About the Film:

ENGLAND 1981, unemployment is on the rise and the first Brixton Riot is around three months away from exploding on the streets of South London. The SUS law is helping corrupt police officers to incarcerate innocent young black men as the police would turn up in the court and act as witnesses. The CPS was introduced in 1986 which put an end to this controversial procedure. But it wasn’t only ethnic minorities who were the victims of the UK penal system. Danny Arthur attacks a prison officer in the hope to get moved off the wing, he has just joined Ambrose Cook 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 officers.

Director Biography:

After Writing & Directing the award winning short film, The Pugilist’s Son, starring Gary Stretch and Paul Barber, Chris went on to learn his craft. He directed over 200 Showreels and wrote several screenplays and was hired to Write & Direct a Feature Documentary about Eddie Hall, featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Chris took a short break from the doc to Write and Direct the Short film, The Turn of the Screw.