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CAST CREW Production company:
Dark Skies Film |
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| Filmed using the new SONY Z1-E HDV camera. We wish to thank the kind support of:
http://www.city-eye.co.uk/production_awards/toast.html |
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 | Screened and in competition online now: http://shootingpeople.org/watch/film.php?film_id=73977 |
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Summer film festival 2009, hosted by London’s Holloway Odeon. The film festival took place between Sunday 28th June and Saturday 4th July 2009. BIG DAY OUT FILMS: Saturday 4th July, 2pm-6pm: Whittington Park, Holloway Road - Closed the festival. |
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Massive thanks to Elspeth Graty for the French translation of 'Toast' for this festival screening. |
Selected for screening and competition at the 10th Nuit du court métrage/ The Short Film Night of Lausanne. The Night took place on November 16th, from 7 PM till 4 AM, at the cinema "Pathé Les Galeries" in Lausanne, Switzerland. http://www.base-court.ch/nuits.htm MANGEZ
ÉQUILIBRÉ ! International |
 
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FOR SCREENING AND COMPETITION: Sat,
Oct 27 2007, 5:30 pm HERITAGE THEATRE Plays
in #18 SHORTS M rated (90 min) with Art's Desire, Jackie Jackie, Journey by Heart,
Leap of Faith, Invisible, Truck Stop Grill, The Freesias of Eden, Yoga Noga Reyoga;
The Enlightenment Competition |
| PREVIOUS FILM FESTIVAL SCREENINGS | |
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The Big Screen - Comedy WATCH IT HERE: |
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BRADFORD FILM FESTIVAL 2006 PREMIERE:
Wed, 08 March 2006- 19:45 - IMAX showing with GLASTONBURY Dir. Julian Temple: |
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WARRINGTON
FILM FESTIVAL 2006: TOAST
CANCELLED. It will show in the Autumn festival instead. |
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http://www.eotpfilmfestival.com/05-06-news.php Toast won second place at The End Of The Pier International Film Festival. |
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THE DEEP FRIED FILM FESTIVAL Airdrie Town Hall: July 10th 2006 Free screening 5pm-10:30pm Sir John Wilson Town Hall, Airdrie. |
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THE PORTOBELLO
FILM FESTIVAL 2006 WEDNESDAY
16 AUGUST 2006 |
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Wednesday, September 27th 2006: Revenge, Brighton. |
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SEFTON SHORT FILM FESTIVAL SCREENED: 12 October 2006 |
| SUPPORT/ FILM CATALOGUES | |
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CLERMONT FILM FESTIVAL Included in the film market section of the 2007 Clermont Film Festival: |
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BRITISH COUNCIL BRITISH FILMS AND FILMMAKERS: |
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FILM CENTRE |
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ON IMDB: PLEASE FEEL FREE TO RATE AND REVIEW http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0805699/ Thank you. |
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LOGLINE
Today, he gets up the same as every other day. Timing is everything. Bathroom. Shower. Brush teeth. Shave. Bedroom. Clothes. Ironed. Pressed. Organised. Wait for letters to arrive - the thrill of seeing MARIA - the post-person. Get post. Respond to post. Watch the time on the morning news. Get newspaper. Now - time to prepare breakfast. Regimented. Clean. Timed to perfection. Coffee percolated. Eggs broken, sizzles in pan. Mushrooms cut, added to pan. Bread out of wrapper, put into toaster. Can of beans opened, put into pan. Click, click, click, the repetition of actions taken and repeated from the first working day to last. Organised, sorted, planned. But then… The toast burns. How is this possible? How could his routine be ruined like this? Everything collapses. His perfect breakfast in his perfect life breaks down. He throws the breakfast away. Calms himself. Tells himself - 'it was just a blip'. Starts again. Makes another breakfast… the same thing happens. The toast burns, the breakfast is ruined. He cooks more toast. It goes wrong again. Under-cooked, over-cooked. More and more toast. With each slice he becomes more distracted. The phone rings. The doorbell chimes. Everything is out to get him. The pressure rises. More toast goes wrong. The toaster is thrown away. The grill burns toast faster. The swing bin overflows with burnt pieces. The bread wrapper is empty. Another bread wrapper is opened. Now its war. More toast. More, more, more. Finally, he makes the ideal piece. Delicately puts butter and jam on it. Savours it. Goes to eat it… Drops it. As he stares at the room full of charred crisp surfaces, he experiences an existential crisis. He questions other burnt bread on other days, an unending spiral of black crusts stretching to his childhood showing him the futility of man's eternal struggle for the perfect toast. He learns life's lesson. The
doorbell rings. It's Maria. The burnt toast has given him the courage to change
his life for the better by going for breakfast with the woman he will soon love.
View here: TOAST - BBC WEBSITE. ***COMING SOON: HOLLOWAY ARTS FILM FESTIVAL 2009***
For script contact pdevonald@hotmail.com CLICK HERE FOR MAIN PAGE OF WEBSITE Copyright 2005-2011: PETER DEVONALD AND KEVIN SCRANTZ |
