Isolation (2005)

Country of Origin: UK / Ireland
Year of Production: 2004
Running Times: 95 mins
Format: colour     35mm
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Sound:

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Element Films / Frog Films / The Bureau
Executive Producers: Stephanie Denton, Andrew Lowe, Nicolas Meyer, Tessa Ross
Production Executive: Jane Roche
Producers: Ruth Kenley-Letts, Bertrand Faivre, Ed Guiney
Production Coordinator: Cait Collins

SCRIPT
Script: Billy O'Brien

DIRECTION
Director: Billy O'Brien
1st Assistant Director: Luke Johnston
2nd Assistant Director: Jill Dempsey
3rd Assistant Director: Owen Magee
Trainee Assistant Director: Jonathan Bone
Work Experience Assistant Director: Kevin O'Reilly

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Robbie Ryan
Steadicam Operator: Stephen Murphy
B Camera Operators: John Watters, Simon Vickery
1st Assistant B Camera: Fionn Comerford
B Camera Clapper Loader: Aideen McCarthy
Focus Puller: John Watters
Gaffer: Garret Baldwin

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Justinian Buckley
Film Conform Editors: Tina Richardson, Christopher Mill
Film Conform Assistant: Marsha Bramwell
Negative Cutter: Jason Wheeler

MUSIC
Music: Adrian Johnston
Conductor: Terry Davies

SOUND
Sound: Mervyn Moore
Boom Operator: Andrew Felton
Sound Post-Production: Clarity Post
Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Richard Davey
Assistant Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Jessie Taylor
Supervising Sound Editor: Zane Hayward
Dialogue Editor: Joakim Sundström
ADR Recordist: Robert Edwards
ADR Mixer: Andy Thompson
ADR Editor: Joakim Sundström
Foley Editor: James Hamilton

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Costume Designer: Suzanne Cave

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Scott McIntyre

VISUAL EFFECTS
Digital Compositor: Jon van Hoey Smith

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Paul Inglis
Art Director: Tamara Conboy
Standby Art Director: Sharon Bruton
Trainee Art Director: Brian Cave
Set Decorator: Kevin Downey
Painter: Darren Kearney

MISCELLANEOUS
Business Affairs Executive: Louise Cornally

LOCATIONS
Locations: County Wicklow, Ireland
Location Manager: Niall Martin

STUNTS
Stunt Coordinator: Donal O'Farrell
Stunts: Dominick Hewitt, Giedrius Nagys

CASTING
Casting: Wendy Brazington

CAST
Essie Davis (Orla)
Sean Harris (Jamie)
Marcel Iures (John)
Crispin Letts (Doctor)
John Lynch (Dan)
Ruth Negga (Mary)
Stanley Townsend (Garda Hourican)

PLOT SUMMARY

Farmer Dan Reilly is having a hard time - he's agreed to allow his cattle to be used in an series of tests by bio-tech laboratory, BV Tech to help him dig his way out of his financial difficulties. But the tests aren't the simple pregnancy research that Reily has been led to believe- they're something far more sinister...

AVAILABILITY

France
Theatrical Distributors: TFM Distribution

USA
Theatrical Distributors: Lions Gate International

TIMELINE

2005
September
11: Canada - shown at the Toronto Film Festival

October
8: France - shown at the Dinard Festival of British Cinema

2006
January
26: France - shown at the Gérardmer Film Festival

March
17: USA - shown at the RiverRun International Film Festival
30: USA - shown at the Wisconsin Film Festival

April
22: UK - shown at the Dead by Dawn Horror Film Festival

June
7: France - theatrical release
14: Belgium - theatrical release

July
5: USA - theatrical release

POSTER TAGS

A horror film set on a lonely farm in rural Ireland

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

The Calf - working title

KEYWORDS

cattle, experiments, farmers, farms, scientists

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008