Project Detail

Chokehold

Synopsis

In a desperate attempt to escape his troubled home life, a young teenage boy runs away to seek out his estranged father, a once-famed professional wrestler.

Details

Year: 2026
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 14 min 41 sec
Format: Live Action
Director: Christopher Bevan
Producer: Catriona Kelly
Executive Producer: Natasha Wilson, Gill Biddle, Alice Cabanas
Editor: Stef Hrycyk
Screenwriter: Christopher Bevan
Director of Photography: Karl Poyzer
Sound: Alex Stroud, Antony Brown, Chelsea Toye, Sam Mason
Composer: Benjamin Doherty
Principal cast: Philip John Bedwell, Eddie Coates, Lis Hipkiss, Mike Hitchman, Ross Marshall, Joanne Barker, Carl Bryan

Genre

Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Supported by BFI NETWORK

camakel productions

Catriona Kelly

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Set in the summer of 2000, 14 year old Lucian explores his sexuality through fantasy in a pre-internet world. Lucian is a 14 year closeted gay kid going through puberty. He doesn’t know how to communicate in a world that doesn’t speak his language so he lives in isolation, observing the world as an outsider. With the fear of ever exposing who he really is, Lucian seeks comfort in fantasy and lives his life in a daydream.

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