Andrew Haigh — Playwright (9)
Movie
五英里外 (2009)
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actor:
Dakota Blue Richards
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Thomas Malone
other title:
Five Miles Out
Cass is sent away on holiday with her cousins where she meets a boy on a secret mission. All the while, in the back of her mind, is her sister back home in a hospital bed.
Movie
Greek Pete (2009)
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actor:
Peter Pittaros
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Lewis Wallis
other title:
皮特的生活
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대물 피트
ABOUT THE FILM
Greek Pete was filmed for over a year with guys working within and around the sex industry and the story is a representation of their world. The process blurs the boundary between fiction and documentary, giving an authentic and intimate insight into the boys’ lives. Honest, non-judgmental, and sometimes explicit, the film offers a portrait of a sub-culture hidden from view.
Shot for less than £10,000 and with a crew of 2, the film has secured distribution in the UK, receiving both a cinema and dvd release in September 2009. It has also secured distribution in USA, Germany and France.
DIRECTOR’S NOTES
The life of a rent-boy is often depicted as either sexy and glamorous or blighted with abuse and drugs. I wanted to try and get closer to the reality and focus on the everyday nature of things, the nuts and bolts of the job, the real personalities behind the online profiles and magazine adverts. I didn’t want to pander to what people expected from this kind of film or water it down for a more mainstream audience. I also decided early on that the project would be worthless unless I worked with people with knowledge of the sex industry. It wasn’t until after casting that a rough narrative took shape, changing and developing as the shooting progressed, but always based on real experiences. There was never a script as such, only a story framework, on which all of the scenes were improvised. The blurring of documentary and fiction came very much out of this process, using elements of each to best suit the needs of the story. I wanted the film to be truly authentic, but that did not mean that everything had to be completely real. After all, the life of an escort is filled with variations of the truth, a mixture of reality and fantasy, and I wanted to explore this in the very nature of the film’s construction.
DIRECTOR’S BIOGRAPHY
After working in editing for many years with credits on a diverse range of films from Ridley Scott’s Gladiator to Harmony Korine’s Mister Lonely, Andrew has concentrated on writing and directing. He has made four short films, the last of which, entitled Five Miles Out and starring Dakota Blue Richards premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in Feb 2009. Greek Pete is his first feature and premiered at the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival in March 2009. In 2008 he was named as one of Screen International’s ‘Stars of Tomorrow’ and has a number of feature projects in development.
Link to DIRECTOR’S WEBSITE
CREDITS
Produced and Directed / Camera, Sound & Edit: Andrew Haigh
Co-producer: Dmitri Vigneswaren
Music: James Edward Barker
Re-recording Mixer: Matthew Gough
Colourist: Monica Rubio
CAST
GreekPete; Peter Pittaros
LondonboyKaI: Lewis Wallis
Barbara Bush: Tristan Field
Hotblond84: Liam Thompson
Fitfuck86: Barry Robinson
Youngandcutelad: Robert Day
Hugecockfromthenorth: Craig Wilson
Tightass91: Steve Turner
Rachel: Rachel Whitbread
Client 1: Richard Rosetti
Client 2: Glen Anderson
Movie
Lean on Pete (2017)
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other title:
赛马皮特
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린 온 피트
…
Charley Thompson, a teenager living with his single father, gets a summer job working for horse trainer Del Montgomery. Bonding with an aging racehorse named Lean on Pete, Charley is horrified to learn he is bound for slaughter, and so he steals the horse, and the duo embark on an odyssey across the new American frontier.
Movie
45 Years (2015)
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actor:
Charlotte Rampling
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Tom Courtenay
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other title:
45 anni
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45 år
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There is just one week until Kate Mercer's 45th wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband. The body of his first love has been discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps. By the time the party is upon them, five days later, there may not be a marriage left to celebrate.