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This will be the most important lesson of your life. Maybe the only important lesson.
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The idea of directing something came partly from my friend Andy Shelley – Andy had been on the sound design course at the RCA, and we’d made some shorts together that he’d directed. He once commented to me that he’d learned more about sound from making his own film than from all the films he’d contributed to as sound designer. I was interested to see what I might learn about cinematography from the experience of directing a film that I didn’t shoot myself.
Having worked on many short films I wanted to find a project that I knew would be fundamentally achievable if I couldn’t get any external funding. It sounds a bit reductive I guess but I’d seen very ambitious films that simply couldn’t be achieved with the production facilities available to them, and if I was going to pull in all my friends to work on it, I didn’t want them to hate me for it at the end.
I read the script and thought it was about something, and it meant something to me personally – it felt like it conveyed some sort of universal truth without being pretentious. And it was kind of funny in a dark way, and sad. In short, I thought it was a very good piece of writing.
Unfortunately my friend Andy Shelley was planning to direct it. So I begged, bullied and persuaded him to let me have a crack at it. Which he eventually did, for which I am very grateful.
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- director Jake Polonsky
- writer Malachi Smyth
- producer Malachy McAnenny, Richard Weager, Jake Polonsky
- editor Martin Swannell
- director of photography Haris Zambarloukos
- music Chris Elliott
1st AD Olivia Peniston-Bird
2nd AD Casey Levie
runners Marcia Kleinhans, Luke Fredberg, Adrianna Tsigara & Ben Croucher
school liaisons Lin Instone, Luke Jones
stills photographer Brock Elbank
make up & costume Madeleine Van Groeningen
focus puller Rupert Hornstein
clapper/ loader Charlotte Ginsborg
grip Philip Coleman
steadicam Dion Casey
gaffer Reuben Garrett
sound recordist Julian Bale
art director Rebecca Pilkington
associate producers Alex O’Neal & Olga Gimeno
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- Stanley Nick Stockwell
- Garth Jack Doolan
- Gordon Jonathan Readwin
- Miss Given Susan Lynch
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© 2003 Jake Polonsky
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