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Special People is an improvised comedy following a neurotic filmmakers latest project -a pretentious film featuring disabled kids climbing a mountain. Jasper slowly cracks up as he is bombarded with flack by his uncooperative students. In the end however, we all need to find a way to work together…
The idea for the film came from a particularly disastrous community project where one of the disabled participants had a lamp explode in her lap and another was given an epileptic fit by the feedback on a video monitor
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- director Kielder Kids and Justin Edgar
- writer Kielder Kids and Justin Edgar
- producer Kielder Kids and Justin Edgar
- editor Mark Burgess / Jamie McKay
- director of photography Zac Nicholson
- sound Oliver Rotchell
- music Kim Humphrey
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- Jasper Dominic Coleman
- Jess Robyn Frampton
- Dave Jamie McKay
- Tally Annie Pears
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- Best Short Film, Chicago Childrens Film Festival, Chicago, 2005
- Finalist, Turner Classic Movies Prize Shorts, London, 2005
- Best Drama, Royal Television Society Awards, Birmingham, 2006
- Winner, Second Place, BBC New Filmmakers Award, Bristol, 2007
- Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh, 2005
- London International Film Festival , London, 2005
- Mill Valley Film Festival, California, 2005
- London Disability Film Festival, London, 2005
- International Film Court Du Brest, France, 2005
- Sarasota Film Festival, USA, 2006
- Brittspotting Film Festival, Germany, 2006
- Nashville Film Festival, USA, 2006
- TriBeCa Film Festival, USA , 2006
- Hamburg Short Film Festival, Germany, 2006
- Divercine, Uruguay, 2006
- Little Big Shots, Sydney Opera House, 2006
- The Other Film Festival, Melbourne, 2006
- In Competition, Asiana Short Film Festival , Seoul, 2006
- Seattle Film Festival, USA, 2006
- One and All Film Festival, Warrnambool -Australia , 2006
© 2005 Justin Edgar
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produced by Ragdoll Foundation
selected by BBC New Talent - this film was awarded second place in the 2007 BBC New Filmmakers Award.
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Justin discusses the conversion of his short, Special People, into a feature film.
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