Project Detail

Doubt on Loan

Synopsis

What happens when you put a blindly enthusiastic American with a disneyfied view of English life in charge of a run-down inner city British library?

Welcome to Shawcross Library managed by Mia Taylor-Clarke - hoping to kick of her reign with a book reading to remember of Philip Dunleavy's Survivors - a 9/11 memoir - rather than the Zombie Apocalypse novel she thought she was hosting.

Details

Year
2012
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
24 mins
Format
HD Digital
Director
Ian Aryeh-Thompson
Producer
Ian Aryeh-Thompson
Executive Producer
National Film and Television School
Editor
Robbie Morrison
Screenwriter
Mike O'Leary & Ian Aryeh-Thompson
Director of Photography
Arthur Mulhern
Production Designer
Jane Brodie
Sound
Liam Cotter
Composer
Jon Wygens
Principal cast
Louise Ford, Christian Brassington, David Fynn, Sophie Colquhoun, Bentley Kalu

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Categories

Production Status

Production Company

National Film and Television School

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