Project Detail

Bloom

Synopsis

Helen Chapman lives alone in her tidy flat and keeps herself to herself. She has never even spoken to the man next door. Never, that is, until the night she discovers something peculiar growing out of her carpet.

Details

Year: 2005
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 13 mins, 45 secs
Format: Digi Beta
Director: Martin Gent
Producer: Regina Meizoso
Editor: Yulia Martynova
Screenwriter: Emma Scott Robinson
Director of Photography: Nick Wise
Sound: Dave Hunt
Composer: Evan Jolly
Principal cast: Amanda Root, Richard Hope

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

National Film and Television School

Beaconsfield Studios
Station Road
BEACONSFIELD
Bucks HP9 1LG
UK

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