Through a series of ghostly reminiscences a young man tries to piece together fragmented moments from the past, memories being triggered by admiration for his best friend Johnno. As the story unfolds, hero worship turns to revulsion, as the web of deception and violence that Johnno creates is revealed, pulling narrator and audience in its destructive wake. Manipulated live-action mutates and combines with ghostly digital animation.

Quantel Animation Award, Rushes Soho Short Film Festival 2003, London, UK

Metropolis Prize, 9th L‚Isola del Cinema International Film Festival, Rome, Italy, 2003

Filmmaker - Chris Shepherd was born in Liverpool in 1966. In 1985 he studied Foundation Art at Liverpool Polytechnic, after which he became an editor at a production company called NGP Ltd. From 1989 to 1992 he studied animation at West Surrey College of Art and Design. After graduating he became studio manager at Speedy Films and coordinated adverts and short films for TV.

In 1995 he set up a production company called Polkadot Productions Ltd. He directed and produced the multi award winning film for Channel Four called The Broken Jaw. Since then he has directed adverts, title sequences and the award winning Stareout sketches on Big Train. He is the co-founder of new animation company, Slinky Pictures, with producer Maria Manton. Recent direction credits include a ten part series for Channel Four called People's Britain and his latest short for Animate! (Channel 4/Arts Council of England) is called Dad's Dead. He is also the producer of the Channel Four/BFI Animator In Residence scheme.