Taxi

 

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Synopsis:

In the back of a London Taxi, the driver bears witness to four separate encounters. A couple discuss their chess moves on the way to the hospital. A woman leaves her husband for her lover. A man debates his life with his inner woman. And a spotty teen boy waits to take his girlfriend to Prom night. Ordinary people, ordinary lives. He’s not here to judge them, he’s just here to drive.

SHOT ON RED

Directed and Produced by Paul Olding

Written by Eleanor Tucker, Harriet Barbir, Howards Rayner, and Paul May
Cinematographer Mark Langton
2009, Country: UK

 

This film is once again a collaboration with professionals drawn mostly from the world of TV documentary film making who have a passion to explore drama. Taxi is Paul's third HiDef short film drama, but this one was shot using the new tapeless system. Paul is a documentary film maker working within the science department at the BBC. His credits include the two films with Prof Brian Cox exploring the nature of gravity ("What on Earth is Wrong with Gravity?" 2007) and the nature of time ("What time is it?" 2008); HD shot exploration of the most powerful force on our planet in 'Earth: The Power of the Planet' (2007); a drama doc telling the dubious story of millionaire Robert Clarke Graham and his quest ot breed intelligence in 'The Genius Sperm Bank' (2006); The award winning story of the NASA/ESA mission to land a probe on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan in 'Titan - A Place like Home?'; The emotional story of the forensic scientists drawn from all over the globe to help identify the final remaining bodies of the Boxing Day Asian Tsunami in 'Naming the Dead'.