North V South (aka Long Time Coming - North vs South)

Name: North V South (aka Long Time Coming - North vs South)
Director: Steven Nesbit
Genre: Action, Drama
Released: 2015
Duration: 97 mins

Synopsis

For decades the criminal underworlds of the North and South UK bumped along begrudgingly. Like the Cold War, territories were respected out of the necessity to avoid apocalypse, with each side covertly keeping tabs on the other’s capability. Such a precarious false harmony could not last forever. Now someone has crossed the line, and there’s no going back. An Illicit love affair smolders, breaking taboo and threatening catastrophe at the smallest mistake. It is a romance of purest, unadulterated love, yet so forbidden that it’s discovery would wreak unbridled carnage.
Edinburgh International Film Festival - World premiere

Details

Year: 2015
Type of project: Features
Running time: 97 mins
Director: Steven Nesbit
Producer: Benjamin Foottit, Mark Foligno
Editor: Kim Gaster
Screenwriter: Steven Nesbit
Director of Photography: Kyle Heslop
Production Designer: John Ellis
Composer: Neil Athale
Principal cast: Brad Moore, Freema Agyeman, Steven Berkoff, Bernard Hill, Greta Scacchi, Elliott Tittensor, Keith Allen, Charlotte Hope, Geoff Bell, Steve Evets, Oliver Cotton, Dom Monot, Gary Cargill, Sydney Wade

Genre

Action Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

North South Films Ltd

41 Chalton Street
London
NW1 1JD

Sales Company

Carnaby International Sales

Alice Kidd
2 Essex House
47 Oxford Street
London
W1D 2EB

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