Shell
Shell is a 17-year-old girl who lives and works at a petrol station
in the desolate Scottish Highlands. Apart from the occasional customers who call by for fuel and a few regulars who acknowledge
and catch up with her, Shell's only company is her reserved and softspoken father Pete to whom she is devoted. A young girl
trying to find her place in the world, she is on the cusp of womanhood, struggling to re-imagine her role within her own family
and life in general. Pete, meanwhile, is damaged goods. He still keenly feels the absence of his wife who ran away when Shell
was four, while his connection with his daughter is both difficult and disturbing.
Director's Biography
SCOTT GRAHAM, born in Scotland. He made his first short BORN
TU RUN in 2005. His second short, SHELL, won the UK Film Council Award for Best Film at the London Short Film Festival in
2008, and his third, NATIVE SON, was produced by Film Four under their Cinema Extreme banner and premiered in Critics' Week
at Cannes in 2010. Graham was chosen as one of Screen International's ‘UK Stars of Tomorrow’ in 2011. His first feature, SHELL,
is based on his 2008 short and was screened at the Torino Film Festival in 2012 where it was awarded with the Best Film Award,
among others.
Competition Fiction 2013
Scott Graham
Great Britain 2012
color
90
minutes
OV
Screenplay
Scott Graham
Cinematography
Yoliswa Gärtig
Editing Rachel
Tunnard
With
Chloe Pirrie, Michael Smiley, Joseph Mawle, Iain de Caestecker, Paul Hickey, Kate Dickie
Production
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