Blowout
Short film · 2024 · 12 min · Producer
- Official selection Cine Soul · Sacramento Black Film Festival 2025
- Official selection Ely Film Festival 2025
- Official selection KinoToy Fest 2025
- Official selection The African Film Festival (TAFF) 2025
- Official selection The Black Film Summit 2025
A comedic drama about a receptionist at an upscale London hair salon who struggles with feeling insignificant and invisible.
What I did as Producer
- Co-produced with Stephen Withers, from the crowdfunding campaign to the premiere.
- The 14–21 May 2024 shoot, on location in a working London hair salon.
- Screenings
- Curzon Mayfair, London: Goldsmiths MA Film Showcase, 17 January 2025.
- Financing
- Crowdfunded on Kickstarter: £6,050 from 44 backers, including a group in Taiwan. A Kickstarter “Project We Love”.
- Post-production
- Graded at Absolute Post, London (colourist Marina Soro, executive producer Sally Heath).
- Written & directed by
- Sienna Jacob
- Produced by
- Kaan Çakır & Stephen Withers
- Starring
- Simi Beckley, Beatrice Alexandra Allen
- Cinematography
- Si Tong Chen & Qinglong Liu
- Sound design
- Andile Msomi
- Editor
- Michael van der Put
- Runtime
- 11:34 · 4:3
- Made at
- Goldsmiths, University of London (MA Filmmaking)
Full credits
- Lydia
- Simi Beckley
- Allie
- Beatrice Alexandra Allen
- Meredith
- Ianthe Bathurst
- Emma
- Esmé Thompson
- Sam
- Sean Smith
- Lucy
- Lindsay Fabes
- Customer 1
- Jade Barnes
- Customer 2
- Hanna Linnéa Mödder
- Written & directed by
- Sienna Jacob
- Produced by
- Kaan Cakir & Stephen Withers
- Cinematography by
- Si Tong Chen & Qinglong Liu
- Edited by
- Michael van der Put
- Sound recording & design by
- Andile Msomi
- Focus puller
- Ran You
- 2nd assistant camera
- James Kennedy, Shee Won Park
- Gaffer
- Taylor Wu
- Electrician
- Prachi Chandna
- Grip
- Ngawang Lektso
- 1st assistant director
- Anmy Pazos Martinez, Kristin Duffy
- 2nd assistant director
- Jade Barnes
- Script supervisor
- Rachel Chung
- Production designer
- Lilia Nowakowska Page
- Boom operator
- Jude Diggens
- Camera trainees
- Peggy Lu, Elizaveta Altusar Pavlovna
- Hair and make-up artist
- Maxine Rosina McKenzie
- Costume designer
- Chelsey Holt
- Stills photographer
- Alice Orio
- Foley artist
- John Fewell
- Sound mixer
- Ben Carr
- Absolute Post: executive producer
- Sally Heath
- Absolute Post: colourist
- Marina Soro
- Production assistants
- Tia Duff, Megan Shaw
- Special thanks
- Angel Hair Atelier, Genesis Hire, Gea Cimenti
Stills
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Poster
Behind the scenes
Set photography: Alice Orio
Meet the crew
“Firstly, the narrative is compelling, and secondly, it's a story that really needs to be told.”
Our Kickstarter pitch from May 2024: the crew on why they signed on to Blowout, and my call for backers at the end.