Brink
Synopsis
In the aftermath of a violent break in, a young woman held captive desperately fights for her freedom, her captors motives unknown. 'Brink' is an atmospheric short thriller starring Lisa Dwyer-Hogg (The Fall, Acceptable Risk) and Tim Plester (Game of Thrones, Lockout).
Film details
- Year
- 2018
- Runtime
- 00:04:59
- Genre
- Thriller, Drama
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Subtitles
- English, Español, Português, Français, العربية, 中文（简体）
Filmmaker's Note
BRINK was a close collaboration with Cinematographer Luke Witcomb from inception. We conceived the film with the following rules in mind: no more than two characters, to be set in a single interior location, no more than one day shooting and no longer than five minutes length.
I've often been attracted to films which inhabit multiple genres, floating between one and the other and creating something new. BRINK is neither a thriller or a drama, but yet both at the same time. I wanted to make a film which sets up the viewer's expectations and then takes them off in another direction they don't expect.
I didn't want to spoon feed information and bombard the audience with back story either, instead I wanted to offer up a glimpse of a dramatic scene showing two characters on the brink. The idea of making a tight little film under these constraints was a very attractive one and was strangely liberating.
Credits
Director
- Jonathan Blagrove
Writers
- Jonathan Blagrove
Producers
- Jonathan Blagrove
About the filmmaker
Born in the steel town of Scunthorpe in the 1970s, Jonathan's love of film began as a child with frequent trips to the now demolished Majestic cinema and teenage late night viewings of cult films on television. As a producer he cut his teeth on the UK Film Council's Digital Shorts scheme between 2007 and 2009, which culminated in the acclaimed short drama 'Bro' (2009 Dir. Chris Dundon). In 2013 he teamed up with actor Jonny Phillips to produce Jonny's directorial debut, the award winning and technically ambitious short film 'Woodwoo' for Rankin Film Productions. Jonathan later produced Jonny's follow up short 'A Simple Fracture' (2017). A long dream of directing his own projects was realised when he directed and co-produced the feature length documentary, 'The Final Reel' narrated by the late Sir John Hurt CBE - which was self distributed into cinema screens on a limited run across the UK in 2016. 'Brink' marks his return to the short form fiction film as a director. He currently has a number of short and feature film projects in various stages of production.
