Project Detail

Getting Ready

Synopsis

In 'Getting Ready' we watch a faded icon of stage and screen backstage as she prepares for the greatest performance of her life - a star-studded suicide.

Captured on sumptuous super 8 film and evoking the spirit of old Hollywood, this vintage-style short premiered at the London Independent Film Festival.

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Details

Year: 2010
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 5 mins 22 secs
Format: Super 8
Director: Ben Barton
Editor: Ben Barton
Production Designer: Scott Gibson
Composer: Robert Harris
Principal cast: Jennifer Harris

Genre

Experimental LGBTQIA+ Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Roundeye

www.benbarton.co.uk

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