CERVINO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
6th edition
Breuil-Cervinia/Valtournenche, July 23rd-27th, 2003

THE COMPETITION

FULL-LENGTH FEATURES COMPETITION

SHACKLETON
GREAT BRITAIN, 2002, 206’ (2 parts), col., video
Director Charles Sturridge
Editing Peter Coulson
Cinematography Henry Braham
Music Adrian Johnston
Cast Kenneth Branagh (Sir Ernest Shackleton); John Grillo (Franks); Phoebe Nicholls ( Emily Shackleton); Eve Best (Eleanor Shackleton); Mark Tandy (Frank Shackleton); Paul Humpeletz (uomo tra il pubblico nel ruolo di se stesso); Ken Drury (Henry McNish); Celyn Jones (Perce Blackbolow); Nicholas Rowe (Thomas Orde-Lees)
Production Selwyn Roberts, A&E, Channel 4 Television Corp, Firstsight Films

In 1914 during an expedition to the South Pole, Shackleton and his crew got trapped in the pack on their boat Endurance.
Shackleton’s dream was to become the first man crossing the Ocean, but, during the expedition, his vessel was smashed through the ice at 1200 miles far fom the coast. Consequently the crew was obliged to leave the boat, and they survived for over ten months eating the meat of their dogs, seals and penguins. As the ice melt down, the explorers drifted on ice for five months again, and they finally moved by lifeboats to an island nearby
Ernest Shackleton kept on shipping for 800 miles more, looking for aid together with five crew members, then he led four expeditions to rescue all his sailors. Shackleton is considered today as a national hero.

DIRECTOR
Charles Sturridge has worked in the theatre, television and film environment. As a member of the National Youth Theatre he appeared in productions of Zigger Zagger, A Midsummer Nights Dream and Macbeth. He was president of the Oxford University Dramatic Society. He made his film debut as an actor in Lindsay Anderson’s If…(1968).
His films include, among others: A Handful of Dust (New Line 1988), Where Angels Fear to Tread (Sovereign 1991), and Fairytale - A True Story(Icon/Paramount 1997) starring Harvey Keitel, Peter O’Toole, Paul McGann and Phoebe Nicholls which won the British Academy award for “Best Children’s Film’ 1998.
Among his television works we quote the famous documentary series World in Action, and the 2001 Longitude starring Michael Gambon, Jeremy Irons and Ian Hart, winning the BANFF TV Festival ‘Best Series’ award, and 5 British Academy awards including ‘Best Series’, ‘Best Actor’, ‘Best Music’, ‘Best Photography’ and ‘Best Production Design”. Most recently he formed ‘Firstsight Films’ with producers Selwyn Roberts and Francesca Barra and the first production was an epic account of Sir Earnest Shackleton’s ‘Endurance’ expedition. The film Shackleton(2002) stars Kenneth Branagh and was shot on location in the Arctic and was nominated for 7 US Emmys (winning Best Photography and Best Music).

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