Country: UK
Year: 2012
Duration: 87'
Shell lives with her father Pete in a gas station in the middle of the Scottish Highlands. Her mother abandoned them both long ago and their relationship is the only human contact possible in their geographical isolation, which is only interrupted every now and then by the occasional motorist passing through. The girl tells some of them that she doesn’t mind the solitude; she doesn’t know yet that it will be the last winter she will spend among those deserted mountains.
Biography
film director
Scott Graham
Scott Graham (Aberdeen, UK, 1974) grew up in the North-East of Scotland; in 2005 he shot his first short, Born to Run, at a local fishing harbor. His second short, Shell, won the UK Film Council prize for Best Film at the 2008 London Short Film Festival, while his next movie, Native Son, was presented in 2010 at the Semaine de la critique in Cannes. His first feature-length film, which is also entitled Shell, is based on his 2008 short and in 2012 won the Torino Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Born to Run (cm, 2006), Shell (cm, 2008), Native Son (cm, 2010), Shell (2012), Iona (2015).
Declaration
film director
“I had the idea for Shell when I was driving between Glasgow and the North of Scotland. I was passing run down garages and roadside diners and I thought about a character emotionally and physically tied to such an isolated place. There’s an emptiness to Shell’s life at the petrol station that goes beyond the roadside. It permeates the walls of the house she shares with her father. Shell seems to think she can survive on love though she never receives any from anyone. Though her future is uncertain at the end of the film I hope her release feels as uplifting for the audience as it does to her.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/ director, screenplay Scott Graham
fotografia/cinematography Yoliswa Gärtig
montaggio/film editing Rachel Tunnard
scenografia/ production design James Lapsley
suono/sound Andy Walsh
interpreti e personaggi/ cast and characters Chloe Pirrie (Shell), Michael Smiley (Hugh), Joseph Mawle (Pete), Iain de Caestecker (Adam), Paul Hickey (Robert), Kate Dickie (Claire)
produttori/producers David Smith, Margaret Matheson
produzione/production Brocken Spectre
coproduttore/coproducer Helge Albers
coproduzione/coproduction ZDF/ARTE
vendita all’estero/ world sales Bac Films
fotografia/cinematography Yoliswa Gärtig
montaggio/film editing Rachel Tunnard
scenografia/ production design James Lapsley
suono/sound Andy Walsh
interpreti e personaggi/ cast and characters Chloe Pirrie (Shell), Michael Smiley (Hugh), Joseph Mawle (Pete), Iain de Caestecker (Adam), Paul Hickey (Robert), Kate Dickie (Claire)
produttori/producers David Smith, Margaret Matheson
produzione/production Brocken Spectre
coproduttore/coproducer Helge Albers
coproduzione/coproduction ZDF/ARTE
vendita all’estero/ world sales Bac Films
TFF
prizes
