Project Detail

Puffling

Synopsis

Over one night, on a remote island off the coast of Iceland, young adults Birta and Selma take it upon themselves to counteract the damaging human impact on nature; exchanging night-time parties for nocturnal puffin patrol, in a coming-of-age story of young adults and pufflings alike.
Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2023 - Documentary Shorts Competition - World premiere
Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2024 - International Competition

Details

Year
2023
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
20 min 21 sec
Director
Jessica Bishopp
Producer
Alice Hughes, Gannesh Rajah, co-producer Ada Benjamínsdóttir
Executive Producer
Caitlin Mae Burke, Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
Editor
Xanna Ward Dixon
Director of Photography
Anna MacDonald
Composer
Composer/Original Music - Jófríður Ákadóttir

Categories

Production Status

Production Company

Sales Company

Page updates

This page was last updated on 12th May 2025. Please let us know if we need to make any amendments or request edit access by clicking below.

See also

You may also be interested in other relevant projects in the database.

Skyward Skyward

Director: Jessica Bishopp

Year: 2022

Young birdwatchers, Mya and Arjun, feel the pressure of climate change and the biodiversity crisis greatly. Although they feel isolated and judged by others, they are determined to stand up for what they believe in; coming of age in the age of climate chaos. Official Selection DOK Leipzig 2022

Pampas Pampas

Director: Jessica Bishopp

Year: 2020

Plants were used in 1970s suburbia to send seductive signals to neighbours, or so rumour has it. What went on behind closed curtains? This hybrid documentary explores the truth in the botanical myth. A look at sexual signalling, female desire, subcultures, and suburban legend.

Galicia! Galicia!

Director: Anna Maguire, Kyle Greenberg

Year: 2026

What if you went on a holiday and the apocalypse happened? GALICIA! is a found-footage, hybrid-documentary following a couple through home video footage as they visit their friends at a winery in rural Spain and inadvertently capture the end of days. We live in a time where the sense of our impending mutually assured destruction is more real than it’s ever been. GALICIA! Takes the form of a holiday video - a document of a couple before - and after the great cataclysm. The film starts as something that feels unedited - an accidental video diary of an ordinary couple that feels somewhat ghostly as much as it is also pedestrian. As the film evolves and degrades, we are led to question the fragility of humanity, as well as its power to endure.