Patient 39
Synopsis
Details
- Year
- 2014
- Type of project
- Shorts
- Running time
- 14 mins 27 secs
- Format
- Digital (Alexa)
- Director
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Dan Clifton
- Producer
- Roland Holmes
- Co-Producer
- Lizzie Crouch
- Executive Producer
- Dan Clifton, Christine Hartland, Andrew Herring, Michael Walker
- Editor
- Richard Wilkinson
- Screenwriter
- Dan Clifton (adapted from a William Boyd short story)
- Director of Photography
- Oliver Schofield
- Production Designer
- Sophia Manske
- Sound
- John Moffat, Matthieu Baron
- Composer
- Andy Hopkins
- Principal cast
- Mark Bazeley, Alfie Stewart, Julia Rayner, Olivia Dunin
- Costume
- Julie Rautenstrauch
- Make-up
- Siobhan Harper-Ryan
- Sound Mixer
- John Rogerson
- VFX
- Atomic Arts, BDH
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