BRADBURY BEAR FIRE RANGER (1998)
STORY

RUNNING TIME: 17 mins
AWARDS: Short listed for BAFTA short film of the year 1998

This is where it all started, a computer store in Hammersmith, a cast of three and a small compact crew wielding an arri camera. The spirit of PRAGMA was truly born in the making of this picture, here's an example. One of our main cast gets arrested the day before shooting, no-one knows where he is. What did we do? Did we panic? Did we cancel the shoot? No way! We start rehearsing a member of the crew.

Two faced sales people are an important theme in this film, smiles and smarm to your face and v-signs behind your back. Terry the sales assistant is fawning over adult customers all day, so when he sees the nervous kid he thinks he can let off steam by being rude and unpleasant. He has no f**kin' respect, that's when Bradbury steps in...

The script got it's inspiration from the Droopy The Dog cartoon character, all passive at the start of the cartoon, as the baddie continuously torments him - until he reaches a point where he stares at the camera and says, "that makes me mad".

Being our first film, Bradbury Bear Fire Ranger is far from perfect, but what makes the film supremely watchable is the awesome performance of David Doyle - what a star!

ACTORS:
David Doyle as the Kid
Simon Mason as Terry
Matteo Sedazzari as Malcolm
Simon Skinner as "The Voice of Bradbury Bear"

DIRECTORS: Paolo Sedazzari, Simon Mason
PRODUCER: Simon Mason
SCREENPLAY: Paolo Sedazzari
EDITOR: Alan Levy
SOUND: Paul Garcia
STILLS: Leslie Silwood
CINEMATOGRAPHERS: Armondo "out of film" Smit, Swavek Zukowski