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Short Film Showcase Season 1 Episodes

Season 1 Episode Guide

10 Episodes 2012 - 2012

Episode 1

Pilot: Introducing Short Film Showcase

Thu, Aug 23, 201241 mins

Frankie (Adrian Dunbar) is a parking attendant with his eye on the future. His friend Cathy is in financial trouble, but as Frankie always says, "Something will turn up!"

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Episode 2

Filmmaker Chris Esper

Fri, Aug 31, 201246 mins

Do you believe in love at first sight? When Arthur claps eyes on Ruth, he is left in no doubt. Award-winning actors John Hurt and Phyllida Law star.

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Episode 3

Short Films by Bryan Casey & Mike Messier

Wed, Sep 12, 2012

An overwhelmed family employs a deaf-specialist social worker to help prepare their "broken child," Libby, for the real world.

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Episode 4

Episode #1.4

Thu, Sep 20, 2012

A lonely clown (John Simm) plying his trade in a forgotten seaside resort falls in love and is forced to confront a terrible secret he's been hiding.

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Episode 5

Episode #1.5

Wed, Sep 26, 2012

This follows Heather (Sally Hawkins), a shy woman employed at a call center who receives a call from a mystery man that will change her life forever.

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Episode 6

Episode #1.6

Thu, Oct 4, 2012

Isolated widower Roy (David Bradley) passes time by cold-calling strangers from the phone book. When he dials an adult hotline worker, an unlikely friendship is born.

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Episode 7

Episode #1.7

Thu, Nov 1, 2012

After the women of Great Britain are called upon to aid the war effort, how far will one young woman with a secret go to expand her limited horizons and herself?

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Episode 8

Episode #1.8

Thu, Nov 15, 2012

A busy Londoner's life is sidetracked when an encounter with a spontaneous stranger in a cafe inspires her to take a chance on a more uncertain future.

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Episode 9

Episode #1.9

Wed, Nov 21, 2012

John Hurt stars in this uniquely lyrical drama about a chance meeting between two young parents and their elderly neighbors that impacts all their lives.

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Episode 10

Episode #1.10

Thu, Nov 29, 2012

When Don (Peter Mullan), an elderly Scottish grump, finds himself a victim of multiple lightning strikes, he worries that his quiet life may never be the same again.

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