selfish giant movie information
DESCRIPTION
Information about The Selfish Giant movieTRANSCRIPT
Produced by Film4 and BFI
PRODUCER
MUSIC
Created by Harry Escott -British
The selfish giant is a drama – often successful within film industry, and common to have British links (The King’s Speech focuses on the King, Billy Elliot focuses on miner strikes). Genre popular with UK audiences – focuses on relatable narratives.
GENRE
CASTING
The film had a budget of £1.4m, relatively small compared to Gravity’s $100m budget. Funded by Flm4 and the BFI Film Funds.
BUDGET
Set and shot in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. A lot filmed outside, in a house and in scrap yard – inexpensive filming locations.
LOCATION
British – Clio Bernard. Also directed and wrote The Arbor, another British critically-acclaimed film about the British playwright Andrea Dunbar.
DIRECTOR
Uploaded a trailer to YouTube, created a Facebook page
TECHNICAL CONVERGENCE
British – Clio Bernard
THE WRITER
Winner: European Cinemas Award, Cannes 2013
Nominated: 2013 Lux prize Winner: Best Film, 24th Stockholm
Film Festival 2013 Best British Film, BAFTA 2014
AWARDS
Connor Chapman (British): Arbor Shaun Thomas (British): Swifty Sean Guilder (British): Kitten Advantages of cast: British for the most part, therefore are believable in the location of narrative. Most of cast are lesser known – makes more engaging plot, as audience don’t assimilate characters with previous characters.