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Faithless

Synopsis

An ex-RUC Special Branch Detective serves the remainder of his career in an English coastal town hoping to heal wounds from a violent past, until the murder of his only daughter shatters his faith and sends him on a headlong hunt for the killer.

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Details

Year: 2017
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 22 mins 46 secs
Format: Digital HD
Director: Steve McCarten
Producer: Steve McCarten, Johnny Griffiths
Executive Producer: Steve McCarten, Wendy Lovett, Max De kment
Editor: Adrian Conlon
Screenwriter: Steve McCarten, Suki Singh, James Dwyer
Director of Photography: Jon O'Neill
Production Designer: Sally Winter
Sound: Graeme Willetts
Composer: Katherine Rufli
Principal cast: Sean Gilder, Jack Gordon, Jake Davies, Jamie Lee-Hill, Nicole Faraday, Gillian Tully

Genre

Action Northern Irish Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Kinetic Film

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Kevin and Cassandra are a married couple who have lost their only daughter Hannah in a freak car accident. They both raised her differently. Kevin had been a traditional parent, Cassandra a permissive one. While Hannah had decided to exhibit her body and mind online, she cut adrift from her father and gravitates towards her mother. Her death drove a wedge between them. Their lounge becomes a battlefield where incendiary words and spiteful things are said. Their marriage is one where opposites no longer attract. Kevin is filled with loathing for his in-laws, his daughter’s boyfriend, himself. Cassandra wears her daughter’s favorite colours with pride and exhibits her painting on the walls. Kevin finds he is powerless in his home and Cassandra mocks the fact that it was her father who bought it. And when he finally leaves it, he leaves Cassandra forever.

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