TEARDROP

film type fiction Production Country Germany production year 2011 runtime 15'00 colour
screening format 35mm aspect ratio 2.35:1 (CinemaScope) sound format Dolby Digital languages Englisch
screening format DCP aspect ratio 2.35:1 (CinemaScope) sound format Dolby Digital languages Englisch

A young man is forced into a gang initiation. He has to choose between life and death.

director Damian John Harper Animation Dag Kjetsa, René Donner Besetzung / Cast Connor J. Smith, Damion Omar Lee, De-Anne Dawkins, Glenn Fleary, Julio Cesar Pérez, Justin Harris, Neal Kodinsky, Neev Bar-David, Ron "Necro" Braunstein, Vito Baltrusaitis Original-Filmmusik / Original Score Tina Rupp Schnitt / Editing Lena Hatebur Bildgestaltung / DOP Friede Clausz Produktion / Production Claudia Schröter, Fabian Ascher Drehbuch / Script Damian John Harper Tongestaltung / Sound Design Gregor Bonse film school HFF München, HFF Konrad Wolf
Festivals
Brooklyn International Film Festival, New York, USA
Montreal World Film Festival, Canada
Message to Man International Documentary, Short & Animated Film Festival, Sankt Petersburg, Russian Federation
Molodist International Film Festival, Kiew, Ukraine
Internationale Hofer Filmtage, Germany
Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, Saarbrücken, Germany
CAMERIMAGE International Film Festival, Lodz, Poland
Ourense International Independent Film Festival, Spain
Festival Internacional de Filmets, Badalona, Spain
Raindance Film Festival, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Beginning - Open St. Petersburg Film Festival, Russian Federation
Brooklyn International Film Festival, New York, USA (AUDIENCE AWARD - BEST SHORT FILM)
Production
  • Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München (HFF)
  • Claudia Schröter, Fabian Ascher
  • Gabelsbergerstr. 33
  • 80333 München
  • http://www.hff-muenchen.de
Distribution
  • Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
  • Cristina Marx
  • Marlene-Dietrich-Allee 11
  • 14482 Potsdam
  • Deutschland
  • +49 331 6202564
  • http://www.filmuniversitaet.de
Sales
  • MAGNETFILM
  • Georg Gruber
  • Torstr. 154
  • 10115 Berlin
  • +49 30 24628156
  • http://www.magnetfilm.de

Damian John Harper

Born 1978 in Colorado;
after he finished his B.A. In anthropology he worked as an ethnologist and under water cave dive instructor;
he has been making films since 2005.

Filmography
2005 OSTories: A Longing For Color
2006 The Fuel Of Life
2008 Mother Of Exiles
2008 MANIA