The English Lesson (2016)
Set ten years in the future, Virgil, an English Language Steward (not teacher) works in a school which achieves 100 hundred per cent success rate. Dressed in a red hooded outfit which suggests his low rank, Virgil has been employed to assist the efficient auto-prof: a computerised English instructor. The machine unleashes utilitarian English classes pitched way below its students' levels in order to guarantee passes and maintain the school's reputation. Virgil becomes taken by a student, Marie, who somehow manages to stir him from the drudgery of his apathetic classroom role. He fails one of the student's test in his class and is ordered by his superiors to amend the score if he wishes to keep his position, taking into account the dwindling jobs market. He is bullied, harassed and intimated into complying with a system that is decayed, corrupted and abusive towards its employees.
Director: Paul Herbert
http://www.bluejohnproductions.co.uk/next-project-the-english-lesson/
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Tim Hayward as Virgil |
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Laila Rose Bouromane as Marie |
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John Gannon as Bob Mangle |
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Tommie Grabiec as Butch |
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Gabriel Gambetta as Mateo |
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Adi Loya as Angela |
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Claudie Nedelec as Ms. Clark |
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Anna Cornish as Alice |
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Rhys Whiteside as Frank |
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Sandro Fasolo as Teacher |
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Alejandra Costa Alvarez as Alexandra (Girl in Street) |
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Paul Herbert as Man in Street |
| Directing | Paul Herbert | Director |
| Writing | Paul Herbert | Writer |
| Production | Su Hou | Associate Producer |
| Production | Paul Herbert | Producer |
| Editing | C.J. Lazaretti | Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Alina Morar | Costume Designer |
| Camera | Peter Panoa | Director of Photography |
| Costume & Make-Up | Riika Lievonen | Makeup Artist |
| Directing | Elias Katsoufis | First Assistant Director |
| Art | Anne Bouromane | Set Designer |
| Art | Shahnaze Faneker | Assistant Set Designer |
| Art | Mine Mahmutoglu | Assistant Set Designer |
| Sound | Rob Maloney | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Aravind Sundar | Sound Designer |
| Camera | Julian Bivol | First Assistant Camera |
| Lighting | Nick Ng | Gaffer |
| Editing | Seamus Cogan | Colorist |
| Art | Mine Mahmutoglu | Runner Art Department |