Project Detail

The Party's Just Beginning

Synopsis

In the Highlands of Scotland, a girl suffers the suicide of her best friend. In a town renowned for it’s growing suicide rate, she spirals into a mid-twenties crisis.
Witty and sarcastic, her manner is rapid and quick fire. If only someone could hear her hilarity. She can’t seem to connect with anyone and her awareness of mortality consumes her.
She forms relationships with various men in attempts to find herself again. She meets a man simultaneously enduring a mid-life crisis and she develops an anonymous connection with an old man over the phone who is at the end of his own life.
None of them give her the answers she needs and ultimately, she is left to confront herself, and what's truly haunting her.
Written and directed by Karen Gillan, this surreal coming of age tale is her love letter to her hometown.

Details

Year
2018
Type of project
Features
Running time
91 mins
Format
DCP
Director
Karen Gillan 1st Feature
Producer
Mali Elfman, R. Andru Davies, Claire Mundell
Executive Producer
Boman Modine, Tien-Huei Grace Yeh, Sloan Martin, Albert Gersten,
Editor
Brett W. Bachman
Screenwriter
Karen Gillan
Director of Photography
Edd Lukas
Production Designer
Jason Carlin
Sound
Douglas Kerr
Composer
Peijn Caudron (Kreng)
Principal cast
Karen Gillan, Lee Pace, Matthew Beard, Paul Higgins, Siobahn Redmond

Categories

Production Status

Production Company

US, UK coproduction

A Mt Hollywood (US), Synchronicity Films (UK) production

Synchronicity Films

+44 (0)141 406 9558 / + 44 (0)20 8166 5776

Sales Company

UTA (United Talent Agency)

9336 Civic Center Drive
Beverly Hills
CA 90210
USA

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