She's Racing

This early short from The Most Fun You Can Have Dying director Kirstin Marcon follows a driver (Sophia Hawthorne) in the aftermath of a car crash. She — almost — pulls a badly-injured victim from wreckage in rugged bush and tends to him, but behaves strangely when another motorist arrives. The film presents shards of the relationship between victim and 'rescuer', but never enough to undercut the effectively mysterious tone; metallic blues and greens flavour the film’s unexpected moral code. She's Racing won a Silver Plaque at Chicago Film Festival (2000).

A remote bush road, a mysterious collision, she's nearly out of time.

– Tagline from the film’s NZFC press kit

Key Cast & Crew

Kirstin Marcon

Director, Writer

Nik Beachman

Producer

Clare Kerrison

Actor

Rakai Karaitiana

Actor

Sophia Hawthorne

Actor

Dave Whitehead

Sound