Film

The English Lesson

2016 · 20m · Comedy

Not only will computers rob us of our dignity, but also our very core.

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.

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

• Paul HerbertDirector · Writer · Producer
• Peter PanoaDirector of Photography
• C.J. LazarettiEditor

Release date

June 16, 2016

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

20m

Budget

$5,000

Genres

Comedy