Project Detail

A Strange Jig

Name: A Strange Jig
Director: Carmen Montanez-Callan
Genre: Woman Director, Comedy, Drama
Released: 2004
Duration: 5 mins

Synopsis

My Mum's a Morris dancing vicar. Her Morris dancing friends are a diverse bunch, an opera singer, a long distance lorry driver and an engineer, united by this odd English tradition. By day they hold down responsible jobs, by night they dress in eccentric disguise and dance a strange jig.

Details

Year: 2004
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 5 mins
Format: DigiBeta
Director: Carmen Montanez-Callan
Producer: G D Jayalakshmi, Pam Hague
Editor: Iona Fabian
Screenwriter: Carmen Montanez-Callan
Director of Photography: Derek Firmin, Peter Tibble, Malcolm Crowe
Sound: Iona Fabian
Composer: Traditional (excerpts of Morris music from festival environment)
Principal cast: Reverend Wendy Callan, Jasmine Mohammed, Lydia Mohammed, Quentin Hayes, Lesley Badcock, Chris Howe

Genre

Woman Director Comedy Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Carmen Montanez-Callan

The Vicarage
Church Street
Shipton-Under-Wychwood
Oxfordshire OX7 6BP
UK

T+44 (0)7929 843441

shelovesshoes@hotmail.com

Sales Company

Carlton Television

Gas Street
Birmingham
B1 2JT
UK

T/F+44 (0)121 634 4365

desna.Atkinson@carltontv.co.uk

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