KUBRICK’S COAT (2019)
14 min
United Kingdom
English Language without Subtitles
Director: Charlotte Hickford Producer: Kelly Li
Cinematography: Justin Hunting
Music: Timothy Forward, Roland Reinke, Leila Zeira
Starring: Boris Witzenfeld, Haruka Abe, Andy Gibbins
Matt is a man of little note. Working at a DVD rental store is the nearest he can make it to the glamorous world of film production. When the stunning Ayame walks into his shop to rent a film he finds himself unable to talk to her, yet his best mate Jim offers to help him out with a makeover. While out looking for a new look he stumbles across a coat that belonged to the legendary film director Stanley Kubrick. Matt saves for weeks to afford the famous coat until finally, he is able to go in and exchange his hard owned pennies for the magnificent garment. Like magic, he is transformed....
ABOUT THE FILMMAKER:
Charlotte Hickford Hendy is a promising director/ writer, a founder of Incandescence Productions. From 2009 she has been responsible for the production of several unique short films including narrative shorts, documentaries and experimental music videos. After working on productions for the BBC and The UK Film Council, Charlotte Hickford Hendy recently completed a Screenwriting course at Central St Martins. She currently has several projects at various stages of production.
BRIAN JOURNEYS (2018)
38 min
United Kingdom
English Language without Subtitles
Director: Charlotte Hickford Hendy
Producer: Charlotte Hickford Hendy
Writer: Charlotte Hickford Hendy
Starring: Anthony Fairweather, Sheila Dawson, Liam McKowen
Brain Journeys follows performance poet Anthony Fairweather as he retraces his steps visiting locations in the UK which have significance to him and his life. After being diagnosed with Asperger's in his own words: A nervous breakdown led me into the world of poetry. First of all it was a way of coping with life, and later as a way to live. Along the way I was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome (as a result of showing my poems to a psychiatrist) and have ended up discovering a life I would never have had the chance to enjoy, were it not for the breakdown. I do have a stammer, but this hasn't doesn't and never will stop me from performing. Performing has taught me how to adapt and to cope.
The film touches upon his childhood, problems he experienced before his late diagnosis at 23, and his use of comedy to overcome this issues and use them as a source for his witting and acerbic poetry which has been widely published.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKER:
Charlotte Hickford is a promising director/writer, a founder of Incandescence Productions. From 2009 she has been responsible for the production of several unique short films including narrative shorts, documentaries and experimental music videos. After working on productions for the BBC and The UK Film Council, Charlotte Hickford Hendy recently completed a Screenwriting course at Central St Martins. She currently has several projects at various stages of production.