Thaddeus Fights The Power!
Provocative
Entertaining
Innovative
London with Dad or Paris with Mum?
Tough call for confused boy in new short ‘Thaddeus Fights The Power!’
It’s decision time for confused thirteen year-old Thaddeus. Dad has left the London home in order to pursue his life long ambition of being a musician. Now Mum can’t pay the bills and thinks Thaddeus and herself would be much better off in her native Paris. Cue local
barbershop where Thaddeus works part-time: it is a guaranteed source of steadfast streetwise advice and support.
Thaddeus Fights The Power! is a provocative and innovative short film that is sure to encourage discussion. It cleverly blends animation, live action and reflection, whilst it uses a rap and reggae soundtrack from Suncycle Productions to deliver an authentic Harlesden ‘flava’. Produced by London’s freshest independent film production company, Irie Entertainment Productions Ltd Thaddeus Fights The Power! is seventeen minutes long and will be available on VHS for viewing from 3 March 2003.
“I thought the film showed promise and I liked the visual treatment…” A diversity advisor, BBC.
Thaddeus is played by Kieran Phillips, an unknown but promising teenage Black actor. Aware of the rarity of good acting roles going to untrained aspiring young Black actors, Irie founder Danielle Bayley-Hay was keen to cast inexperienced but talented young people her company’s latest offering.
Frustrated by the lack of substantial roles for Black women in London, top model-turned-actress Danielle began drawing from her own experiences to write, direct and produce her own material, and founded Irie Entertainment in November 2000. The company’s first film,
‘Like Me…’ has already secured distribution with Omni Short films in Los Angeles and has been featured on ITV’s Artworks program. Omni Short films has also requested first refusal for Irie Entertainment’s second film ‘Fish4Brains’ and latest release ‘Thaddeus Fight the
Power’.
Further information on Irie Entertainment is available at http://www.irie-entertainment.com
