ROCKIN' CHAIR (2000)
STORY

RUNTIME: 17 mins
AWARDS:
Best Video Short Award at the Filmjunkie Festival, San Francisco
Best Low Budget Short Film Award at the Manchester (ENGLAND) Kino Film Festival
Best Screenplay Award at the Krakow (POLAND) Independent Film Festival
Best Foreign Short Film Award at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival

Some say that Britain's proudest tradition is our Royal family, but as anyone with a modicum of suss will tell you - that's bollox!

More people around the world respect Britain for it's contribution to music and fashion and this is what this film is about, but with a difference. Rockin' Chair takes a look at just one of the thousands upon thousands of no hope bands that never even step onto the first rung of success.

Here we look at a bunch of guys who are in a band just to postpone adulthood a little longer. Set in the cold bleakness of a suburban English pub, we dressed the band up in cool pastel colours to clash with the surroundings. Of course later in the film they really do take on the pub.

This film has played and won awards all over the globe - New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Manchester, Krakow and everyone has praised the acting. They're right - a wonderful ensemble cast that would be familiar to British TV viewers, with the pedigree of having appeared in such shows as The Bill and Grange Hill.

By the way "Rockin' Chair" is a song by Oasis, which the writer felt especially fitted one of the characters - "Buster's" state of mind. However you won't hear the song on the soundtrack, we wrote to them for permission and they ignored us.

ACTORS:
Chris Simmons as Buster
Eugene Walker as Willie
Paul Parris as Georgie
Tat Whalley as Buckle
Jonathan Linsley as The Guvnor
Michael Knighton as Sonic

DIRECTOR: Paolo Sedazzari
PRODUCER: Clare Saxby
SCREENPLAY: Paolo Sedazzari
EDITOR: Ian Seymour
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Jonathan Harvey