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Synopsis

Two friends head up to an isolated Scottish Highlands village for a weekend hunting trip. Nothing could prepare them for what follows.
Father-to-be Vaughn and his lifelong friend Marcus head to an isolated, struggling Highlands village for a weekend hunting trip. After a first night of heavy drinking with the villagers, the men head out on a misty autumnal morning, into a vast forest. When Vaughn tries to shoot a deer, a fatal accident happens. Instead of hitting the animal, his bullet rips into a child in the distance. The men make the fateful decision to cover up the tragic incident. But piece by piece, their secret unravels as they become stranded in the village and sucked into a never-ending nightmare. As the locals close in on the truth, Vaughn is drawn into a series of increasingly unbearable and impossible moral choices that place both his survival and his family at stake.
Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2018 - World premiere

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Details

Year: 2018
Type of project: Features
Running time: 101 mins
Format: ARRI Alexa 2K
Director: Matt Palmer 1st Feature
Producer: Alastair Clark, Anna Griffin
Co-Producer: Isabelle Georgeaux, Wendy Griffin
Executive Producer: Robbie Allen, Jennifer Armitage, Paul Ashton, Richard Holmes, Rob McGillivray, Ben Stranahan, Jamie Jessop, Andrea Scarso, Phil Hunt, Compton Ross, Geneviève Lemal, Lee Brazier, Rachel Robey
Editor: Chris Wyatt
Screenwriter: Matt Palmer
Director of Photography: Márk Györi
Production Designer: Miren Marañón Tejador
Sound: Ben Baird, Tim Barker
Composer: Anne Nikitin
Principal cast: Jack Lowden, Martin McCann, Tony Curran, Ian Pirie, Kate Bracken

Genre

Action

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Wellington Films

Alastair Clark
Broadway Media Centre
14-18 Broad Street
Nottingham
NG1 3AL

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Sales Company

Beta Cinema GmbH

Gruenwalder Weg 28 d
82041 Oberhaching
Munich
Germany

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