Project Detail

Girl Afraid

Synopsis

Sarah is 32 and wondering if she'll ever meet Mr Perfect. She places a personal ad and arranges a blind date with a hot prospect. But with a serial killer on the loose should this girl be afraid of something far worse than being left on the shelf?

Details

Year: 2004
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 14 mins 1 sec
Format: DigiBeta
Director: Basi Akpabio
Editor: Daniel J. Mellow
Screenwriter: Basi Akpabio
Director of Photography: Graeme McAlpine
Sound: Tim Humphries
Composer: Matt Poulton, Julien-Pierre McKenzie
Principal cast: Amanda Root, Andrew Hall, Stephen Billington, Caroline Catz, Honor Blackman

Genre

Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Basi Akpabio

60 Hadley Street
London
NW1 8TA
UK

T+44 (0)20 7485 6271

basi.a@virgin.net

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