After a hectic but fun summer shoot CTL has happily moved into the post production with initial feedback from the rough cuts being promising. Word about the project has started to spread and we're all excited about the release next year!



Read the Total Film November 2009 article below:

ETA APRIL 2010 London to Brighton director Paul Andrew Williams wanted to make a film. He was getting a tad frustrated as projects sure-to-be-made failed to be finally greenlit. "All the other films we've got going... the development is taking so long," he says.

Hence Cherry Tree Lane - a taut home kidnap thriller that took three months to go from script to shoot. It will be just over 80-minutes long and it starts at 8pm in the evening when a middle-class couple are interrupted by feral youths.

Why are they there? Who are they there for? Eighty minutes later (er, 9.20pm), the audience will know and be as mentally exhausted as the direcytor is halfway through the two week shoot when Buzz putches up the Muswell Hill, one-house set on a gorgeous August day. "We're halway through," says Andrew Williams. "It's fucking mad to so a shoot this quick,. It's lucky we've got a brilliant crew. Really good crew, really strong actors. You need that shit..." It's a 10 -hour day with a rolling lunch ("Which for all your readers out there means you don't get a lunch break. You eat quickly") and all stops are being pulled in prep for a four-week edit and (TBC) April release.

"It's real-time so hopefully you'll be caught up in the moment," says the director as rolling lunch rolls off and cast and crew head to the lounge to shoot one of the film's toughest scenes. The weather outside is beautiful, but there's work here to be done. JD