TWO Bournemouth film-makers are fundraising to get exposure for a short film they have already made with a nationally-known star.

Writer-director Jamie Milligan and producer Mikel Iriarte shot their movie Mausoleum at Treehouse Digital, an independent film company based above Boscombe Sainsbury’s.

It stars Julia Deakin, whose work with the acclaimed director Edgar Wright has included TV’s Spaced and the film Shaun of the Dead. She has also appeared in Mid Morning With Alan Partridge and the film High-Rise.

Jamie said: “This is a short film about being stuck, whether you have the courage to change or you just want to stay the same.

“We’ve made the film but we just need to fund it to get it out there now.”

The film centres on a woman at her wits' end. When she sits down to dinner with her husband, she realises time is running out to correct her mistakes and take control of her life again.

Shot on 35mm film, it is dominated by a five-minute, single-take soliloquy by the star.

The film-makers hope to get it seen at festivals across the world in 2018. They have launched a campaign on the British Film Institute’s LiveTree crowd-funding website in the hope of raising £1,200 for outreach and distribution.

Mikel said: “We’ve just been really lucky to find an amazing team around us.

“We’re going to have lots of great rewards and perks available, including a pre-festival screener, so if you can donate to the campaign you get to see the film immediately, before anyone else.

“The most difficult aspect of filmmaking is reaching your audience at the end and so we really want to make sure we have enough money to be able to push the film out as far as wide as it should be able to go.”

Jamie studied at Bishop of Winchester School and later Arts University Bournemouth, while Mikel went to Bournemouth School and the Northern Film School In Leeds. Mikel worked on the Bournemouth-shot horror film K-Shop, as did Mausoleum’s cinematographer, Chris Fergusson.

The film’s set was designed by Zoe Parker and built at Treehouse Digital, which is one of the smallest film studios in the country.

The camera team included Marti Guiver, Mahalia John, Havard Helle and William Wallace. They successfully captured the lengthy uninterrupted take which is at the centre of the film.

Details of the fundraising are at https://secure.livetree.com/#!/item/livetree/7364 and at facebook.com/mausoleumashortfilm