Project Detail

The Portrait

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Synopsis

When a young art student paints a portrait of her grandfather, her mother Laura is forced to revisit family secrets she’d been trying to forget. Should she tell her daughter what she knows about him or spare her from the knowledge of his wartime past?

Details

Year: 2014
Type of film: Shorts
Running time: 19 mins 45 secs
Format: DCP
Director: Chris Forster
Producer: Clive Myer, Lynda Myer-Bennett, Katie Holly
Executive Producer: Allan Niblo, Janine Marmot
Editor: John Richards
Screenwriter: Ewan Forster
Director of Photography: Florian Emmerich
Production Designer: Thalia Ecclestone
Sound: Stephen Haywood
Composer: Rob Smith
Principal cast: Joss Ackland, Max Lewis, Neil Pearson, Charlotte Ritchie, Juliet Stevenson

Genre

Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Eclectic Films

Chelsea Reach Studios
79/89 Lots Road
London
SW10 0RN

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Blinder Films

First Floor
4 Hatch Street Lower
Dublin 2

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