HELP US BRING ROAD KILL TO LIFE

A  Banana Skin Production in collaboration with MetFilm 

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Britain, 2065. AI has replaced the workforce. Tech corporations control the utilities and the state monitors waste down to the molecular level.

Ryan goes out into the night to find roadkill for his starving daughters. What he brings home, his eldest must prepare. His youngest must never know about it. But the system is already watching.

WHAT IS ROAD KILL?

Road Kill is a near-future drama — social science fiction somewhere between Ken Loach and Black Mirror. It’s not about future problems. It’s about the ones we face right now: poverty, and what people do to survive. Surveillance, and how systems control us. Displacement, and living through change, and the pressure that leads to impossible decisions.

The story draws on the shared experiences of the cost of living and invisibility in  society. This film is intended to be honest, not exploitative.

It asks a single question: what happens when we stop engaging with the systems we live in? And like Ryan and his daughters, the question becomes not what we and they can survive — but what surviving is turning them and us into.

WHO WE ARE

Road Kill is a Banana Skin production in collaboration with MetFilm. The production  team includes with João de Silva , knows for his work on Winter Ridge and Firecracker, as Director of Photography and our  cast includes Imogen Turner, a credited young actor who has worked alongside Tony Award-winning and Oscar-nominated director Stephen Daldry, and who appears in two major feature films releasing in cinemas in 2026 — including Supergirl and a second film alongside Johnny Depp and Sir Ian McKellen.

We are a grass roots collaboration and have over 25  crew members across all departments , and as an inclusive production have a mix of credited professionals, graduates and students, working in collaboration with each other. All funds raised by this page will go into production costs.

This is a short film which we plan to take to as many Festivals as possible and the script has already been entered into several competitions including Holly Shorts and Raindance.

WHERE YOUR MONEY GOES

Our budget target is £3000, with £500 already confirmed. MetFilm has donated major equipment costs, which makes the project possible without major funding bodies. Every penny raised goes directly into production.

The main costs will be:

• Production design — building a believable near-future world on a minimal budget
• Location costs 
• Post-production, sound design and colour grading