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Godspeed

Mourning the sudden loss of his wife, a solitary fisherman’s lonely routine is broken when he begins seeing her spirit in a lobster he catches. He clings to this surreal reunion, desperate to repent his past ambivalence and finally express his love.

  • George Nixon
    Director
  • George Nixon
    Writer
  • Xanvier Allison
    Producer
    Divine Origins
  • Jim Main
    Key Cast
    " Phil"
    Fisherman's Friends
  • Tim Cartwright
    Key Cast
    "Steve"
    A Werewolf in England
  • Tricia Friskney-Adams
    Key Cast
    "Janet"
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Drama, Fantasy
  • Runtime:
    14 minutes 38 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 27, 2025
  • Production Budget:
    16,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Country of Filming:
    United Kingdom
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Film
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - George Nixon

George Nixon is a filmmaker and creative director from Penzance, Cornwall. After studying Politics at Loughborough University, he built a diverse career in advertising and television, eventually leaving his role at BBC Studios to pursue filmmaking full-time.

George works across narrative, documentary, commercial, and music video. His debut short film, Godspeed, is set for release in May 2025.

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Director Statement

I want to tell human stories from a personal and voyeuristic perspective – pointing my lens at the routines and rituals of characters, and allowing them to live as people within the film. This naturalistic approach blurs documentary and narrative, often shooting real people living and working in their real environment and combining this footage with scripted scenes featuring actors.

As a child, I would escape reality by travelling through the worlds of imagination that existed in my head. I realised that I could successfully protect myself from boredom, bullying and timestables by day dreaming. My frequent trips into my imagination didn’t help with my exam results, but as I got older, they connected me with surrealist writers and thinkers, notably Franz Kafka. His formula of a protagonist in an untenable situation who is brought out of it by a surreal turn of events deeply connected with me.

The combination of these elements; human characters shot in their own environment, led into surreal moments of transcendence from their mundane or frankly untenable lives sits at the heart of the films I write. Painting a picture of a person’s humanity, and uniting with the audience to release them from it through surrealism, spirituality or love.