Project Detail

Protect Me From What I Want

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 film
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
Music
Gareth Fry
Principal cast
Elliot Tittensor, Naveed Choudry

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Production Status

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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