LAMDA Shorts
LAMDA shorts // Introducing the screen stars of tomorrow
Location
Riverside Studios
101 Queen Caroline Street
London
W6 9BN
Dates
Thursday 15 September at 8pm for cast, crew and industry guests
Friday 16 September at 11am and 3pm for students and industry guests
About the LAMDA shorts screening
Join us for our film screenings at the Riverside Studios featuring our BA (Hons) and MFA professional acting students from the LAMDA class of 2022. An amazing opportunity to watch five films over two hours, featuring all of our graduating year students.
On Thursday, please join us for drinks from 7pm (with informal chats and Q&A in the bar).
About the five films
These films gave our actors the opportunity to work with writers and directors exploring an idea for a series or feature film, which the writers may pitch down the line to broadcasters and industry financiers.
The aim of the films is to give graduating actors the chance to work with a crew of freelance professionals before stepping out into the industry, where many are already working on exciting TV and film projects. Watch this space.
Pierced
When Rhys finds her mail has been delivered to her neighbour Lauren's house, she goes next door hoping to collect it and gets more than she bargained for. Discovering Lauren has committed a crime, she wants nothing more than to report it and get the hell out of there, but once she knows the circumstances things become a lot less clear cut. Pierced is a black comedy drama mash up that sees unexpected circumstances bring two estranged friends together again.
Styx & Stones
At the edge of a cemetery a lone barista makes perfect cuppas for restless souls - some from the land of the living and some from the land of the dead. But when the two worlds collide, that's when things really start brewing…
The Return
Set in an alternative near future, The Return is the pitch for a ten-part Young Adult thriller series. Mei, Bibi and Charlotte return to the UK in search of the foster sisters the left behind after a brutal war. Finding the place they once lived unrecognisable and the home they grew up in occupied, they track down their sisters and are faced with a difficult decision – do they leave, or do they stay and fight for their old home? Whichever path they choose, they will uncover uncomfortable truths and must come to terms with the fact that the world will never be the same again.
The Children
A remote outpost in the desolate cold.
Generation after generation of men work together to keep The Great Machine going, a society led by dogma as old as time itself. As they eagerly await the arrival of the next generation, a shocking discovery threatens their sheltered way of life, and all they believe in.
Everything. Must. Go.
The Room Next Door
The Room Next Door is a place where the living and those who have passed on hope to meet - to commune, to connect and to find closure. But who is grieving? Who is left behind? Who is telling the truth? And is everyone who they say they are?
The films will be screened one after another. The films are suitable for general audiences with minimal strong language. Specific trigger and content warnings are outlined below:
Pierced contains some violent suggestions and themes implied through humour.
The Room Next Door includes references to death.
The Return explores an alternative dystopian future where women have been subject to sterilisation.
