Dear Mr Shakespeare
Synopsis
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Create Strand
Details
- Year
- 2016
- Type of film
- Shorts
- Running time
- 5 mins
- Format
- digital
- Director
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Shola Amoo
- Producer
- Rienkje Attoh
- Executive Producer
- Anne Beresford
- Editor
- Mdhamiri A Nkemi
- Screenwriter
- Phoebe Boswell
- Director of Photography
- Stil Williams
- Production Designer
- Tamar Clarke Brown
- Sound
- Phil Hutchins
- Composer
- Segun Akinola
- Principal cast
- Phoebe Boswell, Ashley Thomas, Lanre Malaolu, Elisa Lasowski
Genre
Production Status
Production Company
AMI Production (A Moving Image Production)
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