Vanessa Mayfield – Danielle
Elizabeth Mannering – Vanessa
Trained in Musical Theatre, Elizabeth Mannering has always enjoyed all aspects of performing, whether it’s been on the stage or in front of the camera.
She has managed to make her way into this industry through featuring in Short Films, Music Videos and performing in Corporate Events in London. She is also awaiting a contract after accepting a Job as a Backing Dancer for Stedman Pearson, former member of “Five Star” on his Solo Tour, beginning in the Philippines later this year.
Rebecca is an actress, singer and dancer from North London and a graduate from The Urdang Acdemy with a Diploma in Professional Musical Theatre. She started training at a young age in musical theatre, tap, ballet, contemporary, modern and jazz at Collective Dance and Drama. She then went on to study further at GCSE, A levels, a foundation course at Urdang and finally a Diploma there too.
Paul is a British actor and film producer born and based in London. His parents were from Ireland, Co. Donegal (father) and Dorset (mother). Paul has now featured in more than 130 film productions of varying stature and continues to stamp his unique mark an any role in which he is cast.
Becky Dale - Sophie
Paul Dewdney – Oliver
What happens when you can’t fulfil your dreams what do you do then?
Vanessa is a passionate, talented dancer. She is also blind. Is there a place for her in the competitive world of dance? Vanessa meets Danielle, who yearns to dance but struggles to translate her passion into movement. Can Vanessa share her rare gift of expression to help Danielle? As Vanessa's unsighted world expands to reach Danielle, trust forms. Vanessa finds her world enriched in a way she never expected, through the bonds of friendship.
Born and raised in a small town in East Sussex Vanessa grew up performing with the Susanna Cox Academy, Crowborough. At 18 she left to pursue professional training at Stella Mann College. Since graduating Vanessa has seen a wealth of work in everything from film to musicals, recent credits include. Stage: The Long Road South, Godspell the musical, Films: The Gatehouse, Survivors and multi award winning webseries Outside the Box.
Crew
Laith Sami - Director / Producer / Co Writer
Alexander Kay - Writer
Mary Albanese - Producer
Ruaraid Achilleos Sarll - Cinematographer
Richard Brock - Producer
Rémi Deloche - 1st assistant director
Irek Dreger - Composer
Tom Killian - Composer
Iqbal Pervej - CGI
Siane Daley - Assistant Producer
Paul Caron - Sound Design, Sound mixer
Joel Neale - Sound Operator
Pete Banks - Gaffer
Rupert Peddle - Steadicam Operator
Tiffany Sami - Production Designer
Alfredo Juan - First AC
Nathalia Anzola - First AC
Paris Wharton - Script editor
Niki Melis - Grip/spark
Natalia Anakkar - Make up
Jeanne Dany - Locaction Manger
Philip Fraser - Runner
Judgets
Siane Daley
Nina Koenig
Nigel Boutwood
Dancer
Claire Ward
Lizzie Buckingham
Rosie porter
Goele Michaux
Sarah Brown
Paula Brett
Heidi hope
Amy black stock
Rhian Fahy
Kathryn Moore
Rachel Newnham
Natalie Tulloch
Katerina Hill
Sarah Dunn
Hannah Voss
To thank
Bishop Creighton House
Rory Gillert
Anthony Francis
Bath Spa University
Jack Stead
Adam Gazla
Laura Luing
Lucien Martin
Nina Koenig - Judget
Cast
Laith has directed 14 short films and music videos. One of the music videos he directed, reached number 4 on American Arabic Music Channel – Rotana and was shown to over 400 Million people worldwide.
Laith has also directed two commercials, and two documentaries that were broadcasted on Arabic TV and was show for 3 Million Viewers.
Alexander is a freelance London based writer. Having attained his MA Screenwriting degree in September 2013, Alexander is now collaborating with various Directors, Producers and fellow writers in creating numerous projects including: short films, feature films, television series, and even a series of novels aimed at children, all of which are at different stages of development.
Richard became ITV Meridian's political producer and was picked up by the BBC to produce their Sunday morning programme Breakfast with Frost. Afterwards, Richard moved back to ITV as a Series Producer, in charge of various programmes involving consumerism and discussion.
Richard then moved to Al Jazeera, where he worked as David Frost's producer for 6 years: overseeing studio shows, OBs and finally two series of a high end biographical interview programme.
I am a London-based Director of Photography, First AC and Editor with over four years experience working on short films, music videos, documentaries and corporate films. I have recently finished shooting a fashion commercial for the iconic British Designer Lulu Guinness. This is set to be released in late summer 2014. ‘Jonsey’, a short documentary I shot, co-produced and edited for Fifth Wall and The Smalls, will be shown on London Live TV later this year.
I have also just finished filming ‘Arkela’, my first feature as DP. Written by Bryony Byrne and directed by Alec Toller, Arkela is a feature length comedy
I Finish my cinema school two years ago. During that school I participated in different shorts movies to learn everything about technic. But I discovered the real work on cinema during different internship on features Films with greats directors and famous french actors ( Gérard Depardieu, Albert Dupontel, Cécile De France..). The school ended I worked like a professionnal on the location crew and directors crew for Canal +, the 1st Cinema Producer in France and for other producers on differents features films (‘’Les invincibles’’, ‘’Pilules Bleues’’, ‘’Le grand homme’’, ‘’Ventoux’’, ‘’En Équilibre’’, ‘’Couleur Locale’’
Dr. Mary Albanese has written a number of books and short films on a variety of topics from Alaska exploration to Romanian adoption. Her film THE LADY IN WHITE appeared on Sky TV and CLAW premiered at the Cannes Film Festival where she met Laith Sami and has supported his directorial vision and talent ever since.
Nina was cast in the horror film ‘The Hunted’ directed by Lance Patrick and which was launched at Cannes in 2013, where she played Doctor Samuels.
A steady stream of commercial related work for name brand companies such as Aegon, Tkmaxx, Barclays, Food Network UK, Triumph, Enamora and Cewe Photo World.
With ‘Third person’ Improvisation Theatre group Nina currently performs on stage instigated and directed by Mark Phoenix.
Giorgio Galli – Editor / Colourist
Freelancing as editor again working on a wide range of programmes for the major broadcasters such as BBC, C4 and ITV. At the same time, I have always been involved with independent fiction and factual projects including two feature documentaries and several short films of various length.
Among the latest works, Chance has premiered at BFI Flare Festival in March and has also been screened globally as part of the British Council initiative FiveFilms4Freedom to promote equality and acceptance worldwide. Since then it has been accepted in 5 more festival In Europe, America and Asia.