Project Detail

The Savage Canvas

Synopsis

The Savage Canvas is about a theatre director with big ideas who finds his radical new performance piece being undermined and ultimately taken from him by a self possessed precocious school girl.

Details

Year
2011
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
19 mins
Format
S16mm
Director
Tim Hope
Producer
Andrew Ruhemann
Co-Producer
Andrew Ruhemann
Editor
Paul Hardcastle
Screenwriter
Susanna Kleeman, Tim Hope
Director of Photography
Simon Vickery
Production Designer
Joel Collins
Sound
Diego Sanchez, Christopher Wilson
Principal cast
Julian Barratt, David Ashton, Montserrat Lombard, Bethmi Tikiribandra, Stephen Evans, Sadie Shimmin, Shy Betterly

Genre

Production Status

Production Company

Passion Pictures and Cloth Productions

33-34 Rathbone Place
London W1T 1JN
UK

T +44 (0)207 323 9933

russell@passion-pictures.com

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