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How I Didn't Become A Piano Player

Synopsis

Ted, 9 year old, is the clumsiest boy in the world. Desperately searching for his vocation, he finds nothing he is good at. The breakthrough arrives the day his father comes home with an old piano. Ted has the revelation: he will become the next Mozart.
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Details

Year
2014
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
17 mins 30 secs
Director
Tommaso Pitta
Producer
Chris Hees
Editor
Pawel Slawek
Screenwriter
Tommaso Pitta
Director of Photography
Sebastian Cort
Production Designer
Jamie Burrows
Sound
Luke Shrewsbury
Composer
Arran Price
Principal cast
Logan Shearer, Tom Felton, Gabrielle Hamilton

Genre

Comedy

Categories

Fiction

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

National Film and Television School

Beaconsfield Studios
Station Road
Beaconsfield
Buckinghamshire
HP9 1LG

Tel : +44.1494.731452

Fax : +44.1494.678583
Email : festivals@nfts.co.uk

Sales Company

National Film and Television School

Beaconsfield Studios
Station Road
Beaconsfield
Buckinghamshire
HP9 1LG

Tel : +44.1494.731452

Fax : +44.1494.678583
Email : festivals@nfts.co.uk

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