tv & film

The Crooked Mile, by award winning director (Krakow Film Festival) Stephen Kane, is a coming of age road movie about the journey’s of Anna, a nine year old ‘adult’, determined to find her father, Elliot, a twenty-something medical school drop out, and a cute little goldfish with an odd name.

Unfortunatley for her the only clue she has of him is a picture that her mother keeps pinned to the wall. When Anna’s mother falls ill, Anna is given a chance to discover more about his identity, which has been hidden from her. What Anna doesn’t know is that the handsome chap who accompanies them from home to home is the film star James Dean, not her father, who just isn’t around anymore.

But Anna, armed with the innocence of childhood, coupled with a desire for adventure, sets off with her beloved goldfish Jaws, and an unlikely companion in the shape of her neighbour, Elliott, to discover her father’s whereabouts. The Crooked Mile was the first film outside of North America to win the Tribeca First Look Award (2001).