igor Correia
Cast: Darren Daly, George Mayson, Godfrey
Salter
Budget: £1,500
Funding: London Film Academy
Breathe
Danny is a boy who lives in two worlds. One
full of magic and light, the other his
mother’s world, tiresome and dull. One night
Danny sees a chance to reach across and
connect the two after he shares in a secret
magical encounter.
Director: Geoffrey Taylor
2008. Digibeta. 6 min 33 sec
Production Company: Calling The Shots,
1 Gas Ferry Road, Bristol, BS1 6UN, England,
UK
tel: +44 (0)117 930 0101
email: jeremy@callingtheshots.co.uk
web: www.callingtheshots.co.uk
Regional Screen Agency: South West Screen,
St Bartholomews Court, Lewins Mead, Bristol,
BS1 5BT, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)117 952 9977, fax: +44 (0)117 952
9988
email: info@swscreen.co.uk
web: www.swscreen.co.uk
Producer: Steve Gear, Jeremy Routledge
Executive Producer: Sarah-Jane Meredith,
Julia Caithness
Screenwriter: Geoffrey Taylor
Editor: Tom Reynolds
Director of Photography: Fred Reed
Sound: Eifion Jones
Music: Martin Jones
Cast: Indi Syson, Tiérleoni Boukhedenna,
Cathy McKinnon
Budget: £6,000
Funding: UK Film Council, South West Screen
Bride and Gloom
In a chaotic venue two weddings take place.
Simran (a bride) and Aidan (a groom) meet
whilst trying to escape their families’
lectures. A friendship builds in a short space
of time which helps them both along.
Director: Ronak Singh
2009. DVC Pro HD. 16 min
Production Company: Concept Picture,
22 Clarendon Road, Thornaby, Stockton-on-
Tees, TS17 8JH, England, UK
email: ron4k@hotmail.com
Producer: Ronak Singh
Screenwriter: Angela Jobson
Editor: Michael Pentney
Director of Photography: James Mcaleer
Production Designer: Ronak Singh
Sound: Tommy Hair
Music: Philip Armstrong
Cast: Mark Stobbart, Poppy Jhakra, Bill
Fellows
Budget: £4,000
Funding: Self-funded

The Bridge
Pablo, a 27 year-old Chilean journalist, lives
in London with Luca, a Chilean student. He
struggles to get work and survives by doing
jobs he is over-qualified for. He will have to
make a decision; stay and keep trying, or go
back to his country, with his love for Luca
playing part in his decision.
Director: Nicolás Ureta Stagnaro
2009. DVC Pro HD. 28 min
Production Company: London Film School,
24 Shelton Street, London, WC2H 9UB,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7240 0161, fax: +44 (0)20 7240
0167
email: c.bright@lfs.org.uk
web: www.lfs.org.uk
Director: Nicolás Ureta Stagnaro
email: nico8_@hotmail.com
Producer: David Welch
Screenwriter: Nicolas Ureta Stagnaro
Editor: Javier Correa
Director of Photography: Ewan Mulligan
Production Designer: Claudia Brewster
Sound: Ioannis Pavlides, Rob Watkins
Music: Rock Hudson, Jazzanova
Cast: Tiago Correa, Manuela Martelli, Mariano
Serjai, Phil Snowden, Michael Lindall
Co-production: Chile
Funding: London Film School
Brixton 85
A young man’s actions in 1985 bring terror to
the last place he ever wanted to harm and
spark violence in a community that
demanded to be heard.
Director: Tom Green
2009. Digibeta. 14 min
Production Company: National Film and
Television School, Beaconsfield Studios,
Station Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire,
HP9 1LG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)149 473 1452, fax: +44 (0)149 467
8583
email: hsharda@nfts.co.uk
web: www.nfts.co.uk
Producer: Tom Green, Purnima Phansalkar,
Laura Rees
Screenwriter: Mahalia Rimmer
Editor: Judith Allen
Director of Photography: Vanessa Whyte
Music: Jon Opstad
Cast: Charles Mnene, Natasha Williams, Alex
Wussah, Victoria Eyabunoh, Rio Phillips
Funding: National Film and Television School
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Brolio Ivartis The Capgras Tide
(The Brother’s Goal) A man returns home from hospital convinced
One brother. One sister. One goal. his father is an imposter. In an attempt to
prove his theory he uncovers a more shocking
Director: Jamie Quantrill, Guy Myhill truth.
2009. DV Cam. 12 min 30 sec
Director: Adam Hutchings
Director: Jamie Quantrill 2008. s16mm. 15 min
email: jpquantrill@gmail.com
web: www.jpquantrill.com Director: Adam Hutchings
email: adamhutchings@yahoo.co.uk
UK Distributor: First Light Movies, The Bond,
180–182 Fazeley Street, Birmingham, B5 5SE, Producer: Tony Purves
England, UK Screenwriter: Adam Hutchings
tel: +44 (0)121 753 4866 Editor: Lois Bygrave
email: info@firstlightmovies.com Director of Photography: Erik Wilson
web: www.firstlightmovies.com Cast: Brendan Patricks, Martin Bendel, Kezia
Burrows, Peter Henderson
Producer: Jamie Quantrill, Guy Myhill,
Screenwriter: Jamie Quantrill, Guy Myhill Budget: £14,000
Editor: Jamie Quantrill Funding: Private
Director of Photography: Jamie Quantrill,
Guy Myhill
Cast: Ieva Meksraityte, Grazvydas Valionis
Budget: £2,000 Careful Carl
Funding: First Light Movies
A man is so pathologically careful that he
ends up making one of the worst mistakes
any human can make.
By the Grace of God Director: Roderick Fenske
2008. 35mm. 10 min 18 sec
A journey into the world of Juergen, a Director: Roderick Fenske
tormented provocateur without a past, whose email: roderickkatefenske@mac.com
delusions of grandeur lead him to England in
search of his sovereign right to the throne. Producer: Veronica Saez
Screenwriter: Roderick Fenske, Brian Russo
Director: Ralitza Petrova Editor: Kate Owen
2009. 16mm. 37 min Director of Photography: Luke Scott
Production Company: National Film and Cast: Kiki Kendrick, Tony Wadham, Ben
Willens
Television School, Beaconsfield Studios,
Station Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, Budget: £11,000
HP9 1LG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)149 473 1452, fax: +44 (0)149 467 Funding: Self-funded
8583
email: hsharda@nfts.co.uk
web: www.nfts.co.uk
Director: Ralitza Petrova The Carnival Queen
email: petrova.ralitza@googlemail.com
When Imelda wins her small town beauty
Producer: Michelle Eastwood pageant, she struggles to separate her
Screenwriter: Ralitza Petrova fantasies of fame from the realities of her
Editor: Hazel Baillie life.
Director of Photography: Dan Stafford-Clark
Production Designer: James Spencer Director: David McCrea
Sound: Gunnar Oskarsson 2008. HDV. 11 min
Music: Stuart Earl Screen Agency: Northern Ireland Screen,
Cast: Artur Albrecht 3rd Floor, Alfred House, 21 Alfred Street,
Belfast, BT2 8ED, N Ireland, UK
Budget: £12,000
tel: +44 (0)289 023 2444, fax: +44 (0)289 023
Funding: National Film and Television School 9918
email: info@northernirelandscreen.co.uk
web: www.northernirelandscreen.co.uk
Producer: David McCrea, Stephen Don
Screenwriter: David McCrea
Editor: Michael Corish
Director of Photography: Conor Rotherhan
Music: Sarah McCulley
Cast: Bronagh Taggart, Liam McMahon,
Stephen Don, Paulene Patricks
Budget: £2,500
Funding: UK Film Council, Northern Ireland
Screen
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Catching the Bus
A suicide pact formed in an internet
chatroom leads to a fateful encounter
between an unlikely pair.
Director: Antonio Rui Ribeiro
2009. HD. 34 min 36 sec
Production Company: Storymakers TV &
Films, Unit 412, Bon Marché Centre,
241-251 Ferndale Road, London, SW9 8BJ,
England, UK
email: antonio@storymakers-tv.com
Producer: Jahlia Osha, Antonio Rui Ribeiro
Executive Producer: Jahlia Osha
Screenwriter: Antonio Rui Ribeiro
Editor: Antonio Rui Ribeiro
Director of Photography: Barlomiej
Sienkiewicz
Cast: Bodelle de Ronde, Nick Ewans, Gillian
Pittaway, Andrew McHale, Jo O’Grady
Budget: £7,000
Funding: Private
Caterpillar
Nathan is an intelligent, sensitive and nature-
loving boy on the brink of his teenage years.
Today his uncle Mike arrives to take him and
his rebellious best friend Connor on their first
hunt.
Director: John Maidens
2008. HD/RED. 16 min 5 sec
Regional Screen Agency: Screen WM,
9 Regent Place, Birmingham, West Midlands,
B1 3NJ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)121 265 7120, fax: +44 (0)121 265
7180
email: production@screenwm.co.uk
web: www.screenwm.co.uk
Producer: Michael Ford, Rachel Carter
Screenwriter: John Maidens
Editor: Robert Edmonds, Bim Ajadi
Director of Photography: Mark Hammond
Production Designer: Emma Minshull
Music: Jeremy Harrison
Cast: Mikey Riddington-Smith, Harry
Konstantis, Pooky Quesnel, Mark Spalding
Budget: £20,000
Funding: UK Film Council, Screen WM
Short Films
Chains
A day in the life of Joanne, a little girl
obsessed with Houdini and perfecting the
ultimate escape.
Director: Alanna Riddell
2008. HD. 8 min 13 sec
Screen Agency: Northern Ireland Screen,
3rd Floor, Alfred House, 21 Alfred Street,
Belfast, BT2 8ED, N Ireland, UK
tel: +44 (0)289 023 2444, fax: +44 (0)289 023
9918
email: info@northernirelandscreen.co.uk
web: www.northernirelandscreen.co.uk
Producer: Villi Ragnarsson
Screenwriter: Alanna Riddell
Editor: Derek Jones, Alanna Riddell
Director of Photography: Ryan Kernaghan
Production Designer: Anna McCaughtry
Cast: Amber O’Doherty, Bronagh Waugh, Matt
McArdle
Budget: £10,000
Funding: UK Film Council, Northern Ireland
Screen
The Chapel
Having found what appears to be a safe
refuge in an old church, two strangers
struggle to maintain an already fractured
relationship.
Director: Ben Winter
2009. HD. 13 min
Production Company: No Paper Cuts,
87A Haverhill Road, Balham, London,
SW12 0HE, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8675 8501
email: info@nopapercuts.co.uk
Producer: Nick Fernandez
Screenwriter: Ben Winter
Editor: Ben Winter
Director of Photography: Malcolm Edmonds
Sound: Vincent Watts
Music: Ross Power
Cast: James Cartwright, Alix Dunmore
Funding: UK Film Council Completion Fund
Cheyne Stoking
A dark reverie on the consequences of
alcohol abuse in which David Evans is forced
to confront his repressed guilt.
Director: Darren Darko
2008. HDV. 8 min
Producers: Tim Hole & Darren Darko
email: larevolutionsurrealiste@gmail.com
Producer: Darren Darko, TB Hole
Screenwriter: Darren Darko
Editor: Darren Darko, TB Hole
Director of Photography: TB Hole
Sound: P Swales
Music: P Swales
Cast: Elizabeth A Cuff, David D Darko
Budget: £200
Funding: Self-funded, University of
Glamorgan
Chicken
Dan has had an endless run of bad luck. He
sets out for work as a comedy chicken
advertising a fast food restaurant. But no-one
will take him seriously and, under increasing
pressure from his boss, he becomes
desperate.
Director: Carolina Luna
2008. 16mm. 11 min 4 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: films@londonfilmacademy.com
Producer: Omar R Hamilton
Executive Producer: Anna Macdonald
Screenwriter: Jonny O’Donnell
Editor: Dimitrie Sarkis
Director of Photography: Lubov Podgornaya
Sound: Ceri Payne
Music: Igor Correia
Cast: Sebastien Street, Ellie Dickens,
Jonathan Redmond
Budget: £1,500
Funding: London Film Academy
Christmas Time
It’s Christmas. Ex-convict Terry is seeing his
seven year-old daughter Michelle for the first
time since his release. She believes that he
has been at sea. Terry uses the only means
available to re-establish his relationship with
Michelle and give her the present she longs
for. The consequences are bitter-sweet.
Director: Zoe Nathenson
2009. s16mm. 15 min
Producer: Paul Sangam
email: paul@ps707.com
Producer: Paul Sangam
Screenwriter: Gavin Whitfield
Editor: Chris Janschke
Director of Photography: Sam Mitchell
Cast: Jole Beckett, Eden Rae Nathenson
Budget: £4,500
Funding: Private

Cinema of Horror
Three film students see their world through
the fantasy of the Asian genre cinema which
inspires them.
Director: Peter M Kershaw
2009. HD. 9 min
Production Company: Duchy Parade Films
Ltd, 20 Glebe Road, Harrogate, North
Yorkshire, HG2 0LZ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)142 352 6835
email: duchyfilms@aol.com
Producer: Peter M Kershaw
Screenwriter: Peter M Kershaw
Editor: Dave Long
Director of Photography: Alistair McKenzie
Production Designer: Peter M Kershaw, Jenni
Lander
Sound: Dave Aston, Patrick Morris
Music: Jiang Li, Malook Singh, Suki Chand
Cast: John Andrews, Andy Cheung, David
Kendra, Felicia Herrero
Budget: £7,000
Funding: Duchy Parade Films, Bradford MDC,
Bradford City of Film
The Circle
Unsure if it is a nightmare, or a complete
lapse into a schizophrenic reality, Virgil
awakes suddenly to find himself imprisoned
in a strange room. He becomes locked,
unwillingly, into a bizarre and horrifying
ritual which seems to hold the key to his
past.
Director: Heinz Kloihofer
2009. HD. 16 min
Director: Heinz Kloihofer
email: utopia_bnw@hotmail.com
Producer: Heinz Kloihofer
Screenwriter: Heinz Kloihofer
Editor: Heinz Kloihofer
Director of Photography: Toby Gorman
Cast: Jonny Hynes, Emma Pollard, Val
Sturgess, Patrick Taggart, Emma Jane Fowler
Budget: £2,000
Funding: Self-funded
City
Encapsulating the harsh, sexual and raw
nature of the financial world, City is set in
the near future, deep within a cosmopolitan
metropolis, following our heroine on a
journey towards her ultimate goal. A timely
story in a world of financial turmoil.
Director: Alex Edwards
2008. HD. 14 min
Director: Alex Edwards
email: alex@alex-edwards.com
Producer: Alex Edwards
Screenwriter: Alex Edwards
Editor: Nick Swinglehurst
Director of Photography: Stuart White
Sound: Daniel Pugh
Music: Nicolette Corcoran, Mark Horwood
Cast: Alex Edwards, Rick Lennox, Andreas
Lysandrou, Vee Vimolmal
Funding: Private
Short Films
Clamp and Grind
A homemade superhero liberates a trapped
car in a dark sidestreet. Then, against his
better judgement, he asks for ‘a bit of
feedback’ ...
Director: Prasanna Puwanarajah
2009. 16mm. 8 min 14 sec
Production Company: Congo Red Films,
9 Dicksee House, Lyons Place, London,
NW8 8NH, England, UK
email: ppuwanarajah@gmail.com
Producer: Stuart Bentley, Otto Burnham,
Prasanna Puwanarajah
Screenwriter: Prasanna Puwanarajah
Editor: Jon Coutts
Director of Photography: Stuart Bentley
Cast: Harry Hadden-Paton, Danny Millar
Budget: £2,000
Funding: In-kind
Clean Off
Clean Off is a story about racism and
terrorism, and the ordinary people caught in
the middle. It’s a film with a twist that asks
difficult questions of us all.
Director: Simon Bates
2008. DVC Pro HD. 10 min 58 sec
Director: Simon Bates
email: simonbates1@gmail.com
Producer: Guy Nesdale
Screenwriter: Simon Bates
Editor: Simon Bates, Richard Hadley
Director of Photography: Richard Hadley
Cast: Clemency Burton-Hill, Richard Aloi
Budget: £8,000
Funding: Private investment
Clocked
A daughter’s unconditional love is tested to
its limits. She’ll do anything to help her dying
mother, but how far will she go after finding
out that mum’s been lying?
Director: Michael Sharck
2008. 16mm. 13 min 58 sec
Producer: Ben Blair
email: bgblair@gmail.com
web: www.clockedfilm.com
Producer: Ben Blair
Screenwriter: Ben Blair, Michael Sharck
Editor: Michael Sharck
Director of Photography: Leon Willis
Music: Simon Smith
Cast: Robyn Mellor, Anna Cottis, Chris
Preddie
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Come Back
The world is on the brink of Armageddon.
Sea-levels are rising. Bird flu is in Europe.
Director: James Harris
2008. 6 min
Regional Screen Agency: Northern Film &
Media, Central Square, Forth Street,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3PJ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)191 269 9200, fax: +44 (0)191 269
9213
email: info@northernmedia.org
web: www.northernmedia.org
Producer: Steve Bowden
Screenwriter: James Harris
Editor: Hal Branson
Director of Photography: James McAleer
Cast: Gary Kitching, Sarah MacDonald
Hughes, Chris Connell
Budget: £4,000
Funding: UK Film Council, Northern Film &
Media
Condimentia
The story of one man’s life long addiction to
condiments.
Director: Morgan Hutchins
2008. s16mm. 10 min 40 sec
Production Company: RSA Films, 42-44 Beak
Street, London, W1F 9RH, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7432 3155, fax: +44 (0)20 7734
4978
email: alex-joy@rsafilms.co.uk
web: www.joy-rsa.com
Producer: Alex Heathcote
Screenwriter: Clare Perry
Editor: Piers Douglas
Director of Photography: Gerry Floyd
Production Designer: Richard Maris
Sound: Duncan Brooker
Music: Felt Music
Cast: Mark Benton, Sandra Huggett, Morgan
Overton
Budget: £35,000
Funding: Private
The Conkerers
The fast, action-packed and satirical story of
a dangerous secret club set up within the
basements of a nice presentable British high
school. A club of fear and intimidation, of
wrath and courage, a club where an old
British playground game now rules supreme.
This ... is Conker Club.
Director: Steven Boyle
2008. Digibeta. 15 min 10 sec
Main: Chris Chapman
tel: +44 (0)191 279 0950
email: chris@denefilms.com
Producer: Jon Stubbs
Screenwriter: Steven Boyle, Chris Chapman
Editor: Mark Lediard
Director of Photography: Simon August
Cast: Cliff Burnett, Baden Burns, Darren
Howie, Hannah Lucas, Thomas Wrathall
Budget: £26,000 (est)
Funding: Amazing Learning
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The Constant Father
When the past shapes the future can we
succeed where our parents failed?
Director: Rupert Bryan
2008. Digibeta. 12 min 37 sec
Main: Gemma Rigg
email: gemstar@gmail.com
Producer: Rupert Bryan, Alec Christie
Screenwriter: Gemma Rigg
Editor: Kelvin Hutchins
Director of Photography: Brendan McGinty
Production Designer: Paul Fullbrook
Sound: Trevor Moore
Music: Jon Daou
Cast: Paul Popplewell, Kerry Ann Smith
Budget: £6,000
Funding: Private
Crimson
A road movie without a car, Crimson follows
the existential odyssey of mixed-race skate
kid Kyle. An idealist searching for an
ideology, he journeys through the city
desperate for human connection.
Director: Piers Hill
2008. HD. 14 min 45 sec
Production Company: B3 Media, Electric
Avenue Studios, 3B Electric Avenue, London,
SW9 8JY, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7274 2121
email: studio@b3media.net
web: www.b3media.net
Producer: Rajita Shah
Executive Producer: Marc Boothe
Screenwriter: Piers Hill
Editor: Alexandre Gollner
Director of Photography: Taina Galis
Production Designer: Stephanie Odu, Phil
Brown
Sound: Sam Walker
Music: Jamie Says, Pierre de Geyter,
forthesakeofthesong, Ambrose Tomkins
Cast: Kyle Hill, Maria Della, Frank C Keogh,
Alan Box, Jason Bird
Budget: £9,000
Funding: UK Film Council, B3 Media
Short Films
Curfew
Sean, a member of the Graves Gang, falls in
love with a girl from the rival River Boys
Gang, amidst a background of the threat of
wolves, and escalating gang violence, with
tragic consequences.
Director: Kate Aidley
2008. HD. 14 min
Production Company: Footprint Films,
26 Greville Green, Emsworth, Hampshire,
PO10 7TH, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)124 343 0808, fax: +44 (0)124 343
0808
email: info@footprintfilms.co.uk
web: www.footprintfilms.co.uk
Regional Screen Agency: Screen South, The
Wedge, 75-81 Tontine Street, Folkestone,
Kent, CT20 1JR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)130 325 9777, fax: +44 (0)130 325
9786
email: info@screensouth.org
web: www.screensouth.org
Producer: Mark Blaney, Jackie Shepherd
Screenwriter: Kate Aidley
Editor: David Wigram
Director of Photography: Simon Dennis
Production Designer: Virginia Apicella
Sound: Simon Jones
Music: Moritz Schmittat
Cast: Thomas Grant, Ellie Wootton, Sybie Ross-
Talbot, Curtis Coomber, John Albasiny
Budget: £8,750
Funding: UK Film Council, Screen South
Curiosity
On a quiet night, a young couple find
themselves caught up in a nightmarish ordeal
after they witness a murderer disposing of a
body, in this claustrophobic thriller.
Director: Toby Spanton
2009. 35mm. 9 min 53 sec
Production Company: Pollibee Pictures Ltd,
27 Mortimer Street, London, W1T 3BL,
England, UK
email: toby_spanton@hotmail.com
Producer: Samar Pollitt
Screenwriter: Toby Spanton
Editor: Toby Lloyd
Director of Photography: Craig Bloor
Production Designer: Richard Selway
Cast: Emily Blunt, Tom Riley, Juliette James,
James Payton
Budget: £2,000
Funding: Personal
Curtains
Barry Shepherd is a worn out Punch and Judy
man. After 50 years working the wooden
dolls, it’s time for a splashy puppet finish; an
adieu. As things begin to fall apart around
him, he continues with the show. Even as it
threatens to destroy him and take his soul.
Director: Julian Barratt, Dan Jemmett
2009. 15 min
Production Company: Warp X, The
Workstation, Paternoster Row, Sheffield,
S1 2BX, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)114 221 0377
web: www.warpx.co.uk
Producer: Diarmid Scrimshaw, Michael
Knowles
Screenwriter: Julian Barratt, Dan Jemmett
Editor: Mark Everson
Director of Photography: Erik Wilson
Production Designer: Simon Rogers
Cast: Bob Goody, Romy Baskerville, Steve
Oram, Simon Munnery, Steve Evans
Dan — 02/11/08
Rachael is a young deaf girl living a lonely
and isolated life; no one will sympathise with
her. Whilst playing in the park she finds a
strange box in a tunnel. She takes it home
and opens it up.
Director: Antony Kwok
2008. HDV. 7 min 52 sec
Director: Antony Kwok
email: ak-nw@hotmail.com
Producer: Nikkie Walsh
Screenwriter: Antony Kwok
Editor: Antony Kwok
Director of Photography: Sam Laughlin
Cast: Molly Keating, Dan Richards
Dark Harbour
A bitter psychic corrupts the naive
inhabitants of a small seaside village and in
the process, alienates her daughter. Can the
dying commune with the dead?
Director: Paul Bruce
2009. Mini DV. 13 min 31 sec
Production Company: Oaty Hill Productions,
16 Campie Road, Musselburgh, West Lothian,
EH21 6QG, Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)131 665 9817
email: paul@pbruce.mail1.co.uk
Producer: Margaret Henderson
Executive Producer: Paul Bruce
Screenwriter: Paul Bruce
Editor: Mark Finlay
Director of Photography: Mark Finlay
Sound: Mark Deas, David Barclay
Music: David Barclay
Cast: Margaret Henderson, Esther Cohen,
Fraser Goodall, Keiran Ure, Tonia Flynn
Budget: £2,000
Funding: Private

Day In/Day Out
Charlie is in love with Ania, a Polish migrant
worker. She offers hope and escape, as
Charlie is struggling to care for his elderly
father who is suffering from Alzheimers.
Director: Jez Scott
2008. Mini HDV. 17 min 55 sec
Regional Screen Agency: Screen Yorkshire,
Studio 22, 46 The Calls, Leeds, West
Yorkshire, LS2 7EY, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)113 294 4410, fax: +44 (0)113 294
4989
email: info@screenyorkshire.co.uk
web: www.screenyorkshire.co.uk
Producer: David Johnson
Executive Producer: Julia Caithness, Tony
Dixon
Screenwriter: Jez Scott
Editor: Jez Scott
Director of Photography: Kyle Heslop
Sound: Andy Ludbrook
Music: My Exit Music
Cast: Stuart Wade, Al Kossy, Maja Domin
Budget: £9,000
Funding: UK Film Council, Screen Yorkshire
The Devil’s Wedding
The Devil is caught between a rock and a hot
place. His only way out? A soul searching deal
with one more devious than he.
Director: Dan Cadan
2009. s16mm. 14 min
Production Company: HSI London, Royalty
House, 72-74 Dean Street, London, W1D 3SG,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7437 3344, fax: +44 (0)20 7437
3355
email: claire@neatejames.tv
web: www.hsilondon.co.uk
Producer: Claire Neate James
Screenwriter: Dan Cadan
Editor: Tom Lindsay
Director of Photography: Michael Wood
Production Designer: Byron Broadbent
Cast: Lena Headey, Stephen Graham, Pip
Carter, Jamie Foreman
Funding: UK Film Council Completion Fund
Short Films
Diana
Diana takes place the day after the Princess
of Wales’ death and follows Mohit, an Indian
pre-op, transexual on an emotional journey
set against the backdrop of a day that
shocked a nation and will change his life
forever.
Director: Aleem Khan
2008. s16mm. 10 min 39 sec
Production Company: Antidote Productions
email: aghaaleemkhan@gmail.com
Producer: Aleem Khan, Miranda Davis
Executive Producer: Marie-Lyse Numuhoza
Screenwriter: Aleem Khan
Editor: Sean Pruen
Director of Photography: Kit Fraser
Production Designer: Jolene Farmer
Sound: Mary Walsh
Music: Kiran Thakra
Cast: Neeraj Singh
Budget: £5,000
Funding: National Lottery
DiD
An abused young man suffering from
Dissociative Identity Disorder climbs a
mountain to scatter his dead mother’s ashes.
But with three feuding personalities, can he
make it to the top?
Director: Jake Wynne
2009. 35mm. 15 min
Production Company: Pulse Films Ltd
email: jrossmckenzie@yahoo.co.uk
Producer: Ross McKenzie
Screenwriter: Jake Wynne
Editor: Jake Wynne
Director of Photography: Mel Griffith
Sound: Peter Bailey
Cast: Bob Jefferson Hall
Budget: £9,000
Funding: Equity
Digging
Following the death of her mother, Moira
returns home to Southend-on-Sea where her
brother Gerry is still struggling with maternal
grief. Battling to move forward whist Gerry
yearns only for the past, Moira encounters an
unsuspecting handyman who could prove to
be the solution to both their problems.
Director: Geoff Bellhouse
2009. 35mm. 12 min
Production Company: London Film School,
24 Shelton Street, London, WC2H 9UB,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7240 0161, fax: +44 (0)20 7240
0167
email: c.bright@lfs.org.uk
web: www.lfs.org.uk
Producer: Robert Bennett
Screenwriter: Geoff Bellhouse
Editor: Sebastian Cowan
Director of Photography: John Craine
Cast: Margaret Tully, Shawn French, David
Morley Hale
Funding: London Film School
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Dissociation
Syd Herga’s carefully designed tattoos seem
to possess a terrifying supernatural power of
their own, and things start to get out of hand
when he inks his emblematic tattoos onto
two emotionally charged customers.
Director: Iesh Thapar
2008. 16mm. 25 min 36 sec
Production Company: INvision Media Ltd,
4 Worple Way, Harrow, Middlesex, HA2 9SP,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8429 1232
email: iesh.thapar@googlemail.com
Producer: Navin Thapar
Screenwriter: Iesh Thapar
Editor: Ben Burgess
Director of Photography: Aseem Bajaj
Production Designer: Lindy Claire Anderson
Music: Jon Wygens
Cast: Sam Vincenti, Ryan Watson, Gareth
Harfoot, John Pyle
Funding: Self-funded
Domestic Flight
Domestic Flight is a dark comic tale of how
Edie, a woman who has always seen the good
in people, comes to see her family and her
life as they really are and takes action to
change things.
Director: Julie Edwards
2008. s16mm. 16 min 40 sec
Director: Julie Edwards
tel: +44 (0)20 7226 5717
email: julie.edw@btinternet.com
Producer: Julie Edwards, Pauline Gates
Screenwriter: Tilly Vosburgh
Editor: Bobby Sheikh
Director of Photography: Lawrence Jones
Production Designer: Jo Goodman
Cast: Marion Bailey, Charles Dale, Giles
Fagan, Sheila Reid, David Ryall
Funding: Self-funded
Down the Rabbit Hole
A young girl is prepared to sacrifice
everything in order to ease her lover’s
penalty, going through a process that will not
leave her innocent approach to love and life
intact.
Director: Eva Pervolovici
2009. 35mm. 15 min
Production Company: Screen Academy
Scotland, Edinburgh Napier University,
2A Merchiston Avenue, Edinburgh, EH10 4NU,
Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)131 455 2572, fax: +44 (0)131 455
2538
email: info@screenacademyscotland.ac.uk
web: www.screenacademyscotland.ac.uk
Producer: Shezad Afzal
Screenwriter: Eva Pervolovici, Monica Stan
Editor: Gabriel Basalici
Director of Photography: Vlad Filimon
Cast: Ionana Blaj, Lari Giorgescu, Bogdan
Dumitrescu, George Calin
Funding: Screen Academy Scotland at
Edinburgh Napier University
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Driven
Driven tells the tale of a writer consumed by
his work. As he retreats further into fiction
two ominous characters appear to torment
him. Has he tapped into the colourful world
of his subconscious or has he crossed the thin
line between imagination and insanity?
Director: Yvette Farmer
2008. DV Cam. 9 min 7 sec
Production Company: Cultivate Films,
21 St Jude Street, London, N16 8JU, England,
UK
email: yvette_farmer@yahoo.co.uk
Producer: Yvette Farmer
Screenwriter: Yvette Farmer
Editor: Gwyn Moxham
Director of Photography: David Capon
Production Designer: Yvette Farmer
Sound: Andrew Riley
Music: Reza Safina
Cast: Jack Cassidy, Mia Austen, Victoria
Hopkins, Stephanie Richards
Budget: £5,000
Funding: Self-funded
Drop
Drop depicts a brief encounter between two
disparate yet intertwined individuals.
Director: Gavin Toomey
2009. HD. 11 min 30 sec
Production Company: Beautiful Train Ltd,
183B Latchmere Road, London, SW11 2JZ,
England, UK
email: gavin@beautifultrain.com
Producer: Gavin Toomey
Screenwriter: Gavin Toomey
Editor: Natasha Wilkinson
Director of Photography: Tom Debenham
Sound: Sven Taits
Music: Oblong, Stars of the Lid
Cast: Russell Tovey, Anthony Edridge
Funding: Self-funded
Short Films
Eb & Flo
While writing his essay on water, Domani,
aged 11, navigates the ebb and flow of his
parent’s relationship. His scientific mind
reflects on the philosophical dilemmas facing
his parents and a changing planet.
Director: Glenys Jacques
2009. HD. 10 min
Production Company: Huganot Productions
email: gxjacques@tiscali.co.uk
Regional Screen Agency: Screen South, The
Wedge, 75-81 Tontine Street, Folkestone,
Kent, CT20 1JR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)130 325 9777, fax: +44 (0)130 325
9786
email: info@screensouth.org
web: www.screensouth.org
Producer: Glenys Jacques
Screenwriter: Glenys Jacques
Editor: Emma Collins
Director of Photography: Glenys Jacques
Sound: Neil Collymore
Music: Bas Gentenaar
Cast: Damani Ekeama, Joy Akira, Perri
Johnson
Budget: £7,000
Funding: Screen South, Huganot Productions
The Echo
An unsettling drama about a young man who
seeks out his childhood priest to make a
disturbing confession.
Director: Joe Shaw
2009. HD. 15 min
Director: Joseph Shaw
tel: +44 (0)20 8367 9755
email: jshaw01@gmail.com
Producer: Joe Shaw
Screenwriter: Joe Shaw, Alex Scrivenor
Director of Photography: Philip Bloom
Cast: Robert Duncan, Stephen Fletcher
Funding: Self-funded
Echoes
Anya, a Lithuanian sex trafficker, faces a
moral dilemma when she discovers the young
girl she is trafficking from Lithuania to
London is pregnant.
Director: Robert Brown
2008. s16mm. 12 min 34 sec
Producer: Suzie Irlam, c/o Arts Institute at
Bournemouth, Wallisdowne, Poole, Dorset,
BH12 5HH, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)120 236 3714, fax: +44 (0)120 253
7729
email: suzie@filmevolved.com
Producer: Suzie Irlam
Screenwriter: Line Langebek
Editor: Adam Neale
Director of Photography: Justin Brown
Cast: Joanne Froggatt, Cristina Catalina
Funding: Arts Institute at Bournemouth,
Skillset, Bournemouth Screen Academy
Ed & Tina
Ed learns about human culture and falls in
love with a local girl.
Director: Christophe Vielliard
2008. s16mm. 14 min
Producer: Fred Nelson, c/o Arts Institute at
Bournemouth, Wallisdowne, Poole, Dorset,
BH12 5HH, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)120 236 3714, fax: +44 (0)120 253
7729
web: www.aib.ac.uk
Producer: Fred Nelson
Screenwriter: Christophe Vielliard
Editor: Richard Binet
Director of Photography: Jose Ruiz Rollon
Cast: Kane John Scott, Yennis-Cheung Yan,
Barry J Gordon, Jeremy Tiang
Funding: Arts Institute at Bournemouth,
Skillset, Bournemouth Screen Academy
Edward’s Turmoil
Grandpa, a foul-mouthed old curmudgeon, is
stuck spending the day with Edward, his
neurotic bible-loving grandson. When
Grandpa accidentally says the F-word he
discovers something peculiar about Edward:
his ‘pansy of a grandson’ is tormented by
swear words.
Director: Kim Albright
2009. 35mm. 10 min
Production Company: Thomas Thomas Films,
15-19 Great Chapel Street, London, W1F 8FN,
England, UK
email: kim@thomasthomasfilms.co.uk
Regional Screen Agency: Film London, Suite
6.10, The Tea Building, 56 Shoreditch High
Street, London, E1 6JJ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7613 7676, fax: +44 (0)20 7613
7677
email: info@filmlondon.org.uk
web: www.filmlondon.org.uk
Producer: Trent Simpson
Screenwriter: Kim Albright, David Goo
Editor: Mark Edinoff
Director of Photography: John Watters
Production Designer: Rosy Thomas
Sound: Angell Sound
Music: David Goo, Mean Poppa Lean
Cast: Christopher Fairbank, Raphael Coleman
Budget: £4,500
Funding: North London Film Council, Film
London, private funding

The Elemental
Karen’s mother used to terrify her with tales
of a presence on the dark tenement stair —
something you must never look at. Years
later Karen reluctantly returns to the house
she loathed to find her elderly parents. But
she can’t shake off her childhood fears.
Director: Robert Sproul-Cran
2009. RED. 12 min
Production Company: Northlight
Productions, Unit 002, Ettrick Riverside,
Dunsdale Road, Selkirk, TD7 5EB, Scotland,
UK
tel: +44 (0)175 050 5060
email: robert@northlight.tv
Producer: Katie Crook
Executive Producer: Clare Kerr
Screenwriter: Robert Sproul-Cran
Editor: Guido Schneider
Director of Photography: Jan Pester
Production Designer: Robert Sproul-Cran
Sound: Alastair George
Music: David Wilsoni
Cast: Louise Ludgate, Hope Ross, Hamish
Wilson, Tony Donaldson
Budget: £29,000
Funding: UK Film Council Completion Fund
Endstation Heimat
(Final Station Home)
Second World War, Germany. Karl keeps a
model railway running meticulously on time,
believing his efforts will hasten his train
driving father’s return. The film follows the
inevitable daily battle between a mother
trying to run her home and a son whose only
interest is running his railway.
Director: Jan-Christian Hesse
2008. 16mm. 12 min
Production Company: Irresistible Films,
104 Grove Park, Camberwell, London,
SE5 8LE, England, UK
email: lplaister@hotmail.co.uk
Producer: Luke Plaister
Screenwriter: Jamie Hamilton
Editor: Emilija Vilkyte
Director of Photography: Luis Posada
Cast: Bastian Conradi, Gabi Fritz, Steffan
Boje, Ronja Struck
Funding: Private
Short Films
Enemy Lines
A soldier returns from the battlefield to a
sunny British street. As his tortured memories
threaten to overpower him, he is faced with
the choice of saving an anti-war protester
from a mugging or leaving her to suffer her
fate. But will this war be in her name?
Director: Michael Steel
2008. HDV. 4 min 58 sec
Production Company: FNA Films,
International Business Centre, Mulgrave
Terrace, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear, NE8 1AN,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)191 490 9321, fax: +44 (0)191 490
9322
email: info@fnafilms.co.uk
web: www.fnafilms.co.uk
Regional Screen Agency: Northern Film &
Media, Central Square, Forth Street,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3PJ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)191 269 9200, fax: +44 (0)191 269
9213
email: info@northernmedia.org
web: www.northernmedia.org
Producer: Dawn Furness, Zahra Zomorrodian
Executive Producer: Jude Goldrei
Screenwriter: Fiona Veitch Smith
Editor: David Garbutt
Director of Photography: David Dixon
Music: Steve Luck
Cast: Richard Ridell, Freya Parker, Samantha
Caldwell, Dean Bray, Baden Burns
Budget: £4,000
Funding: UK Film Council, Northern Film &
Media
English Bloody Rose
A mother and daughter’s secrets come to
light when the dark underworld they are
embroiled in confronts them head-on.
Director: Alex Jones
2008. Digibeta. 21 min 51 sec
Regional Screen Agency: Screen WM,
9 Regent Place, Birmingham, West Midlands,
B1 3NJ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)121 265 7120, fax: +44 (0)121 265
7180
email: production@screenwm.co.uk
web: www.screenwm.co.uk
Producer: Saskia Sutton
Screenwriter: Alex Jones
Editor: Dave Cawley
Director of Photography: Nick Beek-Sanders
Production Designer: James Lanton
Music: David Lowe
Cast: Jennifer Kristian, Jillie Meers, Alex
Jones
Budget: £10,500
Funding: UK Film Council, Screen WM
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Enough
A street gang terrorises the neighbourhood.
One man has had enough.
Director: Tor Kristoffersen
2009. 16mm. 2 min 5 sec
Production Company: Shoot Productions,
Glyde House, Glydegate, Bradford, West
Yorkshire, BD5 0BQ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)845 688 0118
email: info@shootproductions.co.uk
International Sales: Tor Kristoffersen,
email: tor@torkristoffersen.com
Producer: Sarah Senior
Executive Producer: Tor Kristoffersen
Screenwriter: Tor Kristoffersen
Editor: Jimi Lund
Director of Photography: Fabian Wagner
Production Designer: Emma Corbett-Ashby
Sound: Adam Smith
Music: The Roots Family
Cast: Jeff Durnell, Oli Lee
Budget: £1,500
Funding: Self-funded
Enough Rope
Iris leads the action to block a dual
carriageway and stop delegates getting
through to the G8 summit. But things get out
of control when one policeman will stop at
nothing to get the traffic moving.
Director: Lynne Harwood
2009. HD. 11 min
Production Company: First Take, 13 Hope
Street, Liverpool, L1 9BH, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)151 708 5767, fax: +44 (0)151 709
2613
email: all@first-take.org
web: www.first-take.org
Producer: Janine Dawson
Screenwriter: Lynne Harwood
Editor: Anna Levin, Stephen Barr
Director of Photography: Jane Farley
Production Designer: Natalia Kalyuzhnaya
Sound: Peter Bailey
Music: Wayne Dineley
Cast: Vicky McClure, Steven Garry, Glenn
Spears
Budget: £13,000
Funding: UK Film Council, Northwest Vision
and Media
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Enter the Preacher
A kick-ass preacher takes to the streets to
help solve the problem of respect in his
neighbourhood. He didn’t reckon on his old
nemesis turning up in time for a kung fu
showdown. Good just got bad.
Director: Paulette James
2008. HD. 10 min
Production Company: B3 Media, Electric
Avenue Studios, 3B Electric Avenue, London,
SW9 8JY, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7274 2121
email: studio@b3media.net
web: www.b3media.net
Producer: Neigeme Glasgow-Maeda, Paulette
James
Executive Producer: Marc Boothe
Screenwriter: Paulette James
Editor: Nathan Perry-Greene
Director of Photography: Rob Wilton
Production Designer: Vanessa Lee
Sound: Tom Williams, Liberio Colimberti
Music: Hutch Demouilpied
Cast: Cornell John, Cavin Cornwall, Aston
Maddix, Diane Brisco, Alex Simpson
Budget: £9,000
Funding: UK Film Council, B3 Media
The Escort
When Lesley, a chaperone for young
offenders, promises to help a young
prostitute she unwittingly brings danger into
her home, forcing her to choose between her
children or her career.
Director: Clare Holman
2008. s16mm. 17 min 51 sec
Production Company: Essential Cinema,
11 Nassington Road, London, NW3 2NN,
England, UK
email: juliet@essentialcinema.com
Producer: Juliet Dowling
Screenwriter: Clare Holman
Editor: Jamie McCoan
Director of Photography: Graham Smith
Production Designer: Julian Nagel
Cast: Lesley Manville, La Charne Jolly
Funding: Private
Short Films
Esther’s Funeral Eyes on the Street
A daughter, a mother, two car crashes and a A documentary team follows community
song. warden Dougie McLelland, a well-meaning
idiot who dreams of becoming a cop, as he
Director: SG Yates
2008. DV Cam. 17 min patrols a run-down town.
Production Company: Film Sense Ltd, Director: David Newbigging
194 Church End, Cambridge, CB1 3LB, 2008. 15 min 31 sec
England, UK Production Company: Running Productions,
email: sarah@film-sense.co.uk Room G48, Out of the Blue, Dalmeny Street,
Producer: SG Yates, Deniz Oner Edinburgh, EH6 8R4, Scotland, UK
Screenwriter: SG Yates tel: +44 (0)131 208 4786
Editor: SG Yates email: enquiries@runningproductions.co.uk
Director of Photography: Luke Gillow
Screen Agency: Scottish Screen, 249 West
Sound: Nicholas Nolan, Adam Yates George Street, Glasgow, G2 4QE, Scotland,
Music: Nicholas Nolan UK
Cast: Jassy Hipkin, Sarah Waddell, Andrew tel: +44(0)845 300 7300
Barron email: info@scottishscreen.com
Budget: £800 web: www.scottishscreen.com
Funding: Film and Digital Media Exchange Producer: Andrew Maas
Screenwriter: Gordon McLean
Editor: Sam Hinckley
Director of Photography: Steven Mochrie
Production Designer: Danny McConnell
Extreme Vocational Sound: Iain Anderson
Experiences Music: Ross Galloway
Cast: David Elliot, John McQuiston, Robert
Jeffrey takes the wrong man, X, hostage as Harrison, Vince Docherty, Karen Bartke
part of an assassin game-playing experience. Funding: UK Film Council, Scottish Screen
He will live to regret it as X seizes the
opportunity to exorcise his own guilt of being
a real assassin. A dark game enters a brutal
dark reality.
Director: Rob Kaplan
F.Stop
2008. HD. 12 min 45 sec A young man walks the streets and stations
Director: Rob Kaplan of a busy city armed with his camera,
email: rob.kaplan@btinternet.com recording and observing from the safety zone
behind his lens.
Producer: Jermaine Grossett
Screenwriter: Rob Kaplan Director: David Mead, Ed Beck
Editor: Sam Jones 2008. Digital SLR. 7 min
Director of Photography: Adrian O Toole Production Company: MB Films,
Production Designer: Marcus Sharp 48 Northcote Road, Twickenham, TW1 1PA,
Sound: Stephan Hart England, UK
Music: Stefan Melzak email: info@mbfilms.co.uk
Cast: Velibor Topic, Paul Roffman
Producer: David Mead, Ed Beck
Funding: Private Screenwriter: Ed Beck, Dave Calub
Editor: David Mead
Director of Photography: Ed Beck
Sound: David Mead
Eyes on the Prize Music: Siddhartha Barnhoorn
Cast: Torsten Scwhick, Lily Beck
John’s broke — but desperate to go the fair.
So when his father unexpectedly hands him Budget: £50 (est)
£10 with the offhand request to ‘win me a Funding: Private
coconut’, John’s cowboy fantasies quickly
turn into an obsession.
Director: Omar Robert Hamilton
2008. s16mm. 7 min 27 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: films@londonfilmacademy.com
web: www.londonfilmacademy.com
Producer: Carolina Luna
Executive Producer: Daisy Gili, Anna
Macdonald
Screenwriter: John Paul Lancaster
Editor: Arup Chowdhury, Omar Robert
Hamilton
Director of Photography: Santosh Kapse
Production Designer: Andrea Di Cenzo
Cast: Matthew Shanfari, Neal Barry, Edward
Fulton, Clare Lawrence, Olivia Hurdle
Budget: £2,500
Funding: London Film Academy

Faith Alone
Hope turns to despair when a successful yet
lonely woman is bombarded throughout the
day by what she doesn’t have, propelling her
into secret acts, desperate thoughts and hard
truths, magnifying her loneliness in a city full
of lonely people.
Director: Stephanie Zari
2009. HDV. 15 min 29 sec
Production Company: Zona Pictures Ltd,
24 Coleman Mansions, Crouch Hill, London,
N8 9EJ, England, UK
email: nouche2002@hotmail.com
Producer: Stephanie Zari
Screenwriter: Stephanie Zari
Editor: Calvin B Grant, Daniel Gonzalez,
David Whyte
Director of Photography: Mikolaj
Jaroszewicz
Music: Abigail Hercules
Cast: Susannah Coster, Howard Teale, Taylor
James, Heather Imbeah, Emily Bell
Budget: £3,500
Funding: Self-funded
Father
The line between sanity and insanity is fine.
What drives ‘normal’ people to act in
extraordinary ways? When a man loses
custody of his children the desperation he
feels leaves him with no choice but to take
control of his own destiny.
Director: David Leon, Marcus McSweeney
2009. RED. 17 min
Production Company: Threefold, 120 Bethnal
Green Road, London, E2 6DG, England, UK
email: marcus@three-fold.com
Producer: David Leon, Marcus McSweeney
Screenwriter: Rashid Rasaq
Editor: Kelvin Hutchins
Cast: Sam Spruell, Matt King, Bronson Webb,
Alexis Bradley, Nick Ewans
Budget: £6,000
Funding: Private
Short Films
Fell
A lumberjack finds himself in Edinburgh, a
city struggling with the clash of architectural
heritage and modern expansion. But the
lumberjack only knows the forest, and this
urban confusion is too much for him.
Director: Peter Gerard
2009. DV Cam. 5 min
Production Company: Accidental Media,
109/1 Swanston Road, Edinburgh, EH10 7DS,
Scotland, UK
email: production@accidental.tv
web: www.accidental.tv
Producer: Peter Gerard
Screenwriter: Peter Gerard
Editor: Peter Gerard
Director of Photography: Peter Gerard
Production Designer: Peter Gerard
Sound: Peter Gerard
Cast: Walt Johnson-Gerard
Budget: £1,000
Funding: Accidental Media
The Fishdance Kid
Getaway driver Molly can’t help feeling she’s
being taken for a ride.
Director: Vanessa Caswill
2008. HD. 5 min 40 sec
Production Company: Sentinel
Entertainment Ltd, 51 Nevern Square,
London, SW5 9PF, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)123 374 0185
email: benjaminpullen@
sentinelentertainment.com
Regional Screen Agency: Screen South, The
Wedge, 75-81 Tontine Street, Folkestone,
Kent, CT20 1JR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)130 325 9777, fax: +44 (0)130 325
9786
email: info@screensouth.org
web: www.screensouth.org
Producer: Ben Pullen
Screenwriter: Kate Wickens
Editor: Ben Nugent
Director of Photography: Damien Pawle
Production Designer: Livi Vaughan
Cast: Edward Bennett-Coles, Sam Booth,
Jonathon Livingstone, Jessica Ransom
Budget: £3,000
Funding: UK Film Council, Screen South
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Five Elements
The idea is to transfer the basic Chinese
philosophy of the five traditional Chinese
Mysterious Elements: Metal, Wood, Water,
Fire, Earth into wisdom in general through
five short stories.
Director: Xiaoxiao Sun
2008. HDV. 20 min
Production Company: Filming East Festival,
Flat 38, Strang House, Britannia Row,
London, N1 8QE, England, UK
email: x.sun@hotmail.com
web: www.filmingeast.org
Producer: Xiaoxiao Sun, Yang Xiao
Screenwriter: Xiaoxiao Sun
Editor: Xiaoxiao Sun
Director of Photography: Tunji Akinsehinwa
Cast: Connor Tuttle, Matt Aitken, Lisa
Wright, Nathan Day, Samantha Ellis
Budget: £6,000
Funding: Signals Media Arts, Essex County
Council, Screen East, Filming East Festival
Ltd
Five Miles Out
Cass is sent away on a camping holiday with
her cousins but despite her best efforts is
unable to forget about her sister back home
in a hospital bed.
Director: Andrew Haigh
2008. 16mm. 18 min 21 sec
Production Company: Glendale Picture
Company, 26 Darlington House, Union Grove,
London, SW8 2QW, England, UK
email: tg@thebureau.co.uk
Producer: Tristan Goligher
Executive Producer: Jo McLellan
Screenwriter: Andrew Haigh
Editor: Lea Morement
Director of Photography: Matyas Erdely
Production Designer: Sarah Finlay
Sound: Tim Barker
Music: James Edward Barker
Cast: Dakota Blue Richards, Thomas Malone,
Hilary Tones
Budget: £50,000
Funding: UK Film Council Cinema Extreme
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Fleshbeast
Two scientists, locked inside a top secret
medical testing facility, come face to face
with a flesh-eating zombie, hell-bent on
devouring the pair of them.
Director: Lee Matthews
2008. DV. 32 min
Production Company: Flesh/Fury
Imageworks, 42 Springfield Close, The
Reddings, Cheltenham, GL51 6SF, England,
UK
tel: +44 (0)124 222 1491
email: berniematthews@blueyonder.co.uk
Executive Producer: Ward Mattheu
Screenwriter: Lee Matthews
Editor: Ashwin Wala
Director of Photography: Peter Frederick
Davies
Music: Peter Rutland
Cast: Alison Cochran, Mark Newman, Jeffrey
Prewer
Budget: £3,000
Funding: Private investors
Floating is Easy
Alison has devoted the last three years of her
life to caring for her mother. When she
wakes one morning to find the front door
open and her patient gone, Alison fails to
raise the alarm. Instead, she chooses to
escape to the relative calm of a floatation
tank.
Director: Graeme McAulay
2008. HD. 14 min 4 sec
Production Company: Alcoba Films, Burgh
Hall Business Centre, 12 Fortrose Street,
Glasgow, G11 5LP, Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)141 562 8279
email: mail@alcobafilms.com
web: www.alcobafilms.com
Producer: Abigail Howkins
Screenwriter: Katy McAulay
Editor: Dave Arthur
Director of Photography: Paul Riley
Production Designer: Helen Allingham
Sound: Travis Reeves
Music: Jo Mango
Cast: Rebecca Sloyan, Alison Peebles,
Shonagh Price
Budget: £6,500
Funding: Private
Short Films
Flushed
Sam, a chubby adolescent boy with low self-
esteem, is forced to confront the greatest
challenge of his life — using the grimy school
toilets. Overcoming his fear he lands in a
more compromising situation: getting locked
in the toilet with the cleaner — an attractive
older woman.
Director: Martin Stirling
2008. HD. 4 min 30 sec
Production Company: White Lantern Film,
The Enterprise Pavilion, Fern Barrow, Poole,
BH12 5HH, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)870 054 3322, fax: +44 (0)870 052
6120
email: info@whitelantern.co.uk
web: www.whitelantern.co.uk
Regional Screen Agency: South West Screen,
St Bartholomews Court, Lewins Mead, Bristol,
BS1 5BT, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)117 952 9977, fax: +44 (0)117 952
9988
email: info@swscreen.co.uk
web: www.swscreen.co.uk
Producer: Adam J Merrifield
Screenwriter: Martin Stirling, Mike Iriatre
Editor: Julia H Marx
Director of Photography: David Capon
Sound: Dan Pringle
Music: Holley Gray
Cast: Danny Kirrane, Jo Hartley
Budget: £5,000
Funding: UK Film Council, South West
Screen, Arts Council of England
Foreign John
John is trying to deal with his daughter’s
death the best he can — he’s just getting on
with it — but increasingly finding himself
completely adrift in the world. But contact
with his boss’s little girl threatens to prove
too much for him.
Director: Victor Buhler
2009. DVC Pro HD. 23 min
Production Company: IWC Media,
St George’s Studios, 93-97 St George’s Road,
Glasgow, G3 6JA, Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)141 353 3222, fax: +44 (0)141 353
3221
email: mailglasgow@iwcmedia.co.uk
web: www.iwcmedia.co.uk
Main: Touchpaper TV, St George’s Studios,
93-97 St George’s Road, Glasgow, G3 6JA,
Scotland, UK
email: kate.croft@touchpapertv.com
Producer: Vicki Patterson
Screenwriter: Sean Buckley
Editor: Sue Wyatt
Director of Photography: Ole Bratt Birkeland
Cast: Johnny Harris, Claudie Blakley, Robert
Luckay, Hannah Sharp
Funding: Channel 4
Forgive
Not everything can be forgiven but some
things can be forgotten. Forgive tells the
heartbreaking story of a father and a son.
Two conversations, five years apart, alter
their paths for the rest of their lives.
Director: Manjinder Virk
2008. HD. 14 min
Production Company: Mango Productions,
c/o Frances Arnold, Rochelle Stevens & Co,
2 Terrets Place, Islington, London, England,
UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7359 3900
email: manjinderv@hotmail.com
Regional Screen Agency: Screen WM,
9 Regent Place, Birmingham, West Midlands,
B1 3NJ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)121 265 7120, fax: +44 (0)121 265
7180
email: info@screenwm.co.uk
web: www.screenwm.co.uk
Producer: Stephen Strachan, Metal Dog
Media
Screenwriter: Manjinder Virk
Editor: Simon Thorne
Director of Photography: Sarah Bartles-
Smith
Cast: Sacha Dhawan, Abdi Gouhad
Budget: £3,000
Funding: Screen WM
Friday
The hypnotic rhythms of her call-centre
script have twisted one woman’s sanity. Her
fragile grip on the real world is about to be
pushed even further.
Director: Tom Wright
2008. HDV. 4 min 30 sec
Production Company: MashMosh Films
email: info@mashmosh.co.uk
Producer: Seeta Indrani, Nicky Blake
Screenwriter: Jim Sweeney
Editor: Mariko Montpetit
Director of Photography: Greg Duffield
Production Designer: Tom Wright, Seeta
Indrani, Chris Bishop
Sound: Mukul
Music: Mukul
Cast: Seeta Indrani
Budget: £2,000
Funding: Self-funded

Furnace Four
Two furnace stokers are supposed to be
burning all the music in the world. But, as
they discover, some things just won’t burn.
Director: Haydn Butler
2009. HD. 13 min 2 sec
Producer: Vanessa Arden-Wood
email: vanessa.ardenwood@gmail.com
Producer: Vanessa Arden-Wood, Haydn
Butler
Screenwriter: Ali Muriel
Editor: Haydn Butler
Director of Photography: Liz Smith
Production Designer: James Lees
Sound: Dave Smith
Music: Christopher Chong, Olly Medlicott
Cast: Napoleon Ryan, Lee Ingleby
Budget: £11,000
Funding: UK Film Council Completion Fund
Gardens With Red Roses
Dominic and Debbie are hopelessly in love.
They live with Grandad but dream of getting
a place of their own. Can they find a way
out? Set amidst New Labour’s 1997 victory,
this is a film about love and aspiration at the
expense of morality in post-Thatcher Britain.
Director: Richard Oliver
2009. 35mm. 15 min 58 sec
Production Company: Silver Films, 4 Quebec
Wharf, 315 Kingsland Road, London, E8 4DJ,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7923 0700
email: janey@silverfilms.co.uk
web: www.silverfilms.co.uk
Producer: Janey de Nordwall
Screenwriter: Richard Oliver, Paul Watson,
Matt Cook
Editor: Rob Featherstone
Director of Photography: Tony Brown
Production Designer: Paul Kondras
Sound: Bent Ear
Music: Bent Ear
Cast: Andy Bates, Helen Mutch, Barry Martin,
Harry Towb
Budget: £50,000
Funding: Self-funded
Short Films
George’s Day
A father and son with little in common
collide forcefully during one fateful day out,
in a shocking encounter of truth and
discovery.
Director: David Whitney
2008. HD. 12 min 4 sec
Production Company: DWF Ltd, 10 Panton
Street, Horwich, Bolton, BL6 6EE, England,
UK
email: david@dwf-video.co.uk
Regional Screen Agency: Northwest Vision
and Media, Room LG45, c/o BBC Manchester,
Oxford Road, Manchester, M60 1SJ, England,
UK
tel: +44 (0)161 244 3749
web: www.northwestvision.co.uk
Producer: David Whitney, Helen Bingham
Screenwriter: Richard Shaw
Editor: Alison Wood
Director of Photography: Russell Nabb
Sound: Matt Hopwood, Neil Haggerty
Cast: Michael Byrne, Rob Dixon, Robert
Hardman
Budget: £12,000
Funding: UK Film Council, Northwest Vision
and Media
Getting Out
A gangster wants a career change to save his
marriage, against the wishes of his violent
brother.
Director: Steve Harris
2008. HD. 11 min 30 sec
Production Company: Darkside Pictures,
22 Breton Road, Rochester, Kent, ME1 2JH,
England, UK
email: paulaandscott@aol.com
Producer: Scott Bates
Screenwriter: Scott Bates
Editor: Ryan Brooks
Director of Photography: John Simmons
Cast: Michele Collins, Mark Arden, Lee
Alliston, Tom Warden, Ruby Bates
Budget: £750
Funding: Private
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Girllikeme
Lucy is young, Lucy is damaged, Lucy is
pretty. Living with abusive, dysfunctional
parents, her only comfort is in strangers and
her shy sidekick Becks. She wants to be a
woman, older, independent, but how far will
she go?
Director: Rowland Jobson
2009. s16mm. 12 min 54 sec
Production Company: Seefood Film & TV,
7 Denmark Street, London, WC2H 8LZ,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7870 1113
email: info@seefood.tv
Producer: Zoe Webster, Victoria Wood, Peter
Devonald, Rowland Jobson
Screenwriter: Peter Devonald
Editor: Chris Barwell
Director of Photography: Robbie Ryan
Production Designer: Helen Scott
Sound: David Bekkevold
Cast: Georgia Bourke, Steve Elder
Funding: UK Film Council, Film London
Borough’s Fund, Haringey Film Fund, Seafood
Ltd
The Gloaming
An experimental horror following two
honeymooners as they set off from their
wedding where their motorbike runs out of
petrol and they are stranded in the
wilderness.
Director: John Bradburn, Andy Paton
2008. HD. 25 min 19 sec
Regional Screen Agency: Screen WM,
9 Regent Place, Birmingham, West Midlands,
B1 3NJ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)121 265 7120, fax: +44 (0)121 265
7180
email: production@screenwm.co.uk
web: www.screenwm.co.uk
Producer: Roger Shannon
Screenwriter: John Bradburn, Andy Paton
Editor: John Bradburn, Andy Paton
Director of Photography: Graeme Dunn
Sound: Martin Clark
Music: Jenny Dale
Cast: Susan Momoko Hingley, Dario Pianese
Budget: £10,500
Funding: UK Film Council, Screen WM
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Good Morning,
Ground Control
We look to Space for answers, for meaning,
for hope. Yet we risk leaving behind the ones
we love. Good Morning, Ground Control
follows two British cosmologists, Danny
Wilson and William Fry, as they struggle to
find the balance between their quest for the
stars and their families on Earth.
Director: David Simpson
2008. 16mm. 11 min 55 sec
Director: David Simpson, c/o Arts Institute at
Bournemouth, Wallisdowne, Poole, Dorset,
BH12 5HH, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)120 236 3047, fax: +44 (0)120 253
7729
email: simpson.david@live.com
web: www.aib.ac.uk
Producer: David Thomson
Screenwriter: David Simpson
Editor: Leila Davis
Director of Photography: Tommy Holman
Music: Chris Matthews
Cast: Anne Acott, Luke Howe, Jim Sturgeon
Budget: £3,000
Funding: UK Film Council, Skillset Screen
Academy
Granny’s Ghost
A Chinese boy in Belfast is visited by his
granny ... and a ghost. Granny is a Medium
and the ghost wants her to go back to Hong
Kong. But Billy wants her to stay.
Director: Lab Ky Mo
2008. HD. 11 min 5 sec
Production Company: B3 Media, Electric
Avenue Studios, Electric Avenue, London,
SW9 8JY, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7274 2121
email: studio@b3media.net
web: www.b3media.net
Producer: Lab Ky Mo
Executive Producer: Marc Boothe
Screenwriter: Lab Ky Mo
Editor: Joe Parsons
Director of Photography: Damien Elliott
Production Designer: Lynne Davison
Sound: Richard Lewis
Music: Louise Heaney
Cast: Alexander Hu, Pik-Sen Lim, Ken Leung,
Alex Fong, Kenny Tsang
Budget: £14,000
Funding: UK Film Council, B3 Media
Short Films
Hammerhead
Oddball Boris tries to reunite his parents on a
shark-spotting trip off the North Yorkshire
coast. Only, his biggest enemy is along for
the ride!
Director: Sam Donovan
2009. HD. 14 min
Director: Sam Donovan
email: samdonovanfilm@gmail.com
Regional Screen Agency: Screen Yorkshire,
Studio 22, 46 The Calls, Leeds, West
Yorkshire, LS2 7EY, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)113 294 4410, fax: +44 (0)113 294
4989
email: info@screenyorkshire.co.uk
web: www.screenyorkshire.co.uk
Producer: Prakash Patel
Executive Producer: Julia Caithness, Tony
Dixon
Screenwriter: Andrew Yerlett
Editor: Alastair Reid
Director of Photography: Fabian Wagner
Music: Tara Crewe
Cast: Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Paula
Jennings, Danny Cunningham, Rielley
Newbold
Budget: £9,000
Funding: UK Film Council, Screen Yorkshire
The Happiness Salesman
A young mother who is struggling with the
cold realities of life is offered a second
chance to fulfill her dreams.
Director: Krishnendu Majumdar
2009. 14 min 56 sec
Production Company: Kaos Films, Pinewood
Studios, Pinewood Road, Iver Heath,
Buckinghamshire, SL0 0NH, England, UK
email: info@kaosfilms.co.uk
web: www.kaosfilms.co.uk
Producer: Arif Hussein
Screenwriter: Steve Gomez
Editor: Chris Gill
Director of Photography: Jan Pester
Production Designer: Stuart Mackay
Sound: Tom Sayers
Cast: Christopher Eccleston, Archie Panjabi,
Aaryan Pandit
Happy as Larry
When Larry is officially named the Happiest
Man in the World, he has no idea the effect
that fame will have on his life.
Director: Brian Philip Davis
2008. HD. 9 min 10 sec
Director: Brian Philip Davis
email: brian@brianphilipdavis.com
Screen Agency: Northern Ireland Screen,
3rd Floor, Alfred House, 21 Alfred Street,
Belfast, BT2 8ED, N Ireland, UK
tel: +44 (0)289 023 2444, fax: +44 (0)289 023
9918
email: info@northernirelandscreen.co.uk
web: www.northernirelandscreen.co.uk
Producer: Villi Ragnarsson
Screenwriter: Dave Kinghan
Editor: Derek Jones, Brian Philip Davis
Director of Photography: Ryan Kernaghan
Production Designer: Anna McCaughtry
Cast: Ruairi Tohill, Bronagh Taggart, Allan
Gidea, Emma Little
Budget: £10,000
Funding: UK Film Council, Northern Ireland
Screen
Happy Face
In a surrealist society everyone is required to
wear the same happy face, so when one
miserable office worker sees a chance to
escape from the norm he pounces on it. But
in this world happiness and being different
may be two things that can never go
together.
Director: Telemachus Mahoney
2008. 16mm. 7 min 30 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: films@londonfilmacademy.com
Producer: Amelie Chicoye, Caroline McKenzie
Screenwriter: Dimitre Sarkis
Editor: Alice Caronna
Director of Photography: Diana Vasquez
Sound: Yaseen Clark
Music: Yaseen Clark
Cast: James Hyland, Malcolm Lauder, Thomas
White
Budget: £1,500
Funding: London Film Academy

Happy Rabbit
A tale of isolation and disillusionment.
Director: Patrick Jackson, François Gamaury
2008. DV Cam. 4 min 49 sec
Production Company: Day For Night Films
LLP, Studio 122, Finsbury Business Centre,
40 Bowling Green Lane, Clerkenwell, London,
EC1R 0NE, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7415 7123, fax: +44 (0)20 7415
7123
email: lisa@dayfornightfilms.com
Producer: Lisa Ridd
Screenwriter: Patrick Jackson
Editor: Patrick Jackson
Director of Photography: Patrick Jackson
Production Designer: Peter Arnold
Cast: Jose Navarro
The Hardest Part
Short Films
Hazel
Hazel goes missing from a small Scottish
community and everyone is a suspect.
Surprisingly the picture perfect housewives
are to blame, but it is what they do to her
that is truly shocking, as is our narrator’s
relationship with them.
Director: Felix Gilfedder
2009. HD/16mm/Mini DV. 10 min
Production Company: Felix Films
email: felixfilms@hotmail.com
Producer: Felix Gilfedder
Screenwriter: Jonathan Baraclough
Editor: Scott Johnson
Director of Photography: Grant McPhee
Production Designer: Simon Black
Sound: Chris Campion, Merlin Bonning
Music: Paul Wilkie
Cast: John Gilmour, Shian Devonan
Budget: £4,800
Funding: Private
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Holywood Sweets
Peter is being bullied at school for eating
healthy food — he needs Gram’s help to get
some sweets, fast!
Director: John Jencks
2008. 16mm. 15 min
Production Company: Sane & Diddly,
1 Northampton Row, London, EC1R 0JZ,
England, UK
email: alexa.seligman@gmail.com
Producer: Jay Taylor, Alexa Seligman
Screenwriter: John Jencks
Editor: David Wigram
Director of Photography: Luke Palmer
Production Designer: Kara Ramsay
Sound: George Pinnock
Cast: Charlie Frances, Kyle McCulloch, Nicola
Borthwick, Scot Peden, Emma West
Budget: £30,000
Funding: Private

An ageing actor tries to regain dignity in the

audition of a lifetime.
Director: Oliver Refson
2009. 35mm. 14 min
Production Company: Agile Films, Unit 1,
68-72 Redchurch Street, London, E2 7DP,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7000 2882, fax: +44 (0)20 7729
3375
email: adam@agilefilms.com
Producer: Adam Shakinovsky
Screenwriter: Oliver Refson
Editor: Lilah Vandenburgh
Director of Photography: Jarin Blaschke
Production Designer: Lilah Vandenburgh
Sound: Haresh Patel
Music: Richard Bissill
Cast: Nickolas Grace, Ruth Sheen, Stephen
Wight, Jeremy Child, Jack O’Connell
Funding: UK Film Council Completion Fund
Harvest
Yebsley and Blue, two petty thieves, burgle a
rundown pig farm in Yorkshire looking for
guns. However, they get more than they
bargained for when they are confronted by
William and his daughter Laura, who are not
the pushovers they first appear.
Director: Alex Winckler
2009. 22 min 16 sec
Production Company: IWC Media,
St George’s Studios, 93-97 St George’s Road,
Glasgow, G3 6JA, Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)141 353 3222, fax: +44 (0)141 353
3221
email: mailglasgow@iwcmedia.co.uk
web: www.iwcmedia.co.uk
Main: Touchpaper TV, St George’s Studios,
93-97 St George’s Road, Glasgow, G3 6JA,
Scotland, UK
email: kate.croft@touchpapertv.com
Producer: Jack Ravenscroft, Vicki Patterson
Executive Producer: Kath Mattock
Screenwriter: Richard Bean
Editor: David Gibson
Director of Photography: Ole Bratt Birkeland
Production Designer: David Bryan
Cast: Andrew Tiernan, Michael Socha, Sam
Kelly, June Watson
Home
Helena
Sometimes leaving brings you back. 17 year-
Helena is tormented by the disappearance of old Tom returns home after an unsuccessful
her husband. Her behaviour becomes suicide attempt.
increasingly bizarre, reflecting her desire to
remember and her need to forget. Director: Debs Gardner-Paterson
2008. HDV. 10 min 24 sec
Director: Toor Mian
2008. 16mm. 8 min 43 sec Production Company: Footprint Films,
26 Greville Green, Emsworth, Hampshire,
Production Company: London Film Academy, PO10 7TH, England, UK
52A Walham Grove, London, SW6 1QR, tel: +44 (0)124 343 0808, fax: +44 (0)124 343
England, UK 0808
tel: +44 (0)20 7386 7711, fax: +44 (0)20 7381 email: info@footprintfilms.co.uk
6116 web: www.footprintfilms.co.uk
email: films@londonfilmacademy.com
Producer: Mark Blaney, Jackie Sheppard
Producer: Rodolfo Coloma Screenwriter: Debs Gardner-Paterson, Chloe
Executive Producer: Anna Macdonald Austin
Screenwriter: Ed Clark Editor: Miikka Leskinen
Editor: Danielle Povey Director of Photography: Kate Reid
Director of Photography: Alev Erdogan Production Designer: Hanna Wiggins
Production Designer: Caroline Story Sound: Simon Jones
Sound: Amos Deane Music: Bernie Gardner
Music: Amos Deane Cast: Max Deacon, Chrissie Cotterill, Andrew
Cast: Vesna Stanojevic, Robin Kingsland, Harrison, Lucinda LLoyd, Natasha Barrero
Sean Knopp
Budget: £6,000
Funding: London Film Academy
Henna Night
It’s bride-to-be Amina’s Henna Night and her
best friend Nour has been cooking all day.
When Amina locks herself in the bathroom
refusing to come out, secrets are revealed.
Director: Sally El Hosaini
2009. 35mm. 12 min
Production Company: Yalla Film Company,
32 Anna Close, Brownlow Road, London,
E8 4NW, England, UK
email: sallyelhosaini@mac.com
Producer: Sally El Hosaini
Screenwriter: Sally El Hosaini
Editor: Iain Kitching
Director of Photography: Sam Goldie
Production Designer: Helen Boyce
Sound: Tarn Willers
Music: Gabriele Palmieri
Cast: Beatriz Romilly, Amber Rose Revah,
Badria Timimi
Funding: Private
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Home Time
At the end of a school day, one young girl
doesn’t want to go home. She finds an
identical self to accompany her.
Director: Natalie Brady
2008. 16mm. 5 min 38 sec
Director: Natalie Brady
email: gnatbrady@yahoo.co.uk
Producer: Moss Barclay
Executive Producer: Cairo Cannon,
Stephanie Turnbull
Screenwriter: Natalie Brady
Editor: Matthew Murdoch
Director of Photography: Brian Fawcett
Production Designer: Rosie Goodwin
Sound: Duncan Warrick
Music: Nicholas Singer
Cast: Grace Brown, Richard Barrett
Budget: £2,500
Funding: Hackney Council, New Pathways
Film Fund, Film London, private sponsor
Homecoming
Homecoming explores the nature of power
and conflict within the traditional British
Asian family.
Director: Zak Hanif
2008. 13 min 28 sec
Production Company: Glasgow Media Access
Centre, 3rd Floor, 34 Albion Street, Glasgow,
G1 1LH, Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)141 553 2620, fax: +44 (0)141 553
2660
web: www.g-mac.co.uk
Screen Agency: Scottish Screen, 249 West
George Street, Glasgow, G2 4QE, Scotland,
UK
tel: +44 (0)845 300 7300
email: info@scottishscreen.com
web: www.scottishscreen.com
Producer: Yvonne Bray
Screenwriter: Zak Hanif
Editor: Lewis Gourley
Director of Photography: Mintu Mantynen
Music: Anders Sodergren
Cast: Renu Setna, Mohammed Taqi Nazeer,
Robert Mountford
Funding: UK Film Council, Scottish Screen
Short Films
Homoworld Human Assembly
In a flip-side gay world, a straight couple In a sixties retro-future, Gia is a woman who
struggle with their relationship living in the has decided to order a self-assembly human
closet. man. His purpose: sex. But then he stops
working properly and she is now stuck with a
Director: Max Barber man who is not able to do what he is
2008. HDV. 17 min supposed to.
Production Company: Clevermax Productions Director: Bernhard Pucher
Ltd, 58 Ambleside Point, Tustin Estate, Old 2008. 35mm. 13 min 35 sec
Kent Road, London, SE15 1EB, England, UK
email: clevermax@aol.com Production Company: Iron Box Films,
web: www.clevermax.co.uk/homoworld 58 Sotherby Road, London, N5 2UT, England,
UK
Producer: Max Barber, Catherine Butler email: ironboxfilms@googlemail.com
Executive Producer: Neil Rees web: www.ironboxfilms.com
Screenwriter: Max Barber, Catherine Butler
Editor: Richarch Wolf Producer: Samuele Romano
Director of Photography: Craig Birt Screenwriter: Bernhard Pucher
Music: Dmitry Kormann Editor: Bernhard Pucher
Cast: Lindsay Chapman, Benjamin Green Director of Photography: Luke Bryant
Production Designer: Gareth Thomas
Budget: £10,000 (est) Music: Roby Meola
Funding: University of East London Cast: Lucy Egerton, MJ Judgefield, Rufus
Graham
Budget: £33,000
Funding: Private investors
The Hope Ruby
Tragic eighteenth-century lovers steal a
valuable gem and die in the attempt. Can
their modern day doppelgangers break the Hurts So Good
spell?
Embittered by his addiction, Dylan surveys
Director: Helen Andre life enslaved to the medicine behind the bar.
2008. HD. 14 min 51 sec His subconscious battles with its demons and
Producer: Helen Andre loses, and we leave him chained within a
tel: +44 (0)140 324 8442, fax: +44 (0)140 324 dungeon of his own creation.
8442 Director: Chris Obi
email: helen_andre@hotmail.com 2009. s16mm. 8 min 20 sec
Producer: Helen Andre Production Company: Partizan Ltd,
Screenwriter: Helen Andre, Ami Baker 40-42 Lexington Street, London, W1F OLN,
Editor: Rachel Tunnard England, UK
Director of Photography: Simon Gilmour tel: +44 (0)20 7851 0200, fax: +44 (0)20 7851
Production Designer: Alexandra Leavey, 0249
Alice Ridley email: martin.poyner@partizan.com
Music: Benjamin Humphries web: www.partizan.com
Cast: Sarah Finigan, Vincent Manna, Kelley
Sarson, Daniel Spencer Producer: Martin Poyner
Screenwriter: Milo Ross
Editor: Rachel Tunnard, Matt Dollings
Director of Photography: Alex Barber
Production Designer: Billy Edwards
How to Kiss a Dead Girl Sound: Vincent Edwards
Cast: Trystan Gravelle, Danny Sapani, Big
Carlos, a Colombian man, comes to Tallinn to Colin
visit his old girlfiend Sonia, who has been
living there for six years. In his luggage he
has a small amount of cocaine. On his arrival
Carlos realises Sonia has a boyfriend and
winning her heart would be a difficult task.
Director: Monica Bravo-Pedrosa
2008. s16mm. 26 min
Production Company: London Film School,
24 Shelton Street, London, WC2H 9UB,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7240 0161, fax: +44 (0)20 7240
0167
email: c.bright@lfs.org.uk
web: www.lfs.org.uk
Producer: Terje Kissa
Screenwriter: Monica Bravo-Pedrosa
Editor: Kumar Ramalingam
Director of Photography: Ants-Martin Vahur
Production Designer: Leen Vormo
Music: Timothy Shrider
Cast: Emily Lucienne, Victor Zaragoza,
Margus Prangel, Andres Mahar, Tavi
Taplenkov
Co-production: Estonia, Colombia
Funding: London Film School

I Love Luci
I Love Luci is a comedy of missing teeth,
unrequited love and one dog’s potential to
shape the fortunes of a couple destined
never to be together.
Director: Colin Kennedy
2009. 35mm. 11 min 49 sec
Production Company: Sigma Films, Film City
Glasgow, 401 Govan Road, Glasgow, G51 2QJ,
Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)141 445 0400, fax: +44 (0)141 445
6900
email: brian@sigmafilms.com
Producer: Brian Coffey
Executive Producer: Robbie Allen, John
Tobin, Dan Lawson, Gillian Berrie, David
Mckenzie
Screenwriter: Colin Kennedy
Editor: Jake Roberts
Director of Photography: Benjamin Kracun
Production Designer: James Lapsley
Sound: Savalas
Music: Ali Forbes
Cast: Camilla Rutherford, Colin Harris, Jimmy
Chisolm, Sanjeev Kohli, Wilson the dog
Funding: Scottish Screen, Screen WM, EM
Media
If Not Now, When?
Daniel is another one of those kids who, like
thousands, dreams of becoming a professional
footballer. On a very ordinary Saturday his
journey takes a sudden and very tragic turn.
Director: Akash Lockmun, Nilesh Bell-Gorsia
2009. HD. 10 min
Production Company: Paper Mannequin
Productions, 53 Oaks Avenue, Worcester
Park, Surrey, KT4 8XE, England, UK
email: akash@papermannequin.com
web: www.papermannequin.com
Producer: Akash Lockmun
Screenwriter: Nilesh Bell-Gorsia
Editor: Nilesh Bell-Gorsia
Director of Photography: Oliver Thom, Kris
Tebbs
Sound: Dan Spencer
Music: Crayzee Banditt
Cast: Eric Kofi Abrefa, Emily Felicia Moore,
Darcy Thomas
Budget: £2,100
Funding: Self-funded
Short Films
If Only ...
Through four short tales, this is an
exploration into some of the pressures and
issues that can lead to suicide within the
Asian community in today’s Britain.
Director: Stephen D Reid
2008. HDV. 9 min
Production Company: Doc Redeye
Productions, PO Box 506, Burnley,
Lancashire, BB11 9EF, England, UK
email: s.reid@burnley.ac.uk
Producer: Doc Redeye
Screenwriter: Stephen D Reid
Editor: Doc Redeye
Director of Photography: Dave Barrow
Production Designer: Stephen D Reid
Sound: Sean Lovell
Music: Stephen D Reid
Cast: Abdul Kayum, Saima Kausar, Gemma
Payne, Abdul Salek, Abdul Goffar
Budget: £6,500
Funding: Department for Children, School
and Families
In His Shoes
After his father’s suicide, Clifford and his
family descend into chaos. His sister
withdraws, his mum takes to her bed, and
Clifford decides he wants to be a girl. All he
needs now is a pair of breasts!
Director: Ornette Spenceley
2008. DVC Pro HD. 12 min 19 sec
Production Company: Ignition Films,
4 Somerset Street, Bristol, BS2 8NB, England,
UK
tel: +44 (0)117 909 9941
email: alison@ignitionfilms.org
web: www.ignitionfilms.org
Regional Screen Agency: South West Screen,
St Bartholomews Court, Lewins Mead, Bristol,
BS1 5BT, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)117 952 9977, fax: +44 (0)117 952
9988
email: info@swscreen.co.uk
web: www.swscreen.co.uk
Producer: Alison Sterling
Screenwriter: Jane Pugh
Editor: Katie Weiland, Carol Salter
Director of Photography: Niels Reetz
Johansen
Production Designer: Sue Mayes
Sound: Tom Heddy
Music: Imran Ahmad
Cast: Shaheen Khan, Kriss Dosanjh, Rupesh
Shah, Karina Minhas
Budget: £8,000
Funding: UK Film Council, South West Screen
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In Passing
Blitz mother Fay Travers carries on the war
on the Home Front alone — her son and
husband away on the front line. One morning
she receives a letter she feels unable to
open. That night, a surprise encounter in a
shelter means she is able to open her letter.
Director: Chris Croucher
2009. HD. 11 min
Production Company: Pico Pictures,
18 Northill Road, Ickwell, Bedfordshire,
SG18 9ED, England, UK
email: michaelberliner@gmail.com
Producer: Michael Berliner
Executive Producer: Sunny Varkey
Screenwriter: Chris Croucher, Mark Beynon
Editor: Steven Forrester
Director of Photography: John Bailie
Production Designer: Sophie Hervieu
Sound: Sonic Trax
Music: Michael Ferguson
Cast: Lesley Sharp, Russell Tovey, Lorraine
Stanley, Sean Pertwee
Budget: £12,000
Funding: ITV, Film London, private
investment
Inconceivable
Jen and Mark can’t have a baby. After years
of failing to conceive, Mark has persuaded
Jen to come to the Cerne Giant on a remote
hillside in Dorset. Legend says that a couple
who make love on the Giant’s famous
fertility symbol will conceive a child. But
Mark can’t get it up ...
Director: Tom Williams
2008. HDV. 8 min 34 sec
Production Company: PVA MediaLab, 1 King
Square, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 3QE, England,
UK
email: mandy@pva.org.uk
Regional Screen Agency: South West Screen,
St Bartholomews Court, Lewins Mead, Bristol,
BS1 5BT, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)117 952 9977, fax: +44 (0)117 952
9988
email: info@swscreen.co.uk
web: www.swscreen.co.uk
Producer: Julie Penfold
Screenwriter: Tom Williams
Editor: Rachel Tunnard
Director of Photography: James Dean
Sound: Thor McIntyre Burnie, Scott Wilkinson
Music: Jo Fry
Cast: Jennifer Hennessy, Kenneth Collard,
Pete Sheridan, Laura Bowen, Henry Johnson
Budget: £5,600
Funding: UK Film Council, South West Screen
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Infamy
Infamy is the tale of one man’s innocence,
stupidity and dogged determination not to let
his lack of discernible skills or talent stand in
the way of his calling to be a modern
television deity.
Director: Garrett David Millerick
2008. HD. 29 min 16 sec
Production Company: Schadenfreude
Productions Ltd, Jacobs Well, West Street,
Newbury, RG14 1BD, England, UK
email: garrett@sfprod.co.uk
Producer: Roopesh Parekh
Screenwriter: Garrett David Millerick
Editor: Brett Irwin
Director of Photography: Mike Muschamp
Production Designer: Natalie Beak
Sound: Liam Abel
Music: JD Masters
Cast: Carol Smillie, Kevin Eldon, Neil
Newbon, Henrietta Clemett
Budget: £40,000
Funding: Private
Inferno
Inferno — an original Hipopera. Dante
searches for the cemetery where his beloved
Beatrice is buried, as Virgil guides him
through Hell to the truth about love and the
fateful night she died.
Director: J Harry Leckstein
2008. Mini DV. 47 min
Production Company: Freeport Records,
324 Beaux Arts Building, 10-18 Manor
Gardens, London, N7 6JW, England, UK
email: harry@freeportrecords.com
web: www.freeportrecords.com
Producer: J Harry Leckstein
Screenwriter: J Harry Leckstein, London
Urban Collective
Editor: Marco Granese, Nigel Gregory
Director of Photography: Marco Granese
Production Designer: J Harry Leckstein,
Marco Granese
Sound: Resin, Carvadeya, London Urban
Collective
Music: Resin, Carvadeya, London Urban
Collective
Cast: James Pyke, Covo, Casey Amber
Budget: £38,000
Funding: Freeport, Islington Council,
Community Channel
Short Films
Into the Light
Jack is losing his sight and his faith in life
along with it, while his young daughter Bella
believes her family is protected by fairies.
After an argument she runs away. So Jack
needs to rediscover his faith in order to find
his daughter.
Director: Alice Caronna
2008. 16mm. 9 min 48 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: films@londonfilmacademy.com
Producer: Darta Kalnina
Executive Producer: Anna Macdonald
Screenwriter: Jamie Stanton
Editor: Pooja Nerurkar
Director of Photography: Jonny O’Donnell
Production Designer: Andrea DiCenzo
Music: Francesco Quadraruopolo
Cast: John Gillespie, Georgia Katz, Tamara
Ustinov, Cheryl McAvoy
Budget: £2,500
Funding: London Film Academy
Into the Woods
A misunderstanding between a family and a
stranger has far-reaching consequences.
Director: Matt Taabu
2008. HDV. 5 min 42 sec
Producer: Rob Speranza, South Yorkshire
Filmmakers Network, 2nd Floor, Site Gallery,
1 Brown Street, Sheffield, S1 2BS, England,
UK
tel: +44 (0)114 276 2400
email: speranza@btconnect.com
Regional Screen Agency: Screen Yorkshire,
Studio 22, 46 The Calls, Leeds, West
Yorkshire, LS2 7EY, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)113 294 4410, fax: +44 (0)113 294
4989
email: info@screenyorkshire.co.uk
web: www.screenyorkshire.co.uk
Producer: Alex Usborne, Rob Speranza
Executive Producer: Julia Caithness, Tony
Dixon
Editor: Anton Short
Director of Photography: Neil Oseman
Sound: Heather Fenoughty
Cast: Branko Tomovic, John Barber, Penny
Capper, Bradley De Cruz
Budget: £9,000
Funding: UK Film Council, Screen Yorkshire
The Invitation
When a young couple’s relationship reaches
breaking point, they discover an unusual way
to confront their truth and reach a deeper
level of understanding.
Director: Nathan Hughes
2008. HD. 7 min 30 sec
Production Company: Mindpaw, Box 63,
Colston Street, Bristol, BS1 5BB, England, UK
email: NH@mindpaw.co.uk
Producer: Julian Holman
Screenwriter: Nathan Hughes
Editor: Nathan Hughes
Director of Photography: Martin Finney
Production Designer: Sophie Windsor-Clive
Sound: Mark Bothwick
Music: I Am The Mighty Jungulator
Cast: Malcolm Hamilton, Rachel Cohen
Budget: £2,000
Funding: Private
Isaac
Beyond the crowded beach, Daniel is pushing
himself closer to death, diving into the sea,
where the past surrounds him. He’s 17,
racing to beat his brother Isaac — the golden
boy, who never fails. But Daniel wins, floats
on his back, watches the sky. It’s his last
moment of freedom.
Director: Jesse Lawrence
2008. HD. 15 min
Regional Screen Agency: South West Screen,
St Bartholomews Court, Lewins Mead, Bristol,
BS1 5BT, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)117 952 9977, fax: +44 (0)117 952
9988
email: info@swscreen.co.uk
web: www.swscreen.co.uk
Producer: Phil Shepherd
Executive Producer: Sarah-Jane Meredith,
Julia Caithness
Screenwriter: Anna Lea
Editor: Jesse Lawrence
Director of Photography: Terry Flaxton
Production Designer: Livi Vaughan
Sound: Sacha Atkinson
Music: John Frankel
Cast: Tom Lawrence, Will Payne, John Fiore,
Barbara Kellerman, Chris Donnelly
Budget: £9,500
Funding: South West Screen, Somerset Film

It’s Nick’s Birthday
A home-made Super-8 musical. Over an all-
day drinking session, the dreams of a
troubled romantic and his companions are
worn away by ennui and isolation.
Director: Graeme Cole
2009. Super 8. 35 min
Production Company: L’Institute Zoom
email: zoomcitta@yahoo.co.uk
Producer: Mick Sugden
Screenwriter: Graeme Cole
Editor: Jonathan Addy, Debbie Steer
Director of Photography: Joe Mannion
Production Designer: Louisa Birkin
Sound: Bernie Steer
Music: Aidan Smith
Cast: Stuart Brown, Catherine Traveller,
Garth Williams, Tuesday Betts
Budget: £2,000
Funding: Self-funded
Jade
Jade, caught in a dilemma of her own
making, struggles to choose the right path. It
becomes apparent to her, though, that she
may have no choice at all.
Director: Daniel Elliott
2009. 16mm. 15 min
Production Company: Third Films, 1st Floor,
Tyneside Cinema,
10 Pilgrim Street, Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE1 6QG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)191 227 5515, fax: +44 (0)191 227
5515
email: sammhaillay@gmail.com
Regional Screen Agency: Northern Film &
Media, Central Square, Forth Street,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3PJ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)191 269 9200, fax: +44 (0)191 269
9213
email: info@northernmedia.org
web: www.northernmedia.org
Producer: Samm Haillay, Duane Hopkins
Executive Producer: Helen Ross, Rebecca
Mark-Lawson
Screenwriter: Daniel Elliott
Editor: Edd Maggs
Director of Photography: Lol Crawley
Production Designer: Joy Sanders
Sound: Susan Pennington
Cast: Aisling Loftus, Michael Socha, Jonny
Philips
Budget: £20,000
Funding: UK Film Council, Northern Film &
Media
Short Films
James
When James realises long buried secrets can
lead to poor family relations, he feels it’s
time to confide with his only friend a secret
of his own.
Director: Connor Clements
2008. HDV. 17 min
International Sales: Network Ireland,
23 South Frederick Street, Dublin, Ireland
tel: +353 1 679 7039, fax: +353 1 670 8493
email: derry@network-irl-tv.com
Producer: Connor Clements
Screenwriter: Connor Clements
Editor: Kevin McDonald
Director of Photography: Declan Keeney
Cast: Niall Wright, Louis Rolston, Matt
Jennings, Margaret Goodman, Gerry Doherty
Janusz
Janusz commutes in and out of London every
day, watching through the window as the
world rushes by. Lydia is moving home after
quitting her job. When these two meet on
the train, they each get a glimpse of the
other’s world.
Director: James Rogan
2009. s16mm. 12 min
Producer: Katrina Cannon
Screenwriter: James Rogan
Editor: Brett Irwin
Director of Photography: Nina Kellgren
Production Designer: Derek Taylor
Sound: Daniel Owen
Music: Ruth Chan
Cast: Marcin Doroncinski, Elizabeth Healey,
Simon Killick, Martin Bishop, Joanna Watt
Funding: Private
Jerome’s Weakness
A grief-stricken scientist has detected the
spirit of his dead son, attached to the boy’s
mother. In his lab, he hopes to transfer this
vital essence into a new body.
Director: Matthew McGuchan
2009. HD. 11 min
Regional Screen Agency: Screen East,
2 Millennium Plain, Norwich, Norfolk,
NR2 1TF, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)160 377 6922, fax: +44 (0)160 376
7191
email: info@screeneast.co.uk
web: www.screeneast.co.uk
Producer: Jonathan Blagrove
Executive Producer: Sam Burton
Screenwriter: Matthew McGuchan
Editor: John Fensom
Director of Photography: Andy Parsons
Production Designer: Mark Sutherland
Cast: Colin McAllister, Shereen Brierton
Budget: £15,000
Funding: UK Film Council, Screen East
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Joe Smeal’s Wheels
For wheelchair-bound decrepit waster Joe
Smeal, redemption awaits in Glasgow’s West
End. Against the contrasting backdrop of the
city, can Joe escape his East End tower-block
existence and wheel himself from one side of
Glasgow to the other in a day, even with the
help of a blind man?
Director: Michael Normand
2009. HDV. 29 min
Production Company: Film Nouveau,
1st Floor, 8 Monson Road, Kensal Green,
London, NW10 5UP, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8961 1930, fax: +44 (0)20 8961
1930
email: makecontact@filmnouveau.co.uk
web: www.filmnouveau.co.uk
Producer: Ashton Radcliffe
Screenwriter: Michael Normand
Editor: Simon Laurie
Director of Photography: Jan Pester
Cast: Ricky Callan, Steven McNicoll
Just Because You’re
Paranoid ...
From babies to butchers, everyone seems to
hate Derek. Is he paranoid, or are they really
out to get him?
Director: Thomas Grove Carter
2009. HD. 5 min 34 sec
Regional Screen Agency: Screen South, The
Wedge, 75-81 Tontine Street, Folkestone,
Kent, CT20 1JR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)130 325 9777, fax: +44 (0)130 325
9786
email: info@screensouth.org
web: www.screensouth.org
Producer: Ben Vokes
email: benvokes@yahoo.com
Producer: Ben Vokes
Screenwriter: Steve Brookes
Editor: Thomas Grove Carter
Director of Photography: Blake Claridge
Sound: Elliott Gilhooly
Music: Dom James
Cast: Ian McNeice, Rupert Young, Ewen
MacIntosh
Budget: £3,000
Funding: UK Film Council, Screen South
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Keel
All is not what it seems when a father and
daughter take a short break at a derelict
beach house on the Finnish coast.
Director: Ian Cottage
2008. 19 min 47 sec
Production Company: Vita Nova Films,
7 Dene Avenue, Gateshead, NE39 1D2,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)191 260 5483, fax: +44 (0)191 247
5758
email: steve@vitanovafilms.com
web: www.vitanovafilms.com
Regional Screen Agency: Northern Film &
Media, Central Square, Forth Street,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3PJ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)191 269 9200, fax: +44 (0)191 269
9213
email: info@northernmedia.org
web: www.northernmedia.org
Producer: Steve Bowden
Screenwriter: Ian Cottage
Editor: Ian Cottage
Director of Photography: Lol Crawley
Cast: Walter James, Antonia Moore, Toomas
Hussar, Charlotte Nunnerley
Funding: UK Film Council, Northern Film &
Media
Kid
A boy is forced to travel a distance too far
into his father’s world.
Director: Tom Green
2009. 35mm/16mm. 25 min
Production Company: National Film and
Television School, Beaconsfield Studios,
Station Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire,
HP9 1LG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)149 473 1452, fax: +44 (0)149 467
8583
email: hsharda@nfts.co.uk
web: www.nfts.co.uk
Producer: Mo Bazazi
Screenwriter: Mahalia Rimmer, Tom Green
Editor: Josh Levinsky
Director of Photography: Sam Care
Production Designer: Patrick Herzberg
Sound: Zhe Wu, Jodie Campbell
Music: Jon Opstad
Cast: Kieran O’Brien, Ralph Laurila, Charles
Mnene, Anthony Adjekum
Funding: National Film and Television School
Short Films
Kingsland #1 The Dreamer
The moon looks down. A stranger arrives in
the city looking for work, love and respect.
We travel with him, briefly dipping into other
lives, treading a tragically inevitable road
that leads him back to the beginning.
Director: Tony Grisoni
2008. 35mm. 21 min 29 sec
Production Company: The Bureau, 18 Phipp
Street, Shoreditch, London, EC2A 4NU,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7033 0555, fax: +44 (0)20 7033
9383
email: mail@thebureau.co.uk
Producer: Kate Ogborn, Mike Elliott
Screenwriter: Tony Grisoni
Editor: Ewa J Lind
Director of Photography: Florian Hoffmeister
Production Designer: Mark Digby
Sound: Tim Barker
Music: Jem Finer
Cast: Abdullah Gurlek, Ali Fidan, Andy Elia,
Fatma Cakmakyurdu, Sema Yildiz
Budget: £40,000
Funding: Film4, The Bureau
Lamb
A farm in spring. A teenage boy, visiting
there, is excluded from the sexuality his
friends are exploring. Alone in the unfamiliar
house he’s frustrated, until a chance
encounter draws him out into the wilds.
Director: Andrew McVicar
2008. HD. 10 min
Production Company: Third Films, 1st Floor,
Tyneside Cinema, 10 Pilgrim Street,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 6QQ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)191 227 5515, fax: +44 (0)191 227
5515
email: sammhaillay@hotmail.com
Regional Screen Agency: Northern Film &
Media, Central Square, Forth Street,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3PJ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)191 269 9200, fax: +44 (0)191 269
9213
email: info@northernmedia.org
web: www.northernmedia.org
Producer: Samm Haillay, Duane Hopkins
Executive Producer: Helen Ross, Julia
Caithness
Screenwriter: Andrew McVicar
Editor: Dan Cheetham
Director of Photography: Damien Pawle
Production Designer: Mel O’Connor
Sound: Andy Cudbrook
Cast: Elliot Balchin, Joy Sanders, Tom
Thurgood
Budget: £10,000
Funding: UK Film Council, Northern Film &
Media
The Last Breath
A family goes scuba diving. An unexplained
ecological disaster strikes. The only oxygen
left is in the tanks on their backs and that’s
about to run out too.
Director: David Jackson
2008. HD. 11 min
UK Distributor: Screen South, The Wedge,
75-81 Tontine Street, Folkestone, Kent,
CT20 1JR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)130 325 9777, fax: +44 (0)130 325
9786
email: info@screensouth.org
web: www.screensouth.org
International Sales: Shorts International,
6-8 Luke Street, London, EC2 A4XY, England,
UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7613 5400
web: www.shortsinternational.com
Producer: Scott Horsfield
Screenwriter: Jamie Shearing
Editor: Tom Canning
Director of Photography: Simon Poulter
Production Designer: Janice Flint
Sound: Steve Chase
Music: Mark Rutherford
Cast: Frances Magee, Carole Weyers, Sarah
Savage, SaraMarkland
Budget: £6,500
Funding: UK Film Council, Screen South
Leaving
Helen fears for her life: she knows that her
husband Jim will kill her if she stays. One
night, following another vicious attack, she
finds the courage to leave.
Director: Richard Penfold, Sam Hearn
2008. 35mm. 22 min
Production Company: Omni Productions,
14-16 Wilson Street, Bristol, BS2 9HJ,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)117 954 7170
email: rachel@omniproduction.co.uk
Producer: Rachel Drummond Hay
Screenwriter: Richard Penfold
Editor: Jules Barton Hill
Director of Photography: Richard Stewart
Production Designer: Joe Borowski
Sound: Ric de Mowbray
Music: Dan Berridge
Cast: Kierston Wareing, Johnny Harris, Joe
Siffleet
Budget: £40,000
Funding: Home Office, Wiltshire Police,
Wiltshire Primary Care Trust
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Leaving Eva Lily’s Image The Lobster Trap
One day the sun burned into everything Making art, a little girl finds magic in the A young boy, Wesley, finds escape from his
and nature took back all the things we once muddle of her parents’ unusual separation. difficult life by going to sea for a day on a
took from it. And the world I knew was lobster boat.
gone ... except for Eva. Director: Susanne Stich
2008. Mini DV. 11 min Director: Henry Darke
Director: Faye Gilbert 2008. 35mm. 12 min
2009. HD. 12 min Screen Agency: Northern Ireland Screen,
3rd Floor, Alfred House, 21 Alfred Street, Production Company: London Film School,
Production Company: Towers Productions, Belfast, BT2 8ED, N Ireland, UK 24 Shelton Street, London, WC2H 9UB,
c/o The Bureau, 18 Phipp Street, Shoreditch, tel: +44 (0)289 023 2444, fax: +44 (0)289 023 England, UK
London, EC2A 4NU, England, UK 9918 tel: +44 (0)20 7836 9642, fax: +44 (0)20 7497
tel: +44 (0)20 7033 0555, fax: +44 (0)20 7033 email: info@northernirelandscreen.co.uk 3718
9383 web: www.northernirelandscreen.co.uk email: c.bright@lfs.org.uk
email: mail@thebureau.co.uk web: www.lfs.org.uk
Producer: Susanne Stich
Producer: Matthieu de Braconier, Kwok Yau email: susannestich@gmail.com Director: Henry Darke
Screenwriter: Faye Gilbert email: henrydarke@yahoo.com
Editor: Chris Barwell Producer: Susanne Stich
Director of Photography: David Katznelson Screenwriter: Susanne Stich Producer: Denzil Monk
Production Designer: Humphrey Jaegar Editor: Susanne Stich Screenwriter: Henry Darke
Sound: Raoul Brand, Tom Barrow Director of Photography: Michael Corish Editor: Sahil Gill
Music: Raoul Brand Music: Neil Burns Director of Photography: Aaron Reid
Cast: Georgia Groome, Charles Mnene, Cast: Stuart Graham, Laine Megaw, Matt Production Designer: Hana Backland
Heather Kate Aidy, James Suter Faris, Annie Gorman Sound: Luke Power
Music: Dan Brown
Budget: £20,000 Funding: Northern Ireland Screen Cast: Chris Williams, Daisy Steinberg, Brian
Bate, Henry Darke
Funding: UK Film Council, Screen South,
Molinare Budget: £11,000
Little Red Hoodie Funding: London Film School, Chew TV

A young girl is told to go and deliver

The Legend of Ol’ Goldie something to her grandmother who is ill.

The Legend of Ol’ Goldie is a fairytale about Director: Jørn Utkilen Lollipop Man
a boy and his only friend, his pet goldfish. 2008. 14 min 36 sec
The thing is, Goldie isn’t your average The Lollipop Man examines the dynamics of
Production Company: Hopscotch Films the decay of urban society: how individuals
goldfish. email: csk@hopscotchfilms.co.uk may become ostracised by society’s uncaring,
Director: Matthew Snyman Production Company: Imagine Pictures, unfeeling and careless attitude toward them,
2008. DV Cam. 7 min 30 sec 18/4 Shandon Place, Edinburgh, EH11 1QL, and so become monsters. It is a cautionary
Scotland, UK tale that involves love, obsession, death and
Director: Matthew Snyman a lollipop man.
email: matthewsnyman@hotmail.com email: ju@spray.no
Producer: Carolynne Sinclair Kidd Director: Michael Axelgaard
Producer: Matthew Snyman 2009. HD. 12 min 8 sec
Screenwriter: Matthew Snyman Screenwriter: Jørn Utkilen
Editor: Matthew Snyman Editor: Colin Monie Production Company: Nils Gaard
Director of Photography: Matthew Snyman Director of Photography: Ole Bratt Birkeland Productions, 66 Dresden Road, Highgate,
Cast: David Godfrey, Andy Cooper, Kate Production Designer: Ruth Paxton London, N19 3BQ, England, UK
Richardson, Tom Godrey Sound: Tom Griffiths email: matthewholt2002@yahoo.com
Music: John Nairn, Arvid Sletta, Lene
Budget: £1,000 Alexandra Producer: Matthew Holt
Cast: Kazmin Borrer, Noel Boyd, Kezia Doran, Screenwriter: Matthew Holt, Michael
Funding: Self-funded Nicola Jo Cully, Gisele Hammond Axelgaard
Editor: Mouthanna Al-Sayegh
Funding: UK Film Council Cinema Extreme Director of Photography: Pawel Krewin
Cast: Tom Bonington, Christa Nicola, David
Light at the End of the Caron, April Holt, Elena Procopiu
Budget: £5,000
Tunnel Funding: Private investors
It’s the anniversary of the London 7/7
bombings in which Andrea lost her partner.
This is the story of one woman’s grief and
one man’s obsession. A dark tale of love,
loss, grief and obsession set in the London
Underground.
Director: John Howlett
2008. DV Cam. 12 min
Director: John Howlett
email: johnhowlett6@gmail.com
Producer: John Howlett
Screenwriter: Alex Finlayson
Editor: Helen Murphy
Director of Photography: Richard Anderson
Production Designer: Georgia Lowe
Music: Birger Clausen
Cast: Angela Ward, Richard Galazka
Budget: £1,000
Funding: Self-funded
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Loneliness in a
Goldfish Bowl
A lonely middle-aged man, James, finds his
way into society through the ordinary lives of
the family next door. When they first move
in, he begins to follow their lives simply by
listening to the sound of their everyday
activities.
Director: Amelie Chicoye
2008. 16mm. 9 min 55 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: films@londonfilmacademy.com
Producer: Pooja Nerurkar
Executive Producer: Anna Macdonald
Screenwriter: Alice Caronna
Editor: Jamie Stanton
Director of Photography: Arup Chowdry
Production Designer: Beverly Hills
Music: Nicholas Singer
Cast: Stephen Chance
Budget: £2,500
Funding: London Film Academy
The Lonely Cowboy
Henry is a film lover with a curious sense of
reality. When faced with the challenge of
impressing the beautiful Katie it is in old
Technicolor films that he finds inspiration.
Will Henry get the girl or will he always be
the lonely cowboy?
Director: Nick Parish
2008. DVC Pro HD. 12 min 30 sec
Production Company: Milkwood Productions,
27 Newman Street, London, W1T 1AR,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7323 1191
email: info@milkwood.tv
web: www.milkwood.tv
Producer: Toufique Ali, Mike Wyeld
Screenwriter: Nick Parish
Editor: Nick Parish
Director of Photography: Matt Broad
Production Designer: Shay Costello
Cast: Edward E White, Susie Allman, Deborah
Grall
Budget: £5,000
Funding: Private
Short Films
Lonely Hearts Interrupted
A woman sifting through the remains of her
life after a bitter divorce finds solace in a
quirky next door neighbour and his zest for
companionship.
Director: Tanya Andrews
2008. Digibeta. 8 min
Screen Agency: Northern Ireland Screen,
21 Alfred Street, Belfast, BT2 8ED, N Ireland,
UK
tel: +44 (0)289 023 2444, fax: +44 (0)289 023
9918
email: info@northernirelandscreen.co.uk
Producer: Vilhjalmur Ragnarsson
Screenwriter: Tanya Andrews
Editor: Andrew Keil
Director of Photography: Ryan Kernaghan
Production Designer: Anna McCaughtry
Cast: Eileen McCloskey, Paddy Scully
Budget: £10,000
Funding: UK Film Council, Northern Ireland
Screen
Lorraine
Lorraine is the new girl at school. She is
faced by the issue of peer pressure and is
lured into the world of a girl gang.
Director: Julius Amedume
2009. Digibeta. 14 min
Production Company: National Film and
Television School, Beaconsfield Studios,
Station Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire,
HP9 1LG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)149 473 1452, fax: +44 (0)149 467
8583
email: hsharda@nfts.co.uk
web: www.nfts.co.uk
Producer: Nuala O’Leary
Screenwriter: Julius Amedume
Editor: Michael Aaglund
Director of Photography: David Liddell
Production Designer: Sophie Neil
Sound: David Pringle
Music: Paul Lambert
Cast: Lisa Diveney, Katie Borland, Gregg
Lowe, Amy McAllister, Michelle Whitney
Funding: National Film and Television School
Love
Ernest helps his wife Angela to end her life.
They are surrounded by sweet and bitter
memories of the moments that led them to
this awful reality.
Director: Cristian Solimeno
2008. DVC Pro HD. 14 min 15 sec
Production Company: La Famiglia Films,
51 Barlow Road, London, NW6 2BJ, England,
UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7973 3577
email: bruce@lafamiglia.tv
web: www.lafamiglia.tv
Producer: Bruce Melhuish
Executive Producer: Kalim Aftab
Screenwriter: Cristian Solimeno
Editor: Cristian Solimeno
Director of Photography: Bruce Melhuish
Production Designer: Bruce Melhuish
Music: Kenji Watanabe, Puccini
Cast: Brett Allen, Amanda Ray King
Budget: £500
Funding: Self-funded
Love Hate
A sweet-natured charity worker finds his life
turned upside down, when he falls in love
with a mysterious woman.
Director: Blake Ritson, Dylan Ritson
2009. 20 min 23 sec
Production Company: Origin Pictures,
23 Denmark Street, London, WC2H 8NH,
England, UK
email: scottjacobson@me.com
Producer: Scott Jacobson
Executive Producer: David Thompson,
Ed Rubin, Beth Pattinson, Jack Arbuthnott,
Rebecca Mark-Lawson
Screenwriter: Blake Ritson, Dylan Ritson
Editor: Rich Orrick
Director of Photography: John Lynch
Production Designer: Dan Betteridge
Sound: Chris Sheedy
Music: Chris Branch, Tom Haines
Cast: Hayley Atwell, Hattie Morahan, Ben
Whishaw, Blake Ritson
Lucky Old Bag
Set to a bohemian soundtrack this dialogue-
free, improvised film tells the story of a
female vagabond who finds a penny on the
street and tries her luck with an unctuous
maı̂tre d’ of an expensive restaurant.
Director: Thomas Stark Holland
2009. 5 min 32 sec
Production Company: TSH Productions,
212 Peach Road, Queens Park, London,
W10 4DY, England, UK
email: tom@thomasstarkholland.com
Producer: Thomas Stark Holland
Screenwriter: Phillipe Fass, Mathew Skolar
Editor: Andy Hall
Director of Photography: Derk Russell
Music: Benjamin James Smith
Cast: Paddy Glynn, Nigel Richards, Victoria
Gillmon, Ben Nealon, Victor Perez
Budget: £5,000
Funding: Private

Luke & the Void
Only child Luke has problems at home and at
school, but he’s on a mission to leave it all
behind.
Director: Matt Freeth
2008. HDV. 14 min 52 sec
Production Company: Ignition Films,
4 Somerset Street, Bristol, BS2 8NB, England,
UK
tel: +44 (0)117 909 9941
email: alison@ignitionfilms.org
web: www.ignitionfilms.org,
www.lukeandthevoid.com
Regional Screen Agency: South West Screen,
St Bartholomews Court, Lewins Mead, Bristol,
BS1 5BT, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)117 952 9977, fax: +44 (0)117 952
9988
email: info@swscreen.co.uk
web: www.swscreen.co.uk
Producer: Alison Sterling
Screenwriter: Matt Freeth
Editor: Colette Hodges
Director of Photography: Louie Blystad-
Collins
Production Designer: Joe Rappaport
Cast: Simon Shepherd, Fergus Prentice, Niki
Felstead, Maya Campagnie
Budget: £8,000
Funding: UK Film Council, South West Screen
Maharishi
A man haunted by visions of violence and
grieving over the disappearance of his wife,
meets a mysterious blind stranger. Together,
these two men must journey through this
dark night and peel back the layers of lies
and violence to discover the truth no matter
how disturbing it may be.
Director: Mark Lediard
2008. HD. 9 min 30 sec
Production Company: Dene Films,
146-148 Westmorland Road, Newcastle upon
Tyne, Tyne & Wear, NE4 7JS, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)191 279 0950
email: mark@denefilms.com
Producer: Chris Chapman
Screenwriter: Geoff Crackett
Editor: Mark Lediard
Director of Photography: Simon August
Cast: James Baldwin, Tony Donaldson, Elaine
Slipper
Budget: £10,000
Funding: UK Film Council, Northern Film &
Media
Short Films
A Man of Letters
A disagreement about the nature of love
between a postman and his friend
leads to an unexpected confession about a
love letter that was never sent.
Director: Tom Turley
2008. HD. 7 min
Production Company: The Agenda
Collective, Suite 53B Eurolink Centre,
49 Effra Road, London, SW2 1BZ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7733 2778
email: info@ontheagenda.co.uk
web: www.ontheagenda.co.uk
International Sales: Tom Turley
email: tom@filmtom.com
Producer: Rowland Kimber
Executive Producer: Tom Turley
Screenwriter: Patrick Thomson, Tom Turley
Editor: Peter King
Director of Photography: David Procter
Sound: Dario Swade
Music: The Chocolate Dandies
Cast: Ian Attfield, Nick Von Schlippe, Laura
Steel
Budget: £500
Funding: Self-funded
Mary and John
After 50 years of marriage, Mary comes to
terms with John, who is a shadow of his
former self.
Director: Julius Amedume
2008. 16mm. 5 min 48 sec
Production Company: National Film and
Television School, Beaconsfield Studios,
Station Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire,
HP9 1LG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)149 473 1452, fax: +44 (0)149 467
8583
email: hsharda@nfts.co.uk
web: www.nfts.co.uk
Producer: Julius Amedume
Screenwriter: Julius Amedume
Editor: Hoping Chen
Director of Photography: Fredericka
Lathbridge
Sound: Duncan Price, Stephen Keogh
Music: Jean-Marc Petsas
Cast: Eddie Price, Marlene Price
Funding: National Film and Television School
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A Matter of Conscience
In sixties Britain, a family is torn apart by
conscience. Could conscience bring them
back together?
Director: Stephen D Reid
2008. DVC Pro. 3 min 30 sec
Production Company: Doc Redeye
Productions, PO Box 506, Burnley,
Lancashire, BB11 9EF, England, UK
email: s.reid@burnley.ac.uk
Producer: Doc Redeye
Screenwriter: Stephen D Reid
Director of Photography: Steve Richardson
Production Designer: Bruce Symons
Sound: Matt Gartside
Music: Stephen D Reid
Cast: Lee Ingleby, Gordon Ingleby
Budget: £1,000
Funding: Doc Redeye
Maybe One Day
A sleepy village in the seventies is home to
Phyllis, a lonely widow who seems to have
given up on life and love. The mysterious
appearance of poetry scrawled on her local
bus stop awakens forgotten memories of her
past and another life that so nearly happened
all those years ago.
Director: Alex Kinsey
2008. HDV. 6 min
Production Company: Shudder Films Ltd
email: info@shudderfilms.co.uk
Regional Screen Agency: Northern Film &
Media, Central Square, Forth Street, Newcastle
upon Tyne, NE1 3PJ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)191 269 9200, fax: +44 (0)191 269
9213
email: info@northernmedia.org
web: www.northernmedia.org
Producer: Jack Tarling
Screenwriter: Craig Rutherford
Editor: Nick Light
Director of Photography: Kyle Heslop
Cast: Pat Dunn, Thelma Miller, Alex Tempest,
Ken Richardson
Budget: £4,000
Funding: UK Film Council, Northern Film &
Media
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Me, Me, Me
Adam is an ambitious young actor whose
minor success in a recent indie film has gone
to his head. He now covets the lead in a new
project but finds he has stiff competition in
Danny, a successful, charming rival actor.
Danny’s constant presence finally drives
Adam to psychotic measures.
Director: Geraldine Geraghty
2009. s16mm. 20 min
Production Company: Kyng Films, 14 Herbert
Street, London, NW5 4HD, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7267 3032
Producer: Catherine Royle
Screenwriter: Geraldine Geraghty
Editor: Luke Jenkinson
Director of Photography: Jono Smith
Cast: Hywel Morgan, Cavan Clerkin, Amanda
Lawrence, Gregor Truter, Amy Beth Hayes
Budget: £5,000
Funding: Self-funded, in-kind
Memorabilis
Sometimes a picture is worth more than a
thousand words.
Director: Chris Gilbertson
2008. 16mm/35mm. 10 min
Production Company: Coco & Claude Films
Ltd, c/o Film38 Ltd, 54 Poland Street,
London, W1F 7NJ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7432 0763, fax: +44 (0)20 8962
8089
email: chantelle@film38.com
Producer: Chantelle de Carvalho
Screenwriter: Chris Gilbertson
Editor: Gary Vernon
Director of Photography: Carlos de Carvalho
Cast: Fred Ridgeway, Caroline Langrishe,
Buffy Davis, Hilton McRae
Budget: £36,000
Funding: Private
Modern Life Is Rubbish
As Liam and Natalie complete the painful
process of separating their CD collection, we
see glimpses of what brought them together
in the first place and what is now tearing
them apart. Through their shared love of
music we gradually chart the tragi-comic
downfall of a once burning love.
Director: Daniel J Gill
2009. HD. 13 min
Production Company: Trail Blazer Pictures,
13B Edison Road, London, N8 8AE, England,
UK
email: danieljeromegill@hotmail.com
Producer: Daniel J Gill
Screenwriter: Philip Gawthorne
Editor: Ben Luria
Director of Photography: Tasha Back
Production Designer: Debbie Burton
Sound: Martin Evanson
Music: Emlyn Francis, Ben Allen
Cast: Rafe Spall, Rebecca Night
Budget: £8,000
Funding: Private
Short Films
Monsters & Rabbits
A story about monsters, moon-walks and
what happens to your imaginary friend when
you make your first real one.
Director: Nicky Lianos
2008. Digibeta. 10 min 36 sec
Production Company: Neon Films, Medius
House LG, 2 Sheraton Street, London, W1F
8BH, England, UK
email: nicky@neon-films.co.uk
web: www.neon-films.co.uk
International Sales: Dazzle Films, Unit
P102 Penn Street Studio, 23-28 Penn Street,
Hoxton, London, N1 5DL, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7739 7716
email: dawn@dazzlefilms.co.uk
web: www.dazzlefilms.co.uk
Producer: Nicky Moss, Donna Mabey
Screenwriter: David Lemon
Editor: Rachel Tunnard
Director of Photography: Annemarie Lean-
Vercoe
Production Designer: Cara Brower
Sound: Roland Heap
Music: Tom Marsh
Cast: James Bachman, Alice Lowe, Tyler
Kennington, Sophie Hattersley, Elizabeth
Elvin
Funding: UK Film Council, Film London
Morning Echo
It’s Christmas day everywhere but in the
Moffatt household.
Director: Hope Dickson Leach
2009. HD. 15 min
Director: Hope Dickson Leach
email: hope@dicksonleach.com
Regional Screen Agency: Film London, Suite
6.10, The Tea Building, 56 Shoreditch High
Street, London, E1 6JJ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7613 7676, fax: +44 (0)20 7613
7677
email: info@filmlondon.org.uk
web: www.filmlondon.org.uk
Producer: Geraldine Patten
Screenwriter: Hope Dickson Leach
Editor: Mikka Leskinen
Director of Photography: Ole Bratt Birkeland
Production Designer: Steve Blundell
Cast: Kerry Fox, Peter Sullivan, Amelia
Foster, Tristram Foster, Nieve Stenton
Budget: £18,000
Funding: UK Film Council, Film London
Mother, Mine
Grieving the death of her adoptive mother,
Alison tries to track down her natural mother
to find a replacement ‘mum’. She sends out
a videotape as an introduction.
Director: Susan Everett
2008. s16mm. 16 min 16 sec
Production Company: South Yorkshire
Filmmakers Network, 2nd Floor, Site Gallery,
1 Brown Street, Sheffield, S1 2BS, England,
UK
tel: +44 (0)114 276 2400
email: speranza@btconnect.com,
susan.everett@ukgateway.net
Regional Screen Agency: Screen Yorkshire,
Studio 22, 46 The Calls, Leeds, West
Yorkshire, LS2 7EY, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)113 294 4410, fax: +44 (0)113 294
4989
email: info@screenyorkshire.co.uk
web: www.screenyorkshire.co.uk
Producer: Rob Speranza
Executive Producer: Tony Dixon
Screenwriter: Susan Everett
Editor: Anton Short
Director of Photography: Luke Palmer
Production Designer: Helen Watson
Sound: Heather Fenoughty
Music: Heather Fenoughty
Cast: Kelly Harrison, Barbara Marten, David
Fleeshman
Budget: £21,250
Funding: UK Film Council, Screen Yorkshire
Mr Z
Mr Z is down on his luck. Having lost his
aviation job, he finds himself financially and
socially destitute. He lives on the periphery
of society and, in his new role as a security
guard, is ignored or ridiculed by the general
public, who view him as an oddball.
Director: Steven Braxton
2009. Digibeta, 16mm. 10 min
Production Company: Screen Academy
Scotland, Edinburgh Napier University,
2A Merchiston Avenue, Edinburgh, EH10 4NU,
Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)131 455 2572, fax: +44 (0)131 455
2538
email: info@screenacademyscotland.ac.uk
web: www.screenacademyscotland.ac.uk
Producer: Steven Braxton, Sara Trotter
Screenwriter: Steven Braxton, Carl Pickard
Editor: Carol McMillan
Director of Photography: Gary Torrance
Production Designer: Steven Braxton
Sound: Udit Duseja
Music: Steven Braxton
Cast: Peter Mulligan, Sara Trotter, Caz, Nicki
Budget: £5,000
Funding: Screen Academy Scotland at
Edinburgh Napier University

My Friend Helen
A group of students go out for drinks. They
drink to excess and eat junk food and sing
some karaoke. A new student joins them: she
can drink and is not getting drunk, can eat a
lot and is not gaining weight. Something is
different with her ...
Director: Bernd Porr
2009. HD. 16 min 20 sec
Director: Bernd Porr
tel: +44 (0)141 330 5237
email: berndporr@f2s.com
Producer: Bernd Porr
Screenwriter: Liam Callander
Editor: Bernd Porr
Director of Photography: Darren
Eggenschwiler
Production Designer: Bernd Porr
Budget: £3,000
Funding: Self-funded
My World
A school class discusses a poem, which has
more relevance to their lives than they at
first think.
Director: Asif Kapadia
2008. 16mm. 4 min
Production Company: Wellington Films,
Broadway Media Centre, 14-18 Broad Street,
Nottingham, NG1 3AL, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)115 840 0043
email: aclark@wellingtonfilms.co.uk
Producer: Rachel Robey, Alastair Clark
Screenwriter: Xing Ding
Editor: Ewa J Lind
Director of Photography: Roman Osin
Production Designer: Victoria Haywood
Sound: Tom Barrow, Tim Barker
Music: Dario Marianelli
Cast: Archie Panjabi
Budget: £10,000
Funding: National Youth Theatre
Necromance ‘A Nursery
Rhyme for the Twisted’
In 1995 the body of a young boy was found
burned to death. An outcast into heavy
metal, the police initially thought the boy
had been involved in a satanic ritual. They
discovered a truth that was beyond anything
they had imagined.
Director: Kerri Davenport-Burton
2008. 16mm. 4 min 23 sec
Production Company: With Spine Films,
17 Barnsbury Street, London, N1 1PW,
England, UK
email: office@withspinefilms.com
web: www.withspinefilms.com
Producer: Kerri Davenport-Burton
Screenwriter: Kerri Davenport-Burton,
Amanda Rootes
Editor: Owen Oppenheimer, Kerri Davenport-
Burton
Director of Photography: John-Henry
Haseltine
Music: Graceless Kelly, Amanda Rootes
Cast: Daeg Faerch, Ruby Blues, Sexy Scara
Budget: £3,000
Short Films
Nice Beaches
Matt and Nayar are thrown together in a
holiday park chalet. One day’s reluctant
encounter becomes a moment of significance
for both of them.
Director: Shafeeq Vellani
2008. s16mm. 14 min
Production Company: Newport School of Art,
Caerleon Campus, Lodge Road, Newport,
NP18 3QT, Wales, UK
tel: +44 (0)163 343 2638, fax: +44 (0)163 343
2610
email: shafeeq.vellani@newport.ac.uk
web: amd.newport.ac.uk
Producer: Edward Casey
Screenwriter: Shafeeq Vellani
Editor: Rick Holbrook
Director of Photography: Mike Fox
Production Designer: Ben Morson, Holly
Withers
Sound: Alan Cridford
Music: The Insects, Junkyard Jive
Cast: Samina Awan, Morgan Val Baker
Budget: £15,000
Funding: Skillset Screen Academy Wales,
University of Wales
Night School
A young couple break into an abandoned
school. Strangers to one another they
struggle to achieve the intimacy they desire.
Director: Ben Soper
2008. HD. 10 min 36 sec
Production Company: Blue Iris Films, 5 Lord
Russell Place, Flat 3F2, Edinburgh, EH9 1NQ,
Scotland, UK
email: blueirisfilms@googlemail.com
web: www.blueirisfilms.co.uk
Screen Agency: Scottish Screen, 249 West
George Street, Glasgow, G2 4QE, Scotland,
UK
tel: +44 (0)845 300 7300
email: info@scottishscreen.com
web: www.scottishscreen.com
Producer: Katie Crook
Executive Producer: Julia Caithness, Robbie
Allen, Dale Corlett, Karen O’Hare
Screenwriter: Ben Soper
Editor: Jonathan Ley
Director of Photography: Robbie Ryan
Production Designer: Rebecca Dover
Sound: Matt Palmer
Music: Scrim & The Hungry I
Cast: Tess Mitchell, Will Anatsui
Budget: £20,000
Funding: UK Film Council, Scottish Screen
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Night Time
Adam is afraid of the monster in his
wardrobe despite his mother’s assurances
that there is no such thing. He promises his
mum he will be ‘brave like dad’, but in the
dark hours Adam will have to face more than
just things that go bump in the night.
Director: Steven James Butler
2008. HD. 12 min 40 sec
Regional Screen Agency: Screen WM,
9 Regent Place, Birmingham, West Midlands,
B1 3NJ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)121 265 7120, fax: +44 (0)121 265
7180
email: info@screenwm.co.uk
web: www.screenwm.co.uk
Producer: Justin Edgar
Screenwriter: Steven James Butler
Editor: Phil Arkinstall
Director of Photography: Gabriel Hyman
Production Designer: Kirsty Bushell
Sound: Oliver Rotchell
Music: Gabriel Hyman
Cast: James Wilson, Kirsty Bushell, Paul
McNeilly
Budget: £10,500
Funding: UK Film Council, Screen WM
No Strings
After corresponding in an internet chat-room
Anne, a nervous middle-aged mother and
Colin, a randy 20-something bloke, meet up
in a hotel room for no-strings sex. But both
are lying and nothing goes to plan.
Director: Noel Kearns
2008. HD. 12 min 40 sec
Producer: Noel Kearns
email: noelkearns@hotmail.com
web: www.noelkearns.com
Producer: Noel Kearns
Screenwriter: Noel Kearns, Janina Samoles
Editor: Sally Brading
Director of Photography: Charlie Grainger
Music: Tandis Jenhudson
Cast: Michelle Banville, James Sheppard
Budget: £3,000
Funding: Self-funded
Not Coming In
Trevor and Becca live in a very happy,
uncomfortable and ‘oddinary’ life.
Director: Schuman Hoque, Carolina
Giammetta
2008. HDV. 2 min 30 sec
Production Company: Growp, 217 Harlesden
Road, Willesden Green, London, NW10 3SD,
England, UK
fax: +44 (0)20 8459 7542
email: carolina@growlondon.co.uk
Producer: Carolina Giammetta
Screenwriter: Carolina Giammetta
Editor: Schuman Hoque
Director of Photography: Schuman Hoque
Cast: Mark Devenport, Carolina Giammetta,
Penn Linfield, Tony Classen
Budget: £300
Funding: Private
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Off Season
Dad and Nick come to the grey, windy
seaside to try to become a family again.
Director: Deena Lombardi
2008. HD. 11 min 12 sec
Production Company: Whistling Thorn Films
Ltd, Flat 11, 31 Inverness Terrace, London,
W2 3JR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8340 2576, fax: +44 (0)127 360
6727
email: offseason@whistlingthornfilms.co.uk
Regional Screen Agency: Screen South, The
Wedge, 75-81 Tontine Street, Folkestone,
Kent, CT20 1JR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)130 325 9777, fax: +44 (0)130 325
9786
email: info@screensouth.org
web: www.screensouth.org
Producer: Casey Herbert, Lou Spain
Screenwriter: Deena Lombardi
Editor: Daniel Greenway
Director of Photography: Neus Olle-
Sorenellas
Production Designer: Ebonie Allard
Cast: Paul Sparks, Daniel Roche, Janet
Whiteside
Budget: £7,750
Funding: UK Film Council, Screen South
Oh, Simone
Simone lives alone, alone in her house, a
house that she never leaves. Her life is
dictated by her duty to tend to her beautiful
orchid and not much else. Simone has never
questioned her purpose ... until now.
Director: Stuart Gatt
2008. 35mm. 9 min 59 sec
Distributor: Ouat Media, 2844 Dundas Street
West, Toronto, ON, M6P 1Y7, Canada
tel: +1 416 979 7380, fax: +1 416 492 9539
email: info@ouatmedia.com
web: www.ouatmedia.com
Producer: Stuart Gatt
Screenwriter: Stuart Gatt
Editor: Richard Mitchell
Director of Photography: Richard Mitchell
Cast: Maimie McCoy, David Bliss
Short Films
Old Land
Two urban cowboys travel through decaying
landscapes, each with their own idea of
where they’re going. Modern men in nature
meet base yearnings as the wide spaces close
around them.
Director: Nick Gibbon
2009. HD. 15 min 30 sec
Production Company: The Space Between,
Knowehead Cottage, Kirknewton, Midlothian,
EH27 8EB, Scotland, UK
email: chimpgibbon@yahoo.co.uk
Producer: Nick Gibbon
Screenwriter: Nick Gibbon
Editor: Nick Gibbon
Director of Photography: Julian Schwanitz
Sound: Rob Walker
Music: Jean-David Caillouet, Tam Treanor
Cast: Simon Grohe, Iain Louden
Budget: £1,000
Co-production: Germany
Funding: Private
The Omniscient Men
Set in the near future, when the time of a
person’s death can be accurately predicted.
Two men: a travelling father who struggles to
come to terms with this information, and a
clockmaker who learns that his results are
drastically inaccurate, are unexpectedly
brought together by this knowledge.
Director: Adam Azmy
2008. s16mm. 8 min 44 sec
Director: Adam Azmy
email: adam.azmy@googlemail.com
Producer: Rosanna Mennear
Screenwriter: Adam Azmy
Editor: Liam Dempsey
Director of Photography: Daniel McCormick
Production Designer: Tommy Nolan
Cast: John Gilligan, Robert Maloney
Budget: £4,000
Funding: UK Film Council, Skillset,
Bournemouth Screen Academy
(one)
A lonely man is offered an unexpected
chance to free himself from his misery.
Director: Benjamin Stevens
2009. Digibeta. 8 min
Production Company: Dead On Impact
email: wave@deadonimpact.co.uk
web: www.deadonimpact.co.uk
Producer: Rob Watson
Screenwriter: Benjamin Stevens
Editor: Siobhan Leonard
Director of Photography: Jamie Goodbrand
Production Designer: Claire Winter
Sound: Tushar Manek, Rusty Shackleford, Izzy
Seeliger-Morley
Music: Eyeballs
Cast: Benjamin Bee, Ingrid Evans, Nick
Ewans, Abigail Halley, Billy Rhodes
Budget: £1,100
Funding: Independent
One Last Love Song
A man is haunted by the memories of his
lover and their romance. Confronted with
regret he is forced to face his past in order
to reconcile his fractured life.
Director: Keith Mackin, John Reck
2009. Mini DV. 11 min 19 sec
Production Company: Plato Films
email: johnreck@hotmail.com
web: www.platofilms.com
Producer: Keith Mackin, John Reck
Executive Producer: Brendan Kinane
Screenwriter: Keith Mackin, John Reck
Editor: Patrick Haggerty
Director of Photography: Doug Walshe
Production Designer: Keith Mackin, John
Reck
Sound: Enos Desjardins, Cormac Donnelly
Music: Matt Watkins
Cast: Matt Watkins, Allan Richardson, Rholda
Wilson
Budget: £850
Funding: Self-funded
The Orchard
Robert Barry is a 27 year-old lost soul in
possession of a 100-acre apple orchard.
A visit from his benefactor sets him on a
course for London, where he must venture
into the dark and curious world outside.
Director: Andrew Saunders
2009. 35mm. 20 min
Production Company: National Film and
Television School, Beaconsfield Studios,
Station Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire,
HP9 1LG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)149 473 1452, fax: +44 (0)149 467
8583
email: hsharda@nfts.co.uk
web: www.nfts.co.uk
Producer: Purnima Phansalkar
Screenwriter: Tim Saunders, Andrew
Saunders
Editor: Lawrence Huck
Director of Photography: Sara Deane
Music: Stuart Earl
Cast: Neil Newborn, Robert Whitelock,
Hector Harkness
Funding: National FIlm and Television School

Oscar & Jim
He wants to see the grave of Jim Morrison.
She wants to find the tomb of Oscar Wilde.
Their Eurostar leaves Paris in two hours. It’s
the end of their first weekend away
together. But will it be their last?
Director: Paul Fenwick, Iain Weatherby
2009. Digibeta. 29 min
Production Company: Anchovy Pictures, Old
Rectory, Durweston, Blandford Forum,
Dorset, DT11 0QA, England, UK
email: iainw@oscarandjim.com
Producer: Paul Fenwick
Screenwriter: Iain Weatherby
Editor: Simon Bryant
Director of Photography: Martin Lightening
Production Designer: Rose Pomeroy
Sound: Martin Wilson
Music: Sarah Llewellyn
Cast: Charlie Covell, Harry Lloyd
Funding: Private
The Other Woman
A married man seeks solace and love but his
mistress has other ideas.
Director: Alex Kinsey
2009. HDV. 4 min
Production Company: Alekin Films
email: alex@alexkinsey.com
Regional Screen Agency: Northern Film &
Media, Central Square, Forth Street,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3PJ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)191 269 9200, fax: +44 (0)191 269
9213
email: info@northernmedia.org
web: www.northernmedia.org
Producer: Mark Chapman
Screenwriter: Alex Kinsey
Editor: Nick Light
Director of Photography: Kyle Heslop
Cast: Susie Burton, Darren Beaumont
Budget: £1,000
Funding: UK Film Council, Northern Film &
Media
Short Films
Overslept
Overslept is the story of Dan, a young man
who awakes in an unfamiliar room and has to
make his way out of a house where
everything is not as it seems.
Director: Jeremy Gee
2008. Mini DV. 6 min
Production Company: Silly Rabbit
Productions, 2 Lumley Grove, Burley Park,
Leeds, LS4 2NJ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)113 274 3236
email: aimee_xx@tiscali.co.uk
Regional Screen Agency: Screen Yorkshire,
Studio 22, 46 The Calls, Leeds, West
Yorkshire, LS2 7EY, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)113 294 4410, fax: +44 (0)113 294
4989
email: info@screenyorkshire.co.uk
web: www.screenyorkshire.co.uk
Producer: Aimee Bowen
Executive Producer: Tony Dixon, Jude
Goldrei
Screenwriter: Jeremy Gee
Editor: Ricky Kershaw
Director of Photography: Nick Everett
Production Designer: Jamie Gowen
Sound: Adam Steel
Music: Gareth Davies
Cast: Max Fountain, Emma Tugman, Keith
Dickenson
Budget: £4,000
Funding: UK Film Council, Screen Yorkshire
Park Close
Park Close is a romantic comedy about Jane,
a failing estate agent who is too timid for the
job. All Jane cares about is Sean, the
neighbour she spies on each night from her
window. When Sean walks into the estate
agency where she works, her world falls
apart.
Director: Maj Britt La Cour
2009. s16mm. 20 min
Production Company: National Film and
Television School, Beaconsfield Studios,
Station Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire,
HP9 1LG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)149 473 1452, fax: +44 (0)149 467
8583
email: hsharda@nfts.co.uk
web: www.nfts.co.uk
Producer: Lorenzo Gangarossa
Screenwriter: Michelle Donkin, Cas Willing
Editor: Judith Allen
Director of Photography: Leigh Alner
Production Designer: James Morrall
Sound: Susannah Sgazebo
Music: Roger Goula
Cast: Lisa Diveney, Ian Kier Attard, Trudie
Goodwin, Joe Gould
Funding: National Film and Television School
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Parliamo Glasgow
15 year-old Lilia has newly moved from
Poland to Glasgow with her Mum and sister
and both are struggling to fit in. But help
comes in the unlikely form of Tony — a half-
deaf OAP who welcomes the opportunity to
teach Lilia English — with a sideline in
Scottish slang.
Director: Hope Dickson Leach
2009. 22 min 41 sec
Production Company: IWC Media,
St George’s Studios, 93-97 St George’s Road,
Glasgow, G3 6JA, Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)141 353 3222, fax: +44 (0)141 353
3221
email: mailglasgow@iwcmedia.co.uk
web: www.iwcmedia.co.uk
Main: Touchpaper TV, St George’s Studios,
93-97 St George’s Road, Glasgow, G3 6JA,
Scotland, UK
email: kate.croft@touchpapertv.com
Producer: Vicki Patterson, Jack Ravenscroft
Executive Producer: Kath Mattock
Screenwriter: Stewart Thomson
Editor: Sue Wyatt
Director of Photography: Ole Bratt Birkeland
Production Designer: David Bryan
Cast: Edtya Budnik, Jamie Quinn, James
Grant, Anne Downie
Partir (Leaving)
Anna is suffering from Alzheimers disease.
She’s about to enter a medical institute and
it’s her last days in the house where she’s
always lived. Lucette, the housekeeper, is
closing the house. Clémentine, Anna’s
granddaughter, comes to help her and spend
those last days in the house with her
grandmother.
Director: Mélodie Lamotte d’Incamps
2008. s16mm. 12 min
Production Company: London Film School,
24 Shelton Street, London, WC2H 9UB,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7240 0161, fax: +44 (0)20 7240
0167
email: c.bright@lfs.org.uk
web: www.lfs.org.uk
Producer: Nicholas Mizzi
Screenwriter: Mélodie Lamotte d’Incamps,
Nima Bonan
Editor: Martine Fabre Lorsac
Director of Photography: Mélodie Lamotte
d’Incamps
Production Designer: Emélia Carrere
Sound: Baptiste Chauchat
Music: Pink Martiny
Cast: Betty Krestinsky, Clémentine Mazzoni,
Lucette Martini
Co-production: France
Funding: London Film School
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Patrick
Patrick Wright is a little boy being bullied at
school. His father is absent and his
heartbroken mother struggles through
everyday life contending with her longing. On
his birthday Patrick receives a present from a
mysterious source, the contents of which
teach him something extraordinary.
Director: Luke Snellin
2008. 35mm. 11 min
Production Company: Luti Media
tel: +44 (0)20 8969 3236
email: lukesnellin@hotmail.com
Producer: Luke Snellin
Executive Producer: Luti Fagbenle
Screenwriter: Luke Snellin
Editor: John Holloway
Director of Photography: Bjorn Bratberg
Production Designer: Phillipa Culpepper
Sound: Alex Thompson
Music: Moritz Schmittat
Cast: Matthew Shanfari, Barbara Joslyn, Ebe
Sievwright
Budget: £12,000
Funding: Silver Birch Investments
Peckish
A gentle black comedy: Mary and Grace have
the minister for tea!
Director: Ewan Kilgour
2008. Digibeta. 5 min 30 sec
Production Company: Purple Media,
12 Magdalen Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX4
1RW, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)845 226 3545
email: peckish@purplemedia.co.uk
Regional Screen Agency: Screen South, The
Wedge, 75-81 Tontine Street, Folkestone,
Kent, CT20 1JR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)130 325 9777, fax: +44 (0)130 325
9786
email: info@screensouth.org
web: www.screensouth.org
Producer: Joe Kennard
Screenwriter: Ewan Kilgour
Editor: Joe Kennard
Director of Photography: Nick Dance
Production Designer: Sally Kettle
Cast: Patricia Loveland, Elizabeth Ross
Funding: UK Film Council, Screen South
Short Films
The Perfect Pot Roast
A housewife goes to great lengths to ensure
that her husband is kept happy and dinner is
on the table!
Director: Andres Del Caño
2008. HD. 4 min 1 sec
Production Company: Ellipsis Films & The
Kitten Has Claws
email: thekittenhasclaws@yahoo.co.uk
Producer: Andres Del Caño, Catriona Ruth
Paterson, Garry Torrance
Screenwriter: Catriona Ruth Paterson
Editor: Andres Del Caño
Director of Photography: Garry Torrance
Production Designer: Catriona Ruth Paterson
Sound: Dougie Fairgrieve
Music: Philip Curran
Cast: Wild Card Kitty, Kim Robertson
Budget: £200
Funding: Self-funded, in-kind
Pictures
In a hospital holding room, we are gradually
drawn into the cold, systematic nature of a
form of child abuse and the psychology
behind it, leading to a shocking conclusion.
Director: Philip Blake
2008. HD Cam. 13 min 34 sec
Production Company: Thursday Film Ltd,
69 Vista Green, Kings Norton, Birmingham,
B38 9PD, England, UK
email: enquiries@thursdayfilm.co.uk
Producer: Alexander Magill
Screenwriter: Philip Blake
Editor: Andrew Spencer, Lee O’Connell
Director of Photography: Phil Wood
Production Designer: Andrew Spencer
Sound: Ron Rogers
Music: Simon Darlow
Cast: Andrea Corr, Neil Pearson, Alan Convy
Budget: £10,000
Funding: Unltd Level 1 fund, private
investment
Pinnacle Man
Set in Liverpool in 2081. The sterile
apartments of the rich are set high above the
grim realities of life at ground level. Pinnacle
Man explores the relationship between
Lennon, a wealthy property mogul and
Kaolin, a ground level girl.
Director: Michael Donaghy, Franco Mitchell,
Joseph Olivera
2008. Mini DV. 9 min 59 sec
UK Distributor: First Light Movies, The Bond,
180-182 Fazeley Street, Birmingham, B5 5SE,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)121 753 4866
email: info@firstlightmovies.com
web: www.firstlightmovies.com
Screenwriter: Michael Donaghy
Editor: Michael Donaghy, Franco Mitchell,
Joseph Olivera
Cast: Alana Olivera, Nicholas Donaghy, Luke
Kerkham, Evelyn Stafford, Oscar Stafford,
Georgina Hutchinson Deahan
Budget: £15,000
Funding: First Light Movies
Playground
Best friends Malachi and Neil visit their
special hideaway only to be greeted by an
uninvited guest.
Director: Avril Evans
2008. HD. 12 min
Production Company: Like No Other Films,
c/o Film London
email: avril.evans5@btinternet.com
Regional Screen Agency: Film London, Suite
6.10, The Tea Building, 56 Shoreditch High
Street, London, E1 6JJ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7613 7676, fax: +44 (0)20 7613
7677
email: info@filmlondon.org.uk
web: www.filmlondon.org.uk
Producer: Avril Evans
Executive Producer: Johann Insanally
Screenwriter: Avril Evans, Derek Lavinere
Editor: Rachel Tunnard
Director of Photography: Bet Rourich
Production Designer: Gabriella Pusztai
Sound: Hugh Griffiths
Music: Vincent Watts
Cast: Omar Brown, Jamie Glover, Gareth
Keiran-Jones, Frances Redmond, Vanessa
White-Smith
Budget: £10,000
Funding: UK Film Council, Film London
The Pond
For Maisie, the pond is a place to escape her
troubled home life and explore her
strengthening allure to the boys; it is the
place where she holds all the power over
them. What she doesn’t know is that it also
holds a deep dark secret.
Director: Sonja Phillips
2008. 35mm. 16 min
Production Company: andsome films,
5 Gainsborough Studios West, 1 Poole Street,
London, N1 5EA, England, UK
email: sonjaphillips@andsomefilms.com
web: www.andsomefilms.com
Production Company: HSI London, Royalty
House, 72-74 Dean Street, London, W1D 3SG,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7437 3344, fax: +44 (0)20 7437
3355
web: www.hsilondon.co.uk
Producer: Ohna Falby
Screenwriter: Sonja Phillips
Editor: Jon Harris
Director of Photography: Mary Farbrother
Production Designer: James Thompson
Sound: Ben Hooper
Music: And
Cast: Beth Pope, Rory Bain, Theo Hodkins,
Alan Stocks
Budget: £25,000
Funding: Private

Pop Art
A film about a friendship between 12 year-
old Toby, who is trying to make sense of life,
and Arthur, who is inflatable. Based on the
short story by Joe Hill.
Director: Amanda Boyle
2008. HD. 15 min 29 sec
Production Company: Forward Films, Third
Floor, 23 Denmark Street, London, WC2H
8NH, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7632 9643
Producer: Kate Myers, Tracy Brimm
Executive Producer: Mary Richards, Beth
Richards, Ed Rubin, Rebecca Mark-Lawson
Screenwriter: Amanda Boyle
Editor: Marguerite Arnold
Director of Photography: Nick Gordon Smith
Production Designer: Jacqueline Abrahams
Sound: Joakim Sundstrøm
Cast: Bill Milner, Sharon Small, Andrew
Harill, Daniel Ryan
Budget: £20,000
Funding: BBC Films, UK Film Council, Film
London
Pornography
In a London flat, Sarah comes to visit her
estranged brother Mark. The initial tension
dissipates, only to gradually and inevitably
explode into something un-containable
between them.
Director: Jo McInnes
2009. 23 min 17 sec
Production Company: IWC Media,
St George’s Studios, 93-97 St George’s Road,
Glasgow, G3 6JA, Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)141 353 3222, fax: +44 (0)141 353
3221
email: mailglasgow@iwcmedia.co.uk
web: www.iwcmedia.co.uk
Main: Touchpaper TV, St George’s Studios,
93-97 St George’s Road, Glasgow, G3 6JA,
Scotland, UK
email: kate.croft@touchpapertv.com
Producer: Vicki Patterson, Jack Ravenscroft
Executive Producer: Kath Mattock
Screenwriter: Simon Stephens
Editor: Sue Wyatt
Director of Photography: Edu Grau
Production Designer: David Bryan
Cast: Kirsty Bushell, Jason Hughes
A Portrait of a Man on the
Morning of his Death
A man already close to the edge is prompted
into taking his own life. This is an intimate
account of his last morning.
Director: Luke Rodgers
2009. HD. 8 min 48 sec
Director: Luke Rodgers
email: lukerodgers38@hotmail.com
Producer: Luke Rodgers
Screenwriter: Luke Rodgers
Editor: Charlotte Way
Director of Photography: Kashifi Halford
Production Designer: Luke Rodgers
Cast: Peter Egan
Funding: Self-funded
Short Films
Post-It Love
Girl meets boy in quirky office romance.
Director: Si&Ad
2008. 35mm. 3 min 16 sec
Production Company: Academy Films,
16 West Central Street, London, WC1A 1JJ,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7395 4155, fax: +44 (0)20 7240
0355
email: post@academyfilms.com
Producer: Lucy Gossage
Screenwriter: Adam Townley, Simon
Atkinson
Editor: Sam Rice-Edwards
Director of Photography: Carl Neilsson
Cast: Charity Wakefield, Lee Ingleby
Funding: Academy Films
Precious
In a dystopian future, two disparate men
meet in an underground tunnel where an
exchange takes a turn for the worse due to a
half-fulfilled promise.
Director: Keri Jenkins
2008. 35mm. 8 min 4 sec
Production Company: Steel Mill Pictures,
60 Berwick Street, 2nd Floor, London,
W1F 8SU, England, UK
email: info@steelmillpictures.co.uk
web: www.steelmillpictures.co.uk
Producer: Trish Wylie
Screenwriter: Keri Jenkins
Editor: Tom Hemmings
Director of Photography: Nic Lawson
Production Designer: Ivan Weightman
Music: Laura Rossi
Cast: Geoff Bell, Richard Goulding
Budget: £10,000
Funding: Private
Primavera (Spring)
A tense family drama about a daughter
struggling to cope with her father’s abusive
regime as head of a Mafia family in modern
day Palermo.
Director: Adam Spring
2009. MiniDV HD. 9 min 20 sec
Production Company: Adam Spring Films,
2 Morse Street, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN1 5QP,
England, UK
email: adamspring@hotmail.co.uk
Producer: Adam Spring
Screenwriter: Adam Spring
Editor: Adam Spring
Director of Photography: Adam Spring
Cast: Marco D’Accardo, Monica D’Accardo,
Alberto Gugliotta, Annalisa Gugliotta,
Roberto Orfanello
Budget: £250
Funding: Self-funded
Co-production: Italy
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Protect Me From What
I Want
Daz is looking for love. Saleem is looking for
sex. Cruising at an underground archway,
these two worlds collide.
Director: Dominic Leclerc
2008. HD. 14 min
Production Company: Whitley-Leclerc
Productions, 65 Longfield Road, Todmorden,
OL14 6ND, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)170 683 9667, fax: +44 (0)170 683
9667
email: dianewhitley@btinternet.com
Regional Screen Agency: Screen Yorkshire,
Studio 22, 46 The Calls, Leeds, West
Yorkshire, LS2 7EY, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)113 294 4410, fax: +44 (0)113 294
4989
email: info@screenyorkshire.co.uk
web: www.screenyorkshire.co.uk
Producer: Diane Whitley
Executive Producer: Tony Dixon, Julia
Caithness
Screenwriter: Dominic Leclerc
Editor: James Schofield
Director of Photography: Martin Parry
Production Designer: Paul Rowan
Sound: Darrell Briggs
Music: Gareth Fry
Cast: Elliott Tittensor, Naveed Choudry
Budget: £10,000
Funding: UK Film Council, Screen Yorkshire
Quietus
A tense and disquieting short film flecked
with macabre humour that leaves you with
no doubt that cats will never be man’s best
friend.
Director: George Taylor
2009. s16mm. 14 min 20 sec
Producer: Hank Starrs
email: hankstarrs@mac.com
Producer: Hank Starrs
Screenwriter: George Taylor
Editor: Joe Randall Cutler
Director of Photography: Sam Care
Production Designer: Alex Marden
Cast: Juliet Stevenson, Eve Pearce
Budget: £7,000
Funding: Private
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The Rain Horse
A tense stand-off between a man and a
horse.
Director: Sebastian Godwin
2008. HD. 12 min
Production Company: Talamasca
Productions, 55 Monmouth Street, London,
WC2H 9DG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7240 9992
email: talamascaprods@hotmail.com
web: www.talamascaproductions.com
Regional Screen Agency: Film London, Suite
6.10, The Tea Building, 56 Shoreditch High
Street, London, E1 6JJ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7613 7676, fax: +44 (0)20 7613
7677
email: info@filmlondon.org.uk
web: www.filmlondon.org.uk
Producer: Hugo Godwin
Screenwriter: Sebastian Godwin
Editor: St John O’Rorke
Director of Photography: Arnau Valls
Colomer
Production Designer: Keith Slote
Sound: Paul Davies
Music: Rohan Stevenson
Cast: Jason Isaacs, Aaran Thomas, Jodie
Tomlinson
Budget: £20,000
Funding: BBC Films, UK Film Council, Film
London
Raising Baby Rio
Neville is a man trying to be a good parent in
an imperfect world. When he rescues his
baby son from Shanna, his crack-addicted
ex-girlfriend, he’s convinced he’s doing the
right thing, but soon discovers that looking
after a child alone is not easy, and with no
money — impossible.
Director: O Nathapon Wongtreenatrkoon
2009. 21 min 54 sec
Production Company: IWC Media,
St George’s Studios, 93-97 St George’s Road,
Glasgow, G3 6JA, Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)141 353 3222, fax: +44 (0)141 353
3221
email: mailglasgow@iwcmedia.co.uk
web: www.iwcmedia.co.uk
Main: Touchpaper TV, St George’s Studios,
93-97 St George’s Road, Glasgow, G3 6JA,
Scotland, UK
email: kate.croft@touchpapertv.com
Producer: Jack Ravenscroft, Vicki Patterson
Executive Producer: Kath Mattock
Screenwriter: Dewi Bruce-Konuah
Editor: Paul Endacott
Director of Photography: Edu Grau
Production Designer: David Bryan
Cast: Nathanial Martello White, Ashley
Madekwe
Short Films
Regent Street
Regent Street is a jazz inspired romantic
tale, the simple and true story of two
strangers who meet by coincidence in
London’s heart. Or were they meant to
meet? Is it a game? You decide.
Director: William Archer
2008. s16mm. 8 min 30 sec
Production Company: Camel on the Line
Pictures, The Dream House, 38 Porchester
Square, London, W2 6AW, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7706 9283, fax: +44 (0)20 7582
2330
email: william@camelontheline.com
web: www.camelontheline.com
Producer: Megan Wallace, Jolyon Rubinstein
Executive Producer: Umberto Menegatti,
Henry Togna, Thomas Evrard, Louise
Bagshawe
Screenwriter: William Archer
Editor: William Archer, Matt Beal
Director of Photography: Stuart Harris
Sound: Kevin Pyne
Music: Derek Nash
Cast: Mel Oskar, Gregg Chillin
Budget: £12,000
Resistance
In Hitler’s Germany, disabled people are
transported from institutions to death
centres. Elise is a patient who sweeps an
institution. She doesn’t speak but watches
everything. Buses of patients leave and
return empty. When it’s her turn, Elise knows
what’s in store.
Director: Liz Crow
2008. Digibeta. 12 min 35 sec
Production Company: Roaring Girl
Productions, 1C Birchall Road, Bristol,
BS6 7TW, England, UK
email: liz@roaring-girl.com
Producer: Lou Birks
Screenwriter: Liz Crow
Director of Photography: Terry Flaxton
Production Designer: Colin Williams
Sound: James Harbour
Music: Claudio Ahlers, Barnaby Taylor
Cast: Lou Birks, Chloe Lucas, David Collins,
Canice Bannon, Mat Fraser
Budget: £29,000
Funding: NESTA, Awards For All
Rewind
What happens in a relationship when the past
intrudes on the present? Sometimes we can
only hang on to the imprints we leave on
each other’s lives.
Director: Cathie Boyd
2009. HD. 18 min 38 sec
Production Company: Blindside Productions
Ltd, 63-66 Brand Street, Glasgow, G51 1DG,
Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)141 427 7754, fax: +44 (0)141 555
1080
email: kat@blindsideproductions.com
web: www.blindsideproductions.com
Screen Agency: Scottish Screen, 249 West
George Street, Glasgow, G2 4QE, Scotland,
UK
tel: +44 (0)845 300 7300
email: info@scottishscreen.com
web: www.scottishscreen.com
Producer: Kat Hebden, David Hancock
Executive Producer: Leslie Finlay
Screenwriter: Sonja Henrici
Editor: John Sackey
Director of Photography: Neville Kidd
Production Designer: Moley Campbell
Sound: Dan Lyth
Music: Craig Armstrong
Cast: Sabine Wolf, Anna Rot
Budget: £50,000
Funding: UK Film Council, Scottish Screen
Rinse & Spin
Boy meets washing machine. Boy loses
washing machine. Boy gets washing machine.
Director: Peter Snowdon
2009. HD. 9 min 46 sec
Production Company: Gourna Films
email: peter@redrice.net
Regional Screen Agency: Northern Film &
Media, Central Square, Forth Street,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3PJ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)191 269 9200, fax: +44 (0)191 269
9213
email: info@northernmedia.org
web: www.northernmedia.org
Producer: Peter Snowdon
Screenwriter: Peter Snowdon
Editor: Bruno Tracq
Director of Photography: Virginie Surdej
Production Designer: Molly Barrett
Music: Them Amazing Babies
Cast: Scali Delpeyrat, James Harris, Ben
Pearson
Funding: UK Film Council, Northern Film &
Media

Rip and the Preacher
A fire and brimstone street preacher is
confronted by an armed and fiercely angry
young street hood. Within seconds the
conflict escalates out of control and the
preacher’s strongly proclaimed faith is put to
the ultimate test.
Director: Michael Lennox
2008. HD. 6 min 44 sec
Screen Agency: Northern Ireland Screen,
3rd Floor, Alfred House, 21 Alfred Street,
Belfast, BT2 8ED, N Ireland, UK
tel: +44 (0)289 023 2444, fax: +44 (0)289 023
9918
email: info@northernirelandscreen.co.uk
web: www.northernirelandscreen.co.uk
Producer: Villi Ragnarsson
Screenwriter: Mark Jordan
Editor: Derek Jones, Michael Lennox
Director of Photography: Ryan Kernaghan
Production Designer: Anna McCaughtry
Cast: Gerard McSorley, Jonathan Harden,
Paul Kennedy
Budget: £10,000
Co-production: Ireland
Funding: UK Film Council, Northern Ireland
Screen
Rı́t Būs
(Will Have It Tomorrow)
Martin promises his girlfriend Anna that he
will get their drugs for tomorrow, but as that
once again doesn’t happen, Anna decides to
go and find them herself. A story of two
youngsters living in an ex-soviet country;
three days in their lives as their attempts to
satisfy their addiction fail.
Director: Juris Kursietis
2008. HD. 42 min
Producer: Juris Kursietis
email: juris.kursietis@gmail.com
Producer: Juris Kursietis, Kristaps Petersons,
Arta Giga
Screenwriter: Juris Kursietis
Editor: Chen Jo-Pu
Director of Photography: Jess Doxey
Production Designer: Janis Bijubens
Cast: Martins Meiers, Kristine Belicka, Rudolfs
Plepis, Leonarda Kestere, Ilze Pukinska
Co-production: Latvia
Budget: £6,000
Funding: Northern Media School, State
Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia
Short Films
A Road Apart
On a road trip set in the Swiss Alps, the paths
of Italian motorist Filippo and Serbian
hitchhiker Boris cross in dramatic
circumstances while both are travelling back
to their homelands to face their two very
different pasts.
Director: Olivier Kaempfer
2008. s16mm. 21 min
Production Company: Parkville Pictures,
4A Parkville Road, London, SW6 7BX,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7381 4224
email: olivier@parkvillepictures.com
web: www.parkvillepictures.com
Production Company: London Film School,
24 Shelton Street, London, WC2H 9UB,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7836 9642, fax: +44 (0)20 7497
3718
email: c.bright@lfs.org.uk
web: www.lfs.org.uk
Producer: Olivier Kaempfer
Screenwriter: Olivier Kaempfer
Editor: Miguel Caro
Director of Photography: Ji-Hwan Park
Cast: Giuseppe Lorusso, Branko Tomovic
Funding: London Film School, Parkville
Pictures
The Rose and the
Poison Tree
A dark timeless fairytale set in a forest which
tells the story of a depressed man seeking
death. He embarks on a journey in search of
a mythical poison tree to fulfill his desire for
death. On his journey he encounters an
enigmatic young girl with flaming red hair
who helps him rediscover the optimistic child
he once was.
Director: Alejandro Viejo Lopez de Roda
2008. Mini DV. 15 min
Director: Alejandra Viejo Lopez de Roda
email: alejandra_viejo@hotmail.com
Producer: Ben Bradbury
Screenwriter: Alejandro Viejo Lopez de Roda
Editor: Blanca Escoda Augusti
Director of Photography: Adam August
Sound: Bram Coumans, Jamie Kossoff
Music: Bram Coumans, Jamie Kossoff
Cast: Michael E Curran, Isabella Crowther,
Sammuel Riley
Budget: £2,000
Funding: Self-funded
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Saltmark
When an old man’s infirmity turns his
granddaughter’s visit from a chore into an
outright humiliation, she faces a stark
choice: his dignity or her own?
Director: Robin Haig
2008. 10 min 40 sec
Production Company: Blindside Productions
Ltd, 64-68 Brand Street, Glasgow, G51 1DG,
Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)141 427 7754, fax: +44 (0)141 555
1080
email: saltmark@blindsideproductions.com
web: www.blindsideproductions.com
Screen Agency: Scottish Screen, 249 West
George Street, Glasgow, G2 4QE, Scotland,
UK
tel: +44 (0)845 300 7300
email: info@scottishscreen.com
web: www.scottishscreen.com
Producer: David Hancock, Kat Hebden
Screenwriter: Robin Haig
Editor: John Sackey
Director of Photography: Ole Bratt Birkland
Production Designer: Amanda Currie
Sound: Dan Lyth
Music: John Harris
Cast: Kirsty Mackay, James Martin
Funding: UK Film Council, Scottish Screen,
GMAC
Sandman
A short run on the beach turns into a
nightmare when a woman’s past finally
catches up with her.
Director: Sarah Ellis
2008. HD. 5 min
Production Company: Logic Films, 27 South
Hill Road, Prenton, Merseyside, CH43 5RL,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)151 200 1504
email: sarah@logicfilms.co.uk
web: www.logicfilms.co.uk
Producer: Sarah Ellis
Screenwriter: Sarah Ellis
Editor: David Beauchamp
Director of Photography: David Beauchamp
Cast: Rina Mahoney, Duncan Marwick
Budget: £200
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Schizofredric
After signing up for an unorthodox self-
improvement programme, Fredric is forced to
watch his life play out as a new improved
version of himself walks in his shoes.
Director: Andrew Poyiadgi
2009. HD. 17 min
Production Company: Thomas Thomas Films,
15-19 Great Chapel Street, London, W1F 8FN,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7437 1112
email: trent@thomasthomasfilms.co.uk
Producer: Jo Smith, Emma Hartard
Screenwriter: Andrew Poyiadgi
Editor: Steve Ackroyd
Director of Photography: Mike George
Production Designer: Rosy Thomas
Sound: Phil Bolland
Music: Ruth Barrett
Cast: Spencer Jones, Laura Evans, Martin
Collins, Matthew Steer
Budget: £10,000
Funding: Self-funded
Sculpted
An artist and her world in a day of rupture.
Her psyche, her crisis and ultimately her
relationship with art reveals itself. Sexuality,
neediness, art and anger intertwine, ending
with a final eruption of violence and attempt
to self-mend.
Director: Eugenio Ercolani
2008. 16mm. 8 min 43 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: films@londonfilmacademy.com
Producer: Joost Zoetebier
Executive Producer: Anna Macdonald
Screenwriter: Simon Modery, Eugenio
Ercolani
Editor: George Gannon, Simon Modery
Director of Photography: Clement Dubois
Music: Frederick Paul Naftel
Cast: Vic Bryson, Amy Steel
Budget: £2,500
Short Films
Section 44
Richard walks out of his house and his world
is turned upside down as he is stopped in the
street, handcuffed, hooded and thrown in a
van. Under the spotlight of the interrogator’s
lamp and the threat of torture will he give
up everything and everyone he can to spare
himself?
Director: Daniel Wilson
2008. 35mm. 4 min 40 sec
Production Company: Hot Tail Films,
38 Douglas Road, London, NW6 7RP, England,
UK
email: hot_tail_films@yahoo.co.uk
web: www.hottailfilms.co.uk
Producer: Daniel Wilson
Screenwriter: Daniel Wilson
Editor: Mike Jones
Director of Photography: Glen Warillow
Sound: Si Mallon
Music: Rachael Chapman
Cast: Damien Lyne, Barry Jackson
Budget: £15,000
Funding: Private
September
In an in-between world of flyovers, grass
verges and dead-ends, where the motorway
hum serves as a constant reminder of the
speed of other lives, Marvin is not going
anywhere. Into this forgotten corner of
English countryside and motorway services
arrives an extraordinary adolescent, changing
his world forever.
Director: Esther May Campbell
2009. s16mm/HD cam. 21 min
Production Company: Met Film Production,
Ealing Studios, London, W5 5EP, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8280 9127
email: anetla@metfilm.co.uk
web: www.esthermaycampbell.com
Producer: Stewart Le Marechal
Screenwriter: Esther May Campbell
Editor: John Minton
Director of Photography: Zac Nicholson
Cast: Nick Aaron, Tim Plester, Georgia
Henderson
Budget: £20,000
Funding: UK Film Council, South West Screen
Shank
Fresh off the prison block, Brody is
determined to set his life straight. Tired of
trouble, he offers to assist a former youth
councillor working with kids on the edge of
the system. But what begins as an
opportunity to change someone else’s life
soon threatens to destroy his own.
Director: Chris Taylor
2008. HD. 25 min
Production Company: Superkrush Films,
20A Nun Street, Newcastle, NE1 5AQ,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)191 233 2001
email: chris@superkrush.com
web: www.superkrush.com
Producer: Fabienne Riener
Executive Producer: Gary Roberts
Screenwriter: Chris Taylor
Editor: Ben Mullins
Director of Photography: James McAleer
Production Designer: Paul Irwin
Sound: Mudshark Audio
Music: Mudshark Audio
Cast: Gary Kitching
Budget: £20,000
Funding: Sunderland Youth Offending Service
Shooter
A war veteran can’t get the shooting out of
his head.
Director: Ronnie Goodwin
2008. HD/DV Cam. 4 min 26 sec
Director: Ronnie Goodwin
tel: +44 (0)138 980 0106
email: ronniegoodwin@hotmail.com
Producer: Bail Khalil
Screenwriter: Ronnie Goodwin, Paul Hunter
Editor: Ronnie Goodwin
Director of Photography: Ronnie Goodwin
Music: Gregor F Narholtz
Cast: Paul Hunter
Funding: Self-funded

Shoreditch Sonata
20-something part-time actress Faye is
introduced to Charlie, a handsome friend-of-
a-friend, after a warehouse party. Charlie
offers her a drink from his bottle of whiskey.
The two find shelter in a run-down industrial
courtyard, but their potentially romantic
encounter is cut short by an unexpected
phone call.
Director: Laura Hypponen
2009. Digibeta. 11 min
Production Company: Electric Blue Films,
c/o Northern Alliance, 19 Bolsover Street,
London, W1W 5NA, England, UK
email: shoreditchsonata@gmail.com
Producer: Laura Hypponen
Screenwriter: Laura Hypponen
Editor: Lee Gingold, Cristina Escoda
Director of Photography: Piers Leigh
Sound: Jason Gosling
Music: We Have Band, Richnxt, Andy
Carrington, Tim Hardstaff
Cast: Alice Kahrmann, Ed Cooper-Clarke
Budget: £800
Funding: Private
Side Effect
How would you feel if your son was a
criminal?
Director: Jae-Ha Myung
2008. s16mm. 12 min 50 sec
Production Company: Cide Effect
Production, 17A Wembley Park Drive,
Wembley, Middlesex, HA9 8HD, England, UK
email: jaehamyung@yahoo.co.uk
Producer: Mireia O’Prey
Screenwriter: Jae-Ha Myung
Editor: Tomas Diaz Velasco
Director of Photography: Ossi Jalkanen
Cast: Margaret Newlands, Johnny Vivash,
Mark Denham, Mandeesh Gill
Budget: £3,000
Funding: Self-funded
Sidney Turtlebaum
Sidney Turtlebaum is an eccentric gay Jewish
man in his eighties who gatecrashes Shiva
Houses of Mourning in order to steal from the
gathered crowd. When Sidney meets Gabriel
he can’t resist the opportunity to show off
his skills to his new young friend.
Director: Tristram Shapeero
2008. 16mm. 18 min
Production Company: Third Man Films,
16 Stourcliffe Street, Marble Arch, London,
W1H 5AQ, England, UK
email: office@thirdmanfilms.co.uk
web: www.thirdmanfilms.co.uk,
www.sidneyturtlebaum.co.uk
Producer: Daniel Jewel
Screenwriter: Raphael Smith
Editor: Gary Dollner
Director of Photography: Federico Alfonzo
Production Designer: Caroline Amies
Cast: Derek Jacobi, Rupert Evans
Budget: £30,000
Funding: Third Man Films, Pears Foundation
UKJFF Short Film Fund, private investors
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A Sin To Waste It Social Circles
Mrs Peterson’s cakes are plump and delicious, Driven from an unstable home, 14 year-old
much like the lady herself. Tricia’s son Cara finds solace with friends, but her erratic
adores them, and her husband adores Mrs behaviour leads to devastating consequences,
Peterson. But Tricia’s going to fight back. exploring the cycle of depravation in
After all, there’s only so much a skinny Scotland’s poorest communities.
woman can take.
Director: Andrew Cumming
Director: Louise Lockwood 2008. HDV. 13 min 52 sec
2008. Digibeta. 10 min 48 sec
Production Company: Kinetic Media,
Production Company: BBC Scotland, Lawrence Street, Buckhaven, Fife, KY8 1BQ,
40 Pacific Quay, Glasgow, G51 1DA, Scotland, Scotland, UK
UK email: andrew@kineticgroup.org
tel: +44 (0)141 422 6081
email: audrey.mcfadden@bbc.co.uk Producer: Andrew Cumming, Claire
Bloomfield
Producer: Audrey McFadden Screenwriter: Andrew Cumming
Screenwriter: Sergio Casci Editor: Andrew Cumming
Editor: Phyllis Ironside Director of Photography: Camila Jimenez
Director of Photography: Neville Kidd Villa
Cast: Kathleen McDermott, Jennifer Lowrie, Production Designer: Andrew Cumming
Jamie MacPhee, Henry Williams Sound: Al Lorraine
Music: David Webster
Budget: £10,000 Cast: Cora Bisset, Donald Pirie, Sam Hardie,
Funding: BBC Scotland Bobby Mitchell
Budget: £3,000
Funding: Independent
Slide Away
Two people face the most difficult moment
imaginable to try to overcome the formidable Souvenirs
odds put upon them. They must ask the right
questions to find the answers they seek. Or A love triangle with sharp edges.
let the darkness destroy something that is
more important than life itself, the sanity of Director: Andy Pearson
the soul. 2009. RED. 20 min
Director: Richard-Hubert Clarke Production Company: Ride The Warble Films
2009. Mini DV. 16 min 40 sec Ltd, 37 Blandford Road, St Albans,
Hertfordshire, AL1 4JP, England, UK
Director: Richard-Hubert Clarke email: andypearson1@mac.com
tel: +44 (0)121 449 0496
email: richie_devious@hotmail.com Producer: Andy Pearson
Screenwriter: Andy Pearson
Producer: Viki Walden, Richard-Hubert Editor: Jane Cina
Clarke Director of Photography: Andy Horner
Screenwriter: Richard-Hubert Clarke Cast: Vyelle Croom, Melanie Gray, George
Editor: Richard-Hubert Clarke Rainsford
Director of Photography: Neil Johnson
Music: Richard-Hubert Clarke Budget: £50,000
Cast: Girija Shettar, Richard-Hubert Clarke, Funding: Self-funded
Dan Lyman, Natasha Black, Jose Espinas
Budget: £2,000
Funding: Self-funded
Smith
Smith is terrorised by a group of youths until
one night he rediscovers the man he once
was.
Director: Mark Jackson, Carly Bowie
2009. SD. 12 min 48 sec
Director: Mark Jackson
tel: +44 (0)134 651 4704
email: jack208@waitrose.com
Producer: Carly Bowie, Mark Jackson
Screenwriter: Carly Bowie, Mark Jackson
Editor: Mark Jackson, Carly Bowie
Director of Photography: Lorna Berridge
Production Designer: Doreen Gibson
Sound: Ben Barrat
Music: Liam Bowie
Cast: Henry Duthie, Jamie Stephen, Ted
Shearer, Scott Coull, Jamie Mathers
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Spirited The Stars Don’t Twinkle In Still

Mary, an elderly widow living in sheltered
housing, is forced to leave the confines of
her home after Dean, a troubled teenager,
fails to visit.
Director: Lewis Arnold
2008. DVC Pro HD. 13 min 35 sec
Production Company: Aquila TV, 94 Broad
Street, Birmingham, B15 1AU, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)121 693 1881
email: tom@aquilatv.co.uk
Regional Screen Agency: Screen WM,
9 Regent Place, Birmingham, West Midlands,
B1 3NJ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)121 265 7120, fax: +44 (0)121 265
7180
email: info@screenwm.co.uk
web: www.screenwm.co.uk
Producer: Tom Knight, Julia Higginbottom
Screenwriter: Liz John
Editor: Nat Higginbottom
Director of Photography: Phil Chavannes
Production Designer: Richard Wells
Music: Phil Mountford
Cast: Margaret John, Joe Dempsie, Den
Woods, Alexander Delamere
Budget: £10,500
Funding: UK Film Council, Screen WM
Spunkbubble
Spunkbubble is a rock of cinematic crack: It’s
gonna mess with your head, with an intense
combo of porn and violence and leave you
skint, soiled and wired. It really is that good.
Have a taste, you know you want to.
Director: Tom Browne
2008. RED. 12 min
Production Company: Hangman Pictures,
111 Frithville Gardens, London, W12 7JQ,
England, UK
email: danielle@hangmanpictures.com
Producer: Danielle Edwards
Screenwriter: Tom Browne
Editor: Andrew Philip
Director of Photography: Nic Lawson
Production Designer: Dan Betteridge
Cast: Martin Compston, Aidan Gillen, Simon
Day, Alice Temple
Outer Space
A forties space adventure story in which two
children, Starman and the Princess, struggle
to escape their doom. As the truth of their
situation becomes clear we realise the
terrible nature of their predicament.
Director: Peter Thwaites
2008. 10 min 25 sec
Production Company: Gorgeous Films Ltd,
11 Portland Mews, London, W1F 8JL,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7287 4060, fax: +44 (0)20 7287
4994
email: anna@gorgeous.co.uk
Production Company: Kaos Films, Pinewood
Studios, Pinewood Road, Iver Heath,
SL0 0NH, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8455 1385
email: info@kaosfilms.co.uk
web: www.kaosfilms.co.uk
Producer: Flora Fernandez-Marengo, Paul
Rothwell, Piers Jackson
Executive Producer: Chris Palmer, Frank
Budgen
Screenwriter: Hank Isaac
Editor: Neil Smith
Director of Photography: Stuart Graham
Production Designer: Robin Brown
Sound: Seb Juviler
Music: Paul Clark
Cast: Janos Orsos, Anna Sefel
Stiletto
A Hitchcock blonde asks an unwitting
stranger to mind her handbag. She
disappears. Moments later, he discovers that
the handbag contains a bomb. There’s only
one way to stop the bomb going off. A simple
matter of murder.
Director: William Mager
2008. HD. 16 min 14 sec
Production Company: Stiletto Production
email: wmager@mac.com
Producer: Cynthia De Souza
Screenwriter: Matthew Wakefield
Editor: Tim Hardy
Director of Photography: Erik Alexander
Wilson
Production Designer: Ana Viana
Sound: Gernot Fuhrmann
Music: Miguel D’Oliveira
Cast: Tom Harper, Beth Winslet, Montserrat
Lombard, Tim Woodward
Budget: £4,000
Funding: Film London, Hitchcock Production
Fund
A single moment in time explored.
Director: Ceri Payne
2009. RED. 17 min
Main: Ceri Payne
email: ceri_payne@yahoo.co.uk
Producer: Carolina Luna, John Paul
Lancaster
Screenwriter: Ceri Payne
Editor: Ceri Payne
Director of Photography: Gareth Munden
Production Designer: Sarah Finlay
Sound: Geoff Howse
Music: Geoff Howse
Cast: Johnny O’Donnell, Kim Noble, Alice
Laughton, Siobhan Doyle
Budget: £2,500
Funding: Self-funded
Stopover
Matthew arrives in Scotland to meet his
father and brother Jesse for the first time in
ten years. An awkward weekend proves that
some bonds still remain intact.
Director: Panu Suuronen
2008. HDV. 17 min 47 sec
Production Company: Screen Academy
Scotland at Edinburgh College of Art,
2A Merchiston Avenue, Edinburgh, EH10 4NU,
Scotland, UK
tel: +44 (0)131 455 2572, fax: +44 (0)131 455
2538
email: info@screenacademyscotland.ac.uk
web: www.screenacademyscotland.ac.uk
Producer: Lassi Valkonen
Screenwriter: Panu Suuronen, Neill Crawford
Editor: Shih-Wei Chiou
Director of Photography: Julian Krubasik
Production Designer: Walt Harris
Sound: Marcin Knyziak
Music: Topi Laitinen
Cast: Sam Fowles, Hector Brown, Nigel
Graham
Budget: £5,000
Co-production: Finland
Funding: YLE, South West Scotland Screen
Commission, Screen Academy Scotland at
Edinburgh College of Art

Storage
19 year-old Jason is trapped by his autism
obsessively boxing up everyday objects, each
box representing certain experiences he
needs to control. His father, desperate to
make a connection, uses items from Jason’s
storage boxes to convey a message to his
son.
Director: David Lea
2009. HD. 15 min
Production Company: Cassiopeia Pictures Ltd
email: kasia@cassiopeia-pictures.com
Producer: Kasia Skibinska
Screenwriter: David Lea
Editor: Dan Greenway
Director of Photography: Piers Leigh
Production Designer: Alice Sheppard Fidler
Sound: Vicete Villaescusa
Music: Antony Brown
Cast: Tom Hughes, Steve Lello
Funding: Private, Westminster Arts Council
Completion Fund
Suicide Man
Frank Richards is drawn back to the remote
cliff-top where his wife committed suicide,
attempting to help others on the brink.
Comic mishaps, ridiculous red tape and
romance ensue.
Director: Craig Pickles
2009. HD. 25 min 38 sec
Director: Craig Pickles
email: cpickles13@gmail.com
Producer: David Westhead
Editor: Luke Price
Director of Photography: Danny Bishop
Sound: Matt Faulkner
Music: Colin Fraser
Cast: David Westhead, James Thornton,
Robert Pugh, Lee Ross
Funding: Self-funded
Sunday
During a blistering hot summer afternoon a
young couple have a picnic in a park. The
mood darkens when the girl’s revealing
choice of outfit attracts the attention of a
rowdy group of men nearby and rouses her
boyfriend’s jealous streak.
Director: Joon Goh
2009. HDV. 5 min
Production Company: JFG
email: joon_goh@yahoo.co.uk
Producer: Joon Goh
Screenwriter: Joon Goh
Editor: Joon Goh
Director of Photography: Jun Keung Cheung
Cast: Irsan Hussain, Robyn Cooper
Budget: £120
Funding: Self-funded
Short Films
Supraman and the School of
Necessity
Supramanya (Supraman) is a young Indian boy
whose blind mother is struggling to make
ends meet. When she gives up on taking care
of him, Supraman takes matters into his own
hands.
Director: Debs Gardner-Paterson
2008. s16mm. 15 min
Production Company: Footprint Films,
26 Greville Green, Emsworth, Hampshire,
PO10 7TH, England, UK
email: info@footprintfilms.co.uk
web: www.footprintfilms.co.uk
Producer: Mark Blaney, Jackie Sheppard
Screenwriter: Ruth Fowler
Editor: Miikka Leskinen
Director of Photography: Kate Reid
Production Designer: Shez Jifri
Sound: Phil Freudenfeld
Music: Bernie Gardner
Cast: Anitha, Svrya, Neha Halgali, Sai Kumar,
‘Meese’ Anjanappa
Budget: $17,000
Co-production: India, USA
Funding: Doorpost Film Project
Sweet Mother
An African mother, returns to England to
reunite with her 16 year-old son, JJ, who is
on the brink of gang violence.
Director: Momodou Musa Touray
2008. s16mm. 13 min 23 sec
Producer: Ofuma Bosah, c/o Arts Institute at
Bournemouth, Wallisdowne, Poole, Dorset,
BH12 5HH, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)120 236 3714, fax: +44 (0)120 253
7729
web: www.aib.ac.uk
Producer: Ofuma Bosah
Screenwriter: Duane FL Wharton
Editor: Max Downey
Director of Photography: Jamie Cattle
Cast: Judith Batchelor, Bashir ‘DoubleS’
Barynye, Ewan David Alman, Jamal
‘Chipmunk’ Fyfe, Zaheer Abbass
Funding: Arts Institute at Bournemouth,
Skillset, Bournemouth Screen Academy
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Tandem
Paul is jobless, alone and about to turn 30.
He’s also selling up the family council house.
Joan, his older sister, pays him an annual
visit, neither of them knowing this year will
be different from the rest.
Director: John Turrell, Tom Turrell
2008. HD. 22 min
Production Company: Perfume Films,
St Jude’s House, 122 Percival Road,
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG5 2EX,
England, UK
email: rachel@perfumefilms.com
Regional Screen Agency: EM Media, 35-37 St
Mary’s Gate, Nottingham, NG1 1PU, England,
UK
tel: +44 (0)115 934 9090, fax: +44 (0)115 950
0988
email: sally.hodgson@em-media.org.uk,
john.tobin@em-media.org.uk
web: www.em-media.org.uk
Producer: Rachel Dargavel
Screenwriter: John Turrell, Tom Turrell
Director of Photography: Martin Radich
Production Designer: Alexander Collins
Sound: Tim Barker
Cast: Rebecca Palmer, Ryan Pope
Budget: £20,000
Funding: UK Film Council New Cinema Fund,
EM Media European Regional Development
Fund
Taxi
In the back of a taxi: a couple discuss chess
on the way to the hospital, a woman runs off
with her lover, a man talks to his inner
woman, and a teenager takes his girlfriend to
prom night. Ordinary people, ordinary lives.
He’s not here to judge them, he’s just here
to drive.
Director: Paul Olding
2008. HD. 15 min
Production Company: Bongo Reef Pictures,
42 Pitfold Road, Lee, London, SE12 9HX,
England, UK
email: paul@bongoreefpictures.co.uk
web: www.bongoreefpictures.co.uk
Producer: Paul Olding
Screenwriter: Eleanor Tucker, Paul May,
Howard Rayner, Harriet Barbir
Editor: Doug Bryson
Director of Photography: Mark Langton
Music: Jim Hawkins
Cast: Anna Savva, Angela Bull, Steve Hart,
Raewyn Lippert
Budget: £100
Funding: Self-funded
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The Taxidermist
A fantastical love story that will knock the
stuffing out of any ‘tail’ that’s gone before.
Director: Bert & Bertie
2009. HD. 22 min
Production Company: Warp Developments
Ltd, 6-10 Convent Street, Nottingham,
NG1 3LL, England, UK
email: festivals@bertiefilms.co.uk
Regional Screen Agency: EM Media, 35-37 St
Mary’s Gate, Nottingham, NG1 1PU, England,
UK
tel: +44 (0)115 934 9006, fax: +44 (0)115 950
0988
email: sally.hodgson@em-media.org.uk
web: www.em-media.org.uk
Producer: Louise Knight, Andy Welch, Miles
Wilkes
Screenwriter: Bert & Bertie
Editor: Matt Chodan
Director of Photography: Lynda Hall
Production Designer: Jonathon Wright
Sound: Greg Marshall
Music: Rob Lord
Cast: Camilla Rutherland, Craig Parkinson,
Paul Bhattacharjee, Ford Kiernan
Budget: £23,000
Funding: UK Film Council New Cinema Fund,
EM Media European Regional Development
Fund
Tea and Biscuits
Billy and Eva are two people who meet in the
gap of time between life and death. A short
and sweet moment shared in a cafe, over a
cup of tea and biscuits, reflecting on a little
bit of their childhood.
Director: Chris Klockner
2008. RED. 12 min 34 sec
Production Company: Punkdog Films
email: alexandra.barker@yahoo.co.uk
Producer: Chris Klockner, Alexandra Barker,
Rupert Bryan
Screenwriter: Alexandra Barker
Editor: Kelvin Hutchins
Director of Photography: Fabio Calascibetta
Production Designer: Jolene Farmer
Sound: Trevor Moore
Music: Alexandra Barker, Stuart Zender, Zero
7, Paolo Conte, Alexi Murdoch
Cast: Toby Kebbell, Alexandra Barker
Budget: £8,000
Funding: Private
Short Films
Tender
When Liam wins some money on a scratch
card, Alisha is suddenly interested. And for a
while life outside home is good for Liam. But
when he uses the money to try and solve his
mum’s problems, things get worse for
everybody.
Director: Deborah Haywood
2009. HD. 22 min 45 sec
Regional Screen Agency: EM Media,
35-37 St Mary’s Gate, Nottingham, NG1 1PU,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)115 934 9090, fax: +44 (0)115 950
0988
email: info@em-media.org.uk
web: www.em-media.org.uk
Producer: Tina Pawlik, Yvonne Bray
Screenwriter: Roger Hadfield
Editor: Fiona de Souza
Director of Photography: Ursula Pontikos
Production Designer: Matt Wells
Sound: Grant Bridgeman
Cast: Dylan Dvignan-Evans, Sarah Heaney,
Sian Breckin, Josef Altin, Andrew Buckley
Budget: £15,000
Funding: UK Film Council New Cinema Fund,
EM Media European Regional Development
Fund
Tenner
Homer is a seemingly dysfunctional teenager
who lives with his eccentric bong-smoking
grandfather, Jolly. Homer is holding a
vendetta against local shop-owner Pardip. His
attempt to escape an electronic tagging
curfew reveals a shocking motive to his
actions.
Director: David O’Neill
2008. Digibeta. 12 min 52 sec
Production Company: Bigger Pictures,
Elstree Studios, Shenley Road, Borehamwood,
Hertfordshire, WD6 1JG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8324 2150
email: darren@biggerpictures.co.uk
web: www.biggerpictures.co.uk
Regional Screen Agency: Screen East,
2 Millennium Plain, Norwich, Norfolk,
NR2 1TF, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)160 377 6922, fax: +44 (0)160 376
7191
email: info@screeneast.co.uk
web: www.screeneast.co.uk
Producer: Darren Bender, Andrea Bigger
Executive Producer: Sam Burton
Screenwriter: David O’Neill
Editor: Rudolf Buitendach
Director of Photography: Simon Maggs
Production Designer: Elliott Day
Cast: Bronson Webb, Barry Martin, Bhasker
Patel
Budget: £10,500
Funding: UK Film Council, Screen East
This is Christmas
A black comedy about a fateful Christmas
dinner. You should try the parsnips ...
Director: Alex Norris
2009. 16mm. 6 min
Regional Screen Agency: Film London, Suite
6.10, The Tea Building, 56 Shoreditch High
Street, London, E1 6JJ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7613 7676, fax: +44 (0)20 7613
7677
email: info@filmlondon.org.uk
web: www.filmlondon.org.uk
Director: Alex Norris
email: alexnorris@mac.com
Producer: Robert Waddilove
Screenwriter: Alex Norris
Editor: Alex Marsh
Director of Photography: Luke Scott
Production Designer: Julian Nagel
Sound: Silk City Sounds
Music: Tricity Vogue
Cast: Maggie Saunders, Colin R Campbell
Budget: £8,000
Funding: Film London, North London Film
Fund
This Way Up
A large cardboard box. A letter to Father
Christmas. And a seven year-old boy with a
big imagination. What happens when your
world gets turned upside down? The story of
one small boy’s journey from innocence to
experience.
Director: Sarah Punshon
2008. HDV. 8 min 31 sec
Production Company: Shoot Productions,
Glyde House, Glydegate, Bradford, West
Yorkshire, BD5 0BQ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)127 429 9305
email: sarah@shootproductions.co.uk
Regional Screen Agency: Screen Yorkshire,
Studio 22, 46 The Calls, Leeds, West
Yorkshire, LS2 7EY, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)113 294 4410, fax: +44 (0)113 294
4989
email: info@screenyorkshire.co.uk
web: www.screenyorkshire.co.uk
Producer: Sarah Senior
Executive Producer: Julia Caithness, Tony
Dixon
Screenwriter: Oliver Emanuel
Editor: Anton Short
Director of Photography: Phil Wood
Production Designer: Barney George
Music: George Rodosthenous
Cast: Daniel Cockburn, Lucy Ellinson, Jack
Whitam
Budget: £2,500
Funding: UK Film Council, Screen Yorkshire

Tickled Pink
Eight year-old John seeks revenge after
months of torturous tickling from his elder
cousins, with the help of his best friend
Sophia.
Director: John Paul Lancaster
2008. 16mm. 9 min 13 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: films@londonfilmacademy.com
Producer: Lubov Podgornaya
Executive Producer: Anna Macdonald
Screenwriter: Carolina Luna
Editor: Gary Scullion
Director of Photography: Gary Scullion
Production Designer: Ceri Payne
Sound: Liam Tate
Music: Liam Tate
Cast: Conor Mullaney, Charlotte Stirrup,
Megan Day, Abigail Day
Budget: £2,500
Funding: London Film Academy
Time, Care and Attention
A sweet and simple story about a young boy,
the girl he loves, and sunflowers.
Director: Naysun Alae-Carew, Andrew
Freeland
2008. HD. 12 min
Production Company: Haphazard Media
web: www.haphazardmedia.co.uk
Producer: Naysun Alae-Carew, Andrew
Freeland
Screenwriter: Andrew Freeland
Editor: Naysun Alae-Carew, Andrew Freeland
Director of Photography: Ryan McHenry
Sound: Rory Turnbull
Music: Robert Reid Gillies
Cast: Joshua Jenkins, Victoria Armstrong,
Nina Rennie, John Francis Lawson, Graham
McLeod
Budget: £500
Funding: Self-funded
Short Films
Together
A year after his brother’s death, Rob
discovers that the only way to help his father
cope with the loss is to ‘force’ his affection
onto him.
Director: Eicke Bettinga
2009. 35mm. 14 min
Production Company: Piggott-Bettinga Film
Production, c/o 011 Productions Ltd, PO Box
53999, London, SW15 2NX, England, UK
email: zp@zerodoubleone.com
Producer: Zorana Piggott
Screenwriter: Eicke Bettinga, Zorana Piggott
Editor: Dan Robinson, Oliver Szyza
Director of Photography: André Götzmann
Production Designer: Karolin Leshel
Sound: Guy Landau
Music: Rhett Brewer
Cast: Matt Smith, John Vine, Amanda Boxer,
Guy Flanagan
Budget: £40,000
Co-production: Germany
Funding: UK Film Council Completion Fund
Top Girl
Truthful, tender and punctuated by ill
advised sexual encounters, Top Girl is a
coming-of-age story about girls growing up in
a man’s world.
Director: Rebecca Johnson
2008. s16mm. 18 min 30 sec
Production Company: Fierce Productions
Ltd, 53A Thurlby Road, London, SE27 0RN,
England, UK
email: rebeccajohnson@ukonline.co.uk
Producer: Rebecca Johnson, Dee Meaden,
Sian Buckley
Screenwriter: Rebecca Johnson
Editor: Mags Arnold
Director of Photography: David Raedeker
Production Designer: Andy Farago
Cast: Rumbi Mautsi, Naomi J Lewis, Alexis
Rodney, Jay Brown, Kerron Derby
Budget: £36,000
Funding: Jack Petchey Foundation, Lambeth
Endowed Charities, PPAF Fund, Deutsche
Bank
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Top of the World
Jack is a 13 year-old boy dying of cancer. All
the treatments are failing him. Jack’s utopia
is a place he remembers fondly from his early
childhood. In reaching this place he is willing
to pay the ultimate price.
Director: Jonathan Bernstein
2008. 35mm. 17 min
Production Company: Amberstone Films,
6 Planetree Road, Hale, Altrincham,
Cheshire, WA15 9JL, England, UK
email: jb@amberstonefilms.com
Producer: Jonathan Bernstein
Screenwriter: Tina Walker
Editor: Lee Buers
Director of Photography: Oliver Russell
Production Designer: Samantha Gilbert
Sound: Stephen Snyders
Music: Andrew Green
Cast: Jeremy Bernstein, Dan Lashbrook,
Vanessa Quick, Peter Brown
Budget: £15,000
Funding: Self-funded
Toshi
A lonely Japanese businessman, a cheating
wife, a London hotel room and a binge
drinking bride-to-be.
Director: Jon Gilbert
2009. RED. 14 min 27 sec
Production Company: Lazarus Films
email: matt@lazarus.co.uk
web: www.lazarusfilms.co.uk
Producer: Matt Grimwood
Screenwriter: Jon Gilbert
Editor: Zoe Montague-Smith
Director of Photography: Christopher Ross
Cast: Kentaro Suyama, Sandy Foster
Budget: £5,000
Funding: Private, Working Title Films, Pulse
Films
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Touched by a Stranger
Hope can be found in the darkest of places.
Director: Derek Boyes
2008. HDV. 8 min 58 sec
UK Distributor: Trinamite Productions Ltd,
The Elm Coach House, Church Lane, Chipping
Norton, Oxfordshire, OX7 5NS, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)160 864 5258
email: francine@trinamiteproductions.com
web: www.trinamiteproductions.com
Regional Screen Agency: Screen South, The
Wedge, 75-81 Tontine Street, Folkestone,
Kent, CT20 1JR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)130 325 9777, fax: +44 (0)130 325
9786
email: info@screensouth.org
web: www.screensouth.org
Producer: Francine Heywood, Laure Giles
Screenwriter: Colin Metcalfe
Editor: Andy Shelley
Director of Photography: Stuart
Biddlecombe
Cast: Jude Akuwudike, Louise Bolton,
Elisabeth Charbonneau, Colin Metcalfe,
Stuart Webb
Budget: £3,000
Funding: UK Film Council, Screen South
The Towel
When a man tries to clean his muddy shoes
he accidentally stains a hotel towel and
fearing the muddy stain will be interpreted
as something else, he tries to get rid of the
evidence.
Director: Oliver Briginshaw
2008. HDV. 6 min
Production Company: Fighting Spirit
email: briggy8movie@hotmail.com
Producer: Oliver Briginshaw
Screenwriter: Oliver Briginshaw
Editor: Oliver Briginshaw
Director of Photography: Oliver Briginshaw
Cast: James Harwood, Kiki Kendrick,
Giacomo Valdameri, Julius Manipon, Ed
Squires
Budget: £600
Funding: TF Empire Ltd, self-funded
Short Films
Transgress
Driving home one night in London, a woman
accidentally hits a man who shouldn’t be
there. Shaken and remorseful, she offers to
help him, but the situation soon spirals out of
control.
Director: Leanne Welham
2008. 12 min
Production Company: Lacking Productions,
Flat 1, 132 Green Lanes, London, N16 9EG,
England, UK
email: leannewelham@hotmail.com
Regional Screen Agency: Film London, Suite
6.10, The Tea Building, 56 Shoreditch High
Street, London, E1 6JJ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7613 7676, fax: +44 (0)20 7613
7677
email: info@filmlondon.org.uk
web: www.filmlondon.org.uk
Producer: Rebecca Frankel
Screenwriter: Leanne Welham
Editor: Kant Pan
Director of Photography: Jake Corbett
Production Designer: Sophie Wyatt
Sound: Joe Kelly
Cast: Silas Carson, Kathryn Sumner
Budget: £11,250
Funding: UK Film Council, Film London
Trapped
Sick of being robbed, Alan sets a bear-trap in
his living room — and catches a thief, Danny.
Playing God, Alan gives the thief a second
chance to redeem himself. But Danny gets his
own back in a dark and surprising twist.
Director: George Chan
2008. 35mm. 14 min
Director: George Chan
email: dr_george_chan@yahoo.co.uk
Producer: Rebecca Tranter, George Chan
Screenwriter: George Chan
Editor: Deborah Williams
Director of Photography: Steve Brand
Cast: Sean Pertwee, Jay Quinn
Budget: £12,000
Funding: BBC Film Lab
Tribute
A journey through nature, young love and
loss.
Director: Jonathan Lowe
2009. HDV. 11 min
Director: Jonathan Lowe
email: jc_lowe@blueyonder.co.uk
Producer: Jonathan Lowe
Screenwriter: Jonathan Lowe
Editor: Jonathan Lowe
Director of Photography: Paul Wiseman
Cast: Richard Calder, Lee Mills, Lucy Allen
Budget: £500
Funding: Self-funded
Trimming the Fat
When a hotel barman discovers a guest is an
old school friend he becomes determined
that they hang out for the night.
Director: Matt Huntley
2008. HD. 17 min 47 sec
Production Company: Idiotlamp Productions
Ltd, 36 Percy Street, London, W1T 2DH,
England, UK
email: matt@idiotlamp.com
Producer: Alan Traquair
Screenwriter: Matt Huntley
Editor: Michael Baldwin
Director of Photography: Joel Devlin
Cast: Mathew Horne, Tony Way, Sinead
Matthews, Ben Willbond, Vincent Franklin
Budget: £20,000
Funding: BBC Films, BBC Comedy
Try Again
With their relationship on the verge of break-
up, Dan waits for Lucy, trying to decide what
he’s going to say. It’s a decision which could
mean the difference between them calling it
a day — or trying again.
Director: Alex Inskip, David Hutchinson
2008. HDV. 4 min 54 sec
Production Company: FNA Films,
International Business Centre, Mulgrave
Terrace, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear, NE8 1AN,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)191 490 9321, fax: +44 (0)191 490
9322
email: info@fnafilms.co.uk
web: www.fnafilms.co.uk
Producer: Dawn Furness, Zahra Zomorrodian
Executive Producer: Jude Goldrei
Screenwriter: Alex Inskip
Editor: David Garbutt
Director of Photography: Kyle Heslop
Music: Moths
Cast: Liam Boyle, Vicky Elliott
Budget: £4,000
Funding: UK Film Council, Northern Film &
Media
Two and a Half Minutes
Alex must decide how far he would go for a
promotion when he is put up against the
young man he helped rise up through the
ranks of the company.
Director: Fraser Coull
2009. Mini DV HD. 8 min
Production Company: Silly Wee Films
email: info@sillyweefilms.co.uk
Producer: Fraser Coull
Screenwriter: Fraser Coull
Editor: Mike Webster
Director of Photography: Mike Webster,
Matt Stephens
Production Designer: Kelly Machin
Sound: Ewan Stewart, Jack Ashley
Music: Steve Dunster
Cast: John Gaffney, Colin McCredie, Chris
Summers, Tam Toye, Natalie Clark

Two to Salsa
Mane and Mary dance salsa around Barcelona
to make a living. Mary will give some
unexpected news to Mane which will test
their relationship as lovers and dancers. At
the end of the day both of them will discover
it takes two to salsa.
Director: Juan Pablo Osman
2008. 35mm. 10 min 15 sec
Production Company: London Film School,
24 Shelton Street, London, WC2H 9UB,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7240 0161, fax: +44 (0)20 7240
0167
email: c.bright@lfs.org.uk
web: www.lfs.org.uk
Producer: Valentina Morillo
Screenwriter: Juan Pablo Osman
Editor: Andres Rojas
Director of Photography: Lara Vilanova
Cast: Elizabeth Urbina, Miguel Gonzalez
Funding: London Film School
Ugly and In Love
The funny story of a freethinking drunk who
thinks he has answers to it all, until he meets
a girl who proves he doesn’t know it all.
Director: Matt Cusworth
2008. Digibeta. 16 min
Production Company: Fortunediablo
Productions, 186 Balden Road, Harborne,
Birmingham, B32 2EU, England, UK
email: cussy@hotmail.com
Producer: Matt Cusworth, James Anderson
Brown
Screenwriter: James Anderson Brown
Editor: Matt Cusworth
Director of Photography: Benjamin Pritchard
Production Designer: Tyrone Hyman
Sound: Stephen Longstaff
Music: The Big Bang, Copter, Swampmeat,
Stephen Longstaff
Cast: Nicholas Clarke, Caroline Frewin, Liam
Moynihan, Maria Lee, Daniel Finnemore
Budget: £2,500
Funding: Private
Vanity Bleeding
Charlie is a young man suffering from
schizophrenia; one of his voices comes to life
to push him to the edge of reason. This short
follows their journey together.
Director: Pablo Robertson de Unamuno
2008. HDV. 15 min
Producer: Pablo Robertson de Unamuno
email: pablo.robertson@gmail.com
Producer: Pablo Robertson de Unamuno
Screenwriter: Pablo Robertson de Unamuno
Editor: Pablo Robertson de Unamuno,
Andreas del Cano
Director of Photography: Pablo Robertson de
Unamuno, Leo Bruges
Sound: Neil Hardtop, Katty Patersons
Music: Mikey Smith
Cast: Vince Docherty, Barry Honeyman
Budget: £1,200
Funding: Self-funded
Short Films
The View
The View centres around a bench overlooking
the coastline and the range of poignant
moments in the lives of eight of its visitors.
Director: Neil Neenan
2008. HDV. 3 min 46 sec
Producer: Neil Neenan
tel: +44 (0)163 437 8897
email: neilo31@hotmail.com
Producer: Neil Neenan
Executive Producer: James Sudworth
Screenwriter: Neil Neenan, Robin J White
Editor: Neil Neenan
Director of Photography: Anna Carrington
Music: Jason Creasey
Cast: Jessica Barnes, Daniel Casper, Ian
Draper, Jack Gavin, Mark Jeary
Budget: £2,500
Funding: Self-funded
Vigilante
Vigilante is a dark and satirical
mockumentary that follows one member of a
village group as he sets out to eradicate
crime and antisocial behaviour. It
interrogates our understanding of crime and
punishment and asks to what lengths should
we, and would we, go to make our
community a better place.
Director: Darren Bolton
2008. HD. 12 min 2 sec
Production Company: Blueprint Film, The
Ropewalk, Maltkiln, Barton-upon-Humber,
North Lincolnshire, DN18 5JT, England, UK
email: emily@blueprintfilm.co.uk
web: www.blueprintfilm.co.uk
Regional Screen Agency: Screen Yorkshire,
Studio 22, 46 The Calls, Leeds, West
Yorkshire, LS2 7EY, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)113 294 4410, fax: +44 (0)113 294
4989
email: info@screenyorkshire.co.uk
web: www.screenyorkshire.co.uk
Producer: Emily Bignell
Executive Producer: Julia Caithness, Tony
Dixon
Screenwriter: Darren Bolton
Editor: David Brook
Director of Photography: Robert Gardner
Production Designer: Maxine Wollaston
Sound: Susan Pennington
Music: Mark Adair
Cast: Simon Cassidy, Geoff Holman,
Jaqueline Phillips
Budget: £8,000
Funding: UK Film Council, Screen Yorkshire
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The Visitor
After 18 years, while revisiting old friend
Archie and his sister Enid, Richard Browne is
challenged to spend another night in the
attic.
Director: Claire Frewin
2009. s16mm. 17 min
Director: Claire Frewin
email: claire_e_frewin@yahoo.co.uk
Production Company: London Film School,
24 Shelton Street, London, WC2H 9UB,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7240 0161, fax: +44 (0)20 7240
0167
email: c.bright@lfs.org.uk
web: www.lfs.org.uk
Producer: Birgitta Bjornsdottir
Screenwriter: Claire Frewin
Editor: Ricardo Velarde
Director of Photography: Christine Lalla
Production Designer: Anke Schiemann
Sound: Will Grant
Music: Simon Herring
Cast: Rebecca Todd, Ann Firbank, Robert
Pollington, Richard Kent
Budget: £10,000
Funding: London Film School, private equity
Voices
Herb struggles to succeed in a world where
confidence is paramount, but when given
another mans voice he finds his new-found
nerve may not be for the better.
Director: Adam Campbell
2009. HD. 20 min
Production Company: Phase VI Productions
email: phasevi@hotmail.co.uk
Producer: Colin Bell
Screenwriter: Gregor Barclay
Editor: Christopher Walker, Gavin Rizza
Director of Photography: James Harrison
Production Designer: Shirley Sweeney
Sound: Peter Brill, Dan Lyth
Music: Gregor Barclay, Gavin Thompson
Cast: Sean Biggerstaff, Laura Fraser, Brian
Ferguson, Simon Conlon, Ashley Mulheron
Budget: £3,000
Funding: Private investors
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Voyages d’Affaires
(The Business Trip)
Jean Paul Clement is on a business trip. He
checks into the Dolphine Hotel for seven
nights, where we learn he has one saved
message on his mobile phone and a personal
dilemma.
Director: Sean Ellis
2008. 35mm. 11 min 25 sec
Production Company: Left Turn Films, The
Chocolate Studios, Apt 18, 7 Shepherdess
Place, London, N1 7LJ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7336 6002, fax: +44 (0)20 7336
6060
email: lene@uglyduckingfilms.com
Producer: Sean Ellis, Celine Quideau
Executive Producer: Patrice Haddad, Jerry
Stafford
Screenwriter: Sean Ellis
Editor: Mario Battistel
Director of Photography: Angus Hudson
Production Designer: Morgan Kennedy
Cast: Guillaume Canet, Melanie Laurent, Ines
Van Houtte Sanchez, Gwenaelle Simon
Budget: £45,00
Co-production: France
Funding: Private
The Wake
Volatile Darren forces his way onto Neil’s
fishing boat, where the two men must face
up to a dark secret from their past.
Director: Loren Slater, Kerry Kolbe
2009. HD. 11 min 14 sec
Production Company: Signal Films,
6-9 Lawson Street, Barrow-in-Furness,
Cumbria, LA12 0AU, England, UK
email: lorenaslater@gmail.com
web: www.shorelinefilms.com
Producer: Loren Slater, Kerry Kolbe
Screenwriter: Loren Slater, Kerry Kolbe
Editor: Edd Maggs
Director of Photography: Loren Slater
Production Designer: Kevin Walker
Sound: Matt Palmer
Cast: Freddie Machin, Richard Oldham
Funding: UK Film Council Completion Fund,
Maya Vision International
Short Films
Ware U At?
Ware U At? is a contemporary film reflecting
the emotions, stresses and decisions of two
young people in urban South Wales, set
during a long humid afternoon. Ashleigh and
Daniel struggle with peer pressure and the
consequences of their actions.
Director: Natalie Stagg
2008. Mini DV. 9 min 39 sec
UK Distributor: First Light Movies, The Bond,
180-182 Fazeley Street, Birmingham, B5 5SE,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)121 753 4866
email: info@firstlightmovies.com
web: www.firstlightmovies.com
Producer: Lateesha Harrison
Executive Producer: Danielle Taylor
Screenwriter: Sarah Delahay, Alex McGuire
Editor: Sarah Delahay
Director of Photography: Laura Seivwright
Sound: Karris Harrison
Cast: Clemmie Starling, Richard Angol, Nevin
Ryan, Frankie Porretta, Carmel James
Budget: £18,000
Funding: First Light Movies
Washdays
Kyle is 11 and has a problem; he’s a
bedwetter. His mum thinks making him wash
his own sheets will cure him, but it only
makes him late for school. When she writes a
note stating the unvarnished truth, he bunks
off and goes in search of his own solution.
Director: Simon Neal
2009. 35mm. 10 min
Production Company: Deeply Vale Films,
56 Lancaster Road, London, W11 1QR,
England, UK
email: simon@anotherfilmcompany.com
Producer: Dan Cleland
Screenwriter: Graham Lester George
Editor: Steve Ackroyd
Director of Photography: Nic Morris
Production Designer: Amanda McArthur
Sound: Ben Leeves
Music: Mu’m
Cast: Kieran Dooner, Carys Lewis
Budget: £20,000
Funding: Self-funded
Waving At Cars
When the relationship of Tory and Isaak, an
outwardly normal couple, starts to unravel, it
exposes a secret too terrible to contemplate.
Director: David Beauchamp
2008. HD. 6 min 20 sec
Production Company: Logic Films, 27 South
Hill Road, Prenton, Merseyside, CH43 5RL,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)151 200 1504
email: sarah@logicfilms.co.uk
web: www.logicfilms.co.uk
Regional Screen Agency: Northwest Vision
and Media, BBC, Oxford Road, Manchester,
M60 1SJ, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)870 609 4481
email: info@visionandmedia.co.uk
web: www.visionandmedia.co.uk
Producer: Sarah Ellis
Screenwriter: Sarah Ellis
Editor: David Beauchamp
Director of Photography: Darren James
Cast: Richie Grice, Mary Jayne Cooper
Budget: £1,500
Funding: UK Film Council, Northwest Vision
and Media
Wayfaring Stranger
When he is released from a Young Offender’s
Institute, Bobby Brewer, a wayward 15 year-
old, is forced to take to the road with his
errant troubadour father, Ronnie.
Director: Richard West
2008. RED. 10 min 40 sec
Production Company: Sentinel
Entertainment Ltd, 51 Nevern Square,
London, SW5 9PF, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7244 8279
email: benjaminpullen@
sentinelentertainment.com
Regional Screen Agency: Screen South, The
Wedge, 75-81 Tontine Street, Folkestone,
Kent, CT20 1JR, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)130 325 9777, fax: +44 (0)130 325
9786
email: info@screensouth.org
web: www.screensouth.org
Producer: Ben Pullen
Editor: Tony Palmer
Director of Photography: Ben Cole
Production Designer: Bruce Williams
Budget: £7,000
Funding: UK Film Council, Screen South

What’s Virgin Mean?
Sometimes little questions need big answers.
Director: Michael Davies
2008. HD. 2 min 20 sec
Production Company: Spellbound Films,
5 Southampton Place, London, WC1A 2DA,
England, UK
email: sandra@spellboundfilms.com
web: www.spellboundfilms.com
UK Distributor: Future Shorts, 34-35 Berwick
Street, London, W1F 8RP, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7734 3883, fax: +44 (0)20 7439
3255
email: info@futureshorts.com
web: www.futureshorts.com
Producer: Sandra Gorel
Executive Producer: Beryl Vertue
Screenwriter: Michael Davies
Editor: Dave Thrasher
Director of Photography: Ian Salvage
Production Designer: Anna Sheldrake
Sound: John Grove
Music: Mark Russell
Cast: Kate Isitt, Rebecca Duffy
Budget: £2,000
Funding: Self-funded
Where the Monsters Go
Deep in a forest on the fringes of suburbia,
troubled schoolboy Balder hatches a crazed
plan to break into a mysterious house, but his
younger cousin Shufts has a dreadful feeling
and wants out.
Director: Van Poynton
2008. 35mm. 12 min 17 sec
Production Company: Coral Bank
Productions, 45 Grove Road, Surbiton,
Surrey, KT6 4BY, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8399 1564
email: liam.garvo@coralbank.com
Producer: Liam Garvo
Screenwriter: Leigh Oakley, Van Poynton
Editor: Tony Hull
Director of Photography: Ciro Candia
Production Designer: Humphrey Jaeger
Cast: Bradley Hall, Benjamin Smith, Maria
Massini, Geoff Loynes
Budget: £10,000
Funding: UK private equity
Short Films
Who’s Afraid of the Water
Sprite?
Set in the ancient mountains of Slovenian
legend Who’s Afraid of the Water Sprite? is a
dark and moving tale of injustice and
deception, unfolding the intertwined fates of
a young girl, a blacksmith and the malevolent
Water Sprite.
Director: William McGregor
2009. RED. 17 min 59 sec
Production Company: Evoke Films,
47 Wreccelsham Road, Farnham, Surrey,
GU9 8TY, England, UK
email: willrdmc@hotmail.com
Producer: William McGregor, Manca Gale,
Brana Srdic
Screenwriter: William McGregor, Sam
Heasman
Editor: William McGregor, Iain Whitewright
Director of Photography: Adam Etherington
Production Designer: Karl Clarke
Sound: Dave Morgan
Music: Katalena
Cast: Vista Bojan, Luka Gluvic, Yana Yanezic
Budget: £7,000
Co-production: Slovenia
Funding: Self-funded
Whore
When angry muslim youth Azeem overhears a
group of girls gossiping about his white
girlfriend Gemma his suspicions flare — and
so begins a sadomasochistic game in which
both parties seek to gain control.
Director: Fyzal Boulifa
2008. HD. 10 min
Production Company: B3 Media, Electric
Avenue Studios, 3B Electric Avenue, London,
SW9 8JY, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7274 2121
email: studio@b3media.net
web: www.b3media.net
Producer: Michael Berliner
Executive Producer: Marc Boothe
Screenwriter: Fyzal Boulifa
Editor: Seb Ratcliffe, Taina Galis
Director of Photography: Taina Galis
Production Designer: Daniel Lewis
Cast: Matthew Bukraba, Georgina Hopkins,
Malika Debbah, Joe Walsh
Budget: £10,000
Funding: UK Film Council, B3 Media
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Why Don’t You Dance?
In front of his house surrounded by furniture
and traces of his past life, a man waits. A
young couple arrives and awkward,
superficial conversation takes place, but the
unlikely threesome experience something
emotional. This strange encounter ends in a
dance of unexpressed loneliness and despair.
Director: Marius Olteanu
2009. 35mm. 21 min 30 sec
Production Company: National Film and
Television School, Beaconsfield Studios,
Station Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire,
HP9 1LG, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)149 473 1452, fax: +44 (0)149 467
8583
email: hsharda@nfts.co.uk
web: www.nfts.co.uk
Producer: Michelle Eastwood
Editor: Alexandru Radu
Director of Photography: Felix Widemann
Production Designer: Jessica Sinclair
Sound: Susannah Lawrence
Music: Stuart Earl
Cast: Sean Campion, Natasha Barreo, Sam
Curtis
Funding: National Film and Television School
Wintering
A woman witnesses a man setting fire to
clothes. She follows him, watching as he
engages in more acts of destruction. His
actions become increasingly bizarre until,
through her intervention, he is stopped.
Director: Iain Finlay
2009. HD. 17 min 15 sec
Production Company: Perfume Films,
St Jude’s House, 122 Percival Road,
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG5 2EX,
England, UK
email: rachel@perfumefilms.com
web: www.perfumefilms.com
Regional Screen Agency: EM Media,
35-37 St Mary’s Gate, Nottingham, NG1 1PU,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)115 934 9006, fax: +44 (0)115 950
0988
email: info@em-media.org.uk
web: www.em-media.org.uk
Producer: Rachel Dargavel
Screenwriter: Iain Finlay, Richard House
Editor: Jonny Stenton
Director of Photography: Chris Ross
Production Designer: Jess Alexander
Sound: Spool Post
Music: Dan Gardner
Cast: Elisa Lasowski, Lee Ingleby
Budget: £14,000
Funding: UK Film Council New Cinema Fund,
EM Media European Regional Development
Fund
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Without You
The dead and the living are both haunted by
tragedy.
Director: Emma Passmore
2008. Mini DV HD. 9 min 40 sec
Production Company: Invasive Films, 8 Nevis
Road, London, SW17 7QX, England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 8673 0333, fax: +44 (0)20 8673
0333
email: info@invasivefilms.com
Producer: Emma Passmore
Screenwriter: Emma Passmore
Editor: Julie Date
Director of Photography: Nemone Mercer
Cast: Morven Macbeth, Neil Bennun
Budget: £3,000
Funding: Private
Short Films
You
You is the tale of two wandering girls who
happen to meet in midnight Tokyo. Idling
their time talking about unnecessary topics
and devoting themselves to the simple
pleasures of the moment, You and Kimi
gradually get to know each other in an
aimless walkabout.
Director: Mikito Kyo
2008. HD. 23 min
Production Company: London Film School,
24 Shelton Street, London, WC2H 9UB,
England, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7240 0161, fax: +44 (0)20 7240
0167
email: c.bright@lfs.org.uk
web: www.lfs.org.uk
Producer: Shogo Yokoyama, Yosuke Kato
Screenwriter: Hiroaki Tawada
Editor: Shogo Yokoyama
Director of Photography: Yosuke Kato
Production Designer: Naoto Akiyama
Cast: Ayaka Sekiya, Emiko Izawa, Iori Goto,
Keihiro Kanyama
Funding: London Film School
You’re the Stranger
Here
A middle-aged woman with a crazy leg lives
in a fascist regime where people with her
condition get shot on the spot. Inspired by
the courageous death of one of her fellow
sufferers, she goes on an all or nothing quest
to change the world.
Director: Tom Geens
2009. S-VHS. 17 min
Production Company: The Chicken Factory/
011 Productions Ltd, PO Box 53999, London,
SW15 2NX, England, UK
email: zp@zerodoubleone.com
Producer: Zorana Piggott
Executive Producer: Matthieu de Braconier,
Rebecca Mark-Lawson, Jo McClellan
Screenwriter: Tom Geens
Editor: Chris Barwell
Director of Photography: Lol Crawley
Production Designer: Jonathan Wright
Sound: Srdjan Kurpjel
Music: Peter Higgens
Cast: Kate Cook, Anthony Smee, Michael
Andrew, Ella Peel
Budget: £50,000
Funding: UK Film Council Cinema Extreme
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Index — Feature Films

1234 4 G S
31 North 62 East 4 Giallo 24 S.N.U.B! 39
Glorious 39 24 Salvage 40
A Gnaw 24 The Scar Crow 40
Act of God 4 Gracie 25 Schrodinger’s Girl 40
Act of Grace 5 Greek Pete 25 Scouting Book for Boys 41
An Act of Terror 5 Shank 41
An Education 5 H She, A Chinese 41
An Englishman in New York 6 Hell’s Pavement 25 Shell Shock 42
Arn the Knight Templar 6 The Hide 26 Skellig 42
Away We Go 6 Hippie Hippie Shake 26 Slumdog Millionaire 42
Awaydays 7 How to Lose Friends and Alienate The Spell 43
People 26 Spy(ies) (Espion(s)) 43
Surviving Evil 43
B
Bad Company 7 I
Badinage 7 In The Loop 27 T
Barbarian Princess 8 Inner Calm 27 Telstar 44
The Be All and End All 8 Invisible Eyes 27 Temptation 44
Beyond the Fire 8 That’s For Me 44
Beyond the Pole 9 Tormented 45
K Travellers 45
The Big I Am 9 Kandahar Break 28
The Boat That Rocked 9 Triangle 45
Katalin Varga 28
Bomber 10 KICKS 28
Boogie Woogie 10 Kin 29 U
A Boy Called Dad 10 Knife Edge 29 The Unloved 46
Breathe 11 Unmade Beds 46
Bright Star 11
Bronson 11 L
A Bunch of Amateurs 12 Land Gold Women 29 V
Bunny and the Bull 12 The Last Station 30 Valhalla Rising 46
The Burial 12 The Last Thakur 30
Lesbian Vampire Killers 30
London River 31 W
C Lookin’ for Lucky 31 Wasted 47
Catalina: Looking for Eric 31 Welcome 47
A New Kind of Superhero 13 Luger of the Black Sun 32 Wide Open Spaces 47
Charlie Noades R.I.P. 13 Wild Target 48
Cheri 13
Cherrybomb 14 M
The Children 14 Mad, Sad & Bad 32 Y
Clive Barker’s Book Of Blood 14 The Making of Plus One with Young Hearts Run Free 48
A Closed Book 15 Kate Cate and George, the Story of
Creation 15 a Hollywood Nobody 32
The Crew 15 Malice in Wonderland 33
Cry of the Owl 16 Mamma Mia 33
Crying With Laughter 16 Manolete 33
Me and Orson Welles 34
Miles Away 34
D Moon 34
The Daisy Chain 16 My Angel 35
The Damned United 17 My Last Five Girlfriends 35
Dark Nature 17
The Dead Outside 17
Dean Spanley 18 N
The Descent: New Town Killers 35
Part 2 18 Nine Miles Down 36
Desire 18
Doghouse 19 O
Le Donk 19 One Day Removals 36
Dorian Gray 19 The Other Man 36
Drawn 20
Dread 20
P
Pelican Blood 37
E Pumpgirl 37
Ealing Comedy 20
Easy Virtue 21
Endgame 21 Q
Exam 21 Quantum of Solace 37

F R
Fifty Dead Men Walking 22 Rage 38
Fish Tank 22 Revolutionary Road 38
Flashmob 22 Reykjavik Whale Watching
Flick 23 Massacre 38
Forget Me Not 23 Rising Tide 39
From Time to Time 23 Running In Traffic 39
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Index — Short Films

12:30 49 D I
4 Weeks 49 Dan — 02/11/08 58 I Love Luci 69
Dark Harbour 58 If Not Now, When? 69
Day In/Day Out 59 If Only ... 69
The Devil’s Wedding 59 In His Shoes 69
A Diana 59 In Passing 69
A’Mare 49 DiD 59 Inconceivable 69
Above Us Only Sky 49 Digging 59 Infamy 70
Adha Cup 49 Dissociation 59 Inferno 70
After Tomorrow 49 Domestic Flight 59 Into the Light 70
Airport Security 50 Down the Rabbit Hole 59 Into the Woods 70
Akbulak 50 Driven 60 The Invitation 70
Alfonso 50 Drop 60 Isaac 70
All Day Breakfast 50 It’s Nick’s Birthday 71
All My Dreams on VHS 50
All of Me 50 E
Angel 50 Eb & Flo 60
Another Thing 50 The Echo 60 J
Apples & Oranges 51 Echoes 60 Jade 71
April 51 Ed & Tina 60 James 71
Aquaphobic 51 Edward’s Turmoil 60 Janusz 71
The Archivist 51 The Elemental 61 Jerome’s Weakness 71
Are You Ready to Meet? 51 Endstation Heimat (Final Station Home) 61 Joe Smeal’s Wheels 71
Arthur’s Lore 51 Enemy Lines 61 Just Because You’re Paranoid ... 71
The Ascension Agency 52 English Bloody Rose 61
Attention 52 Enough 61
Enough Rope 61
Enter the Preacher 62 K
The Escort 62 Keel 72
B Esther’s Funeral 62 Kid 72
Baghdad Express 52 Extreme Vocational Experiences 62 Kingsland #1 The Dreamer 72
Bale 52 Eyes on the Prize 62
Basho 52 Eyes on the Street 62
Be Good 52 L
Behind the Curtain 52 Lamb 72
Believe 53 F
F.Stop 62 The Last Breath 72
Belonging 53 Leaving 72
Big Mistake 53 Faith Alone 63
Father 63 Leaving Eva 73
Big Mistake 53 The Legend of Ol’ Goldie 73
Black Holes 53 Fell 63
The Fishdance Kid 63 Light at the End of the Tunnel 73
Black Taxi 53 Lily’s Image 73
Black Widow 53 Five Elements 63
Five Miles Out 63 Little Red Hoodie 73
Blackwater 53 The Lobster Trap 73
Blame 54 Fleshbeast 64
Floating is Easy 64 Lollipop Man 73
Blue 54 Loneliness in a Goldfish Bowl 74
Blue 54 Flushed 64
Foreign John 64 The Lonely Cowboy 74
Boy 54 Lonely Hearts Interrupted 74
Breathe 54 Forgive 64
Friday 64 Lorraine 74
Bride and Gloom 54 Love 74
The Bridge 55 Furnace Four 65
Love Hate 74
Brixton 85 55 Lucky Old Bag 74
Brolio Ivartis (The Brother’s Goal) 55 G Luke & the Void 75
By the Grace of God 55 Gardens With Red Roses 65
George’s Day 65
Getting Out 65
Girllikeme 65 M
C The Gloaming 65 Maharishi 75
The Capgras Tide 55 Good Morning, Ground Control 66 A Man of Letters 75
Careful Carl 55 Granny’s Ghost 66 Mary and John 75
The Carnival Queen 55 A Matter of Conscience 75
Catching the Bus 56 Maybe One Day 75
Caterpillar 56 H Me, Me, Me 76
Chains 56 Hammerhead 66 Memorabilis 76
The Chapel 56 The Happiness Salesman 66 Modern Life Is Rubbish 76
Cheyne Stoking 56 Happy as Larry 66 Monsters & Rabbits 76
Chicken 56 Happy Face 66 Morning Echo 76
Christmas Time 56 Happy Rabbit 67 Mother, Mine 76
Cinema of Horror 57 The Hardest Part 67 Mr Z 76
The Circle 57 Harvest 67 My Friend Helen 77
City 57 Hazel 67 My World 77
Clamp and Grind 57 Helena 67
Clean Off 57 Henna Night 67
Clocked 57 Holywood Sweets 67
Come Back 57 Home 67 N
Condimentia 57 Home Time 68 Necromance ‘A Nursery Rhyme
The Conkerers 57 Homecoming 68 for the Twisted’ 77
The Constant Father 58 Homoworld 68 Nice Beaches 77
Crimson 58 The Hope Ruby 68 Night School 77
Curfew 58 How to Kiss a Dead Girl 68 Night Time 77
Curiosity 58 Human Assembly 68 No Strings 77
Curtains 58 Hurts So Good 68 Not Coming In 77
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Index — Short Films

O Rı́t Būs (Will Have It Tomorrow) 83 This Way Up 88
Off Season 78 A Road Apart 83 Tickled Pink 89
Oh, Simone 78 The Rose and the Poison Tree 83 Time, Care and Attention 89
Old Land 78 Together 89
The Omniscient Men 78 Top Girl 89
(one) 78 Top of the World 89
S
One Last Love Song 78 Toshi 89
Saltmark 83
The Orchard 78 Touched by a Stranger 90
Sandman 83
Oscar & Jim 79 The Towel 90
Schizofredric 84
The Other Woman 79 Transgress 90
Sculpted 84
Overslept 79 Trapped 90
Section 44 84
Tribute 90
September 84
Trimming the Fat 90
Shank 84
P Try Again 90
Shooter 84
Park Close 79 Two and a Half Minutes 90
Shoreditch Sonata 85
Parliamo Glasgow 79 Two to Salsa 91
Side Effect 85
Partir (Leaving) 79 Sidney Turtlebaum 85
Patrick 80 A Sin To Waste It 85 U
Peckish 80 Slide Away 85 Ugly and In Love 91
The Perfect Pot Roast 80 Smith 85
Pictures 80 Social Circles 85
Pinnacle Man 80 V
Souvenirs 85 Vanity Bleeding 91
Playground 80 Spirited 86
The Pond 80 The View 91
Spunkbubble 86 Vigilante 91
Pop Art 81 The Stars Don’t Twinkle In
Pornography 81 The Visitor 91
Outer Space 86 Voices 91
A Portrait of a Man on the Stiletto 86
Morning of his Death 81 Voyages d’Affaires (The Business Trip) 92
Still 86
Post-It Love 81 Stopover 86
Precious 81 W
Storage 87 The Wake 92
Primavera (Spring) 81 Suicide Man 87
Protect Me From What I Want 81 Ware U At? 92
Sunday 87 Washdays 92
Supraman and the School of Waving At Cars 92
Necessity 87 Wayfaring Stranger 92
Q Sweet Mother 87
Quietus 81 What’s Virgin Mean? 93
Where the Monsters Go 93
Who’s Afraid of the Water Sprite? 93
R T Whore 93
The Rain Horse 82 Tandem 87 Why Don’t You Dance? 93
Raising Baby Rio 82 Taxi 87 Wintering 93
Regent Street 82 The Taxidermist 88 Without You 94
Resistance 82 Tea and Biscuits 88
Rewind 82 Tender 88 Y
Rinse & Spin 82 Tenner 88 You 94
Rip and the Preacher 83 This is Christmas 88 You’re the Stranger Here 94
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Thanks
Adam Partridge, Film Agency Wales
Andrea Westwick, Red Stone Design
Angela Topping, UK Film Council
Angie Jennings, EIFF
Anna Macdonald, London Film Academy
Anne Gartside, Momentum Pictures
Anne Quinn, Northern Ireland Screen
Beth Ridley, BBC Films
Bridget Pedgrift, Protagonist Pictures
Calum Carpenter, Arts Institute at Bournemouth
Cammy Finley, EIFF
Carole Machin, Northern Film & Media
Carole Sheridan, Scottish Screen
Caroline Couret-Delègue, Seven Arts Pictures
Charlotte Dolman, First Light Movies
Chrissy Bright, London Film School
Christine Morrow, Northern Ireland Screen
Clare Bradfield, Screen South
Dale Corlett, GMAC
Dan Lawson, Screen WM
David Drummond, EIFF
David Hooper, Artlogic
Doug Kelly, EIFF
Eilidh Strang, EIFF
Emma Taylor, Pathé
Francesca Riley, Screen Yorkshire
Frank Ayaoge, Momentum Pictures
Hemant Sharda, National Film and Television School
Holly Daniel, EIFF
Jacqui Barr, BBC Films
Jeanne Nguyen, B3 Media
Jeremy Baxter, Protagonist Pictures
Jules Smith, Ealing Studios
Julie Waugh, EIFF
Karen O’Hare, Screen Academy Scotland
Kate Park, EIFF
Kate Fewins, Warp X
Kirsten Geekie, EIFF
Kristen Platt, Skillset
Lee Bye, Pathé
Leslie Vuchot, HanWay Films
Macey Marini, Britfilms
Mark Blaney, Footprint Films
Matthieu de Braconier, The Bureau
Nadja Maki, EIFF
Penny Skuse, Wales Screen Commission
Piers Nightingale, High Point Films
Rebecca Berry, ContentFilm International
Rob Hope, EIFF
Robbie Allen, Scottish Screen
Sally Hodgson, EM Media
Sam Burton, Screen East
Sam Williams
Samantha Perahia, UK Film Council
Sandra Carrick, GMAC
Sarah Lebutsch, Independent Film Company
Sarah-Jane Meredith, South West Screen
Sophie Mair, Encounters
Tara Cook, Northwest Vision and Media
Tristan Goligher, The Bureau