IN OFFICIAL SELECTION “THE RUM VINTAGE” WRITTEN BY ED WARD & ED ALLENBY - SHORTLISTED FOR THE AFA

BIO: ED WARD

‘Ed is an actor, writer and keen but awful rugby player – all in that order. He was first on stage at the King's School Worcester in England at the age of 12. His theatre career continued throughout his teens and at his alma mater, Trinity College Dublin, where he performed in several English and French speaking plays.

He left the stage and, whilst never forgetting his roots, moved to the screen playing various eclectic characters from posh Sloanes, Russian villains to off-beat and manic characters. Deciding the quickest way to get roles was to write himself into his own scripts he quickly took up pen and paper to co-write a series of “very English” short comedies called The Rum Vintage which have recently been condensed into a feature screenplay.

He has just finished a role as an unconventional journalist in John Stewart’s latest film, Rosewater, and last year played an archetypal English hippy in the film ‘A Facebook Romance’ that won him the award for best supporting male actor here at the Angel Film Awards 2012.’

“The Rum Vintage”
Written by: Ed Ward and Ed Allenby

Logline:

A rambunctious old school British comic caper where The Hangover meets Downton Abbey.

Synopsis:

Affable yet ineffectual young gent Felix Badger-Burbridge’s nuptials are imminent, and his closest pals have planned a traditional night of carousing at stags’ destination of choice Knackerslap-On-Sea. However, not far from Knackerslap, an escapee from a maximum security hospital is on the run not just from the police, but from the local shoot-first-ask-no-questions-later farmers’ guild who have banded together to take care of the infamous “Nail-Jaw” Tremmens once and for all. All bad timing for fresh faced Felix who must be on the aisle the following morning for the proverbial vows to his belle.