The English Lesson (2016)
20m
Running Time
June 16, 2016Release Date
Plot.
Set ten years in the future, Virgil, an English Language Steward (not teacher) works in a school which achieves 100 hundred per cent success rate. Dressed in a red hooded outfit which suggests his low rank, Virgil has been employed to assist the efficient auto-prof: a computerised English instructor. The machine unleashes utilitarian English classes pitched way below its students' levels in order to guarantee passes and maintain the school's reputation. Virgil becomes taken by a student, Marie, who somehow manages to stir him from the drudgery of his apathetic classroom role. He fails one of the student's test in his class and is ordered by his superiors to amend the score if he wishes to keep his position, taking into account the dwindling jobs market. He is bullied, harassed and intimated into complying with a system that is decayed, corrupted and abusive towards its employees.
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Cast & Crew.

Tim Hayward
Virgil

Laila Rose Bouromane
Marie

John Gannon
Bob Mangle

Tommie Grabiec
Butch

Gabriel Gambetta
Mateo

Adi Loya
Angela

Claudie Nedelec
Ms. Clark

Anna Cornish
Alice

Rhys Whiteside
Frank

Sandro Fasolo
Teacher

Alejandra Costa Alvarez
Alexandra (Girl in Street)

Paul Herbert
Man in Street / Producer / Writer / Director

Peter Panoa
Director of Photography

Anne Bouromane
Set Designer

Peter Panoa
Cinematographer

Aravind Sundar
Sound Designer

Mine Mahmutoglu
Runner Art Department / Assistant Set Designer

Riika Lievonen
Makeup Artist

Su Hou
Associate Producer

Shahnaze Faneker
Assistant Set Designer

Elias Katsoufis
First Assistant Director

C.J. Lazaretti
Editor

Rob Maloney
Sound Recordist

Julian Bivol
First Assistant Camera

Seamus Cogan
Colorist

Alina Morar
Costume Designer
