Standing Woman

Standing Woman

15 mins | Drama | March 1, 2021

In a near-future time, the British government has come up with an environmentally friendly program that abolishes prisons. Criminals and undocumented immigrants are chemically transformed into trees and put on public display. A propaganda filmmaker is forced to question his work as he prepares to see his journalist wife be “planted” for crimes against the state. A grim and imaginative cautionary tale by British filmmaker Tony Hipwell, based on the short story by Yasutaka Tsutsui (PAPRIKA, THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME).

Standing Woman

15 mins | Drama | March 1, 2021

Standing Woman
In a near-future time, the British government has come up with an environmentally friendly program that abolishes prisons. Criminals and undocumented immigrants are chemically transformed into trees and put on public display. A propaganda filmmaker is forced to question his work as he prepares to see his journalist wife be “planted” for crimes against the state. A grim and imaginative cautionary tale by British filmmaker Tony Hipwell, based on the short story by Yasutaka Tsutsui (PAPRIKA, THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME).
Producers
Original title Standing Woman
Directors Tony Hipwell
Writers Max Gee, Yasutaka Tsutsui

Cast

Amy Blake

as Katie

Andrew Dunn

as Postman

Gemma-Louise Keane

as Louise

Joanne Mitchell

as Sally

Yuriri Naka

as Mari