Whatnot Films

02/07/2021

Thanks to Screen International for a nice review of P***o Uncle Jim on

You can see the full review on their website

29/06/2021

This week we’re celebrating the World Premiere of our feature documentary “P***o Uncle Jim” at , the 23rd Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival. Huge thanks to the festival for having us and for creating an amazing atmosphere and setting. Incredible work despite the ongoing pandemic and we couldn’t be more happy & proud to launch the film here!

24/06/2021

24/06/2021

SYNOPSIS
Set to the verses of W.H. Auden’s 1939 poem, ‘Refugee Blues’ charts a day in ‘the jungle’, the refugee camp outside Calais. More intimate and unlike much of what has been seen in the mass media, this documentary poem counterpoints the camp’s harsh reality of frequent clashes with the French riot police with its inhabitants’ longing for a better future.
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CREDITS
“Refugee Blues” (1939)
written by W. H. Auden
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Poem read by
Noah, a refugee
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Directed by
Stephan Bookas and Tristan Daws
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Camera
Stephan Bookas
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Sound
Tristan Daws
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Colourist
Lajos Pataki
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Supervising Sound and Sound Effects Editor
Vladimir Rizun
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Re-recording Mixer
Andrey Kireev
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Music by
Christoph Zirngibl

Vocals - Shary Osman
Guitars - Giacomo Castellano
Cello - Deryn Cullen
Synths and percussion - Christoph Zirngibl

Mixed by
Jonathan Feurich

24/06/2021

Here are some stills from the short film “Refugee Blues” that we made at the height of the refugee crisis. Tristan and I took a car and drove to Calais, not knowing what to expect or what we would encounter. What we saw was heartbreaking and for us, poetry was one way of dealing with it.

22/06/2021

Some stills from the short film “Cancrelat”

22/06/2021

Here’s the poster for our film “Cancrelat”, which means cockroach or, la cucaracha ;)
It’s another one of those that we made in the span of 2-3 days, from inception to finished film (minus the animation of course)

22/06/2021

Here are a few stills from the film

22/06/2021

Here’s the poster of our short film “Walls”. It was written, shot and edited over the course of 2 days in Paris. I’ll share the film on dmy next post and you can see the full film on our website

21/06/2021

Some behind the scenes photos from the shoot

17/06/2021

Hey there! I’m and I’m I’ve been making films big and small under the banner of my production company Whatnot Films. Over the coming months I’d like to share more of my progress here but also some of new films and my previous works