Project Detail

Birthday Girl

Synopsis

Birthday Girl is a somewhat twisted comedy, it looks at matriarchal omnipotence, favouritism and the hierarchy of familial rivary. It deals with the cruelty of expectation and disappointment and demonstrates the early but ultimate lesson that life is hard. Unless you're top dog.

Details

Year: 2007
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 4 mins 17 secs
Format: HiDef
Director: Susannah Doyle
Producer: Louise McManus
Editor: St. John Bowman
Screenwriter: Susannah Doyle
Director of Photography: Alex Reid
Production Designer: Max Bellhouse
Sound: Dave Hunt
Composer: James Petrie
Principal cast: Claire Rushbrook, Natasha and Anouska Longland

Genre

Comedy

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Film London

Suite 6.10, The Tea Building
56 Shoreditch High Street
London E1 6JJ
UK

c/o Susannah Doyle

95, Cowley Road
London SW14 8QD
UK

email@suzdoyle.fsnet.co.uk

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