Project Detail

The Chop

Synopsis

A comedy about Yossi, a charismatic Kosher butcher who loses his job, cannot find work at other Kosher butchers, and decides to pretend to be Muslim in order to get work at a Halal butchers.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Laugh Strand

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Details

Year: 2016
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 16 mins
Format: Digital - Alexa
Director: Lewis Rose
Producer: Daphnée Hocquard
Executive Producer: Michael Etherton, Judy Ironside, James Cotton, Sajid Varda
Editor: Lewis Rose, Samantha Rhodes
Screenwriter: Lewis Rose
Director of Photography: Emma Dalesman
Production Designer: Alexandra Toomey
Sound: Louis Morand
Composer: Koby Israelite
Principal cast: Amir Boutrous, Andy Linden, Waj Ali, Waleed Akhtar, Sajid Varda, Daniel Kramer
Associate Producer: Alex Emanuel, Leanne Dimant, Asher Tlalim

Genre

Comedy

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Cotton Reel Entertainment

Daphnée Hocquard

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Sales Company

c/o Cotton Reel Entertainment

Daphnée Hocquard

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