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A funny tale of modern manners and communication breakdown is told entirely in animated captions.
The idea for the film hit me when I sat through a festival screening of a poorly-subtitled Spanish film. Simple spelling mistakes made serious scenes amusing, and by the time the screening had finished I had decided on the premise, the amount of characters, and even their 'colours'.
I wrote the script that same evening while I was kept awake by the snoring of a filmmaker I was sharing a room with. Returning home all excited, I pitched it for two separate commissions and was rejected for both, meeting some fierce resistance and harsh feedback along the way.
It is still the most successful out of my fifteen shorts, so the moral of the story is: if the funders say no, make it anyway.
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- Tim Cunningham
- Sarah Tutt
- Juliet Jones
- Shaun Mechen
- Penn Linfield
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Bang, London 2001
Raindance Film Festival, London 2001
The BBC British Short Film Festival, London 2001
Shorts! International Film Festival, Amsterdam 2001
Brief Encounters, Bristol 2000
Resfest, World Tour, 2001
Short Cuts Cologne, Germany 2001
Cork Film Festival, Ireland 2001
Kino, Manchester 2001
Stuttgart Filmwinter, Germany, 2001
Slamdance Film Festival, Utah US 2001
Transmediale International Media Art Festival, Berlin 2001
Bradford Film Festival 2001
Bermuda International Film Festival 2001
Houston Worldfest 2001
Britspotting (British Independent Film Festival � 3 screenings), Berlin 2001
Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival, Canada 2001
Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia 2001
Kilkenny Cat Laughs Festival, Ireland 2001
Splitski Film Festival, Croatia 2001
� 2000 Simon Ellis & Network Ireland Television
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