Project Detail

Wasps

Synopsis

The state of society now is caricatured in a well-to-do but dysfunctional family contrasting sharply with the smoothly operating society of wasps in a nest over their heads. Wasps is a film about insects, infestations, nervous energy, control, chaos and untimely extinction.

Details

Year
1998
Type of film
Shorts
Running time
11 mins
Format
35mm
Director
Debbie Isitt
Producer
Kate Ogborn
Executive Producer
Kate Ogborn
Director of Photography
Roger Lanser
Principal cast
Linda Marlowe, Nick Whitfield, Simon Chandler and Heidi James
Screen Writer
John Martin Johnson

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Production Status

Production Company

Ipso Facto Films Ltd, 1 Pink Lane, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 5DW Tel: 0191 230 2585 Fax: 0191 230 4484 E Mail: ipso@crack.demon.co.uk

Sales Company

BFI Films, 21 Stephen Street, London W1P 2LN Tel: 020 7255 1444 Fax: 020 7436 7950

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