Another View 2005 / Frozen / United Kingdom 2004
Sometimes it’s worse finding someone than losing them. A surreal, poetic story about two sisters, about the transience of existence, the inexplicability of loss, and about the dangers awaiting someone when hope turns into an obsession.
“Hope, even though generally celebrated as a positive emotion, can, in fact, be very destructive.... Even in today’s pragmatic, quantified world, mysteries exist that are beyond our understanding,” states Juliet McKoen, writer and director of a work inspired by real events. Kath is hounded by images of ice and water. These shots function as flashbacks, very similar to those experienced by people suffering from posttraumatic stress; they also serve as a visualisation of her emotional disposition. Kath lost her sister Annie two years ago: Annie disappeared on her way home, shortly after leaving the fish processing factory where both sisters worked. Kath gets hold of a video recording taken by a security camera, which captures Annie’s last movements. She is convinced that Annie is trying to find her, just as she is trying to find Annie. Kath needs to know whether life after death exists. Will she find Annie? And what actually happened to her?
90 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Juliet McKoen
/ Screenplay Juliet McKoen, Jayne Steel
/ Dir. of Photography Philip Robertson
/ Music Guy Michelmore
/ Editor Paul Endacott
/ Producer Mark Lavender
/ Production RS Productions,Shoreline Films, koprodukce/coproduction: Freedonia Films, Zentropa
/ Cast Shirley Henderson, Roshan Seth, Richard Armitage, Ralf Little, Ger Ryan, Jamie Sives
/ Contact RS Productions, TrustNordisk
www: www.frozenfilm.com
Juliet McKoen trained as a film editor after graduating from university. She worked for Channel 4, BBC2 and the Arts Council of England; she has also made her own experimental short films, awarded at various international festivals. She then studied scriptwriting; her prize for winning the Script Factory/DNA First Draft Competition was a place in the Carlton TV Drama Screenwriting Course. Her first screenplay, for Mermaids and Money Troubles, has recently been commissioned a children’s book. In 1997 she formed her own company, Shoreline Films, which is today a recognised production centre. In 2000 she made the short feature Mavis and the Mermaid, which took the Kodak/BAFTA Award and the Golde Special Jury Award at Houston’s WorldFest. Another film, Blood Sisters, won the Gold Prize at Houston. Frozen (2004) is her feature debut.
RS Productions
191 Trewhitt Road, NE6 5DY, Newcastle
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 191 224 43 01
Fax: +44 191 224 43 01
E-mail: [email protected]
TrustNordisk
Filmbyen 22, 2650, Hvidovre
Denmark
Phone: +45 368 687 88
E-mail: [email protected]
Mark Lavender
Producer
Tine Klint
Other, Sales Agent
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