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Trial Run
Film (Trailer and Excerpts) – 1984
Rosemary (Annie Whittle) is a photographer, mother and middle-distance runner. A project photographing the rare yellow-eyed penguin sends her to a remote Otago cottage. Despite menacing happenings, she refuses to be intimidated. Then events escalate, sending her running for help in the race of her life. Bird-watching, stranger danger and feminist film theory line up for a time trial in Melanie Read's first movie, for which 20 of the 29-strong production crew were women. Marathon champ Allison Roe — who trained Whittle off-screen — makes a brief cameo.
Key Cast & Crew
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Produced by
Cinema and Television Productions
Acknowledgements
Made with funding from the New Zealand Film Commission.
Music
Score by Jan Preston.
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