Project Detail

A Stranger Kind

Ollie Murray

Synopsis

A Stranger Kind is an unhinged modern day fairytale.
Lily, a young girl, ekes out an existence in a threadbare cabaret club until, one day, a stranger calls to audition with a grizzly new act and Lily begins, for the first time in her life, to believe in magic.

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Details

Year: 2014
Type of film: Shorts
Running time: 22 mins 26 secs
Format: Digital
Director: Ollie Murray
Producer: Ollie Murray, Daisy Gautier
Executive Producer: Jamie Clark
Editor: Ryan Boucher
Screenwriter: Ollie Murray, Aled Roberts
Director of Photography: Jim Jolliffe
Production Designer: Marie Lanna
Sound: Jon Clarke
Composer: Cats Eyes, Jon Clarke
Principal cast: Eleanor Tomlinson, Keith-Lee Castle, Angus Barnett, George Russo

Genre

Horror Black Comedy Fantasy Sci-Fi

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Orofena Films

E: contact@olliemurray.com

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