Two Black Boys in Paradise
Synopsis
Official Selection Tampere Film Festival 2025 - World premiere
Official Selection BFI Flare LGBTQIA+ Film Festival 2025 - National premiere
Details
- Year
- 2025
- Type of film
- Shorts
- Running time
- 9 min
- Director
-
Baz Sells
- Producer
- Ben Jackson
- Executive Producer
- Dean Atta, Aoife Hayes, Jenny Beckett, Duncan Gaman
- Editor
- Sam Hodge
- Screenwriter
- Baz Sells, Ben Jackson, Dean Atta
- Director of Photography
- Supervising DoP: Ben Jones; Co-DoPs: Kevin Paul Lawrence, Baz Sells, Jonathan Garvey
- Production Designer
- Lorna Bailey, Sanna Räsänen
- Sound
- Picturesonix; Sound Design: Jasper Dent, Adam Grigg, RéY, Alex Bird
- Composer
- Jasper Dent, Olanrewaju Diko, Adam Grigg
- Principal cast
- Jordan Stephens
- Key Animators
- Kecy Salangad, Aleksey Butorin, Anna Pearson
- Audio Description
- SoundScribe
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Supported by BFI Short Form Animation Fund
One6th Limited
Studio 216AWOL Studios
Hope Mill
113 Pollard Street
Manchester
M4 7JA
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