A Boy Called Dad
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A Boy Called Dad is a British feature film
, produced by Made Up North Productions. It stars Ian Hart
and Kyle Ward and is the feature film début of BAFTA winning director Brian Percival
BAFTA winning screenwriter Julie Rutterford
, and BAFTA nominated producers Michael Knowles and Stacey Murray, and co-producer Mark John (Vision Thing).
young woman Nia, who has some ugly family issues of her own to resolve. Meanwhile an increasingly guilt-ridden Joe searches for Robbie, trying to second guess where he might go next. The search leads to a final confrontation between Joe and Robbie in which each is forced to face up to the past and comes to understand what it really means to be a father.
award with its young lead Kyle Ward winning a Trailblazer award. The film was also voted an audience favourite at the festival. The film has since gone on to screen in at the 4th International Rome Film Festival, CineMagic
in Belfast
, and to a home crowd at Salford Film Festival.
A Boy Called Dad was released on DVD on 14 August 2010.
Feature film
In the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie...
, produced by Made Up North Productions. It stars Ian Hart
Ian Hart
Ian Hart is an English stage, television and film actor.-Early life:Hart, the grandson of Irish immigrants, was born in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. He is one of three siblings and was brought up in a Roman Catholic family...
and Kyle Ward and is the feature film début of BAFTA winning director Brian Percival
Brian Percival
Brian Percival is a British film director, working mainly in television.He has directed Pleasureland, North & South, ShakespeaRe-Told , The Ruby in the Smoke and The Old Curiosity Shop....
BAFTA winning screenwriter Julie Rutterford
Julie Rutterford
Julie Rutterford is a British film and television screenwriter. She shared a BAFTA Award for Best Short Film with producer Janey de Nordwall and director Brian Percival in 2001 for their film About a Girl...
, and BAFTA nominated producers Michael Knowles and Stacey Murray, and co-producer Mark John (Vision Thing).
Plot
A Boy Called Dad tells the story of Robbie – a 14 year old boy who has just become a father. Robbie wishes to take responsibility for his baby son, but the mother wants nothing more to do with him. A near-accident reunites Robbie with his own estranged father, Joe, and for a while their relationship flourishes. But Joe proves a feckless, unreliable man, and Robbie realizes he does not want to be the same kind of father to his own child. Seeing the baby with its mother and her abusive new boyfriend, Robbie decides to take action. Confrontation leads to violence, and Robbie snatches his baby son and goes on the run. Travelling cross country, he meets traumatisedPsychological trauma
Psychological trauma is a type of damage to the psyche that occurs as a result of a traumatic event...
young woman Nia, who has some ugly family issues of her own to resolve. Meanwhile an increasingly guilt-ridden Joe searches for Robbie, trying to second guess where he might go next. The search leads to a final confrontation between Joe and Robbie in which each is forced to face up to the past and comes to understand what it really means to be a father.
Cast
- Ian HartIan HartIan Hart is an English stage, television and film actor.-Early life:Hart, the grandson of Irish immigrants, was born in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. He is one of three siblings and was brought up in a Roman Catholic family...
- Kyle Ward
- Louise DelamereLouise DelamereLouise Delamere is an English actress best known for her role as Lia in the Channel 4 comedy drama, No Angels.Delamere is from Wallasey, Wirral, Merseyside and was a classmate of the Boo Radleys at St Mary's College. She studied acting at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow,...
- Steve EvetsSteve EvetsSteve Evets is an English actor and musician, who found fame in the leading role in the 2009 film Looking for Eric.-Personal life:...
- Chrissy Rock
- Sacha ParkinsonSacha ParkinsonSacha Louise Parkinson is a British actress best known for playing Sian Powers in the ITV1 soap opera Coronation Street from January 2009 onwards. Her character will leave the show in January 2012.-Career:...
- Joel RobinsonJoel RobinsonJoel Robinson is a fictional character featured in the American science fiction comedy television series Mystery Science Theater 3000...
- Edward Thomas Miller
- Ciaran Walmsley
Festival screenings
A Boy Called Dad received its World Premiere at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 2009 where it was nominated for the Michael PowellMichael Powell (director)
Michael Latham Powell was a renowned English film director, celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger...
award with its young lead Kyle Ward winning a Trailblazer award. The film was also voted an audience favourite at the festival. The film has since gone on to screen in at the 4th International Rome Film Festival, CineMagic
CineMagic (film festival)
Cinemagic is an international children's film festival in Belfast, UK, and in Dublin, Ireland, founded in 1988 that bills itself as the World Screen Festival for young people. The organisation is a company Limited By Guarantee and a registered charity....
in Belfast
Belfast
Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly...
, and to a home crowd at Salford Film Festival.
A Boy Called Dad was released on DVD on 14 August 2010.