Granny Project
Synopsis
Unlike many recent documentaries which focused on conversation and raised their protagonists on a pedestal of awe, the “Granny Project” takes a different approach: playful, not afraid of confrontations, sometimes silly and seconds later honest and emotional. An unconventional attempt of the grandchildren’s generation to ask, on a different level, questions that drove their parents to the streets in the 1960s. This film neither aims to be antagonistic nor accusatory. Instead it’s perhaps naive but no less necessary attempt to understand the other. When the three grannies sit around a table with their grandsons and various interpreters we realise that two things at least are necessary to really bring the past and present in contact: an honest interest in one’s opposite party and a good translation. (Dok Leipzig brochure 2017)
Official Selection Dok Leipzig 2017 - World premiere
Details
- Year
- 2017
- Type of project
- Features
- Running time
- 91 mins
- Format
- 4K, 2K, super 8, super 16,
- Director
-
Bálint Révész 1st Feature
- Producer
- Bálint Révész, László Kántor
- Co-Producer
- Ruben Woodin-Dechamps, Meredith Colchester, Mariann Kiss,
- Editor
- Károly Szalay
- Screenwriter
- Meredith Colchester, Ruben Woodin-Dechamps, Bálint Révész
- Director of Photography
- Ruben Woodin-Dechamps
- Sound
- Gábor Erdélyi Jr.
- Composer
- Albert Márkos
- Principal cast
- Rosanne Colchester, Gudrun Dechamps, Lívia Révész, Meredith Colchester, Ruben Woodin-Dechamps, Bálint Révész
- Associate Producer
- Orban Wallace, Patricia D'Intino, Ágnes Horváth Szabó
- Film Image
- @ Gallivant Film Ltd.
Genre
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
UK, Hungary coproduction
Gallivant Film (UK), Új Budapest Filmstudió (HU)
Gallivant Film
Universal House25-33 Southwark Street
London
SE1 1RQ
Balint Revesz
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