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The Saddest Boy in the World

Forum of Independents - Competition 2007 / The Saddest Boy in the World / Canada 2006

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

The Saddest Boy in the World The Saddest Boy in the World

Synopsis

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

About the film

14 min / Color, 35 mm

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 / Cast Benjamin B. Smith, Kirsten Robek, Hailey Conner / Contact Modern Family Productions
www: www.modernfamily.ca

About the director

Jamie Travis

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.

Contacts

Modern Family Productions
1932 Adanac Street, V5L 2E4, Vancouver
Canada
Phone: +1 604 323 3320
Fax: +1 604 254 2997
E-mail: [email protected]

Guests

Amy Belling
Producer, Producer

Randy White
Producer

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