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

Genre

Experimental Horror Sport Drama Fantasy Sci-Fi

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Supported by BFI NETWORK

Random Universe

Nina Somers
57 Saxon Road
Hastings
East Sussex
TN35 5HH

Sales Company

Jess Dadds

jessdadds@gmail.com

Nina Somers

nkhsomers@hotmail.com

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