Helmut Makes a Quilt

Helmut Makes a Quilt is a dark comedy about a prison inmate who falls in love with a quilter through the prison pen-pal scheme. Told without dialogue, the story unfolds through a series of narrated letters. The prisoner is Helmut...
New Zealand Production
Short 2013 Drama, Comedy 16.00 minutes
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When pen-pals Marion and Helmut decide they can't be apart a moment longer they use their passion for quilting to break him out of prison.
2013: New Zealand International
2014: SXSW
International Film Festival Rotterdam
Clermont Ferrand

Directors

Greg Wood

Producers

Declan Cahill

Screenplay Writers

Levi Slavin

Cast

Nic Butler
Helmut
Vadim Viledogorov
Voice of Helmut
Patricia Phillips
Marion

Crew

Ginny Loane | Director of Photography
Puck Murphy | Editor
Chris Elliot | Production Designer
Will Ricketts | Music

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