This project first came to us through a friend working at an anti-trafficking charity who had a voiceover which was the story of a survivor of trafficking. He was looking for a visual treatment to give the sobering words a visual counterpart. Whilst we started out intending to make an animation, after developing a few different treatments we ended up evolving the idea into a live action film with an experimental twist to bring another dimension to the words being spoken.

We pulled together a local crew and we shot the film on 16mm over two days in summer 2010, with the post-production completed in 2011 ready for it’s premiere at the Bristol Encounters International Film Festival in November 2011.

The film’s been really well received, with screenings at various international film festivals and trafficking awareness events. In November 2012 the film was shown on UK TV as part of The Community Channel’s trafficking awareness season where it was in the top 10 programmes watched that week.

For more details, please see:

www.scubaboy.co.uk/mydreammyreality


Credits

Nita
Louise Ennever

User
Nigel Long

Trafficker
Stuart Lyddon

Nita Voice
Ana Maria Owen

Stage Performers
Rachel Husband
Nik Tarrant-Rossi
Vicky Cann
Keith Kopp
Annie Laurie

Ballet Dancers
Hayley Camp
Esther Tyler-Ward

Writer and Director
Scubaboy

Producer
James Thomson

1st AD
Alfie Dale

Locations
Alex Grainger

Cinematography
Robbie Bryant

Gaffer
Nathan Porter

Editor
Scubaboy

Art Director
Samantha Cliff

Assistant Art Directors
Lisa Williams, Jennifer Hegarty

Costume Designer
Jen Saguaro

Make-up Designer
Kelly Stewart

Sound Designer
Gareth Rubery

VO Recording
Pete Rowley

Combat Supervisor
Stuart Lyddon

Production Assistants
Annie Laurie, Niall White, Sam Coleman

Stills Photographer
Esther Tyler-Ward

Executive Producers
Jonathan Hardy & James Ward

Consultants
crossborderinitiatives.org
love146.org
Gaz Kishere / Love146 European Operations Director
Escape Moldova

Music
New Volunteer and UNKLE

Client
CBI & Love 146

Production Company
Scubaboy Inc

Thanks to
The Windmill Hill Community Centre
Acorn Studios.co.uk
Films@59
Alan Pleass
Simon Williams
Gavin Thurston
Richard and Elizabeth Ward
Fuji Film
Technicolor
Bristol University
Tom Bennett
Alicia Ancel
Ian Oakley
Rob Bevan
Marcie Gatsky
James Lavelle
Pablo Clements
UNKLE
Surrender All
Chris Mears
New Volunteer


Project Completion Sep 2011

 

 

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