Project Detail

Baseline

Synopsis

Centred around the East London Grime Club scene, the story sees the rise of Danny, the Baseline Club bouncer. Used to breaking up fights, managing drunken kids and working the door, Danny is suddenly plunged deep into an underworld he had tried hard to avoid when he rescues Terry, the club owner and local gang leader, from a hit-man.

Danny is promoted to club manager, but only on the condition that he turns a blind eye to the shady going on both on and off the dance-floor. Danny and his girlfriend Jessica dream of setting up their own club, but Danny is forced to make the ultimate sacrifice when he has to choose between loyalty, morality and his own dream of escape.

Adapted from the film The Grind by Rishi Opel.

Details

Year: 2010
Type of project: Features
Running time: 100 mins
Format: 4K Digital
Director: Brendon O’ Loughlin
Producer: George Georgiou, John Joakim
Editor: Jason Denning
Screenwriter: Freddie Connor, Sheraiah Larcher, Brendon O' Loughlin
Director of Photography: Xiaosu Han, Andreas Thalhammer
Sound: Marc Specter, Roland Heap
Composer: Nigel Clarke, Michael Csányi-Wills
Principal cast: Dexter Fletcher, Jamie Foreman, Kellie Shirley, Freddie Connor, Gordon Alexander, Gary Stretch, Zoe Tapper
Story By: Rishi Opel

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Fourth Culture Films, Motion Picture House, Dangerous Productions, Finelight Films

Sales Company

Moviehouse Entertainment

11 Denmark Street
London, WC2H 8LS
UK

T +44 (0)20 7380 3999

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