The Tinsel Years
Donna, a self-made entrepreneur in the mall-Santa trade, has just received an auspicious company promotion into the Easter photography market. But her daughter, Jane, is in no mood for celebration – instead, she is scheming to win her mother’s affections by hosting her own fake funeral.
Jane’s plans are on track – that is, until Donna reveals she will not be attending the big day. Buried tensions quickly surface as Jane and Donna tug between the truths and not-quite-truths they have been telling one another.
Unclassified 15+
Course: BFA FTV Narrative
Director Biography
Raised in regional Victoria, Milla grew up a train and two bus rides away from her all school friends and their lives. Stuck living in a town full of people she didn’t know, and travelling to another filled with people she was always an inch away from properly knowing, Milla stumbled her way into film through at home movies she made to occupy the time alone.
A current VCA Film and Television graduating student, Milla is an emerging filmmaker interested in stories of desperate characters scratching for moments of closeness with the world. Her films explore the gaps between people and the tragic irony befalling their attempts to remedy this chronic aloneness. Honest, gentle and quick-witted, Milla’s films tip toe the dark comedy-drama genre scope, with a special interest in exploring selfish and lonely female protagonists through a tender lens.