A modern day dreamtime. The freedom of a life on the road in an English Summer.

Winner Kinookus Film Festival Croatia 2010
Oficial selection Cinemambiente Film Festival Turin 2009, Expresion en Corto Film Festival Mexico 2009, Cambridge Super 8 Festival 2011

Director / Producer
Tom Lloyd

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About the project

Travelling the length of the country and back again with a pair of horses and gypsy caravan, Live Before You Die is the ultimate horse-drawn road movie, following a band of Travellers with handcarts, goats, donkeys and ponies along green lanes to the fairs and festivals of England.

Shot entireley on a hand-cranked clockwork Russian super 8mm camera during a 9 month journey, the footage remained unviewed for 13 years until seeing the light of day in 2008.

Awards & Screenings

Screening
Cannes Short Film Corner 2009
Winner
Kinookus Film Festival Croatia 2010
Official Selection
Expresion en Corto Film Festival Mexico 2009
Official Selection
Cinemambiente Film Festival Turin 2009
Official Selection
Cambridge Super 8 Festival 2011
Shortlisted
ThinK Sync Film Competition
Runner-up
Keswick Film Festival 2009
Screening
Strawberry Fair Film Festival 2009
Screening
BFI Upshots 2008
Screening
Cannes In A Van 2011
Screening
Shambala Festival 2011
Screening
Flicker Spokane Film Festival 2011
Spanish subtitles
http://vimeo.com/5420038
Italian subtitles
http://vimeo.com/7607739
French subtitles
http://vimeo.com/1852252

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Dreamtime Film is an award-winning independent film company based near Windermere in Cumbria. We produce original fiction and documentary films in partnership with arts, educational and corporate organisations throughout the UK.

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