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The Ends
Justin Edgar
average rating from 17 members 
       
drama | 2005 | South East | 9 min
Published 09 Jan 08
The real time drama about gun crime and gang violence.
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synopsis
Searing, visceral, real-time drama following the aftermath of a shooting on an inner-London estate. Angela is the victim and her boyfriend, Jaybee, sets out to avenge her death. But who was really the gunman?
short fact
"The Ends" was made with a group of approx 50 young people from inner city housing estates in Elephant&Castle. The youngsters from Kickstart Youth Inclusion program (VIP) attended our film drama workshop project over a period of 6 months with the objective of developling a short film. We used improvisation as a tool to explore frank and honest issues such as gun crime, violence, gang culture etc, social concerns that these youngsters experience in their everyday lives. This profoundly collaborative process delivered a real energy, truth, verve and sense of authenticity to the film as well as development of the script outline. The overall objective was to prepare the youths from the borough of Southwark with the necessary tools to act in a professional short film. The challenge being the drama workshop group had little or no acting experience whatsoever. All the creative input for the film project script derived from the drama workshop sessions.
crew
  • director Justin Edgar
  • writer Grant Buchanan, Tobi Okuyedi, Len Trusty, Justin Edgar
  • producer Len Trusty, Richard Roberts
  • editor Mark burgess
  • director of photography Zac Nicholson
  • sound Oliver Rotchell
  • music Joelle Reefer
  • first directors assistant Tristan Goligher
  • art director Miriam Skelton
  • project director Rebecca Donnelly
  • prosthetics Mike Peel
  • focus puller Gabi Norland
  • gaffer Peter Carrier
  • grip Andy Sauer
  • clapper loader Chris Wanklyn
  • fight director Len Trusty
  • stills Elmore Toppin
  • Production Co-ordinator Hannah Billingham
  • cast
    • Angela Tiffany James
    • Jaybee Trevor Charlery
    • Mace Nathan North
    • Jean Monique Joseph
    • Reiss Jack Wildman
    • JJ Farrell Neykan
    • Wallace Courtney Rafe
    format
    16mm/Super 16
    © 2005 Link Productions and Justin Edgar

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    comment by james  mcnealy
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    posted Feb 21, 2008

    When will the estate-based youth short film cycle end? We are all its victims. It breeds boredom and artistic bankruptcy. We need a government-led initiative to stop its spread, beginning at the commissioning level, and working its way down to the bourgeois community.

    comment by Lucia  Nicolai
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    posted Jan 21, 2008

    This film addresses a current social issue very well. It transcends race. The thing that hits you hard in the face, watching this, is the discomfort of today's youth, the easiness with which they accept violence in their lives. I liked very much the director's choice not to give out any morals on this, but trying to keep a detached eye as humanly possible. And considering these are non-professional actors, well... big up to them! Great piece of work.

    Lucia  Nicolai is Head of Editorial at Qoob and a member of Film Network's Industry Panel.
    comment by Ricardo  Clarke
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    posted Dec 29, 2007

    The film seemed well written and directed. I was genuinely impressed by the graphic nature, but what can I or any outsider of such a topic conclude from that film except young black people kill each other and lead white girls to kill themselves. It says nothing to me as a young black man about gun crime. It seems only to show and confirm what the news broadcasts. 'we are a malicious race that have no morals'. The story should have had a less unhappy ending and tried to show hope for black people, try watching 'Antonio's Breakfast' by daniel Mulloy. It demonstrates a much more real depiction of young black men in british society.

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