Project Detail

Honours In Attendance

Shyam Doonga

Synopsis

Set within London's neighbourhoods, Honours In Attendance shines a light on the unconventional lives of two live-at-home students, Sean & Raymond. Whilst Raymond happily shuns campus life, Sean haplessly tries to integrate. Following their first lecture, the two students invoke a friendship that transcends a mutual disdain for their tutors and peers. Their camaraderie offers solace in an environment charged by isolation, apathy, identity crises and looming deadlines.

Details

Year: 2018
Type of project: Features
Running time: 82 min
Format: Super 16mm
Director: Shyam Doonga 1st Feature
Producer: Ishmael Norris, Shyam Doonga
Executive Producer: Shyam Doonga, Ishmael Norris
Editor: Shyam Doonga
Screenwriter: Shyam Doonga
Director of Photography: Shyam Doonga
Sound: Ishmael Norris, Shyam Doonga, Louise Brown, Nick Ward, Neil Wilkes
Composer: Zac Calvert
Principal cast: Richard Ganly, Ishmael Norris, Daniel Emam, Natalia Douglas

Genre

Experimental Comedy Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Blue Spectre Film Limited

86-90 Paul Street
London
EC2A 4NE

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