Hope Is Lost
Synopsis
personal sacrifice.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025 - Short Film Competition
Details
- Year
- 2025
- Type of project
- Shorts
- Running time
- 16 min 8 sec
- Format
- Stop-frame Animation
- Director
-
Eno Enefiok
- Producer
- Mikel Iriarte, Pauline Blanchet, Adam Gregory Smith
- Co-Producer
- Avdi Thachi
- Executive Producer
- Eno Enefiok, Rakie Ayola, Elias Savada, Emem Enefiok, John Adderley
- Editor
- Eno Enefiok
- Screenwriter
- Eno Enefiok
- Director of Photography
- Eno Enefiok, Jerry Amadi-Pradon
- Production Designer
- Eno Enefiok
- Sound
- Alfie Holloway
- Composer
- Yasmine Latkowski
- Principal cast
- Rakie Ayola, Gary Carr, Matt Rose, Charity Muiruri, Rejoice Akani, Hannah Tobin, Patience Tobin
- Colourist
- Max Seriani
- Head of Sound Production
- Katie Miles
- Visual Effects Supervisor
- Jamie Wood
- Visual Effects Producer
- Morganne Rose
- Visual Effects Production Manager
- Sameer Jamlaney
- Visual Effects Production Coordinator
- Shantanu Sharma
- Visual Effects Production Assistants
- Tanaya Chitnis, Tulika Anand, Nilesh Mishra
- DMP Artist
- Christopher Tulloch McCabe
- Roto and Paint Supervisor
- Sarfaraz Uddin
- Paint Lead
- Francis Xavier
- Roto and Paint Artists
- Adil Hashmi, Arun Raj Mathew, Dhanraj Kiran Yelmame, Joydeep Chowdhury, Junais Junu, Pavan Kumar, Raghava Addepalli, Rakesh Kumar, Satya Gottapu, Shubhangi Bugade, Uday Aleti, Yogesh Sarwa, Karthik Dadi, Riddhi Upadhyay, Sunil Karkera
- Head of CG
- Pete Seager
- VFX Editorial Supervisor
- Beverly Maguire
- VFX Editor
- Joshua Luigi Bowen
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Hidden Art Films
Adam Gregory SmithSales Company
Aral Sea Productions (Booking Agent)
Pauline Blanchet45 St. Thomas's Road
London
N4 2QH
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