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animate! synopsis
An ironic look at the way newspapers report children’s deaths… accidents, bad mothers, angry fathers and the bogeyman. Based on the filmmaker’s archive of newspaper clippings, these are horribly good stories that make great copy.
short synopsis
An ironic look at the way newspapers report children’s deaths: accidents, bad mothers, angry fathers and the bogeyman…horribly good stories that make great copy.
long synopsis
An ironic look at the way newspapers report children’s deaths: accidents, bad mothers, angry fathers and the bogeyman.
With an inventive mix of still photography and live action, the film sweeps around Britain to create a chilling comment on death, news reporting and the family. Statistics show that a child is more likely to be murdered by one of their parents than by a stranger – every six weeks in the UK, a man or a woman kills their children.
key credits
- director
- Roz Mortimer
- writer
- the Fusco Brothers
- sound designer
- Charlotte Tedbury
- executive producer
- Maggie Ellis
Roz Mortimer
biography
Roz trained as a textile designer at Middlesex Polytechnic in the early eighties but has been making films since 1995. Her previous production Gender Trouble, funded by the Wellcome Trust, is a documentary about intersex people in Britain.
Earlier films have explored the relationships girls have with their dogs, Dog of my Dreams, and a woman’s fascination with worms, Wormcharmer . Roz lives in London.
October 2003
artist’s website
Roz’s own website
a film by Roz Mortimer
direction
- director
- Roz Mortimer
script
- writer
- the Fusco Brothers
cast in picture
- perfomer
- Sophie Knight
- Natasha Laing
- Jamie Levy
- George Hayter
- Jack Hayter
- Nikki Malone
- Luke Malone
- Hylton Stockwell
image personnel
- digital effects
- Jerry Williams
- Asher Edwards
- Robert Arnold
- Joe King
- rostrum camera
- Ken Morse
sound personnel
- sound designer
- Charlotte Tedbury
production personnel
- executive producer
- Maggie Ellis
support
- primary funding
An animate! production through Finetake for Arts Council England and Channel 4
© Roz Mortimer 2003
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technical
process summary
The film is mainly made up of hundreds of manipulated photographs, and was shot on a range of formats from huge 6×17cm negatives down to a tiny digital camera attached to a keyring.
master copy format
- format
- DigiBeta
- colour or black & white
- colour
video distribution format
- video format
- DigiBeta
- screen aspect ratio
- 16:9
- video standard
- PAL
- sound type
- stereo
distributor
LUX
info@lux.org.uk
+44 (0)20 7503 3980
www.lux.org.uk
pre-history
working title (initially known as)
Cautionary Tales
