Natural Causes
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A Multi-Award-Winning Short Film
Lockdown. She's been stuck at home for a while now. It's not been easy. But so long as she's on her own, she'll be fine.
About the production
Natural Causes is a short film directed by Benjamin Sadd and shot with a small crew over three days during Lockdown in 2020. It tells the story of a woman under pressure, and what it takes to bring her secret to the surface.
Format: Cinematic widescreen 4k, colour, stereo 5.1 available
Film duration: 8 minutes
Cast & Crew
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Imogen Greenwood
Imogen is an actress and writer with a passion for telling compelling stories in the most exciting ways possible. An enthusiast for anything with a creative outlet she has involved herself in an array of projects from short films to adverts to improvised musicals! When she isn't pretending to be other people you can find her pretending she can surf... shaka. 
Oliver Silver
Born in the U.A.E., Oliver has worked all over the world across independent film, voice work and commercials, leading global campaigns for brands such as Ford, Snickers and Cox.
After a move to Los Angeles in 2018, he began to write his own material and has several Film and Television projects in development.
Here's his IMDB page.
Teddy
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Benjamin Sadd
Ben is an independent filmmaker. Having grown up in Kenya, he has a passion for beautiful places and wildlife, and many of his projects combine filmmaking with extraordinary adventure.
His multi-award-winning film Dugout: An Amazon Adventure follows him into remote jungles to explore the Amazon basin and build a canoe with some of the last remaining hunter gatherers on the planet.
For more about Ben: www.benjaminsadd.com
Richard Neville
Richard is a writer, director and serial entrepreneur. He has written scripts, stories and articles for a range of publications and commercial clients. He has talked at TED about child education. And he has started and operated three successful communications and digital companies, including Animl, his company for commercial filmmaking.
Piero Cioffi
Piero is an Italian, London-based cinematographer & photographer.
After four years as stage photographer for the prestigious Ravello Festival, he moved to London where he graduated with an MA in Filmmaking from The London Film School.
His work has won accolades at the Berlinale and Encounters, and toured the festival circuit many times over. Here's to one more!
Caroline Heatlie
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Faye Elvin
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Chantelle Moody
Chantelle is a Hair and Makeup Artist. Having worked in the heritage sector for a number of years, she retrained at the Bath Academy of Media Makeup and has since worked on a number of films and editorial shoots. She still has a real love for art and heritage so when she's not painting faces, she can usually be found drawing something or wandering around a gallery.
Adam Stannard, Framestore
Adam is a colourist at Framestore London. Always striving to achieve 'the look', he loves to collaborate with like-minded creatives and get the most out of the footage.
If he's not in the grading suite he can be found watching anything Marvel and playing games!
For more of his work... see this magical web-link.
Ben Wood & Matt Coster, Audio Uproar
Audio Uproar is a Bristol-based studio, providing award-winning sound design, mixing, voiceover, ADR, tracklay, foley and remote audio post-production for TV, film and digital media. They're very nice. www.audiouproar.com
Joseph Crouch
Up to 2020, Joe's life of touring and recording 3-centuries-old music was witnessed by neighbours only as he trudged to the tube under the weight of his cello. Last year, though, his audience suddenly became entirely new and local and, after a neighbourly encounter at a lock-down-induced, semi-legal street concert, Joe here makes his debut as film music composer-performer.
You can find him playing with The English Concert, or enjoy his marvellous musical medicine on Spotify.
About the script
Richard Neville wrote the script, and he's blatantly using this space to promote his new thing.
Ever struggled to read a script on your phone or any other kind of screen? Those days are over. Find this script and other great things to read on bookwise.io
Music & Post-production
The filmmakers are grateful to Framestore, where Adam Stannard and Steffan Perry did an excellent colour grading job, and Audio Uproar, where Matt Coster and Ben Wood made beautiful stereo from our humble beginnings.
Original music is by Joseph Crouch, performed on an 18th Century cello and recorded in Richard Neville's front room with an iPad. Amazing what you can do these days, isn't it?
Media elements
Film stills
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Natural Causes
No need to feel guilty.
For further information or to say hello please contact the filmmakers.
email ben.sadd@trailtoanywhere.com / phone +44 7500082338.
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