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For When I Am Gone

4 Extra Debut. As the Cartwright family grieve for their mother, they are aided by a freezer full of food she left for them. Stars David Warner.

by Al Smith

The family that eats together, stays together or so believed June Cartwright, which is why she leaves behind a freezer full of food to guide her family through their grief following her death.

Directed by Sally Avens

At 66 June Cartwright finally lost her battle with Ovarian Cancer. She didn't fear death but what would happen to her family after she'd gone, for she knew she was the emotional glue that kept them together. For June, food was everything. A family that eats together, stays together.
June may have left behind her a husband and two children. What they will soon discover is that she also left behind fifty frozen meals, perfectly cooked to their tastes which serve to guide them through their grief, together. This series charts five meals, spread across six months during which the Cartwright family pull themselves apart, back together, and figure out how to move on after their mothers death.

Al Smith won the 2012 Wellcome Screenwriting Prize with his feature film HALF LIFE; he is currently writing the screenplay. Recently he script edited the 麻豆官网首页入口 Natural History series AFRICA and wrote the narrative for the 90' single feature. He was the winner of the 2006 Pearson Playwriting Award and the Sunday Times Playwriting Award for a second time, with RADIO. In 2007 Al did the 麻豆官网首页入口 Writers Academy and in 2008/9 wrote for HOLBY and EASTENDERS as well as theatre piece THE BIRD which received four star notices at Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Al co-created,exec-produced and wrote interactive teen-soap THE CUT for 麻豆官网首页入口 Switch which ran to 3 series.

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Leonard David Warner
Ros Sian Clifford
Neil Jonathan Bailey
Albert David Seddon
Sophie Emerald O'Hanrahan
Marnie Joanna Brookes
Undertaker Sean Murray
Director Sally Avens
Producer Sally Avens
Writer Al Smith

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