Friends of Luke
Lost and devastated after being dumped by his girlfriend Fae, eighteen year old aspiring playwright Luke traverses a complex landscape of the borders between platonic and romantic love. Writing a play about their break-up as a way to sift through the pieces of his and Fae's relationship, things are made all the more complicated when his two best friends start dating.
Ben Clarkson - Executive Producer
Aspiring writer and actor, though currently doing a degree in Psychology. Before Friends of Luke the only major project he had worked on was dubbing Tom Wright the director himself, back in 2015.
Though not having the talents possessed in filmmaking he still wanted to help out Tom with making Friends With Luke. Ben hopes everybody that watches the film enjoys it as much as he enjoyed helping to make it.
Hopefully they'll be another project soon and if Tom ever calls up he'll be sure to answer.
Fin Ross Russell - Executive Producer
Fin Ross Russell is the co-founder of Island Life Productions, having founded the company with his sister in 2011. Since founding the company, he completed his BA in Drama, Applied Theatre & Education from the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama. Following a year working at Chichester Festival Theatre as the theatre's Education Assistant, Fin moved up to Edinburgh where alongside running the company, he has worked as a freelance facilitator for various companies including the Brunton Theatre, Millennium Stage School, Scottish Youth Theatre, Edinburgh City Council, Strange Town, Ignite Theatre, Imaginate, LYRA, PACE Theatre Company and Lyceum Youth Theatre. Fin also lectures for the CGO Institute and assistant directed Perth Theatre's main-stage production of Chaos (February 2022). Fin is a board member of Capital Theatres and founding member of their new Youth Advisory Board.
Thomas Wright - Director/Writer
Tom Wright has over 5 years experience producing independent short films, documentaries, experimental video work and videography. He's had his work shown in the Royal Academy of Arts and in the Bath Arts Festival, as well as film Tom has a background in theatre performing in Leeds, while also writing and staging a couple plays as a teenager.
CASTÂ
Ziggy Roe-Sparks - Alesha
Tom Wright - Luke
Maisie Bayliss - Fae
Che Duncan - Daniel
Leszek Cygan - Elliot
Sana Mahajan - Maya
Rosa Fishwick - Taylor
CREW
Kaja Arthur - Designer
Leszek Cygan & Ludo Newton-Edgar - Advising Editors
Sammy Mills, Rhys Peduzie, Grace Wright & Jamie Wright - Score
Ludo Newton-Edgar - Cinematography