Exhale
Short film · 2024 · 5 min · Producer
- Selected IFFSA Toronto · International Film Festival of South Asia 2024
A woman trying to save her marriage finds an unexpected connection with the woman next door.
What I did as Producer
- Co-produced with Maya Mandell.
- Ran casting: the casting brief and sessions on 15–19 January 2024.
- An Equity contract for one of the leads, and contracts for the 17-person student crew.
- Two-day shoot on 10–11 February 2024.
- Directed by
- Sunalika Jain
- Written by
- Anna Solomko & Sunalika Jain
- Produced by
- Kaan Çakır & Maya Mandell
- Starring
- Saraswathi Sukumar, Sinna Mogul, Penny Bainbridge
- Cinematography
- Jan von Raumer & Aidan Schramm
- Sound
- Hirad Alavifard
- Editor
- Minghao Zhang
- Production design
- Maya Mandell
- 1st AD
- Lily Kennedy
- Runtime
- 4:44 · 2.39:1
- Made at
- Goldsmiths, University of London (MA Filmmaking)
Full credits
- Mira
- Saraswathi Sukumar
- Ashwin
- Sinna Mogul
- Alyce
- Penny Bainbridge
- Writer
- Anna Solomko & Sunalika Jain
- Director
- Sunalika Jain
- Producer
- Maya Mandell & Kaan Cakir
- Cinematographer
- Jan von Raumer, Aidan Schramm
- Sound recordist / sound designer
- Hirad Alavifard
- Boom operator
- Andile Msomi
- Foley artist
- John Fewell
- Editor
- Minghao Zhang
- Focus puller
- Josh Michals
- 2nd assistant camera
- Prachi Chandna
- Gaffer
- Alexis Minton
- Grip / spark
- Alfie Kalder
- 1st assistant director
- Lily Kennedy
- Script supervisor
- Sienna Jacob
- Production designer
- Maya Mandell
- Hair and make-up artist
- Nevine Bianchi della Porta
- Kit driver
- Anmy Pazos
- Runners
- Jade Barnes, Yiwen Liu
- Special thanks
- Caitlin Farrar & Edward Sudra, Kristin Duffy, Lara Kozah
From idea to shoot
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Oct 2023
The MA brief, “Drawn from Life”: make a film from something you saw in London. My pitch was a man on the Tube, texting in English with someone who wrote to him in Turkish.
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Nov 2023
I wrote notes on the group's first drafts, and research questions for interviews with people who had moved to the UK.
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Jan 2024
Anna Solomko and Sunalika Jain take the script through six drafts. Casting runs 15–19 January.
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Feb 2024
Two shoot days in a flat in New Cross, 10–11 February.
“After anger comes to a head, she yearns for a moment just for herself, stepping outside for a quiet breath, not as a homemaker or wife, but as an individual.”
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