One in a Million (2017)

One in a Million is a short film produced by the London Film School in association with the independent youth news network, Shout Out UK. Additional funding has been supplied by Kent County Council. The film was shot entirely on location in Herne Bay, Kent and serves as writer-director Patrick Ireland's graduation project. Ireland, a local of the area, previously won the 2008 Swale Film Festival for his first short film when he was just 18 years old. Since then, he has gone onto direct the short documentary 'Anonymous: A Million Men' which was sold to Shorts International Ltd for worldwide distribution and more recently produced Channel 4's 2015 Youth Leaders Debate. "The film is about the disillusioned and disenfranchised white, working-class of Britain" says Patrick Ireland. "It's also about how fantasy gives these kind of people a sense of false hope: the fantasy of winning the lottery, the fantasy of becoming rich and happy, the fantasy of a heavenly afterlife".