23 MAY — 02 JUNE 2024

23 MAY — 02 JUNE 2024

The Thing That Ate The Birds

Dan Gitsham, Sophie Mair

United Kingdom

2021, 11'

Abel is a gamekeeper, patrolling and safeguarding the animals. But his marriage is something he hasn’t taken care of. The two facets of his life collide when his mercilessness brings something back to his home that should never have entered it.

Mouth of Madness

INFO

PREMIERE TYPE

National

ORIGINAL TITLE

The Thing That Ate The Birds

LANGUAGE

English

SCRIPT

Sophie Mair, Dan Gitsham

CAST

Eoin Slattery, James Swanton, Lewis Mackinnon, Rebecca Palmer

PHOTOGRAPHY

James Oldham

SOUND

Andrew Layfield

EDITING

James Taggart

PRODUCER

Jude Goldrei, Rebecca Wolff, Sophie Mair

PRODUCTION

Sketchbook Pictures

BIO

Sophie Mair & Dan Gitsham are partners in life and film. Their genre short films have been commissioned by UK Film Council, BFI and Gunpowder & Sky and screened at 150 festivals worldwide. They are developing horror feature film Ginger with the BFI and they were selected for Screen International’s Star of Tomorrow and the John Brabourne Award.

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