Saltaire Films
Short Film Productions.....
.....Introductory paragraph providing an overview of films produced and distributed
Take Cover
Genre: Personal Drama
TV broadcaster: TBA
Cast: Tom Geoffrey, and Colin Pinney
Writer: Nariman Massoumi
Director: Nariman Massoumi
DOP: Peter Milner
Producer : Ed Ison
Take Cover
Take Cover is a short film by award-winning Iranian filmmaker Nariman Massoumi exploring the alienation faced by outsiders in modern day Britain. The film follows the perceived prejudice experienced by a veiled muslim woman from those around her. Only in the privacy of her own home can she address the question of her isolation and, ultimately, who she really is.
The film was shot on the ‘RED’ camera and finished on HDCAM format for broadcast and film festival delivery. Premièred at the International Brief Encounters film festival in Bristol, 2010 and is currently attracting wide acclaim on the European festival circuit.
Sunny Side of the Street
Genre: Football / Personal Drama
TV broadcaster: Film4/C4. (Also released in UK cinemas 1997, released on video by Downtown Films 1998)
Cast: Nigel Pivaro, Terry Thomas, Stuart Golland, Bea Kelley, Dennis Barker
Writer: Fergus Colville
Director: Richard Clark
DOP: Dirk Nel
Producers : Fergus Colville, Liz O’Hare
Sunny Side of the Street
It's not easy growing up in Leeds when your father's a passionate Man Utd supporter. On the day the two teams play to decide the premiership, young Jason is reluctantly embroiled in the rivalry.
Lightweight
Genre: Personal Drama
TV broadcaster: ITV
Cast: Annette Chown, Mark Drewery
Writer: Fergus Colville
Director: Teresa McCann
DOP: Dirk Nel
Producers : Liz O’Hare, Fergus Colville
Lightweight
A teenage girl breaks into the house of a neighbourhood recluse as a dare. Rumour has it he's a child sex offender. By breaking in she realises this isn't true but when he returns unexpectantly to discover her in his house events spiral out of control.
Pink Champagne
Genre: Personal Drama
TV broadcaster: ITV
Cast: Pat Loveland, Colin Pinney
Writer: Fergus Colville
Director: Fergus Colville
DOP: Dirk Nel
Producers : Ed Ison
Pink Champagne
A couple return to the hotel where they spent their honeymoon. Once the height of luxury it is now the worst faded grandeur has to offer. Both are very disappointed and a wedge is driven between them. It takes a bath in pink champagne to bring them back together.
