South African Independent Film Festival 2020

Dramatic #2 (9 film selection)

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9 films in package
Broken Column
The Initiation
In an abandoned place where violence rules, only graffiti walls show compassion.
One Night Stand
What starts out as a routine business trip, leads to Travis making the greatest moral decision of his lifetime.
Heirloom
Lost in grief after the death of her partner, Caro discovers an unexpected parting gift. Heirloom examines the impact of loss and the power of a thoughtful gesture. Almost entirely without dialogue, the film harnesses strong performance and simple, lingering visuals to arrive at the question: What will you leave behind?
The Turning Son
An activist son falls out with his wealthy but corrupt father when the father's actions as a minister are revealed, having violently crushed a worker's strike.
Keep Needing Me
Following a car accident, a man is trapped in his apartment with his increasingly mentally unstable girlfriend.
The Docks
A dockworker is given a chance at redemption when a woman appears one night with a request to be smuggled back to South Africa.
DAMAGE
DAMAGE follows Rav and Emma's relationship, from the excitement and happiness of moving in together to the destruction caused by controlling behaviour and domestic violence. With support from UK male domestic violence charity ManKind, DAMAGE aims to #breakthesilence
PULSE
A hybrid experimental film, PULSE examines the physical and mental effects of the anxiety experienced living in hyper active city.
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SA Indie Film Fest 2020 x Dramatic #2 Short Official Selection

DAMAGE follows Rav and Emma's relationship, from the excitement and happiness of moving in together to the destruction caused by controlling behaviour and domestic violence. With support from UK male domestic violence charity ManKind, DAMAGE aims to #breakthesilence.

  • Year
    2019
  • Runtime
    16:29
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    United Kingdom
  • Premiere
    African Premiere
  • Rating
    PG 13
  • Director
    FERNANDO ANTONIO MAFFEI is a Worcester-born Director known for his acclaimed short films The Taxi and Who's There and the feature film ARTICHOKE. Fernando is an intuitive Director, calling on his extensive film knowledge and life experience to create compelling imagery.
  • Screenwriter
    MELLISSA DONELLO - I'm a writer, but also co-run Testarossa Productions (www.artichokemovie.com) ,one of two Worcester film production companies who bought the DAMAGE story to life. I wrote the film after being approached by a man who had spent ten years in an abusive relationship with a violent woman. Mellissa won The Mary Austin award for Excellence in Screenwriting at the 2020 Idyllwild Film Festival for DAMAGE. Mellissa has script supervised and collaborated on many shorts, including the lockdown short 'Give Generously', as well as writing the screenplay for the feature film 'ARTICHOKE'. She is currently writing the expanded feature film screenplay for 'DAMAGE and is always looking for writers to collaborate with..
  • Producer
    Lawrence DonelloProducerLawrence has worked in Film and TV for almost 15 years, starting in London with two-time BAFTAwinning director Stuart Urban on the documentary 'Tovarisch, I am not Dead'. He worked at one of thebiggest post houses in Soho at the time, M2TV before moving to Melbourne, Australia.Becoming a member of the Australian Screen Editors Guild (ASE), he worked with renowned editor Wayne Hyett ASE on several documentaries including the EMMY winning 'Immortal'. He also worked with film editor Jane Moran (Moulin Rouge, Muriel's Wedding) on the feature film 'Subdivision', directed by Sue Brooks (Japanese Story), as well as many international network TV series.Back in the UK Lawrence formed TestaRossa Productions with his wife, screenwriter Mellissa Donello. Through industry connections such as Academy Award winning editor Mark Sanger (Gravity, The Last Knight), Lawrence worked on Danny Boyle's'TRANCE' and has consulted on the Martin Scorsese produced feature Tomorrow, directed by Martha Pinson. TestaRossa Productions have produced five short films and recently it's debut feature 'ARTICHOKE' starring Vincenzo Nicoli (Alien 3, Leap year). TestaRossa Productions have a slate of films in various stages of development. Mellissa DonelloProducer/WriterMel completes the TestaRossa team. Co-producing alongside Lawrence, Mellissa has script supervised and collaborated on many shorts as well as the writing the screenplay for 'ARTICHOKE'. She is currently writing the expanded feature film screenplay for 'DAMAGE', which will be co-produced with INSPIRIT PRODUCTIONS
  • Executive Producer
    Barnaby StartExecutive ProducerBarnaby enters the filmmaking industry when he joins forces with Inspirit Productions in 2019. DAMAGE is his and the company’s first collaborative project with TestaRossa Productions, and with hisextensive expertise in business and marketing, he becomes a valuable asset for the company’s projected activity in 2020.Sophie CanareExecutive ProducerSophie is a Midlands based award nominated producer and actress. She is the founder and executive director of Inspirit Productions, a film production company established as a natural result of ongoing local and international collaborations aimed at strengthening the infrastructure of the Midlands filmmaking community.
  • Cast
    JETINDER SUMMAN - is a British film, television and theatre actor. Jet has appeared in television dramas Holby City, Home Time, Doctors and Birds Of A Feather, playing the regular role of Zak in the popular BBC radio soap Silver Street for many years. AMY SHEPHERD - Amy Shepherd is an actress, known for Who's There, WPC 56, and Coronation Street.
  • Cinematographer
    ALEX METCALFE - DAMAGE was shot by the BAFTA-nominated cinematographer Alex Metcalfe (The Lighthouse, SOLO!)
  • Editor
    LAWRENCE DONELLO - Filmography link; https://pro.imdb.com/name/nm3208737/filmography
  • Production Design
    Chloe Brown
  • Composer
    JAMES DELIN
  • Sound Design
    JAMES DELIN
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