We’ve stalkers and trolls, clowns and killers, predators and prey, delusional gangsters, creepy clowns, and risky online relationships in this collection of queasy, uneasy tales, guaranteed to unsettle and unnerve.
Advisory cert 18
Saturday 1st December at 6:15pm
NIAMOS sc. 1 (Nia Cultural Centre), Chichester Road, Warwick St, Manchester M15 5EU
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SPEED DATE
UK Premiere
Dir / Wri: Victoria Scarborough & Tim Pope, Wri / Cast: Matt Taylor and Martha Franks
UK, 2017, 14 min 21 sec, Cert 15
A guy from out of town locates his ex at a Speed Date in order to propose marriage.
THINGS THAT BLEED
North West Premiere
Dir / Prod: Simon Giles, Prod / Wri: Aegina de Vas, Prod: Alan Church, Csaba Wagner.
UK, 2017, 9 min 12 sec, Cert 15
A failing actor, haunted by his girlfriend’s abortion; slowly descends into madness as he is unable to ignore events from his past
ANIMAL
North West Premiere
Dir: Alex Cole
UK, 2017, 13 min, Cert 15
Rose stumbles into a world where morals no longer seem to apply. Everyone has an animal living within them; the forest unearths it.
THE BALLAD OF A HAUNTED MAN
North West Premiere
Dir / Prod / Wri: Emma Pitt, Prod: Dan Shoring.
UK, 2018, 16 min 31 sec, Cert 15
A lonely mortician’s search for company takes a dark turn.
THE BATHTUB CLOWN
North West Premiere
Dir / Prod / Wri: Jamie Maule-ffinch.
UK, 2017, 6 min 55 sec, Cert 15
A clown sits in a bathtub and drowns in his own deep thoughts. Is he all who he appears to be?
ELROY’S BIRTHDAY
Greater Manchester Premiere
Dir / Wri: Ravin Vythelingum, Prod: Henriette-Mercedes Spiering.
UK, 2018, 14 min, Cert 15
A young Asian man blinded by rage and grief confronts an internet troll responsible for a racist attack.
BRITISH SUMMER TIME
UK Premiere
Dir / Wri: Jonathan Hughes, Wri: Dan Paul Murphy, Prod: Nick Oakley, Ian Fenton.
UK, 2018, 2 min 56 sec, Cert 12
A day at the beach quickly takes a sinister turn.
MASTER OF CEREMONIES
North West Premiere
Dir / Prod / Wri: Toby Wharton, Arran Shearing.
UK, 2018, 9 min 41 sec, Cert 15
A young man’s false sense of identity rapidly disintegrates and he is forced to confront his own isolation.
MY FRIEND VICTOR
World Premiere
Dir / Prod / Wri: Kamil Iwanowicz.
UK, 2018, 9 min 26 sec, Cert 18
Tommy, a 13-year old lonely boy, needs a friend. Victor is all he’s got
.TRT: 94 min 42 sec