This Is Her

A chance comment gave writer Kate McDermott a new perspective on a commonplace situation and inspired the short film script This Is Her. “The middle-aged man leaves his similarly aged wife for someone 20 years his junior - it...
New Zealand Production
Short 2008 Drama, Comedy 12.00 minutes
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As she watches her younger self in the throes of childbirth, Evie’s deliciously wry commentary reveals exactly what life has in store for her new baby daughter, her loving husband - and the six-year-old ‘bitch’ who will one day steal his affections and destroy Evie’s life.
2008 Qantas Film & Television Award for Outstanding Technical Contribution to a Short Film (Ginny Loane, Cinematographer), New Zealand
Prague International Short Film Festival, Czech Republic
2008 Best Audience Film Award
Aspen Shortsfest, USA
2009 Best Comedy Short
Palm Springs Shortfest, USA
2009 Future Filmmaker Award
Hamptons International Film Festival, USA
2009 Audience Award for Best Short Film
2008 St Tropez Antipodes Film Festival, France- Baudin-Woodside Valley Foundation for Best Short Film, France
2009 Venus de Badalona- Filmets de Badalona, Spain
2008 62nd Edinburgh International Film Festival, Scotland
New Zealand International Film Festival
Melbourne International Film Festival
35th Telluride Film Festival
46th New York Film Festival
St Tropez Antipodes Film Festival
Prague International Short Film Festival
2009 Flickerfest
25th Sundance Film Festival
Santa Barbara Film Festival
Aspen Shortsfest
International Women's Film Festival in Seoul
Magma Short Film Festival, New Zealand
Arizona International Film Festival
Seattle International Film Festival
CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival
Palm Springs Shortfest
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Just For Laughs International Comedy Festival Canada
L.A. Shortsfest
Hofer Filmtage, Germany
Ourense Film Festival, Spain
Curtocircuito, Spain
1-Reel Film Festival, USA
Hamptons International Film Festival
Filmets de Badalona, Spain
Aarhus Film Festival, Denmark
Asbury Shorts New York
2010 Portland International Film Festival
Minimalen Short Film Festival, Norway
Feile na Bealtaine, Ireland
Flying Broom International Women's Film Festival, Turkey
Maremetraggio Film Festival, Italy
Show Me Shorts Film Festival, NZ
imagineNATIVE, Canada
2011 Wairoa Maori Film Festival, New Zealand

Directors

Katie Wolfe

Producers

Felicity Letcher
Rachel Lorimer

Screenplay Writers

Kate McDermott

Executive Producers

Christina Milligan
Roger Grant
Rawiri Paratene

Cast

Mia Blake
Evie
Alison Bruce
Voice of Evie
Christina Du Plessis
Kylie
Fraser Brown
Jonathan

Crew

Ginny Loane | Director of Photography

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