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Charlie Productions : Death Of The Revolution2006, 6mins, 16mm.
When Tony is told off for stealing a pencil, his ten year-old logic seethes at the injustice. What course of action is open to him other than to inspire a juvenile revolt? With truth, justice and his comrade pupils marching by his side, what can possibly stop him? Death Of The Revolution is a vivid and delightful political fantasy anchored by a brilliant central performance from first-time actor Alastair Marshall. Ten at the time of shooting, this precocious and difficult role is the first part Alastair has ever taken on. Spotted by directors Ben & Chris Blaine at the school where they were to shoot the film, Alastair was given the role because of a natural affinity with the part that soon became clear in auditions. However no one quite expected him to take to the filming process with such ease and professionalism."It's a script that we've wanted to make for some years" says Ben Blaine . "But we always held off until we knew we could make it right. Finding a boy capable of delivering the brief history of political thought that forms the guts of the script was always one of the biggest challenges but Alastair just seemed to understand what we wanted from the first time he read it." "This was always meant to be a our last ever short film, so when the opportunity to make "Hallo Panda" with FilmFour and the Film Council came along, we did wonder if it'd get a bit sidelined and forgotten about. So it was great when it became only our second ever film to get into Edinburgh, and since then the world seems to have opened it's arms."Ben's Blog - Death Of The Revolution In Edinburgh. THE TEAM
ProducersQuinny Sacks of QS Productions has a background of choreography (her credits include "The Singing Detective", "Shakespeare In Love" and "Troy"). We met her whilst working on Rob Kluger's short film "French Fries On The Golden Front". Having recently produced her first West End show ("Through The Leaves") she was keen to move into producing film and "Death Of The Revolution" was a perfect opportunity for her. Barrington Paul Robinson produced our previous short film "Free Speech". He is a self-taught filmmaker with a knack of being able to make things happen out of nothing. Crew
CastOf course one of the things that had always made us hesitate about making this film before was the task of finding a ten year-old boy capable of delivering the monologue on radical political history. We spent some months scouring schools and drama groups but, despite seeing some talented kids, there were no real candidates for Tony. Then we turned to the children of Camden Juniors in Carshalton, where Barrington happens to be a parent governor. Headteacher Denise Birkett had already seen and loved the script, and she was happy for us to use her school as a location.
Not only has Alistair proven to be a natural and wonderfully relaxed screen actor but we were able to draw almost our entire cast from within the school. We shot the film between the 14th and 17th of February 2005 and it is currently in post-production. We hope to have a finished film early in 2006.
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