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SELECTED FILM PROJECTS YALDA | 2007
"Do you love me?", "Yes", he said, and then... A colourful musical journey into the narrative of a woman's tangled past, with magical glimpses of her present world and hopes for a liberated future. Yalda is a short experimental fiction film made for The City Speaks, an innovative collaborative project developed by Film London Artists' Moving Image Network and BBC Radio Drama. Artist film-makers and writers, collaborating with acclaimed author Peter Ackroyd, composer David Pickvance and specialist sound engineers, were commissioned to create 14 minute audio-visual artworks to form a centre-piece of the BBC Radio 4 season in 2008, celebrating London as a cosmopolitan city. The project provided artist filmmakers with an opportunity to collaborate with writers, and enabled writers to work outside of traditional radio play conventions. The City Speaks is composed of x6, 14 minute audio-visual works, Yalda being one of these, conceived as truly innovative multi-disciplinary and cross-platform artworks for contemporary media to be presented across a range of contexts. In 2008 the project launched at the NFT, London, and broadcast nationally on Radio 4 and across several digital and interactive broadcast platforms. – Listing IMDb Commissioned by Film London and BBC Radio Drama. Funded by Arts Council England  Next film > |
Image: Thierry Bal |
CREDITS & TECHNICAL INFORMATION Film Credits – Director & Producer Esther Johnson – Writer Mehrdad Seyf – Composer David Pickvance – Director of Photography Lynda Hall – Editing Sue Giovanni & Esther Johnson – Audio Production BBC Sam Hoyle & Peter Ringrose – Executive Producer for BBC Radio Drama Alison Hindell – Producer for BBC Radio Drama Conor Lennon – Film London Head of Production Maggie Elllis – Film London Producer The City Speaks Roz Mortimer – Inspired by an original Story by Peter Ackroyd Film Players – Yalda Erin Brodie – Gentleman in Park Clem Elton – Synchronised Swimming Troupe Aquabatix Audio Players – Yalda Adjoa Andoh – Paul/Anaesthetist Nitin Ganantra – Surgeon Simon Treves – Woman in Church/Nurse Liza Sadovy Technical – Year 2007 – Duration 00:15:02 (Single film version) – Language English – Country of Production UK – Production Format DVCPro50 – Viewing Copy DVD Pal – Screening/Exhibition Format DigiBeta Pal – Versions Segment of The City Speaks feature film & Single film version – Aspect Ratio 16:9 – Picture Colour – Sound 5.1 Stereo – Distribution vTape! Toronto, Canada & Blanche Pictures – Distribution The City Speaks Programme Film London |
EXHIBITION, SCREENINGS & BROADCASTS
– Valentines Film Festival Curzon Mayfair, London 02/2010 – Asterfest Strumica, Macedonia 27-31/05/09 – Evolution Festival: Lumen Leeds 13-16/05/09 – Girls on Film: International Women's Day Bradford Playhouse 08/03/09 – 25th Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival Germany 11-16/11/08 – Reykjavik International Film Festival Iceland 01-05/10/08 Nominated for the Golden Egg Award – Harvestworks Video Art Festival New York, 24-26/09/08 – Canary Wharf Film Festival London, 31/08/08 – Cinema Jove 23rd International Film Festival Valencia 21-28/06/08 – Moves 08 RNCM Manchester, 26/04/08 – East End Film Festival London, 22/04/08 – BBC Radio 4 92-95FM & 198LW, 19-20/03/08, 14:15 – BFI Southbank NFT1, London, 10/03/08, 18:30 |
![[Yalda by Esther Johnson]](../Images/Yalda01EstherJohnsonWeb.jpg "[Yalda Image: Thierry Bal]")