A Local Desperado
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- Year
- 2012
- Type of project
- Shorts
- Running time
- 26 mins 16 secs
- Format
- DSLR; HDV
- Director
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Philip Codd
- Producer
- Philip Codd, Lucy Wilkins
- Editor
- David Priestman, Philip Codd
- Screenwriter
- Lucy Wilkins
- Director of Photography
- David Priestman
- Production Designer
- Steve Wilkins
- Sound
- Ryan Johnson, Phil Killingsworth
- Composer
- Philip Codd
- Principal cast
- Lucy Wilkins, Nathan Maguire, Andy Yeomans, Dean Love, Phil Lyon, Natalie Castka, Ben Braithwaite
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