Tuesday, July 10, 2012

JELLY'S PLACENTA


WARNING! This synopsis contains spoilers
Leith - an obsessive transvestite in her mid-30s - has been involved in a ten-year relationship with her lover, Jelly, and Jelly's dead mother, whose spirit inhabits the fig tree in the garden beneath which Jelly's placenta is buried. Consumed by jealousy for the mother, and by a primordial urge to possess Jelly - a slippery and seemingly passive drama lecturer - Leith's world is cracked wide open by the arrival of Jelly's student - the exotic Chinese beauty, Hart Sommerstein. When Jelly arrives home, Leith accuses him of having an affair, and, in a shattering confrontation, they spill the horror of their relationship. In her frenzy to destroy the mother's dominance, Leith slays the tree with an axe, which unexpectedly frees Jelly.

CAST & CREW
Jelly John.............Craig Boreham
Leith Law...............Marc Carlis
Hart Sommerstein.....Ryan Lee

Writer/Director.........Christina Conrad
Producer........Melissa Anastasi
Co-Producers........Christina Conrad & Billy Marshall Stoneking
Cinematography..........Steve Macdonald
Editing.........Geoff Brokate & Joanathan Wald
Design.........Christina Conrad
Sound.......Ryan Dunwoodie
Script Editor........Billy Marshall Stoneking

Sound Design.......Paul Hurrell
Picture Grade.......Warren Lynch

Executive Producers...... Billy Marshall Stoneking, Jonathan Wald

For more about this film and the filmmaker, go to CONRAD

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