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Eleven

Short Film (Full Length) – 2014

Most people can relate to the struggles of fitting in or bullying, which is why many cast and crew felt compelled to share their own stories while making Eleven. The short follows 11-year-old Emily (Sasha Dingle-Bell) who befriends the cool kids, led by Brooke (Ana Hoonhout). When the girls pressure Emily to play a cruel prank on her friend Rebecca, she’s torn over hurting her pal for the sake of belonging. Discussions about bullying with the young cast helped shape the movie. Eleven competed at the 2014 Berlin Film Festival; at the 2014 NZ Film Awards, it won gongs for Best Short and for Kate Prior's script. 

[George Orwell]'s story illuminates the idea of the individual’s powerlessness in the face of the mass; that the motivations for terrible and unnecessary things can stem simply from the fact that the perpetrators don’t want to look like fools.
– Scriptwriter Kate Prior on how Eleven was partly inspired by George Orwell's essay 'Shooting the Elephant', in the Eleven press kit

Key Cast & Crew

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Ana Hoonhout

As: Brooke

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Sasha Dingle-Bell

As: Emily

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Kate Prior

Writer, Producer

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Astrid Lewis

As: Rebecca

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Abigail Greenwood

Director

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Cartier Matthews

As: Anna

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Produced by

Flyleaf Films

Source

Flyleaf Films

Acknowledgements

Made in association with the NZ Film Commission's Fresh Shorts fund 

Music

Closing credits music taken from Connan Mockasin's song 'Faking Jazz Together'

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