UK Films Catalogue Short Films at Clermont 2017 www.weareukfilm.com www.britishcouncil.org/film
Contents 2 UK Shorts at Clermont 2017 3 UK Shorts in International Competition 7 UK Shorts in Lab Competition 10 UK Films in other sections 15 Index of Films Directorial debuts are indicated with this symbol All inclusive images remain the copyright of their respective owners and may not be reproduced without the expressed permission of the rights holders. 1
UK Shorts at Clermont 2017 Nine UK short films have been selected to screen in the international competition at this year s festival. In addition we have a plethora of films in the other sections of the festival. You can find further details of them below. For access to our exclusive film library of the best in contemporary UK shorts please register for the UK Shorts Portal at UKShortsportal.picturepipe.net 2
UK Shorts in International Competition 3 UK Shorts in International Competition
The Alan Dimension Home Alan Brown uses divine powers of precognition to foresee the fate of mankind... and breakfast. Meanwhile, Wendy has had enough of being married to 'the next step in cognitive evolution'. As thousands of men, women and children attempt to get into Europe, a comfortable English family sets out on what appears to be a holiday. Official Selection Cannes 2016 - Cinéfondation Selection Running Time: 9 mins Director: Jac Clinch Producer: Millie Marsh Editor: Xanna Ward Dixon Screenwriter: Jac Clinch (script, story), Jonathan Harbottle (script) Directory of Photography: Miles Ridgway Production Designer: Declan O'Brien Sound: Sound Editor: Justin Dolby Music: Tim Morrish Principal Cast: Voice cast: Kevin Eldon, Felicity Montagu Animator: Jac Clinch The National Film and Television Beaconsfield Studios Station Road Beaconsfield HP9 1LG info@nfts.co.uk www.nfts.co.uk Jac Clinch www.jclinch.co.uk 4 UK Shorts in International Competition The National Film and Television Hemant Sharda Beaconsfield Studios Station Road Beaconsfield HP9 1LG Hsharda@nfts.co.uk www.nfts.co.uk Running Time: 20 mins Director: Daniel Mulloy Producer: Shpat Deda, Scott O'Donnell, Tim Nash, Chris Watling, Afolabi Kuti Executive Producer: Eroll Bilibani, Arta Dorbroshi, Anthony Austin, Sally Campbell, Davud Karbassioun, Andrés des Rochers Editor: Phil Currie Screenwriter: Daniel Mulloy Directory of Photography: Victor Seguin, Paul Makay Production Designer: Mrinë Godanca, Elmedina Morina Sound: Jon Clarke Principal Cast: Jack O'Connell, Holliday Grainger, Tahliya Lowles, Zaki Ramadani Black Sheep Studios / Somesuch / Dokufest
In The Grass The Nest Detective Wallace, an awkward sleuth suffering a crisis of confidence, finds himself unable to act when the killer he let free takes the life of his partner. A single-mum family are driven to extreme behaviour when they are evicted from the house they live in illegally and replaced with second-generation immigrants. Running Time: 16:34 Director: Rory Alexander Stewart Producer: Rory Alexander Stewart Co-Producer: Andrew Oldbury Editor: Ross Leppard Screenwriter: Rory Alexander Stewart Directory of Photography: Anna MacDonald Sound: Michael Johnson Music: Hollie Buhagiar Principal Cast: Jeff Stewart, John Doughty, Martin Hancock, Neve Doyle, Simeon Willis Running Time: 21 minutes 15 seconds Director: Jamie Jones Producer: Shelley Jones Co-Producer: Ella Ackroyd Executive Producer: Emily Jones, Ross Williams Editor: Isabel Freeman Screenwriter: Jamie Jones Directory of Photography: Nic Booth Production Designer: Lotty Sanna Sound: Andrew Sansom Music: Javier Calequi Principal Cast: Vicky McClure, Amy Bowden National Film and Television 5 UK Shorts in International Competition National Film and Television Beyond Fiction, Malo Mal Films
Squirrel Island A stop-motion sci-fi action thriller about squirrel apartheid. When a lone renegade grey squirrel and a hunted acorn find themselves trapped on a hostile and mysterious red squirrel island, they uncover a horrifying plot that threatens their future can they survive Squirrel Island? Running Time: 21 mins 11 secs Director: Astrid Goldsmith Producer: Astrid Goldsmith Editor: Ben Mallaby Screenwriter: Astrid Goldsmith Directory of Photography: Astrid Goldsmith Production Designer: Astrid Goldsmith Sound: Daniel Chase Music: Craig Gell Mock Duck Studios www.mockduck.co.uk info@mockduck.co.uk 6 UK Shorts in International Competition
UK Shorts in Lab Competition 7 UK Shorts in Lab Competition
Johnno's Dead SIT AND WATCH Serving twelve years behind bars for a crime you didn't commit focuses the mind. Everything becomes crystal clear. All of the injustice poisons the soul and there's nothing left but to settle old scores The animation/live action hybrid sequel to Chris Shepherd's award winning Dad's Dead. Six everyday scenarios play out in modern London summoning ideas of representation, spectacle and human behaviour. Running Time: 8 mins Director: Chris Shepherd Producer: Nicolas Schmerkin, Abigail Addison Editor: Miikka Leskinen Screenwriter: Chris Shepherd Directory of Photography: Peter Ellmore, Paul Teverini Sound: Andy Humphreys Music: Oliver Davis Principal Cast: Ian Hart, Chris Freeney Autour De Minut in co-production with Polkadot Polkadot Productions Limited 1 Chevening Road Upper Norwood London SE19 3TE +44 (0) 7919664295 info@chrisshepherdfilms.com http://www.chrisshepherdfilms.co m http://www.autourdeminuit.com http://www.johnnosdead.com 8 UK Shorts in Lab Competition Autour De Minuit 21 Rue Henry Monnier 75009 Paris France +33 (0) 42811728 info@autourdeminuit.com Running Time: 37mins Director: matthew barton & francisco forbes Producer: matthew barton francisco forbes Executive Producer: matthew barton francisco forbes Editor: francisco forbes Screenwriter: matthew barton francisco forbes Directory of Photography: francisco forbes Sound: lautaro aichenbaum Music: rombo Principal Cast: gareth murphy, rob mundi, penelope graycombe matthew-barton.com franciscoforbes.com self produced / funded currently in discussions with Icarus Films
Thought Broadcasting This Far Up Thought Broadcasting is a film about psychosis and surveillance. A composite of fact and fiction, the film draws upon real-life accounts of a schizophrenic disorder: the belief that one's thoughts are being transmitted and heard by others. Set against the proliferation of mobile phone masts in the urban and rural landscape, the film reveals a fragmented inner world of paranoid delusions and acute anxiety, off-set with revelations of mass surveillance and data gathering by government security agencies. Filming locations include a psychiatric video recording studio, an abandoned broadcast television station, and a military base used for mass communications monitoring and interception. Outside a remote farm house a man attempts to fix a Landrover. In the distance a stranger approaches. THIS FAR UP blends animation and landscape to explore the last moments of a life... Part clinical observation, part psychological horror, the film is driven by a tense and dark electronic score by Lord Mongo, and interweaves the flickering detritus of analogue tape, monitors and studio cameras with layers of sampled archive voices; forming a picture of a psychotic state of mind, entangled in an interconnected world. Year: 2017 Running Time: 19 mins Director: Nick Jordan Producer: Nick Jordan Editor: Nick Jordan Directory of Photography: Nick Jordan Sound: Nick Jordan Music: Lord Mongo Principal Cast: Alan Creedon (Patient); Clara Casian (AV Technician); Adele Jordan, Andrea Zapp (Psychiatrists) Nick Jordan www.nickjordan.info nick@nickjordan.info 9 UK Shorts in Lab Competition Running Time: 11 minutes Director: Ewan Jones Morris Producer: Miranda Ballesteros Executive Producer: Tracy Spottiswoode, Paul Higgins Editor: Paco Sweetman Screenwriter: Ewan Jones Morris Directory of Photography: Nicolas Booth Production Designer: Laura Mickiewicz Sound: Rob Szeliga Music: Islet Principal Cast: David Sterne, Daniel Rochford Lunatica Limited miranda@lunatica.co.uk Lunatica Limited miranda@lunatica.co.uk
UK Films in other sections 10 UK Films in other sections
FISHWITCH Leidi Tootega is a witch who ekes out an isolated existence on an iceberg adrift in the ocean. It's a miserable lot, and in Tootega's case, misery hates company! Leidi lives with her mom and small baby; her boyfriend, Alexis has gone AWOL. After she bathing her baby, Leidi's sent by her mother to buy plantains. She meets a man who tells her he has seen Alexis with another girl: she embarks on a journey to find him. Derek is a merman more fish than man really who spends his days joyously rollicking around the ocean, oblivious to the fact that his dreadful singing is the very reason he remains friendless. FISHWITCH is the story of what happens when these two unlikely characters come together, as Derek begins to unlock the painful secret Tootega has kept hidden for a long, long time Running Time: 9min 59 secs Director: Adrienne Dowling Producer: Helene Sifre Editor: Andonis Trattos Screenwriter: Jenna Jovi Directory of Photography: Simona Susnea Production Designer: Lizzie Osborne Sound: Zoltan Juhasz Music: Jess Jones, Tim Morrish Principal Cast: Natalia Tena, Sam Apley The National Film and Television 11 UK Films in other sections Year: 2014 Running Time: 15 mins 40 secs Director: Simon Mesa Soto Producer: Diana Patino Martinez Executive Producer: The London Film Editor: Ricardo Saraiva Screenwriter: Simon Mesa Soto Directory of Photography: Juan Sarmiento Sound: Andres Montana Duret Principal Cast: Alejandra Montoya Villa, Hector Alfredo Orrego, Josselin Torres The London Film 24 Shelton Street London WC2H 9UB W: www.lfs.org.uk T: +44(0)207 836 9642 Same as
Litterbugs Lucky Chicken Helped by her self-made flying mechanical creatures, a young inventor and a pint-sized superhero defeat the town bullies and find an unexpected friendship. A quirky silent romantic comedy about a butcher, a baker, a candlestick maker... and a magic chicken. Running Time: 15 mins Director: Peter Stanley-Ward Producer: Nicole Carmen-Davis, Chris Musselwhite Executive Producer: Paul Hamblin, Sarah Golding, Celine Haddad, Peter Parker, Eugenio Perez Editor: Thomas Saville Screenwriter: Peter Stanley-Ward, Natalie Conway Directory of Photography: Jaime Feliu-Torres Production Designer: Marie Lanna Sound: Glen Yard Music: Michael Price Principal Cast: Leila Wetton, James Grogan, Abigail Lowe, Phoebe McDonnell, Jemima Woolnough Costume Designer: Ceri Walford VFX Supervisor: Adam McInnes Mighty Atom Entertainment 2nd Floor 72 Wells Street London W1T 3QF www.mightyatomentertainment.co m Treehouse Digital 635-637 Christchurch Road Bournemouth BH1 4AP treehousedigital.com 12 UK Films in other sections Network Ireland Television 23 South Frederick St Dublin 2 Ireland D02 KT21 networkirelandtelevision.com Running Time: 12.15 Director: Gulliver Moore Producer: Nick Coupe Executive Producer: Jonathan Bairstow Editor: Brin Screenwriter: Matthew Stallworthy Directory of Photography: Oliver Clubb Production Designer: Anna Papa Music: Jim Hustwit Principal Cast: Will Merrick, Marek Larwood, Naomi Stafford Sheriff's Office Films www.sheriffsofficefilms.com
The Magnificent Lion Boy The Obvious Child Whilst leading an expedition to Africa, anthropologist Leonard Orlov (Hugh Bonneville) discovers a feral child living a brutal and primitive existence. Horrified, he brings the creature back to Victorian London, intent on civilizing the child, only to encounter evil freak show host, Umberto Farini (Andy Serkis). Somebody broke the girl's parents. The rabbit was there when it happened. It was an awful mess. Year: 2013 Running Time: 10 mins Director: Ana Caro Producer: James Cotton Editor: Paulo Pandolpho Screenwriter: Jonathan Carr Directory of Photography: Alfie Biddle Production Designer: Natasha Mackey Sound: Ania Przygoda Music: Sarah Warne Principal Cast: Hugh Bonneville, Andy Serkis National Film and Television Beaconsfield Studios Station Road Beaconsfield Buckinghamshire HP9 1LG National Film and Television Beaconsfield Studios Station Road Beaconsfield Buckinghamshire HP9 1LG Tel: +44 (0)14 9473 1452 Fax:+44 (0)14 9467 8583 Email : festivals@nfts.co.uk Tel: +44 (0)14 9473 1452 Fax:+44 (0)14 9467 8583 Email : festivals@nfts.co.uk 13 UK Films in other sections Year: 2014 Running Time: 12 mins Director: Stephen Irwin Producer: Screenwriter: Stephen Irwin Sound: Zhe Wu Principal Cast: Ron Masa http://www.smalltimeinc.com stephen@smalltimeinc.com Stephen Irwin stephen@smalltimeinc.com
Perched Relaxatron 5000 Hamish Fint, a crotchety old man used to a life of seclusion inside his submarine balanced precariously atop a mountain, struggles to maintain equilibrium when an unwelcome visiting seagull rocks his world. Escape your shitty life with the Relaxatron 5000 Running Time: 10 mins Director: Liam Harris Producer: Elina Litvinova Editor: Sian Clarke Screenwriter: Nathaniel Price, Eoin Doran Directory of Photography: Daniel Atherton Production Designer: Jan Gronczewski, Dan Warren Sound: Payam Hosseinian Music: Victo Hugo Fumagalli Principal Cast: Brian Gilbert Production Manager: Paul Smith Running Time: 1 min 25 secs Director: Andrew Brand Producer: Bad Studio Executive Producer: Bad Studio Editor: Andrew Brand Screenwriter: Andrew Brand Sound: Andrew Brand Bad Studio Ltd 16 Dunsmure Road London N165PW VFX: Victor Almela, Stevie Gill National Film and Television Beaconsfield Studios Candelmas Lane Beaconsfield Buckinghamshire HP9 1AE National Film and Television Beaconsfield Studios Candelmas Lane Beaconsfield Buckinghamshire HP9 1AE T: +44 (0)1494731351 E: info@nfts.co.uk www.nfts.co.uk T: +44 (0)1494731351 E: info@nfts.co.uk 14 www.badstudio.co.uk mail@andrewbrand.co.uk
Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) Index of Films UK Shorts in International Competition 4 The Alan Dimension 4 Home 5 In The Grass 5 The Nest 6 Squirrel Island UK Shorts in Lab Competition 8 Johnno's Dead 8 SIT AND WATCH 9 Thought Broadcasting 9 This Far Up UK Films in other sections 11 FISHWITCH 11 Leidi 12 Litterbugs 12 Lucky Chicken 13 The Magnificent Lion Boy 13 The Obvious Child 14 Perched 14 Relaxatron 5000 15