Charlie, Charlie!
A young man from Birmingham finds himself in an interrogation room after an event involving his mentally unstable twin brother. But when evidence of a murder points at him, even he starts questioning his own sanity.
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Daniel ElkinDirector
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Daniel ElkinWriter
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Daniel ElkinProducer
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Victoria BarreraProducer
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Zak MohamedProducer
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Raveena RaiProducer
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James NoirKey Cast"Victor, Charlie"Danny and the Human Zoo, The House of Screaming Death
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William SmaleKey Cast"Detective"
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Daniel ElkinEditors
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Victoria BarreraEditors
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Zak MohamedEditors
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Raveena RaiEditors
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Project Type:Short
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Genres:Thriller, Horror, Psychological Thriller, Drama, Crime
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Runtime:10 minutes 38 seconds
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Completion Date:February 24, 2018
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Production Budget:900 GBP
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Country of Origin:United Kingdom
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Country of Filming:United Kingdom
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Language:English
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:Yes
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Student Project:No
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Barcelona Planet Film FestivalBarcelona
Spain
March 7, 2018
Official Selection -
Birmingham Film Festival
United Kingdom
November 12, 2018
UK Premiere
Nominated Best Short
Born in Colombia but raised in Lima, Peru, coming from a family of marketing managers and advertising majors, he moved to Manchester, UK to study Advertising and Brand Management. Re-established in Europe and with a horizon of opportunities ahead, he started writing film reviews as a freelance film critic for a London-based website called Live for Films. Although he had only made one short film before, during his International Baccalaureate higher-level film course, in 2017 for the first time, he wrote and directed his own short film, independently produced and funded, in Manchester.
Once I realised that the script I had written was too ambitious for my first ever film, considering I was producing it and funding it myself, with no school to back me up or connections in the industry, I challenged myself to write a script that could be shot entirely on one location, and requiring only one on-screen actor,
Forever a fan of the psychological thriller genre and drawing inspiration from the Europan style of cinema, I wrote the script for Charlie, Charlie! Creating the character and the setting with an actor and a location already in my mind. We had the privilege of working with up-and-coming British actor James Noir, whose experience and talent were a big factor during the film's production.
Working with a team made up of talented artists with creative minds, but very little experience in the audiovisual and film department, it was through persistance, trial and error that we managed to create a film that lived up to the standard that we were expecting to achieve. This film would not have been possible without such a determined team and from the experience we look to the future with excitement at the potential for new projects. We hope this film will reach a wider audience to start putting us all on the map.