On Friday 25th June, The Media Lunch
Club in London hosted a
special preview of 'Talking To Jeremy' at Eon Production's plush
screening room
in Piccadilly. (In fact the film was
run three
times to cope with demand).
'Talking To Jeremy', written by Cinema Retro's own Gareth
Owen, was the winning film script in the Club's 2009 'Short Circuit'
competition.
Entries to the competition - a 10 minute short, set around a lunch -
were first
judged by a celebrity panel including Sir Roger Moore and Guy Hamilton,
with the
top three scoring scripts performed at an actor's read-through in central
London.
The audience then voted for their favorite of the three, which
subsequently
went into production with The Brighton Film School.
'Talking To Jeremy' stars Claire
Carroll as
middle-aged struggling actress Milicent Parry, who uses every
opportunity
possible to further her failing career. When a famous film director,
followed by
a famous film producer walk into the restaurant, she is enjoying lunch as
a
'mystery customer', it seems all her dreams have come true ... well, so
she
thinks.
The celebrity audience at the screening
included
Sir Roger & Lady Moore, actress Judy Cornwell, director John Hough (Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry; The Watcher in the Woods)
and Eon
Productions VP of Marketing, Stephanie Wenborn.Lunch followed, with guest speaker (and
film
producer) Neil Peplow giving a fascinating and often hilarious insight
into his
career and beyond. 'Short Circuit 2' is set to launch
later this year
and along with including the chance for a script to be filmed, will
include a
substantial cash prize too.