“It was the contrasting characters in Slots that I found appealing, along with a dedicated production team.”

— Steve Fairclough

Slots (2021)

Two middle-aged, middle managers dreaming of teenage glories plot to escape their humdrum lives for a day.

SLOTS (2021) - Trailer

Chris and Peter - two middle-aged, middle managers - share a daily motorway commute through Lancashire to their humdrum office jobs. But when Peter reminisces about his idyllic childhood in Blackpool, they plot an escape; to bunk off work and spend a day in ‘the Vegas of the North’.

Awards:

2022 Artisan International Film Festival - Winner: Best Comedy
2022 London International Monthly Film Festival - Winner: Honourable Mention
2022 Dubai Festival - Selected
2022 Manchester Lift Off Film Festival - Selected
2022 China Film Festival - Selected
2022 Kalakari Film Festival - Selected
2021 Accord Cinefest - Winner: Best Quarantine Short
2021 4th Dimension Independent Film Festival - Winner: Best Short Film
2021 Indie Movies Sparks Film Festival - Winner: Honor Award
2021 Golden Harvest Film Festival - Winner: Best Drama
2021 Globescreen Shorts Festival - Finalist
2021 Toronto Independent Film Festival of CIFT - Finalist
2021 Art Independent International Film Festival - Finalist
2021 The Continental Film Festival - Nominee: Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Short Film
2021 Niagara Falls International Short Festival - Nominee: Best International Short
2021 Stockholm City Film Festival - Semifinalist
2021 New York Neorealism Film Awards - Selected
2021 International Road Movie Festival - Selected
2020 Showtime Tony Cox Screenplay Competition @ Nantucket Film Festival - Finalist (Script)
2020 Fresh Voices Shorts Competition - Finalist (Script)
2020 Filmmatic Screenplay Awards - Semifinalist (Script)
2019 HollyShorts Film Festival - Quarterfinalist (Script)
2018 ScreenCraft Shorts - Semifinalist (Script)

SLOTS (2021)

Anthony Povah

Based in the North West of England, Anthony describes his passion for writing as a ‘hobby that got out of control’ after he was selected for the New Writing North Significant Ink development programme and reached the finals of the BBC Drama Room scheme in 2017.

Since then, Anthony’s work has been selected by numerous screenwriting contests and film festivals across the globe, reaching the finals of the Nantucket Film Festival - Tony Cox Screenplay Competition and the Fresh Voices Competition in 2020. He was also a semifinalist at the 5th Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards, the 2018 ScreenCraft Shorts Competition, and selected for the 2019 HollyShorts Screenwriting Competition.

Anthony writes for TV, radio and film, and co-produced his debut short film in 2019. He is currently script consulting on a film project, and working on a conspiracy thriller.