The Puppet Asylum
Synopsis
Details
- Year
- 2022
- Type of project
- Shorts
- Running time
- 32 min 13 sec
- Format
- Digital
- Director
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Otto Baxter
- Producer
- Daisy Allsop, Peter Beard, Bruce Fletcher
- Co-Producer
- Jeannette Sutton
- Executive Producer
- Sally Phillips, Poppy Dixon, Hayley Reynolds
- Editor
- Richard Ketteridge
- Screenwriter
- Otto Baxter
- Director of Photography
- Lorenzo Levrini
- Production Designer
- Kit Falcke
- Sound
- Aris Anastassopoulos
- Composer
- Ed Harcourt
- Principal cast
- Paul Kaye, Myanna Buring, Rebecca Callard, Dexter Fletcher, Adeel Akhtar
Genre
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Story Films / Archface Films
All3Media, Berkshire House, 168-173 High Holborn, London WC1V 7AASales Company
Sky Studios / NBCUni
Contact via daisy@archface.co.ukPage updates
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