PRODUCTIONS
Open Sky creates strikingly visual live and digital work for stage and screen. We produce new writing based on lived experience.
By offering an artistic expression of the world in which we live we seek to provoke conversations about the things that matter most.
The Open Sky creative team have been creating work for a while now. Here’s some of our favourites that we made earlier…
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SHOOBS
SHORT FILM/DIGITAL THEATRE. Part of a new anthology about defining our identities. A coming-of-age story written by Janet Etuk.
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SHRIMP
SHORT FILM/DIGITAL THEATRE. Part of a new anthology about defining our identities. A homecoming story written by Yasser Zadeh.
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OUTSIDE THE BOX
SHORT FILM/DIGITAL THEATRE. Part of a new anthology about defining our identities. A revenge comedy by Claire Coaché
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THE LAST SHOW
DOCUMENTARY. A 30-minute documentary chronicling the impact of The London International Mime Festival on the British and international theatre industry during the last forty-seven years.
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COLD
FEATURE FILM / DIGITAL THEATRE. This multi-award-winning dark fairytale about love, loss, madness and redemption stars Janet Etuk and Jacob Meadows.
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WHERE THE MAGIC HAPPENS
LIVE THEATRE. Commissioned by the JOY Festival for performance at Lyric Hammersmith this is the story of a disabled band rehearsing for their first gig.
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THE CEREMONY
SHORT FILM / DIGITAL THEATRE. This multi-award-winning short by playwright Iman Qureshi is a searingly honest take on non-binary marriage with a twist.
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STILE
SHORT FILM / DIGITAL THEATRE. This Digital Culture Award winner about economic privilege is part of an anthology written by playwrights about social polarisation.
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HEAD OVER WHEELS
SHORT FILM / DIGITAL THEATRE. This Digital Culture Award winner about disabled dating is part of an anthology written by playwrights about social polarisation.
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HOMEWORK
SHORT FILM / DIGITAL THEATRE. This Digital Culture Award winner about climate catastrophe is part of an anthology written by playwrights about social polarisation.
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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING HONEST
SHORT FILM / DIGITAL THEATRE. This Digital Culture Award winner about xenophobia is part of an anthology written by playwrights about social polarisation.
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THE DISAPPEARING ACT
LIVE THEATRE. Physical theatre and darkly comic new writing about a magician’s assistant. Addresses how women vanish as they age. Tour interrupted by Covid.
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FOLK
SHORT FILM. Made as part of the BBC’s New Creatives strand this short film was scored and performed by an emerging musician and artist Livi van Warmelo.
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SCORCHED
LIVE THEATRE. This critically lauded physical theatre piece about an old soldier’s dementia premiered at Edinburgh Fringe and toured nationally.
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HAIRY FAIRY TALES
LIVE THEATRE. Classic fairy stories retold as never before through rhyme, song, music, puppetry, mime and magical transformations. Toured nationally and internationally.
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THE MIGHTY PRINCE & OTHER FABULOUS FABLES
LIVE THEATRE. This physical theatre and puppetry show recounting Buddhist folk tales toured extensively and is currently being adapted for television.
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HERE AND NOW
FEATURE FILM. This troubled teen coming of age story was released in cinemas to national critical acclaim. Shot on location in and around Herefordshire.
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EVERYBODY
ANIMATION / SHORT FILM. This animation and live action short was released on two hundred cinema screens in the UK playing before High School Musical III.
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CANVAS
SHORT FILM. Commissioned by Channel 4 this drama short was part of a 3 Minute Wonder strand encouraging young, working class people to engage with art.
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FROM NEWBURY WITH LOVE
LIVE THEATRE. This adaptation of the book of the same name involved a chorus of schoolchildren brought from Moldova, the former Soviet state in which the story is set.
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COLOUR BLIND FAITH
SHORT FILM. Commissioned by Channel 4 as part of an anthology to celebrate human rights this film examines abuses carried out during the War on Terror.
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THE IDIOT COLONY
LIVE THEATRE. This multi-award-winning play about the “moral defectives” sold out at Edinburgh Fringe and London International Mime Festival before touring nationally.
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YOU CAN GO NOW
SHORT FILM. This short film tells the touching story of a young Japanese woman who, while trying to adapt to British culture at university, rescues a baby squirrel.
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MEASLES
ANIMATED SHORT. This British Animation Award winner is a darkly comic take on the global and deadly proliferation of small arms. Stars Brian Cox as a measles virus.
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THE SECRET POLICEMAN'S BALL
LIVE TV. Made with Tioger Aspect for Channel 4 this comedy gala featured 65 artists performing live at the Royal Albert Hall. StarringJimmy Fallon, Sarah Silverman et al.