Written and Directed by Natasha Bassett

Produced by Alex White

THE STORY

KITE is a coming of age story about an only child who is faced with her grandfather’s death, leaving her to look after her mother, who has become catatonic with grief.

Young Ingrid is running the household and parenting her mother as much as she possibly can, yet her opportunity to say goodbye to her grandfather is denied, much to her protest.

Determined, Ingrid finds her own way of understanding, and saying goodbye to her grandfather.

MY STORY

I think this story is symbolic that adults commonly under-estimate what children are capable of, and what they are able to understand. It’s a story I have heard all too often from adults looking back on their childhood. Many resent not being allowed to attend a family member’s funeral, due to the traditional mindset that children are too young to be exposed to and deal with such misery at an early age.

YOUR SUPPORT

I have been lucky enough to receive some support through Metro Screen’s First Break Funding and I plan to use this towards the hire of equipment such as a wiz bang camera and lights, locations and especially catering for our amazing cast and crew who will be volunteering their time.

With your generous support via Pozible you will be helping us to complete the film in the post-production stages; editing, grading, composition of the film score and soundscape, as well as the marketing and distribution of the film.

I want to share my story, and I would love for you to help me to do this. I would be so grateful for any kind of donation for the benefit of our film.

OUR AMAZING CAST

CHARLIE HANCOCK AS INGRID

KATHRYN BECK AS SARA

DEE SMART AS NADINE

OUR TERRIFIC TEAM

ALEX WHITE PRODUCER

After graduating from The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, in 2006 Alex joined RGM Artists Group as an assistant in the Acting Department. Alex has since worked as a production secretary, assistant director, extra's co-ordinator, post production co-ordinator and producer's assistant on films such as Cedar Boys, Knowing and Griff The Invisible. 

Alex recently graduated from the Australian Film Television and Radio School with a Graduate Certificate in Producing and currently works for producer Jan Chapman. In 2011 Alex produced a shortlisted Tropfest film titled Census and also produced a music video for Sydney Artist Catcall.

MAT EVANS EDITOR

Mat Evans is a highly skilled Editor who has worked in his field both nationally and internationally. Mat has numerous short film, music video and commercial credits including Daniel Johns and Josh Wakely debut short film My Mind's Own Melody and the Sydney Film Festival Dendy Award finalist film Pop. 

Having recently returned from London Mat has joined Alexandre di Franceschi’s boutique editorial team at Guillotine.

ANDREW MCLEOD CINEMATOGRAPHER 

Award-winning Australian cinematographer Andrew McLeod began his career at Curtin University where he achieved a Bachelor of Arts in english, majoring in Film and Television.
In 2005 Andrew was accepted as one of only four cinematographers into the highly competitive Australian Film, Television and Radio School.
Andrew has also had the opportunity to work with some of Australia’s most talented film-makers and has gone on to win many awards around the world, including most recently an AFI Award for Outstanding Achievement in Short Film Screen Craft.