Enchantment
Jade, a reserved young woman, embarks on a hiking trip with her boyfriend John and their friends, Lewis and Kirsten, to a remote hilltop campsite. During their ascent, Jade is the first to notice a haunting presence — a mysterious entity cloaked in a yellow raincoat, its face a void of impenetrable darkness. Her sense of unease is dismissed by her companions, who see her as timid and fragile compared to the rest of the group.
After a seemingly uneventful night, Jade awakens to find her friends have vanished, leaving her alone in the wilderness. Trapped and disoriented, she begins to experience nightmarish visions and eerie illusions conjured by the sinister entity, preventing her from escaping. Unbeknownst to her, John and Kirsten are also lost in the forest, inexplicably unable to leave, as if an unseen force holds them captive.
As Jade navigates her terror, she is forced to confront her inner fears and unravel the mystery behind the entity's power. In a final confrontation, Jade discovers the entity's weakness and uses her newfound strength to shatter the enchantment, freeing herself, and her friends from the entity's dark grip and returning them to reality.
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Adrian TsangDirector
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Adrian TsangWriter
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Anna CartuyvelsCast
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Sean O'GradyCast
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Danielle BanackaCast
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Josh CartwrightCast
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Zikai ChengCast
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Ruiwen HeProducer
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Zheng LuDirector of Photography
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Jess Harrington PeirceDirector of Photography
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Yutong LiuProduction Designer
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Zheng LuEditor and Colourist
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Adrian TsangEditor and Colourist
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Zhongxiang XingSound Designer
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Matthew FordeScript Supervisor
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Xiangjie Zeng1st AD
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Xinge Yu1st AC
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Kaixin YuGaffer
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Michael HarperArt Director
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Xuntai LiSound Recordist
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Anna CheungProduction Manager
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Project Title (Original Language):Enchantment
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Project Type:Short, Student
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Runtime:17 minutes 23 seconds
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Completion Date:September 20, 2024
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Production Budget:3,000 GBP
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Country of Origin:United Kingdom
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Country of Filming:United Kingdom
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Language:English
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Shooting Format:4K Full frame
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:Yes
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Student Project:Yes - University for the Creative Arts
A passionate student filmmaker who just graduated from the University for the Creative Arts this summer.
Enchantment was the first short horror fiction I have written and directed for my grad film project, and It was my first time to be a writer, director and colourist in a fiction film production. Enchantment's original idea and concept were based on two famous mountain horror stories in Hong Kong and Taiwan and one of my creepiest mountain adventures in the UK.