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HAPPY MEAT

By Matt GREEN

Comedy - Completed 2023

When a lab-grown vegan meat develops teeth, the company owners face an escalating set of moral dilemmas, as the situation spirals out of control

Festivals
& Awards

BFI London FF 2024

Shorts programme

BFI London FF 2024

- Year of production
- 2023
- Genres
- Comedy, Horror, Black comedy
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 16 mn
- Director(s)
- Matt GREEN
- Writer(s)
- Matt GREEN
- Cast
- Matt BENTLEY, Joe Wiltshire SMITH, Justine MOORE, Tim AHERN, Adei BUNDY
- Producer(s)
- Matt GREEN (Trash Productions ltd), Thea BURROWS
- Synopsis
- ‘Happy meat Inc.’ had a dream. They had a dream to save the world. They had a dream to make a genetically modified lab-grown super-meat; to reduce emissions and put an end to the needless suffering of innocent animals. And in the process get stinking rich.
  After three years of hard work and development, they’re about to land a multi-million pound investment deal with Bloomberg ltd. But...
  
  What happens when your lab-meat develops a mouth? And that mouth starts to scream? And then it bites a chunk out of your interns cheek? And then chews itself free and escapes from the lab and tries to eat the cleaner whole. What do you do then?
  
  Welcome to the living nightmare of Happy Meat CEO Lars Brocklehurst, as he desperately tries to hold onto the deal of a lifetime, whilst covering-up the monstrosity that’s festering below