Kent film seen across the world
A movie shot entirely in Kent is to be screened at film festivals in Las Vegas, Nice and London.
Tycho Pictures, based in Medway, has just finished What Waits in the Red, a supernatural suspense drama. It stars Wil- liam Turner Roden, Charlotte Donachie, Kim Hardy, Vanessa Stevenson and Meryl Griffiths. The film is based on a forthcoming novel of the same name by David Ince, the creative director at Tycho Pictures.
The movie was shot in 15 days with a budget of £7,450 and crew of just eight people, but was selected to be screened at the Unrestricted View Film Festival in London on Friday and later at the Action on Film International Film Festival in Las Vegas.
It has also been nominated for four awards at International Filmmaker Festival of World Cinema in Nice - Best Lead Actor (Will Turner Roden), Best Hair, Make Up and Design, plus Best Feature Film and Best Original Screenplay.
Mr Ince said: “We didn’t have a lot of time to film, but we were very lucky to find good actors, everybody was really well prepared.”
The 83-minute movie was shot mainly in Medway, with a few scenes in Maidstone, Gravesend and Botany Bay. Producers call the movie a ‘contemporary re-imagining of the Faustian theme’, which is about the mastery over life.
Vanessa Stevenson, operations director of Tycho Pictures, said: “We want to make commercial films for worldwide audiences to inspire and entertain the world.
“We had greatest support from complete strangers and the community.
“People were very generous to us and we wouldn’t have been able to do this without their help.”
The company is hoping for a worldwide distribution in cinemas and has already planned to film six more features.