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The Cause

Synopsis

Sometime in the near future. Somewhere is mid-revolution. An activist mother and her photographer son are trapped together in a bunker. A last chance to heal a lifelong rift - he's always suspected that she put her political principals before him. But now she's dying..

Details

Year
2013
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
13 minutes
Format
HD
Director
Marco De Luca
Producer
Tim Aslam, Marco Scotti, Debra Wootton
Executive Producer
Rosa Russo
Editor
Valentina Massimi
Screenwriter
Stuart Thomas
Director of Photography
Cristian Mantio
Production Designer
Carlos Fontanarrosa
Sound
Lois Jones
Composer
James Wilkie
Principal cast
Carey Lowell, Dan Ritchie
VFX Supervisor
Paul Butterworth
Sound Recordist
Daniel Rodisanski
Costume Designer
Lucille Acevedo Jones
Make-up Artist
Jodi Corpe

Genre

Horror Drama Fantasy Sci-Fi

Categories

Fiction

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Webra Multimedia

Pinewood Studios
Pinewood Road
Iver Heath
SL0 0NH

http://webra.co.uk/

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