Love Blind

LOVE / BLIND - LOGLINE

Joe is about to go on an exciting date, one he's been looking forward to for a long time. What could possibly go wrong? Well maybe his glasses breaking, and that's just the start of it....

LOVE / BLIND - SYNOPSIS

Another day and another date for lonely hearts Joe and Cybil. They’re both avid users of dating websites but neither of them has had much luck!

It’s always an anxious wait to see who they’re going to be meeting and what they’re really like: Joe hopes that he hasn’t booked another night with a “crazy cat lady”, while Cybil (who kisses her cats goodbye on her way to the date…) hopes that she may finally meet someone to settle down with.

Unfortunately for Joe he breaks his glasses whilst getting ready – and that’s just the start of a series of mishaps for our star-crossed lovers, setting in motion a hilarious chain of events taking in several accidents, a fair amount of farce and lot of faux pas! All of which leads to a hilarious and surprising denouement…

LOVE / BLIND - CHARACTER BIO'S

JOE (31)

• Is the youngest of four children and lives next door to his mum
• Loves sci-fi and ‘nerd culture’
• Bullied at school, was called ‘four eyes’
• Works as a supermarket assistant and is unpopular with his co-workers
• Has had few relationships
• Thinks he is a ‘ladies man, but clearly isn’t

CYBIL (35)

• Single child from a strict family
• Bullied at school for being ‘weird’
• School book reading champion 1992
• Works as a receptionist at a cat rescue house
• Member to several UK cat and doll appreciation societies
• Has had few relationships
• Is looking for a ‘man’ who will make her feel more secure

JASON (35)

• Comes from ordinary family, has a sister called ‘Karen’
• Left school at 16 with basic qualifications
• Works as a manual labourer
• Is divorced
• Believes in the simple ways of life i.e. pint after work, football at weekend
• Isn’t very ‘romantic’, likes to be direct

SAMANTHA (28)

• Single child from a well-off family
• Was most popular girl at school
• Has always been given everything she wants
• Works a PR consultant
• Is looking for a ‘man’ who will treat her like her father i.e. very well
• Has had numerous relationships, all ending badly. She keeps picking the wrong men, either below her standard or unfaithful

LEE HUTCHINGS / DIRECTOR’S VISION

As a Director I look for stories and characters that move and interest me, and on first reading Love/Blind I immediately knew I had to direct this script.

What grabbed me about Love/Blind is its story and unique, quirky humour. The central characters in Love/Blind are also unique because they are essentially ‘losers’, but loveable losers. They're the sort of people who strive and persist for the things in life that society normally takes for granted. In this instance, love. Furthermore Love/Blind stood out for me because of its off-beat humour which isn't crude or low brow, there is certainly no gratuitous humour used here, but instead the humour employed is well thought out, edgy, intelligent and undeniably British.

The spoken and visual elements of Love/Blind have been wonderfully blended together by the script's writer, JD Douglas-Walton, to a very high standard. And, as with all good scripts, I was able to easily visualise the story and grasp its humour without feeling belittled or unsatisfied, which is how I intend the audience to feel after watching the completed film.

In regards to influences I associate with Love/Blind, when thinking of how I am going to approach the filming of the script, I immediately think of films such as Peter Bogdanovich's They All Laughed and Marc Webb's 500 Days of Summer as well as the Channel 4 Television programme Peep Show. These examples all have similar styles and humour to that in Love/Blind and I intend to use these influences to help me craft a character driven short film that is refreshing, heart-warming, funny and engaging for its audience.

LEE HUTCHINGS / DIRECTOR’S BIOGRAPHY

Lee Hutchings is an Award-winning, London based, Independent Director of narrative drama and documentary.

With a passion for Directing and Writing which began at a very early age, Lee attended the Metropolitan Film School, Ealing Studios, where he Directed and Wrote two short films: Together Alone and The Choice.

Since Graduating, Lee has Directed an impressive array of shorts including A Couple of Clowns which was filmed at the National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield and was previewed to an audience including Noel Clarke and Anna Smith of the Film Critics Circle and was awarded the Winner of the 2010 "The Director's Cut" competition from the NFTS. Later it was screened at the BFI Southbank.

Mr. Miller, another startlingly original piece, has been accepted into the Robert Knox Film Festival. Lee is currently completing post-production on his most recent short; The Secret Life Of Butterflies, a moving, surprising and ultimately uplifting story of family, identity, love and loss.

Love/Blind is the latest short film from a passionate, original film-maker.

LEE HUTCHINGS / FILMOGRAPHY

THE SECRET LIFE OF BUTTERFLIES / DIRECTOR, CO-WRITER -2011
MR MILLER / DIRECTOR, WRITER – 2010
AN ANGEL BREAKS THE RULE / DIRECTOR, PRODUCER - 2010
THE DATE / DIRECTOR – 2010
A DAY AWAY / DIRECTOR, EDITOR - 2010
A COUPLE OF CLOWNS / DIRECTOR - 2010
CITY AT NIGHT / SECOND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR - 2010
THE CHOICE / DIRECTOR, WRITER, EDITOR – 2009
TOGETHER ALONE / DIRECTOR, WRITER, EDITOR - 2009

LOVE / BLIND - CAST

JOE / JOSEPH LEEDER
CYBIL / MARYSIA KAY
JASON / PAUL JACQUES
SAM / TESSA STANWAY
WAITER / BENJAMIN GREEN

LOVE / BLIND - CREW

DIRECTOR / LEE HUTCHINGS
WRITER / J D DOUGLAS-WALTON
PRODUCER / ANDREW FAWN
1ST AD / EVE GRAHAM
DOP / JAMES MARTIN
EDITOR / ALEKSANDAR BUDIMIR
SOUND / SIMON HORNETT
GAFFER / SIMON OLNEY
HAIR & MAKEUP / CHAMIA CHOUDHURY
COSTUME / CARMEN SEVILLA-TORRES
PROPS & SET DESIGNER / LAURENCE WEBB
PA & RUNNER / HERMIONE FLAVIA

LOVE / BLIND – PRODUCTION DETAILS

PRODUCTION BUDGET / £1300.00
RUNTIME / 5 MINUTES
SHOOTING SCHEDULE / 2 DAYS – SATURDAY 11TH & SUNDAY 12TH JUNE
LOCATION / THE ANGLERS RESTAURANT – LONDON
POST PRODUCTION / TBC - LONDON
 

LOVE / BLIND - WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU AND WHAT WE WILL GIVE BACK TO YOU

We need £1300.00 to shoot Love/Blind. All the money will end up on-screen: crew and equipment costs, art department (makeup, costume, set design etc.), insurance, travel and food expenses and a contingency.

Anything over £1300.00 will go towards the Cast and Crew fees.

We have what we believe are some great rewards, including advertising for you and your business in a film that will be shown online and hopefully in film festivals. So check out the rewards section and we're sure there will be something for you.

Thanks - Lee Hutchings.