Film Poster

The 10am film poster can now be seen on www.shortfilmposters.com an amazing resource for short film poster art work based out of the US. Its well worth checking out, theres loads of good poster art to look at. Im chuffed they've added our poster to that list.

Martin Serene plays Aeron Senior.

Martin is a true original and when I needed someone to play Mr Aeron (The dad) there was only one man in mind. Born in the heart of Salford and then onwards to everywhere but Salford, he is a class act both funny and sometimes frightening which makes for a useful and memorable mix.

Martin is both an actor and 1st assistant director by trade who at one time worked with the best in Hollywood including Tony Scott RIP. His first acting break of all films was playing Wild Bill in Se7en.  His scene involved the leather shop, need I say more.

Check Martins IMDB here

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0784997/

Heres Martin in the Leather Shop.

The 10am.

Score by Graham Massey

When I set out to create music for the short the first person that entered my head was fellow Mancunian Graham Massey. Graham is a pioneer in electronic music, acid house, famous for his band 808 State, collaborations with A Guy Called Gerald, Bjork, love for Sun Ra and loads of other great stuff and just a really top bloke.

Its funny then that when Graham agreed to do the soundtrack (amazing) that what actually came back had nish to do with electronic music and more to do with Steptoe and Son but twisted. Always expect the unexpected from Mr Massey. Thank you Graham.

To read more about Graham heres his wiki page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Massey

Heres Graham with a full sized (Frank Sidebottom style) sculpture of himself by Korean artist Gwon Osang in the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.

Festival No.6

Thanks to festival No.6 for giving The 10am its first test screening back in September. It played before The Stone Roses Doc 'Made Of Stone' directed by Shane Meadows. Apparently it went down really well. I couldn't be there!!

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Crew Shots

ON MARKET SQ, E2 WITH THE CREW.

Cast Profile - Part 2

Wendy Nottingham

When the chance to work with Wendy materialised, I instantly jumped at it (Thanks to Sam Spruell). Wendy starred in one of my all time favourite short films directed by Mike Leigh. The film was called ‘The Short & Curlies’ 1988 and starred  David Thewlis, Alison Steadman, Wendy and Sylvestra Le Touzel.

The film was littered with great performances and remembered probably by the brilliant one liners delivered by David Thewlis, one example being the lyrics to the song he performs with his guitar “I know a song and its not very long, in fact it ends right here.” And ‘What's round and really violent? A vicious circle.' (made me laugh at any rate)

However for me, Wendy’s emotive and subtle portrayal of Charlene, Alison Steadmans daughter was always the performance that lingered long after watching.

Wendy has appeared in  classic Mike Leigh films and plays and more besides but she mostly applies her considerable talent in Theatre.