Cake
Synopsis
Details
- Year
- 2017
- Type of project
- Shorts
- Running time
- 6 mins 16 secs
- Format
- Digital
- Director
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Alan Friel
- Producer
- Farah Abushwesha
- Executive Producer
- Mark Murrell, Alex Katz
- Editor
- Vanessa Woods
- Screenwriter
- Andreas Hadjivassiliou
- Director of Photography
- Robbie Ryan
- Production Designer
- Steve Oakes
- Sound
- Andy Hoar
- Composer
- Isa Suarez
- Principal cast
- Maxine Peake, Letitia Wright
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Rocliffe Limited
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