BOLIVIA

A Tragicomedy on Wheels...

AN ELEPHANT FEATURES & MONK3YS INK

Writer & Director: Drew Cullingham
Producers: Jonnie Hurn, James Fisher, Drew Cullingham
Executive Producer: Paul Hills
DOP: Glen Warrillow
Production Designer: Charlie Falconer
Sountrack: Andy Sharrocks
Cast*: James Fisher, Jonnie Hurn, Rosanna Hoult
Budget: $1m
Genre: Comedy/Drama
*stc

Following the original stunning feature debut "Umbrage" Elephant Features & Disparado present, in association with Motion Picture House, the third film from Drew Cullingham.

SYNOPSIS
Paralysed from the waist down after an horrific car accident, both parents dead and relying on his estranged younger brother Harry (Jonnie Hurn) to bust him out of hospital in a stolen wheelchair, professional Blackjack player Robbie (James Fisher) embarks on a bizarre and often traumatic pilgrimage to confront his past and redeem his ruined life.

BOLIVIA is a performance driven story that must be photographed beautifully. A strong but simple visual style of storytelling will prevent the dialogue scenes becoming theatrical and will lend a pathos to the underlying story, allowing both the humour and the tragedy to breathe freely.

BOLIVIA will be part shot on a soundstage at Pinewood studios, and then on location on the beautiful Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall.

There are two sides to every conflict, even when one side is against conflict itself.

SYNOPSIS
A photographer documenting a terminally ill vandal discovers she is an unwilling suicide bomber targeting his estranged politician father.

LONDON – ONE YEAR FROM NOW.
Haunted by the premature death of his sister, MOTHY, a diffident photographer with an obsession for documenting the anti-establishment, embarrasses his estranged politician father when he’s arrested at an Arms Fair whilst photographing a shaven-headed young demonstrator with big boots and attitude to fill them. She is DIMPLE (Sarah-Jane Potts) and she is bent on releasing her inner aggression through urban vandalism citing terminal illness as the basis for her anti-social acts.

As he captures Dimple's destructive lifestyle he is dragged unwittingly into her unpredictable and unstable political underworld; a band of idealistic protesters lead by troubled AWOL soldier TIGER, determined to expose the symbiotic hypocrisy of war and the arms trade. Unaware that his actions are a continual thorn in his father’s political side Mothy discovers through his lens a darker world of coded messages, undetectable explosives, black-mail, extreme beliefs, and a leader twisting Dimple from a mere urban annoyance into a domestic suicide bomber.

The target, the increasingly draconian Government and by default, Mothy’s father. As their relationship deepens the invisible barrier between photographer and subject shatters as each tries to convince the other to abandon their ideologies in exchange for their own, culminating in a shocking and controversial public climax.

Take Down The Union Jack is a hard-hitting yet commercially targeted British film-noir with an anti-war theme and a controversial climax.