Project Detail

Giants

Synopsis

Drifting through his post-industrial town scavenging for scrap, isolated teenager Sandy finds unexpected purpose after meeting conspiracy theorist Don, who tasks him with destroying a local wind farm.
A subversive retelling of Cervantes' Don Quixote - GIANTS is set against the backdrop of about living in an austerity-ravaged north-eastern town, a community stripped of its purpose and prospects the way ships were broken on it's very doorstep; its about false visions for the future for young men often groomed by radical ideology; and it's about the giants we imagine for ourselves.
Official Selection Leeds International Film Festival 2025
Official Selection Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2025

Details

Year: 2025
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 17 min 20 sec
Format: DIGITAL
Director: Andy Berriman
Producer: Dermot O'Dempsey
Editor: Dom Old, John Kirkbride
Screenwriter: Alex Oates
Director of Photography: Jack Edwards
Production Designer: May Davies
Sound: Fred Englefield
Composer: Cecilia Morgan
Principal cast: Josh Barrow, Trevor Fox

Genre

Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Rockall Films

36 Stonyford
Lauder
Berwickshire
TD2 6AW

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