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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).