IN DEVELOPMENT
Date 3: Short Film
A psychological thriller
Creative Team:
Written by Cristabel Sved – developed with Kate Box and Angela Betzein.
Director: Cristabel Sved
Cast: Kate Box and Daniel Henshall
Producer Akos Amont, Aurora Films
Editor: Margi Hoy
Production Designer: Marea Fowler
Composer: Steve Toulmin
An intimate film that explores the grey murky world of coersive control, articulating its unseen forces through the lens of the psychological thriller.
Ella is 40, single and lives alone. Since recently re-entering the world of online dating, strange, unnerving things have started to happen at night. The walls of her house feel thin, transparent, unprotecting. The arrival of Harry for their first date at home becomes a comforting thought. Has she let the wolf in or is he protecting her from the strange happenings outside?
Sweet AF: Full length play
Creative Team:
Writer: Michele Lee
Dramaturg: Cristabel Sved
Development Support: City of Melbourne
A dark comedy that explores the relationship between two sisters and their ‘bad’ mother, who abandoned them when they were younger.
DOLLS HOUSE: 1 x 6 hour TV series.
Contemporary drama
An original TV show concept, created by Clare Atkins (TV writer and developer) and Cristabel Sved (Director and Dramaturg) in 2022.
The series centres on a mother/daughter relationship across two generations. In 1990s Sydney, Gwen leaves her husband and twelve year old daughter Marla to embark on a three month fling overseas.
She then returns home in the hope of patching things up, but the ripple effect of this act wreaks havoc on Marla’s life. Many years later in Darwin in the 2010s, this personal history begins to impact Marla’s own relationship to motherhood as she forms her own family. Estrangement seems to be the only solution…will Marla and Gwen manage to find a way back to being in each other’s lives?