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Detailing our last-gasp submission to the Raindance Film Festival and the completion of the fine-cut. Click here to check it out. North West Vision is one of nine regional screen agencies that form part of Screen England, and caters for the North West of the UK. Please note that North West Vision are not in any way associated with Diary of a Bad Lad or Pleased Sheep Productions.



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Diary of a Bad Lad

Diary of a Bad Lad has been completed on a cash budget of £3,500, and is more ambitious and more entertaining than most indie films that have been made on budgets one hundred times or more that amount. We've just managed to make the deadline for submissions to the Raindance Film Festival, which is our first stop in launching it on the world-wide festival circuit, and our aim is to well and truly put Bad Lad on the map.

93 mins, mini-dv feature

Pleased Sheep Productions www.pleasedsheep.com and www.bad-lad.com.

Director: Michael Booth

Writer/producer: Jon Williams

Starring: Joe O'Byrne, Paul Birtwistle, Roxanne Gregory, Donna Henry, Tom Miller and Jon Williams

Synopsis

Diary of a Bad Lad is a film about frustrated filmmaker Barry Lick's attempts to track down and make a documentary about a local businessman, who he believes is involved in property rackets, prostitution, pornography, and the importation of large quantities of recreational drugs. For security reasons Barry never uses his real name, and calls him 'Ray Topham' instead.

Barry recruits a team of young wannabees to work on the project. Their quest leads them to two of Ray's associates; a local cocaine supplier and ex-S&M porn actress called Joanne Miller, and the charmingly psychopathic Tommy Morghen who acts as Ray's personal security consultant. Joanne, Tommy and Ray soon realise that Barry is completely out of his depth, and so they start exploiting him for their own purposes - with both hilarious and tragic results.

Made on a miniscule cash budget of £3,500, Diary of a Bad Lad explores themes of sex, bondage, drugs, violence, corpse disposal, exploitation, and the limits that people are prepared to go to in order to make a film.

"The best film to come out of the North-West in years!" Danny Moran, film critic, City Life magazine, Manchester.

"Brilliant!" Chris Bernard, Director of Letter to Brezhnev

Besides saying a great big thankyou to our fantastic cast, who were all 110% commited to the project right from the start, we also owe an enormous debt to our DOP, Paul Gordon for delivering such a consistently superb example of hand-held documentary-style photography, and to our composer and audio specialist, Simon Auster for all his post-production work on the location audio, transforming it from documentary to feature film quality.
 
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