Little Brown Bird festival run continues

This Friday Little Brown Bird has its Scandinavian Premiere at Minimalen Short Film Festival in Trondheim, Norway. We are the opening film of six being shown as part of the Horror: Ramaskrik presents strand of the festival, which has been running for thirty-six years. You can see the full festival schedule and get tickets here.

Closest to home and in the county where I grew up, Little Brown Bird is coming to the South Coast next month. We have been selected as part of the short film program at the inaugural Screams by the Sea festival in Bournemouth on February 10th. Find out more here.

Little Brown Bird - Cast Announcement

In two weeks’ time, I’ll be heading to the Isle of Man to direct Little Brown Bird, a short film that I began writing during lockdown. I wrote about it here previously under the original title, Shortest Day.

Our cast is led by two fantastic actors- Eliza Butterworth and John Rhys-Davies. We’ve also assembled an excellent crew, including multi-award-winning cinematographer Mark Nutkins.

Cast members Eliza Butterworth (The Last Kingdom, Town called Malice), John Rhys-Davies (Lord of the Rings, Indiana Jones)

The film is being produced by Daniel J Harris for Focus Shift Films and Eat Sleep Media, with support from the Isle of Man Arts Council and Gorilla Post Production.

Two of my good friends are also on board as collaborators, with Mike Collins providing storyboards and Robert Reed composing the music.

Storyboards by Mike Collins (Freakhouse Graphics)

Most of my free time in recent weeks has been spent in HoD meetings and doing rewrites and adjustments, while Dan and his team have been working tirelessly to pull everything together for the shoot. More to follow on the project soon.