IN OFFICIAL SELECTION ‘A FRIGHTFULLY STAND UP CHAP’ WRITTEN BY ED WARD & ED ALLENBY- SHORTLISTED FOR THE AFA

BIO: ED WARD

‘Ed is and 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.’ ‘Rum Vintage’ winning for best back comedy screenplay in 2013 at the Angel Film Awards-Monaco International Film Festival.

“A FRIGHTFULLY STAND UP CHAP”
WRITTEN BY ED WARD & ED ALLENBY

Log Line:

A boisterous English comedy about love, debt and where Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels meets Brideshead Revisited.

Synopsis:

Young aristocrat, Felix Badger-Burbridge – by an unforeseen quirk of fate – finds himself destitute and stuck in a poky garret in south London. With a Stalinist loan shark applying pressure, our hero is forced to turn to his old school chums in an attempt to borrow some cash. However, only Felix’s former prefect, Boris “The Bastard” Yentob, is in a position to offer any solace, and so Felix sets off on a road trip to visit his sadistic former schoolmate. Upon his arrival at Boris’ sumptuous ountry estate, Felix is unwittingly embroiled in a dastardly murder plot by his host’s calculating wife Siobhan, and the much put upon if over-friendly maid, Pandora. Where there’s a Will, there’s a way.