Project Detail

Sleeper

Synopsis

Twenty years is a long time to wait for an instruction. John's chosen life and place in his adopted community is threatened with the arrival of Sean and a call to duty. He has to decide between loyalty to his past or his present. Either way he has no safe future.

Details

Year: 2003
Type of film: Shorts
Running time: 14 mins 30 mins
Format: DigiBeta, Beta SP
Director: David Begg
Producer: David Hayman, Mary McMurray
Editor: Mark Eckersley
Screenwriter: David Begg
Director of Photography: Grant Scott Cameron
Sound: Neil Herd, Graeme Aldous
Composer: Neil Herd
Principal cast: David Hayman, Derek Riddell, George Pensotti

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Sleeper Productions

34 Evelyn Denington Court, Sutton Estate, Upper Street
London N1 1UQ
UK

T+44 (0)20 7226 4686

sleeperproductions@hotmail.com

Sales Company

SFB/Short Film Bureau

dawn@shortfilmbureau.com

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