Dad's Dead
| Dad's Dead | |
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| Directed by | Chris Shepherd |
| Written by | Chris Shepherd |
| Produced by | Maria Manton |
| Starring | Ian Hart Chris Freeney Dave Kent |
| Edited by | Seb Duthy |
| Music by | John Moore |
| Distributed by | Slinky Pictures onedotzero |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Dad's Dead is a seven-minute award winning film written and directed by Chris Shepherd, commissioned by animate! and funded by Arts Council England. It was first transmitted on Channel 4 in 2003. Mixing animation with live action, the film deals with how memory works. The film was shot on DV and Betacam SP and edited in Adobe After Effects and Aura.
On 27 August 2007, Dad's Dead was released as an extra on the DVD release of Danny Boyle's science fiction film Sunshine. A new remastered HD version of the film was released for the first time in January 2011. The film received a sequel in 2016, Johnno's Dead.