wasted

Wasted won the London Borough of Haringey Film Award and is funded by Haringey and Film London.

LOGLINE
Lucy is young. Lucy is pretty. Lucy is damaged. Living with abusive, dysfunctional parents, her only comfort is strangers and her sidekick Becks: She wants to be a woman, older, independent, but how far will she go?

Crew Includes:

GRIP: Rob Barlow

LIGHTING: John Walker

SOUND: David Bekkevold

DESIGNER: Helen Scott

MAKE-UP: Jenna Wrage

COSTUME: Edward Gibbon

1st AID and Ist AD: Andy Gradwell

2ND AD / UNIT MOBILE: Matteo Pizzarello

HEALTH & SAFETY: On set safety Andy Gradwell (1st AD), Electrical Safety (gaffer)

RADIOS: John Robinson
10 x motorollas

RUSHES: Ilab, 56 Poland Street Soho, London, W1F 7NN

CATERING: Ravin J Ganatr

ADDITIONAL PERSONNEL Ajay, (Unit Base Contact)

A massive thank you to Hi sushi, Muswell Hill, who now offer delivery.
476 Muswell Hill Broadway, N10 (near post office). 020 8883 9788.

SYNOPSIS
Lucy attempts to get away from her dysfunctional family, an ever arguing stepdad, mum and her dull teenage life by meeting up with a '16 year old boy'. The boy she exchanges text messages and meets turns out to be Tony, closer to 40 than 16. Lucy's not concerned, maybe she always knew it. He's concerned, then infatuated. They flirt, she plays games, she's witty, feisty and outrageous and in control. There's no doubt they get on. He takes her back to his place. Roles change, converge and reverse as Lucy's control slips in Tony's flat....This is it. What's she going to do?

About the director and writer
Director Rowland Jobson was D&AD awarded in 2006 he has just directed Trapped a dramatic film with Patsy Palmer playing the lead for Shelter. Nick Cohen in The Evening Standard described Trapped this week in his column as 'a brilliant and harrowing short film'

Rowland has directed for Imagination, the launch film for Mazda2, C4 and numerous corporate clients. He also has a 35mm film funded in preproduction with a highly respected film production company shooting in late spring/early summer

Peter Devonald is an award winning writer who has had work shown in over 30 international film festivals and has options/ worked with Blue Zoo, MTV, Tangent, Vermilion and Soup. Awards include best drama at the New York International Film Festival, second in The End Of The Pier International Film Festival and finalist in the Super Shorts Talent Circle.

About the Production Company
Seefood have made films, for Arup, Notting Housing Trust, Paramount Comedy, Shelter, Rethink and numerous agencies. www.seefood.tv
Company: Seefood Film & TV Ltd
Director: Rowland Jobson
Location: London

Rowland Jobson is a director/writer with a strong and varied background in drama documentary, commercials, corporate films and virals/interactive media. He recently was nominated for a D&AD award for his work directing interactive films for Brahama Beer's web campaign and was short-listed for The Jerwood & First Film Foundations Development scheme for his script "You Can't Stop The Sea" in 2004/2005 (a film about a homeless illegal immigrant boy set in the South of France)

He is currently directing cinema commercial for Shelter and a 10 minute dramatic film for Shelter that revisits 'Cathy Come Home" by Ken Loach. The wondeful Tony Imi who was DOP on the original 'Cathy Come Home' is to shoot it with Rowland. He is writing for a large car commercial for cinema and the internet and developing a feature film he has just been signed to co-write and also now to direct. Rowland was also recently shot "The Wood's" a short film staring Nathalie Press.

Rowland originally trained as an actor at Manchester Metropolitan University School of Theatre and worked as an actor for several years before coming to directing.

Rowland has directed and produced for BT (corporate), a documentary for Channel 4 (24 hours in London), Scope (corporate), European Children's Trust (corporate), Eurosport, Paramount Comedy Channel (commercial), Century Films, Sony Play Station (Viral), Brahma Beer, Canon UK, Barclays Bank (corporate), Dixons PLC (viral), Community Channel, Tropicana (corporate), Canon UK (interactive), Mothercare (corporate), Media Group(corporate), Farm Communications (commercial), Xerox (corporate), Ealing Victim Support (corporate drama), Wheel Group (interactive), DNA (interactive), and more.

He also co-produced the Directors Guild of Great Britain Awards in 2004 and is a council member of the Directors Guild of Great Britain.

He directed and creatively produced some groundbreaking interactive films starting with an interactive film for Sony Playstation and interactive documentary on the river Thames with artist Rosalind Miller. He advises interactive agencies on viral campaigns. He has directed and produced numerous successful viral films for Play Station, Dixons, Piaggio, and the like.

He has just signed a contract to direct his first feature film 51, with a small London based production company which he is co writing. He is also currently writing a feature film, 'Remote' about a British soldier who goes AWOL on his return form service in IRAQ and a drama intended for an HBO series called Mini Cinema - written for Dennis Hopper - selected for the Open Pages reading at the Hospital.

Short-listed Jerwood/First Film Foundation 2004/2005 new writing and directors development scheme.

Chair of the panel for The Best Director of a Television /Cinema Commercial for the Directors Guild of Great Britain Awards 2004

Cinematographer/Director Of Photography:
Carmo (2008) (completed), Son (2008), Brick Lane (2007), Mischief Night (2006), The Silent City (2006), Cubs (2006), Red Road (2006), Tube Poker (2005), Isolation (2005), Antonio's Breakfast (2005), At Debt's Door (2005), Toz (2005), Knitting a Love Song (2004), Wasp (2003), LSD '73! (2003), This Is Not a Love Song (2002), Large (2001), Ivor the Insomniac (2001), Shadowscan (2001), Landmark (2001), The Black Suit (2000), Short (1999), The Tale of the Rat That Wrote (1999), 7th Heaven (1999), Retribution in the Year 2050 (1998)
The Farmer's Wife (1998) (lighting cameraman), Patterns (1998), How to Cheat in the Leaving Certificate (1997), Mercy (1996), Faith (1993) The Twenty Second Plastic Love Affair (1993), Undertow (1993)

BIO: HELEN SCOTT (taken from imdb) (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0779225/)
Production Designer: Red Road (2006), Wasp (2003), "The Bill" (2 episodes, 2002), "Dressing for Breakfast" (8 episodes, 1997-1998)
Art Director: Arthur's Dyke (2001), Topsy-Turvy (1999), Déjà Vu (1997) and Career Girls (1997).

CAST
Lucy: Georgia Bourke
Lucy is a pretty 13/14 year-old. She is sassy, wise, tough, feisty, witty, sarcastic and has a will of her own. She likes to scare people with the game of Russian Roulette she plays with her life. Ultimately her feisty, attention seeking and outrageous behaviour hides her vulnerability. This really is about her need for attention from her parents and a real dad.

Becks:Maria Burgess
Becks is Lucy's side kick, she is less outgoing, overweight (possibly very). A childhood friend Lucy is growing away from as she wants to be a woman.

Tony
Steven Elder: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0253097/
UK Agent: Independent Talent Group + 44 (207) 636 6565
LA Agent: The Chasin Agency + 1 310 278 7505
Demo reel: www.spotlight.com/artists
View PIN: 9616-6726-8090
Roles include Shelter (2008), Good (2008), Gallowwalker (2009), "Robin Hood", "Judge John Deed", "Afterlife", "Doctors", "Holby City", "Monarch of the Glen", "Heartbeat", "The Inspector Lynley Mysteries" Cromwell: Warts and All, EastEnders, "The Bill", "Waking the Dead", "The Vice", "Peak Practice" and "Coronation Street".

Stepfather - Ian Rixon
Once handsome, now bit overweight, working man, can be firey, had enough of life.
Roles include "Who Stole The World Cup" and "Casualty".

Mother - Tara Ellis
London, drab, had enough, drinks, once pretty but faded with stress, poverty and a bad marriage.
Roles include "The Amazing Mrs Pritchard" (2006), "The Bill" (1998-2006), "Holby City" (2005), Comfort of Strangers (2005), Paradise Grove (2003), Spider (2002), "Swallow" (2001), "EastEnders" (2001) and"In Deep" (2001).

PRODUCERS: VICTORIA WOOD, ROWLAND JOBSON, ZOE WEBSTER AND PETER DEVONALD

ESTATE ON COMMERCE ROAD:
KEATS BUILDING, THOMAS HARDY BUILDING

BROADWATER FARM ESTATE

"Teenagers, caught between a powerful emerging sexuality and hideous ignorance. Lucy (pretty-ish) and Becks (fat) arrange meetings with men from the playground. This one (Tony) is supposed to be 16 but is in fact 43. Lucy, however, is motivated by escaping a miserable home life, getting a free lunch, and telling her mate how fabulous it was. She goes home with Tony, but in the end it is his anxiety about the age gap that sends her out the door.

This is really accomplished. Good screenwriting, well paced, and feels very emotionally true.... I think there is talent to consider here"
The Script Factory

Chosen by a judging panel including Josic Cadoret (Film London, new talent co-ordinator), Philip Ilson (short film programmer), David Waterson (Film Liaison Officer, London Borough of Haringey) and Yousaf Ali-Khan (Director).