CATCH ME DADDY by Daniel Wolfe

Catch Me Daddy is a modern western set in the Yorkshire Moors. Daniel Wolfe's feature film debut after a prominent and celebrated career in music videos is an intense chase movie full of darkness and disenchantment.

 
A young Pakistani girl, brought up in the Western world, escapes her father's patriarchal grasp by living in the British countryside with a boy. Broke but content, the two's momentary joy in placed under serious jeopardy when two cars ride into town, bounty hunters hired by her father to take her back home whether she likes it or not and hell bent on seeing their mission accomplished.
 
Already a subject of interest, the violence born out of the central culture class between the Middle Eastern patriarchal society represented by the father of the girl and may seem one of particular controversy due to its delicate nature - particularly in recent times. It doesn't take long to see, however, that in this story there hardly is good guys and back guys in a social realistic portrayal kind of way. Catch Me Daddy is essentially a film about broken individuals, all seeking escape in one way or another and in very subjective way.

 

Daniel Wolfe's impressive feature debut, after a prominent and celebrated career as the director of notable music videos and short films, can be classified as a moden western or an intense chase movie with elements of noir. Taking place in the course of the night, in pitch dark glorified by the wonderful work of cinematographer Robbie Ryan, it embraces a sense of frantic urgence, hopelessness and disenchantment.
 
Catch Me Daddy takes place in the Yorkshire Moors, and it reeks of authenticity due to the particular attention paid to the landscape, the cold lighting and its setting's gritty representation. Notably, the film makes use of street casting, a technique that allows a distance from the usual character actors of the majority of British cinema in favour of a more radical physical authenticity and more natural colloquialism revealed by the regional accents. In the process, Daniel Wolfe and his crew manage to discover Sameena Jaben Ahmed, who has a particular type of charisma and personality as well as unusually beautiful hypnotic eyes that make her stand out as a rebellious creature, but an endearing one at that.
 
Catch Me Daddy by Daniel Wolfe is out in UK cinemas from the 27th of February 2015.