Features/Shorts in development:
JUNKHEARTS
Feature – Dramatic thriller
Directed by Tinge Krishnan
Produced by Karen Katz
Written by Simon Frank
Frank - an army veteran suffering from combat stress after a stint in Northern Ireland - offers teenage runaway Lynette a place to stay. It's an offer that will cost him his home, his sanity and possibly his life. A dynamic, taut, and ultimately redemptive dramatic thriller.
HONEY AND RAZORBLADES
Short - Drama
Directed by Tinge Krishnan
Starring Shobna Gulati, Celyn Jones, Valerie Gogan and David Found.
Shot on location in Thailand, a naïve young couple go on holiday to Thailand, where they become entangled with a pair of hedonists.
The fault lines in their relationship rupture and their personal truths explode.
Expected to launch on the festival circuit in May/June 2008.
LITTLE SISTERS
Feature - Drama
Directed by Tinge Krishnan
Feature Film script developed with film council, Working Title, Oscar Films. Rights owned by Disruptive entirely.
A drama set in Glasgow following a gang of teenage girls.
MY HEART LAID BARE
Feature - Drama
Directed by Tinge Krishnan
Written by Cheryl Martin
The writer Cheryl Martin is an award winning playwright, poet and singer who was appointed artist-in-residence at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. My Heart Laid Bare is based on the relationship between the French poet Charles Baudelaire and his mixed-raced mistress Jeanne Duval.
Set in 1840s Paris, My Heart Laid Bare is the story of Jeanne's search for a love that can transform her life and set her soul and mind free, a love that can help her transcend society. Instead she finds a love that is a trap and has to learn that only she can free herself.
Completed work:
2008 CIRCLE
TV Drama 30 min IWC/C4 screening Sep 2009
Set in a near future where fuel shortages have created economic meltdown and lawlessness. Two terrified survivors of a massacre meet and the themes of revenge and redemption are explored.
2008 ZONED IN
Feature - Documentary
Directed and produced by Daniela Zanzotto
Zoned In follows Daniel, an articulate 16 year old in the South Bronx, on his remarkable journey from a state-run school, to a prestigious university, to his return to the South Bronx as a teacher. Against all expectations Daniel took the American dream and made it his own.
2007 FIRST
Short – drama 6mins
Written and Directed by Tinge Krishnan
The Audi Channel Award Reel Talent Winner 2007
Screening as part of the Generation 14plus programme at the International Berlin Film Festival 2008.
Sophie, a teenager with learning difficulties, is a talented pianist. When her best friend Danko enters her into a prestigious composer competition she discovers that the world is not quite ready for her unorthodox musical style.
2005 BACKPACKER ORPHEUS
Play
Performed in West end (Sound Theatre). The story of Orpheus set in the Asian Tsunami. Backpacker Orpheus played to sell out crowds
Music by Shadow Orchestra (Big Chill, radio 1,radio 2) and Graham Massey (808 State, Toolshed, Various well known Bjork tracks)
2004 BATTAGLIA
Documentary 58 mins
Directed by Daniela Zanzotto
At 37 Letizia, together with her 3 daughters, left a husband whom she had been married to since the age of 16 and became a journalist. She picked up a camera when she found that she could better sell her articles if they were accompanied by photographs. After years of racing on her Vespa to the crime scenes with her camera, Letizia found she had accumulated an archive of death and decay of Palermo and its citizens. But simply documenting what was happening wasn't enough for her and so she became and anti-Mafia activist and environmental politician and dedicated her life to the battle for justice.
BATTAGLIA paints a uniquely intimate portrait of this warrior of a woman. A story of passion, pain and the struggle for freedom.
YLE TEEMA (Finland), SVT (Sweden), TVO (Canada), ORF (Austria), Stocklight Limited and Studio of the North (UK).
Acquired and transmitted by AVRO, The Netherlands; Cultnetwork, Fox Italy; TSI Switzerland; ARTE, France.
Worldwide sales by First Hand Films
2001 KISSED BY ANGELS
Short - Documentary 10 mins
Directed by Daniela Zanzotto
Yorkshire Arts, Yorkshire Media Production Agency, Stocklight Limited
Acquired and transmitted by Sundance Channel, USA; Channel 4, UK
Combining hyper-realism with surrealism, this lyrical and stylised documentary is an intensely intimate voyage into one woman's experience of breast cancer.
WINNER Best Documentary Short Film: Cleveland International Film Festival 2002
WINNER Certificate of Merit Gold Gate Awards 2002
Sheffield International Documentary Festival 2001
Bilbao International Festival of Documentary & Short Films (in competition)
Tampere International Short Film Festival (in competition)
Women in the Directors Chair 2002 San Francisco International Film Festival 2002
Hot Docs! International Documentary 2002
2000 SHADOWSCAN
Short - Drama 11mins, Super 35mm, DTS, SRD, SDDS
Written and Directed by Tinge Krishnan
Produced by Gary Holding and Justine Leahy
BFI/Arts Council/Film Four/YMPA, New Directors Scheme
Shadowscan is a dangerous and at times darkly comic amalgam of genres, taking influences from Lars Von Trier's The Kingdom, horror films and Hindi movies. The film takes us on a breathless, dizzying trip, revealing and uncomfortable, unseen reality about hospital life.
BAFTA AWARD WINNER - Best Short Film 2001
WINNER Best UK Short - Raindance
Nominated Best British Short - BB2 Awards
Uppsala 2001 (in competition)
Cork Film Festival (in competition)
Sundance 2001 - screening with ‘Chopper'
UK Ch4 terrestrial as part of Shooting Gallery interview with Tinge precedes & Film 4 digital transmission
On the strength of Shadowscan both Tinge and Justine are participating on the New Directors Scheme through First Film Foundation 2002
1999 RANDOM NIGHTS
Short - Drama 3mins 22 sec, DV
Written and directed by Tinge Krishnan
Produced by Ideal World & Film Four Lab
Life as a computer game is the premise of this darkly funny hallucinatory adventure, as three very different characters slam together in the streets of Edinburgh on one strange and dangerous night.
Random Nights was screened at the 1999 Edinburgh Film Festival to celebrate the launch of Film Four Lab
Transmitted on Film Four Digital Channel & terrestrial channels as part of the Shooting Gallery.
1998 IF WALLS COULD SPEAK
Documentary 52 mins, Mini DV
Directed by Daniela Zanzotto
Part funded by YMPA
Today La Muette is a run down council estate in Drancy, a Paris suburb: during WWII 67,000 Jews were interned there on their way to the death camps. This dynamic and contemporary film makes history and the past relevant to today in a style that goes well beyond the boundaries of conventional historical documentaries.
WINNER Out Of That Darkness Film Season & Competition at the ICA 2000.
WINNER Best documentary, second place, Cinema Delle Donne 1999.
Imperial War Museum, London, (multiple screenings 2000/1)
Leeds International Film Festival 1999
Sheffield International Documentary Festival 1999
Royal Institute of British Architects, special screening 1999
Festival International de Films de Femmes (Creteil) 1999
Graz Biennal on Media + Architecture 1999
Transmitted on Planété, France and Télévision Suisse, Romande, Switzerland
1998 SHOWROOM CINEMA INDENT
22 sec, 35mm SRD
Written and Directed by Tinge Krishnan
Produced by Gary Holding and Justine Leahy.
Finance by the YMPA and the Showroom Cinema
Tinge won the commission to write and direct a commercial for the Showroom Cinema in Sheffield. The Ident was shot on 35mm and trailered each feature presentation at t he Showroom Cinema.
1996 GROOVE ON A STANLEY KNIFE
Drama 40mins 16mm
Written by Tinge Krishnan
Directed by Tinge Krishnan and Beth Kotler
Produced by Gary Holding and Justine Leahy
This was the first film by writer/director Tinge Krishnan. Groove is an award winning drama which plunges into the dark history of two women fleeing violent crack dealers in the North of England. Blending harrowing flash backs with a narrative of defiant wit, the film deals with love and tenderness in a world of brutality.
WINNER Silver Spire Award, San Francisco 1997
WINNER Best European Film, CInneffable Film Festival
WINNER Most Imaginative Film, Bologna 1997
Uppsala 1997 (in competition)
Acquired by Channel 4 and transmitted
