MY SHIP IS COMIN' IN 
| Directed by: | Richard Parkin |
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| Written by: | Richard Parkin, Barry Graham |
| Starring: | James Doran, Allan Gildea, Bronagh Taggart, Shaun Paul McGrath |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Created: | 2006 |
| Runtime: | 10 min. |
| Member: | thePaginator |
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Average rating: 4.67 by 3 users
Film Description:
Two small-time criminals get way out of their depth when they pull of the job of a lifetime; only one of them rises to the challenge when the life of the woman they both love is threatened. Action/adventure, made as part of Project Norma, 2006.
Synopsis
Two small-time criminals get way out of their depth after pulling off the job of a lifetime; only one of them rises to the challenge when the life of the woman they both love is threatened. Action/adventure, made as part of Project Norma, a screenwriters initiative, Belfast (UK).
Forms: Short
Genres: Action/Adventure
Screenings & Events
Project Norma Screening
OTHER
Belfast, United Kingdom
March 2006
Queens International Film Festival
Film Festival
New York, U S A
November 2006
Cast & Crew
Michael Kelly (Executive Producer), Richard Parkin (Producer, Director (1st Project,1st Feature))
WritingBarry Graham (Writer (1st Project)), Richard Parkin (Writer (1st Project))
PerformanceAllan Gildea (Lead Actor), Bronagh Taggart (Lead Actor), James Doran (Lead Actor), Shaun Paul McGrath (Lead Actor)
CameraPaul McConkey (Cinematographer/DP)
Post ProductionAllan Gildea (Digital Effects), Kevin McDonald (Picture Editor)
MusicGraeme G Stewart (Original Music/Composer)
MY SHIP IS COMIN' IN will receive its US premiere at the Queens International Film Festival, New York, at 5:15pm on Wednesday November 15th at the Kaufman Zukor Studio, 36th Street.
Get down there.
(http://www.queensfilmfestival.com/content/view/274/93/)
best wishes
Richard P
Best Film
Best Screenplay
Best Director (shared)
I must say I feel the awards were deserved.
Anyway it's always nice for one's work to gain some recognition.
best wishes
RP
It was made as part of a screenwriters initiative called Project Norma. This is how it worked. Teams of filmakers are given a brief randomly selected from seven story models, seven genres, seven locations. We got Tristan And Isolde (the love triangle) as an Action/Adventure set in a bar or restaurant. Madness. Personally, I wasn't too thrilled with that selction - an action/adventure with no budget to be shot mainly over two days? -but with Norma you get what you're given. You either accept the challenge or you walk away. We didn't walk away.
That was last May, I think.
We completed the script in June and the shoot went ahead at the end of August (with a wee re-shoot in December!) in the Empire Music Hall, Belfast. Our budget spiralled to a massive £490 (possibly less), including the cost of replacing the loan camera's microphone. But we emerged this March bruised and battle-hardened and clutching a film to be proud of: a ten minute action/adventure, made for less than £500, that works.
I confess here that I didn't think we'd make it out alive. But we did.
Special thanks go to Susan Curry of Wine Inns for letting us film at the Empire, to the actors for giving their considerable talents for nothing (and to Patrick Duncan for helping to cast them), to Richard Fleming and Mark Davis for their fight choreography, to Allan Gildea for his post-production work, and Graeme G Stewart for his brilliant (last-minute) score.
And thanks, finally, to the organisers of Project Norma for giving us the challenge: Richard, John, Michael.
best wishes
Richard P
Ratings
algildea
Excellent. A short that delivers an action packed mini menage a trois on a micro budget. Well made, stylish and unabashedly great fun.
4 Comments about MY SHIP IS COMIN' IN
Jul 31, 2007 06:07AM
Caro Richard, sei TU? Comunque congratulazioni!!!!Se sei tu il mio amico Richard Parkin di Bristol,scrivimi!Ale
Oct 25, 2006 10:05AM
congratulations on the upcoming us premiere.
Oct 23, 2006 09:02AM
From one Dick to another, Parkin, your film made my boat float.
A mini ON THE TOWN. Bring on the fleet!
dr.dick
Jul 18, 2006 08:26AM
To see a no budget film so well crafted in terms of exposition and pacing, so ambitious in production value and so conscious of its remit to entertain an audience is truly heartening. "My Ship..." fully earned it's three "Project Norma" awards and as such serves not only as a cracking short in its own right but also as a great encouragement to other first time film-makers. Look! It CAN be done!
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