Director: Zoe Alker, Producer: Charlotte Croft, Production: Screen Cornwall, UK, Language: Cornish, 2019, 15′, Rights: World excluding the UK
Life begins to change for a father and daughter who spend their time either at sea or apart. In a fishing town in Cornwall, a fractured relationship between a father and daughter begins to splinter further as she dreams of leaving the village behind.
Cast
Jenny Jope
Martin Savage (Pennyworth)
Kate Rutter (I Daniel Blake, The Full Monty, Queer As Folk, His Dark Materials)
Tom Meredith
About the Creator
Zoe Alker is a writer and director originally from Cornwall. Zoe was the recipient of the FylmK award, for which she made her Cornish language film Yn Mor, and she has also made a short for the BBC New Creatives scheme. Zoe has several feature length projects in development as well as a new play which will tour the South West in 2023. Zoe graduated in Masters of Dramatic Writing at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and is represented by Mark Brennan at United Agents.
Awards
Winner of Best Regional Short and Best Ensemble Performance at the Cornwall Film Festival 2019.