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Flea

Prague Short Film Festival Presents 2016 / Flea / United Kingdom 2014

Flea is a tough city cookie who never complains. But her mother’s abusive partner is more than even she can handle. Will drugs help her to escape the violence and terror she faces or will she come up with a better plan? Flea is an uplifting drama that shows us we really can overcome anything if we set our minds to it.

Flea

Synopsis

Flea is a tough city cookie who never complains. But her mother’s abusive partner is more than even she can handle. Will drugs help her to escape the violence and terror she faces or will she come up with a better plan? Flea is an uplifting drama that shows us we really can overcome anything if we set our minds to it.

Karel Spěšný

About the film

15 min / Color, Data Files

Director Vanessa Caswill / Screenplay Cat Jones / Dir. of Photography David Rom / Music Stuart Earl / Editor Hazel Baillie / Art Director Paul Cross / Producer Claire Bennett / Production BBC Drama Production London / Cast Alice Sykes, Kate Hardie, Neal Barry / Sales BBC Drama Production London

About the director

Vanessa Caswill

Vanessa Caswill graduated in dramatic arts from the University of Birmingham, then joined the Punchdrunk Theatre Company in London. As a self-taught filmmaker she had created several shorts. Flea was broadcast by the BBC and this year she directed several episodes of the television miniseries “Thirteen”.

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BBC Drama Production London
BBC Broadcasting House, Portland Place, W1A 1AA, London
United Kingdom
E-mail: [email protected]

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