About this project
Mali is a 6 yr old girl who wants nothing more than to please her mum. Single mum Cath, however, barely notices Mali in her struggle to pay the bills and keep it together. Mali finally finds someone that can love her back, but when the landlord comes knocking on the door, the day takes a tragic turn.
Shooting on S16mm, Mum aspires to a grainy, visceral look that references the British photographers Chris Killip, Richard Billingham and Martin Parr, and the great British documentary from 1935 “Housing Problems”.
Setting the film in North Wales is especially significant because the region has one of the highest rates of child poverty in the UK.
WHERE YOUR DONATION WILL GO
All donations will be used to cover production costs. Equipment rentals, production design and costume, animal wrangler, transport, developing costs, food for cast and crew.
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This project successfully raised its funding goal on December 24, 2010.
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Claire Fowler - Director
Claire Fowler is a writer-director from Wales, and 'Mum's not in' is her final project in completion of her MFA in Film from Columbia University in NYC. After studying at Oxford University and the Royal College of Art, she made a number of human rights-themed documentary films which screened at venues internationally- including the Lincoln Center as part of the International Human Rights Watch festival, Roooftop films, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Barbican, the Ritzy, SOAS and Clapham Picturehouse in London, Sheffield Docfest, the Visual art centre of Lille in France, Tehran International Documentary festival and the International Film festival Rotterdam.
Her work has been supported by the Fulbright commission, the PEO foundation, the Arts Council England, South West Screen, the British Council, the International Peace Scholarship, and the Academy Foundation. She is currently working on her third feature length screenplay, a script that shares many of the same preoccupations as 'Mum's not in' and hopes the making of this short film will contribute to her ambition of realizing the feature in the not-so-distant future.
She knows what it’s like to live hand to mouth.
Andrew J.D. Hauser - Producer
Raised in England, and currently living in New York, Andrew has produced short films on both sides of the Atlantic, and so has an acute understanding to putting together productions in unusual environments. Most recently, Sweet Virginia, produced in December 2008, screened at the prestigious Seattle International Film Festival. He is currently in post-production on two shorts; Exit, starring Julian Glover, filmed in Colchester, England in March 2010, and Lucky Duck, which was filmed in Ohio in June 2010. He is serving as an Associate Producer on Four, a feature film executive produced by Neil Labute to be shot in June 2011.
Tim Sidell - Director of Photography
Tim graduated in Illustration at Kent Institute of Art & Design in 1997, where he established a Fine Art practice through drawing, collage and mixed-media painting. Following several exhibitions, his work subsequently evolved through multiple-screen and site-specific video installation and 16mm film.
Tim has directed photography in numerous drama productions, music videos, commercials and experimental projects with other artists, while continuing to make his own experimental films. Tim has worked the most recent digital cinema cameras, High-Definition formats alongside Super 16mm and 35mm film.
