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BALANCING ACT

By Tajona KARHU

TAJONA KARHU (INDEPENDENT) - as PROD

Drama - Pre-Production 2022

British Dry Situational Satrical Drama, a group of successful sales agents are invited to the regional bosses target celebratory dinner party. A black/ dark comedy, switching from a comedy drama ending with a twist of drama genre and the envitable truth of reality, that there is no true winner.

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Drama, Black comedy
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 15 mn
- Director(s)
- Tajona KARHU
- Writer(s)
- Cathy WIPPEL
- Synopsis
- A CELEBRATORY TARGET ACHIEVING DINNER PARTY on a Friday night at the bosses highend but homely London apartment, a seamlessly harmless game of Jenga turned competitive noones emotions are left out of the game only to bring out everyones true intentions and character traits, nothing is hidden in the game of Jenga.
  
  Andy the begrungend over achieving antogistic work colleague is frustrated with the newly employed fellow younger equally naiive innocent work colleague, Chloe. Andy and his side chick best work mate, Neil and Chloe with older nonchalant boss Talia digest the end of the meal with Andy and Neil subtle disrespect Talia's maticulously clean flat. As an after dinner wrap up to the evening, they decide to play a seemingly innocent game of Jenga which ensues to an unravelling of Andy's agnoistic persona and unvaling the true character traits of feach person, identifying Chloe as the innocent do good genuine participant and Andy as the true antognistic, through a forced race to finish that Chloe acciendtly wins and Andy's male persona is broken down in a comedic build up of wit. After Neils sports like narration, Andy snaps as Chloe wins and we switch to full drama and intensity ending with Andy leaving and Talia, the older oricle character drops the final lesson that despite of Chloe's win nothing really has changed outside of the four walls of her apartment.