A Bucks resident has written and directed a full-length feature film that will be released free on YouTube later this month.
The comedy is based around four couples who all have 8-year old children in the same reading group at a fictional Marlow primary school.
Roberto Kouyoumdjian has lived in Marlow with his wife and two children for over eight years and took real-life inspiration from video calls bring the only means to socialise whilst in lockdown.
Filmed in a similar way to David Tennant and Michael Sheen’s TV series Staged, the comedy is set all over Zoom calls.
Titled ‘A MidSummer Night Zoom’ the film follows the four couples who have been meeting over Zoom every Saturday night for nearly 50 consecutive weeks.
First, they have a call for their kids and after they’ve put them to bed they’ll have a call for just the grown-ups.
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They get drunk, play games and have tried to be relatively civil towards each other but as one night develops they are progressively less able to keep up appearances.
Robert works for an architectural conservation charity in London and has no experience in filmmaking but eventually produced the film on virtually £0 budget
After getting six of his local friends to rehearse for a couple of months over zoom the film is ready to be released on July 23.
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