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| ABOUT
THE FILM |
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When
a menopausal Miss
Jamaica
is
shat on by an elephant, she decides to ask her
cheating husband for a divorce...
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A Cinnamon
Films / Arawak
Films production ---
funded by the
UK
Film Council (New
Cinema Fund, Pulse / Film London) Sales
Agent: Big
Film Shorts
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Festival
selections and screenings so far include :
2005
- Sundance Film
Festival, FESPACO,
Pan
African Film Festival, Raindance East Film
Festival, Commonwealth Film Festival, Jacksonville
Film Festival , Rushes Soho Shorts Film
Festival (shortlisted for 'Best Short' award);
2004
- London Film
Festival -- the film screened in two
programmes: (1) Main
Programme - 'Diaspora' and (2) UK Film Council /
Film London programme - 'London
Calling', Turks & Caicos International
Film Festival, Bahamas
International Film Festival
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Film selected by British Council to be one of
the films they submit to selected festivals around the
world (best of British!)
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Starring Doña
Croll as Martha (credits include Manderlay,
Elmina’s
Kitchen – National Theatre / BBC and Family
Affairs – C5) and George
Harris as Hubert (credits include Black
Hawk Down and
Raiders of the
Lost Ark). |
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Edited by Chris Gill
--- feature films include 28
Days Later and
Millions; television includes Crime
and Punishment (2002) and Strumpet
(2001). |
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Original musical score by award winning
composer, Adrian Johnston (winner of a
2002 Emmy for Shackleton).
Feature films include Divorcing Jack, Jude, Welcome to
Sarajevo
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TV series in 2002 include: White
Teeth, The Lost Prince, Tipping the Velvet. |
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Written
and directed by Kara Miller (Arawak
Films)
writing credits include Lolapalooza
– a greenlit feature
in development with Working Title Films – WT2;
22 episodes of Boo! (BBC 2, Series One and
Two), --- Directing credits:
Nobody
The Great (2006 - feature film), How
To Make Friends (2004), Elephant
Palm Tree (2004), Cheese
Makes You Dream (2003) - the script
won the Hitchcock
Award 2002/2003;
Festivals that have screened Cheese
Makes You Dream, so far, include: London
Film Festival, Montreal World Film Festival, Sao Paulo
International Short Film Festival, Los Angeles
International Short Film Festival and Sitges International Film Festival.
Cheese Makes You Dream was shortlisted
for BBC3 New Film-makers' Award ( 2003). Festivals
that have screened How To Make Friends include:
Montreal World Film Festival,
Palm
Springs International Festival of Short Films, BFM
International Film Festival, Chicago
International Children's film festival, Raindance Film
Festival, St. Louis International Film Festival, Foyle
Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival (2005), Pan
African Film Festival (2005) |
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Produced by Louise
Decoteau (Cinnamon Films) --- Louise is the
producer of two award winning shorts: Money
Talks and Concrete Garden,
with BAFTA award winning director Alrick Riley, which
were aired on BBC / C4 (and won numerous
festival awards including
Toronto
,
Munich
and
Chicago
).
Her producing credits (commercials) include
Cinema: Kodak 100th Birthday Ad, Children Society
Awareness; and television: Keith Floyd -
Breville Pie Maker, Do It All - B&Q, Lady In
Waiting - Hovis Bread etc. |
| ICinnamon Films, Arawak Films as a Cinnamon Films, Arawak Films |
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High
resolution production stills -
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Photos
by James Marsden |
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