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Wavelengths wins Best Film Award at Short Cuts Film Festival

We’re thrilled that our 12-minute, Film London supported short film Wavelengths won the award for Best Film at Short Cuts Film Festival.  The festival took place at the National Film and Television School on 12th May.  Here’s what they had to say:

‘Wavelengths’ is an emotional film about Graham Conway, who following an accident has been living under the delusion that he is a local radio DJ. With Valentine’s Day approaching, Sarah tries one last time to reach out to the man she loves – afraid that if she doesn’t, she will lose him forever.

The jury voted unanimously that this was a well-crafted film that takes you on an emotional journey; with laughter, tears and affection for the characters.

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Casting call : Into Darkness, a documentary

In the summer of 1983, following a decade of steady deterioration, John Hull lost his sight. For the next three years he would keep a diary on audiocassette - over sixteen hours in total - an intimate record that deconstructs his experience of blindness in relation to his identity, family life and his faith.

Newly married with a young family, the loss of his sight throws John’s home life into crisis. Feeling unable to fulfill his role as a father, he is beset by ill health and prone to long bouts of depression. He confides in the tapes as a means of sparing those closest to him form his anguish.

With exclusive access to John’s original audio recordings, Into Darkness is the very first time the tapes have been heard in public. The film takes its structure from the diaries - interwoven with footage of John and his family from the present day, and archive interviews from a series of television documentaries made with John in the early 1990s. The result is a haunting and poetic first hand account of his journey into blindness.

Stylistically, Into Darkness follows in the footsteps of such films as Clio Barnard’s The Arbor, Robinson Devor’s Zoo, and Juraj Lehotsky’s Blind Loves - films with a considered visual aesthetic that interrogate the documentary form.

In second week of June, we are filming a single entry from John’s diaries. It is an important scene in the film, where John comes out of his house into the rain, and for the first time since losing his sight, notices how the falling rain creates depth and definition to the world around him.

This scene will be released as a stand alone short film - aimed at for film festivals, as well as being used to attract further finance for the feature project. We are therefore looking to build long term relationships with actors with a view to shooting the full feature in 2013.

We’re an independently-spirited filmmaking collective, and working with a very talented and enthusiastic crew - including experienced DoP who has shot BAFTA winning shorts. Unfortunately, although we have some production funding in place, at this stage we are only in a position to cover expenses.

John Hull (Male, 40-55)

Playing age 40-45. Australian born, recently blinded. A studious, charismatic Professor, John is struggling to readjust to life after losing his sight.

Ideally we are looking for someone with mid length, dark hair. Beard/facial hair would be an advantage.

Casting call - July, a short film

We’re on the lookout for two child actors, male and female, to star in a 12 minute short film called ‘July’, going into production this summer.

About ‘July’

On a sunny day in July, two children unwittingly stumble across an unexploded WWII bomb on a deserted beach. Armed with a precocious self-confidence and array of mis-remembered facts and anecdotes, the older child convinces her new friend that they are in tremendous danger. The boy reluctantly accepts it is their duty to disarm the device, but their ill-conceived efforts only worsen the situation. As the bomb begins to tick, their nascent friendship is crystallised in a final act of courage.

Character Breakdowns

Boy (male, 8-13)

The unnamed hero of the piece is an eight-year-old boy who is attending a wedding with his parents in a seaside town. He is somewhat uncomfortable in his own skin, and thus easily enthralled by the more confident girl. Though sceptical of her dubious knowledge, and deeply unsettled by their situation, he nonetheless is sufficiently impressed by his new friend to go along with her dangerous plans. Ultimately, the boy shows himself capable of great courage, even if this triumph is short-lived. His feelings towards the girl are a mixture of admiration, curiosity and attraction.

Girl (female, 9-14)

The girl is the confident, indefatigable heroine of the film, whose sense of self-belief seems initially limitless. Her background is never explored, and she remains rather enigmatic throughout. She is something of an autodidact, although her arrogance somewhat outweighs her true understanding of the world. Her bossy demeanour enables her to command great authority over the nervous younger boy, although in the end she expresses her respect for him, and reveals some of her own insecurities. The character is partially inspired by the eponymous heroine of J. D. Salinger’s short story ‘For Esmé – With Love and Squalor’.

About Fee Fie Foe Films

Fee Fie Foe Films is a production company and filmmaking collective, producing work that has been screened at the BFI, ICA and at 200+ cinemas across the country.  In the past year FFFF productions have been nominated for awards from the Sunday Times, Virgin Media and Film London.

Email: james@feefiefoefilms.co.uk

John Hull’s tape recorder.

I’m writing the score to accompany a live performance of Sophie Von Cundale’s sci-fi fable The Garden Of Endemol.  It’s premiering next Sunday, 5pm at the Serpentine Gallery’s Garden Marathon, a weekend of Garden-themed works by stars such as Brian Eno, Jake Chapman, Pablo Bronstein and Adam Curtis.  The Garden Of Endemol Orchestra includes Flora Lait, Flora Curzon, Jack Holloway, Ben Brown and Chris Belson, playing a mixture of glistening Disney-style choruses, dystopian national anthems and self-mutilation pageant-folk.  Come along!

Wavelengths

A 12-minute short film.  Made with support from Film London.  Starring Kate Anthony (Coronation St.) and James Smith (The Thick Of It, Grandma’s House).

- Winner: Best Film Award, Short Cuts Film Festival 2012

- Nominated: Film London Best of Boroughs Award

- Selected for East End Film Festival 2012