‘Rock Sugar.’
As a child at school producer-writer-director Angela How was bullied – an experience which partly inspired her debut feature Rock Sugar.
The psychological thriller follows Charlotte, a 12-year-old Asian girl who is tormented by Brenda, the school bully. When she is attacked in a park late one night Charlotte fights back, knocking Brenda to the ground.
The bully falls, hits her head and stops moving, creating a terrible dilemma for Charlotte, who must either hide the body or face the consequences of her action.
“I was thinking about a major issue that affects children and identified bullying as a topic very quickly,” the Singapore-born, Australian-raised filmmaker, a graduate of the Mfa Directing program at the UCLA School of Theatre, Film and Television, tells If.
“I was bullied as a child in Australia and know first hand what that means. The stats of childhood bullying in Australia and worldwide disturb me.
As a child at school producer-writer-director Angela How was bullied – an experience which partly inspired her debut feature Rock Sugar.
The psychological thriller follows Charlotte, a 12-year-old Asian girl who is tormented by Brenda, the school bully. When she is attacked in a park late one night Charlotte fights back, knocking Brenda to the ground.
The bully falls, hits her head and stops moving, creating a terrible dilemma for Charlotte, who must either hide the body or face the consequences of her action.
“I was thinking about a major issue that affects children and identified bullying as a topic very quickly,” the Singapore-born, Australian-raised filmmaker, a graduate of the Mfa Directing program at the UCLA School of Theatre, Film and Television, tells If.
“I was bullied as a child in Australia and know first hand what that means. The stats of childhood bullying in Australia and worldwide disturb me.
- 9/9/2018
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
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