Project Detail

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 film
Shorts
Running time
11 mins
Format
HD
Director
Simon Bird
Producer
Matthew James Wilkinson
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
Music
The Raincoats
Principal cast
Pauline Collins, Rosaleen Linehan

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