Inventing Happy Days

A Short film of

Sandrine Dumas

Produced by

Sotavento

Production year2010

Runtime25 min

Synopsis

Two foreign women, one Russian, the other Chinese, live in France and get by doing casual work. Olga and Mai, each so different from the other, both share the same reality of being an immigrant. It's nothing to dream about. And yet!!!

Credits

Director (1)

Sandrine Dumas
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Actors (7)

Katia Golubeva

Yanan Li

Tien Shue

Eliott Olivrie

Lucie Laporte

Yi-Han Jen

Yun-Ping He

Production and distribution (1)

Executive Producer : Sotavento

Full credits (12)

Executive Producers : Antoine Roch, Jérôme Zajdermann, Paulina Marino

Screenwriters : Natalia Reyes, Sandrine Dumas

Director of Photography : Marc Tévanian

Composers : Delphine Ciampi-Ellis, Anne Millioud-Gouverneur, Diane Sorel

Editor : Barbara Bascou

Sound Recordist : Jean-Paul Mugel

Costume designer : Judy Shrewsbury

Production Manager : Julien Decoin

Sound editor : Anne Gibourg

Continuity supervisor : Marie Prual

Production Designers : Cécile Vatelot, Leonardo Haertling

Sound Mixer : Emmanuel Croset

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Technical details

Type : Short film
Genres : Fiction
Themes : Adolescence, Family, Identity, Immigration, Solitude/loneliness
Production language : French, Russian, Chinese
Production country : France
Original French-language productions : Unspecified
Nationality : 100% French (France)
Production year : 2010
Runtime : 25 min 40 seconds
Visa number : 122.976
Visa issue date : 05/01/2011
Production formats : HD
Color type : Color
Aspect ratio : 1.77
Audio format : Dolby e
Rating restrictions : None

News & awards

News (1)

Grants awarded by the Unifrance Short Film Commission

11 MAY 2011

Unifrance (corporate)

Selections (4)

International Festival of Francophone Film in Acadie (FICFA)
Canada, 2011
Compétition internationale
L'Alternativa
Spain, 2011
Programme spécial
FIFF
Belgium, 2011
Views of the Present
Unifrance Short Film Awards
France, 2011
Sélection officielle

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