2004 GREG HALL
Greg’s work as a writer/director came to notice while still studying. His second year documentary TRAINING (2002), screened at the DFG’s “Serious About Shorts” International Festival, and his graduate script FRONT (2003) won the CARLTON TV Student Bursary Prize.
Graduating at the age of twenty-two he shot his ultra low budget feature debut THE PLAGUE (2004), which landed international critical acclaim, screening globally and winning three awards. In addition to the Katrin Cartlidge Foundation Award, it also received Best Director Award at the Portobello Film Festival 2004 and the Audience Award for Best Feature at Raindance East Film Festival 2005.
Following this success he has had work screened on Channel 4 (HOOD NEWZ) and has completed a number of music videos as part of The Beta Brothers, who have inspired a strong underground cult following, working with artists such as Benjamin Zephaniah.
He has most recently been commissioned by the Manchester International Festival to complete a feature length film working with contemporary classical composer Steve Martland entitled EXISTENCE (working title).
Greg Hall was awarded the bursary in recognition of his debut feature THE PLAGUE.
Welcome to the 21st century. A story of England told from inner city London. Set amongst a landscape of police wagons and estate blocks. Trapped in a world where hate breeds hate. A story seen through the eyes of four young multi-cultural friends. One city. One weekend.
Mike Leigh on The Plague:
“THE PLAGUE explodes with sharp, street-wise originality… Made with amazing resourcesfulness on a tiny budget by Greg Hall and his team, it was for us the perfect choice for the first film to receive the Katrin Cartlidge Foundation prize. Katrin would have loved its serious, funny, real, surreal, total anarchy. She would have called it ‘a gas’.“
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