Project Detail

Widdershins

Synopsis

In a steampunk future, the life of a pampered gentleman is seamlessly automated by machines, but his orderly existence is thrown into chaos when he chooses to pursue a free-spirited woman, against the advice of his robot butler.

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Details

Year: 2018
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 11 mins 10 secs
Format: Digital
Director: Simon P. Biggs
Producer: Will Adams
Co-Producer: Mal Young
Executive Producer: Paul Welsh, Carolynne Sinclair, Holly Daniel, Ross McKenzie
Editor: Simon P. Biggs
Screenwriter: Simon P Biggs
Production Designer: Scott Morris
Sound: Big Mouth Audio
Composer: Giles Lamb
Principal cast: Brian Cox, Jam Gray

Genre

Action Horror Scottish Fantasy Sci-Fi

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Once Were Farmers

Will Adams
Code Base
8-10 Corn Exchange Road
Stirling
FK8 2HU

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Sales Company

Magnet Film (International sales, excluding UK)

Georg Gruber

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Hopscotch FIlms (UK sales)

Carolynne Sinclair Kidd
Film City Glasgow
401 Govan Road
Glasgow
G51 2QJ

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