Father's Day (short film)

Short film starring two Hollyoaks scriptwriters - Darren Fairhurst & Lyn Papadopoulos. It will receive its world premier at the Swansea International Film Festival in June 2009.

Lee's family mean the world to him. When his idyll is threatened, he takes drastic action.

Cast
Darren Fairhurst as Lee
Lyn Papadopoulos
Written & Directed by Steve Hughes
Produced by Mickey Jones

Second short film from the Liverpool based production company Nancy Boy Films.
Their first I'm Going to Live Forever was screened at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival as part of The Short Film Corner, the 2nd Stratford upon Avon Digital Film Festival, Swansea Film Festival where it was nominated for Best Narrative Short, the Everglades International Film Festival 2007 in South Africa and the S2F2 2007.

Nancy Boy Films are...

Darren Fairhurst. Darren's writing credits include over forty episodes of Hollyoaks for Channel 4 and fifteen episodes of The Royal Today for ITV.

Tom Higgins. Tom's writing credits include The Bill, Brookside and Shameless.

Steve Hughes. Steve is a member of the writing team for the ITV soap Emmerdale. His other credits include ten episodes of The Bill for ITV.

Mickey Jones. Mickey has directed Family Affairs, Emmerdale and Hollyoaks. As an actor he played Lance in Brookside for three years and was Trevor the wedding planner in Family Affairs.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• coronation
• street
• emmerdale
• film
• hollyoaks
• liverpool
• scouse
• short
• brookside

[yozzerhughes]

Cheers for the comment. Know it's a bit down but so's life, hey! Thanks again.

[jasondryswak]

watch "Redball" short film--post comments!

[rocha39]

Man! What a film, certainly impacted on me. Well put together, great sound, and music at the end with credits. Good luck to you lads

[flippinlipstick]

I love this film... just hope those two lovely dogs at the beginning weren't in on the last supper... that would make a sad film tragic!

[WhatYouGots]

great film, depressing stuff