Susan est serveuse dans un petit bistrot du Cap. Elle est agréable, patiente et pleine d’esprit avec les clients – goinfres, machos, racistes et bobos de tout poil. Mais une histoire de pourboire va finir par la faire craquer.

Note : « Lazy Susan » est une expression qui veut également dire « table tournante » en anglais.

Un film de Stephen Abbott

Afrique du Sud / 2015 / Fiction / 11′

avec Chi Mhende, Carel Nel, Siv Ngesi, Shamilla Miller, Rory Acton-Burnell, Dylan Edy, Lemo Tsipa, Pierre Malherbe, Kerstin Francis, Nick Pauling, Roxanne Kalie, Louise Saint-Claire et Tiffany Barbuzano

Durée / Time: 10′
Version Originale / Original Version: inglese, xhosa

Réalisation : Stephen Abbott.
Scénario : Stephen Abbott, Eduan van Jaarsveldt
Image : Fuad Casker, Pierre De Villiers, Peter Smuts, Brian Oliver, Anton Scholtz.
Son/Sound: Craig Ryneveld
Montage / Editing: Stanley M. Agnew
Musique / Music: James Matthes

Produit par Dylan Voogt, Stephen Abbott

Production / Production: Stealth Donkey Moving Pictures

en association avec Stage 5 Films et Shorty’s Film Contest

Distribuction / Sales:
Stealth Donkey Moving Pictures
+27 83 367 9330
[email protected]


2016 | Luxor African Film Festival, Egypt | 17 to 23 March, 2016
* Selection – Competition

2016 | Festival de Clermont-Ferrand – Clermont-Ferrand short film, France – 5-13 Février 2016

2016 | Denton Black Film Festival, Texas, USA – 29-31 Janvier 2016
* Selection

2015 | AFRIFF – Africa International Film Festival, LAGOS, Nigeria
Novembre 2015 ·

2015 | ISFFC – International Short Film Festival of Cyprus | 19th October at 20h30 at Rialto.
* International competition

2015 | SVAFF – Silicon Valley African Film Festival, USA | 16-18 October 2015
* Selection

2015 | Shnit international shortfilmfestival, Cape Town and Stellenbosch – October 2015
* Selection – Made in South Africa 2 (national competition).
* Screening: 8th October at 20h00 at Labia 1, Cape Town
* Screening: 9th October at 21h00 at Cinemuse, Stellenbosch
* Screening: 10th October at 19h00 at Company’s Garden, Cape Town

2015 | Oaxaca FilmFest, Mexico – October 2015
* In competition (Life is Short, official selection).

2015 | Mzansi Women Film Festival, Johannesburg
* Screening: 8th August at 15h00, at Constitution Hill Old Fort

2015 | RFF – Rwanda Film Festival
* Screening: 23rd July at 18h00, Hotel Villa Portofino.

2015 | FESTICAB, Burundi
* Jury Special Mention

2015 | Durban International Film Festival, South Africa – July 2015

2015 | National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, South Africa
* Selection

2015 | 25th Festival Cinema Africano, d’Asia, e America Latina, Italy, May 2015
* Selection – African Shorts Competition
* Selection – Racism is a Nasty Story section.
* wins the Arnone-Bellavite Pellegrini Foundation prize

2015 | Lilongwe Shorts, Malawi
* Selection

2015 | Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles, USA.
* World premiere

A friendly waitress, Susan, works at an everyday Cape Town restaurant, deftly serving gluttons and wasps, hipsters and high-tippers, racists and lechers. With some effort she maintains both wit and service in the face of obnoxious customers – until a lousy tip gets the better of her.

Susan works a double shift in a restaurant in Cape Town where she serves greedy people, WASPs, hipsters, racists and ladies’ men. Even when she has annoying customers in front of her, with some effort she is able to keep her spirits high and offer good quality service, until she is humiliated by a paltry tip. Everything is shot from the point of view of the « lazy Susan » on the table and mixes dark comedy and social criticism with humour and irony.

a film by Stephen Abbott

South Africa / 2015 / short narrative / 11′

starring Chi Mhende, Carel Nel, Siv Ngesi, Shamilla Miller, Rory Acton-Burnell, Dylan Edy, Lemo Tsipa, Pierre Malherbe, Kerstin Francis, Nick Pauling, Roxanne Kalie, Louise Saint-Claire, and Tiffany Barbuzano

Directed by Stephen Abbott
Written by Stephen Abbott, Eduan van Jaarsveldt

Produced by Dylan Voogt, Stephen Abbott

Prod : Stealth Donkey Moving Pictures,
in association with Stage 5 Films and Shorty’s Film Contest

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Susan fa il doppio turno in un ristorante di Città del Capo che serve golosi, wasp, hipster, razzisti e donnaioli. Anche di fronte a fastidiosi clienti, con qualche sforzo riesce a mantenere alto lo spirito e la qualità del servizio, fino a quando una mancia pidocchiosa la umilia. Tutto girato dal punto di vista di un vassoio girevole sulla tavola, in inglese » lazy susan », il film mescola commedia dark e critica sociale con humour e ironia.

di/by Steven Abbott – Sudafrica, 10′ – Inglese, xhosa con sott. eng e Ita / CC / RBS

Regia/Direction: Stephen Abbott

Sceneggiatura/Screenplay: Stephen Abbott, Eduan van Jaarsveldt

Fotografia/Camera: Pierre de Villiers

Montaggio/Editing: Stanley M. Agnew

Suono/Sound: Craig Ryneveld

Musica/Music: James Matthes

Durata/Time: 10′

Versione Originale/Original Version: inglese, xhosa

Produzione/Production: Stealth Donkey Moving Pictures

Distribuzione/Sales:
Stealth Donkey Moving Pictures
+27 83 367 9330
[email protected]

Source:
www.festivalcinemaafricano.org/new/film/lazy-susan/