The Callers
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- Year
- 2024
- Type of film
- Shorts
- Running time
- 19 min 42 sec
- Director
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Lindsey Dryden
- Producer
- Colleen Cassingham, Samantha Steele, Lindsey Dryden
- Executive Producer
- J Wortham, Jess Devaney, Anya Rous
- Editor
- Viridiana Lieberman, César Martínez Barba
- Screenwriter
- Lindsey Dryden
- Director of Photography
- Beatriz Sastre
- Production Designer
- Tin Vlainic
- Sound
- Feliz Waverley Hudson, Filipe Messeder, Laura Heinzinger
- Music
- Jo Paterson
- Principal cast
- Femi Otitoju, Diana James, Tash Walker, Adam Beral
- Advisors
- Tash Walker, Adam Zmith
- Development Producer
- Nora Wilkinson
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