20 March 2009
The Corpse Wore White can be viewed at the award-winning web video site Openfilm.
10 March 2009
The Corpse Wore White has an IMDb page, courtesy of Withoutabox.
1 February 2009
The Corpse Wore White screens at Takes at the North London Tavern, Kilburn.
21 January 2009
The Valmike Rampersad publicity machine rolls on...
6 January 2009
"We'll keep our legs uncrossed." Glam mag Asiana finds Corpse's Val Rampersad a tad slippery in an entertaining interview.
16 December 2008
...and in Eastern Eye newspaper.
15 December 2008
Corpse's Valmike Rampersad features in Its A Wrap magazine.
12 December 2008
Hallett & Lang have pimped their MySpace page.
17 October 2008
Corpse's Paul Kelleher appears in Red Zodiac Films' chiller Spirits of the Fall.
14 October 2008
Valmike Rampersad (The Corpse Wore White) tagged as 'one to watch' by Moviescope.
5 October 2008
The Corpse Wore White screens at the Audience Choice Award Film Festival in Hobart, IN, USA.
26 August 2008
Valmike Rampersad interviewed by glam magazine Caribelle.
18 August 2008
Valmike Rampersad (The Corpse Wore White) has a new website.
2 June 2008
Valmike Rampersad (The Corpse Wore White) interviewed by The Asian Today.
13 April 2008
Val Rampersad interviewed by Scene Magazine during filming of Open Secrets with Saeed Jaffrey.
7 March 2008
Valmike Rampersad (The Corpse Wore White) features on the multi-ethnic website Xcel.
19 February 2008
The Corpse Wore White released for online sale at IndieFlix.
16 February 2008
Paul Kelleher (The Corpse Wore White) plays Captain Jack Stone in Sledge Films' Deadly Pursuit.
14 February 2008
The trailer for The Corpse Wore White is now online. Play trailer
25 January 2008
Clips from the The Corpse Wore White audition are now online.
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Play trailer
Length: 18 mins
Format: Digital Video
Country: United Kingdom
Writer/director: Mike Hallett
Producers: Mike Hallett, Warren Chung
DoP: Warren Chung
Editor: Warren Chung
Main cast: David Sayers, Kirsty Malyon, Paul Kelleher,
Elizabeth James, Valmike Rampersad, Gill Stoker
© 2007 Mica Films Full Cast & Crew
it was a quick hop to The Corpse Wore White, a title just begging for a story. The script was written early in 2006 as Mike
and his family prepared to emigrate to the United Kingdom. Mike only had a single contact in the London film community
but it proved a most capable one: expat Kiwi filmmaker Warren Chung (Turning Graves). Warren attended to the technical
aspects while Mike focused on actors and locations. Actress/producer Helena Mitchell was also instrumental in bringing
Corpse to life.
summer of 2006. Every actor brought their unique interpretation of the character they were auditioning for, as can be seen
in the following video excerpts:
Roles of Tina Potts & Amy Jones
Roles of Tina Potts & Caleb McLaughlan
Roles of Tina Potts & Michael Bernadino
Roles of Luigi Bernadino & Michael Bernadino
always crucial to the success of the film. Warren had the perfect contact in Helen Flanagan at Squelen Productions. Helen
and her special effects partner Chris Pratt took on this vital task and fulfilled it brilliantly:
...which was made into this...
...and filmed like this.
pieces – the Bernadino family dinner and Tina's funeral – were shot over one very hectic weekend. Both scenes required
a good deal of set dressing, as evidenced by the following production stills:
wonderful novel The Lovely Bones). The lyrics are by Mike Hallett with music by Adrian Lang. Further samples of their work
can be heard at the Hallett & Lang - Songcrafters website. Produced in Christchurch, New Zealand, by Tom Rainey (noted
for his symphonic arrangements on Bic Runga's album with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, Live in Concert), it
features a gorgeously ethereal vocal by Tor Sutton:
The backing music and sound design for Corpse is the work of Danny and Deryn
Cullen, a talented Leeds couple who run Striking Media Music and also perform as
an acoustic duo called Striking Poses. Appropriately enough, Danny and Deryn
married while they were working on the audio for The Corpse Wore White. They
may have been planning it for some time but I like to think it was the film's soppy
ending that did the trick.
Spider Griffin provided the fabulous artwork for the DVD →
across the road at All Bar None. Left to right: Paul Kelleher, Mike Hallett, Kirsty Malyon and Warren Chung.
Since appearing in Corpse, actor Valmike Rampersad ('Caleb McLaughlan') has gone on to greater things, including a part
opposite Saeed Jaffrey in Open Secrets. He has also received extensive publicity, including interviews with the webzine
Xcel, Scene magazine, The Asian Today and glamour mag Caribelle. Unfortunately The Corpse Wore White doesn't rate a
mention alongside Val's more illustrious projects!
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2007 Portobello Film Festival's 2nd London Film Makers Convention, London Screened at the Inn on the Green, Notting Hill. |
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2008 Audience Choice Award Film Festival, Hobart, Indiana An online screening and voting festival. |
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2009 Takes, Kilburn, London A New Zealand-flavoured screening night organised by Last Night Productions. |
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