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Short film

Shelly

2015 · 15 min

A quirky, slightly unsettling little character piece that blurs imagination and reality, leaving you unsure what's real.

Directed by
Lauren Rothery
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Starring
Maddison Rothery, Gore Abrams, Dominic Haydn Rawle
Overview
A socially bewildered aspiring filmmaker struggles to differentiate between the imaginary world of her latest project and reality.

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Directed by
Lauren Rothery
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Starring
Maddison Rothery, Gore Abrams, Dominic Haydn Rawle
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Tone
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 1 of 3
  • lightstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • madness
  • art
  • isolation
Places
None
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • unreliable narrator
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour4
Realism6
Romance2
Tension4
Darkness4
Complexity5
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
drama, comedy
Directed by
Lauren Rothery
Written by
Lauren Rothery
Starring
Maddison Rothery, Gore Abrams, Dominic Haydn Rawle
Cinematography
Jeff Melanson
Runtime
15 min
Languages
English

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