Chris Michael Fretwell's short film THE TURN OF THE SCREW will soon be entering the film festival circuit.
ENGLAND 1981, Unemployment is on the rise and the first Brixton Riot is around three months away from exploding on the streets. The SUS law is incarcerating young black men from their South London communities and police officers were the witnesses in court since the CPS isn’t formed until 1986. But it wasn’t only ethnic minorities who were the victims of the penal system.
Outline: Danny Arthur (George Russo) attacks a prison officer in the hope of getting moved off the wing, he has just joined Ambrose Cook (Jordan Wallace) in his cell, a black inmate who is waiting for his parole in a couple of months. Both inmates are locked in the cell waiting for their fates to be decided by the prison staff.
Chris Michael Fretwell comments:
"I was locked away at home researching true crime stories and this one came to me one evening, I couldn’t get the image of a black and white cellmate out of my head for weeks and I thought there’s a play here. Then I got determined, if this was my lockdown legacy it’s not going to be me walking around in my pants going mad at a scratching sound in the kitchen. I have to defy gravity and get out there and raise some serious money, to build this imaginary world from scratch.
So I did…"
THE TURN OF THE SCREW will have a couple of London screenings before entering the film festal circuit.
