Girl And A Scar
A self-harming Goth girl suffers a psychological trauma where her dark, cathartic journey within allows her to find self-acceptance within her life.
Director Biography
UK based filmmaker David Cave graduated from film school in 2000 returning to his native North-East to forge a career in film production. David has worked on a number of both British and International feature films, in various roles, including The One and Only (UK, 2003, Dir. Simon Cellan-Jones) and The Skulls (USA, 2000, Dir. Rob Cohen), television productions including BBC Zenith North’s Byker Grove and ITV’s Wire In The Blood as well as many commercials and short films. David has written, produced and directed a number of no-budget short films and two of his short screenplays were commissioned by Northern Film & Media/UK Film Council to be produced through their digital shorts film scheme ‘Stingers’. He has been selected to take part in schemes run by organisations including Arista, TAPS, Raindance, NFM, North-West Vision, Yorkshire Screen, Mersey Television and The Script Factory, and industry workshops/discussions led by Mike Figgis, Brian Tufano, Gareth Edwards and Ben Wheatley. David’s work has been screened at International Film Festivals around the world where his films have received numerous awards. He is currently developing his latest short film, Girl and a Scar, into a feature length project.
Director Statement
As an imaginative and innovative writer/director focused on developing original stories exploring issues and themes influencing contemporary society, I am also a very commercially aware independent artist, who strives to explore sensitive subject matter in a reflective and creative way.
Girl And A Scar is a surreal and bizarre visual tableaux of the madness of psychological trauma. With no dialogue, the film aligns the nightmares, dreams and fears of our protagonists childhood memories along with symbols and emblems that reflect her broken mental state within the dark, cathartic journey that she experiences throughout.
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