Short Film

Shoot dates 26th-28th September 2024 - That’s a wrap

Now in Post.

Something to show in early May 2025

Logline:

A gothy teenage girl and her suicidal neighbour set off to get rid of a body. The thing they don’t know is that the body’s not quite dead. And there’s a cute, scruffy dog.

Genre:

A deeply dark, black comedy.

Advisory: Dig Deeper does deal with some hefty issues (including mentions and depictions of suicide) - although with an uplifting ending!

Alex Metcalfe – Cinematographer

Ben (‘Doc Brown”) Bailey Smith - playing Harold

Millie Kiss - playing Kat

Tizzy - playing Buster

Rob Leetham - playing Paul

Peter Bathurst - Producer

Jean Ciuntu - Producer

Jonathan Hall (left) - Writer

Marie Wilson - playing Daisy

Nic Cornwall - Director

Some things you may not know about Nic...

Nic has the first page of DIG DEEPER tattooed on his back.

He is famously clumsy – in fact, here we see him walking into his own hand. Actors love working with him because they always feel they can ignore him and do exactly what they wanted to do in the first place.

Nic’s favourite thing is making the audience work hard to understand what they’ve watching.

Nic’s obsessions: spelling and the correct placement of apostrophes.

Alex is from a very long line of Metcalfes.  He is BAFTA-nominated – and doesn’t he make sure that EVERYONE knows.  On-and-on!  Literally never shuts up about it.

Alex is a long-time collaborator with writer Jonathan and Director Nic, so much so they uniquely communicate in banter, random insults, and through the medium of Highway-Code-approved hand signals.

Ever the (BAFTA-nominated) cinematographer, Alex insists that we only use black-and-white images of him, and always applying very specific settings regarding warmth, sharpness and saturation, plus a silvertone filter. This, he claims, is why we love him.

A quadruple threat - actor, comedian, writer, rapper – Ben is disappointed that the part of Harold doesn’t allow him to showcase his other skills: wing-walking, bog-snorkelling, and playing the zither.

*Serious bit* - the whole team is very keen to portray Huntington’s Disease both accurately and sensitively. To this end, Ben has been working very closely with advisors from the Huntington’s Disease Association.

Millie Is taking the Goth aspect of her character particularly seriously: she hasn’t allowed the sun to touch her skin since 2018, she uniquely listens to thrash metal, and she has requested that our catering truck offers a tasty bat option.

Millie narrowly missed out on the Best Name in the World title to the knife-throwing artiste Nonya Bustamente.

Some of you may be lucky enough to have seen Tizzy’s Hamlet, a role she auditioned for on a misunderstanding, without reading the play.

Tizzy is very much a method actor, completely immersing herself in her character. She also does all her own stunts and is fine with nudity, as long as it’s essential to the story.

Rob’s profile lists the following: Actor, Peddler of Bombast, Motorcyclist, Shakespeare's Fool, International Stunt Clown, Hiker, Dog Walker, Good Egg, and Penny Farthing Pilot – to which he can now add (DIG DEEPER spoiler alert!): ‘surprisingly sinuous Latin ballroom dancer and possessor of a haunting soprano singing voice’.

Rob’s more unusual contract conditions: he can’t eat food that’s touching other food; he insists on referring to himself in the third person; and he refuses to speak Welsh.

Peter is not only a producer, but also a cinematographer, director, and every Greenwich University undergraduate’s favourite lecturer – and not just because of his impressive record of absenteeism.

For his photo Peter was asked “What’s another way of saying ‘two roosters’”? No response. Ah well! If you know, you know.  Anyway, that’s how the world sees him.  The other image is how Peter likes to see himself.

After many years, Peter’s lycra fetish eventually led him to the sport of cycling.

Jean is from the small Rumanian village of Fiucku.  Jean is the glue in DIG DEEPER and, quite frankly, the acceptable face of the Producing duo that comprises himself and Peter Bathurst.

Jean always likes to be photographed moodily in front of a piano; or pianu, as they say in Rumanian. 

Jean regularly has his beard trimmed by giggling, half-naked, Tahitian women.  Coincidentally, the same crew who deal with Jonathan Hall’s nose and ears.

Jonathan is universally revered and admired. Since the early nineties, Jonathan’s writing has covered literally hundreds of pages.

Fun facts:

He is psychotically pedantic.

Despite his own efforts to champion ‘Jonatron’, ‘J-man’, and ‘the Hallmighty’, he has gone through life without a nickname.

He isn’t as tall as he thinks he is.

Marie is playing Daisy, Kat’s fragile mum.

To test Marie’s brittleness, the Producers decided on the high-risk strategy of telling her to her face that she hadn’t got the part. The resulting sobbing, wailing, and gnashing of teeth totally sealed the deal. That’s why our Producers are the best! It’s also why we haven’t disclosed their home addresses to Marie and, additionally, have beefed up their security measures.

Dig Deeper is delighted to be endorsed, supported and guided by the Huntington’s Disease Association