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FIRST FLIGHTS FILM FUND 2025
United Kingdom
Winner
Details
- Starring: Chris Forbes; Kirsty Strain; Emma Findlay; Marcus Macleod; Kara Caldwell; Vivian Reid; Craig Mclean
- Written and Directed by: Steve Johnson
- Produced by: Margaret Johnson, Steve Johnson
- First Flights Executive Producers: Nick Sadler, Kirsty Bell
- Director of Photography: Simon Stolland
- Production Designer: Urte Rusteikaite
- Costume Supervisor: Ruth McLean
- Hair and Makeup Supervisor: Jo Mcauliffe
- Editor: Chris Quick
- Composer: George Hinson
- Unit Production Manager: Jon Theobald
- 1st Assistant Director: Connor McCausland
- 3rd Assistant Director: Layla Donnelly
- Intimacy Coordinator: Michele Gallagher
- Child Chaperone: Karen Caldwell
- Stunt Coordinator: Carter Ferguson
- 1st Assistant Camera: Josh Higgins
- 2nd Assistant Camera: Dee McGloin
- Gaffer: Federico Belloli
- Sparks: Stephen Crabb, Ryan Cruise
- Unit Stills Photographer: Sonja Blietschau
- BTS Videographer: Adam Hunter
- Production Sound Recordist: Scott Walker
- Costume Assistant: Megan Muir
- Hair and Makeup Assistant: Gurivine Kooner
- Props Maker: Keith Brown
- Runners: Carys Johnson; Adam Masters, Ewan Johnson
- Post Production Supervisor: Jon Theobald
- Colourist: Iain Pennington
- Post Production Sound: Scott Walker
- Runtime: TBC
Logline
When Jacob is passed over for promotion, the violent attacks from his abusive wife Sarah begin to escalate in brutality, leaving him to contemplate the unthinkable, as a means to escape her rage.
Synopsis
Jacob seems to have it all: he’s on the verge of a promotion; he’s married to Sarah, his seemingly supportive wife who has her own great career, and he has a beautiful young daughter Mia, who adores him. When Jacob fails to get the promotion and lies to Sarah about it, it begins a chain reaction that causes ‘her’ rage to increase and ‘his’ world to implode. As Sarah threatens to take away the only thing in Jacob’s life that he truly holds dear, his daughter, he realises that he has been backed into an impossible corner, one in which he is considered the abuser by those on the outside, leaving him with no support, no one to turn to and only one way out of the situation.
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