Check out the brilliant teaser trailer for DEADTIME then catch the full length trailer here. The horror feature, about the emo/metal band Love Meets Murder locked in a recording studio and struggling to save their career, stars Laurence as the lead singer, Zack. Read his interview with Deadly News here.
UGLY AND IN LOVE is in the OpenFilm competition, to be judged by James Caan and Robert Duvall. See the short here and vote at OpenFilm here. This follows its official selection for the FALSTAFF INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, and its distribution deal with Netflix.
Avatars Live! And Other Stories, a groundbreaking mix of theatre and interactive digital art, premieres at the The Public on May Bank Holiday weekend.
HANDLE WITH CARE, the half hour drama centering upon domestic abuse, which mixes gritty realism with comedy and fantasy, receives its premiere courtesy of Showcase Cinemas on Friday 23rd April. The film, developed by young people whose lives have been touched by the issue, and also starring JOSIE LAWRENCE, was featured on ITV Central News.
Click here for the trailer for BLACK BY DAY, a comedy drama described as Jane Eyre meets Shameless, filmed on location at the cobbled Victorian streets of the Black Country Museum. It also stars Big Brother and GMTV favourite ALISON HAMMOND.
MOMSTER has been officially selected for the CINEMAGIC INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL in Belfast, and will screen at ARTSFEST along with THE LODGER, in which Laurence plays the seedy landlord, Dave, and ARTHUR'S LORE, in which he appears as Lewis, the hardfaced copper. He won't look as cute as his daughter though, who appears at the festival in David King's cultural comedy PHENOMENAL BIRMINGHAM.
More exciting news regarding MOMSTER, which has been awarded runner up to the Oscar nominated GONE FISHING in the Performance & Media Short Film Awards at BAFTA.
MOMSTER, an original take on the subject of containment and abuse, in which Laurence plays the Father, has been selected for the 'Shorts On Walls' section of this year's FLATPACK FESTIVAL ("Innovation is the name of the game in this weird and wonderful little festival, designed for lovers of all that's eclectic, genre-busting and artistic about cinema," Andrea Hubert, The Guardian). It plays on Saturday 14th March at 6.30pm.
Laurence appears in Avantika Hari's powerful debut feature film, LAND GOLD WOMEN, which follows the story of a British-Asian family caught between Eastern tradition, Western culture and political turbulence. The film received its national premiere in Birmingham on February 12th 2009, and has already attracted the attention of the Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, because of its controversial subject matter.
Congratulations to Esther May Campbell for winning the 2009 BAFTA for her short film SEPTEMBER. Esther directed Laurence as Andy Statham in DOCTORS (BBC1) and also in BE MINE, as part of the BBC4 Bollywood Shorts season.