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Here’s another interview in Nerdly’s socially distanced series of chats with filmmakers and performers as part of the Nerdly Out Loud podcast for Nerdly.co.uk. This time Kevin sits down with writer, director and producer Gavin Michael Booth to talk about the film Last Call, which we reviewed right here.

Last Call tells the tale of a bitterly alone man, Scott, played by Daved Wilkins who calls the Suicide prevention hotline, but accidentally calls Beth, a janitor played by Sarah Booth.

A chance encounter between two strangers has ultimately changed their destinies in the drama, ‘Last Call.’ The strangers’ fates, which are going to be forever intertwined, are being chronicled on screen, as Mill Creek Entertainment is set to distribute the feature on DVD, Blu-ray, Digital and VOD this Tuesday, February 23. In honor of ‘Last […]

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"Maybe we can talk about something else?" Mill Creek Entertainment has revealed a new official US trailer for the indie film Last Call, a small drama from filmmaker Gavin Michael Booth. This premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2019, and also played at the Dances With Films Festival. It tells the tale of a bitterly alone man, Scott, who calls the suicide prevention hotline, but accidentally calls Beth, a janitor. Last Call is a split screen real-time feature film. The entire movie is comprised of two single-take shots, merged together and without cuts as the film plays out with two camera crews in different parts of a city as we follow each character. The score for the film was also composed and recorded in real-time by Adrian Ellis to add to the ephemeral aesthetic. This innovative, gripping cinematic feat is anchored by two incredible performances by Sarah Booth & Daved Wilkins.

After an award winning festival run and limited theatrical release last fall, Last Call will now come to home audiences February 23rd. Check out the trailer:

Last Call, is a real time, single shot feature presented in split screen showcasing both ends of a wrong number phone call that has the potential to save a life. With no hidden cuts, both sides were filmed simultaneously with one single take. It is quite an endeavor in independent filmmaking that we think your readers will appreciate.

The critics ar impressed!:

A remarkable piece of filmmaking”– Film Threat –

“Sarah Booth pierces your soul”– Film Inquiry –

“Unique, ambitious, and refreshing”– Silver Screen Analysis –

“A triumph for indie filmmakers”– She Spoiled It –

“[Gavin Michael] Booth has made one of the most potent and engaging low budget features”– We Live Entertainment

ill Creek Entertainment is thrilled to announce the release of director Gavin Michael Booth’s visionary drama feature Last Call,...

“Last Call” is a movie about a man in need of an intervention. Not David, who misdials the suicide hotline and gets a janitor named Beth — who’s working late at the local community college — instead, but director Gavin Michael Booth, who has fallen for the fad of shooting an entire feature in a single take — or a double take, in this case. Booth films both sides of this high-stakes phone conversation simultaneously, then crowds them into the same frame, so audiences can watch this miserable melodrama play out in real time.

Someone should step in and stop inexperienced directors from pulling this sort of stunt, especially when masked as some kind of statement, the way Booth does. I don’t mean to trivialize suicide by suggesting that “Last Call” doesn’t take the subject seriously. It’s just that Booth has chosen a technique that calls attention to itself...

Stars: Daved Wilkins, Sarah Booth, Matt Maenpaa | Written by Gavin Michael Booth, Daved Wilkins | Directed by Gavin Michael Booth

Where the hell do I even start with this review… I am sat here, about an hour after having watched Last Call. It took me about an hour to just relax myself, chill my nerves, remove my heart from my throat, for the goosepimples to die down and the hairs on the back of my neck to settle. Yes, Last Call took me down a path I am not overly sure I was ready for. A little while back I went to the cinema to see Joker, a movie that I have not been able to watch since, due to some of the content and how it hit way too close to home. Last Call didn’t hit me in the same place but my god did it hit me!

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