When a young man’s wife is chosen for ascension, a propaganda-fuelled means to control overpopulation, he decides to challenge the oppressors no matter how futile his actions may be. Made for the 48-hour Sci-Fi London competition in 2012. The aim of the competition is to write-shoot-edit a film in 48-hours using a title, line of dialogue and action that the competition gives you. Given title: Run Toward Them Given line of dialogue: Alright I just need to put your name in...and voila, here is your entire background...so now what? Given prop/action: Title: Glasses we see character selecting a pair of glasses from a selection of at least 5 pairs. They put them on. Press: “Literally rapturous” - Anton Bitel, SIGHT AND SOUND “Great” - Dan Starkey, DR WHO Cast (in order of appearance) News Reporter: Charlotte Gittins News Reporter: Paul Foxcroft Wife: Kirsty Oswald Husband: David Reed Neighbor: Michael Cusick Friend 1: Briony Redman Friend 2: Jonathan Ash Hacker: Tom Bell Crew Director: Kate Herron Producer: Jonathan Ashton Writers: David Reed, Tom Bell, Paul Foxcroft, Charlotte Gittins, Kate Herron & Briony Redman Director of Photography: Karl Clarke Camera Assistant: Ewan Macfarlan Sound Recordist: Mark Andrews Make-Up Artist: Samm.m Agnew Sound Design: Andrew Brand Editor: Ellie Johnson Visual Effects Artist: Martin Lejeune Production Assistant: Chris Macfarlane 2nd Unit Team: Director: Tom Bell Camera & Sound: Seth Ward Assistant Editors: Charlotte Gittins & Paul Foxcroft

48-HOUR SCI-FI COMPETITION (2012)

When a young man’s wife is chosen for ascension, a propaganda-fuelled means to control overpopulation, he decides to challenge the oppressors no matter how futile his actions may be.

Director: Kate Herron

Writers: Kate Herron, David Reed, Paul Foxcroft, Briony Redman, Tom Bell & Charlotte Gittins.

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GIVEN TO TEAM BY 48-HOUR SCI-FI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL

Title: Run Toward Them

Dialogue: “Alright I just need to put your name in…and voila, here is your entire background…so now what?”

Prop/Action: Glasses. We see a character selecting a pair of glasses from a selection of at least 5 pairs. They put them on.

“Great!” – Dan Starkey (Commander Strax, Dr Who)

“Literally rapturous” – Anton Bitel (Sight and Sound

Made for the 48-hour Sci-Fi competition at the London Sci-Fi Film Festival 2012 by team Don’t Panic. The aim of the competition is to write-shoot-edit a film in 48-hours with a title, prop and line of dialogue you are given on the first day.

Run Toward Them was directed by Kate Herron and improvised around a story-line Kate constructed with her cast.

The cast included award-winning comedians including: David Reed (One third of multi-award winning sketch group The Penny Dreadfuls, over thirty 5* reviews), Tom Bell (Episodes, HBO "Project Greenlight"), Paul Foxcroft (Drifters), Charlotte Gittins (Austentatious) and Briony Redman (Red Planet Prize Finalist 2010).

SYNOPSIS A house hunting couple quickly discover it’s not the property chain that they are getting caught up in. ABOUT Inspired by the work of the improv comedy school “Second City” in Chicago, Kate made improvised short, Open House, in the space of 48-hours for the Smoke & Mirrors competition 2011. She directed the film and constructed the story, which the cast improvised around. The cast included profilic improvisers of the award-winning Canadian improv show Monkey Toast including Paul Foxcroft (Drifters), Charlotte Gittins (Austentatious), Briony Redman (Red Planet Prize Finalist 2010) and comedian Dean Kilbey (ITV Take the Mic: Finalist, BBC Talent Acting Up: Winner). In 2013 September Open House won ShootingPeople’s Film of the Month in September 2013, judged by head of Warp Films Robin Gutch. It premiered LOCO London Comedy Film Festival 2013, has screened at numerous short film nights and festivals including Into The Woods, LetsKeepItShort and has been recommended by Raindance Film Festival. It also was selected as Film of the Week by Rankin Film Productions on their website Collabor8te and also Hunger TV on 3rd March 2014. PRESS ” Funny and entertaining.” – Raindance Film Festival “A successful short film that unified tone, story and theme in an interesting way.” – Robin Gutch, head of Warp Films. “A delightful short film.” – ShootingPeople IMPROVISERS(in order of appearance): Paul Foxcroft Charlotte Gittins Dean Kilbey Briony Redman CREW Director Kate Herron Story Kate Herron Luke Wicker Wilf Eddings Producers Luke Wicker Wilf Eddings Director of Photography Chris Andrews 2nd Camera Dan Goodall Sound Design Tom Whetmore Sound Assistant Scott Youlden Continuity Bhairavi Patel Editor Ellie Johnson THANKS TO: The Eddings family. Cariad Lloyd. Steve Roe.

OPEN HOUSE (2011)

A house hunting couple quickly discover it's not the property chain that they are getting caught up in.

Director: Kate Herron

Story: Kate Herron, Luke Wicker & Wilf Eddings

Producer: Luke Wicker & Wilf Eddings

AWARDS

WINNER - SHOOTINGPEOPLE'S FILM OF THE MONTH - September 2013 (Judge Robin Gutch, head of WARP FILMS)

FILM OF THE WEEK at RANKIN FILM's COLLABORT8TE - March 3rd 2014

FILM OF THE WEEK - HUNGER MAGAZINE - March 2014

“A successful short film that unified tone, story and theme in an entertaining way.” – Robin Gutch, head of Warp Film

"Nothing short of brilliant. Strong on character, a riveting plot, and packed full of laughs with a perfect twist." - Simon London (Previous Creative Head of Comedy at the BBC)

“Funny and Dynamic” – Hunger Magazine

Made for the Smoke and Mirrors 48-hour film challenge in 2011, with the cast of the award-winning Canadian improv show Monkey Toast. Inspired by the work of improv comedy school “Second City” and Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, Kate directed the film and constructed the story, which the cast improvised around.

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