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Spaceship

Synopsis

When his daughter goes missing in an apparent alien abduction, Gabriel's search takes him dangerously close to her strange group of so-called friends. But the further he goes inside their computer game and fantasy-obsessed world, the more he realises that he must confront his own difficult memories if he is to get his daughter back.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Dare Strand

Details

Year
2016
Type of project
Features
Running time
90 min
Director
Alex Taylor 1st Feature
Producer
Nicola Bowen, Olivier Kaempfer
Editor
Carmela Iandoli
Screenwriter
Alex Taylor
Director of Photography
Liam Iandoli
Production Designer
Francesca Massariol
Principal cast
Alexa Davies, Antti Reini, Tallulah Haddon, Lara Peake, Lucian Charles Collier, Steven Elder, Jack Winthrop, Kristof Gerega, Harry Jarvis

Genre

Drama

Categories

Fiction

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Belly Productions, Parkville Pictures, iFeatures, Creative England, BFI, BBC Films, Seaweed Films

Parkville Pictures

4A Parkville Road
London
SW6 7BX

Sales Company

Parkville Pictures (World sales excluding US)

Olivier Kaempfer
4A Parkville Road
London
SW6 7BX

Bridge Independent (US sales)

Bill Strauss

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