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Anna Blandford
Anna Blandford has written and directed four shorts to date, including Supersonic (2007) winner of the Telegraph-Ford Film critics choice award and Looking for Marilyn (2008) which premiered on channel 4 and has screened at various international festivals. Her most ambitious short to date, Goblin Market is an adaptation of the fairytale poem by Christina Rossetti. Goblin Market is currently in post-production.
Anna is interested in a variety of genres from melodrama to horror and takes inspiration from a diverse number of writer directors including Kubrick, Von Trier, Haneke and Ozon. Anna is interested in the symbolic analysis of society through exaggeration and fantasy, believing this to be the way to elucidate truths in the modern world.
Anna has been shortlisted by EM Media with the project Diana & Marilyn.
‘If you can make a girl laugh you can make her do anything’ (Marilyn Monroe 1926-62)
During an appearance at an old royalist’s birthday party, Princess Diana lookalike Tracey, hears the shocking news of Diana’s death. Facing the possibility of never working again, she decides that now is the time to stop pretending to be someone else and to think about what she really wants in life. However, her mercenary agent Henry, and self-obsessed Marilyn Monroe lookalike girlfriend have other ideas. Like Marilyn Monroe, Diana’s image appears to be a more valuable commodity in death than life, and they intend to take advantage of it.
Diana & Marilyn is a witty melodrama in the style of Almodovar’s All about by Mother, but like Mike Leigh’s Abigail’s Party, the film feels distinctly British and suburban. Woven into the fabric of the narrative is a more complex set of themes concerning idolatry and the nature of identity in a contemporary society.
You can contact Anna by email at annablandford@live.co.uk