Project Detail

Mai Jeruom

Synopsis

A short film about a mother, faced with overwhelming evidence of her son's guilt in a violent crime, but determined to cling onto her belief in his innocence.

Details

Year: 2022
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 15 min 7 sec
Format: 4K
Director: Adjani Salmon
Producer: Andre Fyffe
Executive Producer: Aaliah Simpson, Mathieu Ajan, David Kimbangi, Max Park
Editor: Gez Morris
Screenwriter: Adjani Salmon
Director of Photography: Korsshan Schlauer
Production Designer: Jenny Wells, Alexa Daly
Sound: Peter Davis
Composer: Dom Coyote
Principal cast: Jo Martin, Gary Beadle, Xirone Russell, Kai Francis-Lewis

Genre

Black Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Supported by BFI NETWORK and Film4

Elicit Pictures Limited

66 Old Kent Road
London
SE1 5XH

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Kevin and Cassandra are a married couple who have lost their only daughter Hannah in a freak car accident. They both raised her differently. Kevin had been a traditional parent, Cassandra a permissive one. While Hannah had decided to exhibit her body and mind online, she cut adrift from her father and gravitates towards her mother. Her death drove a wedge between them. Their lounge becomes a battlefield where incendiary words and spiteful things are said. Their marriage is one where opposites no longer attract. Kevin is filled with loathing for his in-laws, his daughter’s boyfriend, himself. Cassandra wears her daughter’s favorite colours with pride and exhibits her painting on the walls. Kevin finds he is powerless in his home and Cassandra mocks the fact that it was her father who bought it. And when he finally leaves it, he leaves Cassandra forever.