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The Seagull

New York actors rehearse their upcoming production of Anton Chekhov's play "The Seagull"

  • Saddiq Abubakar
    Director
    Theater Lovers, Virtue Signal
  • Anton Chekhov (play)
    Writer
  • Taylor Petracek (adaptation)
    Writer
    Palm
  • Fergus Scully (adaptation)
    Writer
  • Taylor Petracek
    Producer
    Palm, Bleu
  • Fergus Scully
    Producer
    Theatre Lovers, Virtue Signal
  • Siena D'Addario
    Key Cast
    "Masha"
  • Jeanette Dilone
    Key Cast
    "Nina"
  • Emmanuel Elpenord
    Key Cast
    "Medvedenko"
  • Peter Feliz
    Key Cast
    "Shamrayev"
  • Kazuhiro Imafuku
    Key Cast
    "Yakov"
  • Todd Licea
    Key Cast
    "Dr. Dorn"
  • Taylor Petracek
    Key Cast
    "Konstantin"
  • Roger Rathburn
    Key Cast
    "Sorin"
  • Fergus Scully
    Key Cast
    "Trigorin"
  • Deborah Unger
    Key Cast
    "Paulina"
  • Kristen Vaughan
    Key Cast
    "Arkadina"
  • Lillian Meredith
    Key Cast
    "Director"
  • Madison Fae
    Key Cast
    "Stage Manager"
  • Hélène Kaufmann
    Key Cast
    "House Manager"
  • Sylvana Joyce
    Key Cast
    "Pianist"
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Genres:
    Drama, Romance, Theater
  • Runtime:
    2 hours 1 minute 40 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 10, 2019
  • Production Budget:
    22,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Red Scarlet
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Saddiq Abubakar

Saddiq Abubakar is a Nigerian-American filmmaker based in Berlin. Due to his multilingual upbringing, Saddiq has gained a sensitivity to the nuances of social situations from multiple perspectives. Showing an early interest in poetry, photography and theatre, it seemed only a matter of time before he started making films.

Saddiq studied cinematography at the Academy of Art in San Francisco and has participated in several independent film projects as an actor, an art director, a location director, a cinematographer and primarily as a writer and director. His photography and videography has been featured on such platforms as Vice, Pangeaseed, Juxtapose, Vine Magazine, Bullet Magazine, and Textile Wirtschaft. In addition, Saddiq worked as co-editor of the Auteurist Magazine, a magazine about the great American directors of past and present that reviews of historical and current films. Saddiq Abubakar has lived and worked in Berlin-Neukölln since 2014.

Filmography
EVEN (2012- writer/director)
The Transaction (2013 - writer/director)
Clocks and Trains (2014 - writer/director)
Piece of Cake (2016 - writer / director)
Lucy (2016 - writer / director)
Theatre Lovers (2018 - writer / director)
The Seagull (2019 - director)
Virtue Signal (2019 - writer / director)

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Director Statement

The Seagull is a classic play that can be interpreted in many ways. Its dialogue-heavy scenes don't lend themselves easily to cinema, but its thematic overtures allow for beautiful moments of universal experience: coping with failures, falling in love and experiencing jealousy. It's also a story about art and theater.

The producers and I sought to enhance the meta aspects by placing the cast (who had performed the play on stage before filming) in and out of the rehearsal process ... giving the impression that the whole film is a work in progress, an elusive dream, both exciting and melancholic ... the feeling of being by a lake on a summer eve.