Virtual Screening
PRESENTED IN
International Science-Fiction Short Film Showcase 2021
Virtual Screening
PRESENTED IN
International Science-Fiction Short Film Showcase 2021
Official selection
Oxford Film Festival
Maryland Film Festival
Fastnet Film Festival
deadCenter Film Festival
Phoenix Film Festival
Director
Tony Hipwell
Writer
Max Gee
Cast
Andrew Dunn, Joanne Mitchell, Yuriri Naka, Anton Thompson
Producer
Max Gee, Tony Hipwell
Cinematographer
Jenni Suitiala
Sound Designer
Waqar Shah
Composer
Sakiko Sakuragi
Editor
Luke Downing
contact
Grunt Productions
In a near-future time, the British government has come up with an environmentally friendly program that abolishes prisons. Criminals and undocumented immigrants are chemically transformed into trees and put on public display. A propaganda filmmaker is forced to question his work as he prepares to see his journalist wife be “planted” for crimes against the state. A grim and imaginative cautionary tale by British filmmaker Tony Hipwell, based on the short story by Yasutaka Tsutsui (PAPRIKA, THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME). – Mitch Davis
Showings
Virtual Screening
PRESENTED IN
International Science-Fiction Short Film Showcase 2021
Virtual Screening
PRESENTED IN
International Science-Fiction Short Film Showcase 2021
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