Project Detail

Trifle

Kevin J Thomson

Synopsis

Alice, a grieving and disconnected pharmacist struggles with the knowledge that her husband was having an affair before his death. When she encounters ‘the other woman’ mourning her husband’s ghost-bike it forces Alice to confront her detachment, accepting compassion and understanding in the unlikely form of her trifle-loving methadone patient.

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Details

Year: 2020
Type of film: Shorts
Running time: 15 min
Director: Mike Callaghan
Producer: Joanne Williamson
Executive Producer: Carolynne Sinclair Kidd, Holly Daniels, Sean Greenhorn
Editor: Mark Fraser
Screenwriter: Rachelle Atalla
Director of Photography: Alan McLaughlin
Production Designer: Gail Bowman
Sound: Jonathon McLoone
Composer: Carmen Bradford
Principal cast: Amy Manson, Tam Dean Burn
Gaffer: Robyn O'Donnell
1st Assistant Director: Amy Hogarth
Art Director: Aaron Close
Costume Designer: Kerry McAreavey
Hair & Make Up Artist: Yvonne Lynch
Casting: Simone Pereira Hind and Anna Dawson

Genre

Scottish Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Supported by BFI NETWORK

Hopscotch Films Ltd

Govan
Glasgow
G51 2QJ

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