SHELL
A 4 Citizens Filmworks & Red Palette Pictures co-production

Sea. Sand. Sun. Two children meet on a beach. The boy is black, the girl white. At eight, life is beautiful and simple. But not for their parents, who had a past liaison. They reignite their relationship, but their reunion inadvertently destroys the children's paradise -- washing it into the sea.

Shell is the first of five short films that will make up the planned feature film Apples and Seeds. Each story will be about children’s formative experiences in which adults play an important role but are often unaware of their influence.

Narrative short: 15 minutes, English

Awards:

Honorable Mention,
Rochester/HF International Film Festival

Honorable Mention,
The Accolade Film Awards (www.accoladecompetition.org/Film)

Official Selection, 2008 New York Short Film Festival

Official Selection, Festival de Cine Internacional de Barcelona

Official Selection, San Diego Black Film Festival

Film Festivals:	Screenings:
Big Apple Film Festival (New York City) Cinewomen NY Special Presentation/Non-Violence International Film Festival (Waterloo, ON, Canada) Blue Wire Film Festival (Hollywood, CA) Austin Women's Film, Music & Literary Festival Reel Festival for Women (Beverly Hills, California)	Soho House in January 2010, NYC The Tank, NYC
Actors:	Production team:
Rose Sias Jean Brassard Giovanna Hooton Sherman Cravens	Writer/Director - Yelena Demikovsky Executive Producer - Brian Singh Director of Photography - Sergei Rakhomiagui Production Design - Anabela Zigova Editors - Ron Kalish, Fatima Benbrahim Sound Editors - Ron Kalish, John Burns Composers - Victor, Nikita, and Alex Pozdnyakov www.realmusic.ru/nikita_pozdnyakov www.realmusic.ru/sasha_pozdnyakov

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