STAND STILL
Short Film/ 2019/ UK / 17min/ 1.78:1/ British Film Institute and Film London/ Island Pictures in association with Slick Films

The darkness of postnatal depression threatens to overwhelm Susannah, but a chance encounter with Rupa might be the help she needs.

Directed by Isabella Wing-Davey isabellawingdavey.com
Written by Michelle Bonnard and Zoë Tapper
Producer: Sarah Beardsall island-pictures.co.uk
Co-Producer: Rebecca Harris slickfilms.co.uk
Cast: Zoë Tapper, Michelle Bonnard, Paapa Essiedu, George Georgiou, Miquel Brown
Executive Producers: Georgia Goggin, Isabel Freer, Sally Humphreys

DP: Ashley Barron ASC ashley-barron.com
Editor: Karenjit Sahota
Production Design: Lucie Red luciered.com
Costume Design: Charlotte Espiner charlotteespiner.com
Original Music: Hugo Brijs hugobrijs.com

British FIlm Institute National Lottery Funded

A 'heartbreaking slice of cinema" (Rianne Pictures Sheffield Shorts review)
"Isabella Wing-Davey’s film feels tender and raw. Zoë Tapper and Michelle Bonnard, who also wrote the film, give extraordinarily compassionate performances" (The Reviews Hub)

BFI London Film Festival 2019 (World Premiere)
Link International Film Festival (Best Short Film Award)
Deep Focus Film Festival (Finalist)
Woodstock Film Festival (Official Selection)
Harrogate Film Festival (Official Selection)
Crystal Palace International Film Festival (Official Selection)
Ramsgate International Film and TV Festival (Official Selection)
Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival (Official Selection)
RePRO Film Festival (Official Selection)
Bolton International Film Festival - nominated Women in Film Award
Sheffield Short Film Festival - Finalist/Nom. Best UK Short Film
Birmingham Film Festival - Nom. Best Short Film and Best Female (Zoë Tapper)
Hobnobben Film Festival (Official Selection)

For festival news and press: isabellawingdavey.com/stand-still/

contact: sarah@island-pictures.co.uk

Screened at BFI Soutbank & funded by Film London.

Political advertising has got smarter. But have we?

This quirky drama-documentary, combining expert interviews with a good old-fashioned alien invasion melodrama, introduces us to some of the amazing techniques being employed by advertisers, explains how data from social media is fuelling them, and investigates whether our democracy is under attack.

Should we be changing our online behaviour?

Will the data-guzzling aliens be defeated?

Watch it and find out…

A family portrait session goes horribly wrong as secrets and jealousy bubble to the surface under the photographer's watchful gaze.

A 59 productions Film. 59productions.co.uk/

Made with the support of Film London and Channel4 filmlondon.org.uk/

Written and Directed by Joseph Pierce
Produced by Mark Grimmer and Aneil Karia
Sound by Dominic Fitzgerald
Edited by Robbie Morrison
Cinematography by Liam Iandoli
Compositing by Andy Hague

For full list of credits go to: josephpierce.co.uk

Special thanks to SHORT OF THE WEEK

shortoftheweek.com

twitter.com/#!/ShortoftheWeek

shortoftheweek.com/2011/06/06/a-family-portrait/

Awards etc:

Grand Prix -Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film ‘10

Telerama Prix de la Presse - Clermont Ferrand Intl Short Film Festival ‘10

Prix Audi Labo - Clermont Ferrand Intl Short Film Festival ‘10

Finalist - Cartoon d'Or 2010.

Debut Prize - Hiroshima Intl Animation Festival '10

Best British Film - London Intl Animation Festival

Best of Ottawa Tour - '10/'11

Best of British Animation - Encounters Short Film Festival '10

Spirit Award - Ann Arbor Film Festival '11

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Leigh Hodgkinson's dark, atmospheric and texturous puppet animation 'Stalk' was created for the Pulse Scheme. Deftly weaving model animation of the director's favourite and well-loved childhood bunny (who gratiously had her stuffing replaced by armature for the shoot…) with composited photographs and delicate lighting and smoke effects, the film plays out like a modern urban faery tale. What will happen when bunny and, er, lettuce, finally meet?
Produced by Liz Chan at Slinky Pictures.