Aside Productions

- making very special short films -

 

Enquiries, comments and the like: simon@simonkent.co.uk

 

Film

 

The Orange Tree - writer and director Simon Kent, December 2002, (5' 52")

A man makes new friends when he buys a potted plant.

- See it and rate it at the BBC's Film Network site here!


- Screened at Leicester Film Festival 2003 and short listed for Best Film of the festival

- Short listed for Best Finished Short 2003 by Fuji film/TAPS (Television Arts Production Showcase). Screened at BAFTA

- Selected for ShootingPeople.org Summer Shoot Out Competition 2004 and toured UK in mobile cinema. Also shown in New York City.

- Screened at ShallowShorts100 (2004)

- Screened at The Others, Stoke Newington (2004)

- Screened at Gallery 291, Hackney Road (2004)


The Orange Tree is shortly to be available on DVD.

 

 

Current projects:

 

Film:

No One Knew Who He Really Was (short film, comedy drama) - in post production

Four people talk about a man they knew. Or are they?

 

Pierre the Pornographic Pixie (short film, comedy) - in pre-production

Productivity at an all male office is hit by extra curricula web activity. Who they gonna blame?

 

3 Minutes is 15 metres (short film, experimental) - in pre-production

Series of experimental Super 8 films.

 

Oscar (feature film, mystery) - in development

An investigative journalist is called in to clear the name of a libelled one-time celebrity. But as he tries to unravel the truth from the tabloid fiction he uncovers a much darker truth.

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