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UK SHORTS
CATALOGUE 2019
SECOND EDITION
2 LIVE ACTION
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION 4
LIVE ACTION 6
DOCUMENTARY 30
ANIMATION 48
VIRTUAL REALITY / IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE 56
UK SHORTS PORTAL 64
PROGRAMMERS’ PERSPECTIVES 67
ABOUT BFI NETWORK 68
ABOUT BRITISH COUNCIL 71
BRITISH COUNCIL NEW TALENT & SHORTS 72
BRITISH COUNCIL & FESTIVALS 74
BRITISH COUNCIL GLOBAL PROJECTS 76
Cover: Norteños, Director: Grandmas
INDEX OF FILMS 82
All inclusive images remain the copyright of their respective owners and may
not be reproduced without the expressed permission of the rights holders.
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INTRODUCTION
Welcome to the second edition of the UK This catalogue includes details of UK short
Shorts Catalogue 2019, presented by British productions that have been supported by
Council and BFI NETWORK. British Council’s Short Support Scheme in the
last year, alongside some BFI NETWORK top
We’re proud to be championing upcoming picks, and key names to watch. In addition to a
UK films and filmmakers to programmers and printed copy, each catalogue is also compiled
audiences around the world. British Council’s as a downloadable PDF, available online, which
Film department is the link between UK films is updated with new films throughout the year.
and international audiences. Its Short Support To request a copy of the latest catalogue email
Scheme (which includes a Travel Grant Fund, films@britishcouncil.org
offered in partnership with BFI NETWORK)
exists to support UK-based filmmakers to A selection of the films in this catalogue,
show their work internationally. The scheme and other UK shorts from partners, are also
provides a platform to promote work to our available to watch on the British Council UK
extensive programming contacts from key Shorts Portal – an online screening platform
international film festivals and development designed to showcase the best new work
labs. Scheme members also gain access to from across the UK, exclusively for short film
an annual calendar of events where they can professionals. You can sign up at
watch new work, hear from industry experts www.UKShortsportal.picturepipe.net
and meet with other filmmaking teams across
the UK. Alongside this, our Travel Grant Fund You can also view the entire British Films
supports filmmakers’ travel to key international Directory, of both UK shorts and feature-
film festivals and development labs. length films, as well as further directories
listing filmmakers and festivals at
BFI NETWORK is a collaboration between the britishcouncil.org/film
BFI, national film organisations and leading
For information visit film.britishcouncil.org/
cultural venues around the UK with a mission
on-goingprojects/shorts
to discover and support talented writers,
directors and producers at the start of their Contact films@britishcouncil.org
filmmaking careers. It provides funding for
short films, supports the development of first Find out more about BFI NETWORK at
features, and offers a range of professional network.bfi.org.uk
and creative development programmes. Contact bfinetwork@bfi.org.uk
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Anemone, Director: Amrou Al-Kadhi 5
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LIVE ACTION
Deux sœurs qui ne sont pas soeurs, Director: Beatrice Gibson
12 Point Kill Adnan
Synopsis Synopsis
Oppressed by her overbearing and violent Adnan, an imaginative ten-year-old Syrian boy, has
stepfather, a young woman takes revenge into her fled his home country with his mother after the rest
own hands. of their family were killed and their neighbourhood
destroyed. Now settled in the UK, he must use all his
Details creativity to break through his mother’s PTSD or risk
Year: 2018 losing her forever.
Running Time: 13 min 44 secs
Director: Iain Mitchell Details
Producer: Deanne Cunningham Year: 2019
Executive Producer: Holly Daniel, Carolynne Sinclair, Running Time: 22 mins 55 secs
Paul Welsh Director: Steven Chatterton, Mark Arrigo
Editor: Claire Pringle Producer: Julia Taylor-Stanley, Tiernan Hanby
Screenwriter: Iain Mitchell Co-Producer: Hilary Davis
Director of Photography: David Lidell Executive Producer: Gideon Wittenberg, Alan Reich
Production Designer: Wendy Cairns Editor: Jasper Verhorevoort
Sound: William Aikman Screenwriter: Steven Chatterton, Mark Arrigo
Music: Hutch Demouilpied Director of Photography: Kit Fraser
Principal Cast: Lauren Grace, Keith McErlean, Production Designer: Camillia Langoux,
Shauna Macdonald Ben Reynolds Sound: Mike Bovill, Matt Dempsey,
Supported by: Emanuele Constantini
Music: Brendan Woithe
Principal Cast: Ayham Kabi, Raghad Chaar
Production Company Production Company
A Conundrum Films Shefford Films
production made with Steven Chatterton,
the support of: Creative Mark Arrigo
Scotland, BFI Network. Palladium House
Delivered by Scottish Film 1-4 Argyll Street
Talent Network. London
W1F 7LD
Conundrum Films +44 (0)7976 980563
Deanne Cunningham steven@roomtwocreate.com
deanne_cunningham@ mark@roomtwocreate.com
hotmail.com www.adnanshortfilm.com
LIVE ACTION 7
Algo-Rhythm Alien Culture
Synopsis Synopsis
In marketing and the retail sector, data analytics is Southall, 1979. Racial tensions are running high.
widely used to profile and micro-target consumers Lucky thinks his brother is in trouble, but the truth
and to predict behaviour. The ultimate goal, is far from what he expected.
apparently, is for humans to be able to outsource all
decision-making to machine intelligence. What is at Details
stake within the political realm? Year: 2018
Running Time: 16 mins 8 secs
Details Director: Iesh Thapar
Year: 2019 Producer: Sarah Seulki Oh
Running Time: 14 mins Editor: Iesh Thapar Screenwriter: Iesh Thapar
Director: Manu Luksch Director of Photography: John Wakayama Carey
Producer: Manu Luksch Production Designer: Danielle Bayliss
Editor: Manu Luksch Sound: Glen Gathard
Screenwriter: Manu Luksch, Mukul Patel Principal Cast: Sagar Radia, Reiss Kershi
Director of Photography: Malick Sy Costume Designer: Amy Thompson
Music: Mukul Patel
Principal Cast: Gunman Xuman, OMG, Lady Zee
Live Graffiti: Madzoo
Immersive FX consultant & KINECT Op: Jack Wolf
Animation: Georgi Stamenov
Featuring: Adja Fall, Illégal, Kruh Mandiou Mauri,
MC Mo and Rhapsod
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company
Produced with support from sixpackfilm Oh Picture Co.
Open Society Foundation, Neubaugasse 15/15 Sarah Seulki Oh
denkbar Filmentwicklungs 1070 Vienna ohsarah225@gmail.com
GmbH Austria info@ohpictureco.com
Manu Luksch +43 1526 09900
manu@tacticalfiction.com office@sixpackfilm.com
www.sixpackfilm.com
8 LIVE ACTION
Ambition Anemone
Synopsis Synopsis
Brendan is a toll booth operator in the middle of Anemio is a non-binary Nigerian teenager, unable to
nowhere with a disdain for conversation, a mild express their gender identity to their conservative
lactose intolerance and an interest in the genre of family. The only place they feel at peace is the local
the academic novel. Why do all his customers keep marine aquatics shop they work in, comforted by
trying to change him? the formless and hermaphroditic marine life. So
when social pressures escalate, they transform into
Details an anemone.
Year: 2019
Running Time: 12 mins 46 secs Details
Director: Ryan Andrew Hooper Year: 2018
Producer: Tom Betts, Matt Redd, Running Time: 17 mins 56 secs
Ryan Andrew Hooper Director: Amrou Al-Kadhi
Executive Producer: Tracy Spottiswoode, Producer: Savannah James-Bayly
Vaughan Sivell Co-Producer: Molly McGregor
Editor: Manuela Lupini Executive Producer: Eva Yates, Stefan Allesch-Taylor,
Screenwriter: Matt Redd Esther Paterson, Richard Fletcher, Jonathan Harris,
Director of Photography: Adrian Peckitt Editor: Fiona Brands
Production Designer: Chris House Screenwriter: Amrou Al-Kadhi
Sound: Dom Corbisiero Director of Photography: Craig Dean Devine
Music: Gavin Fitzjohn Production Designer: Elena Isolini
Principal Cast: Simon Russell Beale, Gwyneth Sound: Raoul Brand
Keyworth, Nina Toussaint-White, Dean Rehman, Music: Nainita Desai
Martyn Stallard Principal Cast: Sekela Nancy Ngamilo, Ione Brown,
Supported by: Tsion Habte, Ameet Chana, Ty Glaser, Idris Debrand,
Damian Lynch, Stefan Adegbola
Supported by:
Production Company Production Company
Western Edge Pictures Fox Cub Films
9 Wimpole Street 55 Drury Lane
London London
W1G 9SR WC2B 5SQ
info@westernedgepictures.co.uk www.foxcubfilms.co.uk
www.westernedgepictures.com
LIVE ACTION 9
Appreciation As Told To G/D Thyself
Synopsis Synopsis
An African Pentecostal Pastor questions everything The story of the sacred youth and the stakes of a
she believes after a life-changing event. cosmic journey. Where the embodiment and the
pain, pleasure and sublimation there-in are
Details non-negotiable.
Year: 2018 Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 - US
Running Time: 15 mins Narrative Short Films
Director: Tomisin Adepeju - World premiere
Producer: Earleatha Oppon, Tony Longe
Executive Producer: Mathieu Ajan, Tomisin Adepeju Details
Editor: Alexander McNeill Year: 2019
Screenwriter: Tomisin Adepeju Running Time: 22 mins
Director of Photography: Olan Collardy Director: The Ummah Chroma: Bradford Young,
Production Designer: Ana Baldini Terence Nance, Jenn Nkiru, Marc Thomas,
Sound: Blai Escaloya Kamasi Washington
Music: Ben Stanbridge Producer: Erin Wile, Banch Abegaze
Principal Cast: Tomi Ogunjobi, Tunde Bella, Femi Co-Producer: Iconoclast
Ogunjobi, Krystine Atti, Kemi Lofinmakin, Emeka Executive Producer: Scott Wright, Mattis With,
Anton Sesay Caius Pawson, Larry Jackson, Alexa Dedlow; Apple
Producers: Scott Seviour, Nathalie Besharat
Editor: Marc Thomas, Terence Nance
Screenwriter: Terence Nance, Kamasi Washington,
Bradford Young
Director of Photography: Shawn Peters, Bradford
Young, Benoit Soler, Maceo Bishop
Production Designer: Lauri Faggioni
Sound: Sound Design: Marc Thomas, Terence Nance,
Kamasi Washington
Music: Kamasi Washington
Principal Cast: Joseph Johnson, Gail Scroggins,
William Fontaine, Casius Kwansah Graham
Production Company Production Company
Bounce Films US, UK coproduction
+44 (0)7720 218516 A Rock & Roll City (US),
www.bouncecinema.com Iconoclast (UK) production
with support of Apple (US).
Commissioned by XL /
Young Turks (UK)
Iconoclast UK
Emily Rudge
+44 (0)20 3141 9107
emily@iconoclast.tv
www.iconoclast.tv/uk/home
www.iconoclast.tv
10 LIVE ACTIONAshmina The Big Day
Synopsis Synopsis
Nestled between a beautiful lake and the Himalayas, Jess is super excited to attend her step-sister’s
Ashmina, 13, lives with her family at the outskirts of wedding and truly become part of the family, but
Pokhara Nepal, paragliding capital of the world. The after only recently finding out about her existence,
remote and traditional town is also a busy tourist her step-family are less than delighted about her
destination where the locals are profoundly affected presence on the big day.
by the swarms of tourists who visit it daily. Forced Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2018 -
to skip school, Ashmina helps her family make Narrative Shorts Competition - World premeire
ends meet by working at the landing field, packing
the parachutes of foreign pilots in return of small BIFA Awards 2018 - Winner Best British Short Film
change.
Details
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2018 - Year: 2018
World premiere Running Time: 15 mins
Director: Dawn Shadforth
Details Producer: Michelle Stein
Year: 2018 Executive Producer: Paul Ashton, Alice Ramsey
Running Time: 16 mins Editor: Dominic Leung
Director: Dekel Berenson Screenwriter: Kellie Smith
Producer: Merlin Merton, Dekel Berenson, Director of Photography: Robbie Ryan
Dominic Davey Production Designer: Katy Tuxford
Executive Producer: Elad Keidan, Omar Parker Sound: Sound Designer: Andrew Stewart
Editor: Ricardo Mesquita Principal Cast: Jennifer Bea, Patrick Draper,
Screenwriter: Dekel Berenson Emma Bowe, Alyssia Jarvis, Isla Lay
Director of Photography: Vasco Viana
Sound: Sound Recordist: Miguel Antunes; Supported by:
Re-recording Mixer, Sound Designer: Hugo Leitão
Principal Cast: Dikshya Karki, Fabian Gleeson,
Prakat Pageni, Sadhana Bhandari
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
Nepal, UK coproduction Salaud Morisset Escape Films Escape Films
168 Wardour Filmworks 88, Rue Armand Silvestre Michelle Stein Michelle Stein
2 Macklin House 92400 Courbevoie Beehive Lofts Beehive Lofts
1-7 Macklin Street France Beehive Mill Beehive Mill
office@wardourfilmworks.com +33 6 60 42 32 32 / Jersey Street Jersey Street
+49 1 52 25 19 Manchester M4 6JG Manchester M4 6JG
23 36 +44 (0)7734 824618 +44 (0)7734 824618
festival@salaudmorisset.com michelle@escapefilms.co.uk michelle@escapefilms.co.uk
www.salaudmorisset.com http://escapefilms.co.uk http://escapefilms.co.uk
LIVE ACTION 11The Blue Door The Chairs
Synopsis Synopsis
A district nurse is assigned a new patient living In the dark of night, a flashing stable light is
alone in a dilapidated bungalow. The nurse soon answered by another, on the other side of the
discovers that her dying patient, and the home she village. Kerim and Rena are in love, but have had to
inhabits, are hiding a dark secret. marry other people. They meet once a week atop a
hill to speak to their relatives, and are only able to
Details express their love for one another by flashing the
Year: 2017 lights from their barns at night.
Running Time: 9 mins 14 secs
Director: Paul Taylor Details
Producer: Megan Pugh Year: 2018
Co-Producer: Ben Clark Running Time: 19 mins 50 secs
Editor: Dan Mellow Director: Orkhan Aghazadeh
Screenwriter: Ben Clark, Megan Pugh Producer: Mina Salimi
Director of Photography: Benedict Spence Co-Producer: Azer Harasov, Ruslan Aghazadeh
Production Designer: Lynn McFarlane Editor: Razvan Barseti, Orkhan Aghazadeh
Sound: Nick Baldock, Ben Carr, Adrian Furdui, Olivia Screenwriter: Orkhan Aghazadeh
Celeste Barry, James Matthews, Christian Schreiber, Director of Photography: Cameron Ward
Kristiana Udre, Patrick Singer, Christian Schreiber Production Designer: Lara Zeidan
Music: Steve Dunne Sound: Adalat Kalilov
Principal Cast: Gemma Whelan, Janie Booth, Music: Memed Ansa
Annie McGrath Principal Cast: Seyyad Aliyev, Zulfye Nazar
Mammidova, Iskender Abbasov, Reziyeh Bakhshiyeva
Production Company Production Company Sales Agent
13th Door The London Film School Ginette Harrold
thirteenthdoorfilms@icloud.com 24 Shelton Street The London Film School
www.13thdoorfilms.com London 24 Shelton Street
WC2H 9UB London
Megan Pugh +44 (0)20 7836 9642 WC2H 9UB
5 Zanara Court festivals@lfs.org.uk +44 (0)20 7836 9642
24 Sydenham Road www.lfs.org.uk festivals@lfs.org.uk
London www.lfs.org.uk
SE26 5QW
+44 (0)7791983120
meganpugh7@me.com
12 LIVE ACTIONThe Colour of Chips d.a.n.c.e. f.o.r. y.o.u.r. d.a.d.d.y.
Synopsis Synopsis
A surrealist re-imagining of The Colour of Her body flickers in an attic. A triangle, align; she is
Pomegranates in the north of England. Filmmaker flung in a poltergeist semaphore. At once woman,
Francesca Levi combines archival and found footage creature and form, she dances anticipation.
to create a speculative vision of the seaside town A whisper, ‘he’s coming home.’
of Blackpool, one which is both unsettling and
curiously nostalgic. Commissioned as part of Live Details
Cinema UK’s The Unfilmables project, the film Year: 2017
features a score composed by Oscar-nominated Running Time: 7 mins 40 secs
musician Mica Levi. Director: Katharine Fry
Official Selection International Film Festival Producer: Katharine Fry
Rotterdam (IFFR) 2019 Editor: Katharine Fry
Screenwriter: Katharine Fry
Details Director of Photography: Katharine Fry
Year: 2017 Production Designer: Katharine Fry
Running Time: 45 mins Sound: Katharine Fry
Director: Francesca Levi Music: Katharine Fry
Producer: Lisa Brook, Colm McAuliffe Principal Cast: Katharine Fry
Editor: Francesca Levi
Director of Photography: Francesca Levi
Production Designer: Francesca Levi
Sound: Mica Levi
Music: Mica Levi
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
Live Cinema UK Live Cinema UK Katharine Fry Katharine Fry
Lisa Brook Lisa Brook dear.miss.wheel@gmail.com dear.miss.wheel@gmail.com
lisa@livecinema.org.uk lisa@livecinema.org.uk
LIVE ACTION 13Deux sœurs qui ne sont Dirt Ash Meat
pas soeurs
Synopsis Synopsis
An abstract crime thriller featuring a poodle, a During a devastating foot and mouth outbreak,
beauty queen, and two sisters who aren’t sisters, Rhian and her brother Dewi struggle to keep the
The film eschews conventional narrative in favour Welsh hill farm they inherited from their father
of a more dream-like montage. Based on Gertrude running. As the disease reaches their doorstep Rhian
Stein’s eponymously named screenplay and tries to control her increasingly unstable brother.
featuring a close personal network of friends and
influences as cast. Details
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2019 - Year: 2019
Director’s Fortnight - International premiere Running Time: 11 mins 47 secs
Director: Sion Thomas
Details Producer: Catrin Lewis Defis
Year: 2019 Executive Producer: Catrin Cooper, Christina
Running Time: 21 mins 55 secs Macaulay, Ailie Smith, Claire Page, Nikki Marsh
Director: Beatrice Gibson Editor: Dafydd Hunt
Producer: Denna Cartamkhoob Screenwriter: Sion Thomas (Based on the original
Co-Producer: KW Museum for Contemporary novel ‘White Ravens’ by Owen Sheers)
Art, Berlin, Camden Arts Centre, London, Bergen Director of Photography: Tom Doran
Kunsthall, in parntership with Borealis Festival for Production Designer: David Baker
Experimental Music, Bergen, and Mercer Union, Music: Daniel Elms
Toronto. Principal Cast: Catrin Stewart, Rhys Rusbatch
Executive Producer: Nick Gordon, Sally Campbell, Supported by:
Tim Nash Editor: Ben Crooks, Beatrice Gibson
Screenwriter: Beatrice Gibson
Director of Photography: Ben Rivers
Production Designer: Eli Serres, Oli Hogan
Sound: Chu Li Shewring
Music: Laurence Crane
Principal Cast: Basma Alsharif, Alice Noltey,
Adam Christensen, Ana Vaz
Colourist: Jason R Moffat
Line Producer (Paris): Laure Salgon
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company
Somesuch LUX Catrin Lewis Defis
Denna Cartamkhoob Waterlow Park Centre c/o Ffilm Cymru Wales
+44 (0)020 3487 1270 Dartmouth Park Hill Alice Whittemore
denna@somesuch.co Highgate alice@ffilmcymruwales.com
www.Somesuch.co London N19 5JF www.ffilmcymruwales.com
+44 (0)20 3141 2960
distribution@lux.org.uk
14 LIVE ACTIONEdges: Waves The Field
Synopsis Synopsis
One of a series of videos in which everything A poor agricultural labourer leads a double life in the
happens at the edges of the frame. In this piece village’s last remaining cornfield. But the harvest is
waves build up (in stereo) and then unfurl. approaching.
Official Selection International Film Festival Official Selection Telluride Film Festival 2018 - World
Rotterdam (IFFR) 2019 - Perspectives - World premiere
premiere Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival
2018 - Winner, Short Cuts Award, Best International
Details Short Film
Year: 2018
Running Time: 6 mins Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 -
Director: Simon Payne International Short Film Programme.
Producer: Simon Payne
Details
Year: 2018
Running Time: 19 mins
Director: Sandhya Suri
Producer: Balthazar de Ganay, Thomas Bidegain
Editor: Nicolas Chaudeurge
Director of Photography: Benoit Soler
Sound: Sound Mixer: Maxence Dussère;
Sound Recordist: Erwan Kerzanet;
Sound Designer: Nikola Medic
Supported by:
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
Simon Payne LUX UK, India, France Balthazar de Ganay
info@simonrpayne.co.uk Waterlow Park Centre coproduction Lionfish Films
+44 (0)7826 256708 Dartmouth Park Hill Film London (UK), Lionfish 34 bd. des Italiens
www.simonrpayne.co.uk London Films (FR), L’Homme du 75009 Paris
N19 5JF Train (FR) France
distribution@lux.org.uk +33 6 79 08 05 75
+44 (0)20 3141 2960 Film London bdg@lionfishfilms.fr
www.lux.org.uk The Arts Building
Morris Place
London
W4 3JG
+44 (0)20 7613 7676
info@filmlondon.org.uk
www.filmlondon.org.uk
LIVE ACTION 15Fluorescence Four Quartets
Synopsis Synopsis
Written by Syrian artist Kinana Issa, exploring the Over the course of a night out in a queer club, Raf
themes of liberation and captivity. The film follows struggles to find his place among the crowd until
a woman whose journey of immigration is over, he stops trying to force the narrative and just lets
but whose suffering continues. The story gives himself go with the music.
voice to the women who have been impacted by Official Selection Berlinale 2019 - Berlinale Shorts
immigration. and Generation 14plus - European premiere
Details Details
Year: 2018 Year: 2018
Running Time: 6 mins 54 secs Running Time: 11 mins
Director: Carys Lewis Director: Marco Alessi
Producer: David Massey, Carys Lewis Producer: Ksenia Harwood
Executive Producer: David Massey, Emma Flatley, Co-Producer: Alex Darby
Tracy Spottiswoode Executive Producer: Lizzie Pickering
Editor: Tom Betts Editor: Jo Lewandowska
Screenwriter: Kinana Issa Screenwriter: Marco Alessi
Director of Photography: Aled Jenkins Director of Photography: Will Baldy
Music: Michael Lewis Production Designer: Rowan Wigley
Principal Cast: Mary Anne Roberts Sound: Nick Olorenshaw; Sound Design: Dan
Supported by: Pugsley
Music: Tom Foskett-Barnes, Bobby Goulder
Principal Cast: Laurie Kynaston, Emily Renée,
Mary Antony, Henry Felix, Darren Siah,
Otamere Guobadia
Choreographer: James Berkery
Production Company Production Company
A Welsh National Opera, BFI 4Q Films Ltd
NETWORK production Marco Alessi marco@cler.co
Carys Lewis Ksenia Harwood
lewiscarys@yahoo.ca ksenia.harwood@gmail.com
www.caryslewis.ca
16 LIVE ACTIONThe Girl With Two Heads Haircut
Synopsis Synopsis
18-year-old Anne explores body image self A middle-aged barber dreams of escaping his
perception and her understanding being a rough area and becoming a Dancehall star, but
woman today in two different worlds: that of her an encounter with a local drug runner brings up
traditionally “feminine” mother, Céline, at home; uncomfortable truths about his past and makes him
and the gym where she trains amongst like-minded consider his importance in the community.
people. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2018 -
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2019 - Critics World premiere
Week
Details
Details Year: 2018
Year: 2018 Running Time: 15 mins
Running Time: 12 mins 35 secs Director: Koby Adom
Director: Betzabé Garcia Producer: Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor
Producer: Kate Phibbs Editor: Jim Page
Editor: Sighvatur Omar Kristinsson Director of Photography: Joel Honeywell
Screenwriter: Betzabé Garcia Production Designer: Phoebe Platman
Director of Photography: Alana Mejia Gonzalez Sound: Max Lipscombe
Production Designer: James Reading Principal Cast: Robbie Gee, Malcolm Kamulete,
Sound: Ines Alves Adriana Femi Ogunjobi, Jason Yorke
Music: Rachael Philip Supported by:
Principal Cast: Emily Allen, Michèle Belgrand
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company
National Film and National Film and A Joi Productions Ltd
Television School Television School production with support of
Beaconsfield Studios Beaconsfield Studios Film London, London Calling
141 Station Rd 141 Station Rd Joi Productions Ltd
Beaconsfield Beaconsfield Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor
HP9 1LG HP9 1LG joy@joiproductions.co.uk
+44 (0)1494 671234 +44 (0)1494 671234 www.joiproductions.co.uk
festivals2@nfts.co.uk festivals2@nfts.co.uk
www.nfts.co.uk www.nfts.co.uk
LIVE ACTION 17Haruspex Here East
Synopsis Synopsis
Haruspex is suggestive of dark human secrets. Using a zoom lens and filmed undercover, this video
The child makes a spirit guide that turns bad. In observes the architectural space of a new housing
adulthood she understands that she is a mammal. development in East London. As the sun fades and
She sees with creature’s eyes. The film employs the lights go on the camera witnesses both the empty
tropes of the uncanny to evoke a feeling of disquiet. order of the surrounding area and the activity within
The story is deliberately ambiguous, implicit of the flats.
something that ought to remain hidden..
Details
Details Year: 2017
Year: 2019 Running Time: 5 mins 42 secs
Running Time: 3 mins 50 secs Director: Tessa Garland
Director: Susannah Gent Producer: Tessa Garland
Editor: Tessa Garland
Director of Photography: Tessa Garland
Sound: Tessa Garland
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company
Susannah Gent Susannah Gent Tessa Garland
susgent@blueyonder.co.uk susgent@blueyonder.co.uk tessagarland@gmail.com
18 LIVE ACTIONHis Hands Isha
Synopsis Synopsis
Two men of different ages meet for the strangest Unable to tell his family the truth about his sexuality,
encounter of their lives. Rahmi lives a double life.
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2019 - North Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2018 -
America premier. Love Strand - World premiere
Details Details
Year: 2018 Year: 2018
Running Time: 13 mins Running Time: 15 mins
Director: Arron Blake, Darius Shu Director: Christopher Manning
Producer: Arron Blake, Darius Shu Producer: Christopher Manning
Executive Producer: Arron Blake, Darius Shu Co-Producer: 198 Films
Editor: Arron Blake, Darius Shu Executive Producer: Simona Susnea, Anna Jancso,
Screenwriter: Arron Blake, Darius Shu Dan Cleland
Director of Photography: Darius Shu Editor: Ricardo Saraiva
Sound: Sound Designer, Post Sound Screenwriter: Christopher Manning
Mixer: Chas Langston Director of Photography: Simona Susnea
Principal Cast: Arron Blake, Philip Brisebois Production Designer: Laura Castellano Astruc
Colourist: Felipe Szulc Sound: Rob Szeliga
Post Sound Producer: Laura Harris Music: Marina Elderton
Post Colour Grading Producer: Gergana Krasteva Principal Cast: Horia Savescu, Dario Coates,
Lino Facioli, Maia Morgenstern
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
A Little Deer Films and Darius Shu The London Film School Ginette Harrold
Silverprince Pictures dariusshu05@gmail.com 24 Shelton Street The London Film School
Production London 24 Shelton Street
Arron Blake and Darius Shu WC2H 9UB London
arronblakesimmonds@ +44 (0)20 7836 9642 WC2H 9UB
yahoo.co.uk festivals@lfs.org.uk +44 (0)20 7836 9642
dariusshu05@gmail.com www.lfs.org.uk festivals@lfs.org.uk
Christopher Manning www.lfs.org.uk
ishashortfilm@gmail.com
LIVE ACTION 19It’s Not Custard Ladies Day
Synopsis Synopsis
The darkly comic story of Louise, a teenager Amma spends the day getting braids in her local
suffering unrelenting acne and continual bullying Afro-Caribbean hair salon. It’s full of fun, sheen
who is granted a delicious revenge. spray, gossip and laughter – but how will she deal
Official Selection SXSW 2019 - Midnight Shorts with the casual homophobia?
Competition
Details
Details Year: 2018
Year: 2018 Running Time: 8 mins 31 secs
Running Time: 6 mins 24 secs Director: Abena Taylor-Smith
Director: Kate McCoid Producer: Loran Dunn
Producer: Alison Wroblewski Executive Producer: Carolina Giammetta,
Executive Producer: Dan Cleland Solomon Nwabueze, Paul Ashton
Editor: Matthew Cannings Editor: Rachel Durance
Screenwriter: Kate McCoid Screenwriter: Abena Taylor-Smith
Director of Photography: Ann Evelin Lawford Director of Photography: Rachel Clark
Production Designer: Stephanie Williams; Production Designer: Greg Bradlaugh
Prosthetics: Waldo Mason Sound: Ryan McMurray
Sound: Nick Freemantle Music: Poppy Kavanagh
Music: Yann McCullough Principal Cast: Savannah Steyn, Jacqui-Lee Pryce,
Principal Cast: Charlotte Luxford, Kate Leiper, Jade Avia, Ambreen Razia, Cynthia Emeagi,
Donal Cox Scheherazade Brathwaite, Nas Connie, Afsaneh
Dehrouyeh
Production Company Production Company Sales Agent
Lions Den Films Delaval Film Delaval Film
PO Box 74367 Loran Dunn Loran Dunn
London loran@delavalfilm.com loran@delavalfilm.com
E2 2ED www.delavalfilm.com www.delavalfilm.com
itsnotcustard@outlook.com
www.lionsdenfilms.com
20 LIVE ACTIONMy Loneliness Is Killing Me Neckface
Synopsis Synopsis
When Elliott lures the animalistic Jack to his Having dreamed of the perfect wedding, Laney
apartment for a late-night hook up, he unexpectedly wakes up with the world’s most unwelcome wedding
unearths a dark emotional connection. guest in her bed – NeckFace. In this dark body-
horror comedy, will Laney still go through with it?
Details After all they have spent £950 on taffeta chair ties
Year: 2018 and £200 on her mother’s hat alone?
Running Time: 16 mins 30 secs
Director: Tim Courtney Details
Producer: Siobhan Fahey, Stuart Condy Year: 2018
Executive Producer: Carlynne Sinclair, Paul Welsh, Running Time: 10 mins 46 secs
Holly Daniel, Ross McKenzie Director: Llanbobl Vision
Editor: Karel Dolak Producer: Barry Castagnola
Screenwriter: Micheal Richardson Executive Producer: Rhod Gilbert, Sian Harries,
Director of Photography: Steve Cardno Tracy Spottiswoode
Production Designer: Gail Bowman Editor: Sion Mali
Sound: William Aikman Screenwriter: Sian Harries, Jacqueline Wright
Music: Matthew Collings Director of Photography: Nicola Daley
Principal Cast: Jamie Robson, Luke Elliott, Gareth Production Designer: Carrie Love
Morrisson, Martin Bell, Simon Donaldson Music: Andy Watts
Supported by: Principal Cast: Isy Suttie, Sian Harries, Elis James,
Nick Helm
Supported by:
Production Company Production Company
A Riot Productions, Llanbobl Vision
Arpeggio Pictures, c/o Ffilm Cymru Wales
Factotum Films production Alice Whittemore
alice@ffilmcymruwales.com
Riot Productions www.ffilmcymruwales.com
riotfilmcollective@gmail.com
www.riotfilms.org
Arpeggio Pictures
arpeggiopictures@gmail.com
Factotum Films
www.cargocollective.com/
factotumfilms
LIVE ACTION 21Norteños Nosebleed
Synopsis Synopsis
Barry attempts to elicit the help of his former lover Following a pivotal week for long-time best friends
after a terrible incident involving his Nan. Lilah and Coby, whose friendship is morphing into
Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International something far more venomous and toxic. A flower
Short Film Festival 2019 - International Competition that once delicately bloomed proves to just as easily
draw blood with its thorns…
Details Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2018 -
Year: 2018 Journey Strand - World premiere
Running Time: 7 mins 58 secs
Director: Grandmas Details
Producer: Jennifer Learning Year: 2018
Editor: Koe Witodi Running Time: 9 mins 5 secs
Screenwriter: Grandmas (script); Katie Hoyle Director: Luna Carmoon
(script supervisor) Producer: Loran Dunn
Director of Photography: Paul Mortlock Executive Producer: Paul Ashton, Carolina
Sound: Andrew Layfield Giammetta, Solomon Nwabueze
Principal Cast: Danny Watson, Chelsea O’Connor, Editor: Tara Verma
Shane Dickinson Screenwriter: Luna Carmoon
Director of Photography: Rachel Clark Production
Designer: Elena Riccabona Sound: Chris Fisher,
David Thiron Music: Ella Bergonzi-Cullinan
Principal Cast: Lily Newmark, Ruby Stokes
Production Company Production Company
Knackered Dad Delaval Film
+44 (0)7927 777616 c/o Luna Carmoon
grandmasdirectors@gmail.com LunaCarmoon@outlook.com
www.grandmasdirectors.com
22 LIVE ACTIONPrints Red Hill
Synopsis Synopsis
When a friend cancels at the last minute, Miho finds Jim, an isolated ex-miner who works as a night-shift
herself struggling to find a temporary carer for security guard faces his last day at work before
her senile mother. As she drives through the snow retirement. The film explores the intrinsic relation
with her mother in the back-seat, Miho attempts to of an individual to work and asks what’s left when,
reconnect with her estranged brother in a desperate at the end of a lifetime of labour, a man loses his
attempt to keep her plans alive. purpose.
Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International
Short Film Festival 2019 - International Competition Short Film Festival 2019
Details Details
Year: 2018 Year: 2018
Running Time: 15 mins Running Time: 13 mins
Director: Jack King Director: Laura Carreira
Producer: Jack King Producer: Laura Carreira
Editor: Jack King Editor: Laura Carreira
Screenwriter: Jack King Screenwriter: Ramón Durman, Laura Carreira
Director of Photography: Finnian Varney Director of Photography: Karl Kurten
Sound: Phillip Quinton Sound: Eric Baca
Music: Tim Cattrall-Shelton Principal Cast: Billy Mack, Lorraine McCann
Principal Cast: Keiko Isogai, Takahashi Yumiko
Production Company Production Company
Jack King Laura Carreira
jack@kingjack.co.uk lauracarreira@live.com
http://twitter.com/ www.lauracarreira.com
jackkingfilm
LIVE ACTION 23Right Place, Wrong Tim Salam
Synopsis Synopsis
The Bell family – stars of England’s most popular A female Lyft driver in NYC navigates the night shift
sitcom ‘Right Place, Wrong Tim’ – have their family while waiting to hear life or death news from Syria.
unity tested when an army of bloodthirsty clones
attack the set and begin dismembering them live Details
on air. Year: 2018
Official Selection SXSW 2019 - Midnight Shorts Running Time: 13 mins
Competition - International premiere Director: Claire Fowler
Producer: Sophia Cannata-Bowman
Details Co-Producer: Film Agency Wales
Year: 2018 Executive Producer: Dave Beazley
Running Time: 7 mins Editor: Alec Styborski
Director: Eros Vlahos Screenwriter: Claire Fowler
Producer: Honey Ross, Dom Santry, Bill Milner, Director of Photography: Nicholas Bupp
Maisie Williams, Eros Vlahos Production Designer: Kelsey Alvarez
Executive Producer: Catherine Bray Sound: Peter Warnock
Editor: Flaura Atkinson Music: various
Screenwriter: Eros Vlahos Principal Cast: Hana Chamoun, Leslie Bibb,
Director of Photography: Edgar Dubrovskiy Jessica Damouni, Khaled Al Maleh
Production Designer: Alex Berry Costume designer: Missy Mickens
Music: Jeremy Warmsely Supported by:
Principal Cast: Asa Butterfield, Ella Purnell,
Adam Buxton
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
Pancho Pictures Mr. Information Shore Scripts and Film Salaud Morisset
c/o Mr. Information +44 (0)7595 760894 Agency Wales 88, Rue Armand Silvestre
+44 (0)7595 760894 mr.information@plasticage. Claire Fowler 92400 Courbevoie
mr.information@plasticage. london c/o fowler.claire@gmail.com France
london +33 6 60 42 32 32 /
+49 1 52 25 19 23 36
festival@salaudmorisset.com
www.salaudmorisset.com
24 LIVE ACTIONThe Sound of Falling Tea with Lemon
Synopsis Synopsis
An impressionistic film that portrays a day of Jay’s Bold, suave and enigmatic – exactly what Ian is not.
life, a young citric farmer who decided to attend a But if this oddball café regular learns the mother
clinical drug test in a city hospital. tongue of the waitress Žaneta, maybe he can
convince her otherwise.
Details
Year: 2018 Details
Running Time: 12 mins 52 secs Year: 2018
Director: Chien-Yu Lin Running Time: 11 mins 32 secs
Producer: John Ju Director: Robert Harrison
Editor: Chien-Yu Lin Producer: Katie Byford, Max Hatfield
Screenwriter: Chien-Yu Lin Executive Producer: Brent N Hunter
Director of Photography: Felipe Luis Moncada Editor: Harry Baker
Production Designer: Hsin Ho Screenwriter: Robert Harrison (script),
Sound: Allen Kang Henry Spence (story)
Principal Cast: Yong-Yu Xiao, Tsai-Hsing Chang, Director of Photography: Max Smith
Chia-Yin Hung, Rui-Yun Hung Zhang Production Designer: Ahad Mustafa
Sound: Leonid Gribanov, Matthew Dempsey
Music: Freddie Prest
Principal Cast: Luis Amália, Maja Bloom,
Aisha Jacob-Williams
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
The London Film School Ginette Harrold Robert Harrison Robert Harrison
24 Shelton Street The London Film School 25 St Stephens Avenue 25 St Stephens Avenue
London 24 Shelton Street Ealing Ealing
WC2H 9UB London London London
+44 (0)20 7836 9642 WC2H 9UB W13 8ES W13 8ES
festivals@lfs.org.uk +44 (0)20 7836 9642 +44 (0)7904 565836 +44 (0)7904 565836
www.lfs.org.uk festivals@lfs.org.uk roberthharrison@hotmail.co.uk roberthharrison@hotmail.co.uk
www.lfs.org.uk Katie Byford Katie Byford
20 Marlborough Road 20 Marlborough Road
London London
W4 4ET W4 4ET
+44 (0)7960 599229 +44 (0)7960 599229
katiebyford@blueyonder.co.uk katiebyford@blueyonder.co.uk
LIVE ACTION 25Their Rancid Words Stagnate Three Centimetres
Our Ponds
Synopsis Synopsis
In a hinterland within the ‘elsewhere’, a lone Four Lebanese girls go on a Ferris wheel ride to
character meanders in search of meaning and make their friend feel better about her break-up.
understanding. Hither and dither doth he wander Their conversation drifts to a less fun place.
reflecting upon all things that came before and Official Selection Berlinale 2018 - Generation 14plus -
all things hereafter. World premiere
This work is a companion piece to Andrew Kotting’s
feature film Lek and the Dogs and was shot in the
Atacama desert in Chile. Produced to run on a loop Details
in a gallery ‘space’ the film exemplifies Kotting’s Year: 2018
ability to take an idea and run with it until it spills Running Time: 9 mins
over into the expanded cinematic ‘elsewhere’. Director: Lara Zeidan
With the beguiling presence of French performance Producer: John Giordano
artist Xavier Tchili and sublime cinematography Co-Producer: Hiam Hilal
by Nick Gordon-Smith the work is designed to be Editor: Emanuele Bonomi
experienced within the pitch black and the sound Screenwriter: Lara Zeidan
up high. Director of Photography: Pierfrancesco Cioffi
Sound: Sound Design: James Hynes
Details Principal Cast: Mira Choukeir, Melissa Dano,
Year: 2018 Joyce Abou Jaoude, Bissan Ahmad
Running Time: 8 mins 36 secs
Director: Andrew Kotting
Editor: Andrew Kotting
Music: Jem Finer, Christian Garcia, Andrew Kotting
Principal Cast: Xavier Tchili
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
Andrew Kotting Andrew Kotting London Film School Ginette Harrold
andrewbadblood@yahoo.co.uk andrewbadblood@yahoo.co.uk 24 Shelton Street London Film School
London 24 Shelton Street
WC2H 9UB London
+44 (0)20 7836 9642 WC2H 9UB
festivals@lfs.org.uk +44 (0)20 7836 9642
www.lfs.org.uk festivals@lfs.org.uk
www.lfs.org.uk
KurzFilmAgentur
Hamburg e.V. / Hamburg
ShortFilmAgency
Anna Leimbrinck
Friedensallee 7
D-22765 Hamburg
Germany
+49 40 39 10 63 28
anna@shortfilm.com
www.shortfilm.com
26 LIVE ACTIONWale Wild Geese
Synopsis Synopsis
An 18 year old youth offender is trying to start his When 38-year-old Amy suffers a bang to the head,
own business as a mobile mechanic. But enterprise she wakes up thinking that she is 16 and the year is
isn’t so easy when you’re a young, black male with 1999. She now is forced to face her life ‘in the future’
a criminal past. and confront what happened in her past.
BAFTA Film Awards 2019 - Nominated, Best British
Short Film Details
Year: 2018
Details Running Time: 17 mins
Year: 2018 Director: Susan Jacobson
Running Time: 20 mins Producer: Grant Vidgen
Director: Barnaby Blackburn Executive Producer: Berwyn Rowlands
Producer: Edward Speleers, Catherine Slater, Editor: Pani Scott
Sophie Alexander Screenwriter: Katie Campbell, Kayleigh Llewellyn
Editor: Ed Line Director of Photography: Scott Coulter
Screenwriter: Barnaby Blackburn Production Designer: David Baker
Director of Photography: Robbie Bryant Music: Samuel Karl Bohn
Production Designer: Lili Lea Abraham Principal Cast: Emma Pierson, Lisa McGrillis
Music: Luis Almau
Principal Cast: Raphel Famotibe, Jamie Sives,
Clare Perkins, Roger Jean Nsengiyumva
Production Company Production Company
A c/o Dark Glass Films The Festivals Company
production Grant Vidgen
Wale Film Tŷ Cefn
walefilm@gmail.com Rectory Road
www.walefilm.com Cardiff
CF5 1QL
grant@irisprize.org
LIVE ACTION 27Wrong Number Zero
Synopsis Synopsis
A woman has a nightmare. In her dreams, she After a mysterious electromagnetic pulse renders
receives a phone call that brings terrible news but the world’s technology useless, a young girl finds
when she wakes up she can’t recall the message. herself isolated and alone with only her father’s strict
What happens next will change her life forever. set of rules to keep her alive.
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2019 - World
Details premiere
Year: 2018
Running Time: 13 mins Details
Director: Tiago Teixeira Year: 2018
Producer: Henrique Fazzio Running Time: 14 mins 33 secs
Executive Producer: Tiago Teixeira Director: The Brothers Lynch
Editor: Tiago Teixeira Producer: Maria Caruana Galizia, Richard Wylie
Screenwriter: Tiago Teixeira Executive Producer: Ed Barratt, Eric Bromberg,
Director of Photography: Korsshan Schlauer Van Toffler, Floris Bauer
Production Designer: Elinor Puttick Editor: Gareth C. Scales
Sound: Francisco Slade Screenwriter: The Brothers Lynch
Music: Baron Saturday Director of Photography: Adam Etherington
Principal Cast: Ellie Woodruff-Bryant, Production Designer: Jason Synnott
Nicholas Anscombe Sound: Sound Recordist: Tarn Willers;
Sound Designer: Lewis Todd
Music: Carly Paradis
Principal Cast: Bella Ramsey, Nigel O’Neill
Production Company Production Company
Void to Vortex US, UK co-production
Tiago Teixeira Hook Pictures
+44 (0)7450 834326 Fleming Business Centre
t@voidtovortex.com Burdon Terrace
www.voidtovortex.com Newcastle upon Tyne
NE2 3AE
+44 (0)7734 868 366
ed@hookpictures.com
richard@hookpictures.com
www.hookpictures.com
28 LIVE ACTIONNosebleed, Director: Luna Carmoon 29
30
DOCUMENTARY
Little Miss Sumo, Director: Matt Kay16 District, 16 Floors, 16 People 73 Cows
Synopsis Synopsis
Featuring a district in Yerevan, Armenia, where Jay Wilde struggles with his conscience every time
the legacy of the Soviet Union still occupies the he takes his cows to be slaughtered. Completely
minds and daily lives of the residents living in these trapped within the industry, Jay realises that he must
huge unfinished monolithic structures, which were find a way to make a change.
originally planned and positioned to spell out the BAFTA Film Awards 2019 - Winner, Best British
letters CCCP. Short Film
The film highlights the community’s everyday issues
and concerns, linking the past and present with all Details
its changes and difficulties of the people once living Year: 2018
in a superpower that has now become a decaying Running Time: 15 mins
empire. Director: Alex Lockwood
Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Producer: Alex Lockwood
Short Film Festival 2019 - International Competition Editor: Alex Lockwood
Director of Photography: Oliver Walton
Details Sound: John Roddy
Year: 2018 Music: Kevin Graham, Ben Winwood, Limitless
Running Time: 19 mins 45 secs Principal Cast: Jay Wilde, Katja Wilde
Director: Tatevik Vardanyan Production Assistant: Nishat Rahman
Producer: Tatevik Vardanyan
Executive Producer: Garo Berberian
Editor: Tatevik Vardanyan
Screenwriter: Tatevik Vardanyan
Director of Photography: Tatevik Vardanyan,
Vahe Nersisyan, Alex Tarverdi
Production Designer: Razmik Zatikyan
Music: Kai Engel, ‘Sunset’; Technology of Silence
‘Ruins of Soviets’
Principal Cast: Anahit Yengibaryan, Andranik
Harutyunyan, Artur Harutyunyan, Avetis Paronyan,
Biata Tikhonova, Hakob Aghekyan, Hamlet
Harutyunyan, Hamlet Malyan, Hasmik Gevorgyan,
Janna Gevorgyan, Kristina Aghasaryan, Lavrent
Tovmasyan, Mamikon Muradyan, Narek Sargsyan
Production Company Production Company
Tatevik Vardanyan Lockwood Film
tatev.work@gmail.com info@lockwoodfilm.com
www.tatevikvardanyan.com/films/ www.lockwoodfilm.com
DOCUMENTARY 31Artificial Things Bachelor, 38
Synopsis Synopsis
A re-imagination by filmmaker Sophie Fiennes and An enduring love story of one man’s time in London
choreographer Lucy Bennett of the contemporary during the early 1960s. Coming of age as a young
dance piece Artificial Things, devised and performed homosexual in a society where male gay sex was
by Stopgap Dance Company, a UK-based ensemble illegal and prejudice ran deep, Bryan Robert Bale
which integrates disabled and non-disabled dancers discovered the illicit ways gay men still sought to
and artists. love freely.
A dance film that grew out of the process of BAFTA Film Awards 2019 - Nominated, Best British
documentation, which is also a new artwork in its Short Film
own right.
Official Selection Sheffield Doc/Fest 2018 - World Details
premiere Year: 2017
Running Time: 16 min 15 secs
Details Director: Angela Clarke
Year: 2018 Producer: Angela Clarke
Running Time: 26 mins Editor: Dean Smith
Director: Sophie Fiennes Director of Photography: Haydn Denman,
Producer: Brook Crowley, Callum Graham, Arabella Itani
Martin Rosenbaum Sound: Angela Clarke
Executive Producer: Sho Shibata Music: Stuart Fox
Editor: Sophie Fiennes Principal Cast: Bryan Robert Bale
Director of Photography: Remko Schnorr
Sound: Additional Sound Recording: Nadenh Poan,
Ian Macpherson
Music: Andy Higgs, Jim Pinchin Principal
Cast: Dancers: Amy Butler, Laura Jones, Christopher
Pavia, David Toole, David Willdridge
Choreographer: Lucy Bennett
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
A Lone Star Productions Lone Star Productions Angela Clarke Angela Clarke
film in association with Martin Rosenbaum +44 (0)7527 599153 +44 (0)7527 599153
Stogap Dance Company. Mount Pleasant Studios angelahclarke@googlemail. angelahclarke@googlemail.
Commissioned by The 51-53 Mount Pleasant com com
Space, BBC, Arts Council London
England WC1X 0AE
Lone Star Productions + 44 (0)20 3119 1008
Martin Rosenbaum martin@
Mount Pleasant lonestarproductions.co.uk
Studios 51-53 www.lonestarproductions.co.uk
Mount Pleasant
London
WC1X 0AE
+ 44 (0)20 3119 1008
martin@
lonestarproductions.co.uk
www.lonestarproductions.co.uk
32 DOCUMENTARYBeyond the North Winds: Black Sheep
A Post Nuclear Reverie
Synopsis Synopsis
A hybrid documentary about the decommissioning Everything changed for Cornelius Walker on the
of a nuclear plant in Scotland. Concerned with 27th November 2000 when Damilola Taylor was
landscape and time, myth and technology, the killed in what became one of the UK’s most high-
film explores the nature of ruins, and asks what profile murder cases. Damilola was eleven – the
environmental scars our generation will leave behind same age as Cornelius. He lived five minutes away.
for the future. He had the same colour skin. Filmed with non-actors
Official Selection Visions du Réel 2019 - World in the same locations where the real events took
premiere place 15 years ago, Black Sheep blurs the boundaries
between documentary and fiction to pose difficult,
Details but highly topical questions about race and identity.
Year: 2019 Who decides what makes us who we are? And what
Running Time: 24 mins compromises are we prepared to make in order to
Director: Natalie Cubides-Brady fit in?
Producer: Natalie Cubides-Brady Official Selection Hot Docs 2018 - World premiere
Editor: Jamie King Official Selection Sheffield Doc/Fest 2018 - Winner,
Screenwriter: Natalie Cubides-Brady (screenwriter), Best Short Documentary
Jessica E. Sinyard (story consultant)
Director of Photography: Sebastian Cort Academy Awards 2019 - Oscar Nomination, Best
Sound: Sound Designer: Ben Goodall, Sound Documentary (Short Subject)
Recordist: Ben Band
Music: Andreas Gutuen Aaser Details
Principal Cast: Lydia Wilson, Alfie Spencer, Year: 2018
Sophie Knapman Running Time: 26 mins 40 secs
Director: Ed Perkins
Producer: Simon Chinn, Jonathan Chinn
Co-Producer: Vanessa Tovell
Executive Producer: Charlie Phillips, Lindsay Poulton
Editor: Ed Perkins
Director of Photography: Michael Paleodimos
Production Designer: Guy Thompson
Music: Tom Barnes
Principal Cast: Kai Francis-Lewis
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
National Film and National Film and Lightbox The Guardian
Television School Television School 10 Amwell Street Charlie Phillips
Beaconsfield Studios Beaconsfield Studios London charlie.phillips@theguardian.
141 Station Rd 141 Station Rd EC1R 1UQ com
Beaconsfield Beaconsfield +44 (0)20 3750 0922
HP9 1LG HP9 1LG info@lightboxent.com
+44 (0)1494 671234 +44 (0)1494 671234 info.uk@lightboxent.com
festivals2@nfts.co.uk festivals2@nfts. www.lightboxent.com
www.nfts.co.uk
Natalie Cubides-Brady
natalie.cubidesbrady@gmail.
com
www.nataliecubidesbrady.com
DOCUMENTARY 33Box Circle
Synopsis Synopsis
Adversity breeds escapism. Exercise releases The poignant and personal story of 13 year-old
stress. The impending eviction of the ‘Calais Jungle’ Khushboo. A portrait of a rape victim caught in the
experienced through the prism of the camp’s boxing devious ploys of her family. Stories of the horror of
club. her gang-rape, emotional abuse at the hands of her
Official Selection International Film Festival grandmother, who orchestrated her rape, and that
Rotterdam IFFR 2019 - Voices - World premiere of her child marriage to a man she does not know
are poignantly woven. As Khushboo changes hands
Details from one abuser to another, we delve deeper into
Year: 2019 her grandmother’s story – to where this circle traces
Running Time: 9 mins back. Told simplistically through an observational
Director: Matthew Barton lens, this intimate and delicate film attempts an
Producer: Matthew Barton understanding of the nature of abuse, and a closer
Co-Producer: Anthony Lapia look at the perpetrator, as much as it does of the
Executive Producer: Lorenzo Bianchi victim itself. Where does this circle begin? Where
Editor: Matthew Barton does it go? And can there be any release?
Screenwriter: Matthew Barton Official Selection Berlinale 2018 - Berlinale Shorts -
Director of Photography: Marcus Autelli World premiere
Sound: Luke Harris
Music: Luke Harris Details
Year: 2018
Running Time: 14 mins
Director: Jayisha Patel
Producer: Jayisha Patel, Ruchi Bhimani,
Harini Lakshmanarayn
Editor: Mdhamiri A Nkemi
Director of Photography: Jayisha Patel,
Amith Surendran
Sound: Sound Design: Anita Kushwaha, Adam
Woodhams; Sound Recordist: Anita Kushwaha
Principal Cast: Kushbu Devi, Shabha Devi,
Chandna Devi
Production Company Production Company Sales Agent
Matthew Barton UK, India, Canada National Film and
matt@amityfilms.co coproduction Television School
www.amityfilms.co Jayisha Patel Films (UK), Beaconsfield Studios
Société Acéphale One Eyed Turtle Films (IN) 141 Station Rd
Anthony Lapia Beaconsfield
Jayisha Patel Films HP9 1LG
production@societeacephale.com Studio 53
www.societeacephale.com +44 (0)1494 671234
Somerset House Studios festivals2@nfts.co.uk
New Wing www.nfts.co.uk
Somerset House
Strand
London
WC2R 1LA
www.jayishapatel.com
34 DOCUMENTARYCrowtrap A Different Category
Synopsis Synopsis
A documentary fiction work. Weaving together Three young women reflect on adolescence as a
the lives of two men, this film draws upon their period marked by loss of ‘voice’ and the struggle
individual dealings with fire to expand across between competing desires for autonomy and
themes such as pyromania, anarchy, radicalism connection.
and enlightenment. A film that gives voice to the
anxiety and rage unleashed by Brexit Britain. With Details
fire as the film’s central metaphor, artist Callum Hill Year: 2018
welds together stories real and fictional, personal Running Time: 5 mins 11 secs
and political, to dwell on the contradictory impulse Director: Linnéa Haviland
to destroy in the hope of progress. (Rotterdam Producer: Linnéa Haviland
brochure) Editor: Linnéa Haviland
Official Selection International Film Festival Principal Cast: Georgina Baker, Camilla Makmudi
Rotterdam (IFFR) 2019 - Bright Future - Tiger Shorts and Michelle Nguyen
Competition Animation: Linnéa Haviland, Georgina Baker,
Camilla Makmudi, Michelle Nguyen
Details
Year: 2018
Running Time: 14 mins 44 secs
Director: Callum Hill
Producer: Joseph Constable
Editor: Callum Hill, Mdhamiri Á Nkemi
Screenwriter: Callum Hill
Director of Photography: Alfred Thirolle
Production Company Production Company Sales Agent
Callum Hill Linnéa Haviland Linnéa Haviland
www.callumhill.co.uk +44 (0)74795 06730 +44 (0)74795 06730
hi@linneahaviland.com hi@linneahaviland.com
www.linneahaviland.com www.linneahaviland.com
DOCUMENTARY 35EL HOR Everything You Wanted to
Know About Sudden Birth*
Synopsis (*but were afraid to ask)
Through the interspecies gaze we observe one of
the most ancient and highly honoured dog breeds,
the Saluki. Guiding us in love, preparing us in death Synopsis
and transforming us in life. This is the amazing story of how the Berkeley police
Official Selection Hot Docs 2019 - International department, the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands,
premiere an Academy Award winner and Mr. Spock are all
connected by “Sudden Birth”, one of the most
Details unintentionally hilarious and disturbing educational
Year: 2018 films ever created. In colour.
Running Time: 13 mins Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 -
Director: Dianne Lucille Campbell International Documentary Short Film Programme
Producer: Brian J. Falconer
Executive Producer: Noe Mendelle, Sonja Henrici Details
Editor: Dianne Lucille Campbell Year: 2019
Director of Photography: Dianne Lucille Campbell Running Time: 11 mins
Music: DIE HEXEN Director: Scott Calonico
Producer: Jeff Radice
Co-Producer: Skip Elsheimer
Executive Producer: Scott Calonico
Editor: Nathan McGinty
Screenwriter: Scott Calonico
Sound: Eric Friend
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company
Out of Orbit Scottish Documentary AD&D Productions Ltd.
Brian J. Falconer Institute Eve Korzec 16/5 Chapel Lane
brian@outoforbit.tv ECA Edinburgh
www.outoforbit.tv 74 Lauriston Place EH6 6SG
Edinburgh scott@scottcalonico.com
EH3 9DF www.scottcalonico.com
+44 (0)131 651 5761
eve@scottishdocinstitute.com
www.scottishdocinstitute.com
36 DOCUMENTARYFog World I Have a Song to Sing You
(Imam pesmu da vam pevam)
Synopsis Synopsis
Iceland is a country marked by its frozen nature As a child, Ivanka was chosen by fairy women for
and extreme temperatures, which give it a the special task of entering the realm of the dead to
certain touristic appeal. The harshness of the discover the future. As an old lady, the spirits have
climatic conditions and the enthusiasm of tourists left her, so how does she navigate between the two
regularly cause car accidents to happen. From worlds now?
this phenomenon, verging on absurdity, the artist
and filmmaker Ruaidhri Ryan had planned to Details
make a road movie, one that he will never finish. Year: 2018
He thus adventures into the different phases of Running Time: 5 mins 40 secs
pre-production, production and post-production of Director: Eluned Zoë Aiano, Alesandra Tatić
what this film could have been. This film captures Producer: Sarah Chorley
the hilarious diary of this failure, in which Ryan calls Co-Producer: Greta Rauleac
on a 4x4, a GPS gnawed by the cold, an elf and Executive Producer: Shanida Scotland,
a Viking guide with whom he maintains a virtual Vasiliki Panagiotou
correspondence. Moving between simulated reality, Editor: Eluned Zoë Aiano
video games and cinema, the film explores the Director of Photography: Eluned Zoë Aiano,
geography of a country marked by the exoticism Greta Rauleac
of its landscapes, often used as backdrops for Sound: Alen Duš
Hollywood movies. A hilarious look at the way in
which new technologies condition our ways of
representing territories.
Official Selection Visions du Réel 2019 - International
Competition - World premiere
Details
Year: 2019
Running Time: 22 mins
Director: Ruaidhri Ryan
Producer: Ruaidhri Ryan
Co-Producer: Ruaidhri Ryan
Executive Producer: Ruaidhri Ryan
Editor: Ruaidhri Ryan
Screenwriter: Ruaidhri Ryan
Director of Photography: Ruaidhri Ryan
Production Designer: Ruaidhri Ryan
Sound: Ruaidhri Ryan
Principal Cast: Katrin Olafsdottir
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company
Ruaidhri Ryan Ruaidhri Ryan London Short Film Festival
ruaidhri.ryan@gmail.com ruaidhri.ryan@gmail.com Sarah Chorley
+44 (0)7748 387598
sarah@shortfilms.org.uk
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