Project Detail

Turning

Name: Turning
Director: Karni Arieli, Saul Freed
Genre: Experimental, Literary Adaptation, Drama
Released: 2010
Duration: 10 mins

Synopsis

On his sixth birthday Robert receives three beautiful old ladies in his mother's sitting room. Through his eyes we visit the memory of an afternoon: gifts scuttle across the floor, strange visions appear between knobbly knees, and the bird-like ladies tell a magical tale of an emperor with no skin.

Details

Year: 2010
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 10 mins
Format: 35mm
Director: Karni Arieli, Saul Freed
Producer: Alison Sterling, Kat Armour-Brown
Executive Producer: Daniel Bergman, Claire Spencer Cook, Robert Herman, Luke Jacobs, Emily Kyriakides
Editor: Kate Owen
Screenwriter: Karni and Saul, based on a story by Lynda Sexson
Director of Photography: Ben Moulden
Production Designer: Benjamin J Ansell
Sound: Steve Single
Composer: Various
Principal cast: Maureen Wild, Carol Kirkland, Audrey Holt, Patrick Gibbs, Natasha Alderslade

Genre

Experimental Literary Adaptation Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Stink/Rokkit Ltd

1 Alfred Mews
London
W1T 7AA
UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7462 4000
Fax: +44 (0)20 7462 4001

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www.rokkit.tv

Sales Company

Claire Cook

Onedotzero
Unit 212c Curtain House
134-146 Curtain Road
London
EC2A 3AR
UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7729 0072

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