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Phone-o-Phobia

Synopsis

Unemployed Lee is an inside kind of guy, living in a bedsit hell. He loathes the shrill communual phone, but nobody else can be bothered to answer it. Not even Prentis, it's almost always for him, a girl called Nadine. There's been pain between these two and Lee's about to get right in the middle of it.
 

Details

Year
2006
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
10 mins
Format
DigiBeta
Director
Naomi Vera-Sanso
Producer
Caroline Cooper Charles, Katie Hemmings, Natasha Carlish
Co-Producer
Caroline Cooper Charles, Katie Hemmings, Natasha Carlish
Editor
Richard Urbanski
Screenwriter
Paul Coates
Director of Photography
Zac Nicholson
Sound
Bal
Composer
Kim Humphrey
Principal cast
Mark Charnock, Shabana Akhtar Bakhsh, Michael Luxton

Genre

Woman Director Comedy Drama

Categories

Fiction

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Dreamfinder Productions

Unit D, The Tollhouse,
The Bond,
180-182 Fazeley Street
Birmingham B5 5SE
UK

T+44 (0)12 1772 6070

peter@dreamfinder.net

Sales Company

Meabh O' Donovan

Short Circuit Films
The Workstation
15 Paternoster Row
Sheffield S1 2BX
UK

T +44 (0)11 4221 0579

shortcircuit@workstation.org.uk

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