AWOL

AWOL is the tough but tender story of three brothers, H, 18, unemployed and into petty crime, Casey, an innocent, warm hearted 15-year-old with learning difficulties and 10-month-old Severino .

The film starts when social services split the family up after the death of their mother. Casey takes the only action open to him; he ‘snatches’ his baby brother and goes on the run in search of his estranged father, Casey thinks that if he finds his dad everything will be alright.

The drama is also supported by a major online element pioneering innovative new technology . At the point where the 90 minute film ends, viewers will be encouraged to go on-line and find out what might have happened had the ending been different. Audiences are empowered to make challenging moral choices at key moments then see the results played out in real time. This innovative interactive approach is a first for the BBC and offers a truly engaging and novel viewing experience.

AWOL Director, Marc Munden, comments; “AWOL is a 21st century road movie mixing the magic realism. It’s a film that can only have been made now – when adults are children and children are expected to be adults, when adults are no longer able to take on the burden of parenting, so infantilized have they become, so dependent on escaping through drugs and drink. And children have to take on that burden instead.”

Produced by BAFTA-winner Sara Feilden (Off-Side) with Kindle Entertainment’s Anne Brogan & Melanie Stokes (International Emmy-winning Dustbin Baby) as executive producers, this British film was shot in and around the Northwest.

Anne Brogan, Co-founder of Kindle Entertainment and Executive Producer, comments; “ AWOL is a film that gives a voice and humanity to those young people in Britian today who are often characterised as thugs or hoodies. Lin Coghlan has written characters that are funny, warm and memorable and Marc Munden has brought them alive with our young cast with an intensity and power that will make them linger in the heart and imagination.