Betty Banned Sweets
While Benjamin obsessively dreams of escaping to South America, his mother plans his unwanted birthday party, but sometimes the best parties are the ones you don’t want.
- New Zealand
- 2008, 14 min
- Director: Michelle Savil
- Director of photography: Chris Tan
- Editor: Tracey Egerton
- Screenplay: Michelle Savill
- Music: Mike Crook, Mild America, Tilly and the Wall
- Cast: Matt Scheurich, Lee Hutson, Sandra Jensen
- Contacts: New Zealand Film Commission
- Producer: Michelle Savill
- Production: Paint-by-Numbers Collective
Michelle Savil
Michelle Savill (1985, New Zealand) grew up in the Philippines. She just finished her one-year post-gradual studies of film at the Waikato Institute of Technology in Hamilton in New Zealand where she made Betty Banned Sweets (2008).