ROADKILL by Maria Lundström
Sweden, 2020, 9’
On their way to a children's party, Charlie and her mother almost hit a child running towards them on the road. That's only one of several strange and frightful things that happen to them along the way. Roadkill is a surrealistic short film about how we value lives differently, seen through a child's perspective.
Cast Charlie - Märta Bejborn / Mother Jennifer - Marina Nyström / Forest child - Mirah Ragnesund
Script writer & director - Maria Lundström
Producers - Elin Bennett & Hanna Hannerz-Simå
Director’s assistant & casting - Julia Boström
Director of photography - Christine Leuhusen
Sound technician - Tove Lidman
Set designer & costume designer - Matilda Madeon Mask - Simona Macuh
Editors - Maria Lundström & Elin Bennett
Editing consultant - Selina Håkansson
Composer - Kenny Karlsson
Sound design - Klas Isaksson
Sound mix - Tove Lidman
Production manager - Kelly Wedin
Script - Kristina Levin Vinter
BIOGRAPHY:
Maria Lundström, born 1983, is a Swedish documentary filmmaker. She studied Culture, Society and Mediaproduction at Linköping University and photography at Academy Valand in Gothenburg. Maria Lundström’s debut Where I see you now (2019) is a poetic collage of memories, thoughts and dreams of two women from different generations. Roadkill is her first short fiction co-produced with Swedish Television.
