Project Detail

Ill Manors

Synopsis

We are all products of our environment. Some environments are just harder to survive in.
Welcome to London, 2012. Home of the Olympic Games. Behind the veil of newly injected prosperity lies a community that's impossible to enter and even harder to escape.
After 15 years in prison ex-dealer Kirby wants three simple things; to take back his turf, to get laid and to take revenge on the gangsters who have disrespected him. But, a humiliating run-in with his former protégé sparks a chain of violence, vengeance and lethal reprisals that ripple through the community of drug dealers, pimps and innocents all swept up into the cycle of violence and deception.
Then there's Aaron: street-wise yet vulnerable, just trying to get by and do the right thing while his ruthless friend, Ed, will stop at nothing to reclaim a mobile phone leading to deadly consequences.

Details

Year
2012
Type of project
Features
Running time
110 mins
Format
4K Digital
Director
Ben Drew 1st Feature
Producer
Atif Ghani
Co-Producer
Film London Microwave
Executive Producer
Phil Hunt, Justin Marciano, Compton Ross, Nick Taussig, Kris Thykier
Editor
Hugh Williams, David Freeman, Sotira Kyraciou, Farrah Drabu
Screenwriter
Ben Drew
Director of Photography
Gary Shaw
Production Designer
Fabrice Spelta
Composer
Plan B/Ben Drew
Principal cast
Riz Ahmed, Natalie Press

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Production Status

Production Company

A Film London Microwave project

Microwave

Film London
Ste 6.10, The Tea Bldg
56 Shoreditch High Street
London
E1 6JJ
UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7613 7676

Aimimage Productions

22 & 24 St Pancras Way
London
NW1 0NT
UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7391 2650

Sales Company

Bankside Films

Douglas House
3 Richmond Buildings
London
W1D 3HE
UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7734 3566
Fax: +44 (0)20 3230 1059

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