Susanna Bonaretti
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​​Chloë Schwank
DIDI'S ANTHEM
Copyright 2012 Susanna Bonaretti and Santa Shorts Productions
Deidre is a driven young woman who’s been told that she will never break that glass ceiling and that she will end up just like her stay-at-home mother. With cold and ruthless calculation, she vows to do what it takes to make it in a hard business world - and she will make it – despite being a woman. As she lays down her plans, she envisions the rewards she will achieve by her brutal resolve and fortitude… and also what she may stand to lose.
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This film is part of a series of short, mostly performance poetry pieces all with a twist and a touch of irony, cynicism and fun, called “Painful Poetry and Other Patter, Prose and Platitudinous Pabulum”.
Enjoy the clip but please remember:
This short film is not for public Exhibition. Please do not upload to any public domain website without written permission from the copyright holder - [email protected]
Copyright 
2012 Susanna Bonaretti and Santa Shorts Productions

Didi's Anthem (3:52)

Cast and Crew
Deidre (Didi)
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Producer, Writer, Music​
​​Director
1st Assistant Director/Cinematographer
Sound Recordist/Focus Puller
Assistant Sound Recordist/Sound Engineer
First Editor/Animated Sequence Design
Second Editor/Colorist/Sound Design
Makeup, Hair and Wardrobe
​Gaffers and Grips
Chloë Schwank
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​​Susanna Bonaretti
Yasmin Suteja
Mitchell Blunt
Nick Alexander
​Sarah Ray
​Nikki Rose
​Jeffrey Truong
Chloë Schwank
​Nick Alexander, Mitchell Blunt
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Visit ​Chloë Schwank's web page: ​http://www.chloeschwank.com/

Production stills by Yasmin Suteja

A little more about this piece of Painful Poetry...
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Synopsis...

​Some industrial betrayal, a ruptured romance, a one-sided love affair, a bit of adultery and a whacking great lot of homophobia are the ingredients that go to make Lipstick a musical comedy play.
 
Blend in a dollop of improbable disguises, add a touch of jealousy and retribution and the plot thickens as it is stirred by an androgynous petrol-head out to give an ambitious sleep-around babe what-for.
 
Set in Newtown, things just don’t go as planned when a sales manager and his personal assistant don’t get that promotion they’ve been so keen on. From there, they take the ultimate step to get even: treachery but end up themselves being betrayed. 
 
Lipstick deals with truth in perception and one woman’s tormented struggle to accept her feelings when she discovers her perceptions have betrayed her.

​This short film is part of a series of very short pieces of prose, poetry and song intended as a web series, “Painful Poetry and Other Patter, Prose and Platitudinous Pabulum”, written and produced by Susanna Bonaretti and performed by professional actors and singers.
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