“Lord Jones is Dead is like the Office Space of print journalism.”
Hollywood North Magazine
“A biting, sniping satire of everything that’s trivial and wrong with mainstream media – a glorious kick in the guts for an industry that’s never been more down on its luck.”
Rival journalists Samuel (Chad Krowchuk, Man of Steel) and Vincent (Daniel Janks, Ali) wait outside a suburban house for a woman who is said to have had an affair with a government minister. Photographer Clive (Jonathan Pienaar, Blood Diamond) is with them, there to get a photo of the girl. Unfortunately, they don’t know if this is the right house – or, indeed, whether this is the right girl. And with Samuel being told by his editors that he’s not to come back until he has a story, and Vincent and Clive being told that they have to stay until Samuel leaves, the trio settle in for what promises to be a long wait. At which point they decide that they could just as easily make the story up…
Premieres on Super Channel in November, 2018.
STARRING // Chad Krowchuk, Daniel Janks, Jonathan Pienaar DIRECTED BY // Austin Andrews, Andrew Holmes WRITTEN BY // Matthew Clayfield PRODUCED BY // Megan Godsell, Navid Soofi, Adam Scorgie CINEMATOGRAPHER // Trevor Calverley
