A DAUGHTER FACED WITH PHYSICAL ASSAULT AND SEXUAL ATTENTION FROM HER DEPRESSED, UNSTABLE FATHER RESPONDS BY ESCAPING AND STARTING A NEW LIFE, BUT SOON DISCOVERS THAT SHE CAN’T RUN AWAY FROM HER PAST AS SHE IS THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN TRULY HELP HIM.

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STORY/SCRIPT/SYNOPSIS

• Elle Innes, an only child, who is currently dealing with the death of her mother, has her entire life shattered when her father, fuelled by alcohol, starts to abuse her physically and suggests sexual intentions.

• She responds by fleeing and starts a new life with a job in a bar however, everything changes when her father shows up and starts drinking at the bar in a dishevelled state, drowning his sorrows. She has to make a choice.

• She takes the brave step to confront him. He promises he has changed and begs for forgiveness.

• She is convinced and returns home, back into an abusive relationship.

CINEMATOGRAPHY/ LIGHTING

•CINEMATOGRAPHY

- Naturalistic/Raw

- Close Ups focus on emotion.

- Dutch Angles

•LIGHTING

- Elle naturally lit, highlight innocence, realism.

- Club, colourful, garish lighting.

SOUND & EDITING

• SOUND

• Diegetic sounds to fit genre.

• No emotional music to tug at the heart strings.

• Real sounds. Real issue.

• EDITING

• Dark colour grading

• Black vignette overlay to signify flashbacks

TARGET AUDIENCE

• 12A

• Skewed Female

• 20-60 years old

• Audiences who enjoyed 'Fish Tank', 'The Selfish Giant', 'Red Road and 'Tyrannosaur'

• Universal message of compassion.

DIRECTORS STATEMENT

Ultimately this is a short about the cycle abuse victims go through, revealing how hard it is to break free. We want to highlight the fact that the issue is not something fictional, but is still a very real and

troubling problem in the 21st century.

Elle is an example of a victim, one which mentally cannot escape her father who

himself is experiencing his own traumas, and inflicting those on his daughter.