WHALE'S SONG | Award-Winning Short Film (4K)

2023, FRANCE. 16min — 4K — 2:35 color. Winner — Best Live Action Short Film — Creative Circle Awards World Premiere — Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF) UK premiere — Manchester Film Festival — Official Selection Semi-Finalist — New York Indie Shorts Awards Semi-Finalist — Flicker's Rhodes Island International Film Festival Synopsis — On a seawall separating the ocean from the factories of Dunkerque, Rachel and her daughter are sleeping in their car. Paul, the father, finds them there in the early hours, he wants his daughter back. Rachel must face up to him now if she wants her freedom and to save her daughter. Ella Rumpf .................................. RACHEL Swan L'haoua ........................... PAUL Eléonore Desormeaux ...... LOUISE written & directed by Neels Castillon music by Hania Rani and Dobrawa Czocher production company — Motion Palace in collaboration with the Ridley Scott Creative Group. producer — Louis Arnoux executive producer — Ariane Cornic production coordinator — Sandrine Laveau producer — Emilie Mallen movement director — Fanny Sage art director — Vincent Perrin 1st AD — Sofia Jaeger 2nd AD — Clément Daugabel director of photography — Eric Blanckaert 1st AC — Félix Suljemanoski 2nd AC — Aymeric Beun Gaffer — Sebastien Plessis best boy — Solenn Colbatz key grip — Jeremy Leloup make-up artist — Sidney Billon sound operator — Alexandre Le Mouroux sound operator — Yves Bagot editor — Sebastien Rouquet re-recording mixer — Dominique Delguste supervising sound editor — Rémi Gauthier foley artist — Quentin Lévy foley mixer — Manu Payet VFX studio — The Mill VFX supervisor — Franck Lambertz compositing — Guillaume Ho compositing — Benjamin Malherbe VFX producer — Stéphanie Mollet graphic design — Pablo Desportes color grading — Hervebay's camera and lenses — RVZ head of camera department — Samuel Renollet sound gear — DCA mixing auditorium — Creative Sound foley studio — M-Studios safety guards / lifeguards — SNSM Dunkerque car and motorbike supplier — Jérémy Leblanc film permits — Grand Port Maritime de Dunkerque head of short film at RSA — Nancy Ryan researcher — Harry Morgan special thanks to Kai-Lu Hsiung, Debie Garvey, Holly Wolfers, Laura Lopes, Cédric Négrel, Clara Desogus, Ville de Dunkerque, Ville de Mardyck, Joke, Skuibi, Muriel Debaene, Mireille Bruynoghe, Awir Léon, Spoke, Murielle Darte, Rosen De Gouvello, Emmanuel Pelletier, Laura Meerson, Nestor Factory, Bastien Larue, Fanny Druant, Pascal Laurière, Nicole Vanzinghel.