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Ernestine and Kit

Synopsis

A darkly comic fairytale about two elderly women who travel the countryside of rural Ireland, imagining the terrible, immoral lives people are living today. Their one consolation is the innocence of children…

Details

Year
2015
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
11 mins
Format
HD
Director
Simon Bird
Producer
Matthew James Wilkinson
Co-Producer
John Wallace
Executive Producer
Paul Ashton, Kate Lee
Editor
Tommy Boulding
Screenwriter
Simon Bird, based on the short story by Kevin Barry
Director of Photography
Jamie Cairney
Production Designer
Mark Kilbride
Sound
Steve Parker
Composer
The Raincoats
Principal cast
Pauline Collins, Rosaleen Linehan

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