Not Waving

Struggling psychiatric nurse Joe, impulsively absconds to the seaside with Archie, his deeply haunted, elderly patient

Intending to re-engage him with real life, the memories he stirs up for Archie however, are not happy ones as the truth of the past resurfaces.

  • Freya Billington
    Director
    Bread and Butter, How? Lucky, Window Shopping, Hustle
  • Freya Billington
    Writer
  • Nathan Craig
    Producer
    The Sea, The God, The Man; In Bed with Rosa
  • Caroline Bartleet
    Producer
    Operator; The Eichmann Show
  • Peter Bowles
    Key Cast
    Blow Up; Lilting; The Bank Job; To the Manor Born; Citizen Khan
  • Joss Porter
    Key Cast
    Wolf Hall; Humans
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    10 minutes 30 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 2, 2016
  • Production Budget:
    6,000 GBP
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Country of Filming:
    United Kingdom
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    16mm
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • BUCHAREST SHORT CINEFEST
    Bucharest
    Hungary
    August 17, 2016
  • BLOW-UP: CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE FILM FESTIVAL
    Chicago
    United States
    September 1, 2016
  • SOHO HOTEL, LONDON UK
    London
    United Kingdom
    June 17, 2016
    Cast and Crew
  • UNDEREXPOSED FILM FESTIVAL NC, SOUTH CAROLINA
  • BUCHAREST FILM AWARDS
Director Biography - Freya Billington

Freya set up BoyandBearFilms in 2014 to realise personal film projects. She has since completed ‘experimental musical' BREAD AND BUTTER, a collaboration with Composer Jennifer Bell, short experimental/drama NOT WAVING, staring Peter Bowles for IShorts/Creative England and the documentary HOW? LUCKY filmed over 4x years in Finetown Township, SA. Prior to this she made the BAFTA-Shortlisted WINDOW SHOPPING staring Pedro Pascal and Anson Mount.

Freya is a Fulbright Scholar and Fellow of Syracuse University, NY where she completed her MFA in Fine Art Film. She is Programme Leader at UWE_FILM, Bristol having previously run Film Production at the Uni of Glos for 5 years. She was awarded a HEA National Teaching Fellowship in 2015, is on the Executive Board for NAHEMI, the Board of Directors at IFA Bologna and is the current External Examiner for the National Film and Television School.

Between 2010 and 2012 she developed and taught film workshops for Actor/Director David Morrissey’s charity C.A.S.T (The Creative Arts Schools Trust) working in refugee camps in Tyre, Lebanon and townships outside Johannesburg in South Africa. Previously she has worked as an Editor on documentaries for BBC4, BBC2 and the Open University and as a Post Production Supervisor for BBC Drama (Babyfather, Outside the Rules and The Whistle-Blower)

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Director Statement

NOT WAVING is a very personal film about loss, grief, mental illness, male legacy and my children growing up!