THE BEFUDDLED BOX OF BETTY BUTTIFINT, directed by LFS MA Filmmaking graduate Janis Pugh, is premiering at the upcoming East End Film Festival on 18th June at 6.30pm at the Genesis Cinema
Cinematography is by LFS graduate Charles C. Meyer and the Editor is LFS Head of Editing Jaime Estrada Torres.
Also screening at EEFF are the 2013 graduation film of Debjita Dhar UPROOT, in the Shorts Devotion programme, and a THE BIRTHDAY GIFT by LFS grad Max Myers in the Shorts Obsession programme.
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The Befuddled Box of Betty Buttifint is a touching examination of a fractured memory. Award winning filmmaker Janis Pugh’s experimental film, made in collaboration with the Central School of Speech and Drama, portrays an elderly woman living within her own confused mind. Using the vivid landscape of her memories, Pugh’s film blurs the line between reality and fantasy, and between real memories and symbols of Betty’s past. Featuring a lead performance from Illona Linthwaite as a woman struggling to make sense of her life, it is a moving, poetic take on the life, loves and losses of a person whose world is fading away.
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