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Personal Effects

Synopsis

Personal Effects examines a child's experience of grief following the death of her mother. Mourning is complex, contradictory, often silent, but always painful.

Details

Year
1998
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
8 mins
Format
16mm
Director
Christiana Ebohon
Producer
Ben Court
Director of Photography
Conor Connolly
Principal cast
Cher Pearce, Jerome Wright and Sîan Reeves
Screen Writer
Hilary Irving

Categories

Fiction

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Christiana Ebohon 4 Howell Walk London SE1 6TL Tel: 020 7701 5265

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