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SYNOPSIS WILD SIDE is a coming-of-age story about friendship, love and imagination. 10-year-old besties Juho and Liisa's friendship is threatened when Juho's parents reveal that they will move away. Hearing the awful news, they decide to run away into the nearby woods, which, at night comes to life for the children, becoming both a nightmare and a haven.
dirECTOr’s STAtEMENT
I was moved around a lot at a young age, always having to start from scratch in a new place. I wanted to reflect at some of those childhood experiences of mine and tell a story about childhood adventures, friendship and imagination. WILD SIDE was thus a project for me that wanted to get made; the story wanted to be told. It is about the pain of growing up, dealing with and making adult decisions; when you no longer can just be a child and play games being wild and free, but sometimes also face reality. The Finnish forests provided a natural setting for the story as that is where one’s imagination starts running wild; reality becomes fantasy and fantasy becomes reality.
MAIN CrEDITS
WRITER & DIRECTOR
Heikki Simppula
PRODUCERS
Celine Cotran Oliver Sunley
CINEMATOGRAPHER
Mark Kuczewski
SOUND DESIGNER
James Hynes
COMPOSER David Allen EDITOR Harry Baker PRODUCTION COMPANY
The London Film School _ JUHO
Rasmus Parkkinen LIISA Lilja Nassar
TechnIcal Specs .
ORIGINAL TITLE Wild Side COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION Finland I UK RUNTIME 14 minutes 19 seconds AVAILABLE RESOLUTION 2K I HD SHOOTING FORMAT LANGUAGES
Blackmagic Ursa Mini
Finnish
SUBTITLES English AVAILABLE TRANSCRIPT AUDIO
Yes
5.1 I Stereo
SCREENING FORMAT DCP I Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) I DVD I .H264
DIRECTOR’S bIO.
Heikki was encouraged to explore a lot of creative activities from an early age and was always interested in stories. Having experienced the world of Jurassic Park at the age of eight, film took over the position of his main interest, over football. Heikki has a BA degree in film, after which he gained work experience and pursued an MA degree at The London Film School. He is graduating from The London Film School as a director and has also achieved a specialisation in sound recording, working on productions in London, Norway, Texas and Finland.
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RIGHTS & SALES filmlibrary@lfs.org.uk I +442078369642 PRODUCTION & FESTIVALS Oliver Sunley (Producer) olisunley@gmail.com +447921809826 -
www.wildsidefilm.org
Celine Cotran (Producer) celine.cotran@lfs-students.org.uk +447733000022
© The London Film School 2017