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She Lives Alone (2020)
HORROR, 15 minutes.
A reclusive tenant lives on the barren Cumbrian moors with her only goal of getting from one day to the next. A familiar but bitter presence begins to fester in the home. Will she expel the spirit or succumb to its dark nature?
She Lives Alone is a BFI Network-funded short film produced by Maria Caruana Galizia of Candle and Bell Films. The film has attended 12 film festivals, many of which are BAFTA and Oscar-Qualifying. We are particularly proud that it premiered at Frightfest and then went on to be acquired by ALTER.
Writer/Director – Lucy Rose
Producer – Maria Caruana Galizia
Director of Photography – Lizzie Gilholme
Score – Die Hexen
Production Design – Poppy Hall
Costume Design – Maddie Williamson
Featuring performances by Rachel Teate and Kit Littlejohn
FESTIVALS & MORE
She Lives Alone appeared at Prague International Indie Film Festival, Out on Film (Academy Award-Qualifying), Edinburgh Short Film Festival, Frightfest, Sydney Women’s Film Festival, London Short Film Festival (BAFTA-Qualifying), Leeds International Film Festival (BAFTA & Oscar-Qualifying), Cinemagic Short Film Festival, British Shorts Film Festival Berlin (LichtspielklubI), Sunderland Shorts Film Festival, Northern Frights Film Festival, Buried Alive Horror Film Festival.
- Winner of Best Cinematography, Nominated for Best Producer, Best Female Director, Best Production Design, Best Hair & MakeUp, Best Short Film and Best Costume.
- Winner of Best Horror at Sunderland Shorts Film Festival.
- Winner of Best Drama Under £100k at regional Royal Television Society Awards.
Additional screenings at: The Bush Film Night (New York – Sapphic Gothic Strand), Newcastle Castle Horror Night.
The most memorable part of my childhood was spent being transported by the rural landscape I lived in. I credit that largely to the folktales that were at the very core of the rural place I lived. Everyone was superstitious, to the point of madness. From the giants, to the witch who lived in the boat house, to the Croglin Vampire and to the ghosts that linger, tethered to the moors, everyone believed in something. She Lives Alone is my love letter to the imagination and fear that the landscape conjured in my childhood. It stirred something chilling as I’d stay up and read ghost stories in my bed all night and wonder, as I looked in the shadows, if perhaps a ghost was watching me.
Lucy Rose on SHE LIVES ALONE
“…Rose’s film is a dark and unsettling take on the period film, with a finale that’s bound to etch itself into the mind of FrightFest goers this weekend…” – Twelve Cabins
“Bleakly haunting.” – FrightFest Goer
“This genuinely gave me chills, which is hard to do these days.” – FrightFest Goer
“A beautifully haunting film [that] gives off Bronte vibes, with ghostly moors. And yet, despite the beautiful scenery, I did not want to venture here. Nope, far too creepy. In many scenes you are unsure whether your eyes played tricks on you or if you really did see a face there in the shadows.” – FrightFest Goer
“…The scene between them is a masterclass in unspoken history, and there’s enough backstory here to fill a feature film – but Rose (very wisely) doesn’t try to cram it all into fifteen minutes. Instead, the important points are deftly hinted, following the edict of ‘show, don’t tell’ (and sometimes not even showing, but simply making understood)...” – Horrified Mag
lucy rose (writer) 