Project Detail

Kill the Day

Synopsis

A fictional portrait based on the accounts of an ex-addict.





'Everything around about you blocks the feeling that you're good out. I can fit in here. I can steal. I can live that life. I can go and steal every day, go and take junk every day, it's easy 'cause I've done it for years. It's the stepping out of that and doing something different that's frightening'.

Details

Year
1998
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
18 mins
Format
16mm
Director
Lynne Ramsey
Producer
Gavin Emerson
Director of Photography
Alwin Kuchler
Principal cast
James Ramsey
Screen Writer
Lynne Ramsey

Categories

Production Status

Production Company

Holy Cow Films 24 Tabor Street London W6 0BW Tel: 0468 398444 Fax: 020 7494 7808

Sales Company

BFI Films 21 Stephen Street, London W1P 2LN Tel: 020 7255 1444 Fax: 020 7580 5830 E Mail: andrea.klein@bfi.org.uk

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