2024 / Sci-Fi / 15 min / In post-production.
Writers: Francesca Castelbuono and Manuel Sepulveda
Director: Francesca Castelbuono
Producers: Chuckie McEwan & Archie Sinclair
Development Producer: Precious Mahaga
Production Companies: Strange Machine & Grey Moth
Instagram: @theinheritorsfilm
Facebook: @theinheritorsfilm
Twitter: @_strangemachine
Character sketches by Lando
2020 / Drama / 15 min / Commissioned by The Central School of Speech & Drama.
Extreme weather floods the home of five housemates. When a stranger unexpectedly appears needing safety, his presence fuels division and uncovers repressed tensions.
Festivals
Underwire Film Festival, London, UK, 2022. Official Selection.
with Essa Duggal Haider, Bella Humphries, Rok Juricic, Lilly Schendel, Elena Silvi and Tobi Faladé
Writer/Director: Francesca Castelbuono
Producer: Amanda Brennan
Production: The Central School of Speech & Drama
Director of Photography: Alana Mejía Gonzalez
Production Designer: Nuha Mekki
Editor: Miles Berkley-Smith
Composer: Tristan Shorr
2019 / Thriller, Drama / 18 min / Commissioned by DLVBBDO.
A Counter Terrorism undercover Unit is assigned a mission to surveille a young man suspected of a terror plot on New Year’s Eve.
Festivals
Busho Short Film Festival, Budapest, Hungary, 2020. Official Selection.
Facebook: @lynchshortfilm
with Helena Cullinan, Fionn Walton, Tia Bannon, Sophie Mercell, Areeb Ullah
Writers: Mo Mesrati, Nisrine Mansour
Director: Francesca Castelbuono
Producers: Nicola Cavalazzi, Elena Santamaria
Production Company: Oxygene Film, Subframe Media
Director of Photography: Michel Franco
Production Designer: Paulina Rzeszowska
Editor: Adriano Patruno
Music by: Nene H
2017 / Drama / 15 min
Two straight-identified women wake up in the same bed. They've shared a moment of great intimacy but soon become estranged as they try to come to terms with the way they feel about each other and themselves.
Festivals
East End Film Festival, London, UK, 2018. Official Selection.
Inside Out, Toronto, Canada, 2018. Official Selection.
British Urban Film Festival, London, UK, 2018. Official Selection.
The Smalls, London, UK, 2018. Official Selection.
Hamburg International Queer Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany, 2018. Official Selection.
New Fest, New York, US, 2018. Official Selection.
Festival Mix Brasil, Brazil, 2018. Official Selection.
Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, UK, 2018. BUFF Guest Programme.
Pan African Film & Arts Festival, Los Angeles, US, 2019. Official Selection.
Chicago Feminist Film Festival, Chicago, US, 2019. Official Selection.
OUTFEST Fusion, Los Angeles, US, 2019. Official Selection.
Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia, 2019. Official Selection.
Festival MIX Milano, Milan, Italy, 2019. Official Selection.
Facebook: @undoneshort
Interview: We Are Moving Stories
with Alex Gray, Georgia Curtis, Adam Lannon
Writer/Director: Francesca Castelbuono
Producers: Carla Quarto di Palo, Jeremy Parkinson
Production Company: Quip Films
Director of Photography: Brian Fawcett
Editor: Caitlin Bryant
Composer: Nathanael Williams
Winner Live Script Reading Award at the British Urban Film Festival, supported by Channel 4.
FADED is an urban drama about alienation, loneliness, and excess. Centred around the chance encounter between lonely Londoner Noah, and Chinese student Yang Liu, it’s the story of two strangers who find each other, despite their differences.
Writer: Francesca Castelbuono