Jordan Rees

BELOW THE NECK

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Director:  Samuel Wiggins

Screenwriter:  Samuel Wiggins

Producer: Jordan Rees

Genre:  Phycological Drama Short

A single camera drama focusing on Tyler (a young man with early onset Muscular Dystrophy) and Melissa, a young couple, after Tyler has a life changing surgery to give him full mobility, performed by Dr. Shilling. As their life begins to get back on track it becomes obvious that there is something wrong significantly with Tyler, but can this be overcome.

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The main characters are Tyler and Melissa, a young couple who are struggling to deal with Tyler’s Muscular Dystrophy, a body wasting condition, until they are given an escape route of sorts by Dr. Shilling, a very skilled, yet egomaniacal surgeon, who is begging human testing for a very risky new procedure that may just answer their prayers. But as Tyler begins to recover it becomes apparent he’s no longer the man he once was, he becomes much more dismissive of others and paranoid of Melissa’s attempts to help him. Having cared for him for so long, and still loving him Melissa attempts to get the original Tyler back, but this ultimately fails, and Tyler becomes more of a threat than a loving boyfriend

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Below the Neck is currently in the Post Production stages and will be screened for the first time on the 1st June in Bristol