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Off Beat

HD Premiere, World Premiere

Synopsis

An adventure involving biscuits, a TV and absolutely no police whatsoever

Written and Directed by Will Becher

Produced by Helen Brunsdon

DP Jeremy Hogg

Lead Actors Michael Buerk (BBC newsreader)

HD Digital Stills

Country: UK

Director Biography

Will's graduation film "Boxed In" (2002) received over a dozen festival awards and a nomination for a BAFTA New Talent award. After graduating, Will worked as a freelance animator in London, before relocating to Bristol to animate on the Wallace and Gromit feature film "Curse of the Were-Rabbit." Once shooting finished on Wallace and Gromit in 2005, he began developing the idea for Off Beat.

Off Beat is an independent short funded by the UK film Council. The film, supported by Aardman Animations, was the first to be shot entirely on digital still cameras in their Bristol studios and became the first HD shot film from Aardman. It features the vocal talents of award winning BBC journalist Michael Buerk.

Will is currently working in London on a new short film commissioned by Channel 4 entitled "The Weatherman."