Project Detail

Arena (directed by Mike Ogden)

Square Cherry Productions / Natalie Kennedy Studios

Synopsis

In 1943 Poland, six Jewish children murdered by a German housewife.
In 2017 Manchester, twenty three concert goers murdered by a student.
A terrible echo seventy five years apart, connected by extremism. ARENA follows two intercutting stories of outsider characters whose lives have been poisoned through conditioning to carry out extreme acts of hate.
Will society ever learn the lessons of the past?

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Details

Year: 2020
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 12 min 32 sec
Format: Digital / Super16mm
Director: Mike Ogden
Producer: Naomi Ayers
Editor: Paul Jones
Screenwriter: Mike Ogden
Director of Photography: James Oldham
Production Designer: Alexa Hartle
Sound: Paul Caton
Composer: Mark Ashworth
Principal cast: Sophie Shallai, Ahmad Sakhi, Charlie Concannon

Genre

Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Square Cherry Productions

Naomi Ayers
The Old Farmhouse
189 Counthill Road
OL4 2PX

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