A Stately Suicide - Best Comedy

My short film A Stately Suicide won Best Comedy at the Phoenix Comicon film festival last month. A big thank you to the festival and congratulations to the Flyboy Film crew and Andy D Smith and Ian Forbes who wrote it.

Phoenix Comicon & Edinburgh Short Film Festival

I've had some great news for my short films recently.  Both Meta and Falling Out have been selected for the Phoenix Comicon Film Festival and A Stately Suicide has been selected for the Edinburgh Short Film Festival.  All three films were directed by myself, shot by Ian Forbes and produced by Flyboy Films.

Meta and Falling Out screened last week at the Phoenix Comicon Film Festival.

A Stately Suicide will be screening on the 17th of June at the Edinburgh Short Film Festival.

'A Stately Suicide' poster

And here is the poster for our latest short A Stately Suicide which will also be screening at the Flyboy showcase.

A Stately Suicide - Wrapped

Last week we wrapped principal photography on a short film I am directing called A Stately Suicide.  It was my most enjoyable directing experience so far and I was so grateful to be working with such a talented cast and crew.  The cast are;

Melody Grove as Hannah

Kern Falconer as Spencer

Ryan Fletcher as Tony 

and

Annie Louise Ross as Nurse

'A Stately Suicide' a short film in development.

In late September director of photography, Ian Forbes and his writing partner, Andy Smith came to me for advice on a screenplay they had been working on.  I liked the tone of the story immediately but it was clear to us all that it still needed some work.  I came on board to advise at version three of the screenplay and was asked to direct shortly after that.  We have since been through four iterations and made some drastic changes to the events of the story.

Synopsis:

The volatile Lord Spencer must be kept under heavy sedation if he is to be placed in a nursing home without a fight.  When Hannah, his private nurse takes all of Spencer's medication, she must enlist Tony, a small-town waster to find street drugs to replace the prescription.

Hospitalfield house, the primary location for the film