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1000 Voices

1000 voices is a short multi-animator documentary project. Below is the segment i directed.

full film

A verbose and politically correct bureaucrat gives a lecture to a group of teenagers on the merits of the UK's efficient and humane asylum system, whilst meanwhile, in the same building, detainees, imprisoned indefinitely in different 'Removal Centres' across the UK, leave messages in vain on an abandoned telephone answering machine in the ministry basement. Their messages detail the horror of the life that they have escaped due to conflict.

credits

Writer and Director: Tim Travers Hawkins
Animation Directed by: Anna Benner, Iloobia, Cath Elliot, Duncan Brown
Detainees and Ex-detainees interviewed: Pa Bojang, Zea, Clifton Cameron, Reza Moghadam, McSann Musa, Roger Mendy
Producer: Andy Noble
Assistant producer: Alexis Wood
Music: Jiri Slavik, Jesca Hoop
Voice of Bureaucrat: Adam Buxton