Project Detail

I Am Good at Karate

Synopsis

I AM GOOD AT KARATE follows a young teenager with mental health issues who is passionate about karate, wandering around a housing estate in East Kent locked in verbal and physical battles with a hallucinatory demon made of football shirts.

Details

Year
2021
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
11 min 13 sec
Format
Colour and black and white 16mm film
Director
Jess Dadds
Producer
Nina Somers
Executive Producer
Thomas Wightman
Editor
Ben Matthews
Screenwriter
Jess Dadds
Director of Photography
Jamie Harding
Production Designer
Sam Giles
Sound
Kevin Vanbergen, Chase Coley
Composer
Joe Deamer
Principal cast
Harley Archer, Jason Williamson, Robert George Sanders, Jiggy Bhore
Costume Designer
Erin Laurel Hayhow
Hair and Make up
Marta Melo
Colourist
Dan Moran
TV Interviewee
Nathan Filer

Production Status

Production Company

Supported by BFI NETWORK

Random Universe

Nina Somers
57 Saxon Road
Hastings
East Sussex
TN35 5HH

Sales Company

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