The film, written by David Trumble, Matt Brothers, and Greg Lock, focuses on a paramedic and Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) working for the London Ambulance Service on a night shift.
The protagonist Damon Yorke, played by Greg Lock is a young but highly valued and experienced London based paramedic.
[1] His crewmate, EMT Joe Greene (played by Graham Hornsby), claims to have left his phone back at the ambulance station.
Adam Scarth, Director of Photography, shot the film on a Canon 7D, assisted by Noorganah Robertson and Thomas Saville.
The Shift was first shown as part of a charity screening of David Williams' mockumentary Beyond the Pole (2010), at The Phoenix Picture House in Oxford, on 15 April 2010.