Notes on Blindness
Synopsis
A feature-length version of Middleton and Spinney's 2014 Sundance-selected short 'Notes on Blindness'.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2016 - New Frontier - World premiere
Details
- Year
- 2016
- Type of film
- Features
- Running time
- 87 mins
- Director
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Peter Middleton, James Spinney 1st Feature
- Producer
- Mike Brett, Steve Jamison, Jo Jo Ellison, Peter Middleton
- Editor
- Julian Quantrill
- Screenwriter
- Peter Middleton, James Spinney
- Director of Photography
- Gerry Floyd
- Production Designer
- Damien Creagh
- Sound
- Sound Design: Joakim Sundström
- Principal cast
- Dan Skinner, Simone Kirby
Genre
Production Status
Production Company
An Archer’s Mark, 104 Films, Fee Fie Foe Films, Agat Films production
Archer's Mark
First Floor120-124 Curtain Road
London
EC2A 3SQ
104 Films
PO Box 63849London
N1P 1ND
Sales Company
Cinephil
18 Levontin Street6511207 Tel Aviv
Israel
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Year: 2014
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Notes on Blindness: Rainfall
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Year: 2013
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