Gonella Productions

LANGUAGE: English

Genre: Drama/Thriller
Running Time: 20min 59sec
Year of production: 2019

SYNOPSIS

Growing up loveless with a daring temperament and obsession with the idea of punishment, Holly sets off on a journey to find her birth mother. The unpleasant encounter leads her to meet Mel, a mature tortured soul whose presence reassures her. But the bliss unexpectedly turns into desolation when Mel refuses to face an unimaginable and uncomfortable possibility.

PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION

Production Company: Labelanté Productions
Film exports/World sales: Gonella Productions

CAST

Holly: Tesni Kujore
Mel: Craig Abbott
Nina: Kathryn O’Reilly
Stacey: Katie Georgiou
Dayana: Chanelle Wiltshire
Young Holly: Scarlet Eziashi
Child Holly: Isabella Rusconi-Levene

MAIN CREDITS

Director: Anona Langa
Screenwriter: Anona Langa
Producer: Anona Langa & Yvonne Dublin-Green
Director of Photography: Lewi London
Sound: Fora Batoma Nlandu
Editing: Nana Dankwa
Sound Editing: Nico Metten
Music Composer: Music by various artists

TECHNICAL DETAILS

Genre: Fiction
Sub-genre: Drama/Thriller
Language: English
Country of origin: UK
Year of production: 2019
Total running time: 20min 59sec
Shooting format: Digital /HD CAM
Color type: Color
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Sound format: Wav

FESTIVAL SELECTIONS

London Independent Film Festival 2020

BIOGRAPHY OF THE DIRECTOR

Anona Langa is a Congolese-born French filmmaker, now based in London, who has always had a passion for storytelling. Her love for visual art started when she was gifted with her first love, a Nikon FE camera, leading her down the path from still images to moving pictures. A lover of the non-representational, she is a culture aficionado and consumer of all forms of motion picture, from the small to the big screens.
She has worked on numerous movies including the multi-award-winning short films, Squares (2016) and Melody (2017) where she served as an Associate Producer, her keen creative eye also lending her to the added role of Art Director.
She loves unconventional ways of storytelling, abstract yet lyrical where each captured moment can incite the viewer to re-imagine the story, thus making the creator's vision transcendent. This love is reflected in her style of work and can be seen in her directorial debut, Dazedly (2019), which premiered at London Independent Film Festival 2020. It is a short movie that challenges the viewers to look beyond the obvious and see what is told in between. She’s currently developing the feature story for Dazedly and other short film projects.