Private Project

Greys Inbetween

A day in the life of one 'Jane Grey', a struggling Black actress living in the hard but beautiful city of London. Unemployed, disillusioned, and her affair with a married man up in flames, she slips unnoticed down between the cracks in the pavement.

  • Andrew Rajan
    Director
    Offending Angels
  • Andrew Rajan
    Writer
    Offending Angels
  • Andrew Tomlinson
    Producer
  • Natasha Bain
    Key Cast
    "Jane Grey"
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 30 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    August 21, 2009
  • Production Budget:
    40,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Country of Filming:
    United Kingdom
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1:1.85
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Naperville Film Festival
    Naperville
    United States
Distribution Information
  • FilmHub
    Sales Agent
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Andrew Rajan

Studied Acting at the Guildhall School, thereafter appearing in various British TV such as EastEnders, Casualty, Soldier, Soldier and The Bill as well as BAFTA award-winning dramas Loved Up and Holding On and Hollywood’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Most recently, Jessica Hausner’s 2019 Cannes-Winner, Little Joe.
As filmmaker: rom-com feature Offending Angels, Short, Opportunist. Thereafter, he gained a Screenwriting MA at the NFTS. Two privately-commissioned feature-length documentaries followed, then feature film, Greys Inbetween and a BrightHouse ad campaign.
Three Stage plays: ‘Mental’ -shortlisted for the Bruntwood Prize, ‘That Paki Play’ - Finalist for the Padamsee Award and ‘Afghanistan’ - longlisted for the Alfred Fagon Award.
Four novels: Cathedrals In The Sky, #Lazarus10, The Big Game and children’s story, Amethyst. Currently writing an Arts Council funded novel, Brown Sugar.
Ten screenplays: Mad Hatter recently placing in both the Los Angeles International Screenplay and Big Apple Screenplay competitions. Two TV Series Pilots.
Articles for The Guardian, The Telegraph, Live News interviews for the BBC and Al Jazeera. Various Radio interviews, BBC, World at One, BBC Five Live, BBC Asian Network.
Juries include BAFTA, the Sony Radio Awards and the RTA Television Awards.
www.andrewrajan.com

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Director Statement

I made my first feature in 1999. I needed to start seeing non-stereotyped people of colour on the big screen. Offending Angels did it the hard way. I made the film low budget, took it to Cannes Film Market and landed a sales agent. I thought I’d done it, fireworks going off in my head. After all I’d been through, I wasn’t expecting what happened next.

The sales agency Ardent International went down, taking my film with it. It took me a long time to recover from the car crash that proved to be, with the tax man coming after me as well.

Graduating film school, I wanted to make a film I hadn’t seen before. I also wanted to tell a non-white story and work with an actress I’d been through drama school with, Natasha Bain. I wrote a film I knew I could shoot on a shoestring, armed as I was with a crew I’d met at film school.

Greys was shot in seven days, all over London. I’m really proud of it. I think it might have been before its time though. I got into a festival and was picked up by a sales outfit who turned out to be a rip off. It cost me a lot of money I didn’t have and I physically and mentally had to put it in a drawer and move on.

But events, opportunities and digital distribution have all changed beyond recognition in the interim, so I thought I’d bring it out, dust it off and see what might be possible. I knew the film had an audience, if I could just reach it.