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Charing X

Sarah - on way to catch her train in Waterloo station, jumped in Pablo's taxi by accident, she was stopped by him and asked to share the journey while she's about to get another taxi. Drawn to her face, as an artist Pablo started drawing her in the cab and invited her to get off the cab and go on the fastest date ever.
After the less than 15-minutes date they ended up kissing each other, before Sarah went off to catch her train, Pablo asked her to leave her number on the notebook he handed over to her, only after she's gone that he realized what she wrote down was actually something else...

  • Raffaello Degruttola
    Director
    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0214860/
  • Christina Chong
    Writer
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Chong
  • Danting Wang
    Producer
  • Christina Chong
    Key Cast
    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2925304/
  • Iggy Blanco
    Key Cast
    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm7592743/
  • Max Sleigh
    Key Cast
    https://zh-cn.facebook.com/liangyuexin/
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Romance, Drama, Feature, shorts
  • Runtime:
    13 minutes 19 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    July 16, 2017
  • Production Budget:
    10,000 GBP
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Country of Filming:
    United Kingdom
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    HDV
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1:2.35
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Raffaello Degruttola

Raffaello was born in Barnet North London, England. He is an English Italian Actor writer and director. His notable acting film credits include Rush, Saving Private Ryan, In Love and War, Wit, Quantum of Solace and Unlocked.

His parents are Francesco DeGruttola and Lina Lipizzi who immigrated from Araino Irpino, Italy in 1970. He also has a sister. They spent all holidays with his extended family back in Ariano, Italy including his Mother's sisters farm in Tuscany.

At the age of 8 the family moved to Queens NYC where his father worked in a restaurant that his brother from Italy owned. Whilst there Raffaello went to St.Anthony's catholic school in South Ozone Park, Queens. After a short while The family returned to England where they preferred the lifestyle.

After some local acting classes he was asked if he would like to school at the Sylvia Young theater school in central London, which he did from the ages of 13-16 followed by The Lee Strasbourg Theater Institute when it had a school in London.

After returning to the USA for a while he then returned to London where he started to work in theater and extensively in T.V and film, after playing Private Goldman in Steven Spielbergs Saving Private Ryan he continued working as a character Actor in mainly American film's shot in Europe with some notable directors including Richard Attenborough and Mike Nicholas.

He married Simone Lahbib in 2003 and his daughter Skye Lucia Degruttola was born in 2005. Both are actresses.

He wrote and directed his first 30min drama 'The Other side of my sleep', in 2010 inspired by the death of his Father and grandmother, and with it's success having opened at The Boston film festival, he decided to shoot his first feature 'Flim The Movie' with a different approach. Shooting 1 day a week for 18months and constructing the story while shooting by using what happened in the improvisation to influence the next scene. Flim The Movie shot for a minimal budget was nominated for a Moet British Independent film award, after its selection for the Raindance film festival and The NYC Independent film festival. Now a resident of the U.S he continues to work on both continents.

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