Country: UK
Year: 1991
Duration: 24'
A tragicomic boatmovie in which Beauty and the Beast live out their own fairytales.
"For me the film is 'that vast room of imaginings where fear and fantasy meet' and in Miss Queencake this becomes the setting for specific childhood memories." (Amanda Holiday)
Biography
film director
Amanda Holiday
Amanda Holiday was born in Sierra Leone in 1964 and came to live near Wigan at the age of five. She studied Italian at Leeds and painting at Wimbledon. She currently works part time in a film archive and a drugs unit.
Cast
& Credits
Director and screenplay: Amanda Holiday.
Director of photography: Shangara Singh.
Music: Simon King.
Editor: Jo Ann Kaplan.
Cast: Sophie Okonedo, Don Henderson, T. Bone Wilson, Miranda Bell, Chenelle Allman.
Production company and Italian distribution: BFI Production, 29 Rathbone Street, London W1P 1AG, tel. 6365587, fax 5809456.
Director of photography: Shangara Singh.
Music: Simon King.
Editor: Jo Ann Kaplan.
Cast: Sophie Okonedo, Don Henderson, T. Bone Wilson, Miranda Bell, Chenelle Allman.
Production company and Italian distribution: BFI Production, 29 Rathbone Street, London W1P 1AG, tel. 6365587, fax 5809456.