An account of the grim and ironic death by freezing of a man trapped inside a refrigerated railway meat wagon – told using a combination of archival and imagined material to speculate on his final hours.

Alan Woodruff – writer, producer, director bio:
Alan Woodruff graduated from Melbourne’s (Australia) Swinburne Film School in 1994 and began working in post production. Since then he’s worked as an assistant editor, editor and post production supervisor on many projects, including feature films, documentaries and television programs, including a stint in New Zealand working on the ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy and ‘King Kong’.

In his spare time he wrote, produced and directed – and funded – ‘Absolute Zero’, his first attempt at directing since film school. The script won the Australian Writers’ Guild award for Best Short Script, and also the award for Best Short Film in the US-based PAGE Screenwriting Awards. The film has been screened at festivals around the world, and recently won the Jury Prize for Best Short at the TriMedia Festival in the USA.

Alan is currently developing several feature projects as writer-director, including ‘My Brother, Myself’, winner of the award for Best Feature Screenplay at the Moondance Festival in the USA, as well an Australian Writers’ Guild award for Best Unproduced Screenplay.