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Olivia Sandwith “How could you not feel something” -Robert Ebert

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Alisha Dobinson “Outstanding... inspring” -the Guardian

Jack Herbert best-selling author of BLUR

Dear Daddy What would you do if you could say one last thing?

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Edited by Monty Lane

DEAR DADDY

It’s the notebook meets Father’s day as Alisha Dobinson’s Olivia will make you cry and wanting more...

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RELEASED February 10 CERTIFICATE U CAST Alisha Dobinson, Olivia sandwith-O’shea, Jess Hooker RUNNING TIME 3 minutes PLOT Fatherless Olivia (Alisha) goes on a run through places of relevance to her, places she remembers from her childhood where he Dad used to take her, 15 years on after the death of her Father, Olivia fights her fears to tell her Dad one last thing, before she moves on with him in her heart... .......................................................... ..........................................................

NB: A MID-MOVIE SPOILER

reveals that truly she cannot live without her father, and accepts it.

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ow Alisha Dobinson and Jack Herbert must have smiled inwardly and breathed a massive sign of relief to finish this project, as directing producer Jack Herbert had a personal connection with the particular story told in “Dear Daddy”. Herbert’s inspiration was based upon Olivia SandwithO’shea, who’s father passed away in 2012 do to cancer, Jack’s intent was to create a master piece to show Olivia one day, to which Her father Karl would be happy with.

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Throughout production of the short, Herbert went for sentiment over quality which must

Olivia making connection with her younger self in order to move on and accept the tragedies of life. definitely paid off, he found parellels of Olivia with a Jessica Hooker, and he insisted for her to narrate his original poemesqe monologue voiceover, which insighted amazing emotion and talent from Jess which would make Her own father proud. this colabaration beautiful cinematography and clever uses of emotional pulls, worked to harmony to create a visually perfect

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When Esme Josling was in for the role, Olivia was called Daisy Esme Josling was then recast due to contract issues, in which a page 1 rewrite changed the character name to her real life name.

A student involving Alisha ontop of a building in London ended with Jack Herbert the director going into police questioning and some pretty

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and completely unique to his last efforts in 2016’s The Blur begins.

Where Herbert showed his artistic action based directing we knew he was capible of. But didn’t Jack surprise us, flipping fans and critics alike by moving from pure thriller based action to emotional heart pulsing love stories, showing the utter perfectionist range of Jack’s writing and directing skills.

Alisha stated how though the serious tone of the film, Jack Herbert made the whole experience “enjoyable, creative and free”.

Alisha felt Herbert’s layed back but meaningful vibe to life is what makes his work so successful, as it demonstrates his personality on film.

Jessica found Jack a pleasure to work with, saying his artistic

auteur ideas made the process of creating art easily, “Dear Daddy” being “the world” to Jess, “I knew it wasn’t about me, but Jack’s universal audience direction made it impossible to not thing the story was about you, open ended questions yet indivualist made the short film show to anyone, regardless of the background”.

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