Viola (2012 Film)

Director

Matías Piñeiro

Producer

Melanie Schapiro

Feature film. Loosely based on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, the film begins with an all-female cast performing the play, gradually segueing into the dressing room where its story and prose impact on their...

Dahl Dynasty, The (2012 Film)

Director

Brian Quinn

Producer

Bryan Quinn

Independent feature film. The Dahl Dynasty is a modern re-telling of Hamlet. Hamilton Dahl IV is the brooding heir to the Dahl family, and his quest for justice after the carefully-crafted murder of his...

Hamlet’s Hybris: A Remix (2012 Film)

Director

Juha Hansen

Experimental short. Hamlet is on a journey to England. While planning revenge on his father’s murderer he is caught between his hybris and his insanity. Threatened by his uncle the new king and murderer of...

Soliloquy, The (2012 Film)

Director

Josh Murray

Producer

Josh Murray

A contemporary short film adaptation of Macbeth.

Love: As You Like It (2012 Film)

Director

Marika Sonja Cotter

Low-budget independent film. A version of As You Like It set in San Francisco. Using Shakespeare’s language, the film follows free-spirited Rosalind and her cheeky cousin Celia as they throw off the...

Horn Dance, The (2012 Multimedia)

Inspired by the 2012 exhibition ‘Shakespeare: Staging the World’. at the British Museum Liz Unna looks at pagan rites and rituals in Shakespeare’s work. She captures the Abbotts Bromley horn dance and...

Shakespeare: The Hidden Truth (2012 Film)

aka: Shakespeares Skulte Sannhet

Director

Jørgen Friberg

Producer

Kjell Eriksen

Documentary about the organist Peter Amundsen who believes that he can prove that Francis Bacon wrote the plays and sonnets attributed to Shakespeare. The story is told by actor and academic Robert Crumpton...

Twelfth Night, The (2012 Film)

Director

Yihan Xu

Animation students from Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design in London created a series of short films exploring Shakespeare through animation made for a Royal Shakespeare Company exhibition...

Self Same Sky (2012 Film)

aka: Henry the Fourth Part Two

Director

William Forster; Michael Mannion

Producer

Hannah Noah

Independent low budget feature film based on Henry IV. Part II. Hal is a true depiction of the area in which he lives, repeatedly breaking the law with his fat, charismatic and often drunk friend, John...

Midsummer Nightmare: The Betrayal, A (2012 Film)

Director

Joshua A Siegel

Producer

Steven L. Everson; L. Jeffrey Moore; Gary Siegel

Short. Fantasy horror film. England, 1596. The Brotherhood of St. George uses William Shakespeare to trap the Faerie Court within an enchanted book, sparking a secret war with the pagan Feyists. 250 years...