It was nominated for two Golden Sheafs (Best Film, Best Direction) at the Yorkton Film Festival in Canada and placed third in the Indie Producers Short Film Contest in Los Angeles. About Alan PowellĪlan’s short films have screened at dozens of festivals around the world and won several awards.Īcross the Hall (2006), funded by the National Film Board of Canada and the Ontario Arts Council, picked up best foreign film at the Heart of Gold Film Festival in Australia, best Canadian film at the Buffalo Niagara Film Festival in New York and best short at Method Fest in California.
Its meaning is layered much like the stickers and graffiti on the phone box. The film score has a haunting emotional quality that is not only foreboding and foretelling but also makes sense to each of the character’s stories.
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Shooting the Polish man’s scene with the windows blown out behind him played like heavenly light and was a symbolic foretelling.
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Using natural light and armed with only a few portable LED’s from the dollar store and a black foam core board, DOP Ollie Ford and first camera assist Nick Morris performed miracles. So the street traffic noises of east London on a Saturday were already beautifully mixed on the day! It’s enclosed by glass and that’s a pretty good sound barrier. We had an advantage in shooting in the phone box. Outside of its iconic appeal I wanted the graffiti and the various stickers to add meaning. It was also clear that I needed to create a personality for the phone box. On top of that, the whole concept became richer with mood and texture. When I moved to London, England and revisited the script it took on new meaning as the iconic red phone box is endangered. Written by Angelo Eidse, Phone Box was originally set in a Toronto phone booth. It wasn’t until six years later, after watching Open Hearts, a Susanne Bier Dogme 95 feature, that the motivation to do something became too strong to ignore.
I hadn’t really explored those elements in great detail in my filmmaking before. It was inspired by my desire to create a film that not only engaged viewers through visceral performances but also through an unfiltered cinematic reality that was raw, textured and ‘fly on the wall’ real. The idea for Phone Box came to me around 2008. Producer/director: Alan Powell Filmmaker’s statement For these threadbare souls, each facing a new beginning with unpredictable outcomes, the phone box is more than a public service: it’s a lifeline. The troubles and desperation of a handful of Londoners intersect at one of the city’s few remaining iconic red phone boxes.
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