Funding:
- UK Film Council’s New Cinema Fund (Lottery Funding)
- The ‘Cinema Extreme’ short film scheme co-financed by the UK Film Council’s New Cinema Fund and Film Four. The scheme was created in 2002 to encourage and develop directors with a distinctive directorial voice and cinematic flair.
- The project received a total production budget of £53,250, fifty per cent of this amount was awarded by the New Cinema Fund and the remainder by FilmFour. Additional funds were made available by the UK Film Council to clear music rights and promote the film at international festivals.
- The film was shot in and around Dartford, Kent. The ‘Cinema Extreme’ scheme is open to film-makers and production companies based in the UK.
The completed film has enjoyed enormous critical success and won 36 awards at international film festivals, including the 2005 Oscar® for Best Live Action Short Film.
It has firmly established director Andrea Arnold as one of the most interesting up-and-coming directing talents from the UK. At its premiere at the Edinburgh Film Festival the film attracted the interest of Denmark’s Zentropa and Scotland’s Sigma Films who subsequently commissioned Andrea to work on her debut feature ‘Advance Party’.‘Wasp’ also helped to launch the career of Nathalie Press who stars in the film as Zoe. Nathalie has since drawn huge acclaim for her role in ‘My Summer of Love’, stars in Martha Fiennes’ ‘Chromophobia’ and is appearing in the BBC’s ‘Bleak House’.
Promotion:
- Director Andrea Arnold's "Wasp," a film about an encounter between a single mother and an old flame, won the Best of the Festival Award — carrying a $2,000 prize — at the 2004 Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films & Short Film Market.
- Festival organizers said the seven-day event, described as the largest short film festival and market in North America, screened more than 300 short films, drawn from 2,000 submissions, and attracted 2,600 industry representatives, film-makers and media from around the world.
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