Project Detail

Man-Cub

Robin Whenary

Synopsis

Young loner, Franke Scarfe, 22, is stuck in the past, due to traumatic incidents that happened to him 10 years previously.

The death of a former guide-leader triggers off a series of events that help him bury the past and get on with his life.

Details

Year: 2010
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 12 mins
Format: HDV
Director: Tom Austin
Producer: Jonas Hawkins, Stuart Mitchell
Co-Producer: Jonas Hawkins, Stuart Mitchell
Editor: Joshua Gaunt
Screenwriter: Tom Austin
Director of Photography: Robin Whenary
Sound: Simon Greenwood
Composer: Bryce Dumont
Principal cast: Calum Guthrie, Jessica Murrain, Elaine Johnson, Adam Kelly, Liz Miller, John Curry

Genre

Black Comedy Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

The Haphazard Organization

Tom Austin

T +44 (0)7595 670621

thehaphazardorganization@hotmail.com

Exeter Phoenix Media

(Short Film Production Bursary)

www.phoenixmedia.org.uk

Page updates

This page was last updated on 12th May 2025. Please let us know if we need to make any amendments or request edit access by clicking below.

Suggest amendments

A surreal comedy docu-drama looking at the life and work of the Spanish painter and film-maker Salvador Dali. Set in a boxing gym, it tells in a theatrical way, how his odd family (including his dead brother) helped shape the young man into becoming arguably the twentieth century's greatest painter.

Experimental Comedy Drama

The Wake Up

Director: Clara Veci

Year: 2026

In a post-Brexit Europe, deadly viruses are for sale and espionage is back in business. Sick with the terminal virus that killed all her team, an ex-special agent has vivid dreams of the partner whose death she's responsible for.

Climate / Environment Drama Sci-Fi Woman Director

Fing!

Director: Jeffrey Walker