Project Detail

Affected

Synopsis

In the non too distant future, society seems to be devouring itself in a vacuum of materialistic consumer greed manifesting itself in a disease like plague turning ordinary people into savage, zombie like, sub-humans.
 
Jacob, a young aspiring journalist together with his girlfriend Laura, a young attractive self assured, yet vain, it-girl go on the trail of the Tempter, a figure-head in the media reported to be responsible for the decline of the social order.
 
As Jacob's search for a story takes them out of their comfortable, frappucino filled world and into the seedy underbelly of Britain’s backstreets, low lifes and eventually the decaying Eden Estate, cracks begin to appear in their co-dependant relationship driving a rift between them.
 
At a cross-roads fighting for not only his relationship, sanity and survival, Jacob is left with three pivotal questions;
 
Who is The Tempter?
 
Does the Tempter really exist?
 
And if so, is the Tempter truly responsible for the impending armaggedon, or is there a more darker, more sinister, more simple truth to it all?

Details

Year
2010
Type of project
Features
Running time
60 mins
Format
HD
Director
Naeem Mahmood, Ash Mahmood
Producer
Veronique Skelsey
Editor
Ash Mahmood, Naeem Mahmood
Screenwriter
Helena Thompson
Director of Photography
Adriatik Ragipi
Production Designer
Charlie Flectcher, Lili Barcroft
Sound
Nazomi Matsuyama, Neil Maddison, Ash Mahmood, Naeem Mahmood
Composer
Adem Ilhan, Hicham Bensassi
Principal cast
Stuart Mackenzie, Jordon Stevens, Charles Reston, Niall Costigan
Original Make-up
Sabina Sweeney

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Production Status

Production Company

Transient Film Exchange

39 Sinclair Road
London W14 0NS
UK

T +44(0)2073712527

SPID Theatre Company

Kensal House community rooms
Ladbroke Grove
London W10 5BQ
UK

T +44(0)20 8968 2961

Sales Company

SPID Theatre Company

Kensal House community rooms
Ladbroke Grove
London W10 5BQ
UK

T +44(0)20 8968 2961

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