COMING SOON
A Flying Colours Production in collaboration with MIND Charity
Writer / Director: Dee Meaden
Exec Producers: Charlie MacGechan, Jun Noh, Kristin Tarry, Francisco Paez
Producer: Shirine Best
Cinematographer: Ollie Verschoyle
Casting Director: Shakyra Dowling
OVERVIEW
Disenfranchised businessman Simon tries to restore suicidal Caleb’s faith in humanity but inadvertently undermines his own efforts through a desperate need for adulation.
‘An Important Man’ is a short drama exploring self-obsession, status anxiety and the damaging power of the drive to be heroic.
STORY
52-year-old Simon is a man many would deem successful. On the surface he’s a well-off family man with a steady job at an exciting company but underneath he’s yearning for applause, harbouring a secret need to be important.
In a bruising promotion interview he comes to realise those around him no longer see him as dynamic or exciting and is left wounded and disgruntled, blinded to the many privileges, or comforts his life affords him.
When he, by chance, encounters the distraught Caleb, he’s keen to help him, to prevent the young man harming himself and although they’re from opposite walks of life they share a feeling of being unwanted or obsolete.
Through this point of connection and his impressive communication skills (which he sadly failed to demonstrate in his interview) Simon manages to retore the young man’s faith in humanity, only to alienate him a moment later through a fervent need to be seen and appreciated in his moment of heroism.
