Project Detail

Colour Blind

Name: Colour Blind
Director: Alan Grint
Genre: Black, Drama
Released: 1998
Duration: 180 mins

Synopsis

Colour Blind charts the family passions and problems which come to the surface after Bridget McQueen arrives home with a black husband and the growing years of the couple's mixed race daughter, Rose Angela, during the period after the First World War in South Shields. The story, initially told in flashback, then follows the experiences of the adult Rose Angela as she fights to establish her own place in the world.

Details

Year: 1998
Type of project: Features
Running time: 180 mins
Format: 16mm, Digi Beta SP Fuji
Director: Alan Grint
Producer: Keith Richardson
Executive Producer: Keith Richardson
Director of Photography: Robin Vidgeon BSC
Principal cast: Carmen Ejogo, Niamh Cusack, James Larkin, Tony Armatrading, Dearbhla Molloy and Art Malik
Screen Writer: Gordon Hann

Genre

Black Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Festival Film & Television Ltd Festival House Tranquil Passage Blackheath London SE3 OBJ Tel: 020 8297 9999 Fax: 020 8297 1155

Sales Company

Brite TV The London TV Centre Upper Ground London SE1 9LT Tel: 020 7737 8323 Fax: 020 7928 8470

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