‘Surveillance’ is the second film from the people behind the cult hit ‘Like it is’. Shot in London in 2007, Surveillance premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2008 and played in Film Festivals around the world before becoming the first movie ever to be available concurrently on DVD and Video on Demand. Surveillance is a film concerned with some of the big questions of the day, not least of which is the almost constant CCTV that follows us wherever we go. For the most part we take no notice, preferring to believe that as long as we stay on the right side of the law, the cameras are harmless. But what if the cameras were no longer harmless? What if the thousands of cameras all over the nation were suddenly all watching you, and tracking your every step? Starring Simon Callow, Dawn Steele, Sean Brendan Brosnan and Tom Harper – Surveillance is a genuinely independent, low budget gay thriller. It may not be a Hollywood giant, but it packs a mighty punch.
Surveillance is a low-budget British thriller, with enough twists in the tale to keep you on the edge of your seat to the very last second…
Adam is a teacher at a posh private school, but at the weekends he goes to London to go to clubs, dance –and get laid. A chance encounter with a handsome stranger, Jake, brings Adam to the attention of powerful, unseen forces, who rob him of his job and follow his every move. Suddenly Adam’s life is a mess, and he’s in serious danger. But why? Why him?
Then Adam discovers that Jake planted on him the only existing evidence of an affair with a gay royal. When Jake is reported dead, Adam is forced to go on the run. With few resources and an increasingly desperate – and murderous – adversary Adam is in a deadly race against time.
Has he got what it takes to find the truth - and stay alive?
‘A paranoid tale that is both exhilarating and terrifying at once.’ – San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival
Tom Harper has appeared in over a dozen films and numerous television productions.
Tom Harper's first screen role was as Acastus in Jason and the Argonauts (2000), a two-part fantasy-adventure film for television.
Tom Harper has since appeared in other television productions including episodes of the television series Lewis, Silent Witnesss, Poirot and Foyle’s War.
Tom Harper film work includes appearing in The Upside of Anger (2005) and Telstar: The Joe Meek Story (2008).
Tom Harper is known as a director of a short movie "Cherries" (2007), which was screened in The Manhattan Short Film Festival [2007].
Sean Brendan Brosnan might have a famous dad, but it's his own considerable talent which is swiftly putting him on the acting map. A graduate of the Central School of Speech & Drama, Sean has already appeared as Romeo in Romeo & Juliet and as Lysander in a Midsummer Night's Dream in the theatre, and as the lead in three short films.
Sean Brendan Brosnanhas recently played a lead role in the US smash hit series, Generation Kill.
A hugely respected and much-loved star of stage and screen, Simon Callow has had a long and varied career including a recent turn as Falstaff in the musical Merry Wives of Windsor for the RSC. His films include Bright Young Things, directed by Stephen Fry, Shakespeare in Love, directed by John Madden and The Phantom of the Opera, directed by Joel Schumacher. Simon Callow is also a successful writer, drector and broadcaster
Dawn is currently appearing the in the third season of the hit ITV show Wild At Heart. Before that she played Justine McManus in Sea of Souls, and Lexie in six seasons of Monarch of the Glen.
Dawn’s successful stage career includes Rainbow Kiss at the Royal Court, and Tutti Frutti with the National Theatre of Scotland.
Director Paul Oremlands first gay thriller. "Like It Is."
“Few films truly penetrate the glossy surface of pop culture - Like It Is is a fine exception. With a razor sharp knife, it cuts right into its subject and displays it from all angles.”
New York Post
Craig is a 21 year old northern lad-about-town, making cash from illegal bare-knuckle fights. His is a hard and ugly world where survival means winning. To Craig’s mates, trapped in a macho world of bravado and violence, he is “one of us” but Craig knows that he is gay - “one of them”. A chance meeting outside a club leads Craig to a brief and clumsy sexual encounter with Matt, a self-assured Londoner visiting Blackpool, a liaison that irrevocably changes both their lives.
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