Beyond Existence
Synopsis
Ellen is an agent sent on a mission to seek and destroy a professor who’s been illicitly trading government information to foreign territories. However, the Professor reveals a source of intelligence so powerful that Ellen has no choice but to spare the Professor’s life. The unlikely couple set across the barren landscapes of England on a new mission to save humankind.
Ellen, the ultimate professional, and the Professor, an old drunk with an acid tongue, don’t exactly make for the perfect travel companions. But the pair learn just how important their newfound relationship is when the road trip turns into a car chase.
As they flee from the Guardian - a bounty hunter resolute that the Professor sticks to his original assignment, Ellen discovers that the technology assumed to make her civilisation superior, is also the source of a predetermined path of destruction: and the Professor is the instigator.
To save humanity, Ellen will go beyond fate, beyond destiny, and beyond existence.
Details
- Year
- 2021
- Type of project
- Features
- Running time
- 90 min
- Format
- digital
- Director
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Schuman Hoque 1st Feature
- Producer
- Claire Farah, Steven Farah
- Co-Producer
- Enrico Falzetti
- Editor
- Rhyss Hall, Schuman Hoque, Benjamin Rose, Russell Stainton
- Screenwriter
- Steven Farah
- Director of Photography
- Tim Knight
- Production Designer
- Nia Fausset
- Sound
- Mark Apicella, Adrian Walter
- Composer
- Edward Farmer
- Principal cast
- Amelia Clay, Gary MacKay, Vincent Vermignon
- Costume Designer
- Cristiano Casimiro
- Visual Effects Supervisor
- Prakash Kumararajan, Steven Farah
- Co-Writer
- Christopher Butler
- Casting Director
- Claire Farah
- Production Manager
- Geraldine Cabanero
- Assistant Director
- Edoardo Brighenti
- Production Coordinator
- Bamshad Abedi-Amin
- Art Director
- Edwina Smith
- Art Department Assistant
- Frederico Nobre de Carvalho
- 1st Assistant Camera / Focus Puller / Movi Technician
- Neal Parsons
- 2nd Assistant Camera
- Bryn Williams
- 3rd Assistant Camera
- Jamie Touche
- Gaffer
- Samuel Pearce
- Spark
- Jason Clare
- Sound Recordist
- Christian Curtis
- Makeup Artist
- Emma Gandolfo
- Unit Still Photography & EPK Director
- Gabriel Larmour
- Offline Editor, Online Editor, Colourist
- Rhyss Hall
- Colourist & Online Editor
- Benjamin Rose
- Offline Editor
- Russell Stainton
- Sound Supervisor
- Mark Apicella
- Sound Designer
- Adrian Walter
- Music Supervisor
- Irma de Wind
- Visual Effects Supervisor
- Prakash Kumararajan
- Visual Effects Producer
- Priya Kumararajan
- Asset Development
- Jayavelan Paramasivam
- Asset Development
- Mala Singh
- Character FX
- Praveen Kumar
- FX Technical Director
- Sudhakar Laksmikanthan
- FX Technical Director
- Gunasekaran Mani
- Matchmove
- Anith Thomas
- Look Development
- Harish Kumar Sivakumar
- Roto / Prep
- Natarajan Perumal
- Roto / Prep
- Mohan Kumar
- Compositing
- Siva Subramanian
- Compositing
- Prashanth Kumar
- Compositing
- Nataraj Ranganathan
- System Admin
- Prasanna Anbarasan
- Production Assistant
- Aicha Louise Rakhdoune
- Production Runner
- Sophie Goss Garnham
- Production Runner
- Ruby Parker-Harbord
- Production Runner
- Poppy Billett
- Production Driver
- Shawn Dixon
- Opening title credits
- Edward Dalton
- Opening title credits
- Ben Marshall
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Capital Films
27 Exbury RoadLondon SE6 4NB
+44 (0)7734 925 829 / +44 (0)7725 898 458
clairefarah@capital-films.com / stevenfarah@capital-films.com
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