The Fruits of the Paradise ISLE
On the Paradise Isle, struggling radio and television personality, Bernard Moore, fails to awaken his heavily intoxicated special guest, the boxer George Bond, for a soon-to-be broadcast interview. Panicking backstage, he decides to use a made up story of a man whose house fell in the sea, with hapless pear delivery boy Paul Makepeace as the unfortunate subject. This interview starts a mesmerising and disturbing chain of interlinking events, as reality blurs with Bernard's invented fiction, and Paul goes on a journey of profound self-discovery that reveals all is not as it first appears.
2012 / 109 mins / Mini-DV and Super 8mm / B&W and colour / 4:3
Producer: Joseph Dethick
Director: Jim Dethick
Screenplay: Jim Dethick
Camera: Thomas Bettney, Jim Dethick, Joseph Dethick
Editor and Sound Design: Jim Dethick
Music: Jim Dethick, Joseph Dethick
Production Design: Joseph Dethick, Jim Dethick Thomas Bettney, John Wears
Cast: David Robinson (Eugene Squaremeal), Eddy Hill (George Bond), J.N. Dethick (Morton Drummey), Joseph Dethick (Bernard Moore), Jim Dethick (Paul Makepeace), Florence Dethick (Landlady), Joe Hill (Father Webster), Edith Hill (Mother Webster)
PREMIERE - Showroom Cinema, Sheffield, 2012
SCREENED - Void Cinema, Sheffield Hallam University, 2012
SCREENED - Peak Ales Brewery, Derbyshire, 2015
