ANGELCAKE - Teaser August 2013

3 min  -  1960's Gothic Realism. 

An adolescent fights for visibility in a world of domestic dysfunction.

SYNOPSIS

In Auckland suburbia late 60's, Alice (16) uses Dylan(17) to escape the suffocation of a caustic family life, which tips her into a desperate spiral for attachment. So after a failed blood pact, and a bungled burglary, Alice reconsiders the consequences of her reckless agenda and its almost irretrievable toll. Only her grandmother Grace, leaves a door open for her. With her mother Shirley occupied with Johnny, and her father Lionel lost in past wars, Alice uses her invisibility to live in a space of deception. But Dylan's motives indirectly expose a family hornets nest of lies and neglect, and the ordered dysfunction of the family is forever disrupted. As Alice searches for a way out, she is left to question how to live with her decisions, when it seems easier... not to live at all.

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VELVETEEN - Short Film November 2012.

When letting go becomes a battle of wills

12 MIN   Gothic Melodrama
SYNOPSIS
When Gloria is brutally taken by polio, Thomas sinks to place of despair and darkness. As he struggles with reality he is shaken to his senses by the impending loss of his daughter, Anna.  But Anna has something worth fighting for, and she leads a chase to the death that allows Thomas to let go of his past and embrace a stronger future of hope together.

Writer, Director                   LINDA DARBY
Director of Photography      WALTER LAWRY

Thomas                              SEAN O'CONNOR
Anna                                  LUCY CORING


1ST Camera and Lighting     FINN McGOWAN
2ND Camera                       DAVID CHAN
1st AD                                 NICOLAS LEE
Sound                                  CALLUM LISTER
Production Design                LINDA DARBY
Makeup/Wardrobe              MAHA ALBIWDALI
Producer                             LINDA DARBY

Location:  Couldrey House; Wenderholm Regional Park,  , Auckland, New Zealand.
Filmed  31st  to 4th August, 2012.

Funded by Creative Communities NZ, and Brightspark Creative Media.
This is a 2012 Screen Production Major project for the BA Hons program at University of Auckland.