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SOHRAB AND RUSTUM
CRYING SKY
Westall
THE SAFE HOUSE
ADA
ON A FULL MOON
NED WETHERED

SOHRAB AND RUSTUM

Is a hand drawn and painted animated film 13mins 36 secs.

It was completed and launched at a cast and crew screening in July 2018.

It won the 2019 Yoram Gross award for Best Animation at The Sydney Film Festival.

Sohrab and Rustum is the story of a young charismatic English teacher who reads a poem to her students, a group of fourteen year old girls whose main concerns are pop music and nail polish. The poem takes the girls on a journey to ancient Persia and a legendary fight between two warriors Sohrab and Rustum. The poem ends tragically and the girls are confronted with the reality of death. In the last stanza watercolour images of the night sky over the mighty Oxus River are a reminder of the beautiful eternal nature of life. The girls return to their class puzzled but wiser.

Credits

writer, director, animator
LEE WHITMORE

editor
LUCINDA CLUTTERBUCK

associate producer
JINGJING MA

producers
MARK STILES
LEE WHITMORE

Sohrab and Rustum
poem by MATTHEW ARNOLD

read by PATRICIA WENGER

original music
composed, performed and produced by
BURKHARD DALLWITZ

It's a Rock’n Roll, Rock’n Roll Part
written and performed by
JEREMY COOK and MIC CONWAY

sound design and mix
DEREK ALLAN ZIGZAG POST

fight sequence created at
THE ACTION ACTING ACADEMY

choreographer
KYLE ROWLING

fighters
KYLE ROWLING as Rustum
BLAKE WELLS as Sohrab

post production supervisor
DAVID DAVIDSON

colour grading & subtitles
JINGJING MA at imajing

CLASS OF ’64

english teacher of ‘64
MRS PATRICIA WENGER

ALICE STILES as the Teacher

Barbara Lasserre French Translator

special thanks
the late Barbara (Harry) Barnes
and Helen Garner

Bronwyn Murphy
Ray Argall
Philip Bull
Helen Wyatt
Betsy Baker
Toula Anastas
Itzell Tazzyman
Pei-Hsin Tung
Harry Stiles
Patricia Rowling
and
101 KICKSTARTER FRIENDS

copyright Lee Whitmore MMXVIII

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