Project Detail

Luka

Name: Luka
Director: Maureen Prins
Released: 2001
Duration: 10.18 mins

Synopsis

A story of a lonely adolescent girl, living on an isolated farm in the middle of nowhere, who creates her own friends: the eggs she finds in the farmyard, making her own magical world to retreat herself from her violent, abusive father and her mentally ill mother.

Details

Year: 2001
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 10.18 mins
Format: Betacam Sp
Director: Maureen Prins
Producer: Monica Rubio
Editor: Maureen Prins
Screenwriter: Maureen Prins
Director of Photography: Sarah Tapsfield
Sound: Lloyd Samuels
Principal cast: C Higginbotham (Luka), M Bedford (Father), H McKay (Mother)

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Papelito Productions

Contact: M Rubio
Northern Media School
15 Paternoster Row
Sheffield S1 2BX
UK

T 0114 2254648

monicarubio@hotmail.com

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