Project Detail

Oranges and Sunshine

Name: Oranges and Sunshine
Director: Jim Loach
Genre: Drama
Released: 2010
Duration: 105 mins

Synopsis

Oranges and Sunshine tells the story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovered one of the most significant social scandals in recent times: the organized deportation of children from the United Kingdom.
Almost single-handedly, against overwhelming odds and with little regard for her own well-being, Margaret reunited thousands of families, brought authorities to account and worldwide attention to an extraordinary miscarriage of justice.

Details

Year: 2010
Type of project: Features
Running time: 105 mins
Format: 35mm
Director: Jim Loach
Producer: Camilla Bray, Emile Sherman, Iain Canning
Executive Producer: Suzanne Alizart, Arnab Banerji, Mark Gooder, Sharon Menzies, Rebecca O'Brien
Editor: Dany Cooper ASE
Screenwriter: Rona Munro (script), Margaret Humphreys (book)
Director of Photography: Denson Baker ASC
Production Designer: Melinda Doring
Sound: Production Sound Mixer (UK): John Hughes AMPS
Composer: Lisa Gerrard
Principal cast: Emily Watson, Hugo Weaving, David Wenham, Lorraine Ashbourne

Genre

Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

UK, Australia coproduction

A Sixteen Films (UK) and See-Saw Films (UK) production presented by Screen Australia (AU) and Little Gaddesden Productions (UK); in association with Fulcrum Media Finance (AU), EM Media (UK), South Australian Film Corporation (AU), Deluxe (AU), Screen NSW (AU), BBC Films (UK)

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Sales Company

AMBI Distribution (US)

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