Project Detail

Festival

Name: Festival
Director: Annie Griffin
Genre: Woman Director, Comedy, Drama
Released: 2005
Duration: 107 mins

Synopsis

In Festival, a comedy about the Edinburgh Festival, we get to know a lot of characters. Faith gets off a bus and starts handing out leaflets for her one-woman show. Sean, a famous comedian, is incredibly rude to a radio journalist, live on air. Micheline, a posh Edinburgh housewife, rents out her enormous flat to an experimental theatre group from Canada. She can't help spying on them from the close. At their house in the country, her husband and baby are waiting for her.

Joan, the radio journalist, wants to sleep with the charming Irish comedian Tommy. Does he really like her or does he just want five stars this year? Will the alcoholic PA Petra go off the wagon after a row with her horrible boss Sean? Will the Comedy Award jury ever agree on a shortlist? Who is that beautiful girl comic Nicky flirting with now?

Who will get an audience? Who will win an award? Who will find love, who is really talented and who will be the Next Big Thing?

Festival is about that strange month of August when the whole world comes to Scotland to perform, to watch and to drink, and every show promises to be better than the last one. For one month a year, for some people, Edinburgh becomes the centre of the universe.

Details

Year: 2005
Type of project: Features
Running time: 107 mins
Format: 35mm
Director: Annie Griffin 1st Feature
Producer: Robert Jones, Tessa Ross, Anita Cox
Editor: William Webb
Screenwriter: Annie Griffin
Director of Photography: Danny Cohen
Sound: Peter Brill
Principal cast: Amelia Bulmore, Billy Carter, Raquel Cassidy, Megan Dodds, Duncan Duff, Jonah Lotan, Meredith Macneill, Stephen Mangan, Lyndsey Marshall, Stuart Milligan, Daniela Nardini, Chris O' Dowd, Deirdre O' Kane, Dorothy Paul, Lucy Punch, Clive Russell

Genre

Woman Director Comedy Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Young Pirate Films

Upper Ostaig
Teangue
Isle of Skye IV44 8RQ, Scotland
UK

T +44 (0)14 7184 4444

youngfilms@btinternet.com

Visit Website

www.youngfilms.co.uk

Sales Company

Portman Film and TV

21-25 St Annes Court
London W1F 0BJ
UK

T+44 (0)20 7494 8024

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