DTLA LIFE MAG #16 | APRIL 2015 | Page 76

Apart,” and who most recently appeared on The Voice UK. PERFECT STATE directed by Tim Mackenzie-Smith (UK) A few years from now in Great Britain, the Government has sold out to a big corporation which now runs all public services. All State support for the poor has been stopped. Instead the Red Zone has been created. Citizens are forced to wear color coded wristbands, and if yours turns red, you’re in trouble. If you can’t support yourself, you are the property of Vitakorp. The measure is popular with the public, or at least those who can pay their way. Perfect State tells the story of Neil Hartman, a City worker who falls foul of the system. Documentary filmmaker and writer Mackenzie-Smith runs a production company called Deadpan Films, where he and his company have worked on projects featured on many television stations including ITV, Channel 4, Sky Sports and UKTV. Perfect State was co-written by Ryan Philpott (Eastenders, Rosemary and Thyme, London’s Burning, Harry Hill’s TV Burp, Coupling, Murder in Mind, The Bill). Actress Holly Weston (John Carter, Hollyoaks, Filth and Wisdom, Law & Order: UK) plays opposite Miles Jupp (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Sherlock Holmes, The Monuments Men, A Young Doctor’s Notebook, The Thick of It, Johnny English Reborn) and Sam Callis (Doctor Who, Game of Thrones, Midsomer Murders, Kidulthood). In the visual effects depart Y[