toast

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by peter devonald and kevin scrantz

CAST
Ingmar - Andrew Bumfrey
Maria - Gillian Tully

CREW
Director/Producer - Steve Hammal
Lighting Cameraman - Jonathan Le Roux
Second Camera Operator - Anthony Parker
Music - Alan Williamson: www.alanwilliamson.co.uk

Production company: Dark Skies Film
View here: TOAST - BBC WEBSITE



SCREENSHOTS/ STILLS

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

FUTURE FILM FESTIVAL SCREENING/SELECTION
Toast Steve Hammal, fiction, 2005, 9’, Angleterre Ingmar est du genre maniaque. Mais le jour où son toast jaillit du toaster carbonisé et immangeable, c'est le début d'une série d'événements qui menacent de mettre à mal la mécanique parfaitement huilée de sa routine quotidienne. 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 will take 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 http://www.kurzfilmnacht-tour.ch/fr/index.html MANGEZ ÉQUILIBRÉ ! International Une sélection internationale de films qui vous permettra de garder vitalité et tonus. Profitez de cette palette de goûts qui vous est proposée : piquant, doux, amer, salé, sucré… A ce régime, vos zygomatiques seront prêts pour un menu à 6 plats. 20H15, Galerie 5 23H30, Galerie 4 Durée: 68' http://www.kurzfilmnacht-tour.ch/fr/index.html

	SELECTED FOR SCREENING AND COMPETITION: Heart of Gold International Film Festival October 26-29 in sunny Gympie, Australia. 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 Buy tickets here from September 11th: http://www.heartofgold.com.au/tickets.html


PREVIOUS FILM FESTIVAL SCREENINGS
	The Big Screen - Comedy WATCH IT HERE: TOAST - BBC WEBSITE

	BRADFORD FILM FESTIVAL 2006 PREMIERE: Wed, 08 March 2006- 19:45 - IMAX showing with GLASTONBURY Dir. Julian Temple: http://www.nmpft.org.uk/bff/2006/filmdetail.asp?ida=6022 CLICK FOR BRADFORD FILM FESTIVAL BROCHURE

	WARRINGTON FILM FESTIVAL 2006: TOAST CANCELLED. As a result of the venue's entertainment licence being shortened, I'm afraid though Toast was selected for the festival, the screening was cancelled. It will show in the Autumn festival instead.

	THE END OF THE PIER INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL May 2006: Screening 3 - Short Drama, 4th May 3pm – 5pm The Picturedrome Cinema, Canada Grove, Bognor Regis, West Sussex, PO21 1DW, England. http://www.eotpfilmfestival.com/05-06-news.php Toast won second place at The End Of The Pier International Film Festival.

	THE DEEP FRIED FILM FESTIVAL Airdrie Town Hall: July 10th 2006 Free screening 5pm-10:30pm Sir John Wilson Town Hall, Airdrie. http://www.deepfriedfilm.org.uk/

	THE PORTOBELLO FILM FESTIVAL 2006 WEDNESDAY 16 AUGUST 2006 Inn On the Green 6–11pm http://www.portobellofilmfestival.com/2006/inn16.html

	Wednesday, September 27th 2006: Revenge, Brighton. http://www.finalcut.gb.com/archive/thismonth.htm

	SEFTON SHORT FILM FESTIVAL SCREENED: 12 October 2006 http://www.s2f2.org.uk/


SUPPORT/ FILM CATALOGUES
	CLERMONT FILM FESTIVAL Included in the film market section of the 2007 Clermont Film Festival: http://www.clermont-filmfest.com

	BRITISH COUNCIL BRITISH FILMS AND FILMMAKERS: http://www.britfilms.com/britishfilms/catalogue

	FILM CENTRE http://www.filmcentre.co.uk/search.asp?str=Toast_{3}

	ON IMDB: PLEASE FEEL FREE TO RATE AND REVIEW http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0805699/ Thank you.

LOGLINE
Ingmar lives a regimented life. Up at 7.19am each morning, he showers, dresses and prepares a very civilised breakfast. But today will be different. When his toast emerges blackened and inedible from his toaster, it precipitates a series of events that threaten to wreck his perfectly synchronised daily routine… A sharp little existential comedy of errors.

SYNOPSIS
INGMAR's life is one of perfection and repetition. Every day is the same: get up, get ready, work the 9-5 life, come back, sleep, get up, get ready, work the 9-5 life… He never really gave it much thought. He just gets up and does it.

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.

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