Project Detail

Gravest Hit

Synopsis

Two assassins keep watch as a young man digs his own grave. Meanwhile, in a fancy-dress shop, the assassins’ daughter has just found out she is pregnant to the gravedigger when the kingpin who ordered the hit walks in.

In his debut, writer/director Robert Herbert McClean draws inspiration from myriad of classic cinema to create this truly unique dark comedy.

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Details

Year: 2021
Type of film: Shorts
Running time: 12 min 35 sec
Format: h264
Director: Robert Herbert McClean
Producer: Ross Morrison
Editor: Joshua Mulhall
Screenwriter: Robert Herbert McClean
Director of Photography: Conor Rotherham
Production Designer: Robert Herbert McClean
Sound: Simon McCormick
Composer: Support Provider
Principal cast: Lalor Roddy, Maggie Cronin, Ciaran Nolan, Derek Halligan, Leonie McDonagh, Emily McDonagh

Genre

Experimental Northern Irish Music Comedy Dance

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Savant Garde Films

94 Edenderry Village
Belfast
BT8 8LQ

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