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Johnno's Dead

Synopsis

Serving twelve years behind bars for a crime you didn't commit focuses the mind. Everything becomes crystal clear. All of the injustice poisons the soul and there's nothing left but to settle old scores.
This film is the animation/live action hybrid sequel to Chris Shepherd's award winning 'Dad's Dead'.
Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2017 - World premiere

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Details

Year: 2017
Type of film: Shorts
Running time: 8 mins
Format: HD Digital
Director: Chris Shepherd
Producer: Nicolas Schmerkin, Abigail Addison
Editor: Miikka Leskinen
Screenwriter: Chris Shepherd
Director of Photography: Peter Ellmore, Paul Teverini
Sound: Andy Humphreys
Music: Oliver Davis
Principal cast: Ian Hart, Chris Freeney

Genre

Action Comedy

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

France, UK coproduction

Autour De Minuit (FR), Polkadot (UK)

Polkadot Productions Limited

1 Chevening Road
Upper Norwood
London
SE19 3TE

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Sales Company

Autour De Minuit

21 Rue Henry Monnier
Paris
France

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Through a series of ghostly reminiscences a young man tries to piece together fragmented moments from the past, memories being triggered by admiration for his best friend Johnno. As the story unfolds, hero worship turns to revulsion, as the web of deception and violence that Johnno creates is revealed, pulling narrator and audience into its destructive wake. Manipulated live-action mutates and combines with ghostly digital animation.<br />

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Year: 2018

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