Project Detail

A Bear Remembers

Synopsis

Local boy, Peter, is trying to find the source of the metallic sound that haunts the village. When he shares his footage with an old woman it sparks memories of a bear that roamed the hills during her childhood.
Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2025
Official Selection Telluride Film Festival 2025

Details

Year: 2024
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 20 min
Format: digital
Director: Zhang and Knight
Producer: Medb Riordan, Lexi Kiddo
Co-Producer: Laetitia Stoffel
Executive Producer: Simon Cooper
Editor: Jack Williams
Screenwriter: Zhang and Knight
Director of Photography: Christopher Ripley
Production Designer: Elizabeth El-Kadhi
Sound: Tim Burns
Composer: Jonathon Ng
Principal cast: Lewis Cornay, Anna Calder Marshall, Ciaran Hinds
Bear Costume: Kate McConnell
Costume Designer: Emma Jayne Lipop

Genre

Experimental Welsh Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Academy Films

Medb Riordan
16 West Central Street
London
WC1A 1JJ

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