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How to Save a Fish From Drowning

Year of Production: 2007
Duration: 13'
Director: Kelly Neal
Categories: 2007, Completed, Films
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: How to Save a Fish from Drowning

A film about the death of white rural America told through the voices of three old men fishing on a frozen lake. In a landscape cloaked in snow and hovering in a bright nothingness, they escape their wives, chew the fat about neighbours in their town as they wait…

Director: Kelly Neal
Producer: Noe Mendelle
Executive Producer: Sonja Henrici
Editor: Patricia Gomez
Camera: Minttu Mantynen
Music: Marcelo de Oliveira
Sound Design: Marcelo de Oliveira
Sound Recordist: Kelly Neal
Dubbing Mix: John Cobban

Screening Formats: Digi Beta (PAL & NTSC), Beta SP, DV-Cam

Highlights:
Krakow Film Festival, 2008 (Poland)
Los Angeles Shorts Film Festival, 2008 (USA)
Winner BAFTA Scotland Award for Best New Director, 2008
Special mention, Best Scottish Short Documentary – Edinburgh International Film Festival, 2007 (UK)
Leipzig International Film Festival, 2007 (Germany)
And over 25 screenings world-wide…

Tags: Bridging the Gap, Kelly Neal, portrait, White

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