Short Film - Recipient of Screen Australia's Hot Shots Funding
WINNER - Emerging Filmmaker Award - Melbourne International Film Festival
WINNER - Atom Awards - Best Short Fiction Film
Preselected for Festival de Cannes and Cannes Critics Week
Selected to screen at Palm Springs Shortfest
Selected to screen at Flickerfest International Film Festival
Finalist Stellar Film Festival
Nominated - Best Australian Short - Heart of Gold International Film Festival
Selected to screen at Big Sur Film Festival, USA
Selected to screen at Cinefest Oz Film Festival
Selected to screen at ReelGood Film Festival
Selected to screen at FFS Film Festival
Synopsis: Gloria is 17, pregnant and in labour. So she decides the best thing to do is to head to a dealership to buy a new car. She doesn't realise it yet but the agonising process of buying a car will not only allow Gloria to give birth to a new person but to become one herself.
Based on Gloria’s Harrison’s true story as heard on This American Life.
Lead cast: Liv Hewson (Santa Clarita Diet, Top of the Lake), Tara Morice (Dance Academy, Strictly Ballroom)
Producer: Eva Di Blasio
Executive Producer: Robyn Kershaw
Screenwriter: Julietta Boscolo
Cinematographer: James L Brown ACS
Editor: Mat Evans
Composer: Basil Hogios
Sound Designer: Liesl Pieterse
Re-Recording Mixer: Andy Wright
Costume Designer: Brodie Simpson
Production Designer: Ruth Levi
Categories: Film Drama Comedy Cars Birth