Wesley Road Films

Dir. Paul Gernon, Kealan O'Donovan

S16mm Short

Dur: 10'

  1. View D'Palme (Jonnie Hurn) & Wilmot (John Last) take tea by the river
  2. View "Oh let the wizened old hag insist all she likes..."
  3. View Dougal Porteous, Benjamin Rhys Evans, Jonnie Hurn, John Last
  4. View Three chaps on a picnic
  5. View Huzzah...!
  6. View "I need someone to shoot."
  7. View "Such a lack of discipline...!"
  8. View "You resemble an infested babboon."
  9. View "Well done that man."

Character. D'Palme (Lead)

Set in the mid 1930s and inspired by Jerome K. Jerome's "Three Men in a Boat" A Sporting Jaunt in a dark satire on social perceptions of the British aristocracy of the time in regards to the lower classes and the church.

Three blazered and straw-hatted chaps go for a picnic by a lake, one of them doesn't come back, the other two don't care...

This is my third, and favourite short with director Paul Gernon (Coiled Wire and Kowboys).

It was 14 months from first getting the script to the shoot, it was a long wait. A Sporting Jaunt is by far the best short film script I have read and acted in. It also allowed me to renuite with three excellent actors I have worked with before, Dougal Porteous (Animals, Do Elephants Pray?), John Last (Coiled Wire, Do Elephants Pray?) and Benjamin Rhys Evans (Too Many Bullets).

A Sporting Jaunt was shot on location at Birr Castle in County Offaly, Ireland.

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