Seven | A Short Film By James Morgan

Described by Emmanuel Lubezki (Birdman, The Revenant) as “beautiful and very moving”, SEVEN tells the story of a young girl from a remote Arctic village who must decide the fate of an outsider who has committed a terrible crime. The choice she makes will change her life and determine the future of her community. SEVEN occupies the liminal space where wilderness and culture, tradition and modernity collide. The film unfolds in a surreal and stunning Arctic landscape of rearing cliffs and vast seascapes at the edge of civilisation.

Screenings

16 November, 2019
Norwich Film Festival
Norwich, UK

Festival Site

9 May, 2019 — 12 May, 2019
Leiden International Short Film Festival
Leiden, Holland

Festival Site

13 April, 2019 — 14 April, 2019
Sands Film Festival
Florida

Festival Site

30 March, 2019
Queen Palm International Film Festival
Palm Springs, California

Festival Site

5 April, 2019 — 7 April, 2019
ECU Film Festival
Paris, France

Festival Site

5 April, 2019 — 7 April, 2019
Cleveland Film Festival
Cleveland, Ohio

Festival Site

11 January, 2019 — 20 January, 2019
Flickerfest
Bondi Beach, Australia

Festival Site

17 November, 2018 — 25 November, 2018
Foyle Film Festival
Derry, Ireland

Festival Site

17 November, 2018 — 21 November, 2018
Kerry Film Festival
Kerry, Ireland

Festival Site

9 November, 2018 — 12 November, 2018
Coronado Island Film Festival
Coronada, CA

Festival site

7 November, 2018 — 11 November, 2018
Aesthetica Film Festival
York, UK

Festival site

3 November, 2018 — 11 November, 2018
Hamilton Film Festival
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Festival site

17 October, 2018 — 21 October, 2018
Kerry Film Festival
Kerry, Ireland

Festival site

27 September, 2018 — 16 October, 2018
Edmonton Film Festival
Edmonton, Canada

Festival site

26 July, 2018 — 29 July, 2018
Indy Shorts International Film Festival
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

Festival site

20 July, 2018
Stony Brook Film Festival
Stony Brook, NY

Festival site

26 April, 2018 — 3 May, 2018
Newport Beach Film Festival
Newport Beach, California, USA

Festival site

26 April, 2018 — 30 April, 2018
USA Film Festival
Dallas, Texas, USA

Festival site

9 April, 2018 — 15 April, 2018
Athens International Film and Video Festival
Athens, Ohio, USA

Festival site

Cast & Crew

Dagny Backer Johnsen

[ Yohana ]

Dagny Backer Johnsen began her acting career at the National Theatre of Bergen, Norway in 2005 and has since participated in a number of productions at the National Theatre and Vestlandske Teatersenter. On screen, she is known for her role in History Channel’s Vikings, and has played leading roles in a handful of shorts. She was the lead in the Canadian feature film Violent, which premiered in 2014, and earned her a Best Actress nomination from the Vancouver Critics Circle. In 2016, she was one of the featured actors to attend the Actors Studio at Berlinale Talents during the Berlinale film festival.

Nicholas Boulton

[ Aleksandr ]

Born in 1968 in Gibraltar, Nicholas studied acting at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London. His screen credits include Game of Thrones, Shakespeare in Love and Jonathan Creek. He has played leading and major supporting roles for many British stage productions including for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Almeida Theatre, and the Royal National Theatre. Winner of the BBC Radio Carleton Hobbs award in 1993, he is regularly heard in BBC Radio drama productions. He features prominently in the world of video games, voicing Garrett Hawke in Bioware’s Dragon Age 2, Reyes Vidal in Mass Effect: Andromeda and Ruben Bosman in Ubisoft’s Steep. Other titles include Battlefield One, Assassin’s Creed, Star Wars: The Old Republic and many more.

Trond Teigen

[ Nils ]

Trond’s acting career spans nearly 30 years and includes a wealth of screen, stage and voice roles in his native Norway. He is perhaps best known for his voice work as Aladdin in the hugely popular Disney film - other voice credits include Shang in Mulan, Beymax in Big Hero Six and Spongebob Squarepants. Trond’s TV credits include the popular Norwegian sitcom Holms, the soap opera Hotel Caesar and several other series including Occupied and Volkyrien. He also starred in the movie Detective. On stage he has played Tony in West Side Story, Anthony in Sweeney Todd, Marius in Les Miserables, Brannigan in Guys and Dolls and Colonel Pickering in My Fair Lady amongst many others.

James Morgan

[ Director ]

James Morgan is an award-winning film director and photographer. His work explores our changing relationship with the natural world, often featuring individuals who walk the borderline between wilderness and civilisation. Alongside commercial work for Facebook, Unilever, Apple, Canada Goose and others, James has produced and directed award winning documentaries for Al Jazeera, BBC, Netflix and National Geographic.

Johnny Langenheim

[ Producer ]

Johnny Langenheim has produced award-winning broadcast and commercial content for global brands including Nat Geo, Facebook, Netflix, Universal Records, The Guardian and WWF. His background in journalism, including a 10 year stint in Southeast Asia, has afforded him access to unique subjects, cultures and communities, while honing a keenly developed instinct for story. His work often explores the liminal space where communities on the margins confront global changes.

Emily Spicer

[ Producer ]

Emily is a London-based producer with a background in magazine journalism and an academic grounding in art history (University of Oxford) and social anthropology (London School of Economics). She made her transition into media production at the BBC before working with JMF on a range of documentaries and commercial projects. Emily is widely travelled, with experience working in almost every environment from the Amazon to the Arctic Circle, and has produced content on a diverse range of topics from art and space travel to the environment.

Crew

Director

James Morgan

Producers

Johnny Langenheim

Emily Spicer

Director of Photography

Benjamin Sadd

Writer

James Morgan

Music

Jack Wyllie

Audio Post Production

19 Sound

Sound Design & Re-Recording Mixer

Will Ward

Additional Re-Recording Mixer

Johnny Platt

ADR Engineer

Eivinn Arne

Additional Editing

Matthew Cronin & Flaura Atkinson

Visual Effects Artist

Nick Rosier

Colourist

James Bamford

Colour Producer

Dan Kreeger

3D Artist

Audun Ase

3D Artist

Sole Martin

Matt Painter

Joakim Flaten

VFX Producers

Ellie Joseph & Angela Toner

Location Manager

Gisle Norman Melhus

Location Assistant

Olga Wisniewska

Sound Recordist

Valerio Cerini

Foley Artist

Sue Harding

Foley Mixer

Adam Méndez

Production Designer

Solveig Elton Jacobsen

Casting

Annie Rowe, CDG

Catering

Øysten Bie Pettersen

Accommodation

Torill Melhus & Monica E. Larsen

Props

Jan Erik Skarby & Odin Lindgaard

Underwater Production Supervisor

Howard Shaw

Stunt Diver

Lee Stevens

Support Diver

David Borg Sayden

Boat Captain

Jordan Morley

Cast

Yohana

Dagny Backer Johnsen

Aleksandr

Nicholas Boulton

Nils

Trond Teigen

Yohana's Father

Hans Jørgen Melhus

Guard One

Odin Lindgaard

Guard Two

Peder Austli Pettersen

Villagers

Maja Heger

Anette Lauritzen

Oda Lindgaard

Solmund Normann Melhus-Mokkelbost

Astrid Kathinka Mokkelbost

Sigve Normann Melhus-Mokkelbost

Ulf Lindgaard

Sigrid Irene Lauritzen

Magnar Johansen

Gisle Normann Melhus

Ashild Elton Jacobsen

Sunniva Normann Melhus-Mokkelbost

Kjell Andberg Stenhaug

For Creative England

Head of Film

Caroline Cooper Charles

Senior Film Executive

Celine Haddad

Executive Producer

Alice Ramsey

Production Manager

Jude Goldrei

Skills Coordinator

Jude Lister

Finance Officer

Lauren Summers

Special thanks to Norsk Fiskevaermuseum, Å Exteriors filmed on location at Bjørnsand Beach, Lofoten The persons and events in this film are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons or events is purely unintentional. This motion picture is protected under the laws of the United Kingdom and other countries. Unauthorized duplication, distribution or exhibition may result in civil liability and criminal prosecution. Made with the support of Creative England via the BFI NET.WORK

Contact

Director
James Morgan
james@fablefilms.com
+44 7518 902552

Producer
Johnny Langenheim
johnny@fablefilms.com
+44 7427 312760