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Point Your Toes, Cushla! captures a girl's eye view of the final minutes before she goes on stage in a ballet contest - where one wrong move could be a short cut to humiliation. In this case the danger is heightened thanks to a stage mother whose idea of encouragement is constant meddling (played in scene-stealing brilliance by Alison Wall). Low on dialogue but rich in detail, this film by Simon Marler was invited to a number of overseas festivals, where it won a jury diploma in St Petersburg. It also got general release in Kiwi cinemas. 

 

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 Simon Marler
 Mairi Gunn
 Vicky Rodewyk

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