THE DOOR

This Sunday Juanita Wilson and the team behind The Door (including our own Nathan Nugent) head over to LA for the biggest event in film of the year, the 82nd annual Academy Awards. The film is nominated in the Best Live Action Short category alongside Instead of Abracadabra (Sweden), Kavi (India), Miracle Fish (Australia) and The New Tenants (USA)

The Door has already had huge success having won the Best Short Film award in both the Irish Film and Television Awards and The Foyle Film Festival in 2008.

The door is a universal symbol of life, of death, of entering the next life. It has many associations inherent in it, both positive and negative. It can mean an opportunity gained or an opportunity lost: As one door opens, another one closes…

The film opens with an absurd act: stealing a door. This raises a question in the viewer’s mind, a question which is not answered until the final shot where the door’s purpose is revealed. Then, what had seemed an absurd act turns into a simple statement of human dignity, of people making sense of loss through ritual.

The Door reflects the fact that it is based on someone’s testimony. Images are impressionistic, haunting, like fragments of memories which the viewer must piece together. Although the main character, Nikolai, gives us the facts, he himself is trying to make sense of them in his own mind.

The story moves forwards and backwards in time, revealing the events retrospectively as the viewer bears witness to the universal tragedy of Chernobyl through the eyes of one man.

Louise Curran and James Flynn of Octagon Films produced the film which was supported by the Irish Film Board/ RTÉ’s Short Cuts scheme.

The Door completed full picture and sound post production at Screen Scene where Juanita worked with Niall Brady and Ken Galvin in the Sound Department, Oleg Jitov and Warren Dowling in Online and Colourist Gary Curran in the Grade. The film was edited by Nathan Nugent, who has just completed the offline of Juanita’s latest project, the feature film ‘As If I’m Not There’.

http://www.thedoorshortfilm.com

For an interview with Editor Nathan Nugent hit the link above.

The Door
Company: Octagon Films
Writer/ Director: Juanita Wilson
Producer: Louise Curran/ James Flynn
Editor: Nathan Nugent
DOP: Tim Fleming
Post Production Co-ordinator: Sarah Caraher
Assistant Editors: Alan Freir/ Sean Connolly
Sound Editor: Niall Brady
Sound Mixer: Ken Galvin
Colourist: Gary Curran
Online: Oleg Jitov/ Warren Dowling
Based on “Monologue about a whole life written down on doors, the testimony of Nikolai Fomich Kalugin” by Svetlana Alexievich