Ferret official selection for the Student World Impact Film Festival!

Working with talented filmmakers is the best part of this job, really happy to announce some more good news this week, this time alongside Mojola Akinyemi and her short film Ferret.

Ferret has received an official selection for the Student World Impact Film Festival!

The largest student film festival in the world received over 13,000 submissions from filmmakers in 120 countries! Ferret will stream live to a global audience during the festival, taking place 18th - 25th June. 

Well done Mojola and team Ferret for a fantastic achievement.

FERRET

Synopsis: A psychological thriller focusing on fracturing of interpersonal relationships between young women. A first year student starting at an elite university is drawn into an exclusive clique, and begins to form an unhealthy attachment to the leader. With rising tensions, stark revelations and a sudden suicide, questions are raised on how far one is willing to go after rejection.

CREW

Writer + Director: Mojola Akinyemi

Executive Producers: Matthew Lawes-WickwarMarlena Hellebø

Producers: Alex Campbell & James Macnab

Director of Photography: Antoine Ruello

Editor: Joseph Bushell

1st AD: Arianna Muñoz

2nd AD: Sophie Stemmons & Flo Winkley

Script Supervisor: Anna Freeman

Production Designer: Elsa Soares

Assistant Production Designer: Eszter Bencsik

Costume Designer: Abbie Schneebecke

Sound Recordist: Isabelle Chisholm

Sound Designer: Laura Al Yousif

Camera Operators: Emlyn John & Lidia Bieniarz

Hair & Makeup Artist: Cath Churchill

Production Assistant: Jay Ayliffe

Mentor: Ashleigh Ashley

Publicity Designers: Leona Kouame & Clara Lamiter-Walter & Chloe Kelly


CAST

Michaela: Sarah Mulgrew

Gette: Gaia Mondadori

Julia: Fuschia Webb

Matthew: Arthur Goggin

Lee: Theo Collins

Ted: Jack Medlin

Tara: Ella Beaudoin

Carmen: Rachel Oyawale

Supporting Cast: Sol Aberman, Johanna Lee, Flora Macangus, Lillian Jones, Guy Makey, Carl Lawrence, Jess Chapman, Dion Everett, Kitty Ford, Emily Morley, Aurelia Eulenburg, Tess Bottomley, Simona Trombetta, Anna-Maria Woodrow