Project Detail

Time Lock

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

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Production Status

Production Company

Timelock Media Ltd

146 Niddire Road 3/2
Glasgow
G42 8QB

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