Project Detail

The Applicant

Synopsis

'Eddie' Ahmed is waiting to be interviewed for a new job. The interview is for a job he never even applied for but Human Resources seem to know what they're doing.

Details

Year: 2007
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 5 mins 20 secs
Format: 35mm
Director: Faisal A Qureshi
Producer: Andy Wilson
Co-Producer: Andy Wilson
Editor: Carlos Domeques
Screenwriter: Faisal A Qureshi
Director of Photography: Philip Robertson
Production Designer: Richard Dawson
Sound: John Crumpton
Composer: Matthew Whitham
Principal cast: Parvez Qadir, Clare McGlinn, Ash Tandon, Emma Crews

Genre

Action Horror Asian Drama Fantasy Sci-Fi

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Access Moving Image

HOST Media Centre
21 Savile Mount
Leeds LS1 3HZ
UK

craig.lawson@accessmovingimage.org

Sales Company

Faisal A Qureshi

19 Appleby Road
Cheadle SK8 4QD
UK

T+44(0)7747 604 814

faisal_a_qureshi@hotmail.com

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