Project Detail

River Crossing

Name: River Crossing
Director: Marina Willer
Genre: Woman Director, Drama
Released: 2007
Duration: 6 mins 54 secs

Synopsis

River Crossing is based on true story. A childhood memory of two sisters on a family excursion.

Instructed by a dominant father to cross a dangerous river and return a stranger's belongings to the opposite bank, two young girls almost drown.

A girl's voice narrates the main event but at the start of the river crossing, it is replaced by a woman's voice. This memorable day becomes the turning point of the girl's life, with no possibility of return.
Running water, the wide river and the crossing serve as metaphors for her rites of passage to adulthood: the moment she grew years in a single day.

Details

Year: 2007
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 6 mins 54 secs
Format: 35mm
Director: Marina Willer
Producer: Leena Telén
Editor: Justine Wright
Screenwriter: Leena Telen, Marina Willer
Director of Photography: Mike Eley
Production Designer: Marina Willer
Sound: Dave Hunt
Composer: Steve Beresford
Principal cast: Shannon Wilson, Senaid MacKay

Genre

Woman Director Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Leena Telén Productions

77 Mount Pleasant Lane
London E5 9EW
UK

T+44 (0)20 8806 3307

leena@btinternet.com

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