Feature film
Aggro Seizeman
Synopsis
In newly independent Guyana, Alex Grant, nicknamed Aggro, finds work as a seizeman: he repossesses, for a hire-purchase company, the goods of debtors who no longer pay. He succeeds in this trade despite the hostility he meets, and negotiates for himself five per cent of the value of the mining equipment that a company in the interior is due to return.
Context
Drawn from a story by Frederick Hamley Case, the film was shot in 35 millimetre by Gillham Productions, with performers all recruited locally, including Gordon Case and Martha Gonsalves. Co-directed by Brian Stuart-Young, it brought together around its American director several New York photographers who came to assist him, including Shawn Walker. It belongs to comedy and the drama of manners, and is rarely screened.
Who it is for
An English-language film of a little over an hour and a half, very hard to see today outside archives and festivals.
Prizes and reception
It is regarded as the first feature film shot in Guyana with an entirely Guyanese cast.
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