Project Detail

Protect Me From What I Want

Matt Speddings

Synopsis

Daz is looking for love. Saleem is looking for sex. Cruising at an underground archway, these two worlds collide. Back at Daz' bedsit, Saleem embarks on a dangerous, thrilling sexual adventure.

Both characters disparate worlds overlap and collide to tell a tale of loneliness and longing in a city late at night. Flirting with danger, the dialogue erodes to a series of images of tenderness, violence, power and control.

Details

Year: 2009
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 13 mins 34 secs
Format: HD
Director: Dominic Leclerc
Producer: Tony Dixon, Julia Caithness, Diane Whitley
Editor: James Schofield
Screenwriter: Dominic Leclerc
Director of Photography: Martin Parry
Production Designer: Paul Rowan
Sound: Lynne Hegarty
Composer: Gareth Fry
Principal cast: Elliot Tittensor, Naveed Choudry

Genre

LGBTQIA+ Asian Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Whitley - Leclerc Productions

65 Longfield Road
Todmorden OL14 6ND
UK

T +44 (0)1706 839 667

dianewhitley@btinternet.com

Sales Company

Tony Dixon

Screen Yorkshire
46, The Calls
Leeds LS2 7EY
UK

T +44 (0)113 294 4410

www.screenyorkshire.co.uk

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