Project Detail

The North London Book of the Dead

Synopsis

A comic story of loss, acceptance and a surreal vision of the afterlife, based on a Will Self story. Grown man, W, struggles to come to terms with the death of his domineering mother, only to discover that she's spending her dead existence very happily in a suburb of London.

Details

Year
2012
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
15 min
Format
HD
Director
Jake Lushington
Producer
Shelley Rubenstein
Co-Producer
Kath Mattock
Executive Producer
Lawrence Albonico, Samantha Taylor
Editor
Kristina Hetherington
Screenwriter
Simon Block
Director of Photography
Jake Polonsky
Production Designer
Fabrice Spelta
Sound
Dudley Houlden, Rupert Ivey
Composer
Carly Paradis
Principal cast
Ed Gaughan, Gwen Taylor, Dan Stevens, Marek Larwood, David Westhead, John Moraitis, Charlotte Randle

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Production Status

Production Company

shelley@goodeggproductions.co.uk

Sales Company

shelley@goodeggproductions.co.uk

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