D O M I N O

It's 2031. A side effect of the global vaccination is loss of speech. A couple navigate a silent intimate date.

  • Daniel Mpilo Richards
    Director
  • Daniel Mpilo Richards
    Writer
  • Daisy Doris May
    Producer
  • Harry R Oliver
    Producer
  • Daniel Mpilo Richards
    Producer
  • Daisy Doris May
    Key Cast
  • Daniel Mpilo Richards
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Romance, Drama
  • Runtime:
    13 minutes 46 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    February 4, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    3,250 GBP
  • Country of Origin:
    South Africa
  • Country of Filming:
    United Kingdom
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital (Sony)
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • London Shorts
    London
    United Kingdom
    August 2, 2021
    United Kingdom
    Official Selection & Nomination: Best Short Film
  • Flickfair on demand
    Online Festival
    November 15, 2021
    Official Selection
  • DMOFF
    Online Festival
    July 31, 2021
    Official Selection
  • Lift-Off
    Online Festival
    August 15, 2021
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Daniel Mpilo Richards

Daniel Mpilo Richards is a creative director, business owner, versatile and award-winning triple-threat actor, voice-artist, writer and musician from South Africa. He graduated from the University of Cape Town with a Bachelor of Arts Honours Degree in Theatre and Performance and with a Masters in Film and Television Producing from Met Film School(2019) in London after having received the prestigious Chevening Scholarship. He has performed in England, USA, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Rwanda, Botswana, Zimbabwe and all across South Africa. He presented at the Oxford Peace Talks 2019 in honour of Kofi Annan and serves as the Creative Director and Trustee on the Board of the Ruben Richards Foundation (NPO). He owns a production company called DMR Productions and was a director of Project Orange 2020 which delivered 6.8 million oranges across South Africa in the fight against Covid-19.

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Director Statement

The best form of creative expression takes place within a flexible container.

The domino effect: the cumulative effect produced when one event sets off a chain of similar events.

My goal with wrtiing and directing this film was to give the actors the freedom to play and allowing the cinematogrpaher to express himself within specific limitations.

As creatives we often over-complicate what should be very simple.
When the right creative environment is created, ideas spring to life and cause a domino effect. This film is simply that: the domino effect of a simple idea presented to three creatives who were given the license to play within a flexible container.

My hope is that this will inspire others to find the domino effect in their lives, as the characters in the film did.