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Sharp Shorts Year 1<\/strong>
\nRunning Time: 15mins<\/strong>
\nYear: 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n

Synopsis: Long after her death, a lonely widow\u2019s home is infested by the mouldy manifestation of her dead daughter\u2019s spirit, but when her son returns from university and confronts her emotional entombment and festering guilt she\u2019s forced to choose between the living and the dead.<\/strong><\/p>\n

FILM CREW:
\n<\/strong>Director: Maryam Hamidi
\n<\/strong>Producer: Alysia Maciejowska
\n<\/strong>Writer: Maryam Hamidi
\n<\/strong>DOP: Laura Dinnett<\/strong>
\nEditor: Megan Green<\/strong>
\nSound Design: Heather Andrews<\/strong>
\nComposer: Mariam Rezaei<\/strong>
\nProduction Design: Grace Edge
\n<\/strong>Costume Design: Denise Coombes<\/strong>
\nHair & Makeup: Michelle Watson
\n<\/strong>VFX: Scott McCartney<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cast: Nathalie Armin, Armin Karima, Stella Sorensen, Daniel Hoseini<\/strong><\/p>\n

Photo credit: Kevin J. Thomson<\/strong><\/p>\n

FESTIVALS:<\/strong>
\nGirls In Film<\/a> November 2022<\/em>
\n<\/strong>Exit 6<\/a> September 2022<\/em>
\n<\/strong>Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival<\/a> April 2022<\/em>
\n<\/strong>Poppy Jasper International Film Festival<\/a> April 2022<\/em>
\n<\/strong>Glasgow Short Film Festival<\/a> March 2022
\n<\/em>Underwire<\/a> March 2022<\/em><\/p>\n

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About Maryam Hamidi<\/h3>\n

Maryam was born in Iran and moved to the UK as a young child during the Iran-Iraq war. She now lives in Glasgow and is a mother to two young children. This informs her writing practice and the kind of stories she wants to tell.<\/p>\n

For TV she is currently part of the writing team for series 2 of Vigil (World Productions) and she has a number of originals in development including, Gonaah<\/em> (Sin) with World Productions and a comedy drama Nose<\/em> with Objective Fiction.<\/p>\n

Maryam has written and directed two short films – BFI Network funded supernatural drama Bahar<\/em> (15\u2019, 2021 Moquette films) and SFTN funded Bloody Love<\/em> (7\u2019, 2017 Clan Productions), and she was selected for Edinburgh International Film Festival\u2019s Talent Lab 2022.<\/p>\n

As a playwright her work includes Moonset<\/em> (Citizens Theatre, 2023) which is a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2023 and The Words (A Play, a Pie and a Pint). She has previously been a runner up for the Amnesty: Freedom of Expression Award and a recipient of the Playwright\u2019s Studio Scotland New Playwright\u2019s Award.<\/p>\n

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About Alysia Maciejowska<\/h3>\n

Moquette Films is the independent production company established by\u00a0Alysia Maciejowska<\/a>. Passionate about good drama, exciting and untold stories, their intention is to facilitate more diversity on screen and behind the camera, to break down barriers, cross borders and inspire tolerance, understanding and partnership, and most of all to make damn good films.<\/p>\n

Working with established and emerging writers and directors from around the UK, they are concentrating on their growing slate of shorts, feature, narrative TV series. Their aim is to develop Moquette Films into a reputable, world-class content producer of quality, honest, human and impactful stories.<\/p>\n

With over 15 years industry experience in drama and commercials, and having attended co-production markets including Cinemart (Rotterdam) and IFP Week (New York), their aim is to help co-produce exciting international projects and help bring more productions to Scotland.<\/p>\n

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