Digital media
Black & White
Running time: 5 mins, 18secs
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Strait Street known to British servicemen as ‘the gut’ was Malta’s notorious red light district up until the early 1970’s. A choice destination for drunken sailors when the street sprung into life in the long hours of darkness. Barmaids would lean on doorways touting for business, musicians, entertainers and prostitutes would spill from every bar, decorative lights would be switched on and the tawdriness of the environment was masked by a sense of liberated jollity.
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Producer: Andrew Whiston
Production Company: A+ Academy Films
Commissioner: Zoe Wolff
Cast: Ira Melkonyan with Lisa Elle, Bobby Waterson, Stephen Ingham, Andy Bang, Harry Bohay-Nowell
DoP: Ali Tollervey
Camera Operators: Adrian Abela, Bettina Hutsheck, Martin Bonnici
Location: Valletta, Malta
Shoot: August 2012
Soundtrack: ‘Anna Minor’ by Dark Horses
Research: Emma Mattei, Sandra Banthorpe
Editor & Sound Design: Leila Sarraf @ Trim
TK: Tom Russell @ Prime Focus
Dedication: Margaret