Year: 2008
Length: 12 mins
Format: HD digital video
Country: United Kingdom

Writer/director: Mike Hallett
Producers: Mike Hallett, Rachel Vidal
DoP: Warren Chung
Main cast: Victoria Daniels, Rebecca Steele

© 2008 Mica Films play film

A dark comedy about the unholy trinity of religion, masturbation and teddy bears.

I blame Warren Chung for this one. We met up in the early summer of 2006 to get The Corpse Wore White off the ground and he bought me a large coffee around 5 PM — way too late in the day for me. I spent the night with my head buzzing and some weird scenes playing in my head. As a writer I've learned that the 3 AM stuff is often the best, so I got up and wrote down the fragments of what appeared to be an incomplete jigsaw. The next day I assembled them into sequence and discovered a beautiful but somewhat provocative story. The script went out to the London acting community. Although not to everyone's taste, Favourite Time elicited some very enthusiastic replies: "Fantastic — really original, well-written, funny and poignant"... "A very brave piece!"... "Brilliant! I love its audaciousness"... "I was sad, amused and felt like I was peeling an onion". From over three hundred actors who initially expressed interest in the two roles, Rebecca Steele and Victoria Daniels were ultimately cast as the loving but feuding mother and daughter. The film was shot in Buckinghamshire over two weekends in the spring of 2007, followed by a wrap party at the Wheatsheaf in Bow Brickhill.


The Wheatsheaf	Victoria Dainels and friend	Toni Loveday (makeup), Rachel Vidal (co-producer), Warren Chung (DoP), Rebecca Steele, Mike Hallett (writer/director) and Victoria Daniels

Click on the slide shows below for stills and making-of images for My Favourite Time of the Day.

My Favourite Time of the Day was nominated for the Channel Islanders Film Award at the 2008 Branchage Jersey International Film Festival. It also screened at CineKink 2009 in New York City.