Good Intentions – A film by Anna Mantzaris
In this small thriller about decision making and guilt, a young woman responsible for a car accident. She escapes the scene but can’t stop thinking, or imagining, what happened to the other driver. And soon strange things starts to happen…
Crédits
Director: Anna Mantzaris
Producer: Anna Mantzaris / Royal College of Art
Screenplay: Anna Mantzaris, Hugo Vieites Caamano
Director of Photography: Donna Wade
Scenography: Hetty Bax
Animation: Tim Allen, Anna Mantzaris, Quenting Haberham, Tobias Fouracre
Music: Phil Brookes
Sound: André Parklind
Post-production: Hugo Vieites Caamano
Release date: 2018
Country : UK
Duration: 9 minutes
Production notes
I wanted to make something more thriller-like and ambiguous
“Originally, I was interested in the concept of ghosts, if they can be more things than a dead person. Like if you can become a ghost of who you used to be, if someone can be a “living ghost”. And I was also curious about the idea of guilt and how it can sometimes be worse than the real action” – Mantzaris shared with S/W – “That’s how the idea started and I wrote it together with my boyfriend.”
It was all very tightly scheduled and many later nights
I wrote the story with my boyfriend…And then we had about 5 months for the production. I did the puppets myself and had the help of a modelmaker, Hetty Bax, to build the sets. We also had the help of a few volunteers and I don’t know how we could have made it without them! It was all very tightly scheduled and many later nights. But we had some good benefits of the school as well, like laser cutter and wood workshop. I used wire in my puppets and ball and sockets in the main character. But actually, a bit into the build we realized that we need to shoot in two units in order to have a chance to finish in time, so I made one more of the main character in wire.
Biography
Swedish director and animator based in London and Stockholm.
Anna Mantzaris works mainly in stop motion and has a weakness for both sad and funny things.
She recently worked on Wes Andersons Island of Dogs and graduated from the Royal College of Art with a Masters in Animation in 2018.
His films have been screened at festivals around the world and won numerous awards, including the European Animation Awards, the Vimeo Best of The Year and the Walt Disney Award.
Filmography
Enough – 2017
Greenpeace – 2018
Good Intentions – 2019
Global Women – 2021