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Seams
London, Greater London, United Kingdom
Aim
To raise funds for short film, Seams, about a sewist whose loneliness leads to an obsession with her client, starring ELLA BRUCCOLERI
LOGLINE:
A lonely sewist in her 30s misconstrues signs that her client is sending her distress signals, leading her down a path of obsession with painful results.
SYNOPSIS:
Sewist Edie lives alone. The city’s noise outside her flat mocks her loneliness. She’s deep in preparation to launch her up-cycled clothing business but self-doubt holds her back. When she finds a strange trinket in her client Louise’s clothes, her heart cleaves. She can’t hold off triggering memories from her past. So begins an increasing fixation with Louise who Edie believes desperately needs her help. But how far will she go?
DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT:
Seams is a quiet psychological drama that explores consuming loneliness, emotional miscommunication and the often invisible threads that bind us. It feels an important time to be telling this story as loneliness is often associated with older generations, yet 16–29-year-olds are over twice as likely to report feeling lonely as those over 70. When our 20s and 30s are supposed to be our “best years,” isolation can feel deeply shameful and secret. Seams seeks not only to reach out to those sitting in this pain, but to encourage us all to ask for help.
Cinematically, Edie’s isolation will be captured through wide shots of her alone in her dimly lit flat. Shadowy lighting will create the sense that Edie is fading away without human contact, but hint at her past and the memories that hang over her. Sanitary light from her phone or the flash of a police siren outside will break up the darkness. Edie’s sewing workshop is her one space of creativity and self-expression: an explosion of fabric, colour and sketches. Sewing will be both her creative outlet and a menacing force tying her to Louise.
As Edie’s desperation intensifies, increasingly tight framing will draw the viewer deeper into her unravelling emotional state. As the narrative grows tenser and more fragmented, the line between memory and reality becomes blurred, forcing audiences to question our central character’s point of view.
Ultimately, Seams explores our need for connection, and hopes to remind people that they are not alone in this painful, but deeply human, experience.
WRITER:
Charlotte Paradise is a Disabled author and award-winning screenwriter with an MA in Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Her debut literary fiction novel, OVERSPILL, published in April 2025 with Akan Books, an imprint of HarperCollins.
Her dark comedy-drama short film, SLEEPYHEAD, world premiered at the BFl London Film Festival 2023 (NFTS & Disney Star Imagine UK). It won Best British Short Film at Leeds International Film Festival and the Innovation in Craft award at Superfest Film Festival alongside 7 other awards.
Her debut short film, CHRONIC, visited festivals in 2022 and was nominated at BIFA qualifying film festival, Little Wing.
DIRECTOR:
Antonia Salib is a British-Egyptian director, actor and facilitator. Her directing credits include Her Country (New Diorama) and Spy Movie: The Play! (The Hope Theatre) as assistant director.
As an actor she has appeared in HIJACK (Apple TV+), Moon Knight (Disney+), After Sex (Arcola), The Play That Goes Wrong (Duchess Theatre), Black Ice (Theatre 503), Biosphere (Pleasance Theatre) and Know You Well (Southwark Playhouse). She has just finished filming an upcoming SKY HBO series.
She is an audition panel member and outreach facilitator at The Oxford School of Drama. She also produced and starred in short film, Chronic, which screened at Earl Court Film Festival, London Lift-Off Network, Two Short Nights Festival and was nominated for Best Female Actor at BIFA qualifying Little Wing Film Festival.
PRODUCER:
Catherine Joy White is an award-winning author, actor, filmmaker, gender advisor, CEO of Kusini Productions & Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree.
She has produced multi-award winning films for institutions such as the BBC and BFI including FIFTY-FOUR DAYS, which she also wrote, directed and starred in alongside Celia Imrie. Other notable projects include CERES starring BAFTA, Emmy® and Olivier award-nominated Juliet Stevenson and BFI-backed Measure.
She just wrapped on documentary SWIM SISTAS and is currently working on her debut feature film, BLACK SAMPHIRE with BAFTA winners Stephen Fry and Cathy Tyson attached to star as well as animated film TO MY DAUGHTER starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw.
Her debut book This Thread of Gold was published to critical acclaim and is now being adapted for screen. She recently published her second book, Rebel Takes: On the Future of Food.
PRODUCER:
Nina Georgieff is a freelance producer and filmmaker specialising in scripted projects, documentaries, and branded storytelling.
She has produced several award-winning short films, including BRIDGE (funded by the BBC), a poignant exploration of a crumbling healthcare system and the need for human connection; LAUNDREAMS, a humorous and heartfelt tribute to the women who wash our knickers; SMALL SELKIE, a tale of a young girl’s imagination to fight plastic pollution; and the animated short A SPLASH OF BLUE, amongst others.
She was also part of the team behind DWARF STORY, a feature documentary produced by Embankment Films & Anima Entertainment for ITV.
We have also partnered with Give Your Best, a charity that tackles fashion waste and supports people experiencing clothing poverty. Follow them on www.instagram.com/giveyourbest.uk to see the amazing work they are doing!
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Funding method
Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made