The Saddest Boy in the World

The Saddest Boy in the World

Colour, 35 mm
Canada, 2006, 14 min
Section: Forum of Independents

Director: Jamie Travis
Screenplay: Jamie Travis
Dir. of Photography: Amy Belling
Music: Alfredo Santa Ana
Editor: Jason Schneider
Producer: Amy Belling, Jamie Travis
Production: Modern Family Productions
Contact: Modern Family Productions
  
Cast: Benjamin B. Smith, Kirsten Robek, Hailey Conner

Synopsis

Timothy Higgins, the saddest boy in the world, plans to hang himself at his ninth birthday party.

About the director

Jamie Travis (b. 1979, Vancouver), writer, director, producer and production designer. His work has won prestigious awards and has been compared to the films of such masters as David Lynch, Peter Greenaway and Alfred Hitchcock. He received several awards for his first short film The Anderson Children Didn’t Come to Dinner (2003). His next short film Patterns (2005) earned him a prize at the Vancouver International Film Festival. This was followed by Patterns 2 and Patterns 3 which form a dark trilogy.

Amy Belling, Randy White

Modern Family Productions
1932 Adanac Street, V5L 2E4 Vancouver
Canada
Tel: +1 604 323 3320
Fax: +1 604 254 2997
E-mail: info@modernfamily.ca

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