Cast
Mime - Dominique Pinon
For 25 years Dominique has been bringing his gentle humour to roles on screen. After a spell in Parisian theatre, Dominique played against Gerard Depardieu in 'Le Retour de Martin Guerre'and won a French Academy award for his pains. He is best known internationally for his frequent collaborations with director and friend Jean-Pierre Jeunet, which began with a the short film Foutaises in 1989. Since then he has appeared in every one of Jeunet's films and many others in France and beyond Dominique simply loves to act.
Guitarist - Philip Rhodes
Philip Rhodes is an actor, musician, writer and producer working within the industry for over fifteen years. Recent credits include - 'Sitnikov' in the new BBC disaster film 'Chernobyl', 'George' in the BAFTA winning children's TV series 'Harry & Cosh', 'Faust' at the Georgia International Festival and 'The Devil' in Arthur Brown's award winning 'Otherworld' concerts. Philip lives in the heart of the beatuful Sussex countryside with his wife, three daugters, six chickens, four ducks, eleven ducklings, and one rather fat cat.
Crew
Writer & Director - David Wigram
David trained at Englands Bournemouth Film School as an editor and has cut many short films and music promos. In 2004 he was invited to edit his first feature film, The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael which premiered at la Semaine de la Critique at Cannes in 2005. Since then he has continued to work as a feature editor as well as pursue his own work. In 2005 he was identified as one of the most promising young writers in the UK and selected to take part in a feature scriptwriting course run by the UK's Skillset. Busker is his first film as either writer or director.
Producer - Ben Stern
Ben spent his formative years studying all kinds of science and maths. Upon finishing 17 years of full time education he immediately abandoned it all and went in the Film and Video Production. Strictly ignoring the mantra '˜never work with your friends' he has worked with many like minded people to produce all kinds of interesting projects from building surround video and sound cinemas to pop promos.
Busker is the first film that Ben has produced.
Camera - Derrick Peters
Derrick is a young cameraman who trained at the Bournemouth Film School before entering employment in the camera department working on films, commercials and music videos both in the UK and abroad.
Sound Design - JJ Maurage
JJ is an award-winning sound designer who works in episodic TV as well as film. In addition to the traditional role of sound designer, JJ took on responsibility for all of Busker™s music, which he co-wrote with Max Edwards.
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