Catch Me Daddy

  • 111'
  • United Kingdom
  • 2014
The landscape of the Yorkshire Moors looks wild and ominous in this macabre, nihilist debut by music-video director Daniel Wolfe. It's the ideal hiding place for a teenager on the run, but also a more than suitable hunting ground for her family, who are eager to commit an honour killing.
Together with her boyfriend Aaron, Laila (17 and of Pakistani origin) lives in a sad caravan park just outside Sheffield. There she thinks she is safe from her conservative family, but in the meantime her brother Zaheer is combing the area with five armed sidekicks. It doesn’t take long for them to find her, after which a nerve-wracking pursuit through deserted streets and spooky marshes ensues.
The beautiful dark images in which Wolfe captures this mixture of classic British social-realist drama and exciting genre cinema, poetic and oppressive at the same time, was shot on 35mm by Robbie Ryan, the regular cameraman for Andrea Arnold (Fish Tank, Wuthering Heights).


  • 111'
  • United Kingdom
  • 2014
Director
Daniel Wolfe
Country of production
United Kingdom
Year
2014
Festival Edition
IFFR 2015
Length
111'
Medium
DCP
Languages
English, Punjabi (Panjabi)
Producers
Hayley Williams, Mike Elliott
Production Company
Emu Films
Sales
Altitude Film Sales
Screenplay
Daniel Wolfe, Matthew Wolfe
Cinematography
Robbie Ryan
Editor
Dominic Leung, Tom Lindsay
Production Design
Sami Khan
Music
Matthew Wolfe, Daniel Thomas Freeman
Cast
Sameena Jabeen Ahmed, Conor McCarron
Director
Daniel Wolfe
Country of production
United Kingdom
Year
2014
Festival Edition
IFFR 2015
Length
111'
Medium
DCP
Languages
English, Punjabi (Panjabi)
Producers
Hayley Williams, Mike Elliott
Production Company
Emu Films
Sales
Altitude Film Sales
Screenplay
Daniel Wolfe, Matthew Wolfe
Cinematography
Robbie Ryan
Editor
Dominic Leung, Tom Lindsay
Production Design
Sami Khan
Music
Matthew Wolfe, Daniel Thomas Freeman
Cast
Sameena Jabeen Ahmed, Conor McCarron