Press release from Wrong Foot'd Films
Neil Mansfield’s The Owl in the Snow will screen in the Realms of the Unreal, 23rd June, at the 65th Edinburgh International Film Festival 2011.
The Owl in the Snow a silent, seven minute, black & white, short film made & funded by Neil Mansfield.
Neil Mansfield wrote, directed, filmed & edited The Owl in the Snow.
The Owl in the Snow is phantasmagoric folklore inspired by classic early cinema.
Mansfield shot The Owl in the Snow on B&W 16mm film using an old Bolex film camera (with a wind-up motor) in the middle of Winter in Alaska, when the days were very, very short & cold (averaging -15 C).
Mansfield first travelled to Alaska with his low budget feature film Streetsweeper, which won the Best Film (Jury Prize) at the Anchorage International Film Festival, in 2008.
When Mansfield was invited back to the Anchorage Film Festival in 2009, to present a workshop on low budget filmmaking, he decided, also, to shot a new short film in the wild environment with Alaskan film festival friends as the cast & crew.
The Owl in the Snow premiered in December 2010, at the Anchorage International Film Festival, Alaska, with live keyboard accompaniment in the cinema by pianist & composer and co-producer Miranda (Felch) Bourgeois, who also stars as the spooky hero, The Owl.
Mansfield plans to return to Alaska in the near future to shoot a feature film.