Little Bird is delighted to be presenting the world premiere of the first of its 'Ministry of Fear' projects, 'Trauma', directed by Marc Evans and starring Colin Firth and Mena Suvari, in the Premiere section at Sundance this year. Myriad Pictures are handling international sales rights on the film and Warners will be releasing the film in the UK.
Awaking from a coma to discover his wife has been killed in a car accident, Ben’s (Colin Firth) world may as well have come to an end. A few weeks later, Ben is out of hospital and, attempting to start a new life, he moves home and is befriended by a beautiful neighbour Charlotte (Mena Suvari). His life may be turning around but all is not what it seems and, haunted by visions of his dead wife, Ben starts to lose his grip on reality…
"Stunning camerawork and startling sound design create an atmosphere of steely anxiety that permeates every frame of Trauma, the postmodern psychological chiller directed by Marc Evans".
Sundance Film Festival 2004
'Trauma' also stars Naomie Harris (“28 Days Later”) and Tommy Flannigan and the director of photography is BAFTA award-winning John Mathieson (“Gladiator”).
'Trauma' is Evans’s first film since the critical and commercial hit “My Little Eye”. His previous credits include “Resurrection Man” and “House of America”.
A Little Bird/Ministry of Fear production, in association with First Choice Films, 'Trauma' is produced Nicky Kentish Barnes (“About A Boy”) and Little Bird’s Jonathon Cavendish (“Bridget Jones’s Diary”), with James Mitchell and Lizzie Francke as executive producers.