Avanti Productions & Management

AVANTI TALENT DEPT. is very please to anounce that our newly represented actress CAROLINE BURNS COOKE is starring in MYRA, a Dan Smyth short film,  that has been recently part of the Official Selection of:

 RAINDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2011, screening in London on 2nd October.

ASFF AESTHETICA SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 2011, screening in York  on 4th November.

UnderWire Film Festival 2011,  with double nominations

XX AWARD NOMINATION screening on Wednesday 23rd NOV @ 19:30

BEST SCREENWRITING NOMINATION screening on Thursday November 24th, 18:00

MYRA's script was adapted for screen by director Dan Smyth and actress Caroline Burns Cooke from Caroline’s award winning stage piece, Suffer Little Children  (a monologue about child-killer, Myra Hindley, which was inspired by an article written by Myra Hindley in The Guardian newspaper in 1995).

Directed by Dan Smyth, writer-director of The Mess Hall of an Online Warrior (SXSW 2010, Coup De Coeur award Cannes SFC 2010). This is Dan’s second successful zero-budget and truly independent short film, made with only two other crew members.

Read the press kit here.