Free Fall
short film (trailer)
2021
Tom is a young trader in a London bank, whose recent performance has put his job on the line. When the first plane hits the World Trade Centre on the morning of September 11th 2001, Tom, convinced that it's a terrorist attack and not an accident, jumps into the biggest trade of his life...
With Abraham Lewis (How to talk to girls at parties), Packy Lee (Peaky Blinders), Vincent Regan (300), and Bally Gill.
Based on a true story, adapted from the best-selling novel Swimming with Sharks by Joris Luyendijk.
With the support of France Televisions, the CNC, and the Region Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
2 Awards
- Festival Regard 2021 GRAND PRIZE (Canada)
- European Film Festival of Lille 2021 WINNER AUDIENCE AWARD (France)
1 Nomination
- Prix Unifrance du Court-Métrage 2021 (France)
8 Selections
- European Film Festival of Lille 2021 (France)
- Prix Unifrance du Court-Métrage 2021 (France)
- Festival Regard 2021 (Canada)
- Motovun Film Festival 2021 (Croatia)
- War on Screen 2021 (France)
- Not Film Festival 2021 (Italy)
- Festival International de Contis 2021 (France)
- Festival International du film de Nancy 2021 (France)
TV Sale
France Televisions
Production Company
- Bien ou Bien Productions (France)
Distributor
- Premium Films
Crew
Direction
- Emmanuel Tenenbaum
Screenplay
- Guillaume Fournier
Executive Producer
- Zangro
Cast
- Abraham Lewis
- Vincent Regan
- Packy Lee
- Bally Gill
- Sebastian Armesto
- David Shaw Parker
- Joe Layton
- Gabriel Lo Giudice
- Pete Marier
- Leon Louder
- Aaron Skovell
- Jason McNallt
- Andrew Omalley
- Yan Moussu
- Robin Pailler
- Amre Sawah
Cinematographer
- Antoine Roch
Casting
- Sophie Holland CSA
- Faye Timby
Story
- Guillaume Fournier
- Emmanuel Tenenbaum
- Based on the book "Swimming with Sharks: My Journey Into the World of the Bankers" by Joris Luyendijk
Editing
Jean-Bapiste Guignot
Head set design
Catherine Mañanes
Sound
Thierry Ducos
Original Soundtrack
Mathieu Robineau
Jean-François Côté
Traderrs
- Aaron Skovell
- Jason McNallt
- Andrew Omalley
- Yan Moussu
- Robin Pailler
- Amre Sawah
Voices
- Sebastian Armesto
- Roger Conneff
- Julian Frot
- Daniel Damm-Rossi
Producer
- Laetitia Stoffel
Line Producer
- Rachid Aït-Ali
Production Secretary
- Nour Ben Thaier
Script Supervision
- Pierre Cazeaux
1st AD
- Julien Espiaut
2nd AD
- Anna Lichtenberg
Intern AD
- Amel Boussaeden
Casting Extras
- Sandrine Cayol
1st Camera Assistant
- Sophie Quaglino
2nd Camera Assistant
- Emile Boré
1st sound Assistant
- Luc Mariette
Technical Supervisor Executive Production
- François Azria
Accountant
- Fakhrya Fakhry
Production Secretary
- Laura Halter
Location Manager
- Jérémy Pagès
2nd Location Manager
- Géraldine Vandaele
Assistant 2nd Location Manager
- Anthony Cothard
Interns Location Management
- Quentin Dumez
- Luc Rodrigues
1st assistant set decorator
- Stéphane Girard
Location Manager Designer
- Loïc Cascarino
IT specialist and Screen animations
- Luc Aguilera
Interns Set Design
- Mathilde Perrins
- François Fondeville
Costume Designer
- Pauline Berland
Wardrobe
- Séverine Cales
- Emelyne Barrère
Head make-up artist
- Charlotte Leclerre
Make-up artist
- Awara Gomis
Gaffer
- Michaël Radke
Electrician
- Guillaume Pitel
Extra electrician
- Paul Rebière
Key Grip
- Julien Monneret
Grip
- Louis Lemoine
English Translation
- Felicity Davidson
Set photographer
- Charles-Edouard Woisselin
VFX
- Pierre Stragier
Sound editing and mix
- Thierry Ducos
Footage management
- Lily Post Prod
- Emmanuel Fortin
- Hüssam Korkut
Editing facilities
- Les Pirates Production
TV News
- Jean-Baptiste Guignot
- Guy DAGAN
- Ilia POKRISHCHENKO
- Paul NYAMEKYE
With the support of
- Centre National du Cinéma et de l'Image animée
- France Télévisions
- Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Arnaud Dreistadt
- Ruben Tenenbaum
- Studio Off-Courts