Colin Baker in Independent Comedy, A Dozen Summers

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Colin Baker, the Sixth Doctor, stars as the Narrator in an upcoming comedy film, A Dozen Summers – and is joined by The Office‘s Ewen MacIntosh and a wonderful bunch of young stars.

A Dozen Summers is about Maisie and Daisy McCormack, two ordinary 12-year old girls trying to figure out why adults behave so oddly. Here’s what you can expect:

When they interrupt a children’s adventure story in progress, by scaring off the Narrator, they hijack the film and proceed to tell the story of their own lives, through the lens of the movies they’ve seem.

Jacqueline, their mother, is a struggling model with a idiosyncratic parenting method. Henry, their father, a writer who has sacrificed more than they realise to give them a stable home life.

Maisie and Daisy lead us through their day-to-day life – battling bullies Jennifer, Audrey, and Beth and the pull of first love – Matty Archer, the school heartthrob for Maisie and, unbeknownst to Daisy, her best Samuel for her. They take us through bad dates with Jacqueline, home-life with Henry, school life (with added werewolves and vampires), before finally being forced to take the first tentative steps into adulthood when Jacqueline finally settles down and they decide to set their father up with their teacher, Miss Walters.

And they need to do it all before the story they interrupted re-asserts itself. It’s a race against time – and Maisie and Daisy are learning it’s not necessarily a race they can win.

And, in the end, that might not be such a bad thing after all.

The film is inspired by writer and director, Kenton Hall’s two daughters, with Hall exploring what it means to be at an age where you’re not quite an adult, but no longer a child. Hall, too, is a dedicated Whovian!

“Colin was my Doctor in Doctor Who so he was, quite genuinely, my childhood hero,” he says. “And he totally lived up to that, seemingly without trying. I’m a huge Doctor Who fan, which Colin found out, unfortunately, when my ringtone went off before the session, but the most important thing is that he is a colossal acting talent – that VOICE – and a lovely, gentle, hard-working man. He should be in everything.”

Watch the full trailer above and spread the word for an independent film starring Sixie and a whole lot of talent.

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