BA (Hons) FILM & TELEVISON
G R A D U AT I O N SHOW
12th OF JUNE 2014
BFI SOUTHBANK
BA (Hons) Film and Television Graduation Show BFI Southbank 12th of June 2014
FOREWORD It is my great pleasure to introduce our BA (Hons) Film and Television’s students’ graduation films of 2014. Working with these new film makers has been a highly pleasurable experience for all of us on the course team; watching ideas as they came to fruition and took on their own rich, imaginative life on the screen. We are, perhaps, most of all pleased with the variety of the films this year, ranging as they do through engaged documentary, drama and experimental film. Each film is richly different, and each the product of teams of skilled people in every department of film making. We wish them all well, and we look forward to watching their future careers with huge interest. We are sure that, wherever they choose to work, they will soon become known for the quality, integrity and imaginative richness of all they do.
Dr. David Hoyle, Course Leader.
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BELLEVILLE From sunset to sunrise, ‘Belleville’ portrays a fictional suburbia within six interwoven stories. Along its photographic form, the film depicts a visual narrative where the familiar and bizarre collide.
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Producer: Julia Rockwell | juliarockwell.com Writer/Director: Fanny Hoetzeneder | fannyhoetzeneder.com Cinematographer: Joseph Guy | josephguy.co.uk Production Designer: Laura Little | lauralittle.co.uk Editor: André Fonseca | cargocollective.com/a-fonseca
PIETRO When the lonely farmer Pietro seems to be about to give his last breath, a warm beam of light shines through the clouds awakening his dormant energy, revealing the secret that continues to keep him alive.
Producer: Chulwoo Aaron Cho | chulwoo26@yahoo.co.kr Writer/Director: Marco Di Coscio | marcodicoscio@yahoo.it Cinematographers: Marco Di Coscio & Thomas Ford | tlhford.com
Sound Designer: Carlijn Peters
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THE GUEST ‘The Guest’ is a spicy mix of dance and drama. It is a sensitive, dynamic and existential story which explores relationships and the price they come with. Producer: Iride Budnikaite | iridebudnikaite.com Writer/Director: Lolita Sniega | lolita.sniega@gmail.com
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Cinematographer: Suzie Fownes | suziefownes@gmail.com First Assistant Director: William King | william.king.post@ gmail.com
Production Designer:Rox Kexin Li | roxyleeplay@hotmail.com Art Director: Katarzyna Wójcicka | kasiawojcicka.com Editor: Åshild Løberg | ashild90@hotmail.com Sound Designer: Carlijn Peters
HOME ‘Home’ documents the fight of single mother, Maritza Tschepp, against her eviction from the house she spent 35 years rebuilding.
Writer/Director: Chris Hersom | chrishersom.co.uk Cinematographer: Maya Llamazares | maya-ll1973.wix.com/ mayaphotographyll
Editors: Seonghwan Kwon & Bernard Bonsu | kseonghwan. wix.com/filmmaker
Producer: Joao Manuel Andrade | joaomanuelandrade. squarespace.com
Sound Designers: Tony Ha & Amelia Springett | weier-ha. squarespace.com | amelia@a-springett.fsworld.co.uk
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OVER THE HILL ‘Over The Hill’ is an action/comedy film set in a quiet suburban retirement home, where enlisting the help of their timid carer Noah, three residents Merve, Henry-Wilson and Joanna find themselves on a dangerous quest for vengeance following the dramatic events of a crime.
Producer: Cara Ghoshal | caraghoshal@gmail.com Writers/Directors: Nosa Eke & Michael Burrin | nosa_eke@ hotmail.co.uk | m.burrin@hotmail.co.uk Cinematographer: Kush Chhabria | kushchhabria.com Editor: Sam Richardson | richardson.92@hotmail.com
Sound Designer: Amelia Springett | amelia@a-springett.fsworld.co.uk
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CLOSER TO HOME ‘Closer To Home’ is a psychological thriller set in the repressive 1950s. On one particular night, a girl’s dysfunctional home life is disrupted by two burglars. It ends in brutal murder... but what went wrong? Co-Producers: Bhavithrah Satkunarasa, Elizabeth Cope,
Frena Russom & James Lyndon | jlyndon.com Director: Bhavithrah Satkunarasa | i_am_bhavi@hotmail.com First Assistant Director: Vincent Xia | xyxjkt@hotmail.com Cinematographer: Nadir Najim Production Designer: Elizabeth Cope | ohbbz@hotmail.com Editor: Frena Russom | fkrussom@gmail.com Sound Design: Flavio Teixeira
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WHEN I WAS A TEENAGE WHORE A realist, coming-of-age character study following Gloria, a teenage girl on a mission to lose her virginity. Producer: Paul Kaaya | p_kaaya@hotmail.co.uk
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Writer/Director: Georgia Fleury Reynolds | georgiafleuryreynolds@gmail.com First Assistant Director: Frena Russom | fkrussom@gmail.com Cinematographer: Zik Udenze Production Designer: Florence Jones
CÁILIÚIL ‘Cáiliúil’ is a documentary about Galway City and the local street celebrities who frequent or inhabit the town. The film is an exploration of the stories behind these people and what has made them famous in the town.
Producer: Kirsty Connolly | kirstyconnolly.co.uk Writer/Director: Kirsty Connolly Cinematographer: Kirsty Connolly Editor: Veronika Chapman | veronikachapman@hotmail.co.uk
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THE DUNES Set in a forgotten and decadent care home by the sea, ‘The Dunes’ is a story about finding beauty, realising strength and discovering hope. The film explores the complicated relationship between a retired painter and a retired writer, who have just become roommates.
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Producer: Rosie Owen | rosieowen.com Director: Irene Calvo Romero | irenecalvotre12011@gmail.com First Assistant Director: James Lyndon Cinematographer: Natalja Safronova | nsafronova.com Production Designer: Yang Liu Editor: Sadaf Sheik Ahmad | sheikmian.com
DERSIM PROJECT This documentary tells a personal story of a journey back to Turkey’s taboo city of Tunceli, formerly known as Dersim. Filmmakers investigate the two tragic events from Dersim’s past: the 1938 massacre, and the destruction of villages in 1994 and its effects on the locals.s
Writer/Director: Ekim Acun | chantagemontage.com Cinematographer: Anna Gritsch | annagritsch.com Sound Recordist: Michael Burrin | m.burrin@hotmail.co.uk Editor: Ekim Acun
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THINGS I DO FOR YOU Al has put his life on hold to look after his mother who is suffering from Alzheimer’s. She often runs away, and the film follows the final time she escapes, sending Al on a journey to discover that sometimes, we need to let our loved ones go, whether we are ready or not.
Producer: Marissa Llano | mkr.llano@gmail.com Writer/Director: Thomas Sidali | tomtom.sid@gmail.com Cinematographer: Thomas Ford | tlhford.com Production Designer: Jaclyn Pappalardo | jaclynpappalardo.co.uk
Editor: Jake Curtis-Mackenzie | jakecurtmack@gmail.com
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SANTUARIO DEL COLLELL The Spanish Civil War is coming to a bloody end. The lives of a Fascist prisoner and young Republican soldier intertwine in a meditative short, exploring the fear of death.
Writer/Director: Boris Thompson-Roylance | deadbeatfilms.co.uk
First Assistant Director: Julia Rockwell | juliarockwell.com Cinematographer: Jack Thompson-Roylance | deadbeatfilms.co.uk
Producer: Millicent Driver | millicentdriver.com
Production Designer: Elliott Arndt | elliott.arndt@gmail.com Editor: Samuel Tibi | samtibi.com
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