When going through some of her late parents' things, Emily finds their old Polaroid camera and as a keen photographer herself, she decides to take some pictures with it as a way of being close to them.

Unfortunately what took Emily’s parents from her is still out there and with every click of the shutter, she'll soon discover that evil can develop in an instant…

“Instant” started out as a challenge - to tell a story in two minutes without using dialogue - and while the finished film is definitely more than two minutes long, it was successful at telling its story with no dialogue whatsoever.

Taking cues from Japanese horror movies from the late 90s (before they became riddled with pale, long-haired cliches), we wanted the film to have a strong sense of unease built up through sound and cinematography - a strange quiet or an eerily empty frame. And to make the audience care and fear for the main character (played by Emily Ann Hawthorne), the film opens with a sequence of her going through her parents’ things, making her sympathetic and relatable.

The whole thing is tied together by Alexander Clarke’s wonderful moving score and while the Covid pandemic put paid to its festival outings, “Instant” has been well-received at smaller screenings and on social media.

Cleo (Francesca L White) is an assassin and she’s very, very good at it. But it’s a lonely job - although you get to travel and meet people, you’re usually putting bullets in them. So she turns to internet dating to find love… and finds Ryan (Reuben Williams) - a nice, normal guy who has absolutely no idea what Cleo does for a living.

But when her next target (Dean “Crazy Legs” Williams) turns up in the same pub and threatens to disrupt her perfectly planned evening, Cleo is forced to juggle her professional and personal lives and try to keep everything from crashing down around her.

“Dead Meet” is an action-comedy short film in the vein of “Grosse Point Blank” and we wanted to nail both the action and comedy parts of that mix. For the action, we were inspired by Hong Kong cinema and the works of filmmakers like Sammo Hung, John Woo and Jackie Chan. The fight in the bathroom and the gun battle at the end were storyboarded and pre-visualised extensively because our time and money on set was extremely limited. For the comedic side of things, we tried to create the sort of rising tension prevalent in British comedy where a character’s lies and behaviour are going to be their undoing.

“Dead Meet” won several awards over its festival run, including Best Actress (Short Film) for Francesca L White at the Artemis Film Festival in L.A.