Brief synopsis:

A desperate woman holds up a sperm bank but is disarmed by a sympathetic security guard also looking for love.

Format: 35mm
Year of Production: 2004
Running Time: 11 mins
Director: Dallas Campbell
Producer: Farah Abushwesha, Pippa Mitchell, Kerry Appleyard
Screenwriter: Jonathan Edwards & Dallas Campbell
Editor: Celia Haining
Director of Photography: Nanu Segal
Sound: Steve Chaplin
Music: Lorraine Bowen
Leading Players: Trevor Fox, Sian Reeves
Budget: £60,000
Funding: UK Film Council Completion Fund 2004 & Screen South
Sponsors: Panavision, Fuji, Lipsync Post, LEM Digital, Ealing Studios, Lee Lighting
Trivia: The producers' innovative approach to raising the finance for the shoot - through the proceeds of sperm donations - attracted an unprecedented amount of national and international publicity and was awarded Best Pitch in Cannes 2003 by The Times.

Screenings, Festivals & Awards:

Edinburgh Film Festival 2004
Raindance Film Fesvital 2004 – Shortlisted in UK Selection
Image & Nation Brussels 2004
Cardiff International Film Festival 2004
Shortlisted for BIFA Award
Runner up at Salford Film Festival
Short listed for Soho Rushes Film Festival
Woodford Green Film Festival 2005
Cannes Film Festival - DGGB Screening 2005
BBC Film Network - Short Film of the Week CLICK HERE TO WATCH

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Brief synopsis:

When a man waits resolutely at a station for ‘Smith’, followers hail him as a Prophet… but will man’s desperate need for a messiah end in tragedy?

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