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Ghosthunter (2000)

Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 2000
Running Times: 20 mins
Format: colour
Ratio:
Sound: Dolby Digital

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Amulet Films
Producers: Simon Corris, Alison Reddihough
Production Manager: Jacqui Wetherill
Unit Production Manager: Claire F. Moore

SCRIPT
Script: Alison Reddihough, Simon Corris

DIRECTION
Director: Simon Corris
1st Assistant Director: Philip Shaw
2nd Assistant Director: Sam Jones
3rd Assistant Director: Katia Kogler

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Gavin Struthers
Consultant Cinematographer: Freddie Francis
Camera Operators: Trevor Coop, Rodrigo Gutierrez
Assistant Camera: Adam White
2nd Assistant Camera: Jason Coop
Camera Trainee: Christian Zeidler
Clapper Loader: Jason Coop
Focus Puller: Dean Thompson
Cinejib Operator: John Breedon
Cinejib Grip: Dennis Dillon
Key Grip: Luke Chisholm
Grip: Philip Aylewood

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Simon Cozens

MUSIC
Music: Barrington Pheloung

SOUND
Sound Recordist: Nigel Bennett
Sound Mixer: Brian Greene
Boom Operator: Dugald Scott
Sound Re-Recording Mixers: Richard Street, Robin O'Donoghue
Sound Editor: Sam Auguste
Consultant Sound Editor: Mark Auguste
ADR Mixer: David Tyler
Foley Mixer: David Tyler
Foley Artist: Rikki Butt
Sound Assistant: Jonathan Cousins

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Julia Laderman
Assistant Make Up: Natalie Grosberg
Costume Designer: Bea Marx-Logerfo
Wardrobe Assistant: Alice Lowe

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects: Quantel; The Computer Film Company
Digital Visual Effects Supervisors: Matthew Twyford, Robert Duncan
Visual Effects Producer: Drew Jones
Visual Effects Coordinator: Ruth Greenberg
Digital Lab Producer: Jan Hogevold
Digital Lab: Merrin Jensen
Supervising CG Animator: Dominic Parker
Digital Paint Artists: Ian Fellows, Sule Bryan-Hurst
Data: Darrel Griffin
Visual Effects Editor: Roz Lowrie
Title Designer: Ian Firth

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Luke Smith
Assistant Art Director: Michael Singleton
Stand-By Art Director: R. Kate Snusher
Production Design Consultant: Peter Lamont
Property Makers: Jemma Smith, Penny Smith
Stand-By Props: Rhian Davies Jones
Art Department Assistants: Danny Jenkins, Joanna Sangster, Rachel Williams, Sharon Hunt

MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor: Claire Eades
Production Assistant: Liesbeth Beekman

LOCATIONS
Locations: East Grinstead, West Sussex, England, UK
Studio: Pinewood Studios, UK

CAST
Frank Finlay (Charlie Fielding)
Alison Reddihough (Sarah Anderson)
June Watson (Audrey Hicks)
Jacqueline Phillips (Anne Hicks)
Josie Kidd (Emily Fielding)

PLOT SUMMARY

Charlie, a professional ghosthunter, has been a widower for two years and is desperately searching for a way to contact his wife. Sarah, a researcher into the paranormal, is trying to find meaning in her life life by exploring local myths in a small English village, investigating stories of a sinister cult that settled in the area at the end of the 19th century. They are brought together by a series of hauntings at an old church in Sussex.

AVAILABILITY

UK
DVD Distributor: Focal Press (0 240 51624 9 - as part of a DVD given away with the book How to Make Great Short Feature Films: The Making of Ghosthunter

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

UK
Rating: E

TIMELINE

2000
January

10: UK - shooting begins
18: UK - shooting ends

September
25: UK - theatrical release

2001
January

Day Unknown: UK - DVD release

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REFERENCES

BOOKS

How To Make Great Short Feature Films: The Making of Ghosthunter by Ian Lewis and Alison Reddihough
production notes

KEYWORDS

churches, ghosts


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