Meet me at Big Tree will be seeing in 2020 with the London Short Film Festival. Mega happy, as I beeline for this festival almost every year because it’s my favourite of the country, so I’m massively thankful to be on the bill once again.
SHOWING AT the beautifully green Regent Street Cinema, on Jan 11th at 4:30pm.
Big Tree is a personal project, shot and cut by myself, on a mixed-medium palette of 16mm colour film (Kodak), digi 4K and some hand-made 35mm animation. I’ve had a mental year, brewing females into the world, whilst freelancing on many an AD team, aswell as getting a new film of my own off the ground. I like to have a bookend (or bookstart) to the year, something to look forward to almost, so I wanted to enter a short to tie up a few loose ends.
The film stars my son, as a younger child, and features one of his primary school friends. Shot at a local park, with a giant fallen down tree as the centre-point.
“Meet me at Big Tree tells of summers gone by; long hot days, and that friend, known once, but never forgotten.”
A personal film, a narrative, with an experimental undertone, and a buzzing audio-visual design to boot. It’s an atmosphere film at heart. Standing at just under 4 minutes duration, it’s my shortest for a few years, and hits you just where it needs to.
You can book tickets from the LSFF website, or through the Regent’s direct website at the following links. LONG LIVE SHOR FILM!
https://shortfilms.org.uk/lsff2020/events/2020-01-11-new-shorts-lo-budget-mayhem
https://www.regentstreetcinema.com/programme/new-shorts-lo-budget-mayhem-2020/