Eleven

Name: New Zealand Film Commission
Price range: $

Director's Notes The anxiety around being accepted is electric at eleven. I remember that time being so strongly about friendships, being liked, and trying to find my place within it. When I connect to my own experiences...

New Zealand Production

Short 2014 Drama 13.00 minutes

In the age of in-between, Emily is offered acceptance by betrayal. Eleven year-old Emily is caught in-between friends; Brooke and her giggling group, and Rebecca, whose membership to the inner circle hangs by a thin thread. When Emily is challenged with a jar of red paint with which to play the best trick on Rebecca ever, Emily is faced with the prospect of betraying her new friend and is caught between something greater: autonomy or belonging.