TOM BEACH wrote the screenplay for Simon Rumley’s “The Handyman,” which won best short at the Sitges International Film Festival in Catalonia, Spain.
“Monte Hellman [?The Greatest’], venerable maverick director and jury member, sought out Rumley after the ceremonies saying it was the best short film he had ever seen,” Beach said.
Greta Scacchi (“The Player”) stars as a partially disabled single woman who hires the titular handyman (Bill Sage, “Mysterious Skin”) to help maintain her farmhouse. “The film follows their unspoken attraction to one another and its disturbing consequences.”
Shot in Vermont, “The Handyman” was produced as winner of the first annual British Short Screenplay Competition. Rumley (“The Living and the Dead”) is developing a feature from Beach’s script “Dues,” a thriller set in Chicago.
A veteran sound recordist, Beach has mixed numerous local features including “Welcome Back to the Barrio” and “RiffRaff.” Mindlight Films, which produced those two pictures, is planning to produce a thriller script written by Beach early next year.
See www.simonrumley.com.
