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EGG AND CHIPS

By Helen ILEY

UNLEYEK LTD - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2023

A young daughter tries to bring home the bacon by stealing a chicken, while her mother is in denial about their impending eviction.

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Sunderland Shorts Film Festival 2023
Official Selection
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    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • UNITED KINGDOM
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Director(s)
    • Helen ILEY
    • Synopsis
    • A bus pulls up to a large housing estate, with a set of high rise flats that tower over the communal park and red-bricked corner shop below. FLO (10) with bouncy pig tails, makes her way off the bus with a CHICKEN in hand. Their neighbour SHARON amusingly watches the young girl ushering the chicken into her flat, now half-empty and boxed up as eviction looms. At the same time TRISS (27) on the other side of the city, makes her way out on a night out, avoiding her problems at hand to socialise before (later on) making a rather tipsy, staggered walk home to the inner city council estate in which they currently reside. Pressured by phone calls from the perky yet persistent CHRISTINE from a local social housing organisation, TRISS is attempting to balance finding work with looking after her young daughter, Flo, and seeking emergency help with housing.
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      After a late-night shower with an unwanted feathery friend in the bathroom, Triss confronts Flo about her ridiculous scheme of bringing a chicken home to help them out. She demands it to be returned from wherever it came from. Meanwhile, Flo’s relentless attempts to continue as she gets teased by classmates for moving school, being labelled ‘smelly’ and embarrassingly trying to dig up veg in the school gardens to take home for food. As Flo then attempts to grow herbs in her tiny bedroom, Triss is scared that her daughter is losing an opportunity of a normal childhood, spending her time concerned about looking after her Mum. As Triss begins to break down in front of Flo, along with the bailiff's regular visits, the pair feel equally helpless. Yet, with the support of their friends and the strength they have as a pair, Triss knows she needs to make sure that they will survive this difficult chapter in their life and that there is hope for their next one - whether that involves a chicken or not.
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