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Ticker

Ticker Short Film Ltd

Synopsis

Howard drives his partner Joseph to hospital to undergo a high risk operation. The intimacy of the car, alongside a long forgotten mix tape, sees the masculinity of their forty-year relationship start to yield.

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Details

Year: 2023
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 9 min 10 sec
Format: 16mm
Director: Thom Petty
Producer: Margaret Milner Schmueck
Executive Producer: Natasha Wilson
Editor: Trace Taylor
Screenwriter: Thom Petty
Director of Photography: Barbara van Schaik
Production Designer: Adam Whitehouse
Sound: Andrew Layfield
Composer: Thom Petty
Principal cast: Paul Copley, Ian Gelder, Liz Fletcher
Film website: www.lostnortherner.com/ticker

Genre

LGBTQIA+ Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Supported by BFI NETWORK

Split Second Films

Margaret Milner Schmueck
The Manor House
33 Station Road
Irthlingborough
Northants
NN9 5SP

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