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

Genre

Woman Director Drama

Production Status

Complete

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

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Sales Company

UTA (United Talent Agency)

9336 Civic Center Drive
Beverly Hills
CA 90210
USA

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