Once A Man
Synopsis
Details
- Year
- 2013
- Type of project
- Shorts
- Running time
- 22 mins 18 secs
- Format
- Red 4K
- Director
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Asim Abbasi
- Producer
- Asim Abbasi
- Co-Producer
- Mehul Patel
- Editor
- Nick Refuerzo
- Screenwriter
- Asim Abbasi
- Director of Photography
- Malte Rosenfeld
- Production Designer
- Niina Topp
- Sound
- Richard Simpson
- Composer
- Isin Eray
- Principal cast
- Adam Thomas-Wright, Bill Thomas, Judy Buxton, Ilona Bou-Habib, Holly Jacobson, Alex Woolf, Sarah Lamesch, Tom Sykes, Fiona Ryan
Genre
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Illicitus Productions
2 Clarendon Court, 33 Maida ValeLondon, W91AJ
email: info@illicitusproductions.com
web: www.illicitusproductions.com
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