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A couple’s weekend in the hills goes off-track when they have to share a walkers’ hut with an eccentric resident.

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Overview

UPPER AIR is an offbeat comedy-drama short set in an iconic Cumbrian landscape.

Synopsis

It’s the end of the summer when Ethan and Sam head into the English Lake District for the weekend looking for some quiet time together. On arrival, they encounter Isaac - an eccentric elderly resident who has made their *bothy of choice his temporary home. Over the course of the day they must navigate this unexpected third-wheel’s quirks while discovering more about his unusual circumstances.

 

By nightfall, a rapport has formed between the three unlikely bunk-mates, one that puts them in an odd position when, in the early hours of Sunday morning, Isaac’s family comes knocking.

*bothy ~ a small hut or cottage, especially one for housing farm labourers or for use as a mountain refuge.

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Release and reception

Upper Air premiered at Manchester International Film Festival, UK. 

It played to local audiences at Yorkshire's International Rural Film Festival Hinterlands and at the Osprey Short Film Awards, part of the Keswick International Film Festival. The short was also programmed by festivals outside the UK, receiving nominations and awards.

Cast + Crew

Ethan ~ Louis Cunningham 

Sam ~ Eleanor D'Souza

 

Isaac's Son | Art Dep. ~ Lionel Playford

 

Isaac ~ Peter Macqueen

Producer | Casting Director 

Olivia Bradley

Producer | 1st Assistant Director 

Bruno Atkinson

Sound Recordists 

Nancy Case 

Dylan Byrne 

Cinematography | Edit Assistant | Colourist 

Ollie Lansdell

Producer | Editor | Writer & Director                        Production and Funding: 

Theodore Simmons                                                  Crowdfunded + self-funded

Sound Designer

Guy Henderson

Music

Pecq: Hannah Jacobs, Nicholas O'Brien, Orchestra of St Johns

Associate Producers

Andrew Gale

Seth King

Lakeem Rose

Annie Flynn

Nadine Staes-Polet

Liz Stevenson

Jezian Tudor

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"Beautiful, like a strange holiday...

you're lucky to have this place

and these filmmaking possibilities 

on your doorstep."

 

~  Hassan Nazer, British-Iranian Director

Osprey Short Film Awards, Keswick, 2023

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