Project Detail

The Nest Egg

Name: The Nest Egg
Director: Lucy Patrick Ward
Genre: Woman Director, Comedy, Drama
Released: 2016
Duration: 14 min 2 sec

Synopsis

The stories of a lonely widower and a precocious young girl unexpectedly converge with the help of a chicken suit.

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Details

Year: 2016
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 14 min 2 sec
Format: Arri ALEXA
Director: Lucy Patrick Ward
Producer: Martina Silcock
Executive Producer: Alan Moore
Editor: Robbie Gibbon
Screenwriter: Lee Sutton
Director of Photography: Sarah Cunningham
Production Designer: Madelaine Leech
Sound: Jon Newell, Timothy Siddall, Will Thomas
Composer: Fraya Thomsen
Principal cast: Paul Copley, James Northcote, Lily Bacon-Darwin
Film Image: © Stealing Horses Productions Ltd. Photo Credit Sarah Cunningham

Genre

Woman Director Comedy Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Stealing Horses Productions Ltd, Happy Outlier Pictures Limited

c/o Martina Silcock

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Martina Silcock

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