Just to clarify, the cash budget was £89k but with deferred costs and fees £139k. The cost of delivering a 35mm print and then securing finance to have a further four prints to promote it, is unbelievable. The film was exhibited in UK cinemas on 5 prints over an eight month period, showing in front of Michael Winterbottom's 'In This World' and Stephen Frears 'Dirty Prety Things' which we distributed ourselves.

I enjoyed this short film, its story of an asylum seeker is a potent theme and very relevant to life in the u.k today. I would strongly disagree with Ronald Wright's commet about not being able to 'see the money on screen' as the film is beautifully shot, the lighting, score and actors are all top notch, and if my Wright knew anything of the expense of 35mm film and cameras he would understand that the money is most definitley up there. These film makers were lucky and talented enough to generate a decent budget for the film, for this they should be awarded not criticised, I don't see this as a relevant argument, they got the money and they shot their short to the best of their ability with the money they had, whether they could have made a hundred dv cam stories with this budget is beside the point, am sure a hundred full length low budget feature films could be made with one of Hollywood's budgets.... As to the confusion this film generated, maybe some of the viewers are used to spoon fed narratives rather than an interesting fragmented, elliptical story (have they never seen and Nicolas Roeg films?!). This film covers an immense amount of ground in 13 minutes in terms of theme, emotion and human dynamics. Four stars!

I would like someone to explain to me how this film cost £140,000 - can't see a fraction of it on-screen and it certainly wasn't spent on a script. Did it get such an obscene amount of money because of its "worthy" cause ? Hope not, because it's not good enough. Nicely shot and acted, but the weakest film I've seen so far on Film Network, and that's pretty outrageous, considering 100 short films could have been made for the cost of this one.

Beautiful. The ending soul stirring - warm heart/cold snow/fresh heat.

You had a lot to get across but you did it very well I thought. The film felt very honest, and also really quite touching.

I'm in the middle of making a short from a story thats far too long and seeing this - finding out it's not impossible - was a huge confidence boost. Thank You!

BTW, did your synopsis include the bit about him being muslim because you were worried people might not understand why he threw away the sausage? If so you should have more faith!