The Tobacconist
Synopsis
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024 - World Premiere
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2025 - International Premiere
Official Selection Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg 2025 - International Competition
Official Selection INTERFILM Berlin 2025 - International Competition
Official Selection Third Horizon Film Festival 2025
Details
- Year
- 2024
- Type of project
- Shorts
- Running time
- 22 min 23 sec
- Format
- Super 16mm
- Director
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Keifer Nyron Taylor
- Producer
- Manon Schwich
- Co-Producer
- Sami Said
- Executive Producer
- Francis Lovehall, Tamara Lawrance, Romario Simpson, Joanna hogg, Adam Roberts, Adam Plummer, Aaliah Simpson, Patricia Nilsson, Shan Phearon
- Editor
- Mahdy Abo Bahat, Rastko Novakovic
- Screenwriter
- Keifer Nyron Taylor
- Director of Photography
- Kit Mackenzie
- Production Designer
- Rema Kahsay
- Sound
- Stefania Fantini, Panos Chountoulidis
- Composer
- lluis Oomenech Plana, Biscuit From Speakers Corner Quartet
- Principal cast
- Francis Lovehall, Maxine Finch, Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn, Jah Prento
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Supported by BFI NETWORK
Refuge Pictures Ltd
Keifer Nyron TaylorSales Company
Refuge Pictures Ltd
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