Monday 17 March 2014

Press Release


Short Film ‘‘The Greatest Escape’’


As an MA student at the Cardiff School of Creative and Industries, I am currently working on my final mastersproject, a short film called The Greatest Escape as producer and director. The Greatest Escape is a short film set in 1867, 10 years after the start of the Indian Rebellion. It is about Indian Guru, Chakraborty, an extraordinary escape artist who is given the opportunity of performing his ultimate trick for Queen Victoria. Narrowly escaping the Indian holocaust with a ... seeking revenge. Main theme friends Sevak also still grieving... 
My journey started late 2012 when I was looking for a period costume drama that was set during the Victorian period. By accident I came across a short script written by an upcoming writer from Birmingham. The idea that someone would die and cheat death is an extraordinary concept although the actual story was set just after WWII but I felt that there was a lot to the story. The script had a lot of potential and needed to be more than just another story, so it felt right to have it set in 1867 just 10 years after the Indian Mutiny. Part of India’s hidden history. There needed to be a reason to why he was seeking revenge... How did he survive? It felt right.... 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/aug/24/india.randeepramesh 

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/indian_rebellion_01.shtml

 https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=1857+indian+mutiny&oq=1857+in&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l5.11111j0j8&sourceid=chrome&espv=2&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8

 http://creative.sulekha.com/1857-british-raj-atrocity-exposed-from-1-8-bn-victim-indian-holocaust-to-10-bn-first-world-climate-genocide_424422_blog 

 Director's Notes
I want to make this film because I believe it is an original idea, very unique and fresh. The short story offers a lot of things that most short films do not such as the subliminal historical context. The script is written very beautifully and has that cinematic story telling which captures the reader’s imagination and makes them feel as if they are part of the story.

The story offers themes about our existence and at the same time, the characters’ development is at the heart of the story. Instead of destiny deciding fate, we are dealing with a world of playing cards. (Where it is possible to change your own destiny).

The characters have the opportunity of making a choice to do something that no other human being would be capable of doing, cheating death. The creative manner in which the writer illustrates the cliché nature of one’s lifelines is very haunting yet magical which creates an appealing insight between life and death. Brian Kawimbe, Producer/Director 


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