PAIN
A young girl has an earth-shattering realisation that her father is not invincible, after a cricket accident exposes his vulnerability.
Director: Anna Rose Duckworth
Live-Action, New Zealand, 2020
9:00 min | trailer
nominiert für Best Short Film 20MINMAX 2021
Anna Rose Duckworth has worked in film and television for almost a decade in both New York City and Auckland. In the past few years Anna wrote and directed three self–funded short films including Mum Jeans (2017) which screened at the 2018 New Zealand International Film Festival. Anna has twice won Best Director at 48Hours Competition, with her team being three time National Finalists and has directed music videos for a range of different artists.
Anna directed web series Psusy, which went on to screen at New Orleans Film Festival, Seattle Webfest, DC Webfest, Melbourne Web Series Festival and won the Best Episodic Jury Prize at the 2018 LA Film Festival.
In 2018, Anna was granted production funding for two projects as writer/director. The first was a New Zealand Film Commission Fresh Short film Pain, a naturalistic character drama. The second was TVNZ’s, Butt Dial, a six part web series showcasing toilet–stall phone calls between two friends.
Anna has also produced a myriad of award- winning music videos which garnered accolades such as multiple Show Me Shorts Best Music Videos, nominations at both NZ Music Awards and UK Music Video Awards and multiple vimeo staff picks.
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