My Dream / My Reality

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
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Trafficker
Stuart Lyddon
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Nita Voice
Ana Maria Owen
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Stage Performers
Rachel Husband
Nik Tarrant-Rossi
Vicky Cann
Keith Kopp
Annie Laurie
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Ballet Dancers
Hayley Camp
Esther Tyler-Ward
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Writer and Director
Scubaboy
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Producer
James Thomson
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1st AD
Alfie Dale
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Locations
Alex Grainger
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Cinematography
Robbie Bryant
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Gaffer
Nathan Porter
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Editor
Scubaboy
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Art Director
Samantha Cliff
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Assistant Art Directors
Lisa Williams, Jennifer Hegarty
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Costume Designer
Jen Saguaro
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Make-up Designer
Kelly Stewart
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Sound Designer
Gareth Rubery
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VO Recording
Pete Rowley
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Combat Supervisor
Stuart Lyddon
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Production Assistants
Annie Laurie, Niall White, Sam Coleman
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Stills Photographer
Esther Tyler-Ward
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Executive Producers
Jonathan Hardy & James Ward
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Consultants
crossborderinitiatives.org
love146.org
Gaz Kishere / Love146 European Operations Director
Escape Moldova
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Music
New Volunteer and UNKLE
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Client
CBI & Love 146
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Production Company
Scubaboy Inc
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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