Anne at 13,000 ft

Featuring a magnetic central performance from Deragh Campbell, Anne at 13,000 ft is a mesmerising, fast paced indie drama tracking one young woman’s frightening descent into mental instability. After single, twenty something daycare worker Anne goes skydiving at a friend’s bachelorette party, her life soon goes into freefall too. A series of awkward social interactions and increasingly self-destructive behaviour threaten to derail both her work and personal life. Director Kazik Radwanski keeps the freewheeling energy high in an escalating series of confrontational scenes with excellent hand held camera work throughout.

‘Anne at 13,000 ft is the third feature in a thematic trilogy grounded in character-centric portraits of outsiders who can’t connect with others. Since my first short film (Assault, 2007), I’ve always chosen to shoot close to my actor’s faces, studying every detail and nuance of their expression. I like to capture subjects’ movements and speech so that the faces of their characters become the emotional landscape of my scenes. Anne at 13,000 ft introduces us to 27-year-old Anne who’s struggling to find her place in the world. Society has a way of excluding people and making them not feel whole. Self-worth and selfadvocacy are fragile and hard for some people to find. I connected with the idea of a character fighting to find a way to simply exist and live a free and fulfilling life.’

Kazik Radwanski, Director