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
