Version is not just a showcase but a unique film production project, and this year’s festival climaxes with the premiere of four new films specially produced for the occasion:
Witness Protection
Dir: Sarah Eyre
Based on a short by new writer Guy Ware
Starring Reg Edwards & Rosina Carbone
A man is assigned a new identity after witnessing a brutal murder.
Letters Home
Dir: Ronald J. Wright
Based on a story by Martyn Bedford
Starring Nasser Memarzia, Daniell Coll, Lucia Cox & Katie Moore
An asylum seeker attempts to adjust to life in an evidently racist northern town, set against the backdrop of the Lee Bowyer/Jonathan Woodgate trial of 2002
The Sorting Out
Dir: Gwendolen Osmond
Based on a story by Christopher Priest
Starring Elizabeth Bassham
A woman returns home after a long day in town to discover her house has been broken into and the intruder may still be there.
Finding Polish
Dir: Caleb Shaffer
Based on a story by M. Y. Alam
Starring Haider Javed, David Robertson, Jamall Nasir, Carl Sethi, Javed Khan, Irfan Hussain, Liz Daniels, Martin Salomonsen, Natalie Page & Austin Garrett
A young loan shark, attempting impress his uncle in the family business, attempts to chase up a decades-old debt, and in doing so uncovers a dark secret.