The Showreel
2014, 17 minutes
An action-packed comedy short by multi award-winning writer/director Keir Burrows.
The Showreel is an action-packed comedy short with a powerful emotional kick. It follows Nasreen, an immigrant office cleaner who dreams of being an action movie star. She whiles the work hours away pretending to be a zombie-hunting dragon slayer - then decides to make her screen acting dreams real. She creates characters for herself to play and goes out, imagining it’s all a film set, with a camera on every corner and that real people are just extras… with entirely unexpected consequences.