Butterfly Kisses
Synopsis
Official Selection Berlinale 2017 - Generation 14plus - World premiere
Details
- Year
- 2017
- Type of film
- Features
- Running time
- 89 mins
- Format
- RED RAW MONOCHROME: 4K
- Director
-
Rafael Kapelinski 1st Feature
- Producer
- Merlin Merton
- Executive Producer
- Mike Jones, Lauro Rocha, Alexia Rocha, Ramin Sabi, Edmund Marlowe, Zoe Solanki
- Editor
- Andrew Walton
- Screenwriter
- Greer Ellison
- Director of Photography
- Nick Cooke
- Production Designer
- Fleur Whitlock
- Sound
- Gernot Fuhrmann
- Music
- Nathan W. Klein
- Principal cast
- Theo Stevenson, Liam Whiting, Byron Lyons, Rosie Day, Thomas Turgoose, Elliot Cowan, Charlotte Beaumont
- Co-Executive Producer
- Mayed Al-Qasimi, Philippe Audi-Dor, David Braithwaite, Robin Craine, Byron McNally
- Developed with the support of
- BBC Films (UK), Film London - Microwave (UK)
Genre
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
A Blue Shadows Films production in association with Rocha World Films (US) with the support of Northern Ireland Screen (UK)
Blue Shadows Films
Merlin Merton79 Wardour Street
London
W1D 6QB
Sales Company
M-Appeal (world sales excluding US, UK, Canada, Poland)
10969 BerlinGermany
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