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Life on the Line

Synopsis

Kieran struggles to rejoin life after waking from a four year coma. Detached, he works the graveyard shift for a bank call centre, life happens to him. Nightly he slips into apathy until he receives a wrong number call for The Samaritans and an opportunity to save a stranger.
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Details

Year
2013
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
14 mins
Format
HD Digital 4K RED
Director
Aurora Fearnley, Jamie Donoughue, Matt Maude
Producer
Matt Maude, Aurora Fearnley, Jamie Donoughue,
Executive Producer
Jenny Grandville
Editor
Donny Boocock
Screenwriter
Matt Maude
Director of Photography
Joe MacDonald
Production Designer
Paul Mansley
Sound
Alan Sheldon
Composer
Vessels, Loved Ones
Principal cast
Will Rastall, Anthony Flanagan, Linzey Cocker
IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1825867/combined

Genre

Woman Director Disabilities Drama

Categories

Fiction

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Little Northern Light

and

Left Eye Blind

Northern Film School

Electric Press
1 Millennium Square
Leeds
LS2 3AD

Tel: +44 0113 812 8050

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