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Timely new short film from British writer/director Olly Ginelli featuring Aymen Hamdouchi (Black Mirror, War Machine, Green Zone).
BAFTA and BIFA qualified, The Long Spring has won five awards: Best UK Film (Soho London IFF), Best Film (Kingston IFF), Best Director (Kino London Short FF), Jury’s Choice (South London FF) and Best Supporting Performance (Worcester FF), and was selected at Santa Barbara IFF for its US premiere.
The Long Spring is inspired from his time spent volunteering in the Dunkirk refugee camp in 2016.
Where he met a Kurdish man named Saady (pictured below) who fled Isis. Saady eventually made it to the UK and successfully claimed asylum.
He then found Olly on Facebook, they met up, had a big hug and Saady told him about the perils of his journey in the back of those trucks. (More below…)
DUNKIRK REFUGEE CAMP
OLLY GINELLI - VOLUNTEERING AT THE CAMP
SAADY - KURDISH REFUGEE AT THE CAMP
Whilst writing the script, Olly consulted Saady, and brought him down to London to advise on the production and share his real-life stories with the cast.
Olly is currently developing a 4-part TV series of The Long Spring which has interest from a number of streamers and production companies that can’t be named on this site, but please do reach out to our producer for more info (scroll down).
Saady Olly