The Wake
Synopsis
Callum Campbell believes he has a gift to bring people together, that fate has chosen him to be an earthbound cupid. He spends his life finding other people their soul mates, but by doing so is left alone.
Hannah Welles is obsessed with death. She views it as a way of seeing life more clearly, and will stop at nothing to have her moment to experience death first hand and value the beauty of life.
Donald Jacobs is mad. In the final few months of his life he dresses as a character from his favourite novels. He becomes the character Sir John Greystone, a Wyrm hunter, and performs acts of bravery and daring do on the streets of London.
The Wake is the story of these three people and how death brings them together.
Details
- Year
- 2007
- Type of project
- Features
- Running time
- 93 mins
- Format
- mini-DV
- Director
-
Paul Williams 1st Feature
- Producer
- Scott Charnick
- Co-Producer
- Scott Charnick
- Editor
- Paul Williams, Paul Terry
- Screenwriter
- Paul Williams
- Director of Photography
- Eugen Gritschneder
- Production Designer
- Helen Stimpson, David Lewis
- Sound
- Elina Kokkonen
- Composer
- Paul Terry
- Principal cast
- Daniel Carter-Hope, Brigitte Jarvis, Chris Courtenay, Francé Costello, Daniel McLeod, Kathleen Kimi, David Adeane, Stuart Olesker
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Evil Hypnotist Productions Ltd
40 Hyland WayHornchurch
Essex RM11 1DW
UK
T +44 (0) 7980 545002
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