Project Detail

Natural Cures for Common Ailments

Name: Natural Cures for Common Ailments
Director: Zoe and Christabel Gingell
Genre: Welsh, Drama
Released: 2004
Duration: 3 mins 10 secs

Synopsis

In a subterranean cell, a half-starved girl dreams about the baby inside her. In a squalid kitchen, a cook prepares a mystery breakfast. Their stories come together in a gothic birthing room.

Details

Year: 2004
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 3 mins 10 secs
Format: 35mm, Kodak
Director: Zoe and Christabel Gingell
Producer: Gaynor Messer Price
Executive Producer: Gaynor Messer Price
Editor: Glyn Shakeshaft
Screenwriter: Sian Hughes
Director of Photography: Ray Orton
Sound: Mic Shoring
Composer: John Rea
Principal cast: Heledd Baskerville, Nicola Rauh, Anwen Williams

Genre

Welsh Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

BODA Cyf

c/o Sgrin Cymru Wales
The Bank
10 Mount Stuart Square
Cardiff Bay
Cardiff
CF10 5EE
Wales
UK

T+44 (0)29 2033 3317

gwion@sgrin.co.uk

Sales Company

Britshorts Ltd

25 Beak Street
London
W1F 9RT
UK

T +44 (0)20 7734 2277

simon@britshorts.com

Visit Website

www.britshorts.com

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