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The Time of Their Lives

Jocelyn Cammack
2008 United Kingdom 69 minutes English

The combined ages of Hetti, Rose and Alison total almost 300 years. They all live the same old people’s home, the highly respectable Mary Felding Guild, founded in 1876. Everything about this honourable institution, starting with its architecture, favours calm and, even more so, immobility. But that is forgetting the liveliness and coquetry of these three women, their bluntness, their far-left politics, their will to remain of this world, to listen to its murmurings and pursue their rebellion. They think about death, of course, but in the same way they have led their lives. They have not only prepared for it, but also wish for it. Rose is the first to take the step. (Yann Lardeau)

Jocelyn Cammack

Jocelyn Cammack vient du milieu de la recherche scientifique. Elle a ensuite étudié la réalisation de films de fiction à la Northern Film School de Leeds. Elle a depuis écrit et réalisé fictions et documentaires pour le UK Film Council, la BBC, Channel 4, Arte. Elle vient de créer sa maison de production, Certain Pictures.

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RACING TOWN PRODUCER / DIRECTOR
Half hour doc for Channel 4, 2007. Maverick Television/RedBird.
THE BONE ORCHESTRA WRITER / DIRECTOR
Wellcome Trust Science/Art Commission with Arts Council Yorkshire 2004t
Spectacle Productions
THE THOUSAND YARD STARE WRITER / DIRECTOR
S16mm doc for BBC 10 x 10. 1997. Lifesize Pictures.

BETTER OR WORSE? WRITER / DIRECTOR
S16 short drama for ACE, Yorkshire Media Production Agency Lifesize Pictures.
& Yorkshire Arts Board. 2000t
Nominated for Palm d’Or, Festival International du Film de Cannes 2000
Winner of BAFTA North/Kodak Best Short Film Award 2000
Winner of Gold Hugo for Best Short Film, Chicago International Film Festival 2000
Winner of Best Short Film, Gijon International Film Festival 2000
Special Jury Mention, Interfilm Festival, Berlin 2000
Winner of Prix UIP for Best International Short Film, Grimstad 2001
European Film Academy Best Short Film Award Nominee 2001
Winner of Best Short Film, European Short Film Festival, Reus. Portugal 2002
Winner of 2nd Prize, ‘The Way We Live’ Film Festival, Munich 2001

OWN GOAL DIRECTOR
5 x 20 min drama series for BBC Education. 2000. Pagoda Film & TV Corp.
BAFTA Nominee for Best Schools’ Drama 2001

DOWN IN ONE DIRECTOR / CO-WRITER
DV short comedy drama for Channel 4 / British Film Institute. 1998. Intermedia Northt

GUILT DIRECTOR / EDITOR
16mm short drama. Northern Film School graduation film Northern Film School/YTV
Winner of 1995 CRE Race in the Media Award for Best TV Drama. tt
British nomination for European Pris Iris 1996. Screened Channel 4 and YTTV 1995.

RACING TOWN PRODUCER / DIRECTOR
Half hour doc for Channel 4, 2007. Maverick Television/RedBird.
THE BONE ORCHESTRA WRITER / DIRECTOR
Wellcome Trust Science/Art Commission with Arts Council Yorkshire 2004t
Spectacle Productions
THE THOUSAND YARD STARE WRITER / DIRECTOR
S16mm doc for BBC 10 x 10. 1997. Lifesize Pictures.

Production :
Redbird Productions; Certain Pictures
Editing :
Fred Hart
Sound :
John Avery
Photography :
Michael O'Halloran; Jocelyn Cammack
Copy Contact :
Redbird Productions

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