Project Detail

Playing Nurse

Synopsis

When a young girl wants to help her sick father she thinks she has found the perfect person to call, but this nurse gives a different kind of medicine.

Details

Year
2011
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
9mins 12secs
Format
Super-16mm
Director
Miranda Howard-Williams
Producer
Steffen Wild
Editor
Ang Yee-Sien
Screenwriter
Miranda Howard-Williams
Director of Photography
Edgar Dubrovskiy
Production Designer
Reuben McNaughton
Sound
Jake Whitelee
Composer
Gabriel Currington
Principal cast
Tianna Webster, Stephen Lockwood, Ebony Gilbert

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