Project Detail

Saving Art

Synopsis

Instead of telling his newly diagnosed five-year-old son that he has Leukaemia; Brian tells Arthur that the chemotherapy will give him superpowers. In a battle to keep them both positive, Brian is haunted by his lie as he struggles to find hope. Inspired by true events.

Details

Year: 2023
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 15 min
Director: Remi R.M. Moses
Producer: Victor Nauwynck, Jing Zhao, Dami Adeyeye
Editor: Remi R.M. Moses
Screenwriter: Remi R.M. Moses
Director of Photography: Andy Pui Man Leung
Production Designer: Ana Mykhaylova
Sound: Marta Malvestiti
Composer: Kwang-Ho Cho
Principal cast: Michael Salami, Pierre-Laurent Vawah, Alex Walton, Oxa Hazel, Niamh Lewis

Genre

Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

The London Film School

24 Shelton Street
London
WC2H 9UB

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Kevin and Cassandra are a married couple who have lost their only daughter Hannah in a freak car accident. They both raised her differently. Kevin had been a traditional parent, Cassandra a permissive one. While Hannah had decided to exhibit her body and mind online, she cut adrift from her father and gravitates towards her mother. Her death drove a wedge between them. Their lounge becomes a battlefield where incendiary words and spiteful things are said. Their marriage is one where opposites no longer attract. Kevin is filled with loathing for his in-laws, his daughter’s boyfriend, himself. Cassandra wears her daughter’s favorite colours with pride and exhibits her painting on the walls. Kevin finds he is powerless in his home and Cassandra mocks the fact that it was her father who bought it. And when he finally leaves it, he leaves Cassandra forever.

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