Worldsales

The Festival Agency
14, rue des Jeuneurs
75002 Paris
France
e-mail: moc.ycnegalavitsefeht@vl
Homepage: www.thefestivalagency.com

Production

Early Day Films Limited
Stanley House Totterdown Totterdown
BS43BA Bristol
United Kingdom
e-mail: moc.smlifyadylrae@ofni
Homepage: http://www.earlydayfilms.com

Bait

Summary

Behind the picture postcard idyll of a Cornish fishing village alienation, resentment and anger bubble away. The view may be beautiful, but you can't eat it.
Martin Ward, is a cove-fishermen without a boat, infuriated with his brother for using the family vessel for day-tripping, and with a brooding resentment for tourists flocking to the village while locals are relegated to an estate on the hill. Nearing the end of the summer season, an argument over a parking space with the incomers who bought his old family home comes to represent all that is wrong with the world for Martin. Tensions rise and when a misguided prank and retaliation escalates to tragedy the brothers are forced to unite and face the future together.
Shifting light, captured on B&W 16mm film and processed by hand, offers a grainy black and white polemic; the state of the nation seen through a family lens.