Project Detail

Time Lock

Name: Time Lock
Director: David Griffith
Genre: Action, Scottish, Drama
Released: 2012
Duration: 93 mins

Synopsis

Time Lock is a tense, expressionistic crime thriller about chance and consequence, pride and self-deception. Mark Kerr is a jaded hotel manager with a gambling problem, sleepwalking through his life until he is tricked into facilitating a jewellery heist at the conference hotel where he works. Held in the basement of the hotel through the night, waiting for the time-lock on the safe to open, Mark's prospects of survival take a turn for the worse when his captor, Cal recognises him as a former teacher who was responsible for his expulsion from school fifteen years before. Mark must now face up to his failings as a man and rediscover his humanity if he is to placate his angry tormentor, protect the hotel staff and guests from harm - and survive the ordeal.

Details

Year: 2012
Type of project: Features
Running time: 93 mins
Format: HD
Director: David Griffith 1st Feature
Producer: David Griffith, Inge Ebje Sorensen
Executive Producer: South West Scotland Screen Commission
Editor: Florian Nonnenmacher
Screenwriter: David Griffith
Director of Photography: Simon Hipkins
Production Designer: Ryan Clachrie
Sound: Dave McAulay
Composer: Howie Reeve, R M Hubbert, Rafe Fitzpatrick
Principal cast: John C Gilmour, Alton Milne

Genre

Action Scottish Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Timelock Media Ltd

146 Niddire Road 3/2
Glasgow
G42 8QB

07967587872

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