The story behind the film
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All starring in Small Change
Small Change is a play by David Booker. He wrote it for the Milton Keynes Theatre Writers group, led by Sally Luff . It was performed in the theatre under the event Live8 in 2008. Having had good reviews it was showcased later on that year at The Camden Peoples Theatre and the YMCA Theatre in Leicester.
Since then Sally Luff and Ana Diego developed the script into a screenplay. The screen play cut dramatically but effectively to keep the integrity of Davids original stage play.
It was filmed in Herne Bay, during two different shoots, one in June 2010 and the other in October 2010 (a lot colder and windier) This is our first film, shot on a beach and so we had to contend with changing tides, sun direction and glare, a vomiting dog, a beautiful little girl and pebbles, not sand. It was not an easy shoot and much of the footage unusable due to the conditions but with a lot of patience our editor has helped us to create a good 15 minute film.
So, what is it about? Well, its fundamentally a frank treatment of past memories juxtaposed with the present told from the POV of Kate, a woman in her thirties. The most prominent motif is the location, the sea and the beach. It is set between two different decades using flashbacks of Kates childhood, our aim to use the same location to create the feeling of time. It is here that Kates haunting past comes to life and where she meets a stranger, Nic who is a Polish immigrant in his early twenties.
It is a story of a woman at the lowest ebb of her life entering a new phase of acceptance and her pursuit of happiness through the very thought of death; she stumbles across hope and self discovery and an unexpected friendship.
Our mission was to create a new film exploring current issues for an intelligent contemporary audience. The story has a strong dialogue driven script that is relevant to the way society view mental health and immigration. It is about two outsiders. It is about hope.
Since then Sally Luff and Ana Diego developed the script into a screenplay. The screen play cut dramatically but effectively to keep the integrity of Davids original stage play.
It was filmed in Herne Bay, during two different shoots, one in June 2010 and the other in October 2010 (a lot colder and windier) This is our first film, shot on a beach and so we had to contend with changing tides, sun direction and glare, a vomiting dog, a beautiful little girl and pebbles, not sand. It was not an easy shoot and much of the footage unusable due to the conditions but with a lot of patience our editor has helped us to create a good 15 minute film.
So, what is it about? Well, its fundamentally a frank treatment of past memories juxtaposed with the present told from the POV of Kate, a woman in her thirties. The most prominent motif is the location, the sea and the beach. It is set between two different decades using flashbacks of Kates childhood, our aim to use the same location to create the feeling of time. It is here that Kates haunting past comes to life and where she meets a stranger, Nic who is a Polish immigrant in his early twenties.
It is a story of a woman at the lowest ebb of her life entering a new phase of acceptance and her pursuit of happiness through the very thought of death; she stumbles across hope and self discovery and an unexpected friendship.
Our mission was to create a new film exploring current issues for an intelligent contemporary audience. The story has a strong dialogue driven script that is relevant to the way society view mental health and immigration. It is about two outsiders. It is about hope.