Blue Christmas
On Christmas Eve, 1968, in a Scottish coastal town, a debt collector goes to work to avoid confronting his wife’s worsening psychosis at home.
16mm, Color, 16m
2017, shot on location in Prestonpans, Scotland
Writer / Director > Charlotte Wells
Producer > Joy Jorgensen
Cinematography > Robbie Ryan
Production Design > Gregory Oke
Costumes > Sydney Buchan
Editor > Blair McClendon
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> BIFA 2017 Best British Short Film Long List
> Best Student Short 2018, SCAD Savannah Film Festival
> Best Scottish Short 2018, Edinburgh Short Film Festival
> Best Actor, Best UK Short 2018, Little Wing Film Festival
> Best Cinematography 2018, All Shorts Irvington
> Sundance 2018 Indiewire “10 Must See Shorts”
> Premiered TIFF 2017
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