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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

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

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Production Status

Production Company

Wellington Films

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

Sales Company

Beta Cinema GmbH

Gruenwalder Weg 28 d
82041 Oberhaching
Munich
Germany

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