The personified voice of 17-year-old Ella’s eating disorder torments her and pulls her out of reality into a liminal space as she tries to live an everyday life.
Social & External
The people behind it
Jillian Shea Spaeder
Ella
Shane Brady
The Noise
Angela Hoover
Becca
Sitara Falcon
Jason
Lily Horstmann
Charlie
Amanda Mickwee
Cute Fitness Girl
Elyssa Kim
Siri (voice)
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An award-winning short film about a young girl who is struggling with an eating disorder and battling the voice inside her head.
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Desperate for help, a woman in recovery asks an unlikely stranger on a dinner date.
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In this farewell letter to Ana (aka Anorexia), I reveal the suffering associated with this illness. I express my desire to regain my freedom and vitality by sharing not only my progress but also my relapses. Through the interweaving of drawings and poetry, I share this quest for reconstruction, which I hope will help raise awareness of this mental illness and bring a little hope to people affected by it and those around them.
Georgie Godwin is the fattest man in Britain. A tourist attraction, thanks to greedy 'agent, cabbie Morris. Devoted neighbour Janice is Georgie's only other regular outside contact until he meets Amy, a pregnant teenager fleeing a violent boyfriend ,whom he takes in as a lodger. Amy tries to help Georgie change his lifestyle, but Morris is more than keen to stop her ruining his tourist attraction.
Victor turns 21 in a month. Before he turns 21, he has set two goals: to lose his virginity and to weigh less than 50 kilos.
When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?
The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.
94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.
Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.
A precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend.
A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.
The eldest son of a ruthlessly tough MMA champion must fight his way out of the abusive cycle his father has continued.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
A terminally ill mother invites her family to their country house for one final gathering, but tensions quickly boil over between her two daughters.
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
A man is released from prison after 15 years. He reunites with his high school girlfriend, now a single mother of three. What follows is a lyrical take on love, regret and second chances.
In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.
A shy teenager living on the Isle of Wight dreams of pop stardom. With the help of an unlikely mentor, she enters a singing competition that will test her integrity, talent, and ambition.
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
A daughter seeks to restore the reputation of her disgraced father, a wronged college professor. With help of a professional student, she must overcome an ambitious sorority bitch and corrupt college dean.
Diagnosed with a black hole growing inside her chest and stuck in a loop reliving the last five days of her life, a 55-year-old wife and mother from Miami, Florida decides to solve time travel in order to go back and be the person she always intended to be.
