PROMENADE

The Story

Set in present day against the backdrop of the Bastille Day attack, which took place in 2016 on The Promenade des Anglais in Nice. A victim and survivor of the incident returns to the hotel where he stayed with his wife, who was killed on that fateful evening, to find some kind of closure. He has hired a stranger to come and replay that night again, but in this version they both return home safely to the hotel. Things don't exactly go to plan, but what could have been a story ending in even more tragedy and darkness actually becomes one of hope, courage and strength from a stranger reaching out in the hour of need. They are both about to have a huge impact on each others' lives, which neither see coming. 

Cast

MARK STANLEY (Tom)

Mark Stanley is a Yorkshire-born English actor. He began acting at Prince Henry's Grammar School, Otley. He later graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2010. He portrayed Grenn in the HBO series Game of Thrones. He is also known for his big screen roles roles in Kajaki, Dark River and Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and on the small screen in Broken, Dickensian and Little Women. Mark's next two leading roles on the big screen are in Julian Jarrold's (Brideshead Revisited, Becoming Jane, Kinky Boots) true story Sulphur and White, and in Scott Graham's next feature Run.

SELMA BROOK (Adèle)

Selma Brook is a French-born actress. She studied at the conservatory of the 10th Arrondissement of Paris and at the Drama Centre in London. She portrayed Brigitte Rousselot in The Tudors and is also known for her roles in The Paradise, Angels In Notting Hill and can next be seen in the Amazon Prime series Patriot. 

CREW

DAVID ELLIOT (Director/Writer)

David Elliot was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. As an actor he won the BAFTA Scotland Award in 2015 for Best Actor in Film, beating Robert Carlyle and David Tennant to the prize. David started his acting career on stage with multi-award-winning shows such as Decky Does A Bronco. His breakthrough leading role was in the war flick Kajaki. Other big screen roles include Down a Dark Hall and The Inland Road. On the small screen he is a regular in Sky1 show Bulletproof and most recently BBC's The Cry. His first foray into writing and directing was for the stage play Hangover, which blew away critics and audiences with his unique fresh voice and visuals display, prompting comparisons in his writing being hailed as 'the next Irvine Welsh, but more considered'.
This will be his second short film and he also has a TV series currently in development.

LUCY TRENDLE (Producer)

Lucy is a producer with over ten years' experience working with various award winning production companies. She was previously a senior producer at Pukka Films, and was part of the producing team behind BAFTA nominated 'Kajaki. The True Story' where she first met Promenade's director, David Elliot who was playing the lead.

Lucy recently worked with Academy Award-winning producer Gareth Ellis-Unwin of Bedlam Film Productions on his latest feature, 'Steel Country', starring Andrew Scott.

'Promenade' will be Lucy's third short film, having recently completed the short horror 'Bad Dreams' which is currently on the festival circuit.

Lucy also produces commercials and online content and recent clients include Amazon, YouTube, Nintendo, Disney, Oral-B, Virgin Trains, Luxottica and BT.

CALLAN GREEN ACS, NZCS (Cinematographer)

Raised in Upper Hutt, New Zealand in the early 1980's – Callan Green was first introduced to the art of photography at the age of 6.

Hundreds of rolls of film later, when Callan was in his early teens, he witnessed a proper 35mm motion picture camera in action while acting in what was later voted "New Zealand’s worst commercial" of 1993. From this point on he was destined to become a cinematographer.

After 7 years working as a 2nd AC on scores of TVC’s and films including a near 3 year stint in the main unit of The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, Callan was accepted into the AFTRS in Sydney where he gained his MA in cinematography.

Now based in London, Callan is a prolific award-winning Director of Photography with over 20 years of experience in the camera department.   Most recently he has shot music videos for George Michael, James Blunt, One Direction, Pale Waves, The Script, Just Banco and Sam Smith. 

His short film "Grey Bull" directed by Eddy Bell won best Australian short at the 2014 Melbourne Intl. Film Festival and was nominated for best short film at the AACTAS 2015.  In 2017 Callan shot the splinter unit on the recently released Disney film "Christopher Robin" for director Marc Forster.

DREW HORNER (co writer)

Drew has written two feature films A Lonely Number and Everything and Now. He has co-written a feature film called The Leaf Game with Rotimi Pearce. Co-written an American TV pilot with Edward Davenport called Affliction.  He’s co-written a few projects with David Elliot as well as their short Promenade they co-wrote a TV pilot called Strangers and another short Dark Red.
Drew has also written an eight-part TV sitcom called Getting Our Act Together with co-writer James Mackenzie Thorpe which was filmed at The Old Vic. 
He’s written two seasons of an award winning Web Series called Heads & Tails. 
Drew has finished his latest short film Exist which is a short psychological thriller about men’s suicide and mental health.

MAX BLUSTIN (Editor)

Max is the owner and founder of New Planet Film & Media, who are providing the edit house for Promenade. As a filmmaker himself, Max’s short films have screened at over sixty festivals worldwide. The History Of Chance premiered at the Oscar-qualifying Raindance Film Festival and won the Grand Prize at the Canada International Film Festival, coming first out of nearly a thousand initial entries. It had its TV premiere as an editor’s pick on Shorts TV.
Sorceress, a new short film starring Nathalie Emmanuel (Game of Thrones, The Fast and the Furiousfranchise) and Jane Danson (Coronation Street), is currently playing at festivals around the world, having made official selections at the Woodstock, Vancouver International, Rome Independent and Interfilm Film Festivals amongst others.
Magician made official selections in New York, Los Angeles, Florida, Alaska, South Korea, Europe and the UK. It has picked up several awards and nominations, including the Grand Prize at the 19th Trés Court Film Festival in Paris, coming first out of 3000 initial considerations.
Max’s clients have included Pathé, The National Lottery and Hammer Horror. Commissions have covered subjects including mental health and aviation security, some going for broadcast on Together TV.

BLAIR MOWAT (Composer)

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Blair is renowned composer who has composed music for well over a hundred different film, TV and theatre projects, including award-winning feature films, TV projects, ballets and musicals. He is a BAFTA nominated, award-winning composer best known for his music for film and TV. His studies includes a BA (Hons) in Music from Durham University and an MA in Composition for Film and Television from Bristol University. In 2012 he was nominated for a Creative Scotland Award for 'Best New Talent' in the Scottish arts. His work includes a retelling of Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince for Sky Arts narrated by Stephen Fry, a ballet for The English National Ballet and the award-winning feature film Frequencies. As a musical arranger he has worked on shows such as Doctor Who and David Attenborough's Life Story. He is perhaps best known for writing the music for the Doctor Who spin-off Class and the Netflix/SyFy show Class.

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What We Need & What You Get

CAST & CREW

We are lucky to have some of the best in the business working for us on both sides of the camera. Everyone is doing this for the passion of the project and not for the big bucks but we do of course have to cover some fees, expenses and any equipment as well as any travel and accommodation. And of course, no one can work on an empty stomach!

LOCATION

Your support will help our production designer to convincingly recreate the interior of Nice style hotel as well as the cost of hiring the location itself, which we will also need extra rooms for crew and video village as well as somewhere that can house our actors and makeup/costume departments.

EQUIPMENT

About as important as it gets really. We’ve been lucky enough to call in some favours and cinematographer is saving us a lot with not only the talent he brings but his equipment! But we’ll still need extra gear to shoot the film, including lenses, and lights etc. 

FESTIVAL EXPENSES

It isn't widely known about how much this costs... but submission fees are expensive and you have to apply to many so this amount adds up to a substantial amount. They're the only way to get our film seen on the big screen and your donations will help us submit it to major international film festival to be in with a chance of awards and distribution.

POST-PRODUCTION

Again, we’ve been lucky enough to call in some favours, but your support will help us with those crucial few weeks in post: editing, grading, and perfecting the sound.

INSURANCE & CONTINGENCY

We want to bring the best film we can to the Indiegogo community and our generous supporters, so it's necessary paying a little extra to insure the production. Contingency will help us cover any unforeseen extras, and any extra will go towards post-production.

INDIEGOGO FEES

Indiegogo take 5% of all the money we raise - but we couldn't do it without them! We'll need a little extra in the budget to cover this.

THE REWARDS

We are incredibly grateful to anyone who supports PROMENADE, whether it's pledging £10 or £5,000!

Pledges start from as little as £10 and range from limited edition behind the scenes photos, your name on the credits, tickets to the exclusive London premiere and more...

Take your pick from the great choices on the right =====>>

Should you feel uncomfortable entering your information online, please send an email to lucy@lulaproductions.co.uk and we’ll be able to do it via PayPal. Please note - this will not appear as part of the amount raised through Indiegogo.

Please note: You will NOT BE CHARGED for your pledges until or after (DATE) when the campaign ends!!

PRIVATE PARTNERS 
We have various possibilities in terms of potential investment partners such as private individuals or a media investment companies.

PUBLIC FUNDS
Many will be applied to, both national and regional, including the BFI, who we already have submitted application to for additional funding.