With Mental Health Awareness Week drawing to a close, my producer asked me to write something to talk about my new short film Bunny and its themes of family, loss and undiagnosed mental illness. If I’m honest I’m struggling. What is informative and what is an over-share? How do I convince you I’m writing this to genuinely…
Bunny – the Scottish Short film
Bunny is a short film written and directed by Shaun Hughes, and starring Connor Newall, Gilly Gilchrist and Conor McCarron. It was commissioned by the Scottish Film Talent Network (part of the BFI Network) as part of their Scottish Short 2017 scheme.
We completed principle photography in December 2017, filming over six days on location in Glasgow and at Skelmorlie on the West Coast of Scotland. We are now raising funds to complete the post production of the film.
Buckley is a troubled young man with long furry rabbit ears. When a group of youths arrive at his isolated caravan community the security of Buckley’s world is disrupted and he risks losing the final bond to his dead mother.
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Lichter JETS workshop
Shaun and Alysia will be attending the JETS initiative and workshop run by WEP Films at the International Lichter Film Festival in Frankfurt next week. Specifically aimed for emerging filmmakers working towards their first feature, we have been invited to bring the BUNNY feature project in development. The central topic of the day will be…
VHS shoot completed
‘Much fun’ was had by our skeleton cast and crew last weekend as we shot the VHS footage for the film. We were joined by Julie Martis playing Buckley’s mother Alice, Pauline Goldsmith as Dorothy and we introduced newcomer Rudy McKie as Young Buckley celebrating his 6th birthday. Whilst DOP Andrew O’Connor was in charge…
We’re Raising Funds For Completion
Following a really successful shoot in December, the Bunny is currently in the edit with Florian Nonnenmacher, but we need to raise additional funds to finish the film: complete the edit, get the VFX work done, complete the original score, the grade and the sound mix. We are just getting together some great perks before…