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Getting On

Synopsis

Another day unfolds in an anonymous woman’s life, as she cooks and cleans for her uncommunicative husband and sullen grown-up children. Then, late in the afternoon, she has an unusual visitor.

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Details

Year: 2012
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 9 Minutes
Director: Ewan Stewart
Producer: Ewan Stewart, Maeve McMahon
Editor: Scott McCartney
Screenwriter: Liam Stewart (Story), Liam Stewart (Screenplay), Ewan Stewart (Screenplay)
Director of Photography: George Geddes
Sound: Kahl Henderson
Principal cast: Louise Goodall, James O’Hara, James Ramsay, Liam Lambie, Veila Hutton, Antoni Burns, Isobel Thompson, Pamela Robertson
Casting Director: Christopher Quinn
Art Director: Kate V. Robertson
Colourist: John Sackey

Genre

Experimental Scottish Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Foundling Films

+44(0)7970 430495

foundlingfilms@gmail.com

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