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My Shadow
Australia, 2003, 6min

Director: Sumitra Phoenix

Voice actors: Cathy: Jane Nolan, Heath: Richard Bligh, Friend and Swimmer: James Thompson, Good and Bad Cops: James Phoenix, Rod Munroe, Xavier Irvine
Music: Paul Italiano and Sumitra Phoenix 'This is Your Captain Speaking' - Aaron Trimmer, Nick Lane, David Evans
Sound recording: Xavier Irvine
Writer/Director/Artist/DOP: Sumitra Phoenix
On-line editor: Declan Loughren
Sound mixer: Peter Frost
Supervising Producers: Paul Fletcher,Andi Spark

Synopsis: Flat tyres, mystery calls. Cathy is being watched. Someone is following her, close as a shadow. Cathy tells her best friend. Heath already knows. The phone rings through the night. Is anyone listening?

Sumitra Phoenix

Qualifications: Masters in Film and TV (Animation) - Victorian College of the Arts, Bachelor of Education (Creative Arts) - Melbourne University, Diploma of Visual Arts (Illustration) - Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE

In creating animated films, Sumitra Phoenix extends her background in theatre, art and music. Using her skills in illustration, she creates 2D drawn animation with handmade scanned drawings which are then coloured in Photoshop and composited in After Effects. Sumitra has an interest in narrative and a love of colour.

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