Written Words

'Written Words', 2019

A psychological thriller about a woman who tried come to terms with a traumatic childhood experience through her murder/mystery novel. She starts to see things more clearly after finding her father's suicide note.

A psychological thriller about a woman who tried come to terms with a traumatic childhood experience through her murder/mystery novel. She starts to see things more clearly after finding her father's suicide note.

Director

Chelsea Nwasike

Runtime

12 minutes

Type

Feature

Genre

Short

Keywords

psychological

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Written Words

Chelsea Nwasike, 2019

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A psychological thriller about a woman who tried come to terms with a traumatic childhood experience through her murder/mystery novel. She starts to see things more clearly after finding her father's suicide note.

After finding her beloved father, her only parent, dead in his home, Scarlett comes across his suicide note which reveals the ugly truth about the sexual attack she encountered as a child. Being a writer, she decides to re-write the event into a fictional murder mystery novel, to confront her demons of the past, the monster of the night. With the power to re-write the story however she pleases, she plays out the event successfully defending herself from her attacker. The only problem is the monster still lingers in her mind because, this time, he wore a face she recognized; her father's. Her novel made her a best-selling author and secured her future, financially, but if the heart and mind is troubled, everything else amounts to nothing. Her father, she once trusted and loved sexually attacked her as a child. But to her they are and will always remain two entities; the monster of the night and her loving father. She burns the suicide note, riding herself of the monster and she keeps ...

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A psychological thriller about a woman who tried come to terms with a traumatic childhood experience through her murder/mystery novel. She starts to see things more clearly after finding her father's suicide note.

Synopsis

After finding her beloved father, her only parent, dead in his home, Scarlett comes across his suicide note which reveals the ugly truth about the sexual attack she encountered as a child. Being a writer, she decides to re-write the event into a fictional murder mystery novel, to confront her demons of the past, the monster of the night. With the power to re-write the story however she pleases, she plays out the event successfully defending herself from her attacker. The only problem is the monster still lingers in her mind because, this time, he wore a face she recognized; her father's. Her novel made her a best-selling author and secured her future, financially, but if the heart and mind is troubled, everything else amounts to nothing. Her father, she once trusted and loved sexually attacked her as a child. But to her they are and will always remain two entities; the monster of the night and her loving father. She burns the suicide note, riding herself of the monster and she keeps ...

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Cast

Victoria Floro

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Stephen Dentrasse

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Danielle DellaPorta

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Director

Chelsea Nwasike

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