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Improvised 大象传媒 ONE drama takes top prize at Edinburgh film festival
Full press pack available below
大象传媒 ONE's wholly improvised drama Out Of Control, tonight
(25 August)
won the prestigious Michael Powell Award for Best British Feature
Film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
It
is Dominic Savage's third film about the lives of young people in
Britain today and will transmit in September as part of 大象传媒 ONE's
Cracking Crime Day.
It
is the first 大象传媒 ONE drama to take the Michael Powell Prize.
Out
Of Control stars four relative newcomers opposite Tamzin Outhwaite
and David Morrissey.
The story follows the lives of three teenagers sent to a young offenders'
institution and how the experience affects them.
Jane Tranter, 大象传媒 Controller of Drama Commissioning, says: "Out
of Control follows in the tradition of 大象传媒 ONE's Warriors and Care,
tough films tackling controversial issues for a mainstream channel.
"This new project from the acclaimed, award-winning film-maker
Dominic Savage, who previously brought his unique vision to 大象传媒
TWO, gives his work a wider audience, and demonstrates 大象传媒 ONE's
commitment to highly original and innovative mainstream drama."
Out of Control,
which is produced by Ruth Caleb, follows Dominic Savage's two previous
films for 大象传媒 TWO, Nice Girl (for which he won the BAFTA Award for
Best New Director) and When I Was 12 (which won a BAFTA Award for
Best Single Drama), both of which were made with unknown actors
improvising dialogue in workshop sessions before filming began.
Dean (Danny Young), sensitive and intelligent, lives with his mum
(Tamzin Outhwaite) on an estate out of town.
They're very close and she's doing everything she can to ensure
that he doesn't end up like the other kids on the estate.
But when Dean's friend Charlie-boy (played by Bronson Webb) is released
from his latest spell inside, it's not long before the two of them
are in trouble again. Dean is arrested for being in a stolen car,
and is given two months in a young offenders institute.
Meanwhile, when Sam (Leo Gregory) plans an armed robbery on a South
London estate, his mate Danny (Akemnji Ndifornyan) goes along with
it.
But later they're arrested and are each sent down for two years.
Once inside, Sam becomes a bully and joins in the ritualistic taunting
of the weaker, new inmates.
He
targets Dean, who has become weak and vulnerable - and although
the prison officer, Mike (played by David Morrissey) tries to help
Dean and keep an eye out for him as much as he can, it ends in tragedy.
Lorraine
Heggessey, Controller of 大象传媒 ONE said: "It's absolutely the
role of 大象传媒 ONE to commission challenging contemporary drama such
as Out of Control, and to schedule it in primetime for a mainstream
audience.
"I
am proud to have Dominic Savage working on 大象传媒 ONE and to have his
drama as part of this autumn's line up."
Out of Control also stars Jamie Foreman as another warder, Jim;
and Frank Harper as Sam's dad. The executive producer is David M.
Thompson.
Dominic Savage, who carried out several months of extensive research
in young offenders institutions across the UK, says: "When
you go into these institutions, there are those who need to be aggressive
from the off, otherwise they become victims themselves; and there
are those, some of whom are as young as 15, who are extremely vulnerable
to them.
"Out of Control is about the criminal mentality, it's about
what's going on inside their heads."
David Thompson, Head of 大象传媒 Films, says: "Out of Control follows
on from Dominic's last two extremely successful collaborations for
大象传媒 Films, Nice Girl and When I Was 12.
"It will address one of the most pressing social issues of
our time. He's the ideal director for this project because of his
unique way of making powerful stories come to life with total realism.
He takes actors right to the edge, drawing them out in a remarkable
way."
Notes to Editors
Ruth Caleb's recent credits include Dominic Savage's Nice Girl and
When I Was 12, and Last Resort (also for 大象传媒 Films), all of which
followed a similar process of development and production.
In
addition, Caleb also produced Care, which recently won the Prix
Italia for Best Drama (singles) as well as the BAFTA Award for Best
Single Drama. At the same awards, Caleb received the Alan Clarke
Award for Creative Contribution to Television.
大象传媒 ONE's Cracking Crime Day aims to dispel the myths and give a
true picture of crime across the UK. For more information see 大象传媒
ONE Autumn press pack below.
The Out of Control press pack
is available here, in . You may require Adobe Acrobat Software to read PDF files
which can be obtained .
大象传媒 ONE Autumn 2002 season
New Dominic Savage
film about young offenders for 大象传媒 ONE - four newcomers to star
opposite David Morrissey and Tamzin Outhwaite [Out
of Control was originally called Young Offenders]
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