New Planet-produced short films have been selected for nearly one hundred festivals worldwide, including Oscar-, BAFTA-, AACTA-, and Canadian Screen Award qualifying events.
Sage (More)
The right words can oppose even the most destructive hate.
When a community meeting becomes the scene of a horrific tragedy, resistance comes from an unexpected source.
Sage stars Lesley Joseph (TV’s Birds Of A Feather, Amazon’s House Of David) is currently playing at festivals around the world.
Sage was selected from 1,103 applicants to receive production funding from Kodansha, the Japanese publishing giant, as part of the Kodansha Cinema Creators’ Lab.
Sorceress (More)
A waitress overhears a difficult and tragic conversation… but she goes to take the order anyway.
Sorceress is a short film starring Nathalie Emmanuel (Game Of Thrones, Fast & Furious 7, The Fate Of The Furious), Jane Danson (Coronation Street) and Neil Roberts (Charmed, Emmerdale, Hollyoaks), filmed in London in 2018.
A Magician (More)
After witnessing a man behave violently towards his girlfriend, someone decides to intervene.
A Magician has played at festivals across the world. It won the Grand Prize at the Très Court International Film Festival in Paris, coming first out of 3000 considerations.
“This year is the hypnotising sequence of A Magician by Max Blustin (United Kingdom), who takes the Grand Prix. “This is exactly the kind of film we came to see. He succeeds in twisting a space-time that belongs to him in three minutes and succeeds in putting poetry into the ending,” explained Nicolas Boukhrief as he handed over the supreme trophy, invoking an inspiration in Christopher Nolan’s cinema. The web-writer Karim Debbache, also a member of the jury, completed this analysis: “Blustin creates a mental off-screen that serves a perfect precision of the staging.”
– Press coverage by CineChronicle (translated from French)
The History Of Chance (More)
Following the sudden loss of his wife, a man becomes consumed by depression. In his loneliness he makes a strange discovery that brings about an unexpected chain of events…
Actors Neil Roberts (Charmed, Holby City, Coronation Street) and Robert Beck (Emmerdale, Bombshell, Law & Order: UK) star in the film that was shot in Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, London, Kent and Camberwell Studios.
The History Of Chance won the Grand Prize at the Canada International Film Festival, coming first out of nearly a thousand initial submissions.
Following the successful festival run, broadcast rights for The History Of Chance were sold to Shorts TV for over a hundred territories.
For Your Suffering (More)
A young boy lives in the shadow of his abusive stepfather… until tonight.
We know what happens when a child leaves a milk tooth for the tooth fairy. For Your Suffering speculates what might happen if a child leaves something else under a pillow…