Nora Can't Score

Narrative

Synopsis

During an amateur tournament, a gifted but struggling basketball player, at odds with her peers' obsession with dating, finds herself pressured to "score" by an eerie Basketball-faced figure haunting her.

Credits


Producer: Isabella Bassett
Wr-Director: Joséfa Celestin
Director of Photography: Fiann MacLeod
Editor: Lu Kemp

Production company: Compatible Film & TV
Execs: Alice Ohja (BBC Film), Chris Young & Jon Wardle (National Film & Television School)
This short film has been produced as part of the Sean Connery Talent Lab 2024/2025

Cast

Catriona Stirling
Madeleine Grieve
Tyler Collins

Hana Greer
Isaac Bews-Ivins

Crew

Production Designer: Urte Rusteikaite
Intimacy Coordinator: Vanessa Coffey
Line Producer: Karen Kelly
1st Assistant Director: Matt Cooper
Production Sound Mixer: Kyle Allan
Casting Director: Anna Dawson
Sound Designer: Heather Andrews
Costume Designer: Honor Anderson
Hair & Makeup Designer: Eilish Brown
Production Coordinator Rachel Wilson
Basketball Coordinator Zyra Evangelista
2nd Assistant Director Jess Kelly
3rd Assistant Director Kalee Karsten
Floor Runner Mabel Chambers
Production Assistant Marie Trestrail

1st Assistant Camera: Tom Storey
2nd Assistant Camera: Luca Michelli
Grip: Graham Pittaro, Richi Holt Jr.
Grip Coordinator: Richi Holt
Gaffer: Graham Kocjan
Sparks: Amy Urquhart, Niamh Gilhooly
Camera & Grip Assistant: Alyson Thompson

Boom Operator: David McKeitch
Standby Art Director: Kaitlyn Roper
Script Supervisor: Gemma Lucha
Hair & Makeup Assistant: Louise Doogan
Costume Assistant: Holly Smith

Re-Recording Mixer: Scott Paterson
Colourist & Online Editor: Taryn Calverey
Post-Production Manager: Maeve Mulgrew
Post House: Blazing Griffin

Edit Assistant: Fraser Ballantyne
Data Wrangler: Craig Andrew Robertson Unit Stills Photography: Kevin J Thomson, Cecilia Volpi, Sonja Blietschau