Beauty’s
Sleep

The Prince returns to wake the Princess after a hundred years, but discovers she has other plans...

Cast

Elena Harding

Princess

Marcus McSorley

Prince

David Jordan

Old Man

Cast

In order of appearance:

Prince

Marcus McSorley

Princess

Elena Harding

Old Man

David Jordan

Crew

Created by

Alex Sultoon

Locations

Sophie Little / Pineapple Locations
Virginia Perrault / Locationworks

Props

Machine Shop
Mats Rivenes
Paul Mann

Knitting Design

Lynn Davis

Special thanks

Grace & Charlie Hanbury

Executive Producers

Carole Sultoon
Joseph Sultoon

Tech

Runtime

90 secs

Camera

Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K

Format

Blackmagic RAW 4K

Ratio

1.85:1

Production Dates

24-25 May 2020

Completion Date

2nd June 2020

Sound Mix

5.1 Surround / Stereo

Trailer

Now it’s too late

Time to think

Here

Beauty’s Sleep is a 90 second micro movie made for the Depict Shorts challenge, to make a film in no more than 90 seconds. It was our first film to be made since the advent of COVID-19 and was filmed under the social distancing measures introduced in the second stage of lockdown in the UK, which was quite a task in itself. Keeping crew down to a bare minimum, i.e. just the director, was tough but great fun and an excellent experience and shows how creativity will never be stopped by adversity!

A dark twist on the classic fairytale of The Sleeping Beauty as written by Charles Perrault in the 17th century, made well known by Disney in the 20th century, but the earliest known version was found in the 14th century in the narrative Perceforest, published by Giambattista Basile in 1634. In our take on the tale, the Princess has a dark secret and is less than impressed when the Prince takes 100 years to rescue her from her slumbers and resists all attempts to be woken, preferring to stay in her beautiful dream and dancing out the palace with joy.

Since completion in June, Beauty’s Sleep has already been awarded an official selection in Chain NYC Film Festival and is a finalist in Brighton Rocks International Film Festival, premiering online on 12th August 2020.